Good deal On This GE Dishwasher?

[turquoisedude]

I wonder if the Canadian models were, in fact, Hotpoints.... When I was a brat, my family had a 1978 GE convertible that had a porcelain on steel tub, BUT I remember acquaintances who had slightly fancier GE built-ins of the same vintage with porcelain on steel tubs, too. My first house, which I bought in 1989, had a brand-new, one-down-from-the-TOL GE Potscrubber II - it also had the porcelain tub, but may have been one of the last!

 

[maytaga806]

How on earth could there be a dishwasher directly under the sink? Thats like impossible. where is the drain pipe and the water pipes?

 

[william637]

How can it be under a sink?

It is basically only full sized on the lower rack. The upper rack only goes back a few inches (enough for one, maybe two rows of glasses).

Also, the sinks that went with those units are VERY shallow.

 

[kowidge]

How can it be under a sink?

For anyone who has ever lived in Brooklyn, when you see the add that says 'dishwasher included', you know these machines. My first apartment with my wife as newlyweds after I got out of the service, we had one of these. It was okay, but the top shelf only held like 4 glasses, and alot of flatware. The bottom was regular and overall did a good job, and the NYC cockroaches seemed to not go inside....much.

 

[bajaespuma]

There's a diagram of the undersink dishwasher in Ephemera. I think it's in the 1962 GE Built-in dishwashers package.

 

[tomturbomatic]

It also required a special sink with the drain in the rear corner and with that placement, you could install a disposer in the sink.

 

[jamiel]

Milwaukee plant closed in 1991 (according to the Milwaukee Business Journal), which predated GE moving to the plastic washer by a couple years. They were doing some employee testing of the new washer design in the 1991-1992 timeframe (while I was at GE Capital)..also that porcelain d/w in Canada might have been about the same vintage. Reason with me here...the big cost for using porcelain in a d/w had to be the kiln/firing/etc. Presuming that Canada already had that equipment in their GE appliance plant (for washers/ranges/ovens/cooktops), it would be logical to use that for their dishwashers as well. ISTR that the Canadian d/w of the time mimicked the US perma-tuf lineup, with the entry level having no filtering (just the grinder) and the uplevel Canadian having a filtering system similar to the passive filter in the uplevel US perma-tuf lineup. The Canadian porcelain d/w had a triangular setup in the front corner of the tub, I vaguely recall.

 

[mattl]

When we remodeled one of my cousin's kitchens about 10 years ago we put one of the GE undersink dishwashers in.  They wanted to maximize storage in a 1920's craftsman styled house and it worked well for them.  As far as I know they are still available.  In certain situations they are a perfect fit.