Good deal On This GE Dishwasher?

[bwoods]

GE Production of Porcelain Tub Dishwashers

The lastest GE catalog that I have with porcelain tub dishwashers is dated March, 1989. Unfortunately, my next most recent catalog is for the 1993 model line and the GE portable/covertible dishwashers had been changed over to PermaTuf by this time.

So, somewhere in the 1989 through 1993 timeframe General Electric ceased production of their porcelain tub machines, making it quite a lengthy time that GE produced them.

Do you have the date of the shutdown of GE's Milwaulkee plant, Jamie?

 

[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.