stevet
Well-known member
Out Of Luck, My Friends!
Let's start by saying that the 10 series had a nice production run but was replaced in the early 50's and keeping with the Hobart policy of keeping spare parts available for 15 years, the parts for that series would have been obsolete by 1969 or so with whatever remaining inventory that was left, not being replenished after that time. This series may have had an extended period of availability due to how many of the commercial UM's were still out there.
And yes, many parts that were used in the commercial machines made their way to the domestic machines as well which allowed them to enjoy additional time for replacement parts. That is, there were plenty of Vertical motor UM's out there well into the late 80's and 90's and I remember some into the very early 2000's.
These machines had a replenishment date of 1994 so the parts began to disappear soon thereafter.
Take into account the sale to Whirlpool in 86 and their discontinuance of replacement parts for the older series as we have all seen and you can see why it has become nearly impossible to find spares for our beloved machines.
The last motor for a KD10 I saw was back in like 1980 or 81 when I had probably one of the last ones available in my hands in the parts room in the NY Hobart office. It was a hefty motor for sure, about as big and heavy as the vertical motors we know from the 12 and 14 series.
I had the sad duty to take it out back and toss it into a dumpster as we were writing off all the obsolete parts at that time. No demand and no machines to support meant it had to be scrapped. Even if I had foreseen the future and managed to save it from the scrap heap, I surely would have thrown it away as I had done with all the parts I had accumulated for the 12 and 14 series machines thru the years. Once the last family member tossed his KDS14 (built in '62)to the curb in 1996, I saw no reason to keep the parts for it. I actually had a complete KD14 motor sealed in a box which I wound up selling to an exporter to go to his customer in the Middle East.
A few years ago I checked on the availability of the UM-4 motor which would not accommodate the drain pump for the K/A series machines and it was well over $1000 bucks. At what point is a vintage machine not worth fixing?
I checked for the motor number listed above just for the heck of it and it doesn't even come up as an active part number anymore. So I have nothing more to offer in that search.
I did find a source for the shaft seal and have noted it in the other thread on this machine. That and maybe the top motor bearing is about all you would be able to get now.
Let's start by saying that the 10 series had a nice production run but was replaced in the early 50's and keeping with the Hobart policy of keeping spare parts available for 15 years, the parts for that series would have been obsolete by 1969 or so with whatever remaining inventory that was left, not being replenished after that time. This series may have had an extended period of availability due to how many of the commercial UM's were still out there.
And yes, many parts that were used in the commercial machines made their way to the domestic machines as well which allowed them to enjoy additional time for replacement parts. That is, there were plenty of Vertical motor UM's out there well into the late 80's and 90's and I remember some into the very early 2000's.
These machines had a replenishment date of 1994 so the parts began to disappear soon thereafter.
Take into account the sale to Whirlpool in 86 and their discontinuance of replacement parts for the older series as we have all seen and you can see why it has become nearly impossible to find spares for our beloved machines.
The last motor for a KD10 I saw was back in like 1980 or 81 when I had probably one of the last ones available in my hands in the parts room in the NY Hobart office. It was a hefty motor for sure, about as big and heavy as the vertical motors we know from the 12 and 14 series.
I had the sad duty to take it out back and toss it into a dumpster as we were writing off all the obsolete parts at that time. No demand and no machines to support meant it had to be scrapped. Even if I had foreseen the future and managed to save it from the scrap heap, I surely would have thrown it away as I had done with all the parts I had accumulated for the 12 and 14 series machines thru the years. Once the last family member tossed his KDS14 (built in '62)to the curb in 1996, I saw no reason to keep the parts for it. I actually had a complete KD14 motor sealed in a box which I wound up selling to an exporter to go to his customer in the Middle East.
A few years ago I checked on the availability of the UM-4 motor which would not accommodate the drain pump for the K/A series machines and it was well over $1000 bucks. At what point is a vintage machine not worth fixing?
I checked for the motor number listed above just for the heck of it and it doesn't even come up as an active part number anymore. So I have nothing more to offer in that search.
I did find a source for the shaft seal and have noted it in the other thread on this machine. That and maybe the top motor bearing is about all you would be able to get now.
