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I found this about 6 months ago. It is perfect and cleans super-well. Is anyone in our group familar with this brand? I think GM/ Fridg made it.....Bill in Az.....
I found a Ward's DW UFO 946
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Can we get a photo?
Can we get a photo?
With the photo I could tell immediately if it was made by Frigidaire or Westinghouse.
Signature Dishwasher
For a period in time Frigidaire made Signature dishwashers.
Westinghouse made stoves and fridges and then Tappan began doing the ranges.
The washers were Westinghouse, Norge when they went back to top loading and later WCI.
Kelly
For a period in time Frigidaire made Signature dishwashers.
Westinghouse made stoves and fridges and then Tappan began doing the ranges.
The washers were Westinghouse, Norge when they went back to top loading and later WCI.
Kelly
Frigidare GM Dishwasher
When Frigidaire was part of Gm I always bought their dishwashers.
I found them to be very good, a little quirky to learn the top rack and how to slide bowls and cups under the glasses along the outer edge of the rack frame, in addition to filling the middle top with saucers and bowls.
Digress
I bought a used 59 Frigidaire for my mom when I was a kid and you had to load everything facing the center tube so I learned well.
Digress
Funny, how no one uses saucers or sauce dishes much these days.
Because of the upper rack design, Frigidaire could accomodate stemmed glassware better than most, due to the deep "trough" down each side.
Digress
In the area I was (for Yakima members) Killingstads, Bemis and Ace TV and Appliance all sold Frigidaire.
Ace always had the better pricing but were in no mood for special orders. (Westinghouse was the credit company for Ace and they financed a lot of GM products for me)
Digress
Everytime I would buy a Frigidaire dishwasher, I'd get the lecture about how they only had a five year cleanability life cycle. The pumps just couldn't hold up. I usually had to fight to get to buy what I wanted.
In the late 60's Frigidaire added a second wash arm at the end of the main wash arm, had a tower up the middle and top spray to rinse food bits.
I liked pushing in the cycle button and listening to the timer motor click ahead to the right cycle.
Stand back, I'm gonna digress big time.
In 1976, living in Bremen Indiana, I had Frigidaire dishwasher that had been a trade in at Marburger's appliance. I got it for free and installed it in the house.
Being from the West Coast I had never seen thunderstorms like those of the midwest.
I was laying in bed, reading the Ammityville Horror and there was the mother of all thunderstorms blazing and thumping outside.
Lightning struck the house. After the blinding light, I gathered my wits and tried to figure out what the strange noise was that I was hearing from downstairs.
In the book it said that if you were in the presence of a Demonic manifestation, you would smell excrement.
Sniffing my way to the kitchen, it was the dishwasher, which had turned itself on.
The electrical charge of the lightning strike had shorted the timer motor and the poor old dishwasher was stuck in "wash" for perpetuity.
Kelly
When Frigidaire was part of Gm I always bought their dishwashers.
I found them to be very good, a little quirky to learn the top rack and how to slide bowls and cups under the glasses along the outer edge of the rack frame, in addition to filling the middle top with saucers and bowls.
Digress
I bought a used 59 Frigidaire for my mom when I was a kid and you had to load everything facing the center tube so I learned well.
Digress
Funny, how no one uses saucers or sauce dishes much these days.
Because of the upper rack design, Frigidaire could accomodate stemmed glassware better than most, due to the deep "trough" down each side.
Digress
In the area I was (for Yakima members) Killingstads, Bemis and Ace TV and Appliance all sold Frigidaire.
Ace always had the better pricing but were in no mood for special orders. (Westinghouse was the credit company for Ace and they financed a lot of GM products for me)
Digress
Everytime I would buy a Frigidaire dishwasher, I'd get the lecture about how they only had a five year cleanability life cycle. The pumps just couldn't hold up. I usually had to fight to get to buy what I wanted.
In the late 60's Frigidaire added a second wash arm at the end of the main wash arm, had a tower up the middle and top spray to rinse food bits.
I liked pushing in the cycle button and listening to the timer motor click ahead to the right cycle.
Stand back, I'm gonna digress big time.
In 1976, living in Bremen Indiana, I had Frigidaire dishwasher that had been a trade in at Marburger's appliance. I got it for free and installed it in the house.
Being from the West Coast I had never seen thunderstorms like those of the midwest.
I was laying in bed, reading the Ammityville Horror and there was the mother of all thunderstorms blazing and thumping outside.
Lightning struck the house. After the blinding light, I gathered my wits and tried to figure out what the strange noise was that I was hearing from downstairs.
In the book it said that if you were in the presence of a Demonic manifestation, you would smell excrement.
Sniffing my way to the kitchen, it was the dishwasher, which had turned itself on.
The electrical charge of the lightning strike had shorted the timer motor and the poor old dishwasher was stuck in "wash" for perpetuity.
Kelly
"UFO" in the model number indicates the source coding for Montgomery Wards appliances. Your UFO-946 looks like a late 70's Frigidaire made machine. I don't have the service manual for your exact model, but that numbering follows the "logic" of the models I do have service info for.
UFO - Frigidaire
LNC - Norge
UAN - WCI
FFT - WCI (compact laundry)
Other source codes changed through the 80's for WCI products depending on what it was.
UFO - Frigidaire
LNC - Norge
UAN - WCI
FFT - WCI (compact laundry)
Other source codes changed through the 80's for WCI products depending on what it was.
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Ward's DW
I don't have pics yet since I need to buy a digital camera. Whoever ownend this DW took very good care of it It came with the instruction book too!!! It has super strong water pressure. And it uses a ton of water. It has a strange bottom spray arm that is black with large holes and a small SS spray arm that spins independently from the big sprayer. It is very difficult to remove the top rack. Every week with my current Maytag DW (MDBD850AWW) I take out the top rack to wash the cat and dog food water bottles and trash cans, but difficult with this DW.....Bill in Az.....
I don't have pics yet since I need to buy a digital camera. Whoever ownend this DW took very good care of it It came with the instruction book too!!! It has super strong water pressure. And it uses a ton of water. It has a strange bottom spray arm that is black with large holes and a small SS spray arm that spins independently from the big sprayer. It is very difficult to remove the top rack. Every week with my current Maytag DW (MDBD850AWW) I take out the top rack to wash the cat and dog food water bottles and trash cans, but difficult with this DW.....Bill in Az.....
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