I just got an unusual top-loading dishwasher!

[hydralique]

Mmmm, what a nice find, love it!

 

[miele_ge]

cool video and car like ad

But I only count 4 cycles not 5.  I guess they consider "cancel" a cycle?  Still a cool machine.  We had the slant top model of this for a few years when I was a kid.  Loved the sound it made when you pressed the cancel button.  I remember ours having more buttons though - maybe a plate warm?  I think it was a "Custom Imperial" if that makes any sense.  Was a long time ago.

 

[philr]

The Custom Imperial Slant Top model from 1969 had 5 cycles, no plate warmer but a pots and pans cycle with 3 washes. I have the built-in version of that dishwasher. 1969 is also the year when they introduced the auxiliary wash arm.

 

[firedome]

neat rare machine!

hope to see that in a new setting come this fall!

 

[miele_ge]

thanks Phil

now I remember the Pots and Pans button.  Was a neat machine.  We got it when it was only a few months old from friends who didn't want to roll it around.  My Dad bypassed the sink connector and plumbed it in next to the stove.  We used it until '72 when we redid the kitchen and got a TOL Roper built in.  It then went to friends who never installed it and left it sitting in their garage for years and years.  Have no idea what happened to it - I suspect it went to the dump :-(

 

 

 

[philr]

I just washed a small load of pre-rinsed dishes in the dishwasher, I used the short wash cycle. Will test it with more dirty stuff later!

 

 

[philr]

I saw many fluorescent starters that were branded as Frigidaire but it's the first that I see that's branded as D&M.

 

[vacerator]

Wow,

D&M made their own fluorescent starters even back in the day. Does anyone know where their plant, or plants were?

 

[combo52]

Wow D&M Florescent Light Starters

It amazes me that they bothered to get a starter manufacturer to private label this part for them, D&M probably never even built a thousand of these TOL DWs for FD that even had a florescent light bulb, and there certainly weren't any built-in DWs with florescent lights, LOL.

 

[magic_clean]

D & M

was located in Connersville, Indiana. See the link where D & M is mentioned.

http://https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connersville,_Indiana

 

[magic_clean]

D & M

was located in Connersville, Indiana. See the link where D & M is mentioned.

http://https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connersville,_Indiana

 

[philr]

John, that's exactly what I thought! And at least, Frigidaire probably thought they could sell  their rebranded starters through their dealer network (and I bet they didn't sell many either!). D&M didn't even sell their dishwashers under their own names, they were private labeling their own products to sell to other brands. I thought their only signature was the shape of their tags, not the name on it!

 

Note that the tag on the 1968 dishwasher lacks the CSA approval, it's there on my 1965 DW-STJ. It's strange since I got this machine in Canada and it's a model that was sold here. 

 

 

 

[combo52]

No CSA Approval

They probably couldn't get a Canadian approval on a DW with a florescent light and though no one would notice, LOL.

 

And you may have only one of three that were imported to Canada.

 

[turquoisedude]

Wow Phil, this is an amazing find!  I miss so much when I'm off the grid down in Ogden... LOL

 

I've got to get to your place to see this one soon.  Congratulations!!

 

[philr]

I just tried not to pre-rinse anything that went in the dishwasher to see how it performed (not something I am used to do!), the dishes came out clean and dry even if I shortened the dry cycle! 

I got some fog in the camera when I took pictures of the clean (and hot!) dishes. Not exactly a full load though but I had plates that I couldn't even try to fit in the 1963 spray tube dishwasher!

 

 

 

[mayken4now]

OH MY Phil! Wonder works there man! Glad you took a leap of faith and did not pre-rinse. Bob will be proud of you! AND, they are all clean. Wish my brand new LG did that. Fat chance!

 

[appnut]

Phil, yes I am extremely proud of you.  Welcome to the wonderful world of carefree dishwashing.  I seriously doubt the spintube would have gotten this load clean. 

 

[launderess]

Well the bloom is off the rose far as this top-loading DW

Owner is concerned. *LOL*

Having to shift things off the top and back to load and unload is getting on my nerves.

If one can find a nice Miele 18" unit and one of those Ikea "built in to portable" kits, the GE Mobile Maid may not be long for this world. *LOL*

After living with a top loading dishwasher for better part of almost two years now you can see why the design faded out and never was brought back.

 

[philr]

Some top loaders are a bit more complicated to load as their top racks either need to have a section removed or folded (and left empty so it could be folded or removed easily) to load the lower rack.

But this design allows to lift the top racks easily without unloading them. What I don't like about portable dishwashers is that they need to be rolled to the sink and connected to it and to a wall outlet to operate. I'll probably change that eventually and connect it permanently!