I just got an unusual top-loading dishwasher!

[combo52]

Very Neat Find Phil.

It is amazing how much GM-Frigidaire got D&M to modify one of their [ standard ] TL portable DWs for the Frigidaire name. It is the first time I have ever seen a non-D&M wash arm and completely different racks in one of there creations.

 

Its too bad you will not be able to come down for the Wash-In next week as you could bring this DW down and we could run it next to the REAL FD TL slant top CI portable DW that I picked up a little while ago and compare overall performance etc. We are going to be using portable DWs to wash all the dishes on Saturday evening.

 

Everyone knows what a fan I am of D&M DWs, but overall I dough that there would much longevity difference between the real FD and your new D&M FD DW and at least you can find parts for your version, LOL.

 

[philr]

John, I also wish I could go to the convention! It really bothers me to miss that.

For now. I'll have to play alone with that poor D&M, I'll try to compare it with my 1965 Frigidaire Super DW-STJ, an impeller D&M or with my later DW-INR Imperial slant top, the model below yours (and the only model that was available here in Canada).

 

[cadman]

Phil, nice find! That is one sharp-looking machine, congrats!!

 

[vacerator]

D&M made this for GM?

Every Kenmore top load D/W I ever saw, and that was several, had a split upper roto-rack.
Not to beg to differ, but Ford also owned Philco then, but I suppose they could have sold things to each other.
I think Ford did use some Frigidaire axial automobile A/C compressors in the 70's.

 

[swestoyz]

Phil - what a cool find!  This is the first I've seen this panel/design.  I guess when you have a 1960's General Motors coming to you to make a dishwasher, D&M would probably do anything to get and keep that contract (I mean, look what they made for Sears!).

 

Ben

 

[Unimatic1140]

That is cool Phil, love the fluorescent light! Frigidaire in it's prime.

 

[mayken4now]

Faint! Very cool machine Phil! Nice shape as well. Congrats!

 

[philr]

Thanks a lot for the comments, I'm taking more pictures right now, also ran it... 

 

[oldskool]

So beyond Cool

Congratulations on a find that is over the top!

John

 

[jetcone]

Phil

that is one sweet machine there !

I love the lighted controls and the idiot lights to tell you whats happening.

Can't wait to play with that one.

jon

 

[philr]

 

See the ad for it:

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[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.