I think I'm going to like this dishwasher

[twintubber]

Barcoboy.....

try running some white vinegar through the machine. Pour about 2 cups into the MAIN WASH with no detergent and see if that helps to clean it out a bit and freshen it up.

And try using white vinegar in your rinse aid dispenser instead of Jet-Dry.
It's better for your machine, your dishes, AND the evironment. Plus it's a lot cheaper.
I haven't used a rinse aid in years since I stared using the white vinegar.

 

[barcoboy]

Thanks Magic_Clean. I'll check the upper spray arm. It does turn freely when I turn it by hand, and I know it turns during the actual cycle, but maybe as you say it isn't turning as it should.

The model number of the dishwasher is an Inglis IHU98051, and the upper spray arm and tower is exactly the same as the one in this thread. The link below is from not long after I first acquired the dishwasher and was having problems with it slowly pumping out water during the wash cycle.

Hey Twintubber, what are you doing in this thread? LOL. Maybe I should try washing/drying my dishes in my 0519. Thanks for the vinegar tip-I do use vingear every once in a while, and I'm just finishing up my bottle of JetDry and then will fill my rinse agent dispenser with vinegar.

http://www.applianceguru.com/forum1/17895.html

 

[bajaespuma]

Happy to have a working dishwasher installed again.

Scott I had the same feeling about the silverware basket, but of course the more room that silver has, the cleaner it will get. What is a little ridiculous here is that there are three baskets with this machine, but of course you can easily remove them when you need to and one of the things I love about this machine is that basket that hangs off of the upper rack is perfect for chopsticks which I have a lot of. I always thought the silverware basket on the door was a clever idea, but it seems to me that the more surfaces the silverware basket has towards the spray(s) the cleaner the silverware is going to be. That's one reason I always thought that the TOL GE "Silver Shower" basket was idiotic.

I also liked the earlier Whirlpool DW upper racks that held glasses at a more extreme angle; one of my gripes is all the water that remains in the bottoms of glassware and cups.

I've always said that the perfect dishwasher is two different dishwashers.

 

[magic_clean]

Barcoboy

o.k., if you have the tower feed, it is less likely that there is a spray arm bearing concern. Is the upper spray arm intact? The floating cone water receiver in place?

O.K., the next thing I would look at is the "expand-o-seal" coupling that directs the water from the pump top nozzle into the spray tower. Sometimes they can split or degrade causing poor water flow to the upper arm.

L.P.

 

[syndets2000]

yea...

...this is one of my favorite machines too- I have the portable version in the front apt, & built in, the back apartment......WP built are the BEST!!!

 

[barcoboy]

Magic_Clean, the cone is intact, and the rubber seal is good. I'm thinking it was the kind of cereal bowls that I had-they were not smooth, which I think caused food particles to stick to them easier, and then the heat from the water would bake them on. Once I got rid of those bowls, I found the cleaning performance "increased", or so it seemed to me. The other thing is I'm used to my parent's Kitchenaid which spoiled me growing up with its ability to clean. Not sure of the model, but it was I believe bought sometime between 1989-1991, so I think it is a hybrid Hobart/Whirlpool. Between each wash or rinse, it would fill up partially and run a quick rinse, which I believe was to clean the filter, but it also made sure the water was hot for the next full fill. Speaking of which, that was one thing I remember of my aunt's early 80's Whirlpool dishwasher... it would start filling while the motor was still reversed for draining, and would do so for about 10 seconds before the motor stopped to reverse for wash. Why did they stop doing that? For water saving purposes?

 

[mikepaquette]

GE Mobile Maid

If ever you choose to sell my DREAM machine. Please contact me. Michael

 

[tomturbomatic]

Ultra Long silver basket

I shortened mine by cutting off two compartments. Then I moved it to the side. I moved it slightly toward the center of the machine by putting it over the first row of pins on the left so that there is space between it and the tub wall for cookie sheets, cutting boards, etc. It works great and gives room in the back corner for another Rubbermaid gallon iced tea pitcher. If I ever need the extra two compartments, all I have to do is put them in the rack against the divider where I made the cut.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Ultra Long silver basket

I shortened mine by cutting off two compartments. Then I moved it to the side. I moved it slightly toward the center of the machine by putting it over the first row of pins on the left so that there is space between it and the tub wall for cookie sheets, cutting boards, etc. It works great and gives room in the back corner for another Rubbermaid gallon iced tea pitcher. If I ever need the extra two compartments, all I have to do is put them in the rack against the divider where I made the cut.

 

[appnut]

Ultra Long silver basket

Hence why there exists splittable flatware baskets now.  I only use a part of mine that came with my machine, which ends up being about 45% of what it was.  I love the extra space. 

 

[bajaespuma]

Splitting the basket

Yeah, I may end up doing that.

I already find myself irked by the lack of space on the lower rack for really big items. Plus that basket that hangs from the top rack hangs a little too low to clear a lot of stuff beneath. What I liked about the Maytag was that even without an adjustable upper rack, it was designed asymmetrically so really big and tall stuff would fit on the left side of the bottom rack. This doesn't have that capability. I may decide to used the old Maytag silverware basket (of the two Waste King half-baskets) for this machine because you are right; that silverware basket is huge and takes up a hell of a lot of useful space.

 

[gansky1]

Ken, how much does that upper rack move when you adjust it ? My guess is not much, but a little would help. My Mandarin teacher uses a red Solo cup with holes cut in the bottom, wedged in one of the cutlery basket spaces for chopsticks in her KM dishwasher. Looks a bit odd, but seems to work pretty well.

 

[tomturbomatic]

When we had the sterling carefully arranged in the 15's silver basket's little compartments, we used to use the coffee basket from the GE or Farberware perk (since it was deep) and arrange the stainless steel flatware in that. It was placed in the lower rack and the bowls of spoons and tines of forks arranged to stick out beyond the basket for excellent washing.

When I was using the Maytag DW with racking for plates on the lower rack and that GE-like saucer rack because of the pop-up tower, I used one of the GE splitable silverware baskets, split and placed in the corners at the rear of the lower rack so that there was more uninterrupted space for pans & bowls at the front of the rack where Maytag had placed the silverware basket front & center. DUMB.

 

[bajaespuma]

I respectfully disagree, Tom. I think the placement of the silverware basket made it very effective in the Tags and the GE's. In that position, as compared with KitchenAid's and Whirlmores, the cutlery was hit with spray from many directions. I rarely had dirty silverware out of that machine. It was especially true with the reverse-rack Maytags (which I love, for the record) where they were hit with spray from many directions and from top and bottom.

I still think the Maytag WP-600 top loader is one of the best dishwashers ever made and I challenge anyone here to name a DW with a bigger and more versatile and useable capacity. It may be worth it for me to pay 200.00 for a new timer for that one since I've had very little luck in finding another one for parts donation or use.

BTW, I just finished a load in the Kenmore and I'm happy to report that, as Consumer Reports would have said, those dishes are Mother F**king CLEAN. As reported, not a speck of errant food anywhere. And hot!

 

[bajaespuma]

Now I KNOW I already love this dishwasher:

The tag lint filter collection was getting a little dusty so I decided to give the Mobile Maid a trial run to test the new unicouple I scalped off of a Jet-Clean. 17 freakin' minutes and wham-bam, that's all Ma'am! And she even popped the lid open for me at the end:

 

[bajaespuma]

and gloriosky if this isn't the first portable dishwasher connector that I've ever used that didn't leak one drop! I can connect this machine to my bathroom sink so I can use both machines simultaneously.

 

[bajaespuma]

I'm going to give this machine a Bob-Load trial for all the Mobile Maid fans out there just to prove how capacious this machine is and to see if this machine can handle dirty dishes without pre-rinsing. I did notice that after every drain period the machine injected some fresh water presumably to rinse out the tub before the next fill period. And isn't that Power Shower nifty. I have to report that this machine is noisy. Not "Potscrubber" noisy, but because the tub is the cabinet, there is absolutely no insulation or space to muffle the din of the motor and the powerful spray. Our built-in pull out was very quiet compared to this, but it sat in an installation shell with lots of air space plus panels of insulation around it.

 

[bajaespuma]

I forgot...

Greg,

You are right; the rack only adjusts about 1-inch on a side; kind of lame given how much space those mechanisms take up. It's amazing how many dishwashers, like the last Maytag, I've retrofitted with BOL upper racks. A lot of upper rack chazerei on so many brands does little more than eliminate utility. I always thought the BOL upper rack on the KitchenAid 16 & 17 series was larger/superior to the Imperial/Superba versions. I remember how pissed off I was when we bought our KDC-17a and realized when they added the energy-saver dry feature they had replaced that great squared-off BOL rack with just a dumbed-down version of the Superba rack.

How many years have you been studying Chinese? It's very difficult and on my bucket list. Impressive. And smart given that we'll all be needing to speak it given the way US-China debt is growing. And you'll be able to keep us posted when Chinese start manufacturing state-of-the-art whitegoods. I'd wager THOSE machines will have chopstick holders. Panasonic models I saw in Japan 10 years ago had amazing rack additions for all sorts of Asian tableware.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Ken, I was not talking washability, but rather how it divided up the lower rack to hinder placement of large items, although I never had anything less than excellent results on flatware with the baskets at the rear of the tub.

What's the think with inch worms on the bottom of it in the load with the filters?

 

[bajaespuma]

That's a piece of hand-made pottery. It's the ceramic version of Greg's Chinese teacher's chopstick holder. It needed a bath.You're right; they do look like Disney inch worms.

I made Latkes tonight. They probably weren't as good as yours, but yum!