On CL in SF Bay Area. It doesn't appear to have any buttons.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/app/1750834769.html
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Is This a KA Selectra DW?
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No, just a bad picture. It appears to be a Custom with two buttons on the right side of the console and a dial on the left.
stevet
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Hard to find find!
The Selectra models were the electronically controlled models. If I am not mistaken, the first ones were the 20 series and ended with the 23's. I knew someone who had the venerable KDS17 for years and when she redid her Kitchen in their vacation home, she loved the look of the Selectra 20 and went out and bought it. It wasn't more than 2 years old and she had already had 2 controllers replaced. K/A stood behind it but she said she wished she had another 17 to swap it with!
I picked up a KDI-21 Selectra at a curb one day and it too, had a dead controller. More specifically, the pump relay had overheated and taken out the board. The replacement at the time was well over 400 bucks so I just turned it into a regular Imperial model and sold it.
Recently, I found a 23 Selectra and it too, had a defective board and that one had a price higher than a new machine! And it was no longer available.
In retrospect, I guess the boards lasted about as long as we have come to expect the current crop of electronic controllers to last. Heat and moist environments are not the best places to mount these things!
I think Andrew in Orlando has a 23 Superba Selectra and I know he liked it. And it is still running!
The Selectra models were the electronically controlled models. If I am not mistaken, the first ones were the 20 series and ended with the 23's. I knew someone who had the venerable KDS17 for years and when she redid her Kitchen in their vacation home, she loved the look of the Selectra 20 and went out and bought it. It wasn't more than 2 years old and she had already had 2 controllers replaced. K/A stood behind it but she said she wished she had another 17 to swap it with!
I picked up a KDI-21 Selectra at a curb one day and it too, had a dead controller. More specifically, the pump relay had overheated and taken out the board. The replacement at the time was well over 400 bucks so I just turned it into a regular Imperial model and sold it.
Recently, I found a 23 Selectra and it too, had a defective board and that one had a price higher than a new machine! And it was no longer available.
In retrospect, I guess the boards lasted about as long as we have come to expect the current crop of electronic controllers to last. Heat and moist environments are not the best places to mount these things!
I think Andrew in Orlando has a 23 Superba Selectra and I know he liked it. And it is still running!
Ralph, this is the same model Stevet put in an apartment for, I believe, his mother in law in Arizona?? There's picture of it (SS front panel) in a recent thread. It's a good machine from what Steve said and simple. It's kind of an unusual "Custom".
Ralph, see thread 28499--KDC21 ... although i can't tell if this particular one you link to has the water heating light on the panel or not, it's just too difficult to tell.
stevet
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Right person, wrong State!
Hey Bob, the Custom unit with the stainless panels was is in my now, late mother in laws condo, but it is also here in Palm Coast
It is also a true Hobart design which had the water heat light and the 1400 watt element in the sump like the Superba Series.
My parents in Arizona just had their Frigidaire replaced under their home contract with a Whirlpool DU1055X which cleans worlds around that stupid Frigdiaire And is alot quieter too.
It just has the crappy non-adjustable top and bottom racks so it is not as flexible loading as the Frigidaire was. I will take care of that on my next trip out there. I will ship them a set of adjustable racks and the water delivery tube and update a decent machine for them.
Hey Bob, the Custom unit with the stainless panels was is in my now, late mother in laws condo, but it is also here in Palm Coast
It is also a true Hobart design which had the water heat light and the 1400 watt element in the sump like the Superba Series.
My parents in Arizona just had their Frigidaire replaced under their home contract with a Whirlpool DU1055X which cleans worlds around that stupid Frigdiaire And is alot quieter too.
It just has the crappy non-adjustable top and bottom racks so it is not as flexible loading as the Frigidaire was. I will take care of that on my next trip out there. I will ship them a set of adjustable racks and the water delivery tube and update a decent machine for them.
stevet
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A true Classic!
here is that machine!
here is that machine!
stevet
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here is the other shot!
straight on!
And Yes! That is the original control panel. Came just like that!And it looks the best with the matching stainless panels. Or at least I think so.
straight on!
And Yes! That is the original control panel. Came just like that!And it looks the best with the matching stainless panels. Or at least I think so.
KA KDSS 20
One of my two built in DWs in my kitchen is a KDSS20. As far as I know its the only one known thats still working, I hope someone proves this wrong. To me the KD 20 series were the last good KA DWs I liked the non reversing motor and having two final rinses. The KDSS 20 is neat because it has a computer that controls a rotary power switch it looks like a regular timer, as the machine changes cycles it makes the click-click- click noises that we love in the other superba models. Its been in my kitchen for about 5 years now with no real problems. It of course has the usual KA problems of little bits of food left on the tops of glasses in the top rack and having to clean a nasty filter every weak or so. Overall my other DW a WP DU8000 power clean 1987 vintage is superior overall in performance never anything but clean dishes and only one new inlet valve in 23 years. But the KA DW is a really cool machine overall for the appliance collector it has a really good feel to it.
One of my two built in DWs in my kitchen is a KDSS20. As far as I know its the only one known thats still working, I hope someone proves this wrong. To me the KD 20 series were the last good KA DWs I liked the non reversing motor and having two final rinses. The KDSS 20 is neat because it has a computer that controls a rotary power switch it looks like a regular timer, as the machine changes cycles it makes the click-click- click noises that we love in the other superba models. Its been in my kitchen for about 5 years now with no real problems. It of course has the usual KA problems of little bits of food left on the tops of glasses in the top rack and having to clean a nasty filter every weak or so. Overall my other DW a WP DU8000 power clean 1987 vintage is superior overall in performance never anything but clean dishes and only one new inlet valve in 23 years. But the KA DW is a really cool machine overall for the appliance collector it has a really good feel to it.
stevet
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A Pic or two perhaps?
of your KDSS20? Would love to see that control panel.
of your KDSS20? Would love to see that control panel.
I have a KDIS-21 made by Hobart
that is my daily driver. I was able to replace the filter screen before they went NLA. It is a great dishwasher.
that is my daily driver. I was able to replace the filter screen before they went NLA. It is a great dishwasher.
Well, that all stainless Custom is a thing of timeless beauty.
A friend of mine has a Selectra. I'm pretty sure the panel readout on his lights up in red. I'm guessing he has a 20 series based on when he and his late partner remodeled.
A friend of mine has a Selectra. I'm pretty sure the panel readout on his lights up in red. I'm guessing he has a 20 series based on when he and his late partner remodeled.
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