hundreds of reverse rack customers?
You may have talked to hundreds of customers over the years, but not hundreds of people with reverse racks. Even if you did that is such a small percentage of the total population in the U.S. that has/had ownership of Reverse Racks, that it is a meaningless number statistically. And of course, any information is colored by your personal bias.
Actually, I believe that the RR started in 1969 and the last model year was '89 - 90. So it was closer to 21 years in production. You mentioned all the changes they made while the RR was in production. This is called continual product research and improvement and should be done by manufacturer's...to made a good product even better. As they did with the change of filtration system, addition of the forced air drying, etc.
Notice however, the one thing they didn't change was the reverse rack. So in approximately 20 -21 years they must have gotten much positive feedback from their customers on the racking as that is the ONE thing they didn't change. They didn't until they redesigned and cheapened the total unit to compete with other cheap units on the market.
With good reason. It holds more than most dishwasher and is intuitive to load. The reverse rack was a real coup on the engineers' part. They sweated out even the small details. For example, bowls. It hold more bowls than any machine I have ever had and they can even bowls with food remains such as dried oatmeal can be placed back to back. And the small high velocity jets have enough force to clean them. In my whirlpools, the upper rack cleanability is inconsistent. Often I have to skip a space between bowls to give them a chance to get washed properly. Even then sometimes then don't get clean if the food has been dried on.
In the Maytag RR I don't have to worry about leaving an empty space between bowls. In addition its one of the few dishwashers I have had where the tines for the bowls are tall enough that bowls don't sometimes fall over when pushing or pulling the upper rack in or out. It has dedicated space for ten bowls and there are plenty of saucer rack tines if one has more bowls than that.
One of my favorite features of the RR is the FULL SIZED spray arm over the upper rack. In scours the bottom of the my electric skillet and other pots. They did keep this feature for a while when they went to the cheapened conventional rack system, but you could no longer put deep pots into the upper rack as in the RR system.
I am very sorry you allowed your feelings to get hurt by my positive comments on the reverse rack, Combo52.
You may have talked to hundreds of customers over the years, but not hundreds of people with reverse racks. Even if you did that is such a small percentage of the total population in the U.S. that has/had ownership of Reverse Racks, that it is a meaningless number statistically. And of course, any information is colored by your personal bias.
Actually, I believe that the RR started in 1969 and the last model year was '89 - 90. So it was closer to 21 years in production. You mentioned all the changes they made while the RR was in production. This is called continual product research and improvement and should be done by manufacturer's...to made a good product even better. As they did with the change of filtration system, addition of the forced air drying, etc.
Notice however, the one thing they didn't change was the reverse rack. So in approximately 20 -21 years they must have gotten much positive feedback from their customers on the racking as that is the ONE thing they didn't change. They didn't until they redesigned and cheapened the total unit to compete with other cheap units on the market.
With good reason. It holds more than most dishwasher and is intuitive to load. The reverse rack was a real coup on the engineers' part. They sweated out even the small details. For example, bowls. It hold more bowls than any machine I have ever had and they can even bowls with food remains such as dried oatmeal can be placed back to back. And the small high velocity jets have enough force to clean them. In my whirlpools, the upper rack cleanability is inconsistent. Often I have to skip a space between bowls to give them a chance to get washed properly. Even then sometimes then don't get clean if the food has been dried on.
In the Maytag RR I don't have to worry about leaving an empty space between bowls. In addition its one of the few dishwashers I have had where the tines for the bowls are tall enough that bowls don't sometimes fall over when pushing or pulling the upper rack in or out. It has dedicated space for ten bowls and there are plenty of saucer rack tines if one has more bowls than that.
One of my favorite features of the RR is the FULL SIZED spray arm over the upper rack. In scours the bottom of the my electric skillet and other pots. They did keep this feature for a while when they went to the cheapened conventional rack system, but you could no longer put deep pots into the upper rack as in the RR system.
I am very sorry you allowed your feelings to get hurt by my positive comments on the reverse rack, Combo52.
