Another great appliance profile, Nate! I've been enjoying them ever since you profiled your 80's Frigidaire washer.
Machines of Grand Repute, Volume I: The GE Potscrubber Twenty Eight Hundred
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toploader55
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Oh, Nate... Volkswagens, Tree Branches and Small Children
You're the best on the observation write ups.
I used this same machine when I was a Chef on a 100' motoryacht back in the late 80's. It was a Great Performer and I ran this machine sometimes 4-5 times a day. A crew of 5 and 2 owners on board. I can recall only 2 times that the "Blocked Wash Arm" alarm sounded, which was handy to have a Engineer on board who could fix anything from a Diesel Generator to a Toaster.
You're the best on the observation write ups.
I used this same machine when I was a Chef on a 100' motoryacht back in the late 80's. It was a Great Performer and I ran this machine sometimes 4-5 times a day. A crew of 5 and 2 owners on board. I can recall only 2 times that the "Blocked Wash Arm" alarm sounded, which was handy to have a Engineer on board who could fix anything from a Diesel Generator to a Toaster.
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Did The Power Tower Really Scour?
So Nate, HAVE you ever put a pot on the bottom rack with a glass right above it?If so, did the tower work to spray the inside of that glass and get it clean?
So Nate, HAVE you ever put a pot on the bottom rack with a glass right above it?If so, did the tower work to spray the inside of that glass and get it clean?
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Hey Nate!
Excellent report again! I love reading these, so please, continue. They are very well written and compiled.
I love high end machines, the 2800 would be a nice find up here in Canada. most TOL machine I found from GE was the Medallion 850. Which just so happens to shave A LOT of the same features as your 2800.
The Medallion 850 also has the Multi-Orbit wash arm, large Calrod element, Super Racks, and the same star-gear shaped detergent dispenser actuator.
I found with the 850 that LARGE debris would slide through the pump screen, and into the pump. The genius of having a large centrifugal pump, is that debris are quickly rejected/in-and-out of the pump. They don't hang around, and because the impeller is huge compared to other makes, there is a lot of space, so plastic wrap or any loose debris do not get stuck to it. The large vanes in the impeller mean a number of damaging things can slide through it, like that chicken bone!
I have to admire the GE pump set up, it is a really good pump, can handle a lot of water. And can handle a lot of debris, snots, crap, and anything else the water is carrying. The above paragraph basically explains why the "filter screen" has such large openings compared to a KA, Maytag, WP, or other DW sump screens.
If I remember correctly, the Mutli-Orbits wash arm takes 3-4 complete rotations before it comes back to its original path. What I did was open up the door, take the bottom rack out, and then spin the spray arm until I could get it to where it was closest to one side. As I rotated it, it got farther and farther away from the side before starting to make its way back to minimal clearance from that side.
Great report!
Excellent report again! I love reading these, so please, continue. They are very well written and compiled.
I love high end machines, the 2800 would be a nice find up here in Canada. most TOL machine I found from GE was the Medallion 850. Which just so happens to shave A LOT of the same features as your 2800.
The Medallion 850 also has the Multi-Orbit wash arm, large Calrod element, Super Racks, and the same star-gear shaped detergent dispenser actuator.
I found with the 850 that LARGE debris would slide through the pump screen, and into the pump. The genius of having a large centrifugal pump, is that debris are quickly rejected/in-and-out of the pump. They don't hang around, and because the impeller is huge compared to other makes, there is a lot of space, so plastic wrap or any loose debris do not get stuck to it. The large vanes in the impeller mean a number of damaging things can slide through it, like that chicken bone!
I have to admire the GE pump set up, it is a really good pump, can handle a lot of water. And can handle a lot of debris, snots, crap, and anything else the water is carrying. The above paragraph basically explains why the "filter screen" has such large openings compared to a KA, Maytag, WP, or other DW sump screens.
If I remember correctly, the Mutli-Orbits wash arm takes 3-4 complete rotations before it comes back to its original path. What I did was open up the door, take the bottom rack out, and then spin the spray arm until I could get it to where it was closest to one side. As I rotated it, it got farther and farther away from the side before starting to make its way back to minimal clearance from that side.
Great report!
Thanks so much!
Thank you all so much! I really have a lot of fun writing these.
Yes, I have done the pot below/glasses above test many a time; all my fry pans and such drape over the corners in the bottom rack. I'm pleased to report the glasses--even tall tumblers--come out spotless. As I noted in the pic above, the pot in the bottom-center of the TOP rack with adjacent items does cause trouble. You could possibly ameliorate that by putting plates below to allow the jets from the lower arm to compensate.
Still, the number of "oops" moments is very low, and the flexibility is excellent.
Thank you all so much! I really have a lot of fun writing these.
Yes, I have done the pot below/glasses above test many a time; all my fry pans and such drape over the corners in the bottom rack. I'm pleased to report the glasses--even tall tumblers--come out spotless. As I noted in the pic above, the pot in the bottom-center of the TOP rack with adjacent items does cause trouble. You could possibly ameliorate that by putting plates below to allow the jets from the lower arm to compensate.
Still, the number of "oops" moments is very low, and the flexibility is excellent.
