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Machines of Ill Repute, Volume VI: Return of a Classic
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GSD 1200, and 1250. I think the wash-heat boost is the real difference. The machine pauses to check temperature in the Normal wash and beyond anyway, but this can force it in shorter cycles.
GSD 1200, and 1250. I think the wash-heat boost is the real difference. The machine pauses to check temperature in the Normal wash and beyond anyway, but this can force it in shorter cycles.
philr
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Greg, that harvest gold Waste King is the portable version of the undercounter dishwasher that I helped loading at the childcare I was attending at lunch time when I was at elementary school. All appliances in the house were Harvest Gold GE (including a washer/dryer set) but the Waste King was apparently newer. I thought it was a mid-late seventies model but maybe it was a bit older.
By the time I was there, there around 1984-87, there were some missing rack tines and the racks were rusted but I liked that dishwasher a lot! I was certainly a strange kid but I have been staring at the control panel and the nice timer knob almost every time I passed nearby! That was such a nice-looking machine compared to my parent's 1977 Inglis Royal... But I remember the repairman coming at home to replace the timer in my parent's Inglis who said these were better machines than some more expensive ones. And he told me the Waste King had to be among the worst even if they were expensive. I didn't care much, I liked the Waste King for it's looks!
Your Norge looks a lot like my top-loading 1965 Frigidaire Super (another D&M), with an added detergent cup! While it's far from being a top-performing machine, I find it much easier to load than my Inglis Liberator top-loading dishwasher with the GE pump and bowtie impeller. The lower rack on the Inglis is really weird. The dishwashing results are similar and the upper rack has the same type of folding sections but I'd rate the Inglis slightly better for that one. The utensil basket being on the lower rack of the Frigidaire seems to get slightly better results. The picture #1 shows my 1965 Frigidaire and the #2 shows my Inglis.
By the time I was there, there around 1984-87, there were some missing rack tines and the racks were rusted but I liked that dishwasher a lot! I was certainly a strange kid but I have been staring at the control panel and the nice timer knob almost every time I passed nearby! That was such a nice-looking machine compared to my parent's 1977 Inglis Royal... But I remember the repairman coming at home to replace the timer in my parent's Inglis who said these were better machines than some more expensive ones. And he told me the Waste King had to be among the worst even if they were expensive. I didn't care much, I liked the Waste King for it's looks!
Your Norge looks a lot like my top-loading 1965 Frigidaire Super (another D&M), with an added detergent cup! While it's far from being a top-performing machine, I find it much easier to load than my Inglis Liberator top-loading dishwasher with the GE pump and bowtie impeller. The lower rack on the Inglis is really weird. The dishwashing results are similar and the upper rack has the same type of folding sections but I'd rate the Inglis slightly better for that one. The utensil basket being on the lower rack of the Frigidaire seems to get slightly better results. The picture #1 shows my 1965 Frigidaire and the #2 shows my Inglis.
A neighbor of ours when I was a kid had this same gold WK, but we didn't know them and I never saw it running.
The Norge, like so many water-features in yards - lol, has moved onto a new life. Probably extruded into six new LG or Samsung pedestals. I played with it for a while, and was soundly rebuffed when I tried to send it North to Robert & Fred's kitchen.
It was a fun machine to play with for a while, but like a neighbor's pestering child, it's time here had come to end. I have only so much tolerance for circular loading patterns and as Bob said, it certainly was not meant to hold larger bowls, wine glasses and utensils. There are only a few of my cookware pieces that I will put in a dishwasher and the Norge fought against them every time. Larger chili bowls, platters and tall glasses and tumblers also caused loading angst and often I could hear unrest and rioting among the minority populations inside the machine while it was running.
It sat for a few months in the garage doing double duty as a work-surface and then like an extended family reunion, it was really nice to leave it and get home (to the KDS-18) again.
The Norge, like so many water-features in yards - lol, has moved onto a new life. Probably extruded into six new LG or Samsung pedestals. I played with it for a while, and was soundly rebuffed when I tried to send it North to Robert & Fred's kitchen.
It was a fun machine to play with for a while, but like a neighbor's pestering child, it's time here had come to end. I have only so much tolerance for circular loading patterns and as Bob said, it certainly was not meant to hold larger bowls, wine glasses and utensils. There are only a few of my cookware pieces that I will put in a dishwasher and the Norge fought against them every time. Larger chili bowls, platters and tall glasses and tumblers also caused loading angst and often I could hear unrest and rioting among the minority populations inside the machine while it was running.
It sat for a few months in the garage doing double duty as a work-surface and then like an extended family reunion, it was really nice to leave it and get home (to the KDS-18) again.
That Thermador
has PERFECT Idiot lights !!! What a nice machine!
Time to get my Youngstown Jet Tower up and running !
has PERFECT Idiot lights !!! What a nice machine!
Time to get my Youngstown Jet Tower up and running !
LOL, Greg!
That's a handsome little Norge--too bad disappointment comes in small packages. Who on earth felt the need to engrave their name on the control panel? Did people lend each other their dishwashers back in the day, and expect to get them back, like Tupperware?
Our little Wards Westinghouse dual-wash was a kick-butt (and quiet) unit, but when I temporarily lost my mind when we moved in and started using it exclusively as our daily driver, the amount of handwashing went through the roof. On the bright side, our pans glistened and deep tumblers gleamed. My hands looked like dried mashed potatoes, though. When the main wash motor died, it was frankly a mercy killing, and the GE 1250 swooped in thereafter to save me from myself. That machine accepts stock pots in the top rack. Rejoice!
That's a handsome little Norge--too bad disappointment comes in small packages. Who on earth felt the need to engrave their name on the control panel? Did people lend each other their dishwashers back in the day, and expect to get them back, like Tupperware?
Our little Wards Westinghouse dual-wash was a kick-butt (and quiet) unit, but when I temporarily lost my mind when we moved in and started using it exclusively as our daily driver, the amount of handwashing went through the roof. On the bright side, our pans glistened and deep tumblers gleamed. My hands looked like dried mashed potatoes, though. When the main wash motor died, it was frankly a mercy killing, and the GE 1250 swooped in thereafter to save me from myself. That machine accepts stock pots in the top rack. Rejoice!
philr
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Greg, did you part out that machine?
There was a time when those engravers could be borrowed from local police departments and bought (Radio Shack) for pretty reasonable prices. People went nuts engraving their names on everything. In some homes, nothing escaped the buzz of that marking tool and this isn't the first time I've seen a major appliance with a name and/or even a Social Security number.
There were two churches within a few blocks of the house the Norge came from, the closest was our church when I was growing up but nobody recognized the name, nor was it in the directory my mother saved. They might have belonged to the gargantuan Catholic church a little farther away so it would make sense they worried about getting it back after a pot-luck supper
I didn't part it out, a cleaning frenzy weekend a few months ago overtook me and out it went. The recycler guy and his two boys who pick up my cast offs asked if it still worked so perhaps they are using it. They're awfully nice people, so I hope not ;-)
There were two churches within a few blocks of the house the Norge came from, the closest was our church when I was growing up but nobody recognized the name, nor was it in the directory my mother saved. They might have belonged to the gargantuan Catholic church a little farther away so it would make sense they worried about getting it back after a pot-luck supper
I didn't part it out, a cleaning frenzy weekend a few months ago overtook me and out it went. The recycler guy and his two boys who pick up my cast offs asked if it still worked so perhaps they are using it. They're awfully nice people, so I hope not ;-)
Engraved Mixer Bowls
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I bought a mixer on eBay one time. It has clear glass bowls. When I opened the box I noticed someone had engraved a Social Security number into the bottom of the large bowl. I thought it was a little odd but I guess it was more common than I thought.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">It's funny when I saw the engraved control panel I thought of that mixer bowl.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">I bought a mixer on eBay one time. It has clear glass bowls. When I opened the box I noticed someone had engraved a Social Security number into the bottom of the large bowl. I thought it was a little odd but I guess it was more common than I thought.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">It's funny when I saw the engraved control panel I thought of that mixer bowl.</span>
I have a nice
1970's receiver that has a SS# engraved on the rim plate right up front!
Remember tape labellers? They were everywhere! We had one I think I even tried to label the dog !
1970's receiver that has a SS# engraved on the rim plate right up front!
Remember tape labellers? They were everywhere! We had one I think I even tried to label the dog !
You weren't supposed to mention that you even tried to label the dog. Now you might have alarmed the guys in the white coats with the straight jacket...
Ducking and running (and hiding!)
Ducking and running (and hiding!)
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