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Mobile Maid Twins
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Brent-Aucoin
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Wow!
These look fun!
The pumps on these must have been quite stronger than the later GE dishwashers. Look how big that wash arm is! It would have to fill up with a good bit of water and then still have the pressure to force out.
Is this a club member that is selling?
Brent
These look fun!
The pumps on these must have been quite stronger than the later GE dishwashers. Look how big that wash arm is! It would have to fill up with a good bit of water and then still have the pressure to force out.
Is this a club member that is selling?
Brent
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Yes I am a club member. I am downsizing a bit. These machines are fun, but I don't need 4, so downsizing I go with much internal resistance LOL
Another missing link!
That white Mobile Maid with the avocado vinyl racks was made in the 70's!!! That must have been one of the very last Top-Loading GE dishwashers made. I didn't think they made them that late. Does it have the same incredibly loud motor that the built-in"s did? And where, by the way, is Warren Pennsylvania? Is it nearer to Pittsburgh or Philly? And excuse my ignorance.
That white Mobile Maid with the avocado vinyl racks was made in the 70's!!! That must have been one of the very last Top-Loading GE dishwashers made. I didn't think they made them that late. Does it have the same incredibly loud motor that the built-in"s did? And where, by the way, is Warren Pennsylvania? Is it nearer to Pittsburgh or Philly? And excuse my ignorance.
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It is near Philadelphia
Brent, unfortunately, they did not have a powerful pump. The large openings were because there was no filter so if crap was in the water, it could usually blow through the holes. GE used openings similar to old KitchenAids, but GE had no filter and the motor only turned at half the speed of the Hobart, plus the pump had large tolerances since again there was no filter. In the deluxe front loading version of these early models with the blue vinyl racks, there was a piece of trim on the front of the top rack. It was a metal strip faced with some plastic bar on the front that had General Electric or something written in the plastic. The lack of filtering was so pronounced and the water pressure so weak that when Consumer Reports tested the machine, it repeatedly accumulated food between this piece of trim and the inner panel of the door. They recommended removing the trim piece. The pop-up tower did not wash UP very well; it washed OUT to the side, so pots and pans in the bottom rack would block the area above them in the top rack.
When GE did go to the smaller holes in their wash arms, they were not in the middle of a dimpled down area around the holes like in KA's 4 Way Hydro Sweep. They were just flat holes punched through the metal. The dimples around the smaller holes in the KA wash arm force the water to go up and to spread a bit. The water is under very high pressure to begin with, but the KA engineering of the openings makes the spray more effective without the GE's penchant for tossing things with just the brute force of the water. The flat holes in the GE just shot thick streams of water up and they had far more potential to break glasses and send small things flying. I remember that in the early 70s, some of GE's wash arms had all of the holes on one end of the arm and the opposite end just had one slanted jet to make the arm spin.
When GE did go to the smaller holes in their wash arms, they were not in the middle of a dimpled down area around the holes like in KA's 4 Way Hydro Sweep. They were just flat holes punched through the metal. The dimples around the smaller holes in the KA wash arm force the water to go up and to spread a bit. The water is under very high pressure to begin with, but the KA engineering of the openings makes the spray more effective without the GE's penchant for tossing things with just the brute force of the water. The flat holes in the GE just shot thick streams of water up and they had far more potential to break glasses and send small things flying. I remember that in the early 70s, some of GE's wash arms had all of the holes on one end of the arm and the opposite end just had one slanted jet to make the arm spin.
man....what were they thinking at GE? I think they had some of worst vintage designs you could ever think of back then....today however....wow, their machines are great. what a difference.
GE seems to have trended inversely than its competitors where they've gotten much better within the past 15 years, whereas GE's competitors have gotten HORRIBLE within the past several years.
interesting.
GE seems to have trended inversely than its competitors where they've gotten much better within the past 15 years, whereas GE's competitors have gotten HORRIBLE within the past several years.
interesting.
