Montgomery Ward dishwasher

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WCI made ?

http://joplin.craigslist.org/app/3390684164.html

 

[appnut]

Very much WCI with the pathetic "tineless" top rack. But nice arracy of cycle buttons. Glad they put the flatware basket where it's supposed to be. Loaded properly, that bottom rack held a ton of dishes and pots & pans.

 

[rp2813]

 

 

So relieved to see this isn't on Tucson CL.

 

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Yeah, like THAT will stop him... I think that KA is shuddering in the cabinet again.

RCD

 

[toploader55]

Ralph and Drew...

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[appnut]

Nate!!!!

Take me home. I got lots of buttons and a dial that is easily manipulated. I wash like crazy and hold bulky and odd things very well.!!! Pots & Pans cycle with 3 detergent washes. What more can you ask for Nate!!!??? Dishwasher variety is the spice of life Nate!!! Racking variations. No need to get bored!!! I survived the Joplin tornado!!!

 

[toploader55]

Oh Bob...

You're sooooooo cruel !!! LOL

 

[roto204]

SLAP!!

Slappity-slappity-SLAP-SLAP-SLAP!!!

 

[toploader55]

Oh Nate...

ROFLMAO !!!!

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Awwww, go easy on him...

Nates only letting us know what the talking to he got sounded like after announcing his desire (lust?) to bring home yet another dishwasher...

RCD

 

[roto204]

Talking to?

Are you kidding? David has his own Easy Spin-Drier and Maytag wringer. He asked me the other day to stop so that he could filch an 18" Frigidaire portable from the late nineties that was out at the curb, and I looked at him like he had a third eyeball.

 

[roto204]

Deluxe

Love the tiltable rack and the fact that the bottom one has wheels.

What's the little pod on the right-hand side, just under the top rack?

 

[appnut]

What's the little pod on the right-hand side, just under

It appears this may have forced air drying.  I wonder if that's what that pod is for. 

 

[combo52]

Plastic Pod on Right Side Of Tank

On the earlier versions of this DW when it was pure Westinghouse this was where air  drawn out of the tank and into the Big blower wheel that cooled the main motor, this acted as a lame version of forced air drying, of coerce it required them to run a 6 amp motor all the way through the dry cycle. I do not think that this DW still did this, but they were recycling as many parts as possible at this point in WCIs history.  This DW on my 1to 10 scale of great DWs ever built would merit a solid 1.5.

 

[roto204]

Ah, yes!

I remember being so relieved that my MW machine didn't have that "feature." What a turd of an idea.

Mine was mostly identical to this, only portable and from around '81, so it still had the old "blue bar" logo for Montgomery Ward. No tilting racks and no mystery pod for faux forced-air drying.

One odd feature was the "Econo Wash," which according to the docs I have that came with the machine, dispensed detergent twice during a long wash segment, but didn't drain. I thought that was a strange idea, and probably not too great for your dishes.

The machine performed really well, actually. I had to fix a few things to get it going, but nothing major. The flatware basket location made for great washability there, as Bob pointed out. The top rack's tine ribs were spaced too far apart, and all your drinking glasses fell over when you pulled the rack out, unless you packed everything in there so that it had absolutely nowhere to go.

The wash-arm, as GE-kindred as it looks, has goats-eye holes like a Whirlpool, not big open holes like a GE or D&M.

The build quality was absolutely atrocious. D&M actually looked pretty good by comparison.

On John's Dishwasher Performance Metric, if this was a solid 1.5, I'd give a turbine-pump GE without the back-wall filter a 0.8 by comparison.