More pics of Kelvinator oddball dishwasher

[everythingold]

very interesting

 

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[soberleaf]

that is the D&M design that i remember as a teenager. my aunt had one from sears that had the top rotorack so the top sprayarm was replaced by a tube that mounted to the back wall of the dishwasher about a foot long i think. the hose coming down along the left back wall of the dishwasher was the same. angled jets of water from the tube made the top round rack revolve and i remember you could hear it sqeaking as it turned. i used to love to open the door to see that rack whirling around, it got going pretty fast!

at the same time "modern maid" had the same design (d&m) in their machines only the rotorack was replaced by a traditional rack like the one in the above picture and the spray tube was replaced by the top spray arm. same hose coming down back of tub etc.

they cleaned well i remember, but the round top rack of the sears brand was definately more fun, especially at parties! i bought one used in 76 while a student at O.S.U. and it was a big hit when we had parties! everyone wanted to see that top rack turning!!!!!!!

 

[peteski50]

D&M

Hi Matt,
Thanks so much for posting. I always liked this design. They should have kept it this way. Was their a silverware basket with this model? Is the machine in working order?
Peter

 

[everythingold]

There wasn't a untensil basket, no prob I have one that will fit. I have not tested functionality yet. Matt

 

[appnut]

I wonder which "version" of sanitizing cycle this is. Kenmore and a few others only heated the final rinse water to 155 degres. Other D&M product (Magic Chef, Tappan, and some Gaffers & Sattler in the early 1970s) not only heated the fihnal rinse water to 155 degrees, the main wash temp was boosted too. Magic Chef called theirs the Total magic Wash. the 1st prewash may have also been heated on that one too.

 

[scott55405]

Very nice! I'm not positive but pretty sure there were Kelvinator branded units similar to this that had the round upper rack as well. I don't think that was a Sears-only thing.

 

[appnut]

The only other roto rack D&M I ever saw was a 1960s Gaffers & Sattler in a friend of my mom's house. I did a double take, but verified it was G&S.

 

[peteski50]

D & M

I had also saw a G&S with the roto rack from the 60's. But my favorate was like the above kelvinator with the arm under the upper rack. Does anyone know why they screwed up their design in the later 70's when they added a tower and put the big arm on top? It never made sense why they did that. It ultimately ruined the business. Than only sears and modern maid kept the good design. It seemed america was so into the tower while europe was always into the 2 wash arms under both racks. Even GE had the design in the 70's on their top models with a full size arm under the upper rack than canned it and went back to the tower on all models. I guess thats why america is in trouble today (Corporations just keep going backwards) and wonder why they go out of business.
Peter

 

[roto204]

Hee hee!

Do I remember it?

How about one with no tower, either! :-D

 

[roto204]

Look, ma...

No tower!

 

[roto204]

I think...

...it was an endeavor to pretend to be a Maytag, and if they could have offered reverse loading, it probably would have been great. But alas, the spacings for the top and bottom rack were very traditional, which meant that the tops of stuff in the top rack were SPOTLESS, and you had to load it otherwise like a single wash-arm machine.

I really liked my Magic Chef, though--when properly loaded, it kicked butt, and I had zero rejects

 

[peteski50]

Magic Tragic Chef!

Yes Nate this was the beginning of the more poorer design in my opinion. This one you have is the bol model. The next ones up have the tower. If they wanted a maytag they should have designed it like one. This is almost as bad as what wci did to Frigidaire. The Magic Chef series before this series was absolutely awesome and probably better than most other D&M designs for it’s time in the earlier 70’s that had the total magic wash option with the red button spoke about earlier. And the interior was like that of the Kelvinator above. I also remember that dishwasher was on Maude, if anyone can recall.
D&M has had some very interesting models but give me a design like the Kelvi above or like the sears models and I’m all set.
Peter

 

[toggleswitch2]

Yup. The Magic Chefs of the 70's had a "Total Magic Wash" cycle with a red button for that cycle. The remaning buttons were white or cream colored IIRC.

Some neighbors in my childhood bought a Magic Chef and it came defective. Bent motor shaft. Was a jet in sound. I peed myself laughing when they got a Sears replacement and thought it was a better machine (they were Sears addicts). Didn't have the heart to tell them both were sourced from the same mannie.