My Viking has arrived

[hoover1060]

badger

I had a Badger 5 in my last apartment, it was dreadful!! I remember putting a lemon rind down once and two days later it was still there and still whole...
I had to chuck ice cubes in it to get it to chew, and heaven forbid if I put too much down at once, it would totally gag and just stop!!
I'd call the Badger series a disposable disposer!

 

[scott55405]

Have to agree with you there Jeff! There was a dead Badger here, ever since I moved in last fall. I was buying furniture and this and that and just got to redoing the sink setup now. I'd had one in the 80s and that was fine, but the last one in Minneapolis was not good, and this one had been dead. The man that did the work and I decided they put Drano down it, which is a huge no-no. So much Drano had been used that part of the pipes and a connecter were eaten away and it was held together with electrical tape. It's actually good it held as long as it did. The Badger was all rusted and petrified and nasty inside, and he found all kinds of nasty stuff in the pipes, and said I was headed for problems had I not done the work. Everything is new and working beautifully now!

 

[tolivac]

I have fed many disposals onion skins and have had no problems-esp if they are mixed with other types of waste-than the hammers and shredders can deal with the onion skins.That Viking machine shouldn't have a problem-remember the serrated flywheel-if any onion skin gets between the flywheel and stationary shredder-they will be mulched.On Badgers-remember the stationary shredder-shred ring and their flywheels are stampted zinc plated steeel-since the zinc is soft-wears away fast-their hammers are stainless steel-Badgers corrode away around their swivel hammers.For a cheap disposal-they don't do too bad.Builders and apartment house operators love them-they are literally disposable.they can by them by the case!!Have seen a csse of them in a storage room in an apartment building I lived in.Like a box of 4 of 'em.One badger in my apartment ate a whole #828 transmitter tube and came back for more-We worked on a stations Tx and the shorted 828 just had to go!Dramatic end for it.Would have liked to see the bits of it in the Apartment building plumbing clean out point!

 

[hoover1060]

Original Badgers

Had cast hammers, made from the same material as the disk. They were not as heavy as the cast SS hammers on the more deluxe models, but they ground much better than the ones with the cheapie stamped SS hammers. One problem with the cast hammers in the early Badgers is they tended to rust themselves to the disk, so they wouldn't swivel very well, causing the machines to stall/jam alot, especially the 1/3 hp models. If you fed them slowly, they were champs though!

 

[tolivac]

Yes-I had a Badger where one of the hammers was frozen-not from corrosion-but a bone sliver that wedged under it-was like that so long(the former occupant of the house the machine was in must not have run it much)yeilded to prying free with a screwdriver-than the machine worked OK.Replaced it with an all SS ISE 333 I beleive it was-was abetter machine .The water in the Northern Va area was corrosive.The Badger parts were corroding away-the Badger-no doubt was put into the townhome by the builder.No-didn't run any 828's thru that one-its parts were too corroded.Would have liked to see a Badger with the cast hammers-no doubt would be more effective than the flail like hammers in later Badgers-the flail like ones would have been more efficitve if they were turned at a higher speed-much like a flail mower-its flail blades are very light-but spun very fast-the flail mower will cut thru all type of grass and brush.

 

[insulinpumpuser]

Badgers SUCK!!!!!

Hi, all. If I had to HAVE a badger, then I guess I would do without a disposer. My mom had her badger for 5 years. It clogged badly, so I was plunging it really hard with a plunger, and the whole gawddamned thing just fell off to the cabinet floor. So, I got a GE disposall from WM and it is solid as a rock!!!!!......Bill in Az.....

 

[insulinpumpuser]

Badgers SUCK!!!!!

Hi, all. If I had to HAVE a badger, then I guess I would do without a disposer. My mom had her badger for 5 years. It clogged badly, so I was plunging it really hard with a plunger, and the whole gawddamned thing just fell off to the cabinet floor. So, I got a GE disposall from WM and it is solid as a rock!!!!!......Bill in Az.....

 

[tolivac]

the GE disposer would be MUCH better than the Badger.The GE has a better stationary shredder-better flywheel with small cast flail like hammers-and the flywheel is spun by a higher speed PM DC motor.If it was an older GE-the even higher speed universal motor.I hated to see GE abandon the carboloy stationary shredders-they could grind up almost anything dropped in the machine.The Badgers housing must have rotted away enough-so that the plunging of the stopped plumbing caused it to fall.Thats another problem with badgers-their cheap cast metal hopper-it rots and corrodes away from the water and food chemicals-than falls apart.Seen that on Very old ones.Oh well love 'em or hate 'em Badgers can be fun.

 

[retromom]

Viking Velocity!!

Wow Jeff! That thing looks like it could swallow a whole turkey!! I'd still be wary about onion skins and potato peels! After a couple of clogs involving that food group, I've learned that no disposal is invincible!!

Enjoy (and watch your fingers ;-) )

Venus

 

[hoover1060]

I've learned that no disposal is invincible!!

AMEN Venus, that is for sure!! From your comment I'm guessing you have variation of an ISE, they hate onions!!
Never had any problems with potato peelings though...

 

[bobbyderegis]

Keep the bones out of there, Jeff. No matter how strong the motor or grinding ring is, you'll absolutely shorten it's life with bones. Did anyone ever get a plastic milk bottle cap ring under a Badger impeller? It's next to impossible to get out, and then the damn thing rusts onto the fly wheel. Gar-baaaage, those Badgers!

Bobby in Boston

 

[hoover1060]

make no bones about it

No worries on bones Bobby, most of the chicken I cook is boneless, skinless breasts, no bones there! Same with pork chops, boneless.
I may get KFC once or twice a year, that would be it.
I've never cared for BBQ ribs, so none there either.

I can remember my mom putting rib bones down our Hotpoint disposal, it sounded like it had rocks in it! It would also jam if too many went down at one time, and of course there was the *shrapnel* to watch out for too...

 

[bobbyderegis]

Did anyone ever get hit in the head with a flying watermelon rind? Ouch!!

Bobby in Boston

 

[maytagbear]

Do tell,

Bobby o Boston, do tell.

That sounds like something out of a Lucy episode, however.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[hoover1060]

My former ISE

use to spit up quite alot, I always blamed the 1.0 hp motor, if there was anything in the chamber when you hit the switch you'd get wet!