Oh, FUD!

[soberleaf]

nice knob i know!

yea i'm not braggin but i admit that one i picked up has a hell of a knob on the top of it's wash tower. but hey your's is not plain, i bet if we watched it in action we would be in awe of it's power! looks like it can be pretty forceful if it wants to be!

i say get out that saw and cut that window! i love it when you guys do that to your dishwashers, i just don't have the nerve to try it yet!

what else can we wish for? how about g.e. impeller machines or those old mobile maid top loaders with the huge aluminum spray arm! that's what i am still tryin to find. or that tappan dishwasher with no pump, a roller in bottom of tub instead.

i see it is a built in, sorry, it looked portable from that first pic but then i'm prob tired, just got in from work. what the hell i love em all, portable, built in, top, front, if it's from the 70's or earlier i love it!

congrats again, keep me posted when you tear into it, i have not taken mine apart yet but did have a guy contact me who has parts for them so contact me if you are interested.

pete

 

[roto204]

*giggle*

yea i'm not braggin but i admit that one i picked up has a hell of a knob on the top of it's wash tower. but hey your's is not plain, i bet if we watched it in action we would be in awe of it's power! looks like it can be pretty forceful if it wants to be!

Okay, okay. Can't resist.

"That's what he said."

D'Oh!!! Okay. Sorry.

what else can we wish for? how about g.e. impeller machines or those old mobile maid top loaders with the huge aluminum spray arm! that's what i am still tryin to find. or that tappan dishwasher with no pump, a roller in bottom of tub instead.

Oh, those big aluminum wash-arm machines are easy! Just run them with the lid open. The water never makes it up to the top. *grin* :-D

On the other hand, those impeller machines are pretty powerful, especially the metal bowtie units. I definitely'd love to see one of those go.

I'm not going to put a window in the door--Robert's got cojones más grandes than I do. I'll just cut a Plexiglas insert so we can see everything from top to bottom.

As for those Tappan machines, you and me both. I love machines that have unconventional ways of lobbing water around, and that would be the piece de resistance. Even if, as in the case of those units, not a danged thing gets clean.

i see it is a built in, sorry, it looked portable from that first pic but then i'm prob tired, just got in from work. what the hell i love em all, portable, built in, top, front, if it's from the 70's or earlier i love it!

LOL No worries. Portables, built-ins, they're all good! :-D

congrats again, keep me posted when you tear into it, i have not taken mine apart yet but did have a guy contact me who has parts for them so contact me if you are interested.

Will definitely do, and thank you, I truly appreciate that. I'll let you know what I discover I need as I go, and I'll document the shots (I've learned the hard way on this site not to let a restoration go by without copious photo-documentation!) :-D No sense in letting fun learning opportunities go unshared.

I think that, instead of trying to color-match the Plastisol as I repair it, I'm just going to do what I need to do to fix it, and then line the entire machine in Contact paper. (Simulated woodgrain, of course.)

Thanks again for everything, Pete! Have a great night! :-D

Nate

 

[soberleaf]

look at the size of that monster!!!

i do love to show it off!!!

and no it doesn't get any bigger (i believe you ask me that question last week when i posted the orig pics)

 

[soberleaf]

you also asked me

about the weird bend in the calrod unit when i posted those pics of mine. i had a friend from the site here e mail me to tell me that it was designed that way to keep the front of the bottom rack from getting too hot to touch should door be opened during dry cycle. i would never have guessed that was the reason but it makes sense to me!

 

[soberleaf]

kinky!

that weird lookin kink in the calrod

and while were on the subject of frigidaire dishmobiles where do they get the 5 level wash? i see bottom spray, spray knob up, top spray back down, maybe a spray to the side off the knob but where is the fifth?

 

[alr2903]

Nice frigidaires Gentlemen, please tell me the wattage of that 9 mile long calrod unit in the Frigidaires? My Mom was a Kenmore kind'a girl (D&M), with the round heating element. Back in the day the smaller D&M element got plenty HOT. That large element looks like more Zap than a oven? Thanks alr2903

 

[roto204]

Hot!

Literally! I wondered if it was, like Drew suggested, to better accommodate the silverware basket, but I can see both sides. Of course, I also love that the wash arm passes under and sprays on it. Fun!

Yes, that wash tower is awesome. The innuendo opportunities are neverending

Okay, so since you asked the $64,000 question regarding what, exactly, comprises the wash-level count, here is the verbage [slightly modified; it doesn't say "pee" anywhere] from the doctrine (which I will scan and post in full when I have a spare evening here, and when I can get the damned wireless scanner to work):

1.) The Bakelite wash arm is one
2.) The stainless-steel auxiliary wash arm is two
3.) The sideways action of the tower is three
4.) The upward-angled action of the tower is four
5.) The pee stream shot up to the constant-rinse disc ("spray impeller")--and the ensuing showering action--is five.

So, if you had a three-level wash machine, it would be wash arm, tower-side, tower-angled.

Four-level is wash-arm, tower-side, tower-angled, constant-rinse.

And five-level adds the auxiliary metal twirligig wash-arm, of course.

alr2903, I'll check the doctrine for the wattage when I get home tonight...the Calrod in this is very shiny and thin--it reminds me a lot of the one in the Asko I had.

 

[gansky1]

oh god another one ;-)

The wattage of the heating element is 950. It is energized during circulation periods and for the first 11 minutes of the dry cycle, then intermittently energized after the scavenger-drain through the end of the cycle - approx. 11 min.

It's interesting that they used the two different spray-tower designs - especially as much as Frigidaire seemed to like bellows!

 

[soberleaf]

scavenger drain?

i take it the scavenger drain is where the motor comes back on during the dry cycle to pump out any extra water that might have fallen off the dishes. never could understand the importance of that one, some of my kitchenaids do it too.

if it was me i would have just stated every cycle with a drain and a purge to get the incoming water hot like the older machines from the 50's and 60's did.

 

[soberleaf]

mine has

a 4 level wash it says, thanks for that info it was really interesting, luv all that dishwasher trivia stuff! life really is one big pots and pans cycle!

 

[rayjay]

My parents had A Frigidaire Portable similiar to this in the 70's. I think it was a Custom Imperial. It was a poor performer. Always something stuck on the flatware and dishes.

Now before that, in the mid 60's that had a Frigidaire Top loading machine. This machine was a much better performer.

 

[roto204]

Interesting

I look forward to giving it the Nate Test and seeing where it falls on the performance spectrum.

Pete, yes, the scavenge period is when it drains during dry to get rid of water that's fallen into the sump.

 

[dnastrau]

GM Frigidaire dishwashers

That machine reminds me of the second Frigidaire my aunt and uncle had. The first was a '67 Custom Imperial that had a row of indicator lights on the front panel if memory serves. They had problems with it in the late '70's and replaced it with a model very similar to the one that you have here. It was lightly used and given to them by a friend. It died in 1990 and was replaced with a new KitchenAid Superba. That unit is still being used - and I keep telling them they need to keep it going!

Andrew S.

 

[kgd7966]

I just bought one of these...and I have a few questions...

Hi,

I'm new to the site and to owning a (vintage) portable dishwasher. It's a Frigidaire Crown, and other than the name difference appears similar to the one in this posting.

It has a handle, which contains both the fill and drain hoses. That's where my question comes in...

How does the fill hose connect to the sink? It seems to be like the "quick-connect" things I have on my garden hoses, but there is nothing special to go on the sink end. Does it connect to a standard female end sink faucet?

I'd appreciate any assistance you can give!

- Ken

 

[rp2813]

Your local ACE, Home Depot or Lowe's has what you need.  Just ask for a portable dishwasher faucet adapter.  They are a standardized item and will fit your hose assembly.  Last time I bought one it was at Home Depot and I found it in the same aisle as the under sink supply line hoses.

 

Here's a picture:

 

[philr]

I often saw this thread but never posted in it since it was archived!   Great to see it resurrected!

 

Nate, did you keep any parts from this dishwasher? I'd really like to get a spare wash arm like that and maybe a few other things...