Oh so........... Brown!

[jetaction]

Picked up the Roto Rack on Saturday, is in great shape. Now to find a green small utensils basket, the owners manual speaks of one, but the seller did not have it anymore.

 

[veg-o-matic]

I am avocado with envy!

veg

 

[gansky1]

Filling the kitchen with appliances!

Beautiful dishwasher, Don! Did you toss out that kitchen table yet? ;-)

 

[tlee618]

Hi Don, I had that same dishwasher and there was never a small utensil basket that came with mine, I am thinking that maybe it was something you could by as an extra. Terry

 

[gyrafoam]

That looks great! Those were good old machines.

 

[toggleswitch]

WOOOO HOOOO!!!!!

 

[appnut]

Don, as I've said, we had the built-in version of this at our weekend home. It did come with the avocado small items basket. It was kinda similar to the KA small items basket that came iwth superbas, but was totally squared off at the bottom rather than having the bottom slant up some from the center.

 

[jasonl]

Green Washer

What's that green washer(?) next to the DW? Looks like a Hitachi/GE portable.

 

[jetaction]

Thanks for the kind words. The green machine is a Panasonic Twin Tub. Such a wonderful display of color in the kitchen! Yikes. The brown will eventually not be brown, probably white. It is a nice shade if you are into brown though!

 

[kevinpreston8]

Some additional questions

Great DW!

I would love to see the inside. By Roto-rack, is that the top rack is circulr, and the spray of water or pressure makes it revolve?

Also, on the four control buttons on the left, are those rocker switches, slides, or push tabs?

 

[appnut]

Kevin, you guessed properly about the top rack. I'm not sure how I can explain how the buttons worked. Definitely not rocker. You depressed the bottom end of it to select a different cycle. That button then went down and was "down" all the way up almost to the top compared to the button parallel to it. The buttons for this were Rinse & Hold, Light Wash, Normal Wash, Sani-Wash. INcidentally, that roto top rack was adjustable to two heights for larger plates or taller glasses. If glasses were too tall, they'd bump the metal track that went form the middle to the back of the machine (used for sliding the rrack in & out) and thus once a glass hit that track, rotation would cease.

 

[DADoES]

They're pushbuttons, that sort of 'pivot' on the top edge and depress at the bottom.

 

[petek]

And I see you have a Lady Kenmore blender sitting there on the counter (a rebadged Oster) very nice. Where's the jar?

 

[kevinpreston8]

Ok, further clarification....

Is the Roto Rack driven by some water pressure, or simply at will by the spray of the arm?

 

[appnut]

Kevin, picture this. On D&M dishwashers, you had a plastic tube that ran from the left back part of the tub up and over to an angle that me a tube that supplied waetr to the wawsh arm under the top rack. Well, with the kenmore that tube was modified some such that it was a real tube and had spray nozzle holes-one set shot up to wash the glasses and other stuff in the top rack, another set sprayed at an angle such that it caught the support ribs of the rotorack and caused it to turn by the force of the spray from those holes.

 

[kevinpreston8]

Very cool

Bob thanks for the explanation. My ancient unit spins its "roto rack" by virtue of the water splashing off the dishes below!

 

[Cybrvanr]

Someone posted pictures of an alvacado green Kenmore Dishwasher that's about the same vintage as that Whirlpool. Can't rember who it was, but I do remember the section of the control panel between the timer and the buttons had a really classic pattern on it with the lighted indicators within.

My grandmother had one of these machines in of the Kenmore variety too. My grandfather had converted what was a free-standing machine to an under-counter machine. They've still got it, and it works great!

 

[laundryboy]

Does anyone know if you can take a portable dishwasher and install it under the counter as a permenant

 

[appnut]

Laundryboy, I don't know about modern portables, but vintage portables from the 1960s and 1970s and on had conversion kits which allowed permanent installation.