Older Maytag dishwasher $35.00
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appliguy
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My mom got that dishwasher in harvest gold in 1979
and it was the biggest piece of crap we ever had in our kitchen...it was really noisy and could not wash the dishes worth a damn unless you prerinsed everything first...PAT COFFEY
and it was the biggest piece of crap we ever had in our kitchen...it was really noisy and could not wash the dishes worth a damn unless you prerinsed everything first...PAT COFFEY
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Pat I am surprised you had a cleaning problem with this DW. I knew 2 familys that had the 300 series like this one and it was a power house in terms of cleaning. You did need to have good hot water for these machines because their was no water heating provisions. Temp had to be at least 140. I agree they were really noisy suckers.
Peter
Pat I am surprised you had a cleaning problem with this DW. I knew 2 familys that had the 300 series like this one and it was a power house in terms of cleaning. You did need to have good hot water for these machines because their was no water heating provisions. Temp had to be at least 140. I agree they were really noisy suckers.
Peter
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Pat,
If you do a search of Automaticwasher.org and read all the posts you can find on the Maytag Reverse Rack machines, I think you will find your family's experience to be disimilar to others who have had these machines.
I am GE tower wash fan, but my four Maytag RR machines that I have had, almost made me a convert and it's only by a very small margin that I give GE the edge.
Capacity-wise I give Maytag the lead. I have never had a machine that could hold as many dishes. Cleaning ability-wisem almost perfection. These machines will scrub the daylights out of baked on food on pots and pans without breaking a sweat. The glassware and in the lower rack, with the dedicated full sized wash arm, come out gleaming.
I suspect that, if there was a cleanability problem, it lied in one of two areas.
If you family had hard water, the filter-system, despite being self cleaning, may have calcified. I bought a WU202 recently and the filter was, I estimate, to be maybe 80% blocked by calcium deposits covering the pore spaces in the filter.
A little CLR restore it to factory fresh performance despite the machine being near 30 years old.
The spray holes in the wash arms are very, very small to give high pressure scouring to the load, and if the water is very hard, theses can calcify also, over time. I did find sometimes, but not often, stringing food wastes, like a lot of dried canned cat food on plates, or a lot of leftover beef, can sometimes covertly slide longwise through the filter pores and clog some of the small holes.
But under normal circumstances, I think the Maytag Reverse Rack system is close to being unequaled in engineering design and performance.
Yes, it is loud. But you have a high powered, high performance machine there. To many of us appliance connoseurs, this is musc to our ears, as is the throaty roar of a Lamborghini to a race driver.
Pat,
If you do a search of Automaticwasher.org and read all the posts you can find on the Maytag Reverse Rack machines, I think you will find your family's experience to be disimilar to others who have had these machines.
I am GE tower wash fan, but my four Maytag RR machines that I have had, almost made me a convert and it's only by a very small margin that I give GE the edge.
Capacity-wise I give Maytag the lead. I have never had a machine that could hold as many dishes. Cleaning ability-wisem almost perfection. These machines will scrub the daylights out of baked on food on pots and pans without breaking a sweat. The glassware and in the lower rack, with the dedicated full sized wash arm, come out gleaming.
I suspect that, if there was a cleanability problem, it lied in one of two areas.
If you family had hard water, the filter-system, despite being self cleaning, may have calcified. I bought a WU202 recently and the filter was, I estimate, to be maybe 80% blocked by calcium deposits covering the pore spaces in the filter.
A little CLR restore it to factory fresh performance despite the machine being near 30 years old.
The spray holes in the wash arms are very, very small to give high pressure scouring to the load, and if the water is very hard, theses can calcify also, over time. I did find sometimes, but not often, stringing food wastes, like a lot of dried canned cat food on plates, or a lot of leftover beef, can sometimes covertly slide longwise through the filter pores and clog some of the small holes.
But under normal circumstances, I think the Maytag Reverse Rack system is close to being unequaled in engineering design and performance.
Yes, it is loud. But you have a high powered, high performance machine there. To many of us appliance connoseurs, this is musc to our ears, as is the throaty roar of a Lamborghini to a race driver.
Not My Experience
My first Maytag dishwasher reverse rack was in 79 and every house we moved into after that got a Maytag RR and everyone washed impeccably and sounded like a thrashing machine. I hated when Maytag dishwasher became "normal"ut they still did a great job of washing. Yours must have been an anomally.
My first Maytag dishwasher reverse rack was in 79 and every house we moved into after that got a Maytag RR and everyone washed impeccably and sounded like a thrashing machine. I hated when Maytag dishwasher became "normal"ut they still did a great job of washing. Yours must have been an anomally.
appliguy
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Hmmmmm....
Well then maybe ours washed badly because the water heater was set too low......when the timer went on the Maytag the week beofre my sisters wedding in 1996 my mom sent my dad and I out to buy a new one and she told me that the thing she wanted most was to have the dishwasher be black so it would match the oven door. I selected a Ge Profile with a mechanical timer and the little orbital wash arms on the ends of the washer arm in the bottom of the dishwasher. That one was a much better performer and that might have been due to the built in water heater which I talked my mom into leaving turned on all the time. It lasted us 8 years before the pump seals went and was replaced with an equally good GE Profile Perfromance dishwasher......PAT COFFEY
Well then maybe ours washed badly because the water heater was set too low......when the timer went on the Maytag the week beofre my sisters wedding in 1996 my mom sent my dad and I out to buy a new one and she told me that the thing she wanted most was to have the dishwasher be black so it would match the oven door. I selected a Ge Profile with a mechanical timer and the little orbital wash arms on the ends of the washer arm in the bottom of the dishwasher. That one was a much better performer and that might have been due to the built in water heater which I talked my mom into leaving turned on all the time. It lasted us 8 years before the pump seals went and was replaced with an equally good GE Profile Perfromance dishwasher......PAT COFFEY
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Yes that was most definatly the reason was lack of scalding hot water. They really didnt market 120 water temp until the last few years of the reverse rack models.
Even the TOL models that had that sani scrub didnt have a delay to give good hot temp!
Yes that was most definatly the reason was lack of scalding hot water. They really didnt market 120 water temp until the last few years of the reverse rack models.
Even the TOL models that had that sani scrub didnt have a delay to give good hot temp!
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