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We remodeled our kitchen over 16 years ago and were lucky to find a Maytag disposer in an opened box, probably returned to the appliance dealer by a contractor who didn't use it. We paid all of $29 for it and it has been the most impressive disposer I've ever used. I hope it has the same dependability and durability of an old center dial washer because I'll hate to lose it if it fails. Nothing else will compare.
Tennguy, there is the Urban Ore salvage yard in Berkeley where you can find anything. Same place the "Myth Busters" go looking for old stuff to rig up or wreck or whatever. Poking through Urban Ore's giant warehouse recently, I came across the business end of my identical Maytag disposer shoved behind other junk on the floor. It was missing the sink flange and associated fittings. As I poked through more stuff strewn out on waist-high tables, I found the rest of this disposer's parts. I grabbed them, walked over and attached them to the disposer in hopes that someone would take it and give it a good home, now that I had made it a complete assembly. I'll bet if someone bought it, they didn't pay more than $5 or $10 for it. I'm sure it was a perfectly good disposer that was a victim of a remodel.
I don't know if you have any place like this near you, but I would suggest giving one a try if you do. I didn't realize this type of disposer wasn't being made anymore. I've seen Jenn Air brand that look identical except for the color.
And I agree, they have a great drain stopper. I'm so pleased with this disposer. It has already outlasted the refrigerator and is poised to outlast the Jenn Air stove (flimsy junk from day one). Good luck, a Maytag disposer is worth hunting for!
 
ISE Excel splash guard

Jeff, to your point about the removable splash guard, in practice this turns out to work quite well. It snaps firmly in place for regular use, however, it is easily pulled out rinse the underside off or run it through the dishwasher. Not unlike the "true" Waste King Universal disposers from years past.

After 6 months use, it is as fresh as new. And if you tear it up, Home Depot & Lowes have the replacements available. So I like it!

Leslie
 
Splash guard

I'll agree Leslie that removable is good, my current WK has a removable guard, and I do on occasion run it thru the DW.

What I absolutely hate about the ISE guard is how much noise it lets out because of its one-piece, interlocking finger design. It also does not do all that great at keeping stuff "in" as well, more than a few times I got wet from an eruption of the PRO77...

I bought one of the new ISE guards to use with the Viking I have, it was just as noisy as the permanant guard.
 
I see

O.K., Jeff, I was thinking about the splash guard more from a cleaning and sanitation standpoint. Did not think about its ability to prevent flying objects & noise. My machine makes a slurping sound when its running with the faucet going full force. So far its been well behaved and has not "thrown" or burped anything upward.

Friends of ours have a high-end ISE that plumbers sell and it has a secondary removable splash guard that is fitted above the permanently installed one. I suspect that might do a better job at blocking noise and ejected waste. It intersting that there have been and are so many variants.

Also, Jeff my parents had a W-K SS5000 in their kitchen about 22-23 years ago. It was a great disposer too.

Leslie
 
ISE Guards

My old ISE PRO77 came with two guards. I never used the secondary one, as it made the stopper too difficult to seal.
The permanant guard was also starting to "droop" with age, and with that it would spit up more and more.
I hated the sound too....like there was no cover at all.

I had an ISE made Viking installed for a few months last year. It worked pretty well and was quiet, but the guard drove me nuts.
I am really very fond of the little Waste King I have installed now, for the smaller MOL WAste KIng it works very well, and eats everything I give it, including bones and even walnut shells now and again. The only thing its kinda slow-ish with is citrus skins, I remember it chewed a lemon rind down over a period of days... The ISE was much faster, but I also wonder how well it ground the stuff up too.
 
Does the new ISE

line include a batch-feed machine? I don't currently have a disposer (and miss one!), but my landlord said I could have one, if I paid for it myself, and had it installed myself.

I do prefer a batch-feed disposer. Part of the reason why I really want one in this apartment is the "where would the switch go"? question.

My first apartment had an ISE Badger 5, and it was good for me. The second and third apartments had GE/Whirlaway compacts, and I never put anything more than chicken bones in them.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
parts

I have the disks from both Maytag made and ISE, I'll get a pic of the two together and post it tomorrow night.

Welcome back retroguy, long time no see!
 
Splash Guards

I am very Picky about them also.I ordered the older Maytag removeable one before Ise took them over.I use it for my Viking it was a tight fit but it works Great keeps everything inside and also makes alot less noise.You can still buy I paid 20 bucks for it but it was well worth it.My Waste King SS5000 arrived today.I havent got it in yet but will soon it looks to be a 94 model ,but I am Very happy with it they dont make them like that no more.The Grind ring is so sharp it sliced my finger open bad.
 
Thanks for telling me that.That helps alot.This disposer is older than I thought it says 92 as the First number.
 
thats the year...

that should still be the original style motor too then, thats made right about the time Anaheim took WK over from Thermador, and aside from the craptacular plastic mounting it will be an excellent disposal.
You have an extra SS 3-bolt mount for it I hope?
 
I am having a Problem and need your advice.I have a old Three bolt mount from 1981 from a Waste King and a Peerless disposer.I tried out the motor and it ran fine but when I hooked it up it is LOUD as hell.The guy I got it from didnt send the screw clamp so I used the older one.The strange part is that when I turn it on its loud but if I hit the sink right near the opening it sounds just Fine and will stay like that till I turn it off but when I turn it back on its loud again.The screw clamp is touching the sound shell would that cause it?I am worried its the bearings in it I have heard some rumors that they go quick near the end if W.k. ownership but if that is so then it would make the noise all the time then wouldnt it?What do you think it is?The Disposal has never been used if the bearings were shot it would do it all the time then..Like you I hate that Plastic mount and it still makes that noise.I am thinking about taking off the Shell tonite and see if that stops it.It runs just fine otherwise just loud.
 
problem..

Sounds to me like the shell rattling...take the shell off, reposition the padding and try again...
 

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