Orginal Viking Batch feed disposer ,Last one I have got .

[volsboy1]

This is my very last Viking Batch feed disposer , I am listing it on Ebay here really soon. I just wanted to let yall know ...
It is a Batch feed but I can convert it to continuous feed if ya want.
I have had this for years and years been saving for my Sister but she got some fancy odd low slung country sink and there is barley room for plumbing. I bought her that low profile Evolution disposer.
I would love for somebody in here get it this disposer. I have not seen one of these on Ebay in years ...

 

[stevet]

A Viking by any other name...

Would be a Kitchenaid by Hobart!

Wes, good to see you here every so often. I am tempted to take it off your hands but I would venture to say that this will be scooped up by one of us real fast. These were excellent disposers at least back in the day. I cannot vouch for the quality of it once it left Hobart's hands and Whirlpool dropped the Hobart built ones and rebranded the ISE built units as Kitchen Aid's.

I was wondering if the unit you have has the Jam Breaker feature like the older ones.
I hope it goes to a good home and are you sure you want to give it up?

Steve

 

[combo52]

Viking---Kitchenaid----National Disposer

KA got this design from National Disposer company in the early 70s, the design was sold off to Viking when WP bought KA along with the Hobart designed 18" trash compactor.

 

As far as I can tell these were still very good disposers after Viking got them, I found this same model Viking in the recycle dumpster at a local appliance dealer Brand New, the outer plastic casing was all busted up, so I just took the outer casing off a worn out KA and I still have it in one of my sinks today, Viking built these disposers for about 10 years but now source a TOL ISE built unit for the Viking Name that actually has fixed blades on the turn table.

 

Hi Steve, yes this disposer does have the KA Wam-Breaker electronic unjamming system.

 

John L.

 

[sarahperdue]

batch disposers

I encountered one in a beach house about twenty years ago. I was emotionally scarred by a mishap a switch activated disposer in the early 70s and thought the batch design was brilliant.

I'd consider it, but we'll probably not have a disposer with our septic system when we move the country.

Sarah

 

[combo52]

Septic Systems Love Disposers

Most septic systems fail from too little organic matter and too much water, strong cleaners, bleach Etc.

 

If you treat your SS to a lot of food waste you won't have to put costly RidX Etc in it.

 

John L.

 

[sarahperdue]

Cool News

Thanks, John,

I guess that's one of those things I have always been told and never questioned.

Sarah

 

[firedome]

septic systems...

when I worked in Sanitary Engineering for MD Dept of Health Balto Co. we recommended that both disposers and Rid-Ex not be used with any septic system...ever. Also pump out every 3 yrs minumum. Just FYI

 

[sarahperdue]

Pumping out?

This one has been pumped out twice in 80 years. Once in the mid 70s which I remember from childhood, and once around 2010. I dug it up myself that time to save $40.

Do you remember why disposers were not recommended? John makes a pretty good case for having one.

Thanks,
Sarah

 

[combo52]

Disposers and septic tanks

The reason disposers were banned some places it’s just bureaucratic nonsense it’s another rule made by men who really don’t have sound engineering backgrounds.

 

We have one county in the Washington Baltimore area that banned disposers for years on septic tanks. My old boss built a brand new home there when they came to give the final inspection , The inspector saw the disposer and told him he had to take it out, the next week after they moved in the disposer went back in of course LOL.

 

Even places like New York City band disposers for years with no good reason.

 

It’s kind of like a condo or homeowners association and some of the silly rules they come up with.

 

A Disposer puts the exact same thing down a drain that your toilet does it just does it one or two days earlier.

 

John L.

 

[arbilab]

At least one municipality in Colorado, disposers are mandatory in new construction.  As I heard,

their thinking was that it kept organics out of the landfill where they attract pests.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I remember an article in a shelter magazine in the early 60, maybe, making the exact same argument with a picture of a gross garbage can. I think, however, that was when sewer systems were new and not not overburdened by rampant construction and insufficient spending was allocated to keep the water systems up to capacity, you know, the same old story of builders allowed to connect to lines without paying to upgrade .

 

As for building inspectors, when a friend put a heat recovery coil on his water heater, the building inspector said you had to take the hot water off the top of the tank to run through the coil instead of taking the cooler water from the bottom of the tank and heating that then pumping it back to the top of the tank to join the rest of the hotter water.  He did as he was told until he got the inspection OK then changed it back.  You can't cure stupid, change minds or convince someone against his will.

 

[sarahperdue]

Code, inspection, what's that?

The house is out in the country, and I trust my master craftsman implicitly. We don't need no stinking inspections

Sarah