Picked up a Whirlpool SHU5001 dishwasher --date code?

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mattl

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A relative bought an older home as a bank repo and has been updating and fixing it up. Anyway his MIL insisted they needed a new dishwasher and bought them one. The old one was working so I asked if I could have it. It was going in the junk.

Anyway model is SHU5001-0 serial is f05064853 from a couple of sites it could be from 1970 or 1980, how is that determined?

I'm putting it in my basement, making a few changes, adding a Whirlpool Duet and a Maytag A209 to my existing Kenmore 90 series electronics. I just want the dishwasher to clean junky messy stuff - waste baskets, my floor scrubber dirty water collection tank, and my dad's urinals - none of which I want in my good machine.

The racks are in perfect shape as is the machine overall. It's all porcelain on steel, no discoloration. 4 cycles labeled A, B, C on the dial plus high temp, energy saver and rinse hold, the energy saver makes me think it's an 80's model, don't think that existed in 70...

Anyway, anyone have any experience with these units? Little bummed, was cleaning it up with Windex, and it took off most of the painted lettering on the panel, weird.
 
Dishwashers started putting energy saver drys on machines in 1974 and onward. The last rendition of the roto racks, before Sears went with rectangular top rack, had energy saver dry switch. GE had it on theirs in 1976.
 
Thank you!

I'm working on putting in plumbing for it and the two new washers, hope to have it done tomorrow, got to love PEX and PVC drain lines. Luckily the DW is just around the corner from the washers and only a small portion of exposed pipe will show in the finished room.
 
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That machine is a very effective machine one of the best cleaning machines you can find,we use a similar one in our shop for cleaning all sorts of stuff. Yes it is from about 1981 and watch out for Windex on painted surfaces when you are restoring stuff you care about.
 
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