Picture of the Day 02/04

[kenmoreman]

I only serviced D&M machines and never heard of a flushaway drain. What did that mean?

 

[tomturbomatic]

Hi! You can add your question to the comments under the original topic heading. GE's flushaway drain was a design where the pump was under the impeller, run by the main motor so it was more powerful than the separately powered drain pumps that preceded it. After the stainless steel impeller had slashed through the wash water repeatedly to chop up food particles, there was a pause before the motor reversed for drain and the powerful drain pump sucked the food bits away with enough power to finish crushing, shredding and pulverizing and basically handling any food bits that remained.  Prior to this design, GE dishwashers ran the timer off the main motor so the impeller ran even when the machine was draining. The food soil had no chance to settle before the drain so it still kept being flung about which is why those machines did not handle insoluble food soil well. This dishwasher was a huge improvement over earlier GEs and other impeller machines and really washed well without hand rinsing before loading.

 

[turquoisedude]

Actually Tom in the 1955 and 1956 GE's that I have the main drive motor cuts out during drain and uses a separate drain pump.  The earlier models were the ones where the timer was driven by the main motor and had the 'yibblet slinger' feature;  I don't recall exactly what year that changed...  In '54 GE tried a reversible motor that would act as a pump and drive the impeller, but that probably didn't work well since they brought in a separate drain pump in '55.