Portable GE disposall disposer

[combo52]

Anybody ever see one of these

I remember seeing one for sale in the store back in the early 60s never seen one since picked one up today while helping a friend, clean out an estate of an appliance collector.

Uses the same basic grinding design as GE's built-in units around the same time, pretty cool you just set it in the sink fill it with your waist, but it's reasonably full twist the motor on the top run water on them corner of the unit. It runs into the grind chamber right through it. It drains out the bottom and right down your drain.

Seems to be very heavily built and well designed.

 

[turquoisedude]

I have one. I only tried out the motor on it; never actually used it. I really do have to make a point of trying it one of these days.

 

[tolivac]

Nice,neat-great idea for those who can't have a perm installed disposer-like a rental place.

 

[steved]

I had one too.

But sold it last year as I've been downsizing.

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?82297

 

[bajaespuma]

Hmmm

I imagine it would be a good tool for us composters.

 

I was cautioned not to install a disposer in my house because of our already challenged septic systems in our village that is built on lots of ledge. The septic engineer explained that new disposers actually do too good a job of grinding up the food waste so instead of decomposing in the tank, it goes right into the leaching fields where it builds up and clogs the works. I still want a Disposall but...

 

[tomturbomatic]

"Switch Top Disposal" is an interesting term for a batch feed disposer. Early Hotpoint disposers were called "Waste Exit," I think I remember.

You could run the portable disposal in the garden with the garden hose and put the stuff back in the soil.

 

[bajaespuma]

"You could run the portable disposal in the garden...

That's what I plan to do.

 

Contrary to our idiotic local codes, I plan on diverting  my "gray water" into a cistern for watering the land. There are a lot of people in my area who have made similar changes to their plumbing to conserve water and to limit what goes into the septic system.

 

[wayupnorth]

I did a diversion system like that also. Just toilet goes into the septic system with another pumping system to a leach field. Gray water doesnt hurt anything and with no phosphates actually makes things grow better. Years ago, my grandmother saved her dishwater to water her flowers.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I think it was in 2000 when we had a severe drought. I had some young trees that I watered with rinse water from the top loaders I was using then. I drained the machines into a 30 gallon container with a submersible pump with a male hose adapter on the outlet and I sent the water outside through the garden hose that went through an unused dryer vent. The water did not hurt the trees. At the same time, I reused the wash water twice by draining the wash water into adjoining machines.

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

Oh yeah, with me I do have grey water in my sunroom and a

Garbage disposal hooked up to a sink, it goes through one waste water pump out to a grey water cart thing. I need a little bit of food scrap go in the compost. Any juices and nutrients go out to the lawn and it loves it.