Rare Square Osters

[jetcone]

Here they are gang:
MY collection of rare sq osters. I can't seem to find any information on them does anybody in the club have any info on these machines.
They are heavier( 10+ pounds for the base only!!) and mostly more powerful (2/3 to 1 HP motors) than the Beehive Models.
Heavy Chrome!
I have documented 3 versions so far but that is all I know about them.
Take a gander
jet

 

[jetcone]

Close ups

Custom Model which I think is the earliest, I am proud of this one because I grabbed it from the clutches of "grouch" on ebay!!

 

[jetcone]

Close up of Push Button Model

One of my favs

 

[jetcone]

Close up of later dial model

Here is a later dial model,I think it predates the push button one but I am not sure.

 

[tlee618]

Hi Jon those are really neat. I have never seen a sq. Osterizer before. Thanks for sharing the neat pictures. Terry

 

[hoover1060]

here's one...

Courtesy of the Bennett Brothers 1964 Blue book

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Hey Jetcone

Fab ebay "grouch" declutching! And of course the "mondo"
masculine right knuckles in the Classic V Eye Eye Eye !
Could you please pan back up to Post# 107969, back up,
pan down and right so I can glimpse that KA Dw. tyvm

 

[petek]

Very nice, I like the square ones as well and they are definitely harder to find than the beehives. I don't think they had a long run, they were the modernized version of the beehive but soon were replaced by the even more modern version most people know. What also confuses it is that the behives also came with pushbuttons in their last year or so. Those particular "squared" ones were also badged as Kenmores as was the following model, only differences being the controls and the jar holder wasn't round it was bezzeled. After that Kenmore used HB for awhile
The other thing with all those Osterizers is there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to what size motor they put in them, some are as little as 400 watts or so while others are 800 and 900.

 

[drmitch]

Those are so cool, Jon!

 

[jetcone]

Jeff

thanks for the cool scan of the book! Is that a repro or original? Nice color layout! I am guessing that Bennetts was a mailorder company??

Pete you are so right, I see all kinds of power ratings without rhyme or reason and yet when I take one apart I really can't see any difference in the motors or the gage thickness of the windings!! I do wonder if they just made the same motor for all and just put different ratings on to market them at different price points??
I would think it would be a manufacturing nightmare not to mention a repairman's nightmare.!

jon

 

[hoover1060]

Bennett Brothers Blue Book of Quality Merchandise

Jon,
Bennetts were a wholesale house, they sold to other businesses for resale, premiums ect. their catalogs are awesome, they sold damn near everything in smaller appliances.
Their catalogs are all over ebay, and can be had for reasonably cheap too.

 

[jetcone]

Ohh Jeff

I'm off to ebay. That is a cool catalog, I see the wholesale price point was around $55-65$ so the retail on these must have been around $110 to 130!! Ouch in 1964!

 

[hoover1060]

actually thats the retail price

The price the Bennetts sold at was encoded, kinda like service merchandise used to do.
I have these from 64, 66, 68, 70, 73 and 76.
They are fun catalogs!

 

[tolivac]

Jetcone: Really nice Oster blenders-I have heard of the square base ones-but haden't seen any-Excellent examples.Love the catalog pictures of the Waring,Oster,and Dormeyer machines-the Dormeyers are the really rare ones aren't they?Waring still makes a commercial bar blender with the 'waterfall" base and the square spline drive-not the crappy "wagon wheel" drive.the machine had a SS container.Was at a resturant supply store.They are now a Waring dealer-they used to be a Hamilton Beach delear-that wass when HB was in Washington,NC,just about 20M from here.Saw their factory once.

 

[jetcone]

Rex when I cut my teeth

learning to bartend 20+ years ago we all had HB that was the preferred blender at the time. Now I see all the bars I have worked at have switched to Vita Mix with automatic timer cycles.
I just scooped up an early HB bar blender is all SS for old time sake. But I have to say my best margaritas come out of a VitaMix now so even I have made the switch 24 years later.
I am curious about the Waring commercial models as we all know Waring was the first blender. They seem powerful and I am glad to hear that they kept the spline drive that wagon wheel is for the birds IMOP.
jon

 

[Unimatic1140]

Jon those square Osterizers are really cool. I'm sure I've seen some of those at the estate sales before, now I will be sure to pick one up.

 

[petek]

Warings wagon wheel coupling came out when they started selling the plastic Futura series around 1970. As far as I know Waring didn't even make them, they outsourced them to rotor electric or somebody.

 

[tolivac]

Jetcone:Since you are into bartending-you would know your blenders.I have a few of the Vita-mix timed cycle "blending stations" use-em at home-love the machines.also have 2 Blendtec "auto cycle" machines-The Blendtecs have all metal Spline drives like the old Waring.Blendtec is Vita-mixes closest competitor at this point.Vita-mix has a replaceable plastic drive with metal drive socket molded into it.Waring also still uses the spline drive in their lab blenders-the only company that still makes them for that use.You will find them listed in any science or lab supplier-or on Warings website.They have three departments for blenders-household,commercial,and lab.They have some "mini attachments" that would be handy for kitchen use-grinding herbs and spice-or even coffee.their website often calls the attachments "pill grinders"Love the "explosion proof" blender motors-you have to wire it in using explosion proof wiring and boxes,and you have to supply the blender motor a source of clean dry air for cooling.Just may go back to that restuarant supply and pick up that Spline drive blender-I have a spline drive "ice crusher" attachment that would fit it.Also have an old spline drive blender bas but no jar.Would also like to get one of those Waring "Rocket" blender bases.--those were so COOL!!I also have a Waring 1gal capacity blender that has a HUGE spline drive on it.

 

[Designgeek]

Yo, caution ordering blenders from lab supply companies, and especially "pill grinders," you will probably get on a watch list as a suspected dope lab of some kind.

Though this could be Really Really Funny. FBI shows up with local police... knock-knock "Open up, police!"

"Yes officer, is something the matter?"

"We have a search warrant for a drug lab, please step outside..."

Cops go in, look around: "Wow, that's cool!" "My mom had one of those!" "Hey I remember that furniture style from my aunt's house...."

Cops come back outside: "Must have been a mistake, you're not a druggie. But I have to ask, where did you get that stuff, I've always wanted one of those for my house...."

 

[jetcone]

Rex

Wow I did not know Waring was still using the square drive on anything. Now my next question: I just saw for sale a new Waring Rocket blendor in stainless steel and it has a WAY cool speed indicator the is in color on the front!! But I passed it up thinking it was a wagon wheel so that none of my vintage accessories would fit.
Do you think if I got the spline drive it would fit the motor shaft on one of these babies?? That would be way cool a new SS Rocket blendor with glowing speed control crushing Ice with a vintage rocket crusher ontop!!

I have been very curious about the Blend Tec I have never had the chance to use one, do you think it is faster than your VM?? Does it puree as well??
jon

 

[tolivac]

I think spline drives are actually part of the motor shaft.Don't think they are a user replaceable part-the wagon wheels are user replaceable.Extra wheels are available from a Waring Commercial products dealer or a large well stocked restuarant supplierr.I am afraid the new "Rocket Blender" shown today is a wagon wheel one-wouldn't be surprized.I am looking for an older Spline drive one.
On the Blendtecs-these are even more powerful than the Vita-mix.their "Titan" model has a 96 oz cap jar with a blade that is over 5 in across.the machine also has a NEMA 20A plug.Its a SERIOUS blender.I have one in my collection and use it along with my VM's.Its said the blendtecs crush ice so well its turned into SNOW!!and you don't need to put any liquid in the Blendtec jar to crush ice.Tried it once-WOW!! Awsome!any of their machines can crush ice to snow.I wouldn't do the crushing too much-Blendtec has ultrasonically welded blade assemblies in their jars-have seen some small cracks in some of mine.The blades in those are not user replaceable.VM's are to their credit.In many of my smoothies I have blended whole frozen strawberries with no problems in either the Blendtec or the VM.they evn crush the strawberry seeds that no other blender will do.No clumps of strawberry seeds in the bottom of your cup!Its said crushed strawberry seeds are good for you.

 

[sudsmaster]

When did they start breeding square oysters?

 

[jetcone]

Sq Osters breeding in the closet

Rich I first saw them a year or so ago and I was just upstairs and found two more dial models I had put aside.
Nice machines for their age of production, if Oster had changed the shape of the bottom jar to a flat style like VM then VM would have had a serious competitor on its hands. But the area around the base gets too closed in and I find big things get stuck and cut the blades off from the upper part of the jar.

Rex: that Blendtec has got to be something! 5 inch blades wholly molly you could cool my downstairs with that. I will have to look deeper into Blendtec even though I am a loyal Vmixer.
My 5000 will pulverize strawberry seeds but my 3600 won't. The 3600 tops out at 27,000 RPM the 5000 tops out at 35,000 RPm and that seems to make the diference.

Hail Blendtec--don't let the VM people hear me..........

 

[tolivac]

jon:here is a link to the Blentec website-like VM they make a line of machines for home use or commercial use.The "titan" I have is generally marketed for commercial use.If you want to see Belndtec machines in action-go to a Barnes and Noble Bookstore-they use blendtecs at there snack-smoothie bar.the use either the in counter or contertop mouinted "Smoother" machines with the sound dome over the container-mine has the sound dome-beleive me its worth it with Blendtecs-try running one without the dome-its LOUD!-like a chain saw in your kitchen.Blendtecs have more powerful motors than VM-and their distnctive "winglet" dual wing blade.I have two VM machine(Touch-and Go) blend stations with the sound dome and two Blendtec (Smoother and Titan) with the sound dome.In fact the Titan is so powerful-one day I was mixing my frozen fruit smoothie in it-I only turned my back on it for a moment-the torque of its motor caused it to LEAP off my counter-from now on I watch and start it-and put the classic hand on the top of its sound dome.That hold its down.with blendtec Smoother,Titan machines you can use the motor stand provided when you buy it-or make a cutout in your counter or tabletop and mount it.you won't have to worry about it being a "stuntblender" with it mounted.most commerical users have it mounted in their counter or tabletop.

http://www.blendtec.com/

 

[tolivac]

jon: A supplier for Blendtec --and Vita-mix-Everything Kitchens.I ordered my Titan from them.they also carry other lines of home and commercial appliances.If you click on their "Blendtec" menu-they show some excellent videos of Blendtecs in use.-they show the various models and the drinks you make in them.I love BOTH of my VM and Blendtecs-they are my favorites-both get the most use of blenders in my kitchen.Blendtec also has the non-tapered jar so you could use the powerful motor and blade for chopping or dry grinding.Makes a great batch of peanut butter.

http://www.everythingkitchens.com/