Good model
Good eye, Tom, that's the Good Westinghouse. The spin-turret tower is another indicator; the suckster turbine-pump model of later years had a different configuration with a rotating head in a sleeve. (No comment.)
And the bastards gave you no rack rollers by then. No rack rollers? Like, a car with skids instead of wheels?
I believe the Westies got lousy when they switched to a very similar design to GE's lackluster, filterless turbine pump, with a big-holed wash arm...and more than that, the stupid shaded-pole motor that ran all the time during the dry cycle to "fan-dry" the dishes and get on your last good nerve. Imagine a GE without water in it, sitting there moaning away for a good twenty-five minutes after the cycle had ended.
Our Wards portable with that configuration worked well, but we had soft water in Oakland, and it was ragingly hot. We had a Bosch Thermador at the time, and were grateful for something that didn't need 3.5 hours to produce a load of clean dishes.
When we moved to Tucson, that machine was a dismal performer even with hot water, so we kicked it out. It also had the most amazingly poor build quality I've ever seen. The door latch needed constant adjusting to latch properly and easily. The pump intake was hanging on by rust holding hands, and I had issues with the heating element terminals shorting when they'd sometimes leak. Nothing was better than a machine full of water and dishes midway through the cycle that needed blotting and encouraging to finish, until next disassembly. (I finally found heat-proof rubber washers that apparently surpassed WCI's specs to stop that little issue.)
Good eye, Tom, that's the Good Westinghouse. The spin-turret tower is another indicator; the suckster turbine-pump model of later years had a different configuration with a rotating head in a sleeve. (No comment.)
And the bastards gave you no rack rollers by then. No rack rollers? Like, a car with skids instead of wheels?
I believe the Westies got lousy when they switched to a very similar design to GE's lackluster, filterless turbine pump, with a big-holed wash arm...and more than that, the stupid shaded-pole motor that ran all the time during the dry cycle to "fan-dry" the dishes and get on your last good nerve. Imagine a GE without water in it, sitting there moaning away for a good twenty-five minutes after the cycle had ended.
Our Wards portable with that configuration worked well, but we had soft water in Oakland, and it was ragingly hot. We had a Bosch Thermador at the time, and were grateful for something that didn't need 3.5 hours to produce a load of clean dishes.
When we moved to Tucson, that machine was a dismal performer even with hot water, so we kicked it out. It also had the most amazingly poor build quality I've ever seen. The door latch needed constant adjusting to latch properly and easily. The pump intake was hanging on by rust holding hands, and I had issues with the heating element terminals shorting when they'd sometimes leak. Nothing was better than a machine full of water and dishes midway through the cycle that needed blotting and encouraging to finish, until next disassembly. (I finally found heat-proof rubber washers that apparently surpassed WCI's specs to stop that little issue.)
