Sears 'Best'

[gadgetgary]

Maybe someone would like to add this one to their collection??????

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sears-Best-Thre...07417520QQcategoryZ116024QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[jasonl]

No Rotorack :-C

 

[appnut]

Steve 1/18 had this dishwasher years ago when it was new.

 

[gansky1]

From around the same time as the Modern Maid rapid-advance dishwasher that was in this house when we bought it in 98.

 

[peteski50]

Sears 'Best' D & M

I like this dishwasher with simple to use cycle controls and nice interior. I hope it gets a good home.
Peter

 

[Cybrvanr]

I find it interesting that a hotel would buy a Sears DW. Sears typically doesn't sell to "bulk" customers becasue they cannot make a lot of prophit off of the sale. I guess the machine replaced an original machine when it malfunctioned that may have been bought as a bulk sale at the time of construction. Someone from the hotel I guess went over to sears to replace the machine in a hurry.

 

[cleanteamofny]

Boy this brings back great memories!
I had that dishwasher when we slightly upgraded my moms kitchen back in the eighties and I must say that I miss that mechanical timer cranking and clicking when I wanted to change cycles. It cleaned the dishes well with the Cascade of years ago and I bet it would do better with todays Cascade complete. All I can say that it was a water hog, but who cares when there was a double rinse using the pots and pan or the normal cycles! No scent of detergent was to be found........

 

[appnut]

Yeagh Larry, I remember the P'n'P cycle being Pre-wash, rinse, rinse, 30 minute main wash, and two more rinses.

 

[peteski50]

Sears BEST

I am so surprised nobody is bidding on this gem. If I was a collector I would snatch this baby up. They dont build them like this anymore.
Peter

 

[cleanteamofny]

Yes Bob, that was a long cycle but everything was clean!
I wish it was a lot closer, I would snatch it up in a nano second.........

 

[toggleswitch]

Would someone kindly explain the double open detergent cup that supplements the closed one?

 

[appnut]

Well Steve, for starters, that's not the original dtergent dispenser. Obviously, it's not "yellowed' like the corersponding rinse-agent dispenser lol. As D&M dishwashrs continued to evolve, they got more "WCI" oriented. Those double open cubs are for prewash detergent. There's comparable double ones under the cover too. On the last DU&M Kenmores I saw, with a rising tower like my GE, they had double cups on both open & closed area. This last rendition I saw actually was reminiscent of the KA dispenser like we saw at Roger's last weekend. You had a cover flap that rotated around.

 

[cleanteamofny]

Toggles,

One side cup is for the miser cycle, both cups used for normal and pots and pan cycle and if you look at the dispenser closley, there's a cup that swings out for the main wash.

Larry

 

[peteski50]

Sears 'Best'

This is a sin no body is biteing
such a awsome model at such a price
sad
Peter

 

[gansky1]

Sears had a very big "contractor sales" division - I've seen lots of apartments equipped with Sears Kenmore appliances and numerous other commercial spaces used Sears as well. You save money buying in bulk... I think I have, or used to have, a Sears Kenmore contractor sales brochure and I remember seeing them in the Sweets Catalog files.

D&M was taken over by WCI at some point in the late 80's or early 90's.

 

[hoover1060]

I remember that

Back in the middle-late 80's when I was working for the cleaning service we cleaned for a builder that used all Kenmore appliances: fridge, range, DW and disposal. I thought it was strange they'd use Kenmore. I remember the DW's being very BOL, and my co-workers commenting on how cheap they seemed.

 

[oldwasherguy]

i dont have a dishwasher at all except for my old lady,i bet she would love it.don.