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Oh wow, thanks you guys! I'm thrilled to hear the machine is earlier than I thought!

Fred and I talked tonight about taking the lid apart and replacing the horrible fake wood-grain top with pink boomerang Formica lol!

It sure does sound powerful and the machine seems to have really little use. This seems to a common theme with vintage portable dishwashers as opposed to vintage built-ins.
 
John figures that many people could afford a portable dishwasher shortly before they moved to a new home with a builtin dishwasher. Many people took them and then they sat in a basement, buried. We left our portable with the house as a selling feature. In today's economy, it is easy to forget the upward mobility, economic opportunities and optimism in the 50s and 60s.
 
I have always liked front-loading washers and top-loading dishwashers, even back in the day. Because I'm a total klutz, I often think a glass or cup is empty when I turn it upside-down and put it in the dishwasher. With a front loader, most of the liquid splashes on the floor. With a top-load dishwasher, this was never a problem.
 
Cool WP Top Loading DW

These were only made until around 1970 and were very good performers, Robert yours still has the Delco Turbo-Pump WP discontinued this pump design around 1972 in all their DWs, but the good news is that the later style pump and motor is a drop-in fit, in fact you could even drop-in a Power-Clean pump and motor in this DW. This DW should not be all that noisy with its double walled tub and lid. Hope you enjoy it, I wish that I had never given mine away, but it looks like I may get the Inglis one that Paul has some day, if you get tired of this one let me know.
 
Count Dracuwash

Not an echo you're hearing - you (and Fred) have found yet another clean and attractive dishwasher. I'm a top-loader fan, too - with none to show and tell. Really enjoy viewing your finds - and I like the boomerang formica idea, but would hate to cover the wood -would like the ability to just interchange different top designs.

sidenote: you had a Proctor-Silex toaster on that shelf behind this new gem..I was lucky to find one too, before realizing that you had one there. Aren't they great?

Thanks for posting and enjoy. I appreciate aw.org for everyone's finds, especially these rare super clean finds.

Phil
 
John, thanks. No it is very loud. This is the loudest dishwasher I've ever had in the kitchen, it even beats the James sound level wise. No other dishwasher in the kitchen has ever caused us to turn the volume up on the TV in the living room before lol when it's running. It is at least double the sound level of the D&M Kenmore that was there before it. It not the motor or pump that's loud its the force of the water hitting the the cabinet and the lid.

So far so good performance wise, it's a very powerful dishwasher. What I would really like to find is a 1959-1960's Whirlpool made built in dishwasher in good shape. John do those early machines have the same or a similar motor-pump assembly as this 1970 machine?

Mike, yes it has a "uni-coupler" to attach it to the kitchen sink.

Phil, we don't own a Proctor-Silex toaster??
 
This is the loudest dishwasher I've ever had in the kitc

That is because this is a REAL dishwasher that will tackle food soil you probably have never ever generated in your kitchen. No soaking or scrubbing needed with ths dishwasher!!
 
The closest you will probably come to finding the 59-60 WP DW with the Gorman-Rupp pump and the black Bakelite wash arm is the top loading portable in the warehouse. In the builtin that design was TOL, but models below that were a funny design put together out of spare parts with the GE's bow tie impeller, a WP top rack and a no sides GE style lower rack that was literally just the lower rack out of a GE roll out DW with added wheels, but with no side rails so you could not load skillets, etc. along the sides unless you did it after the rack was partially back in the machine. I'm not sure you could even stand bowls in the corners; I don't remember if there was nothing to hold them.

After we found the portable, John had a brand new wash arm the he said I should try in the portable. Turns out that the wash arm was for a builtin and turned the opposide direction from the portable's less shiny wash arm and squirted water out the baffle over the water inlet and made piddles on the floor.
 
This must be the season for these

Wow Robert! What a weird coincidence! I just picked up the very same model last Saturday from someone in Idaho. I also picked up the top of the line model two weeks before that!

One is the SVP80 & the other is the SVP100. Here is the SVP80

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Money Shot

Here is the interior. And yes that is a Delco Turbo Pump. These were very short lived because 1)At first there was not field repair procedure; the whole item was returned for a replacement, or you paid a core-charge, and 2)when Whirlpool finally did work out a repair procedure most of the time other parts broke while you were disassembling the pump, so it became more expensive to repair (John, please correct me if I've made any error in this area). It is a very powerful dishwasher (as you've noted); the SVP100 has a thermostatic hold in the last rinse for 145 degree water.

I know you'll enjoy it!

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Yes, Phil, I agree! I have always loved this era of design for Whirlpools kitchen appliances. Their top of the line items have this very understated elegance to them. Whirlpool "simplicity" at it's best!
 
Wow, that is amazing Al! I was just telling Fred how rare these top loading Whirlpool dishwashers are, lol.

Congrats on the finds as well, the Mark 100 is super cool!
 
Robert and Fred,
That Whirlpool washer is so darn cute!
It is in fantastic shape!
I bet it is fun to hear in person.
I love the way the motor's start up on these older dishwashers. Love hearing it I should say.
Is it the start windings that make that wonderful whirring sound and then click when the motor gets up to speed? Great sound to me.
You will have fun with this one. I find it actually looks older than what year it is from. So well built.
Thanks for sharing!
Brent
 
By Washer...Dishwasher of course.
I would call it a washer and freak people out.
 
I just want.....

I just want a machine that doesn't leave puddles on the top of eveything. I would rather save energy in some other way!!!!! That would be one of my reasons for going with a vintage machine. That and of course asthetics plus craftsmanship.
 
I see a panel light and switch on that Mark 100! Those really are pretty machines.

I've only seen one top-loading dishwasher on CL and the estate sales around here. I remember a few as a kid, but only a few. I don't know if it was the top-loading format or the whole dishwasher concept. Even into the late 70's, I remember people getting their first dishwasher and how excited they were to try one. Usually the machines came included in a new house.

A neighbor of ours with four kids bought a used WP top-load dishwasher that ended up having a bad timer. The mother Ardeen, said that it was too loud anyway and thereafter used it to store grocery and shopping bags. "Now I have five dishwashers that don't work" (including the kids).
 
WOW........ WOW........ and WOW!!!!!!!!!

 

 

This is really amazing that a DISHWASHER not only has a control panel (work surface) light, but it's a TOP loading dishwasher at that!  

 

I am stunned!  

 

WOW!

 

CONGRATS Al on your awesome pair!   Very cool!

 

Kevin

 

 
 
TWO MORE TL WP DW's UNBELIEVABLE!

It never stops. It just NEVER stops. And TWO speeds, Alan. I had no idea!

Enjoy these gems.

Mine is an FL. I mis-wrote up there.

I love the noise--it's really a roar! And remember we have all four sides open to the ether. If we built them in, we could talk above them, MAYBE ;'D
 

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