The Power Shower Anti-Giblet-Niblet Thang

[mrcleanjeans]

Do Power Showers,Overhead Constant Rinses and the like REALLY help with foo-foos utop the upper rack items? Seems the average 3 GPM force wouldn't be enough to do diddly squat. And if the machine is unfiltered, the shower itself would spit out particles, would it not ?

 

[bajaespuma]

That's a good question.

I've wondered that myself, but you know, I'm such a slut for bells and whistles that I just feel better knowing that there's yet another level to my wash. Life's too short not to have all the bells and whistles you can get.

I've told this story before on this site, but when my Father and I removed our fabulous pink Plastisol SU-70W from the family kitchen in 1970, then and only then did I discover that it actually had a cool little black rubber Power Shower under the lid, which you could never see unless you had a mirror and a flashlight. And I can't tell you whether it made a difference or not because our Mother hand washed every piece before it was loaded(she was traumatized in the early sixties by her first experience with a dishwasher: a sister-in-law's machine that was teeming with cockroaches from unrinsed dishes and general bad housekeeping). We were preparing to install a brand new KDC-17A(boy do I sound like Hyacinth) and both Dad and I were so impressed by the GE's engineering that we felt we had made a mistake(we had) in not calling the GE repairman this time. It was in the beginning of the period when common knowledge was that the repair would cost more than a replace, yadayadayada....

If I listed all of the appliances that I didn't save from the crusher you would all come to Connecticut to bitch-slap me. But to accurately recollect, in the early Seventies I REALLY thought that things like home appliances were going to get better, not worse. It wasn't until the mid seventies when all of us realized that American Cars had evolved from masterpieces to junk that 20/20 hindsight kicked in. And then the day I went to Macy's and saw that Maytag moved the timer to the right side of the control panel.

 

[toploader55]

Power Shower and Constant Rinse.

When my first KDS 18 went down, I popped in a KDS 19. The 19 did NOT have a Constant Rinse and sure enough, Yibble Time. When I fixed the 18 it went back into operation and things were back to normal. It's not a consistant problem, but I find if you BobLoad the heck out of a machine and do not pre rinse, chances are you'll get a few yibbles here and there.
It's actually one of the first features I look for when I used to shop for dishwashers. Now that I have a steady supply of back ups, I rarely ever look at New Machines. I still scour CL everyday looking for the true beauties of years past.Ocationally when I'm at Lowe's or HD, I'll open a few doors and "kick some tires" and leave the appliance section in discust looking at the crap that's sold for $400 and up.

Man, It's such ashame this country doesn't manufacture nice appliances anymore.

 

[rollermatic]

i work at home depot and

everytime i pass thru our appliance section i get sick! i agree, what people are buying for 400 and up is ridiculous these days! i never thought i would see the day where a dishwasher took 2 hours to do a load! and would cost 800-1000 bucks!

guess i should have taken note in the 60's when bob dylan sang "the times, they are a changin".

as for constant rinses i always wondered if they really did any good. i figured most of that water that goes up would hit the top of the tub and bounce back down in one big constant rinse so why add a little whirligig thing in the center that squirst out a little more. but maybe i'm wrong here, who knows! i love to collect them but i'm no expert on how they clean. i use two dishwashers for my my machines, a kdss-17a and a kd-12 and both do a great job. one has a constant rinse one does not.

 

[ronhic]

er.....

....that's pretty normal money here....($800-1000)

...and only a low-mid range machine at that....

 

[surgilator_68]

Plug the holes or take out the constant rinse and you'll find out.

3 GPM or even less makes a world of difference.

 

[brisnat81]

Mum has an early 80's Dishlex, that has a verticle feed tube in the top rack. The nozzle that directs the water into the tube, also has sprays on it to try and spray the top rack.

With a Bob load, not having the upper spray arm makes a huge difference, In mums machine if you pack the top rack with Saucepans and casseroles, so that no spray from the middle arm hits the top of the tank, you end up with a nibblet crust on the back of things. In my Miele with a top spray arm, it never happens.

I think the bigger the arm in the top of the tank, the better.