The Premire Wash Loads in the Youngstown Live!

[Unimatic1140]

Thanks everyone, I'm glad you all enjoyed the video. A picture might be worth a thousand words, but a video…

Mark, I used 1/4 cup of Cascade Complete and nothing else. I just poured in into the machine just as if it was a washing machine. I figured a quarter cup is about what goes into filling both cups of a modern dishwasher. The machine is simply a gravity drain machine, but I did install an electric pump on its drain line and wired it in parallel with the drain valve solenoid circuit, that way I could install the machine anywhere I want.

Greg, during one cycle I covered those four holes on top of the Jet-Tower with duct tape. The Jet-Tower weights at least 10 pounds so there is no way it’s gonna lift off. I don't know exactly what the engineers at Youngstown were thinking with those four large spray holes on top. I would just take one hole to keep the window clean, maybe the spray fans out off the glass window and falls back down over the items loaded in the upper rack???

Brent I was thinking I could kill two birds with one stone by washing the dishes and when the lid pops up I can run over and get a facial too! That spring loaded lid is very strong; I bet it would throw some stuff off of it if someone accidentally left something on it.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Bethann the rocking was the video camera, I found the best way to film through this window lid was to put the tripod right on top of the dishwasher lid.

 

[retromom]

YAY for Yummy Youngstown!

Oh Robert!!!!

What a wonderful dishwasher! Austin showed me the video this morning!! I absolutely love that square wash tower!! Call me a bit crazy, but she looks and sounds like a washer (makes me wish modern top-loaders had clear windows).

You have done a fantastic job on her restoration! She is museum-quality minty!

Congrats again and ENJOY! :-D

Venus

 

[peteski50]

Premire Wash

Robert
This is realy awsome and a window too. What more can you ask for. I love the sound.
Peter

 

[JerseyMike]

Awesome!!!

That was so cool. Every dishwasher should have a window! Thanks for sharing and for saving this wonderful machine! I loved both the sights and the sounds. That pop-up lid was cool. Now I know why the instruction manual cautions against putting things on top of the lid when the dishwasher is in operations.

It got everything clean. I wonder why Consumer Reports rated it dead last? Maybe today's dishwasher detergent makes for superior cleaning?

Mike

 

[customline]

Customline replies

Wow what a show! Restoration is second to none. The unit is so clean you could eat off of it.

 

[parunner58]

Loved the video, As repeated from above, every dishwasher should have a window.

another fantastic restoration, I have got to get to a convention to see some of the restored machines.

MikeO

 

[peterh770]

Very cool! Congrats on such a fun dishwasher!

 

[foraloysius]

I want one!!!!!

Who cares how it cleans, with such a feature of the pop up lid! Very cool machine Robert, thank you very much for the video!!!

 

[jmirawm]

How Fun !

It would have been a hard decision had mom been using one of these and runnning it at the same time as the washing machine!

 

[agiflow]

Great work Robert!! What a fun machine this one is, i wonder how CR would have rated this machine today with our modern detergents?

 

[gregm]

congrads and thank you

thanks for your time in sharing all of that Robert, once AGAIN you did a great job and it is truly a very cool machine to say the least .............

 

[toggleswitch]

Darlings, IMHO the four water holes on top of the wash-arm are are not only to keep spinach bits off the window put for DRAMA....

I repeat D R A M A .......LOL

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks, Robert for the great video. Maybe it was the light, but I never saw steam fill the tank during fill. Yours was a lot more "perky" during the fill. Was that the first fill? I guess you condensed shots taken during the whole cycle. Maybe your pump is stronger, but the ones I watched just gradually built pressure and the little side holes started spouting water, first like in a downward arc, then in a more forceful spray. The turning of the tower in those was a bit start and stop. I imagine that the modern detergent helped the results, but the cream of wheat pan coming clean is impressive. As for the pop up lid for drying, that used to be the norm for top loaders. The GE impeller portables did it, as did the top load GEs in the electric sinks. The D&M top loading portables with the fan on during the dry and the Hotpoint & WH machines stayed closed. The Preway gas dishwaser, after rinsing at 180 degrees, opened the drop down door about 3 inches to flash dry the dishes.

Maybe you could make some deflectors for some of the top 4 holes. I think they were to let anything that got past the strainer escape. Imagine if a green pea or two got put under the strainer by somebody and managed to make it through the pump without being destroyed then got blown up onto the glass. If you ran it with just warm water and no strainers and some frozen peas or corn, they could look like bullets coming out of a Gatling gun, at least maybe at the beginning.

Now, folks, as wonderful as that super hot water was, let me tell you what it meant in real life and why all of the dishwasher owner friends that we talked to before buying ours said, "Be sure it has a pre-rinse." If you had eggs for breakfast or had a bowl with some bits of raw hamburger left from mixing a meat loaf and put them in with any of that remaining on the dish, it was instantly cooked on when the very hot water hit the dishes. To make it even more fun, try it with an impeller machine like our neighbor's Kenmore builtin from maybe 57 or so. The wash started, no pre rinse, just a flush then fill and it blew the egg up into the glasses where it cooked on and only soaking and washing by hand with one of those soft scrubber things on the end of a spoon finally dislodged it. Mom made sure that never happened with our machines by rinsing the egg off.

I just happened to notice that the 1950 Apex free-standing model 970-1 was available with or without an illuminated interior as well as with or without the glass look-in lid. This was another machine with a Monel water heating tank. The early model only gave one rinse, later it was 2. Consumer Reports said it gave better results with two rinses. Like the Youngstown, its capacity was service for 6. Fortunately, our friends' Apex did not have either the illumination or glass. It might have resulted in an embarrassing situation when it came time to leave.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Thanks Tom, yes the steam is much more noticeable with the dishwasher tank lighted from the inside. You are correct that was the first fill that I filmed and it was only condensed shots of the fill, the Tower moves like you say, turning in bits and starts at first, then it progressively gets faster and stronger as more water fills into the machine.

I was surprised about the Cream of Wheat pot coming clean too, but I soaked it all afternoon, but there still was some cereal left clinging to the bottom and sides of the pot, it must be the combination of the very hot water and Cascade Complete.

You are probably right about the 4 holes on top to let larger bits of food escape, I never thought of that Tom that's a really good theory.

Now hopefully I can get the pump seal and bearing taken care of and finish this project. Wow an Apex Dish-a-Matic with a window lid I knew about, but I never realized they came with a lighted interior! That would be a cool find to say the least.

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Love the Percolator start

I will add the Minnesota Museum of Modern Marvels to the US
leg of the tour! In the meantime I'll keep my "Automatic
Electronic Cool Thing Locater Mechanism" set to ultrasensitive
for the illuminated Apex Unit! I would like to suggest that you keep handy a jar of Noxema, for the post cycle facials.
I think a thin application every other cycle will keep
you in youthful beauty for years to come!

 

[veg-o-matic]

Robert, I don't think I could add anything that hasn't already been said. It's interesing how something can be so hot and so cool at the same time!

I'm also pleased (and dangalang may be, too) that you make coffee in a percolator. Gotta love those P/S perks! Does yours have the light in the bottom?

veg

 

[westytoploader]

WOW...what a cool machine! The Jet-Tower rotates much faster than I thought and it doesn't look like it gives bad performance either...I wonder if it has to do with the modern detergents? Good luck repairing the pump seal!

LOVE the sound when it starts up and hasn't reached full spray power yet...reminds me of an 18" D&M Kenmore! (Dodges slap)

 

[duetboy]

All I can say is.....

WOOOOOOOOW

duetboy

aka jeff

 

[jetcone]

Good thinkng Tom

I also bet that the 4 holes placed as they are atop the holes in the corner assures that there are no airlocks in the tower due to superheated air from the hot water; as that would prevent water from climbing up the tower completely to spray out all the holes top to bottom.

You'd have missed areas of cleaning if it did vapro lock just like an Amana Radarange with a bad stirrer and uneven heating spots.