hoover1060
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Great pics Gary!
I am glad they finally downloaded for you!
I am glad they finally downloaded for you!
Tucson 2007: And so it begins...
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Ironing is my job! To me, it is rewarding and relaxing.
-GS
P.S. Jeff, thanks for your help and the words of encouragement
Ironing is my job! To me, it is rewarding and relaxing.
-GS
P.S. Jeff, thanks for your help and the words of encouragement
OOpppssss...
Hi Gary
Many thanks for the pics , got so engrossed with who`s who I completely forgot to thank you...
I`m with you on the ironing, just love it, find it completely relaxing pushing 100g`s of steam,
Cheers, Mike
Hi Gary
Many thanks for the pics , got so engrossed with who`s who I completely forgot to thank you...
I`m with you on the ironing, just love it, find it completely relaxing pushing 100g`s of steam,
Cheers, Mike
Mike in PA: The McMansion is actually a lovely house on the way to the Church of the Holy Cross that is on higher ground. (Yes I walked in and the earth did not shake nor did lightning stike! *LOL* Actually, I lit a candle for those who had and or have cancer.) Aa far as the sculptures go, there was a store in an outdoor mall in Sedona, AZ. If you look closely, methinks Gary is posing by a gas meter near the side of a buidlng. There may be a store name on a plaque there. Will research.
Mike in UK: Strike a pose...I am actually left handed, which they say makes one a cunning linguist. There is a disproportionate number of comics who are left-handed. A starcher-presser type? Thank you very much. It is nice to know you think I am presentable. In actuality I feel like a slob, of late.
Mike in UK: Strike a pose...I am actually left handed, which they say makes one a cunning linguist. There is a disproportionate number of comics who are left-handed. A starcher-presser type? Thank you very much. It is nice to know you think I am presentable. In actuality I feel like a slob, of late.
veg-o-matic
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Wow, great pics, everyone! That harvest gold Kitchenaid sure is sweet!
And I hope someone swiped that Kenmore combo for me!
veg
And I hope someone swiped that Kenmore combo for me!
veg
The Celebrations of The Ages
I enjoyed being quiet and surveying the crowd at the Wash-in. The most senior members were glad to rekindle the shared experiences with the alumni of Washing, the newbies like myself were slack jawed at the quick trip back to adololescent washers of our past and the young ones were testing the tolerences of the various machines making sudscake, testing the rollover quotient and filled with the exuberence of youth, leaping from load to load.
It is an expensive and arduous undertaking by Roger, Ross, Terry and Nate. I was given three distinctly different and equally wonderful insights into the archives of washing.
Tucson did not fail to impress us all with it's display of grandeur, wind, torrential rain, hail, thunder and blistering sun.
I am back and ready to learn the "rest of the story". I am grateful to everyone who shared memeories to bank in the archives of life.
Love cures people...the ones who give it and the one who receives it. There was an abundance of love in Tucson.
Kelly
I enjoyed being quiet and surveying the crowd at the Wash-in. The most senior members were glad to rekindle the shared experiences with the alumni of Washing, the newbies like myself were slack jawed at the quick trip back to adololescent washers of our past and the young ones were testing the tolerences of the various machines making sudscake, testing the rollover quotient and filled with the exuberence of youth, leaping from load to load.
It is an expensive and arduous undertaking by Roger, Ross, Terry and Nate. I was given three distinctly different and equally wonderful insights into the archives of washing.
Tucson did not fail to impress us all with it's display of grandeur, wind, torrential rain, hail, thunder and blistering sun.
I am back and ready to learn the "rest of the story". I am grateful to everyone who shared memeories to bank in the archives of life.
Love cures people...the ones who give it and the one who receives it. There was an abundance of love in Tucson.
Kelly
Pictures!
I keep looking at all the pictures. It makes me sad I wasn't able to be their. Oh well hopefully next time.
Best Wishes to all
Peter
I keep looking at all the pictures. It makes me sad I wasn't able to be their. Oh well hopefully next time.
Best Wishes to all
Peter
The dishwasher with the see through door
Steve,
If I missed this in another post I apologize for asking again but what kind of dishwasher is that in one of your photos? It is the one with the clear panel so we can see it wash. It looks like it has a stationary tube that goes up the entire middle of the dishwasher.
I don't think I have ever seen one like that. From the photo it looks like the racks have huge cut outs for this monster "wash tube".
Ralph
Steve,
If I missed this in another post I apologize for asking again but what kind of dishwasher is that in one of your photos? It is the one with the clear panel so we can see it wash. It looks like it has a stationary tube that goes up the entire middle of the dishwasher.
I don't think I have ever seen one like that. From the photo it looks like the racks have huge cut outs for this monster "wash tube".
Ralph
Who me?
This is a creation of Nate's. Let's let him tell-all.
Will respond after work today if not answered by then.
:-0
This is a creation of Nate's. Let's let him tell-all.
Will respond after work today if not answered by then.
:-0
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Hi Steve. A big thank you for the wonderful pictures.
Also thank you Jeff for the nice picture of us on Sunday night. I am so glad that you and Mike came over.
Let's keep in touch and hope to see you all again.
Ross
Also thank you Jeff for the nice picture of us on Sunday night. I am so glad that you and Mike came over.
Let's keep in touch and hope to see you all again.
Ross
'Taint no thing. I too loved everyone's photos. Thanks for posting and for sharing.
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Just now looked...
Steve and Gary, thanks for the fantastic pictures! There are enough memories from this great event to last a lifetime!
Steve and Gary, thanks for the fantastic pictures! There are enough memories from this great event to last a lifetime!
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Oh yes, and...
That was the FrankenGE spin-tube...all I'm going to say about it here ;-)
That was the FrankenGE spin-tube...all I'm going to say about it here ;-)
Nice
Looks like it was an awesome trip and wash in. Maybe someday! I am looking for a hot rock to lay on for a bit myself, the wash-in would have been a bonus.
Looks like it was an awesome trip and wash in. Maybe someday! I am looking for a hot rock to lay on for a bit myself, the wash-in would have been a bonus.
Thanks Austin
I don't think I have ever seen one like that.
I don't think I have ever seen one like that.
Nate:
Where are you?
Where are you?
Nothing like duct tape an plastic-pipe welding *cement*
This GE plastic tub thingie was intended to be retrofitted to be like a Frigidaire spin-tube DW, with a horizontal wash tube in the center between the racks. Logistically, that did not work out. So, ultimely it became a horizontal spin-tube Youngstown-ish machine.
You go Nate!
Do I forsee a career for you as a mechanical engineer?
This GE plastic tub thingie was intended to be retrofitted to be like a Frigidaire spin-tube DW, with a horizontal wash tube in the center between the racks. Logistically, that did not work out. So, ultimely it became a horizontal spin-tube Youngstown-ish machine.
You go Nate!
Do I forsee a career for you as a mechanical engineer?
hoover1060
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that DW was cool
Nate's DW was awesome, and the first time I've ever seen a DW run thru a clear plexi-glass front. It seemed to wash pretty well, and I loved the little thingy on top that Nate gave a spin to, helping to get things started.
Nate's DW was awesome, and the first time I've ever seen a DW run thru a clear plexi-glass front. It seemed to wash pretty well, and I loved the little thingy on top that Nate gave a spin to, helping to get things started.
LOL
Oops, sorry for wandering off I'll have to post a vid of the FrankenGE spin-tube. Scott from Phx made a good one.
It's a BOL Perma-Tuf GE dishwasher that's had all the wash mechanics removed, except for the bottom wash-arm support.
Onto that, we built a vertical spray tower a-la Youngstown Kitchens, and drilled a helix of spray holes.
After reaming the inside of that tube with a piece of KitchenAid metal trim (good stuff, I tell you) to rid it of PVC yiblets that would otherwise recirculate and plug the holes in the filterless GE, we attached metal deflectors at about silverware-basket level. The deflectors are angled so that the tube receives some accelerating "oomph" from them, to help it spin, since controlling the directionality of the spray holes in PVC is kind of tough.
This design worked well, but tended to transfer food particles from the fronts of the dishes to the back in the top rack, so we added a constant rinse made from a screw, nylon nut, nylon washer, and a formed sheet-metal wash arm. This resolved the food crud issue, and made the machine quite functional in terms of washability.
The current sticking-points (aside from a lack of a door, because it was in the way...and thus, no mechanical detergent dispenser) really revolve around crappy racking (a circular design would really help, since everything must face the center) and the fact that the top-bearing for the spray tower (really, just a lag bolt and a flat washer) tends to stick, thus frequently necessitating the gentle nudge at the beginning of the cycle to set the spin-tube a'spinning.
I'm hoping to start work on a new design that incorporates Frigidaire's horizontal spin-tube, as it gives you vastly more flexible racking, but I still need to research a way to get a good, relatively frictionless bearing going for a horizontal tube that still seals well so that the water being funneled into it doesn't just spray out the fitting that connects it.
R&D is on it.
But no, no patents or big surprises here. As Robert noted, the Youngstown Kitchens rates pretty low on washability, and so does the infamous plastic spin-tube...
--Nate
Oops, sorry for wandering off
I'll have to post a vid of the FrankenGE spin-tube. Scott from Phx made a good one.It's a BOL Perma-Tuf GE dishwasher that's had all the wash mechanics removed, except for the bottom wash-arm support.
Onto that, we built a vertical spray tower a-la Youngstown Kitchens, and drilled a helix of spray holes.
After reaming the inside of that tube with a piece of KitchenAid metal trim (good stuff, I tell you) to rid it of PVC yiblets that would otherwise recirculate and plug the holes in the filterless GE, we attached metal deflectors at about silverware-basket level. The deflectors are angled so that the tube receives some accelerating "oomph" from them, to help it spin, since controlling the directionality of the spray holes in PVC is kind of tough.
This design worked well, but tended to transfer food particles from the fronts of the dishes to the back in the top rack, so we added a constant rinse made from a screw, nylon nut, nylon washer, and a formed sheet-metal wash arm. This resolved the food crud issue, and made the machine quite functional in terms of washability.
The current sticking-points (aside from a lack of a door, because it was in the way...and thus, no mechanical detergent dispenser) really revolve around crappy racking (a circular design would really help, since everything must face the center) and the fact that the top-bearing for the spray tower (really, just a lag bolt and a flat washer) tends to stick, thus frequently necessitating the gentle nudge at the beginning of the cycle to set the spin-tube a'spinning.
I'm hoping to start work on a new design that incorporates Frigidaire's horizontal spin-tube, as it gives you vastly more flexible racking, but I still need to research a way to get a good, relatively frictionless bearing going for a horizontal tube that still seals well so that the water being funneled into it doesn't just spray out the fitting that connects it.
R&D is on it.
But no, no patents or big surprises here. As Robert noted, the Youngstown Kitchens rates pretty low on washability, and so does the infamous plastic spin-tube...
--Nate
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That Franken-GE was too cool, but the best part was that it actually worked! After the main dinner load was done, there were only a few tiny specks on one plate, and that was it. No pre-rinsing either!
