Unused Frigidaire (GM) dishwasher
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firedome
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nice...
I'd totally grab that if closer!
I'd totally grab that if closer!
Look like.....
.....around a 1969 model.
We had a new home in 1969 with one that looked just like this except that it was the "top of the line" model with the push button cycle selection and indicator lights.
It was coppertone as well which went well with the gold counters & kitchen carpet and dark wood cabinets.
.....around a 1969 model.
We had a new home in 1969 with one that looked just like this except that it was the "top of the line" model with the push button cycle selection and indicator lights.
It was coppertone as well which went well with the gold counters & kitchen carpet and dark wood cabinets.
Not an outrageous price.
drool
It's nice that the machine is deluxe enough to have a detergent dispenser. Frigidaire was bad about not offering detergent dispensers in less deluxe models. I remember models like that where there was a detergent cup with a screen over it. I think the term was a wash out dispenser and with one wash and 4 rinses, the performance was a wash out, too. It was a carryover from the spinning spray tube models. I was looking at a cycle chart for these machines and was surprised that the wash was only 5 or 7 minutes long, even in the more deluxe models with the detergent dispenser.
These machines and the GEs of the same period were hard on Melamine dishes. The drying portions of the cycle could scorch the edges of plates that were over the powerful heating elements. Rich's, the department store where I worked, still used to get in promotional sets of Melamine dishes that often were very pretty. Being a store where the customer was always right, we would take back the damaged sets and give a refund or credit, but once Corelle dishes were introduced, we no longer sold the Melamine sets and would steer the customer to the Corelle and give an allowance towards the new set. Serrated knives in sets of stainless steel flatware put nasty scratches in Melamine. Plates would look like they had gone through a war while the rest of the set looked OK.
These machines and the GEs of the same period were hard on Melamine dishes. The drying portions of the cycle could scorch the edges of plates that were over the powerful heating elements. Rich's, the department store where I worked, still used to get in promotional sets of Melamine dishes that often were very pretty. Being a store where the customer was always right, we would take back the damaged sets and give a refund or credit, but once Corelle dishes were introduced, we no longer sold the Melamine sets and would steer the customer to the Corelle and give an allowance towards the new set. Serrated knives in sets of stainless steel flatware put nasty scratches in Melamine. Plates would look like they had gone through a war while the rest of the set looked OK.
Tom, there were only 4 models in this series and this was the 2nd from the bottom. The bottom being the Deluxe model with the said described detergent cup and a single detergent wash & 4 rinses. A pal in college, his family had a very late 1960s/early 1970s Frigidaire avocado kitchen with the Deluxe model DW. He complained the dishwasher was horrible. I managed to look inside the dishwasher and noted it had basically an open detergent cup, just like the basic Deluxe spin tubes.
awooff
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Push to start
Just as today the sound of a dishwasher will put me to sleep - Grandma had above model in a portable which was used extensively with many people at the house with a sales business run out of the home, a large family and the overall heavier cooking which was done in 70s. Can remember as a baby falling asleep next to, while it was running.
Had always thought the way to start these with the "turn dial and push knob in to start" for selecting "regular wash" or "light wash" with the large dial on these models was a fun feature. Then at the dry portion of the cycle, as the knob turned it slowly pushed itself back out.
Grandma was always a heavy rinser on dishes and always kept water heater on scald. Can remember her stating "fewer colds were passed around within the family since getting a dishwasher".
Just as today the sound of a dishwasher will put me to sleep - Grandma had above model in a portable which was used extensively with many people at the house with a sales business run out of the home, a large family and the overall heavier cooking which was done in 70s. Can remember as a baby falling asleep next to, while it was running.
Had always thought the way to start these with the "turn dial and push knob in to start" for selecting "regular wash" or "light wash" with the large dial on these models was a fun feature. Then at the dry portion of the cycle, as the knob turned it slowly pushed itself back out.
Grandma was always a heavy rinser on dishes and always kept water heater on scald. Can remember her stating "fewer colds were passed around within the family since getting a dishwasher".
