Vintage Hobart DW's on Ebay

[whirlykenmore78]

I found many Hobart Dishmachines on a recent Ebay search. Here are some of the machines I found.
Dozens of Kd series Kitchenaids
Many C-line machines including a 3 tank CPW-100 and an awesome C-54
WM series machines
Several AM-9t2 machines
AM-11C
Am-12 and 12-C machines
Many older AM-14's and early LX machines
No Flight dishwashers but they do come up from time to time.

If I had the space and money I would adopt all of these machines. Hopefully some here on AW can save them from either going back into a restaurant or the shredder.

 

[toploader55]

C-54

Do you have these machines ?

There was a series before the "C" Line called the XM. I remember one they had at a summer camp I went to and it was about the size of a C 44 and had a port Hole window in the Inspection Door. The Motor seemed enormous and drove a Crescent R1 reducer which drove the conveyor system and that was connected to the pump. These Machines were absolute Tanks. It also had a 3 jet revolving upper Spray Arm and a Stationary Lower 18 jet arm. The machine also had a Dwell Control This was touted as the "Hobart Crescent Dual Drive".

When did Hobart and Crescent Merge ???

 

[whirlykenmore78]

Hobart and Crescent

First of all I'm sorry to say I do not have any of these. I wish I had the cash and I'd have all of them.

Hobart was fouded in 1897 and purchased the Crescent washing machine company in 1926 to expand into the commercial warewashing market.

I know the exact machine you are talking about using at camp. It was a 44 inch, single tank, high temp rack conveyor type machine. You are right the pump,motor,and drive reducer assembly were massive and built like a tank. The next variant of this machine was the C-line C-44, then the C-44a and the current model is the CLe-44.

If I am not mistaken dwell control varied the conveyor drive speed (SteveT could verify.) Dual drive meant that the rack coveyor drive system was on each side near the rails that the rack slides on rather than a center pawl bar or carrier chain. This system helps prevent racks from shifting and jamming up the machine.

Hope this answers your question
Nick

 

[toploader55]

Dwell System

There was a Spring Loaded Lever right below the Inspection Door. This held the "pawls" below the Rack Track. If you pushed in one rack, the first set of pawls would convey the rack to the center of the Wash arms and let it sit there for as long as desired. Sort of like a Soak Feature. When you pushed down the lever and held it down, the center pawls would be relaesed and push the rack into the Rinse Section until the last set of pawls would take over. This worked only as one rack at a time. If you continued feeding racks, the rack being fed into the machine would just keep pushing the racks through the Wash and Rinse Sections. As I recall the XM series were Very Quiet in operation. All you heard was a low hum of the motor running, the water spraying and the rhythemic click of the pawls pushing the racks through the machine.

 

[whirlykenmore78]

You are right

I was thinking of the variable speed conveyor on a FT-800 series Hobart dishwasher. I looked up old Hobart machines and got an education on this feature. Of course any Hobart is the best but these old tanks were bulletproof.

 

[toploader55]

Nick...

Where are you looking up Old Hobart Machines ?

I would love to see a pic of an Old XM again. Thanks Eddie

 

[whirlykenmore78]

Old XM Hobart

Eddie
I saw some vintage literature on ebay when I found the Hobart and KA machines.
I have seen at least one of these come up on ebay for sale but they are usually beat to hell by that time.
Nick