Vintage Kenwood Dishmaster in uk

[ricky5050]

Some of you may remember a few weeks ago a lady contacted this website offering a Kenwood Dishmaster for sale, i have bought it and it arrived this week. I have had chance to play with it so here are some photos etc

This photo shows that the front comes off because it has to be plumbed directly to the mains and drain, no flexible pipes would be used, the drain is a mechanical pop up type a little bit like a bathroom sink sort, by turning the dial the drain closes a mechanical timer is started which opens a valve which pushes cold water into a mini hot water tank which has been pre heating the water and then into the wash tub, the switch is a simple switch and not automatic the machine would fill even without electricity. Wash times are controlled by the user and rinses are optional as all you would do is re set it and start again. I wish it had been the later model as this was automatic, but beggars cannot be choosers and this is the first dishwasher of this era i have seen on ebay in 8 years.

 

[ricky5050]

the impellor

this is a bit battered and has a couple of chunks missing but is not too out of balance and the machine runs quietly, does anyone have a decent spare i could buy ? i tried running the machine in this state without racks of dishes and the pressure forced the lid up and flooded the kitchen!

 

[ricky5050]

the pop up drain

this is the drain that went into the ground for now i have bodged up an old vac hose and let it drain out of the kitchen door, the bike style cable is damaged so i had to manually open and shut the drain valve.

 

[ricky5050]

lower racks

here are clean dishes in the lower rack to show lay out

 

[ricky5050]

upper rack

and the top too

 

[ricky5050]

inside shot

here you can see the tank on the left with an immersion heater style element which is set at 180 f and this has separate electric connection as its 3kw and could be left on all day (for only a few pennies ) according to which but that was before anyone heard of co2 emissions, mind you it does not use much water!

A second heater without thermostat sits around the impeller which is on continuously with the motor to keep up the temperature this is hot enough to boost my kitchen tap water i tried tonight as the immersion heater tank needs new hoses.

 

[ricky5050]

see it wash!

I used cling film ( all i had at time )to view the wash , with some liquid finish the pressure was lower due to slight foaming. You may see some dishes get pounded and some miss out not sure if this is due to the damaged impeller.

The video quality is poor on you tube but looked better on my pc sorry dont know why

 

[chestermikeuk]

Kenwood Dishmaster!!!

Hey Ricky, congrats on getting the diswasher,we know you have been awaiting this model for a long time!!! love seeing that power surge of water, interesting about the drain valve, would it have been sealed into the ground or just in an open drain ??

Heres hoping for a spare impellar, otherwise a machine fabrication shop could be an answer, looks like a mini boat impellar!!

Enjoy, Mike

 

[christfr]

that is really really cool.

 

[ricky5050]

more wash vids

here is a wash vid with upper basket removed to see full effect on lower rack , again sorry for poor vid quality

 

[ricky5050]

full frontal

here is shot with it running as normal to show noise levels

thanks for comments

Richard

 

[ricky5050]

drain

Hi Mike i am not sure about where the drain was but the original waste pipe would have sat lower than ground level and it had the remains of a thick black flexible pipe as if it went below ground then out to a drain, or soil stack.

 

[74simon]

Hey Ricky, glad to see you got your mitts on this baby, that's one serious bit of engineering! Hope you can get her back in full working order again.

I was wondering if you could mount it on a wall or worktop a la Kenwood 1212 to get round the draining issue, but that might make it a bit awkward to fill and empty with dishes...

How well does it seem to wash? I wonder if you could let new plastic into the impeller? Great videos by the way!

 

[ricky5050]

its a biggie

Hi Simon its quite a beast standing taller than normal dws about the same height as top of work tops and heavy! draining would probably work as if i can get modern plastic u bend etc to fit ( think it may be a older size) or connect an electric pump from mod fl'der. The washing was very fierce in the bottom on some plates rather like rolling waves but it seemed to miss others, the worst was the top rack some got the spray some did not and it was not due to being blocked ( the pan in the photo was not in the wash attempts) i will try a proper "which" wash test by making a variety of gunge on plates cups etc, i have ordered new rubber for the lid and got a new set of hoses and bike cable to try out the immersion heater and pop up drain valve. and hope fully better videos as i have a perspex sheet to try as a wash window!