vintage caloric wall oven, cooktop, and dishwasher........worth a shot for someone wanting harvest gold
Vintage kitchen for sale
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I think that's yellow from the early to mid '60s, not harverst gold. Much prettier IMO and none of that off-color shading so typical of harvest gold applicances.
Another Waste King
That looks to be like a 1965 Waste King, bol model!!! Damn!!! The 1964 one that Laundress resurrected the thread today, didn't have the sliding door lock like found on this one. So it has to be a 1965 model, first time I saw a sliding lock like that. Our 1968 had the sliding door lock.
That looks to be like a 1965 Waste King, bol model!!! Damn!!! The 1964 one that Laundress resurrected the thread today, didn't have the sliding door lock like found on this one. So it has to be a 1965 model, first time I saw a sliding lock like that. Our 1968 had the sliding door lock.
dogboy44
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Dick Van Dyke!
That is the oven from the Petrie's kitchen
That is the oven from the Petrie's kitchen
laundromat
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canary yellow is the correct term for the color
Thanks Bob! I thought that dishwasher smacked of Waste King!
philr
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I really like the look of these old Waste King dishwashers. And even newer ones. Every time I see one, that reminds me when the repairman came to repair my parent's Inglis dishwasher telling me how Waste King dishwashers were expensive and bad. He said they had bad pumps and I remember that the racks on a newer one (a harvest gold MOL model from the mid-seventies with a SS tub) that my neighbor had were in really bad shape.
Were these older model porcelain coated or did they have Plastisol tubs?
Were these older model porcelain coated or did they have Plastisol tubs?
Waste King Dishwashers
I'm betting the older ones were stainless steel inside. That's a key design component of their drying system, which caused moisture to migrate from contents onto the metal tub surfaces and run down into the sump.
As many here are aware, I spent all of 2010 living with a 1985 Thermador THD3600, a re-badged Waste King. It used the same drying strategy and I have to say that although the machine couldn't wash to save its life -- literally -- it dried like nobody's business, and without any forced air.
I'm betting the older ones were stainless steel inside. That's a key design component of their drying system, which caused moisture to migrate from contents onto the metal tub surfaces and run down into the sump.
As many here are aware, I spent all of 2010 living with a 1985 Thermador THD3600, a re-badged Waste King. It used the same drying strategy and I have to say that although the machine couldn't wash to save its life -- literally -- it dried like nobody's business, and without any forced air.
Early Waste Kings were a plastic tub liner type. At least our 1960 and 1968 models were. Not too many years after that, they introduced the SS tubs.
WK DWs
Had plastisol tanks till the early 1970s when they switched to a POOR quality SS tank that would actually rust under certain use conditions. WK differently had some interesting features and neat looking machines but from what I can tell they never produced a really good cleaning or durable machine, I would rank them about a notch below D&M built DWs and everyone here knows how much I like those LOL.
Had plastisol tanks till the early 1970s when they switched to a POOR quality SS tank that would actually rust under certain use conditions. WK differently had some interesting features and neat looking machines but from what I can tell they never produced a really good cleaning or durable machine, I would rank them about a notch below D&M built DWs and everyone here knows how much I like those LOL.
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John, I remember Nate echoed your sentiments about WK dishwashers in his "Machines of Ill Repute" series a while back, where he shared his brief experience with the THD 3600 after taking it off my hands. I believe the terms "worse" and "worst" were applied, and deservedly so. That machine was pretty to look at but ugly to deal with. No bitch is worth that, and she ultimately got kicked to the curb where she belonged.
Didn't you tell me once, John, that the Thermador - Waste King machines used cheaper welds around the panels of the SS tank and that's where they would deteriorate and rust? Seem to remember that caveat quite some time ago. I found one behind Lowes one night and grabbed it. It was pretty rough but I wanted to explore the design a bit. I recall never even putting water in it but I can't remember what it's fatal flaw was. It was a steam machine - fins on the element. I've only ever heard one running, a steam model back in the late 90's. Making the steam was a great sound, but it was unearthly loud during normal circulation.
They sure were pretty, though.
They sure were pretty, though.
