Vintage Waring Blendors: Can you turn yours over to drain/dry?

pzelchenko · Aug 6, 2016

I have a 50th Anniversary Waring blender. I found it out in the trash and it works fine. It seemed to me a natural thing to turn the cloverleaf beaker over onto the rubber stays on the motor housing to let it drain and dry. However, I see no evidence from patents, marketing materials, Osius, Peter Muller-Monk, or elsewhere that this was a design intent. However, it appears that it would work on many of the cloverleaf designs. Certain early ones (e.g., Muller-Monk's 1937 Model B) have extra-long stays and good motor waterproofing that seem particularly suited to it.

A use-argument stands to reason for this: Finding a safe place to invert a glass blender beaker is always an iffy little project. Why not use the housing as a drying rack? And yet, if this was someone's design intent, it's lost to the world. I'm wondering whether it was possible to do this on at a certain point and whether the functionality disappeared in an iteration. This would be further evidence that it was someone's intent.

I'd like any of you Waring fans to (carefully) try turning the cloverleaf beaker over on the four stays and see if it holds there to drain. If it works, please post a photo, and include information on the model and year. If not, please show me or explain why it didn't work.

pzelchenko · Aug 6, 2016

I'm also curious if there are any models for which it works particularly well. For example, this one I have has rubber stays, and the beaker stays put so well that there is no danger to the glass. I can even press down a bit and it feels even more secure. However, I would think that the designer would have made a bottom stop on the rubber stays, so that the beaker would rest on them and settle with perfect security. This 50th Anniversary model is not terribly close to the original design, it merely happens to work on this one. Since the modern designer of the new model had no idea of this use (assuming such a use was ever prescribed), it is just as likely that this trick would not work on this model. I expect that it will work even better on early models where the rubber or bakelite tapers at an angle similar to the beaker's angle when inverted.

rp2813 · Aug 6, 2016

It won't work with the FC2 model I have on my bar (see pictures). Even if it did, the paint would quickly get chipped.

I haven't tried it on my model 700B (see picture -- identical to mine) which has tapered rubber sleeves over its four metal stays.

I wonder if maybe the inversion only works with larger carafes that may be wider at the top. I would put a paper towel or other absorbent material on top of the blender rather than have the water create spots on the motor housing or pool up on the top of it.