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I've been searching the internet looking for information on a dishwasher we are inheriting and happened upon this forum.

We are purchasing a house in a couple weeks that will be coming with a pretty sweet looking Waste King dishwasher. It doesn't work (though I don't know if it can be fixed, the inspected didn't spend too much time looking at it). I thought I had a picture of the inside, but can't seem to find it. However, as I remember it doesn't appear to have the top rack.

We would like to try to sell it to offset the cost of a new one. If its not able to be sold, we were wondering if its possible to somehow take the front off this and attach it to a new dishwasher (maybe a new dishwasher with top controls??)

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I thought we had an interior shot, but cannot seem to find it. I'll have to look on our camera. We close in a week so won't be able to grab any more info or pictures until that time. The outside definitely looks nicer than the inside.
 
Yes it is. You ought to know, you've seen it (them ) in person. This was their first model. The 2nd series included the TOL that's in a POD my parents bought in like 1960 or so. It moved to the new house with us.
 
Cool Old Waste King DW

Even though a very cool looking machine your idea of reusing the front on a new interrogated control machine would be a neat way to get a classic look and still have a DW that actually works. WK DWs were not that popular and it may be quite a challenge to get and keep this machine running.

 

As much as I usually do not recommend Bosch and similar style Imported DWs it might be easier to attach the panels from the WK to one of their machines because they are much less deep and attaching the old panels on the front would not cause the DW to stick out beyond the counter top.
 
Neat machine! Thanks for sharing with us.

Actually, neither of ours has the lights that this one has. They are single wash arm machines. The lower rack has plate loops extending from the 12, 3, 6, & 9 o'clock positions with an opening left in the center. The top rack in the earliest models did not have pins and only a divider or two along the right side. There was no detergent dispenser, just a little platform on the door where it was placed. The wash arm has very fine holes and, I guess because of them, a layer of suds was left when the wash water drained. The drain was followed by a minute or so purge where waher sprayed in from the left to kill the suds then it went through the two after rinses. Drying was most unusual in this machine. I believe it was the first to use what I think they called "cool wall condensation" to dispose of the steam instead of venting it out into the room. I think the pump is energized briefly twice during the dry, like at midpoint and shortly before the end to pump out the condensed steam.

This was the first dishwasher of friends in a new apt. I remember being there once for a meal and watched it being loaded. Of course everything was rinsed down to the glaze on the china before it went in. I remember that she put the top bowl of the Cory in the lower rack so that it hung from the centermost loop over the center opening, but since there were no dishes blocking water to the top rack and nothing had any food except for the scum in the Cory's top bowl, any disturbance it caused to the water distribution was not going to affect cleaning. When the dry was finished, the dishes were as hot as if they were emerging from a kiln.
 
Very cool!

Our first dishwasher was a 1961 Waste King; it had 3 cycles: Full Cycle, Pots/Pans, & Rinse/Hold. It had the same bottom and top racks as described for this machine. My mom seemed to like it; i was not allowed to touch it! :) It had a vertical pump with a drain valve that functioned in a smilar fashion to the horizontal mount GE pumps, but when the valve was actuated the force of the water against the gate valve caused a very loud, distinctive "thunk"! It was replaced when the aluminum pump housing rotted out (the achilles heal of many Waste King machines). Mom bought a KitchenAid KDI 17.

Waste King was based in Los Angeles and eventually became part of Anaheim Manufacturing; at some point in their history they became affiliated with Thermador. When Bosch aquired Thermador the WasteKing brand was eliminated (someone please correct me if my info is off).
 
Alan, both our families had the same model. Ours was purchased in 1960. I"m impressed yours lasted well enough to end up replacing it with a KA17 series. Which would mean 11-14 years. Ours only lasted until spring of 1968. Our had its life cut short by the extreme hard water we had in Houston, the area we moved to in 1961 when we jmoved the dishwasher after it had been purchased in 1960.
 
Beautiful!

I don't care how it washed! What a beautiful machine!
Knock Out!
I love the detail!
Brent
 
Waste King

Garbage Disposals are still made for commercial use. We have 2 of them @ VFW post 6208. There is a model 750 in the disposer cone before the Hobart AM-9-T2 dishwasher upstairs in the main kitchen. There is another 750 in the 2nd kitchen before the Hobart AM-11 Dishwasher. These disposals can grind up anything as well as the aformentioned dishwashers can sanitize anything.
Nick WK78
 

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