Welcome - Whirlpool FP-50B-0 dishwasher

[mickeyd]

Paul Day at aworg--What fun!

You know, Paul, after enjoying the mad splash of the video, I started to wonder: How many dishwasher lovers would we have in the world if all DW's had see-through doors. Who could resist water drama that intense?

 

[sensi-temp]

I think there is an upper rack missing, I used to have a Kenmore D&M (?) impeller machine that had two upper racks that slid side to side. They would stack on top of each other for loading & unloading, You stacked them, sild side to side to load or unload bottom rack. It washed very well but the pot metal lid hinges kept breaking & Whirlpool no longer carried them.

 

[bajaespuma]

Aferim!

Gorgeous machine! I think I'll call that color "hot turquoise". If this is a Whirly from the early sixties, I can tell you that CU check-rated these machines. I've always been curious to see what they looked like. Interesting that the shape of the spray arm is the same as it is today. Is there another top rack or is it just that one rack that rolls back and forth?

 

[combo52]

WP PORTABLE DISHWASHER

Those were great machines I had the same one many years ago. That is the complete upper rack, this machine has no relation to D&M machines or anything Sears sold. Sears did not source any DWs from WP until about 1984-5, thats when WP came out with they impossible to beat Power Clean pump and motor system.

 

[bajaespuma]

Then who made the Sears roto rack dishwashers?

 

[combo52]

SEARS ROTA-RACK DWS

Were made by D&M manufacturing in Ohio they made almost all of the Sears machines machines until 1984-5 when Sears finally started selling a decent dishwasher. Sears always had an excellent reputation for washers & dryers, freezers & refrigerators but thier dishwashers and gas and electric ranges never really measured up to the better national brands. If you look at the construction quality of a D&M DW compared to a WP DW you will never confuse the too. D&M only made DWs for other companies at one point I counted more than 20 different brand names that appeared on D&M built machines. I don't think D&M could have marketed the machine on their own as it was always such a poor quality machine that it needed a big brand on it to move it at all, as a stand alone brand few people would give it a second look.

 

[tomturbomatic]

We have a similar model WP portble in the collection or at least we had one last time I looked. The black Bakelite wash arm was sort of grayed by years of usage so we tried a brand new one. Its jets were angled in such a way that it turned in the opposite direction and shot a bit of water out the steam vent so it was not a replacment.

Ken, if after loading the lower rack, you pull the top rack all the way forward, you can put pans, bowls etc over those big pins on the back of the top rack. The items can even span the space and rest against the back wall of the tank so long as they don't interfere with the detergent cups. You definitely want to make use of that space for such things because:
1. The machine does not have a full upper rack and
2. You don't want to block water to the top rack by putting those things in the lower rack unless they are tall in which case you push the rack to the back and put the tall pitchers, pots, etc at the front of the lower rack.

It's not a perfect situation, but an interesting alternative racking situation that makes older dishwashers so much fun to play with. A family friend had a portable like this so I had thought about the racking for more than 2 decades before we found our machine.
Have fun!

 

[turquoisedude]

Didn't D&M produce dishwashers for "big brands" like Admiral, Kelvinator, Caloric and Gagffers & Saettler as well at some point??

 

[combo52]

D&M DISHWASHERS

Yes Paul they sure did and about 15 more brands. Including the very first WP built-ins but never any of thier portables, tappan, Modern Maid, Norge, Speed Queen, Magic Chef, some Westinghouse top load portables, Chambers, Preway electric models, [ they made thier own gas heated machines], some Frigidare TL portable machines etc etc I am sure I missed some can anyone remember any others?.

 

[gansky1]

Very cool dishwasher, that is a powerful spray from a seemingly small arm!

 

[christfr]

pretty cool there dude.. first time i have seen one of those.. how bout you post a vid of that really cool ka top loader that used to live in st louis