Whirlpool garbage disposal!

[ultralux88]

Well here’s another one! Not the biggest fan of this mounting bracket, but I absolutely love this disposal, it’s such a weird vintage one! It runs quietly and disposes well!

Since YouTube videos still won’t embed...

 

[ultralux88]

Well powder my pants!

The plain YouTube URL link caused it to embed! Not even going to pretend to understand any of this...

 

[turquoisedude]

That's sooo cool! I've been dying to find a vintage Frigidaire one for ages, but I just never seem to have any luck....

 

[tolivac]

Have one of those I got from Volsboy-With the demo shown-I am going to get mine out and try it.At my place had to replace ALL of my sewage plumbing-the cast iron that my place was plumbed with failed.Now have PVC and the plumbing company threw in a Moen disposer to replace a non functional ISE.the Moen is actually one of those Waste King-Aneheim models with the PM motor.It does do well.Of course nothing beats those older vintage shredders---"soup grinder-electric pig"!

 

[ultralux88]

That and that old Wards Waste King you got too! That’s still an excellent one. I couldn’t be happier with my Thermador! The Whirlpool shreds about as fine as the Anaheim Waste King. Which is good, but the vintage ones like my Thermador definitely do grind finer. I feel the WP is faster on things like bones, I had the opportunity to feed it some spare ribs I believe they’re called, the flat and wide ones, pork I believe. I’m not the best with my rib terminology... Anyway, they disappeared without much noise and in no time at all! The Thermador definitely takes more time, but grinds much finer. It also seems to make things like apple cores and citrus peels disappear instantly, in some cases it seems to go faster than the Anaheim models, and they get it done rather quickly! It makes watermelon rind turn to mush almost as quickly as the GE I have too, but you can feed it much, much larger pieces at a time, so the whole thing goes much faster.

 

[tolivac]

The Waste King is slow,but shreds more finely-has undercutter blades.That helps a lot-stringy stuff is further chopped up.Since the WP has fixed rotating shredders you have to listen as it grinds and do not turn it off until its done-otherwise could jam.The WP are simple,sturdy units.Since I am on a septic tank-had that pumpted as well.Don't want to fill it too fast.Do have 800 gal space,though.The tank is 1000Gal but the pumpters pump it to 800gal so as to preserve the bacteria in the tank that decompose the waste.Will see how they like banana skins!

 

[ultralux88]

The Whirlpool took a bit more time (should have recorded it for comparison but was just having too much fun!) and made some decidedly interesting slapping sounds as it worked them over, I concluded it was simply bitchslapping them to bits, which seems about right... but it didn’t waste much time in disposing. It seemed to take longer with some smaller lime peels. The grind ring in the Whirlpool is very thick stamped and rolled steel, and like the Anaheim it has teeth that are tabs bent in. The cast rings tend to have teeth that run bottom to top and many more of them, and I think this is what makes a difference.

 

[tolivac]

When the Thermadors-old WK grind-makes me think of a tractor drawn brush hog cutting through heavy bushes,grass,even small trees!The brush hogs have very thick,swivel blades-like in a disposer that do the cutting.The blades are 1/2-3/4 in thick and 5 in wide.So they will put the "smackdown" on anything they go over!Drove one of these-was fun listening to it grind down the trees and brush!Like a giant WK disposer!

 

[ultralux88]

I have such fond childhood memories of getting to drive the tractor with one of those mowers on it! So much fun! Here goes a watermelon rind and some pineapple too!

 

[tolivac]

Good demo with the watermelon rinds and pineapple rinds-you have been the only one I have seen that has thrown a pineapple top in a disposer-a large commercial one--no problems at all-this one was having a little trouble with it at the end.I would have thrown the thing on the ground and run over and shred it with one of my cordless mowers in the mulch mode.Think that would take care or a pineapple top!The Thermador is tough!!!Lijke a brush hog!They use really wide Triple wide-"batwing" brush hogs to mow the tower field at work-would love a turn at it!Most is grass so no clunking around of tree parts.

 

[grwasher_expert]

Why don't we have such thing in Europe too?

 

[arbilab]

Internet sez, mostly banned in mainland Europe.  Don't feel too bad, they were illegal in New York City until 1997.

 

The I Love Lucy writers didn't know that and mentioned disposer in Lucy Hires a Maid, though the show was scripted as set in NYC.

 

I gave up feeding lime rind to the ISE which made a career out of digesting them.  It totally gagged on potato peel more than a tablespoon.  POS.  The GE I had in the 80s went through both in no time.  A Hotpoint and Frigidaire growing up, mostly worked but the HP jammed easily.  OK, just keep a broomhandle nearby.

 

[askolover]

Where did you get those clear drain lines?

 

[ultralux88]

Ran across those at Home Depot, each side of the sink have their own dedicated P trap and then the line meets at the 2in pipe sticking out of the wall. Its fun to see what the disposal output looks like!

 

[ultralux88]

Don't feel too bad, they were illegal in New York City..

This wasn't until the 70s I believe, at the time Lucy was on the air, which I believe was 50s and 60s, they were still OK. Personally I'd have installed my own anyway, especially if I owned the home!