youngstown disposal

[aunabreslun20]

does anyone have/has anyone seen this? i saw one guy reply on an older thread about how they replaced theirs for poor operation when they had purchased their midcentury montreal home in the 70s but nothing more than that. does the mention of the "reverse engineered" blade strike you as odd? i personally think it maybe the closest to blades i've ever seen.

 

[aunabreslun20]

i'm also asking if this's the one they had, if so coolio it sounds the same, hence why i used it as reference. and.... was that potentially why it was so ineffective?

p.s. i tried to post it to a different sub but it redirected me. bare with me this wasn't my intent. i tried to put this on the OLD (imperial?) appliance forum.

 

[turquoisedude]

HI Auna, I think I may be the one who posted about the Youngstown disposer - my folks did replace one that was in the sink of the 1957-ish house we moved into in 1970.   The disposer was really, really worn out and we were following the advice of neighbours who had replaced the same unit.  

As for the cutter blades, I think they'd still have been something like the 'teeth' that surround the grinding chamber of most disposers.  They would not have been sharp, like a knife or meat grinder cutter, but they must have had some kind of edge that would strike the food waste and would wear down over time.    Ironic that Youngstown came up with this concept to 'double the life' of the blades - their very early disposers from the 1950s had a reversable motor which allowed the operator to grind in one direction one day, then the other direction the next day.  Closest I had seen to that was the auto-reversing ISE/Kenmores back in the 80s (I had one of those in the very first house I bought!).  

 

[aunabreslun20]

so, it really is more like say... this rundle disposal than anything
the way i imagined it was with this same kind of "food processor" like layout but with a bunch of like... wedges placed in a grid (inverted regular disposal. like rather than having fixed breaker bars/swivel lugs whatever) it just had slightly sharp...... teeth like this or even giant slightly (like angled so if it were to have a bone slammed into it repeatedly it'd become "rolled over" so stuff would just be bumped around rather than actually shredded) and wedges be similar to the ripper blades on an ise disposer with an edge on them (but dull)
but not sharp as a woodchipper by any means.

 

[aunabreslun20]

edit

rather than having this exact design it were to be more like the blades on an ise without the fixed or swivel lugs, just a bunch of slightly like... angled wedges like ise had on their mid 2000s exel

 

[circlew]

It appears to me that the Youngstown disposer was likely made by Universal/Rundle.

 

[aunabreslun20]

oh weird that's good info to know lol

 

[aunabreslun20]

oh yeah, duh it's so obvious now lol

 

[vacerator]

Were very common

until the 70's. My aunt had one. Her house was built in 1955. Had my "where's my supper"?, "to hell with the guest's" uncle not cleaned his aquariums in the sink, it likely would have outlasted him.