Your favorite vintage Dishwasher

[aldspinboy]

Here we are with a Frigidaire...
Having the best time.. this one has the one piece
wash arm with the three hole tower...
listen to the force on the wash arm.
Both the dishwashers was recorded last summers trip.
Darren k

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[mikepaquette]

My Dream Dishwasher

A GE Mobile Maid Bowtie impeller with cycle buttons and power shower. Will settle for a BOL though. Someday . PS Chris Very nice indeed. Mike

 

[turquoisedude]

It's still eluded me, also, but I really like the Kemore top-load roto-rack portables.  The folding upper rack always fascinated me.

 

[rinso]

Favorite Dishwasher: Our 1961 Westinghouse roll out drawer dishwasher. Unbelievable performance from an impeller machine with no food particle filter. We had soft water, but it never etched our glassware. Everything came out sparkling clean.

 

[bajaespuma]

Do you have to ask?

Our 1961 GE SU-72. I've never seen a better dishwasher

 

[jakeseacrest]

Maytag Reverse Rack 1980s with the row of black pushbuttons

 

[whitetub]

Maytag WC401 I had one, in avocado green. I loved the reverse-racks.

 

[wayupnorth]

Early 70's harvest gold Lady Kenmore portable. All push button. Roto rack cleaned perfectly every time. Sani-temp feature would practically boil the dishes. Only had heated dry for 12 or 26 minutes. Big, thick butcher block top. Porcelain tub finally rusted out under the door. Wished I still had it.

 

[combo52]

Best DW Ever

Everybody knows which one I like but as the Power Clean WPs didn't come out till 1984 that may not be old enough to be considered vintage.

 

Mark 71 Maytag built in DWs never had a separate drain pump, until the tall tub machines came out around 2000. The very first MT TL portables did have a separate drain pump but they also switched to a one motor that reversed to drain by the time that the built-ins were introduced around 1970. These early MT RR machines were not as noisy as the later belt drive machines, both types of machines had different reliability issues and all MT RR machines left chunks of food in the bottom of the machine so you really had to scrape the dishes when loading. And other than the loading restrictions of not having a real wash arm under the top rack and the huge cut out in the lower rack required for the wash tower these machines when loaded properly cleaned GREAT. But MT abandoned this design on their own because LARGE numbers of consumers did not like them. It can't be blamed on the Government or Whirlpool.