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I've had a Sears for about three months now.  Middle-of-the-line 
unit.  What I love: IT ISN"T A GE!

My GE Potscrubber 1120 died after 4.5 years - the famous fan 
problem necessitating replacing the whole motor/pump assembly.  No 
way.  Other than the financial hit, it was a pleasure to get rid 
of this atrocity, whose poor performance was exceeded only by the 
ergonomically hostile misdesign.  Details if needed.  What a 
remarkably poor consumer product.  I'll never buy another GE 
appliance.

I had owned a portable Sears unit in the mid 80's, and thought it 
was a spectacularly good performer.  I didn't want to spend the 
huge bucks on something like a Bosch.   Thus it seemed reasonable 
to buy Sears again.  I wanted something without the center tower, 
as I (perhaps naively) think a center spray arm is a better 
design.  It seemed easy to install, aside from some personal 
difficulty bending and routing the copper piping water supply that 
needed to be replaced due to crimping over the years.  It is 
unusually quiet, especially when filling and seems to clean things 
acceptably well.  Only rarely does something not come out clean; I 
usually don't use the water-heat options to keep utility costs 
down, so perhaps that's to blame.  It happens so infrequently that 
it isn't worth my worry.   What I don't like: there isn't enough 
room in the bottom rack to hold some of my bigger items, like a 
round cookie sheet I use for rolls and muffins.  The center arm is 
not parallel to the ground, tilting a little bit to one side.  I 
don't know if this is a manufacturing defect or just an 
intentional feature to better distribute the spray, but it means 
that dinner plates fit only on one side of the bottom rack.  This 
hasn't proven to be an impediment, as 80% of my loads are cat 
bowls for the seven cats.  Pots and pans usually come out 
sparkling, and I appreciate the unusually big silverware rack 
spanning the entire depth along one side.  Bigger utensils, as per 
the height limitation just described, can't stand up, but there's 
a specific tray on the outside of the upper rack for them to be 
placed flat, or they can just be put somewhere in the upper rack 
anyway.  

All in all, I'm quite satisfied with the Sears product, although 
they did screw up the billing in a couple of ways that ended up 
costing me $20 more than it should have.  But I'll live.  

Art