1957 Pink Hotpoint Dishwasher, Oven, Stove Top

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Emailed the seller!

Thank You, Thank You xpanam & appliguy!!!! I have emailed the seller with an offer for just the DW alone. I would love the whole set but I'm going to have to drive to Cleveland to get this with a Ford Explorer and all I will be able to bring home is the DW, so everyone Please keep your fingers crossed. If this goes through it will literally be my ultimate DW and from the looks of things it might be in working condition to boot!
 
Akronman:

Just to answer your question: for MAC users:

1)Shift-Command-4 (the number), hold mouse button down, draw around desired photo, release. Do this for all photos. Open up all desired photos, arrange on desktop by pushing the window frame on top around to desired shape of combined photos.
2) Repeat the shift-command-4 keystroke, hold down mouse button and (don't release)...draw around the composed photos you selected, and then release mouse button

You'll have a .jpg, that is all the photos in one, to import into applications or this website.

For a PC , it's a couple keystrokes, to do the same, but I forget right now what I used to do - someone else might help me out here. It's just a matter of using the mouse to draw around the desired photo, combining all those by arranging them on your desktop to make a square of 2, 3, 4 or whatever amount , of photos and taking another snapshot of it to use as a single .jpg, or whatever you wish.

Hope this helps a little!
 
Coming up on 24 hours since I emailed the seller..

no response yet. Hope it's not already gone...or worse... Fingers are getting kinda cramped from being crossed all this time. :-)
 
Reversible Roll-R-Rack

What does this mean? The wall oven looks like European models, quite unusual for the US, I believe... Is the top gas-driven?
 
First off dear friends.....

It looks like it will soon be a done deal!!! The seller has been very nice and even though I will have to pay a bit more for it than I had hoped to, (and found it does have a few hopefully minor issues), I am just so happy that it appears I will FINALLY have my beloved Hotpoint DW. The seller sent me some really clear pics and in them I see that the red portion of the indicator lens is about half missing, and the hinged detergent door is missing over the cups. The impeller and motor turn freely but the unit has been disconnected since about the 1970s. Hopefully the missing/broken parts will be available through a resource on here, but I can deal with those later. Right now I am planning on my 12 hour round trip to Cleveland, and figuring out when I can go.

For Chris74......Hi from the US! The "Reversible" Roll-R-Rack is one of the features I have always loved about these models. From my observations (and I'm sure others more knowledgeable can help me here), a good deal of the older front loading units had the lower rack as the only one on rollers with the upper rack riding on top of the lower one. You had to either remove the upper rack to the counter to load the lower one or you had a hole in the upper rack through which you placed your dinnerware into the lower rack. All kind of cumbersome.
These Hotpoints appear to be some of the first (if not the first ?) to offer both racks on separate rollers as we are used to seeing today, and thus the name Roll-R-Rack. The "reversible" part is a neat feature to allow more flexibility in loading either taller glassware or larger plates by adjusting the way you turn the wire part of the upper rack in it's frame. In one position, you can load up to 9 3/4" diameter plates in the lower rack and 6 3/4" tall glasses in the top rack. If you lift up the wire portion out of the upper rolling frame and horizontally turn it around (back to front), this allows you to load up to 10 1/2" diameter plates below with up to 6" tall glasses above. These units (according to commercials of the time) apparently were the earlier ones (if not the first) to offer a place to put a "wetting agent" (like Jet-Dry) to keep things from getting spotted. These were offered in both a gravity drain and a pump drain model. Based on the picture, could anyone on here advise which this one would be? Thanks to everyone who was wishing me well on this. Your support is so appreciated. To xpanam and appliguy, I can't thank you two enough for spotting and alerting me to this opportunity. I will post pics when I get it home.

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Hi 1952Crestwood thats great news! Please drive carefully and have a safe trip.I have always thought that this was an interesting DW. Hopfully someone here can help you with those minor issues.
 
Re Wall Oven...

these were all electric, hotpoint only made electric appliances in those days..as for the reversible Roll R Rack, that was a Hotpoint exclusive feature, the rack would roll out for ease in loading, as for the reversible feature, im not really sure.
 
I'm really looking forward to working with that

Reversible upper rack to see how it adjusts the height just by turning it horizontally. I'm guessing that turned one way, it has some kind of slots that the supports drop down into the frame (just a little) in order to make the room for the taller glassware, and when you reverse the position, the supports must rest on something higher in the frame, to raise it up and make more room under it for the lower rack. My Aunt's was the last of these I had my hands on, and it's been gone for over 30 years now, so this will be a real fun project to poke around and learn about. I don't remember us ever messing with the upper rack as far as changing position. Her's leaked from the time she moved into the house (in 1973), and although a repair person came out, and she used it a few times (that's how I remember seeing the indicator lit up) I think something else died and it was used predominately to rack up her hand washed Melmac dinnerware until it was replaced by a new one around 1981 or 82 if memory serves. It will be nice if this one ends up being fully operational, but I guess I think of it as a throwback to Auntie's, so I'm thinking it will serve as a cool built in drain rack, even if it's too far gone to mechanically restore. I am hoping this one is a gravity drain, so that what water drippage from the wet dishes will just work it's way down the drain, rather than sit in the bottom as I suspect it might in a pump drain style. I will sure post pics Turquoisedude and thanks for your sweet support and good wishes. Thanks for your well wishes too, xpanam! I am thinking I will try to make the round trip in one day by leaving super early, but I'm going to be prepared to stay over along the way home if I find it's too much. One thing for sure. I am going to have this swaddled like a newborn baby in foam egg crating, blankets, bubble wrap and cardboard to ensure it's as impervious to any damage as I can. Thanks norgeway for the additional info on the Roll-R-Racks and the ovens. I wish I had a way to get the oven & cooktop but from what I understand, the seller is going to make them available again, so if anyone is interested, I will be happy to give them a look-over while I am there picking up the dishwasher.
 
Thanks for the explanation!

But reverse means changed direction from front to behind, not top to down or am I missing the point? Congrats to that great finding!
 
I do know..

The earlier Hotpoint DWs used a top rack that rolled out with the lower rack , then you manually lifted it off to load the bottom rack.
 
Robyn

Do you remember when you first contacted me about a vintage Hotpoint d/w ?? Wow that seems like a long time ago. I have seen many of these pop up since then and I always thought about you and wondered if you ever got your dream machine. Congragulations, I hope you post some pics with your new machine!
 
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