Agitators Design

[vcontreras]

Ive seen the Hotpoint lint ring agiator and one of the filter flo agitators. they both look the same. did one stal from another? here are the agitators.

 

[coldspot66]

Hotpoint was a subsidiary of GE. I think from the 70's on Hotpoint washers were rebadged GE's, with a few differences. Both agitators will fit, assuming the same size tub. The only difference being the GE agitator will have a ribbed rubber mount on top to accept the Filter-Flo pan. That is the one characteristic that sets GE apart from Hotpoint washers.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I do not understand. How could Hotpoint steal one of its own agitators? The thing that changed was the lint filter collection area. Even the agitator mounted pan could accommodate a fabric softener dispenser. The nice thing about the agitator mounted filter pan was the reduced probablilty of the filtered lint to wash back onto the clothes during the spin drain when, yes the tub rim-mounted filter did clean itself, but where the lint was supposed to go and where it actually went were not as planned. The tub rim-mounted filter would have worked better with a solid tub machine where the draining water did not spin back over the top of the tub and back through the clothes. The change to an agitator mounted lint filter was another step in the merging of the Hotpoint and GE laundry lines.

 

[gyrafoam]

I'm thinking it was somewhat later before Hotpoint got GE's spiral "Activator". Did not Hotpoint have solid-tub machines well into the 70's?

 

[bajaespuma]

Hotpoint's own solid tub machines were phased out in the early seventies. As GE made the transition, the first thing to go was the machine's innards. I imagine that's when they closed down the Chicago plant and put all those people out of work. By 1969 the standard dryers were already being "BORG-ed" into GE clones with Hotpoint control panels. In this picture of the "Duo-Load", the dryer is obviously a GE, and if you look closely at the model numbers, they've already been changed to the GE format:

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