Thanks everyone for your kind words!
how's the turnover? And does this machine sound like a Beam/SQ or have the whine of a Co-Axial when it's running?
Hi Austin, the Hotpoint Thifitvator turns over the clothes very slowly and no it doesn’t sound like a Co-Axial Hotpoint at all. It more similar to a Beam, except the agitator solenoid is wired into the start switch of the motor. So when agitation first begins there is a 1/2 delay after the motor starts and before the agitation begins, so it actually starts to spin for a split second and then goes into agitation.
Hello Robert how long is the washing cycle, filling with water, the first spin, the rinse cycle, and the final spin cycle
Harold you can select 3, 6, 9, 12 or 15 minutes of agitation using the “Wonderdial”. I’ll give a demo of that later when I do videos. First spin 1.5 mins, rinse fill 6 minutes, overflow rinse, 4.5 minutes, final spin 6 minutes.
Not sure if people are aware, but that was Mary Tyler Moore dancing as Happy Hotpoint
Hi Jimmy, yup that’s Mary at 17 years old, here first job right out of high school!
What a schlep! I hope you are past the mechanical difficulties
Thanks Steve, almost but not quite done with the mechanical works. The first increment of the final spin keeps the water fill flowing unless I jiggle the dial, so tonight I’m going to go in a do some work inside the timer. I try and get pictures of that.
does the water hitting the rubber trim make the fill water fan out, or does it have a wide fill flume
Mike the flume isn’t that wide, it fans out on the rubber curtain.
Does any other make of machine use that conical cube design for the agi??
I’m confused Mike (not hard to do), do you mean about the shape of the agitator?
and those sheets are too fun!
Thanks Greg, they matched the red Thriftivator perfectly. While I was making the bed last night I said to Neal, “won’t it be wonderful to sleep in Hotpoint fresh sheets tonight”. His response: “Yeah sure, whatever makes you happy dear”. Veg, I forgot where we got those sheets, I look when I get home.
Would also like a photo of the timer dial.
For you Bob, anything, and remember it’s not just a “timer dial”, it’s a Wonderdial!
