Nate the kind of top rack you were describing sounds like sometime after Hotpoint DWs ceased being what they were above and simply GE machines with a Hotpoint brand lebel. The aobve machines were true Hotpoints still. because of the porcelain tub and the racks, particularly the top rack. The top rack like in my old DW was the typical Hotpoint top rack I found in every one I came across whether it be in an apartment or house from the 1960s through at least 1987. Had friends that were transferred here with me (who were actual former neighbors in Houston). They rented a house for about a year and moved into a brand new house built by the same builder as mine. Their house came with an updated version of my machine with the water heat on/off were now actual control panel buttons, in addition to the drying heat buttons. Still the same basic 3 cycle buttons though too. They moved in summer of 1987. A house behind me was built in late 1987 or early 1988 and it too had Hotpoint appliances, including a smooth top range, our bilder had previously only put in coil burner ranges up until that point. The houe behind me also had Hotpoint brand in the kitchen, but the dishwasher ws now a pure GE, including the perma-Tuf tub and the "entry level" super rack upper rack--I called it that cuz it was the deep upper rack like mine, but didn't have the hard line "fence" on the left side like you & I know. It was actually the same top rack as was in my sister's GSD1100, which like I said didn't have the hard line fence nor the cup shelf. Also in the photo above, the left side of the top rack was just like the right side, it's just that the way the glases are loaded on in the two rows on the left side, hide the tine arrangement that's mirrored on the right side. What was on the left side is how yo0u were3 supposed to load glasses. Everyone I know ended up loading mugs just like glasses.
Nate, I just found the follow-up model for the abnove HDA965. That was the HDA969. It has the deeper top rack as well as the Perma-Tuf tub and the GE detergent dispenser with the rotating door with the "handle" on it. But I cannot see any copyright on the book or any code I could decipher for publishing.
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Nate, I just found the follow-up model for the abnove HDA965. That was the HDA969. It has the deeper top rack as well as the Perma-Tuf tub and the GE detergent dispenser with the rotating door with the "handle" on it. But I cannot see any copyright on the book or any code I could decipher for publishing.
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