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----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Subit <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2007 5:56:15 PM
Subject: Hotpoint Combination Washer Dryer

We recently purchased a condo unit that has a (we presume non-working) circa 1968 Hotpoint combination washer-dryer (one combined unit), lovely olive color. Is this something as to which you have an interest? If you don't would you know someone who might?

Michael Subit
Seattle

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert
To: Michael Subit
Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: Hotpoint Combination Washer Dryer

Hi Michael, and thanks for writing. Would you be able to send me a digital picture or two of the machine? Then I can post it for our Seattle/Portland area members. I'm sure someone would like to add it to their collection and restore it.

Thanks.

-Robert Seger
Minneapolis

----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Subit <[email protected]>
To: Robert <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 9, 2007 8:15:23 PM
Subject: Re: Hotpoint Combination Washer Dryer

Thanks for the prompt response. The only digital camera I have is the one on my cell-phone (I've been meaning to get a real one). I don't have anything that interfaces between the phone and computer. I am not sure what the best approach is at this point. I could send an image to a phone numbe but I am not sure that advances the ball any, We are looking to get it out of the condo unit in the next couple of weeks.

Well I will post your message for our club and see if anyone in the area is interested. Thanks for letting me know.
 
It is really a GE of the period with HOTPOINT in the areas where GENERAL ELECTRIC would be. There is a high rise condo in Columbia, MD that had all Hotpoint kitchens with the undercounter combo badged as Hotpoint. If you had a SPIN X or one of the little Haier portables to spin the clothes well, it would not be too hard to live with one of these, although you would need a much larger container to catch the water from the SPIN X without a pump. Picture a cow on a flat rock without as much height.
Tom
 
Brett, I just sent you an email with Michael's email address. Anyone relatively near the Seattle metropolitan area who might be interested, please let me know and I will email you the contact email address.
 
I find it interesting that this machine has an 8-minute maximum wash time vs. 10 minutes on mine. I wonder if it has the combination snapping/silent timer escapement as well?
 
That looks like

the one I got two weeks ago. Toggles, I believe the spring is to keep the water hoses under tension and in the space above where the drain hose is when sliding the machine under the counter. Westy, mine lists 10 minutes also, but the interval is 45 seconds, and the time stops at 4 min on the dial. It probably is only 8 minutes wash time. I'm sure it uses the same timer as the GE.

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Combo

If there is a member who really wants it, I am happy to pick it up and store it until arrangements are made for pick up.
Kelly
 
Toggles, no cold water wash. I don't know if the models very near the end of production did this, but if HOT wash was selected, the temperature sequence of the 3 rinses was Cold, Warm, Hot. If WARM wash was selected, all 3 rinses were warm. They did not want to lose any heat in that machine that would help extract more water from the load or do anything to slow the drying.

The dryer dial does not move, it is a thermostat; the more dry you want things, the higher the temperature. Regular dry starts off with both heating elements on. After the initial phase of drying, both cycle off and the timer dial moves a bit. When heat is called for again, only one element cycles on and the rest of the drying is done with one heater. Once the timer moves into dry, the timer motor only runs when the heating element(s) cycle off.

The Delicate dry cycle only uses one element from start to finish.

The condensing system is pretty crude and is also how the fabric softener dispenser works. The fill for the third rinse opens a cold water solenoid that sends a stream of water onto a small metal plate above the small plastic box holding the fabric softener. This dilutes and dispenses the softener through a syphon tube. Once the drying starts, the same cold water solenoid that dispensed the softener, sends a stream of water onto this plate which is also the top most opening of the machine. The steam rises and meets this small cold plate and reservoir of water. Some of it condenses. Then the stream of water overflows from the little plastic box down the side wall of the outer tub where it does some more condensing and then goes through the strainer and down the drain. If the cold water pressure is too high, the overspray will keep rewetting the clothes. That happened in a very nice high rise in Atlanta.

Brian, check the model designation plate. At one time GE made the built in model in both 230 and 208 volt models (for apts and commercial buildings on 208). If yours is a 208 volt machine, it might dry somewhat faster because the extra wattage will cause it to reach the operating temperature faster, although the heating elements' life will be somewhat shortened.

That sawed off piece of copper pipe at the end of the drain hose tells something else about the built in combo. The drain hose had to be sealed to the drain pipe. GE did not want any water damage from leaks or back ups behind the combo because the drain was less than counter height and in kitchens, that meant below the maximun fill of the sink. If the sink or anything else above the combo could not drain properly, there was the possibility that it would back up through the combo's stand pipe. In cases where the combo drained into a standard drain pipe, the drain hose came with a flared collar on the end (probably cut off this drain hose) that was put over the drain pipe and clamped in place with a large hose clamp.

One more thing, Brian. Did you get the metal plate that goes under the combo? It would have been screwed to the floor and have a channel on each side for the feet. The fact that the undercounter installation sort of held the combo in place meant that it was less likely to trip the unbalance switch in the left front leg than the free standing model so it could give a bit better extraction.

Enjoy, Tom
 

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