Hotpoint "Compact Automatic Washer"

[macboy91si]

Dark Video

I KNOW!!! I HATE this little camera that I've got. The Kitchen is very bright and I filmed the video on there with an ADDITIONAL desk lamp. It was a cheap USB video camera and I used it outdoors mostly, but indoors it literally drives me crazy. My other alternative is to use my old VHS-C camcorder and import the video with my capture card, but that is very cumbersome. This camera is one of the reasons that I haven't posted a lot of YouTube vids. I've got hours of footage of all of my machines, but they're not (to me) of good enough film quality to post.

Sidenote: I was referring to the extra timer wiring required to make that "Rinse Temp" light work. I think it's a great idea as well and neat. That would mean that the fill for the main wash would have to have it's own escapement that it can't share with any other fill? The timer looks really complex in this thing anyhow.

-Tim

 

[macboy91si]

Test

This is a test... YAY!

This was surprisingly very easy...

Here is the safety switch vid. I'm sitting at a 15MB data connection and I'm taking full advantage of it right now.

-Tim

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[macboy91si]

Intro Vid (Better Lighting?)

This is so cool...

-Tim

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[mickeyd]

Is there anything else you'd like to see?

Sure I'd love to see it fill and spin.

Really nice video, Tim, and great story in your first post. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Welcome to the Washer in the Kitchen Club. Don't you just love it. Our friends across the pond all do it, but I think you and I are the only Americans doing it--Wait, Eric, too, I think.

More later on no spin rinsing (I do it all the time); the Good Wife is on. YAY

 

[mistereric]

Much better! Sometimes when I am filming something I crank the hell out of the lighting, bring in extra lamps. I seem to do okay with my little canon elphs.

I am def. a member of washer-in-the-kitchen-anon, but only when I want to play with a portable. I was thinking of installing a box in the wall of the dining room, but maybe thats too much lunacy!

 

[macboy91si]

Lunacy

I've cut holes in my kitchen floor, behind the fridge in attempt to have my Lady K set in there permanently. I'm definitely not above modifications. I keep a ready supply of CPVC piping in the basement as well as that's an evolving project.

-Tim

 

[macboy91si]

By Request...

I figured a way to mangle together a video and get the safety switch out of the way. One time only!

-Tim

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[jonvance1990]

I once had the slightly newer one like I said in your videos and even those only had one spin cycle but only one rinse. Also I think the high pitched sound from the pump was easier to hear than the low humming sound. But this version comes very close to sounding like the one I once had. Great videos.

 

[mickeyd]

Wonderful stuff, Tim, Thank you so much

Sorry for the delay. I've been away. Thinks she's spinning at about 900 rpm's. That seems to be the standard for the portables, at least, that's how fast the WP/KM's go. I like the lighter touch of the Hotpoint's agitation; the Haier is a bit rough.

Tim & Eric: Once the washers come out of the closet--er, laundry room, there's no tellin' where they'll end up. I've been thinking the same thing about CPVC-piping a drain to the basement for the Lady K because the current long hose to the wet bar is a bit cumbersone when extended.

Thanks again for the wonderful luncheon movie, and keeping me company with your conversation. One loves the "talkies"

Your HP looks great in the kitchen. You'll be able to toss n' wash all your cooking and clean-up linens--and what does Frigilux call them, washmops? ;-D

Just remembered during the Update & Preview: "barmops" ~ Eugene telepathy.

Thanks again for the wonderful luncheon treat and keeping me company with your fine conversation. How I love the "talkies."

 

[macboy91si]

There will be more!

I'm going to make some film of the Hoover 0510 across from it. I call her "Pearl", when I got her she hadn't been used since 1978! Anyway, you want to talk about the opposite of "weak impeller" wash, geez. It will throw some lighter things out of the tub if the water gets too low, I have marks on my wall to prove it

I'm going to use my VHS-C cam and hope for the best. I want a Flip cam, but at $179, Wal-Mart can keep them.

I'm driving to Toledo in the morning to get a BEAUTIFUL coppertone Hoover 0512, SS tubs and never used I would beleive. I'm not going to use it probably but it'll be neat.

I talk too much in my videos I think sometimes.

-Tim

 

[vacbear58]

Talk away Tim

Your videos are just great, and actually I think they dialogue adds a very friendly air to the whole thing. You have a great speaking voice too, although generally folks hate to hear the sound of their own voice. Look forward to vids or "Pearl" (do you know what age she is?) and also your new coppertone model
Al

 

[macboy91si]

"Pearl"

..is a White 1966-67 Hoover 0510 twin tub washer. The Coppertone model is a 0512 from 1970, it's one of the last SS tubs made and actually has the newer style spinner basket already. The quality on the coppertone 0512 is a tad shoddy in the SS seams and other smaller things, my guess is because of the change over to the poly-tubs, the last SS tubs QA suffered a bit.

Here's a pic of "pair". I think these were the only 2 colors offerered in the older styles.

-Tim

 

[stevienicks]

They don't make em like that anymore!

I don't even think they make clothes washers with wheels anymore! They do make new wheely-mo-bob portable dishwashers though, but no wheeled clothes washers.

Too bad, That Hoover looks pretty nice.

http://countertopdishwasher.org/portable-dishwasher

 

[bradross]

Coppertone Hoover 0510 - wow!

Hey Tim ... the coppertone Hoover looks faaaaaantastic! Didn't know they were offered in that color - as a kid, in Canada, I remember seeing the harvest gold and avocado models with the poly tubs, but always preferred the metal wash tub. Also the later versions had funny undersized dials.