Hotpoint Customline ID?

[barry]

This oven was in our house when we moved in some 25 years ago. It works ok, but I'd like to find a knob and perhaps get the timer and clock working again. Can someone tell me what model or year it is, and the most likely place I might find parts? Thanks. (Can't figure out how to rotate the pic to vertical...)

 

[pulltostart]

1956?

I have a 1957 Hotpoint Customline brochure that shows several Customline wall ovens, but the controls are slightly different from what you are showing.  I'm not sure when Hotpoint introduced the 'Customline range', but I'd guess not before 1955.  I'm going to venture a guess that your oven is a 1956 - but others may speak more difinitively.  There should be a manufacturer's plate showing the model number somewhere on the unit.

 

lawrence

 

[barry]

Thank you, Lawrence. I searched for 1956 Hotpoint Customline ovens and found a magazine ad from February '56 that has an illustration of my oven, so it looks like you're right on the money. Now to chase parts.

 

[firedome]

judging by the clock/timer dials

with the gold center and azure background, it's 1956, they're the same as my '56 40" range.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Beautiful oven

I think the large knob on the right side of the clock should go in the center of the timer face to the left and the knob there should go on the right side of the clock.

 

[rp2813]

If you can get at the clock's mechanism, it may be an easy fix.  It's probably a Telechron clock design, given that GE owned Telechron and Hotpoint is a GE brand.

 

The likely problem with the clock is a bad H-3 rotor.  Rotors are no longer made, but they can be harvested from GE or Telechron clocks made anywhere from the 1940s to mid 1960s.  You could also try rejuvenating the existing rotor, an easy process using a light bulb and some 3-in-1 oil of the blue variety.

 

Here's a picture of a rotor (the copper item) and the coil that powers it.

 

[customline]

Customline sez...........

Yep, it's a '56. The next year came out with the square timer.

 

[barry]

You all are great! Thanks for taking the time to help me out. I did change the knobs and had to laugh as I wondered how long they've been in the wrong place. Funny how something one takes for granted for so long suddenly takes on a special meaning. The house is actually only a block from where I grew up. I remember the 50's with great fondness and now feel the need to maintain this little piece of it.