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Thanks for posting the diagrams. Love the video too, nothing like that Hotpoint growl and the whine when it kicks into spin. I really miss my 95450. I bought it as a recon machine in 1993/4. It really was a great machine, washed really well, it was quick and span surprisingly well for an 800rpm machine.

An ex had a 9900A, to this day it is still one of the best washer dryers I have ever used. Dried very quickly without baking the load to death.

A big thanks again to Paul for all the amazing info he has provided on this thread.
 
Cheers Paul.

Thank you Paul for uploading so many of the photos. Brings back many childhood memories including sitting on the kitchen floor watching my Mum's first automatic washing machine, a 95450, as a 2 year old! Bought in 1984 following my arrival in 1983, it worked pretty damn hard for 11-12 years, doing many a boil wash full of my Terry Towling nappies - don't see many of them on people's washing lines anymore! It needed alot of repairs i'm not gonna lie - brushes every year, blocked gravity trap a couple of times, pressure switches (filled up to the top of the door on more than one occasion!), umpteen door seals and a new door where i decided to use it as a step upto the worktop. But it worked bloody hard, no doubt about it. We said goodbye to it in late 1995-early 1996 when a service call-out for for a leak or overfilling episode revealed one of the suspension legs was beginning to part with its mountings. We continued to use it for around 6 weeks but decided to replace before we completely killed it. It went to one of my Dads work colleagues who was to use it for spares for his machine. An Indesit Omega (1196W) replaced it.

My Mum also had a 17221 Super Dryer, bought as a wedding present in 1981 i believe. This was much more sucessful. Used for 18 years it worked flawlessly until the metallic tapping noise which it'd made periodically for about 5 years became permanent. It also occasionally failed to start tumbling but the heater would activate, resulting in a burning smell. As these symptoms became more frequent we decided it was time to say fairwell. It was replaced temporarily by Grans Creda Compact 3 before being permanently replaced by the Electrolux Premier TDC1000W in 2001, which we still have today :-)

My Auntie had a 17230, passed down from my other Auntie. It was rarely used once passed to my second Auntie & got dumped & never replaced when the temperature button plastic broke. A great shame.

My other Auntie owned a 95622 washer & either 93730 or 93732 dryer - probably the almond one since everything else including Hotpoint fridge freezer & Creda cooker were almond. She may still own them today since we no longer see her. Both were reliable, save for water leaking from the powder draw on towel loads on the washer. I suspect the always immaculate 95622 has been scrapped by now but the dryer may well live on, as many do.

Finally, the 18871 Microtronic L.E! This was my Grans machine from as long as i remember up to around 1996. It too worked with only a couple of call-outs, despite serving my grandparents & their pub for many years. It ran so much more smoothly than Mum's 95450 & i loved the digital display & how it used to say things like (to my knowledge) lower-case r1, r2 for Rinse 1 & Rinse 2 - extremely basic digital display by todays standards but with it's green program progress indicators was a treat for me to watch! The electronics totally died around 1996 & it was replaced by a Tricity Bendix AW405, which was horrifically basic (1 button & no power light!) That has only just been replaced!

Unfortunately money was very tight in the family at the point Mum & Gran's Hotpoint washers packed-up, so both were replaced by cheaper machines. As these both proved more reliable than the Hotpoint's and with Hotpoint's reduction in quality in the early 2000s, we've never returned to the brand, save for a fridge & freezer in my Parents rented-out appartment. However, the brand does have a place in my mind & heart for probably being responsible for part of my identity today & why i still head for the Utility Room at stupidly regular intervals while a wash is on!

Thanks for posting the info & photos once again.
Liam
 
95622

Thanks Lee for the information and video of your excellent 95622 it looks good and sounds good and it has decent water levels a perfect combination by my standards, well done on keeping it running

Gary
 
Quick update!

Thanks to everyone who has commented, particularly to Lee for posting all the servicing diagrams - really useful - and also for the photos of his machines in varying states of sans panels! Really helps to show the construction of these machines and how relatively easy they were to gain access to.

Picked up another machine yesterday and have spent yesterday afternoon and today cleaning it up, as good as can be done.
It needs a replacement fascia, new door seal and the small pipe reattaching to the pressure bottle.
Will need some rust treatment too, to the outer shell just above the powder drawer - had to remove a good layer of powder and liquid crud which had worked some unwanted magic over the years....

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OOMMGG

Fantastic, fabulous, I can’t speak, another one saved.
Hyper ventilating, breath, I will have to eat a bag of crisps quick so I can use the bag.

More photos please, well done, how do you find them, I want another one.
 
Model 18873

The final link in the 18-series Microtronic history.

This is the Comet exclusive, which was introduced to sale in June 1985 and was the last Hotpoint 18-series introduced. This particular machine is from September 1985.

Now - the photo!
The photo is DOCTORED, in that I have modified the photograph to hide the damage to the fascia, for the purposes of attaching a photo of a 18873 to this thread.
This is because the thread will probably fall off the end of the forum and become un-updateable, before the machine can be tidied up for real.

The machine currently has a chunk missing from the fascia to the upper left of the powder drawer and has screws through the facia to the sides of the middle bank of buttons and three more screws around the mains on/off button.
Brittle plastic didn't only affect the New Generations!

So, it turns out that the 18873 is visually identical to the 18871 Super Buy model, but has simply been given a beefier motor to give it a 1000rpm top spin speed.

I will set up a seperate thread for this particular machine, as it receives a replacement fascia and is given a check over. Fingers crossed it works!

A fitting end to this thread methinks. Thanks for viewing.
Paul
p.s Liam - unless you know for sure that your Grans machine was an 800rpm 18871, then she could have had a 1000rpm 18873!

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what a wonderful thread, I'm so fascinated by the history of these Hotpoint's, my memories include a 18- Series model that my Aunt used 2 have, I remembered it being really loud, especially going into it's spin cycle lol, and an old neighbour of mine had a similar tumble dryer too.

I'm glad that folks on here have preserved some of these models, so well done 4 saving them before going to the dreaded crusher.

I think this thread should continue beginning with the Next Gen models, then going to the blue forum with models going up to the present day as a suggestion :)
 
Sorry Mike

Sorry Mike,

Only just seen your message. Didn't have my IGoogle page open on a separate tab, only the AW thread.Plus, I'm somewhere, where the net connection's a bit dodgy.

Sorry bout that.

CJ
 
Liberator Dryer

Almost forgot,

I used to stay in a cottage near Caernarfon, North Wales, the lady who held the key for the cottage, for the owners used to have a Liberator Dryer, just inside the kitchen door way, it was partner to an Indesit 1200 AutoWasher WDG1296W.

Sorry again Mike.

CJ
 
Hi guys.

thanks again for the comments and am real pleased that its proved a nice nostalgia rush for people. Hopefully a useful reference resource for people too.

Mention was made of the Next Generation and a new thread....rest assured that one will be done, though after I have recovered from doing this one. My computer, being very old, struggles to load this thread (apologies if it temporarily kills your computers too!), so updating and creating these history threads takes an absolute age.
The Next Generation will definitely be covered in the near future.

CJ - you are a real dab hand with your designs and I always have a gander at your threads. You have a real skill for design.

Just a bit of tale end tidying up to do now...
 
The preserved New Generations....

Suddenly realised that I hadn't posted pictures of many of the preserved machines, though a superb looking 95490 did get a look in earlier in this thread.

Here is the 95360 Electronic Super Plus, sans its sidestrips and a rusty lid (since replaced, as has the later next gen style dial)...

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