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I want a Duo-Load Dammit!
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Why aren't there any vintage Hotpoints floating around? Were they unusually fragile or were they just bad sellers? I saw these machines in person once at a Lumber store in Kingston NY, so there were no pesky salespeople to bother me. The different tub, agitator and filter colors were dazzling. Then, like a dinosaur they disappeared from the planet.
Maybe people were afraid of all that new fangled machinery and walked past them fast before they took possession of their souls. That TOL washer has as many dials as most electric ranges. I don't know if this is generally true or just my observation, but Hotpoint washers sorta seemed to run for a good while and then something, maybe the tranny, would go wrong and people decided to replace instead of fix them. I never saw many second-hand or rebuilt Hotpoint washers.
mrcleanjeans
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I grew up with a Hotpoint Siloutte 15 set.Kewl looking and yes, fun but the dryer in particular was very poorly constructed. For example, it had a bakelite blower with a cheesy metal cover held on with three tabs.
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Bakelite Blowers
When I was in college, I was working on a 60's Viking dryer, which was a Kelvinator, and I believe it had a bakelite blower, in an impeller-like shape. The Kelvinators of the 60's had a layout very similar to the early Whirlpool dryers. The pulleys were laid out the same way, and the belt-driven fan was even on the top right with a top-mounted lint screen. Those Kelvinator dryers even sounded similar to the Whirlpools. However, the old Whirlpools had a metal blower. About the Hotpoint, was the bakelite fan impeller shaped or hamster-wheel shaped? Hamster wheel fans are usually quieter than impeller fans.
When I was in college, I was working on a 60's Viking dryer, which was a Kelvinator, and I believe it had a bakelite blower, in an impeller-like shape. The Kelvinators of the 60's had a layout very similar to the early Whirlpool dryers. The pulleys were laid out the same way, and the belt-driven fan was even on the top right with a top-mounted lint screen. Those Kelvinator dryers even sounded similar to the Whirlpools. However, the old Whirlpools had a metal blower. About the Hotpoint, was the bakelite fan impeller shaped or hamster-wheel shaped? Hamster wheel fans are usually quieter than impeller fans.
mrcleanjeans
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Hamster wheel
Hey KEN.... here's one of those dryers for sale with a KM washer in Charlotte, NC... GO GRAB IT and you will have half of your dream set!!!
Ken -
If you want that Avocado Hotpoint dryer, I will see if I can get it for you, or at least house it temporarily, etc.
Gordon
If you want that Avocado Hotpoint dryer, I will see if I can get it for you, or at least house it temporarily, etc.
Gordon
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I like the Maytag-esque door for the gas burner on the dryer.
How did the duo-load not mix, say, bleach from the whites into the darks?
I'm gurssing the bleach had to go in the big basket?
Then how did both fill with water?
How did the duo-load not mix, say, bleach from the whites into the darks?
I'm gurssing the bleach had to go in the big basket?
Then how did both fill with water?
"dryer in particular was very poorly constructed"
When exactly did Hotpoint go from being GE's premium brand to a less well made budget brand?
When exactly did Hotpoint go from being GE's premium brand to a less well made budget brand?
Impeller vs. hamster/squirrel cage fans.
Noise is interesting. On our HoH dryer is the quietest I have ever used and it has a Bakelite impeller blower.
The Hotpoints are interesting, but I have never seen a real Hotpoint. They were the second to last to make Solid Tub washers, yet I have never seen one. How well did they perform and what were their weak points?
Dave
Noise is interesting. On our HoH dryer is the quietest I have ever used and it has a Bakelite impeller blower.
The Hotpoints are interesting, but I have never seen a real Hotpoint. They were the second to last to make Solid Tub washers, yet I have never seen one. How well did they perform and what were their weak points?
Dave
norgeway
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Dynaflow has a BOL Hotpoint with a white tub.
But he and I have yet to get it out of his basement, also I have been promised a fairly deluxe one from our local Hotpoint dealer as soon as he digs it out of his warehouse.,he also has at least one dryer,I think he would sell it, it is in his used section, coppertone and top of the line.
But he and I have yet to get it out of his basement, also I have been promised a fairly deluxe one from our local Hotpoint dealer as soon as he digs it out of his warehouse.,he also has at least one dryer,I think he would sell it, it is in his used section, coppertone and top of the line.
mrcleanjeans
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They had the worst laziest agitator ever. But it was kewl looking
Oh, I've tried for years to find a good old Hotpoint. The Silouettes were kool, but I'd gladly settle for an early 60's "straight-vane".
Plenty of 'em were sold. But, I think they were just not very good mechanically, and most of them headed to the krusher.
The 'straight-vane" agitator did not look it however it is VERY aggressive. The "spiral" on the other hand, is pretty lame.
Plenty of 'em were sold. But, I think they were just not very good mechanically, and most of them headed to the krusher.
The 'straight-vane" agitator did not look it however it is VERY aggressive. The "spiral" on the other hand, is pretty lame.
mickeyd
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Fire Island /circa 1980+ /W&D outside in a dandy shed/ HOTPO
My first experience and of course I was crazy about them. Never met a machine about which I couldn't find something to like. I thought the agitation was wild; it was my first experience with the short fast stroke, which I later learned had become the evolved GE stroke. My memory suggests that the action of Hotpoint is pretty much identical to the ramp agitator in my GE, no slouch there!
Of course, I was young and gay then and exaggerated everything, so maybe the hotpoint was lame, chuckle chuckle, but I DO LOVE Hotpoints and we see so few of them. And if Steve and John can't find them, we're probably going to have a hard time.
Ken your graphics are fabulous.
CLUBBERS: Does anyone have a Hotpoint and would you share your knowledge?
What a great Halloween treat that would be.
My first experience and of course I was crazy about them. Never met a machine about which I couldn't find something to like. I thought the agitation was wild; it was my first experience with the short fast stroke, which I later learned had become the evolved GE stroke. My memory suggests that the action of Hotpoint is pretty much identical to the ramp agitator in my GE, no slouch there!
Of course, I was young and gay then and exaggerated everything, so maybe the hotpoint was lame, chuckle chuckle, but I DO LOVE Hotpoints and we see so few of them. And if Steve and John can't find them, we're probably going to have a hard time.
Ken your graphics are fabulous.
CLUBBERS: Does anyone have a Hotpoint and would you share your knowledge?
What a great Halloween treat that would be.
There are a number of members with them. Someone down in Lousiana (I think) has a Silouette. Here in SW Virginia, Mark has a really kool late 50's(?) machine I love to watch in action. Gansky has an early 60's.
That ramp agitator is NOTHING like its GE cousin!
Our joke used to be that waiting for the clothes to roll-over was like watching water to see when it boiled! If you didn't look, they would roll-over, or so it seemed.
But hey, it was a "Burp-a-Lator" and so was kool in my book.
That ramp agitator is NOTHING like its GE cousin!
Our joke used to be that waiting for the clothes to roll-over was like watching water to see when it boiled! If you didn't look, they would roll-over, or so it seemed.
But hey, it was a "Burp-a-Lator" and so was kool in my book.
Oh, and some old friends of ours back home, the Margols, owned "The Big Red Furniture Barn". (What a campy ad they used to have on television).They sold Hotpoint products at the "Barn". Anyway, in about 1972 or so they had a gorgeous (appeared to be TOL) Silouette set. I do not remember the washer as a dual-tub machine, but if the smaller tub had been tucked-away somewhere I guess I wouldn't have been the wiser.
I think that machine and another friend's Penncrest machine were the last ramp agitator equipped Hotpoint machines I saw in operation. It's been a long time.
I think that machine and another friend's Penncrest machine were the last ramp agitator equipped Hotpoint machines I saw in operation. It's been a long time.
Cabinet used as outer tub
IIRC the earlier Hotpoints used the cabinet as the outer tub, like the early Frigidaires. Maybe Hotpoint didn't use as good a grade of materials or workmanship as Frigidaire, leading to rusting out of the cabinet, rendering it unusable, and therefore discarded.
IIRC the earlier Hotpoints used the cabinet as the outer tub, like the early Frigidaires. Maybe Hotpoint didn't use as good a grade of materials or workmanship as Frigidaire, leading to rusting out of the cabinet, rendering it unusable, and therefore discarded.
mickeyd
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Think you could get Mark out tonight with some pix and text?
So surprised that John doesn't have one in the warehouse. Oh well, somethin' to hope for. By the by, have an oil bellows on the way, so the Unimatic should be up and running mainly thanks to your instruction. What a bite in the buttocks that the oil was "welded" to the water.
Things are rarely easy, except of course, in an EASY SPIN which has a spiralator, (longer slower stroke, though) very similar to the Hotpoint. Can you, wise man, account for the difference in turnover/performance? I can not.
So surprised that John doesn't have one in the warehouse. Oh well, somethin' to hope for. By the by, have an oil bellows on the way, so the Unimatic should be up and running mainly thanks to your instruction. What a bite in the buttocks that the oil was "welded" to the water.
Things are rarely easy, except of course, in an EASY SPIN which has a spiralator, (longer slower stroke, though) very similar to the Hotpoint. Can you, wise man, account for the difference in turnover/performance? I can not.
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