Introducing the HOTPOINT 95620 Electronic De Luxe L.E

[newwave1]

This thread is phenominal. Thank you so much for doing it! Its so very interesting. That machine is going to be mega when its done! hopefully lots of visual footage of it action

Ooooooooooooooh heres a painful memory. The 95840 'Microtronic De Luxe L.E I won one of these on ebay, only to be told it wouldn't be delivered for a month! In my impatience i cancelled the entire thing. Sadly.

Heres a pic of the one i won. I really wish i'd waited.

Darren

 

[matchboxpaul]

Hi Darren.

I have that piccy in my album too. Looked like a great machine and I too wish you had pursued it too. would have been great to see one of those working. hey ho.

Weird thing is I dont remeber it ever being relisted for sale.

glad you are enjoying the thread.
more of the restoration tomorrow!

tomorrow its the fluffy bits that get reattached!

in the meantime, here is a short test wash vid...

 

[newwave1]

Ahh yes, it was relisted but the seller made no mention of being messed around etc, as they knew they were out of order making me wait a month. There was a white one cast aside outside someones house near my g.fs parents! I hope its still there! I'd love to fix it up good!

Nice video! oooh how excitink!

Darren.

 

[hotpoint9534]

Hi Paul, your assumption is correct with regard to the 95490 being identical to the 95470 except for the trim. The wording is 'Electronic De Luxe' on the 95490 so I assume it's the same on the 95470.

Attached is more info on the changes and the New Generation range (except models 95620 and above which are covered by a different service manual).

Tom.

 

[hotpoint9534]

Design Changes

 

[aquarius1984]

Crikey,

Tom that confirms ours was made between Aug 1985 - and October 1985 as ours has the earlier trim strips - we have some of the newer ones to replace and they dont fit due to various holes and lugs being different.

How nice to be able to be so accurate in dating our machine

Rob

 

[hotpoint9534]

Hi Rob,

Both types of top cover trims are still available from Hotpoint.

Bronze with Plastic Clips part no. 168565
Bronze with Steel Fix part no. 168223

Hope that helps,
Tom.

 

[hotpoint9534]

New generation fascias

Showing a few of the variations available. Models 18381 and 1852 are included as they were still being made when the New Generations came out in late 1982.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Hotpoint - Low Energy

Wow, this takes me back to when they first came out, Agri Electrics here we come!!!, superb machines, you can see they had engineers designing them, everything accessible!!!

The panels where about the weakest link, very brittle over time, not helped by little support behind, those dinky toggle switches are a hoot considering the size of the rockers!!!Hotpoint did a survey about which programmes where most used and guess what..numbers 2, 5 & 7 won.

I love the heater built onto the front plate, well easy to remove for servicing...AND, a sound all of its own, well done boys, I hope you bought teacher mathew a beer or two!!!

Looking forward to seeing the finished product...as well as using it!!!

Cheers, Mike

p.s. I guess it was the teacher that rested the front panel onto that dream of a tumble dryer!!! I know is wasnt you two, you`d both have been freaking at that...Lol

 

[aquarius1984]

Mike,

LOLOLOLOLOL @ the control panel!

T'was the devil in me that caused the UK's members to errupt into sheer excitement with that sneaky pic phone message.

Well why does it surprise me that number 5 was amongst the most commonly programme.

The state of my cousins white socks was just indescribable with my Aunt using number 5 to wash them with on her 9514. Add in a cup of KWIKSAVE NO FRILLS powder to the mix and its enough to turn ya stomach.

Id love to moan that her teatowels and dishcloth were dirty due to the low temp cycle but seeing as they never went near the washer I cant.....

I can assure you that the most commonly used cycles in this house are 1 2 4 6 and 8.

number 5 is exclusive for jeans and jeans only!

R

 

[matchboxpaul]

Once again - cheers to Tom for the info you have posted. Really great stuff and really useful - even down to the months of introduction! brilliant.

Yep Mike - it was, I think, teacher who placed the panel against that classic dryer.
He wanted to put the dryer outside whilst we worked on the 95! I said you ain't bloody doing that - didnt want it getting wet. A true classic from Hoover late 70's.

cheers
Paul

 

[matchboxpaul]

Now for the fluffy bits....

which make the machine recognisable.

Thanks to the help of a great mate of ours, we sourced a 956XX facia.

Before anyone picks us up on it - yep it is from a 95622! However original ones are so difficult to come by, which arent smashed and cracked, we were/are eternally grateful to have one at all. Thanks mate!

Me and Rob do think we know the location of another 956XX facia, but its a case of getting into the bloody shop to find out! been trying for 6 months now!!!!

Anyway, the facia we have is great - in good condition and looks much better than the £40 replacements, allegedly available from Hotpoint, which are missing any form of model numbering and which look wrong because of it.

Below is a contrast image between the old knackered and the old sound...

 

[matchboxpaul]

and the 'here's a warning' picture.

Hotpoint 95 series facia's get very brittle. I had never realised how bad they are until i saw our machine in Bradford.

If you are not careful, you can very easily push your fingers and thumbs through them!

As a result, me and Rob are planning on carefully unscrewing the facia from the machine whenever we move it.

If you plan on moving a vintage 95 - dont apply any force, if you can avoid it, to the facia - this is what can result...

 

[matchboxpaul]

now to the dials...

Our hotpoints knight in shining armour also came up trumps with a new generation dial too. - and it looks a treat...

 

[matchboxpaul]

and finally for the fussy bits...

the powder drawer.

whilst in cardiff, we went shopping to his local machine spare parts place and came up trumps with, what must be the 95622 facias original matching powder drawer.

The yelps of excitement from rob, when he stumbled across it were startling to say the least.

in far better condition that our original one, the programme details have faded hardly at all when compared to the one the machine came with.

old old on the left.............new old on the right

 

[matchboxpaul]

and another of the two drawers, with the new old one also now containing an original hotpoint liquid dispenser...

 

[matchboxpaul]

sticking the bits on....

facia on....

 

[matchboxpaul]

new generation dial added....

 

[matchboxpaul]

and powder drawer....

 

[matchboxpaul]

powder drawer innards....