POD 10/15/2017

[brucelucenta]

This machine was probably at the beginning of the 70's. I am sure the electronic motor controls caused some problems as other machines that did this also had. Hotpoint washers of this vintage were decent machines for a solid tub machine. They would wash, rinse and spin out your clothes adequately enough. They were nice looking machines and the washer at this time had an entirely porcelain enamel finish and looked beautiful forever, if it was treated properly. These washers actually used the outside cabinet as the outer tub to spin the water into also. It saved some metal of an outer tub, but had to be water tight since it was built that way. The spiral agitator, similar to Easy, filtered the water much like the later Norge machines and pumped through the agitator into a lint pan at top of the agitator. There were still BOL machines that had an old style straight vane agitator an no lint filter.

 

[gyrafoam]

Possibly the most lame spiral agitator ever. If you closed the lid and didn't look it might roll something over. Whenever I saw one I always advised the owner to order and install a straight vane agitator and improve the performance. I got used to blank stares.

I loved the sound of those Hotpoints throwing out the water. Must have been the arrangement of the holes in the tub. It made a chuga, chuga, chuga kind of noise as the water hit the cabinet.

 

[hilovane]

This Hotpoint machine was from the mid-60's. I'm not exactly sure of the exact year; but I do know that the Intendified Tide detergent was around until circa 1968, when it was reformulated to the enzyme-laden Tide XK.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

What pretty fancy controls! What went wrong that as a GE-clone, although an attempt to become simpler along the way, that Hotpoint had lost having such charm?

-- Dave

 

[peteski50]

Hotpoint!

This model was about 66! We had a next to BOL from the same era with the goose neck adj! I had always wished we had the model with the upgraded spiral ramp adj! The Hotpoints did wash and rinse very well but never made old age. Most people I knew that had them only got 5 to 7 years out of them!

 

[brucelucenta]

Hotpoint made interesting machines. In the early years they had a fluid drive and used solenoids like the old speed queen machines. Later on they became like this model with a reversing motor that the pump was attached to. Until they became GE clones, they kept the porcelain enamel case. The dryers changed to a GE clone before the washers did. If memory serves me, I think the Hotpoint place here sold out what was left of the old style washers in 1976. I actually didn't work on enough of them to actually judge on what kind of problems they had. The must have had the spiral agitator even before they were made from plastic, since I remember an old laundromat with hotpoint washers that had black bakelite spiral agitators back in the very early 70's. The machines were fairly old looking then.[this post was last edited: 10/15/2017-23:20]

 

[peteski50]

Hotpoint!

This was the 1st washing machine I ever had experience with was our 55 Hotpoint - it was interesting because the lid was removeable! It didn't pause after it washed and rinsed it just went right into spin!