Every time I see this picture, I am amazed that they let it go without noticing the missing lint screen in the dryer.
POD 10/16/11 TOL Hotpoints
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What a lot of dials on this washer !
Austin
What a lot of dials on this washer !
Austin
And isn't there an agitator cap missing?
What a lot of dials on this washer !
This was the TOL for the first year that the Taylor Avenue Hotpoints had been assimilated into the Louisville GE Borg collective. The machine in the picture is 90% Filter-Flo (and would in 3 years become 99.9% ), save for the design of the control panel, the lid, the dispensing system and the feature spread. This machine was a very good value for it's time. GE was forced to resurrect its AW-6 design lint filtering system (which has the same mechanics as the Filter-flo; the only difference is instead of a plastic filter sitting on top of the agitator it's a plastic ring mounted around the washbasket where the clothes retaining ring would go) and this TOL featured 3 very effective dispensers for detergent, bleach and softener. Although the agitator looks like it's missing a cap, its the first iteration of the dual-agitator with a delicates agitator underneath the main one. This one is a strait-vane design which would become, in later years, a spiral ramped design. The many knobs comprise a number of features from the Hotpoint "Lady Executive" models which boasted adjustable soak and prewash cycles. I wouldn't mind having a pair of these, but I still covet those last Taylor Avenue Solid-tub Hotpoints. They may have been flawed, but so much fun to deconstruct and play with.
Tom, if you inspect the photograph closely, you can just make out the plastic rim of the lint filter in the dryer. I think it LOOKS like it's not there because of the lighting; because of the angle, nothing is bouncing off of the metal mesh in the filter and you can see straight through to the well underneath it.
This was the TOL for the first year that the Taylor Avenue Hotpoints had been assimilated into the Louisville GE Borg collective. The machine in the picture is 90% Filter-Flo (and would in 3 years become 99.9% ), save for the design of the control panel, the lid, the dispensing system and the feature spread. This machine was a very good value for it's time. GE was forced to resurrect its AW-6 design lint filtering system (which has the same mechanics as the Filter-flo; the only difference is instead of a plastic filter sitting on top of the agitator it's a plastic ring mounted around the washbasket where the clothes retaining ring would go) and this TOL featured 3 very effective dispensers for detergent, bleach and softener. Although the agitator looks like it's missing a cap, its the first iteration of the dual-agitator with a delicates agitator underneath the main one. This one is a strait-vane design which would become, in later years, a spiral ramped design. The many knobs comprise a number of features from the Hotpoint "Lady Executive" models which boasted adjustable soak and prewash cycles. I wouldn't mind having a pair of these, but I still covet those last Taylor Avenue Solid-tub Hotpoints. They may have been flawed, but so much fun to deconstruct and play with.
Tom, if you inspect the photograph closely, you can just make out the plastic rim of the lint filter in the dryer. I think it LOOKS like it's not there because of the lighting; because of the angle, nothing is bouncing off of the metal mesh in the filter and you can see straight through to the well underneath it.
Washer lid
Can anyone tell us all what the big plastic assembly in the lid is for? I'm guessing it's the off-balance, the agitator will strike it if way off center?
Can anyone tell us all what the big plastic assembly in the lid is for? I'm guessing it's the off-balance, the agitator will strike it if way off center?
Detergent dispenser.
Hotpoint!
We had the first series from 1977 almost just like this but had a back open lid like the GE. It had the same adj with handwash adj. Also top adj fabric softner dispenser. No detergent dispenser. I always liked these better than the GE's with those in the way filter pan. (I go for the streamline features) - Every so often we cleaned the filter ring when it was damp. Sorry they didnt continue to produce them - real great washers.
Peter
We had the first series from 1977 almost just like this but had a back open lid like the GE. It had the same adj with handwash adj. Also top adj fabric softner dispenser. No detergent dispenser. I always liked these better than the GE's with those in the way filter pan. (I go for the streamline features) - Every so often we cleaned the filter ring when it was damp. Sorry they didnt continue to produce them - real great washers.
Peter
Plastic assembly in the lid: Detergent dispenser
Well, I was so busy noticing other things about that HOTPOINT washer & dryer set, that I forgot about that "thing" under the lid...
I have seen a Hotpoint washer/washer-dryer ad, years ago, w/ that "assembly" under the washer lid & while I'd figured that it was for dispensing detergent, I've long wondered how it works????
-- Dave
Well, I was so busy noticing other things about that HOTPOINT washer & dryer set, that I forgot about that "thing" under the lid...
I have seen a Hotpoint washer/washer-dryer ad, years ago, w/ that "assembly" under the washer lid & while I'd figured that it was for dispensing detergent, I've long wondered how it works????
-- Dave
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