POD 2/22/2017

[brucelucenta]

These were really classy looking machines and worked fairly well for the day. They certainly rivaled many of the other machines at the time and their entire porcelain enamel exterior stayed looking beautiful forever.

 

[gyrafoam]

I remember a lot of them, must have been a good sales year for Hotpoint.

 

[miele_ge]

what exactly was the "wonderinse chemical"?

Was it just Sta-Puff or something else?

 

[appnut]

Yes, fabric softener. 

 

[Unimatic1140]

The first sentence of that advertisement reads:

"No matter how wonderfully an automatic washer may wash clothes, it's really no more efficient than it's rinsing action."

I couldn't agree more with that statement.

Nu-Soft was the first fabric softener to be marketed in the US, introduced sometime in 1956.

 

[miele_ge]

thanks, Robert - never heard of NuSoft

We were never much on FS in our house growing up and now don't use it at all. 

 

Still, a very neat machine.

 

 

 

[vintagekenmore]

that would be a neat machine to have today....no running to the washer to add fabric softener, just fill the dispentser, push the button and done....I never heard of NuSoft....we used either Downy,Sta Puff,Final Touch or the long gone favorite of my mother which was Rain Barrel!

 

[Unimatic1140]

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[vintagekenmore]

an afterthought

maybe...just MAYBE, one of those machines is still out there somewhere, waiting to be claimed and restored....now THAT would be a Holy Grail machine in my book

 

[bajaespuma]

Grails for sure

Interesting that Hotpoint TOL's back in 1957 featured 2 separate cycles, Normal and Gentle, whereas the Hotpoints in the late Sixties offered only one cycle. I realize that, in the earlier machines, the slower speed was cycle-controlled, but the shorter periods of agitation and spin were significant too.

 

[appnut]

This Hotpoint was still a 1-speed machine. 

 

[lesto]

NuSoft was around when I was a kid but my mom used pink sta-puff. I never liked Rain Barrel because you were supposed to add it to the wash water and it killed all the suds from the detergent.