Question as a washer lover (*long term)

[pierreandreply4]

hello to all aw even do its longterm thinking* as a washer lover what would be the chance of finding a filter flo eaton viking like this with mini basket if have to wash a pair of shoes for exemple or very small load even do it would be rare that i use the mini basket feature just thinking very longterm here it would also need to include a liquid fabric softner dispenser?

 

[tomturbomatic]

Other than that Hotpoint washer with the complex little tub that sat on the agitator and had the rim that threw the drain water over the edge of the regular tub and had other measures that assured that water from the main wash tub did not mix with the little tub, did any Hotpoint washer platform feature a mini wash system ever? I thought that the mini wash system needed a filter flo system to keep it irrigated. So I am getting to my question of whether or not the Eaton machines ever had a mini wash and filter flo since they look very Hotointy.

 

[pierreandreply4]

to answer your question turbomatic

Back in 1988 came close to owning one exact model in pic 1 but went with whirlpool instead

 

[petek]

Chances are slim. Looks to be the same GE model I bought in the late 80s, the Heavy Duty 800. avec mini basket

 

[combo52]

Reply number one

Hi Tom, I never saw a Hotpoint washer with a mini basket. I think that feature was kept for the GE side of things.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Eaton Viking washers during this time were all perforated tub GE's on the inside including some upper end models with a mini-basket. The outside however with the side opening lid were more Hotpoint looking. I saw one in Montreal once and it was very alternate universe looking.

 

[bajaespuma]

Once again, the Duo-Load

Literally, a Wet Dream machine.

 

A Taylor Avenue Hotpoint, solid tub machine that featured a large "mini-basket" that was indeed more complicated than the GE versions. IIRC Hotpoint offered this model for two years, but since Hotpoint/Hotpoint appliances days were numbered and since CU slammed this model in their 1969 review, alas, this model along with most of the line was discontinued early in the ' 70's.

 

The Hotpoint mini-tub was fed by the same fill flume that serviced the main tub. Through an ingenious system of floats in the plastic lid for the mini-tub (which looked a lot like the familiar Filter-Flo filter pan, but had nothing to do with lint removal) the water would first fill the mini and would then be diverted to fill the main tub.

 

The only positive thing that CU reported was that Hotpoint's mini tub could hold more stuff than the GE mini-basket and wasted far less water.

 

I think somebody at CU had a real bug up their a** that year when it came to judging Hotpoint and Frigidaire. I would be delirious if I ever found one of these machines and a TOL Frigidaire from that year.

 

[jamiel]

Didn't Hotpoint/JC Penney go with the removable agitator for micro-loads with the rim-flo design? Seemed to me it was just the same as using the minibasket (but not using the filter-flo to fill the mini basket) with the special detent on the water control

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thank you Robert and Ken. The side opening lid threw me.