Saved from the Krusher

[gadgetgary]

Elderly neighbor passed away and new homeowners were going to junk this machine. I proudly wheeled it down the street into my garage.

 

[gadgetgary]

Control panel

Left

 

[gadgetgary]

Control panel

Right

 

[gadgetgary]

Interior Shot

Works perfectly

 

[gadgetgary]

Looking deeper inside

A bit different from the 'Maytag'

 

[whirlcool]

How nice and clean that machine is. Doesn't even look like it's had much use! Congratulations on your find!

 

[gadgetgary]

Used

by an older couple(no kids). When her husband passed away several years ago, she was the only one to use the machine.

It was pretty clean and runs so smoothly.

That self-cleaning filter ring is fun to watch.

 

[tomturbomatic]

When I was in kindergarten, we were shown how to make Japanese lanterns out of construction paper. The flexible connector between the pump and motor reminded me of one when I first saw it. They used it on the combo also and let me tell you; when one or more of the links tore, it made a lot of racket flying around and slapping everything at the speed of the motor. Although you would not want to endure that noise, it would make a funny video to have that noise coming from the combo as it serenely washed along with no vibration or shaking. It would easily be among the loudest of appliance noises.

 

[~sudsshane]

Elderly neighbor passed away and new homeowners were going t

It never fails to amaze me how dumb some people are..Junk this machine? What??, in favor of the junk that is now being made? Unbelievable!!

That is a great machine Gary! I am sure you and Steve are going to have alot of fun with it. When is the wash-in??

and Happy Anniversary to you both!

~Shane

 

[roto204]

Wow!!!

That is beautiful, Gary, and you'll love it. You can do a ton of wash in those--heck, I can do a ton even in the standard-capacity Filter-Flo machines!

The lint ring is fun and charming in its own right, and sometimes I think it's nice to have the filter pan out of the way so you can really watch the agitation.

That's a great machine. Congratulations!!

 

[westyslantfront]

Hi Gary. My Hotpoint may not be vintage but I just love it.
It is a great machine and has been very dependable.
I am glad you saved it from the Krusher.

Ross

 

[tlee618]

Great save Gary, Just love that filter ring. You can really see and enjoy all that wash action!!

 

[peteski50]

Hotpoint

Hi Gary,
Real beautiful washer. We had a very simular one but ours was TOL with the hand wash adjator underneath.
Best Wishes
Peter

 

[gansky1]

I love it when they leave the stickers on appliances!

This may get an Energy Slap for resource consumption, but they are great washers and the sounds are awesome. Congrats on the find and have fun!

 

[gadgetgary]

I love it when they leave the stickers on appliances!

Someone....AHEM....hates stickers left on appliances. My Neptunes were peeled clean last year. The 'protective' plastic was on them since 1997.
My, how things change(ducks and runs).....

 

[gansky1]

My Bendix Duomatic has a sticker on the top warning to treat it gently as if it were glass - because it is!

If you remove the stickers from appliances, they'll appear to have that "not-so-factory-fresh" feeling!

 

[dnastrau]

Nice find!

That Hotpoint is nearly identical to the one that my parents are still using. The only difference appears to be a slight change in the font on the control panel. It has given great service since '84 with only a belt and a pump replacement in all those years. The matching dryer has never had any parts replaced. Try that with today's machines!

Andrew S.

 

[toggleswitch]

Ok I can see why this group likes stickers. But do I get a FULL demerit for removing the blue tranparent stuff "Saran wrap" that comes over the controls?

Mom's 1984 DD Kemnore 24" has not ever been repaired, either. And back then I was a renter, so I'd go over there with 6 or 7 loads in a row once a week for many weeks on end.

[I fosee a pic of a hand peeling a backsplash on GG's Maytag Neptune (the hand is mine!)]

 

[gadgetgary]

Maytag Neptune peeling

Who's hand is that????

 

[gadgetgary]

Shaking

Peeling

Whose?????

 

[exploder3211]

Bump

 

[goatfarmer]

Nice save. I still see those regularly, they are nice washers. MOF, I just scrapped the matching gas dryer to that washer.

The protective film, if it's left on for years, can be a real pain to remove.

kennyGF

 

[liberator1509]

Thanks for the pics...

Great to see behind the back panel of the US Hotpoint - particularly to compare it to the UK Hotpoint Top Loader design. No surprises to find that the UK machine is practically identical - it must have been based on the GE filter-flo - perhaps this was why Hotpoint UK had to re-name their machines for export. The UK Hotpoint had an identical motor/chinese-lantern/pump arrangement, and of course had a spiral-agitator and filter-clean tray like the GE machines.

One question for US GE experts - who came up with the spiral/ramped agitator first? AEI-Hotpoint introduced their Top Loader in 1966, which was the first appearance of the "unique" spira-clean gyrator (to use AEI's term) - when was the first GE with a spiral agitator?

 

[toggleswitch]

PAGING CHESTERMIKEUK.

Is that top-loader you show us every so often (With a suds-cake) a Hotpoint? Any chance of seeing it nekked?

I'm curious now to see the inner workings.

 

[bobbyd32l]

Brings back memories! We had the same machine, maybe a few years newer with the handwash agitator below the ramp. Ours was TOL and was really fun to watch! The filter ring is self cleaning when the pre rinse spray activates! Awesome machine!

vids please!

 

[gyrafoam]

Great find Gary! Those 'Hotpernts had all the advantages of their GE bretheren without having to clean that nasty filter-pan. Congratulations!

 

[bajaespuma]

If not the very first, one of them..

liberator:

The Easy company made claim to being the first: