Super Cute 60's Hotpoint Dishwasher on eBay in Metro LA

[mrcleanjeans]

The KDS-14 almost has a wash only. The Utilty-Utensil cycle is the same as regular but with only a 5 minute dry, just long enough to dry off excess moisture from pots and pans but not long enough to bake on any unremoved soils which can then, according to the literature,be wiped away with a paper towel.

 

[rollermatic]

i won this dishwasher on e bay

last nite and now am in the process of getting it shipped. has anyone ever used
"home direct usa" as a shipper? or any other suggestions. i am getting bids from "u ship" at the present time.

said i wasn't buying anymore but this one i had to try for! my aunt and uncle had a very similiar hotpoint in the mid sixties and it was the first dishwasher i had ever seen. hotpoint was also the first dishwasher i got in 1968 to tinker with so this one brings back memories!

and i agree with robert here, it is too cute!!! too bad there are no pump seals anywhere to be found for them, hopefully it won't need one. it will be used very "gently". and i do have one more hotpoint with the same pump and motor style and it runs great!

thanks!

 

[dishwasherrules]

Congrats!

Congratulations for your successful bid on ebay, Rollermatic! Can't wait to see the pics of the "maiden" wash here in this forum
Ivan

 

[rollermatic]

thank you

i have a shipper ready to go, should have it in a couple weeks!!!

for anyone's info, jim the trucker who has hauled for me about 6 or 7 times and has hauled for other members informed me this week that he is no longer "in the business". he was the guy who had an e mail of "j family hunter". he always did an excellent job for me and was reasonable!

have not been doing any appliance related stuff for about a year now, was completely burnt out! but this hotpoint will be fun and i will post pics when i get it for anyone interested in what a mid sixties portable hotpoint (complete with an unopened box of cascade) looks like!

 

[bernhard]

zermatt

first: please excuse my english: i-am-german

i'd like to show my dishwasher - it seems to be similar to the ohne, that ist shown in the pics from peteski50 above. the history of the device ist interesting, i think.

it was integrated in the kitchen of a chalet in the village "zermatt" (switzerland) - for those who don't know: that is, where the mountain "matterhorn" is situated. though the owner's family was quite wealthy, the dishwasher worked until 2007 - as it was built in approx. '64(?), that'a use of more than 40 years! i was planning the renovation of the chalet, the kitchen was to demount, too. the only device i could retain was the washer, though the oven looked also great with its monster-knobs. as there are no cars allowed in the village, it wasn't that easy to get the washer in my car to bring it to germany in the black forest, where it waited in a barn fore some years. now, as it's in the garage of my house, i'm looking forward to reawake it one fine day...

you guys are great - i never thought that those washing machines looked that great in the sixties or seventies. those illuminated panels with switches and turns, chrome ore cloured... what an era with such carefully designed devices!

i look forward to get your opinion about my dishwasher!
bernhard

 

[bernhard]

more

 

[bernhard]

even more inside

 

[bernhard]

the entire old kitchen

 

[bernhard]

...and the oven

 

[norgeway]

Re Hotpoint Dishwashers!

Those old Hotpoints washed fine..BUT..You better have it on the back poarch, because they sound like a chainsaw running...I tried to get one several years ago in a old hardware store, it was a brand new portable from the same era,,,same new box of Cascade, but the old man wanted 3 war pensions for it..he either died or or just closed up shop, there was an auction and I didnt get there..the store was full of all kinds of old appliances, many nib toasters, frypans percolators etc, even a brand new Kitchenaid 3 -B mixer...which the old nut wanted 249.00 for...no wonder he didnt sell anything!! but 3 Philco washers that are now owned by various AW members came from there!!!

 

[gansky1]

That's a beautiful dishwasher!  For all their faults, I still liked these machines.  We had a '64 lower-end model in the house my parents bought in the late 80's.  We used that machine every day with no trouble, cleaned quite well.  Like Hans mentioned, they are loud but the cycle time is pretty short so the torture doesn't last long.  You can insulate the tank before installing it which would help a lot, I'm sure.

 

[bernhard]

noise

i even heard it working, the last run before disassembling the old kitchen.
what a tremendous noise!

 

[rapunzel]

Hi Bernhard

That oven and cook top look cool; love the angled control panel of the cook top - what brand are they? Is the bottom drawer a broiler and what about the drawer above the oven, is that actaully a part of it and what is it for? Clearly it's a bit high to accomodate utensils. In the kitchen picture I noticed some switches along the wall. Was there a garbage disposal built into that sink?

It would be interesting to know if that dishwasher was built specifically for export and designed to run on 220 volts or is it rated 110 volts, with a built-in voltage converter?

 

[bernhard]

see the label: it's rated 220 volts. and i did not find any converter.

oven and cook top are "prometheus", which seems to be a swiss brand.
i'm sorry, but i don't know, what the drawers were for - and i really regret, that these units were scrapped...

the switches on the wall were just for light and one is a water-valve for the dishwasher. garbage-disposals are not common in europe and there definately was none in that kitchen.

 

[supersuds]

Great save, Bernhard! Thanks for showing it to us..an export model built for 220 volts and 50 Hertz!

You and rollermatic might have the last ones. These can't be very common.

Your English is quite good, by the way.

 

[norgeway]

I agree..

That kitchen was beautiful, those appliances looked like real quality...