VINTAGE Hot Point Heavy Duty Electric Dryer - $50 (Hermann, MO

[ovrphil]

Any idea what year on this one?

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/app/5504943237.html

 

[pulltostart]

1970

Give or take a year or two.  At this point Hotpoint has already assumed the same cabinet and internal mechanics of the GE products.  The transformation has begun.

 

lawrence

 

[ovrphil]

Panel lights?

Does this model have a panel light that we all love?

 

[bajaespuma]

no

 

[ovrphil]

RATS!!!

and it looked like it would light up so pretty, too.

 

[bajaespuma]

Hotpoint stopped illuminating the control panels in 1967. I think the last one was the 795 that I covet:

 

[ovrphil]

Ken - thanks, I can see where the panel lights were covering alot of real estate, but I thought the posted unit had lights up above, on the overhang. Oh well, it would be easy to retrofit something L.E.D.'ish.

 

[firedome]

Ken those '67s...

you've shown have an odd shadowing pattern - is that Coppertone? Typically the dark highlighting is just on the periphery, but on these the whole top & sides are dark, never seen that. Or are these Charcoal?

 

[tomturbomatic]

A significant short might give you a powerful flash in the panel before the breaker tripped if you had it on a 50 amp range circuit, but then there would be that smell to deal with.