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Post# 496557   2/15/2011 at 07:22 (4,790 days old) by cyclemonitor ()        

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Post# 496570 , Reply# 8   2/15/2011 at 08:40 (4,790 days old) by NeptuneGuy27 (Baltimore,MD)        
HDA865

I grew up with that Hotpoint HDA865. It replaced the 1974 Whirlpool we had. I never really cared for that Hotpoint very much, it was very noisey and somewhat difficult to load. However, it did serve its purpose and it was better than washing the dishes by hand.

Christopher


Post# 496710 , Reply# 9   2/15/2011 at 18:52 (4,790 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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The HDA865 was what was in my house when I bought it at age 18 months January 1986, built July 1984.  I thought it was a very pretty looking dishwasher.  It was part of an "upgraded appliance package".  Yep it was noisy, top rack wass a challenge to load.  It didn't serve my purpose very well, that's why it got booted out May, 1987.  Chris, I think it's funny, you & I have had to exct same dishwashers in our lives lol.  The Hotpoint and the Kenmore Elite. 


Post# 496711 , Reply# 10   2/15/2011 at 18:59 (4,790 days old) by mtn1584 (USA)        
Over-styled to the max.................................

Some of the ugliest over-styled dishwashers ever. Why did GE keep producing this brand? I remember seeing Hotpoint only available in some stores like Newmark and Lewis, and sometimes I remember seeing GE and Hotpoint together. Hotpoint everything was butt ugly...sorry even their washers were ugly, and I LOVE GE Filter-Flo washers and appliances. I think GE tried too hard to over style all Hotpoint appliances.....any thoughts?
Mike


Post# 496712 , Reply# 11   2/15/2011 at 19:01 (4,790 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Well Mike, we're like complete opposites in how we view these dishwahers.  I particularly liked the top two models because of the all-black and chrome look, very stylish for the time.   When I got my GE GSD1200, I sold the Hotpoint to a lady from work for $25.  She was thrilled with the black glass look.  I told her you cannot leave much food stuffs on the dishes, it doesn't clean that well.  (She rinsed anyway).  All she cared about was the look.  Her kitchen was a 1970s harvest gold Whirlpool kitchen. 




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Post# 496714 , Reply# 12   2/15/2011 at 19:03 (4,790 days old) by appnut (TX)        
Deluxe Rack photo

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Anyone notice the row on the right that has the coffee cup/mugs in the "wide-mouthed" row?  And then absolutely nothing on the extreme outside next to the right side of the rack.  There was never a really good way to load that top rack and get a lot in if you loaded it the way it was shown in that photo.  Nate wanna chime in here???!!!


Post# 496794 , Reply# 13   2/16/2011 at 08:04 (4,789 days old) by macboy91si (Frankfort, KY)        
Hotpoint Control Panels

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I also thought the Hotpoint control panels of this era were handsome. I really like the black control panel with the blue and silver highlights on both their laundry products and their dishwashers. I never realized there was so much hate for this brand in it's later incarnations...

 

I've personally never been a huge GE/HP dishwasher fan from experience with the more recent, lower-end units I've come across in apartment dwelling. Say withing the last 15-20 years, the lower end machines just didn't wash well at all, and from what I can see, the design is similar to these. Now my friend has a GE PotScrubber 1200 and that thing does a fine job at anything she throws at it, and she has no idea how to use a dishwasher. I had to inform her that Dawn was not for the dishwasher. "I don't use the thing cause' it leaks..." I wonder why...?!

 

-Tim


Post# 496803 , Reply# 14   2/16/2011 at 09:22 (4,789 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)        
i remember seeing an old hotpoints at a neighbor 's hous

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hello everyone,

i don't know if any aw members saw this type of hotpoint dishwasher before but as a kid i remember seeing at a neighbor 's house an old hotpoint dishwasher but the dial the cycles where listed as 1 2 and 3 and the dishwasher was harvest gold? if any brochures of this kind of dishwasher exist i would love to see them Please thank you


Post# 496809 , Reply# 15   2/16/2011 at 10:32 (4,789 days old) by cyclemonitor ()        
1-2-3

This might be what you are thinking about....

I wish I had something in a picture of the actual machine.

Hotpoint made these models for JCP

Hotpoint used the dial on the toploading models

 


Post# 496811 , Reply# 16   2/16/2011 at 10:34 (4,789 days old) by cyclemonitor ()        

Hotpoint top loading


Post# 496812 , Reply# 17   2/16/2011 at 10:35 (4,789 days old) by cyclemonitor ()        

specs


Post# 496840 , Reply# 18   2/16/2011 at 12:24 (4,789 days old) by pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)        

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I think you are right but the model i saw was a front load built in model but it must of come from the same line and thank you

Post# 497435 , Reply# 19   2/18/2011 at 14:41 (4,787 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
Bob

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OMG, what the heck was that about?  I've never seen a Hotpoint with a tiny 2" racing stripe of a tine row off on the far right.  What a stupid rack design!  That would drive me crazier than the "fenced" area on the left of the GE SuperRacks.

 

All the Hotpoints I've used just had the arched-up/shallow GE rack, but the tine spacing was pretty normal.  On those, it was tougher to figure out what to do with the vast swath in the middle ("I really should get elliptical cereal bowls"), but since I generally had odds and ends to put there, it was OK.

 

Generally, I allocated a quadrant of the bottom rack for tumblers, and hooked them over tines so that they didn't get jostled into each other.  There was no getting tall glasses into the top racks of the shallow-rack machines.  And that was okay, because the spray from the tower wouldn't ever get up all the way into them anyhow.

 

The breadcrumbs carried along with the spray sure did, though.


Post# 497707 , Reply# 20   2/19/2011 at 16:12 (4,786 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Nate the kind of top rack you were describing sounds like sometime after Hotpoint DWs ceased being what they were above and simply GE machines with a Hotpoint brand lebel.  The aobve machines were true Hotpoints still. because of the porcelain tub and the racks, particularly the top rack.  The top rack like in my old DW was the typical Hotpoint top rack I found in every one I came across whether it be in an apartment or house from the 1960s through at least 1987.  Had friends that were transferred here with me (who were actual former neighbors in Houston).  They rented a house for about a year and moved into a brand new house built by the same builder as mine.  Their house came with an updated version of my machine with the water heat on/off were now actual control panel buttons, in addition to the drying heat buttons.  Still the same basic 3 cycle buttons though too.  They moved in summer of 1987.  A house behind me was built in late 1987 or early 1988 and it too had Hotpoint appliances, including a smooth top range, our bilder had previously only put in coil burner ranges up until that point.  The houe behind me also had Hotpoint brand in the kitchen, but the dishwasher ws now a pure GE, including the perma-Tuf tub and the "entry level" super rack upper rack--I called it that cuz it was the deep upper rack like mine, but didn't have the hard line "fence" on the left side like you & I know.  It was actually the same top rack as was in my sister's GSD1100, which like I said didn't have the hard line fence nor the cup shelf.  Also in the photo above, the left side of the top rack was just like the right side, it's just that the way the glases are loaded on in the two rows on the left side, hide the tine arrangement that's mirrored on the right side.  What was on the left side is how yo0u were3 supposed to load glasses.  Everyone I know ended up loading mugs just like glasses. 

 

Nate, I just found the follow-up model for the abnove HDA965.  That was the HDA969.  It has the deeper top rack as well as the Perma-Tuf tub and the GE detergent dispenser with the rotating door with the "handle" on it.  But I cannot see any copyright on the book or any code I could decipher for publishing. 




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Post# 497709 , Reply# 21   2/19/2011 at 16:20 (4,786 days old) by dj-gabriele ()        

Can you explain me what "custom look" means in the end?

They're showing dishwashers that are not integrated at all, to me "custom look" would be a machine disguised as an ordinary cabinet, can you clarify please?


Post# 497775 , Reply# 22   2/19/2011 at 20:26 (4,786 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
Woodgrain and inserts

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Gabriele, I think that referred to the MOL/TOL models' abilities to accommodate decorative panel inserts of 1/4" or thinner, and also possibly to the woodgrain control panel that would more or less blend into the cabinetry.

More or less.

:-)

Bob, did these have those "color under glass" panels? Those always looked way cool.


Post# 497778 , Reply# 23   2/19/2011 at 20:30 (4,786 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Nate, I do not think so, but I also do not know what you mean by "color under glass" models.  That asthetic feature doesn't ring a bell with me on dishwashers. 


Post# 497780 , Reply# 24   2/19/2011 at 20:42 (4,786 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
Penncrest

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David, thank you so much for all these scans! It's been so much fun reading them, and they just keep coming!

I LOVE those Penncrest machines. Someday, I'd love to find one of the P-branded old Penncrest dishwashers and the Hotpoint Silhouette-clone washers--so pretty. I love the halfsies wash-arm, too.

Roger, David, and I found a Penncrest-branded freezer in Tucson with the circa-1966 Penney's crest on it, and I thought it was pretty, too. (My goal is to convince JCPenney someday to dump the Helvetica logo and embrace that awesome, swank badge from yesteryear...)


Post# 497784 , Reply# 25   2/19/2011 at 20:58 (4,786 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

I think these control panels were ongepotchket, overdone in the extreme. All black with the chrome and blue could have been striking, but that crappy woodgrain surrounding everything made it look at cheap as it was. Maybe it helped warn people away like a skunk's color pattern. Hotpoint DWs had the black plastic control panels in the early-mid 70s that looked much less busy and tacky than these. This tasteless styling is a shame, because for a time in the 50s and 60s, Hotpoint had some of the best styling among appliance lines.

Post# 497795 , Reply# 26   2/19/2011 at 21:48 (4,786 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
Color under glass

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Bob, some machines, KAs included, had a black insert under glass/Plexiglas.  The effect was a deep, lustrous black, almost like a darkened glass oven door.


Post# 497802 , Reply# 27   2/19/2011 at 22:11 (4,786 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Oh ok.  thanks Nate.  From the description, ARE YOU KIDDING???  These were Hotpoints lol. 


Post# 497825 , Reply# 28   2/19/2011 at 23:58 (4,786 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)        
Hey!

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A girl can dream, right?  :-)



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