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Custom Hotpoint Dishwasher 1959 - $40
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Post# 931152   4/7/2017 at 22:59 (2,547 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )        

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Post# 931160 , Reply# 1   4/7/2017 at 23:55 (2,547 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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Nice machine! I guess it's a bit newer than 1959 but it looks great! Is the tank and inner door covered with plastisol? I thought Hotpoint kept using porcelain when GE switched to Plastisol?

Post# 931391 , Reply# 2   4/9/2017 at 09:43 (2,546 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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It's porcelain Phil.  And you're right.  This is more like toward the end of the run of turquoise appliances.  1963 or 1964. 


Post# 931392 , Reply# 3   4/9/2017 at 09:53 (2,546 days old) by brucelucenta ()        

Definitely, in 1959 they were still making impeller machines.

Post# 931396 , Reply# 4   4/9/2017 at 10:32 (2,546 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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Didn't Hotpoint switch to a 2 level spray arm system in 1958??

GE was still using an impeller in '59 for sure... 


Post# 931415 , Reply# 5   4/9/2017 at 12:11 (2,545 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Paul, you are correct.  But that was ONLY on their TOL.  I had cousins move to Silver Spring, MD in 1972 and they bought an early to mid-1960s house that still had the original Hotpoint dishwasher.  It looked pretty much like this one on the outside, but it only had 1-level wash as it didn't even have the shower thing in the middle of the bottom rack like this one had.  I guess that was an "extra" for the Custom Line model--also note this one has a rinse-aid dispenser too. 


Post# 931423 , Reply# 6   4/9/2017 at 13:35 (2,545 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

It looks like it has the two position upper rack, a nice feature the owners probably never used.


Post# 931432 , Reply# 7   4/9/2017 at 15:05 (2,545 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Cleans well

But get your ear protection ready!!!LOL

Post# 931452 , Reply# 8   4/9/2017 at 18:28 (2,545 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)        

But Norge, didn't you see that it's "sound shielded".

Post# 931483 , Reply# 9   4/9/2017 at 20:24 (2,545 days old) by Steved (Guilderland, New York)        
1963 to 66

I believe it's a DB50. I have a brochure with no print date. Hotpoint's address on the back includes a zip code which makes it no earlier than late 63. The brochure doesn't list available colors unfortunately.

Post# 931503 , Reply# 10   4/9/2017 at 22:35 (2,545 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)        

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It shows up in a 1966 catalog that I have as a DA50, not sure about the difference in DA and DB.  It was TOL for the time.  Includes the Swirlaway Shower (top) and Spacemaker rack and "complete Sound Shielding for extra quietness" (quoting from the catalog).

 

lawrence


Post# 931577 , Reply# 11   4/10/2017 at 09:53 (2,545 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)        
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I looked at some Hotpoint catalogs regarding the porcelain vs plastic interior question and found:

 

In a catalog dated 10/82, all dishwashers still had the porcelain interiors.

 

My next catalog has a received stamp of May 1987 (several missing years there); and it indicates that all except the TOL HDA2000 model still had the porcelain interiors.  The HDA2000 was a solid-state electronic model similar to GE's 2800/2200 products.

 

My next catalog has a received stamp of Dec 1990 (again, missing years); it indicates that about half of the models had polypropylene tub/doors and half still had porcelain enamel interiors.  The polypropylene

models were at the upper end of the product line.

 

lawrence


Post# 931604 , Reply# 12   4/10/2017 at 11:22 (2,544 days old) by Steved (Guilderland, New York)        
Oops my bad

Yes you are correct DA50. DB designates a mobile dishwasher. I was surprised how Hotpoint's model numbers don't seem to correlate to anything. A DA 49 has more features than the DA50.

Post# 931685 , Reply# 13   4/10/2017 at 19:16 (2,544 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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TOL and no cycle buttons :-(cry



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