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Post# 245086   10/29/2007 at 06:17 (6,016 days old) by vcontreras ()   |   | |
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Ive seen the Hotpoint lint ring agiator and one of the filter flo agitators. they both look the same. did one stal from another? here are the agitators. |
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Post# 245106 , Reply# 3   10/29/2007 at 08:17 (6,016 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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I'm thinking it was somewhat later before Hotpoint got GE's spiral "Activator". Did not Hotpoint have solid-tub machines well into the 70's? |
Post# 245111 , Reply# 4   10/29/2007 at 08:26 (6,016 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Hotpoint's own solid tub machines were phased out in the early seventies. As GE made the transition, the first thing to go was the machine's innards. I imagine that's when they closed down the Chicago plant and put all those people out of work. By 1969 the standard dryers were already being "BORG-ed" into GE clones with Hotpoint control panels. In this picture of the "Duo-Load", the dryer is obviously a GE, and if you look closely at the model numbers, they've already been changed to the GE format:
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