When my mother remarried in 1986, they had the WLW3500 washer and we had the (not so matching) DLB1550 dryer that were paired together in the new family home.  My step-sister used to run in and advance the dial to final spin after the wash cycle as she thought the "soak"cycle was unnecessary.  Bad dial-marking for sure on that model.   I always wondered how many other people pondered why there was no rinse in the Normal cycle.

Thanks for these. These were my SpotScrubber set before I converter them. My SS washer is actually a WLW3500 (an 85') and the dryer is a DLB2650. The WLW1500B was my 1st automatic washer, I got it when I was almost 13 and I have fond memories of it. Thanks for the posting these "not real Hotpoint" models, it's much appreciated.

-Tim

Youse guys are forgetting; these aren't real Hotpoints, they're "Filter-points"; lamely disguised late vintage Filter-flo's with even more lamely designed control panels sprinkled with a tiny bit of old Hotpoint fairy dust. These are the Hannah Montana's of the vintage appliance world.

It's like being told that Alec Baldwin is coming over to your house to give you a backrub and a happy ending and then the  drunk brother Daniel shows up. I can tell you from personal experience--it's a let-down.

Now David, Uncle Kenny's only kidding because we LOVE every piece of literature that you scan and share with us but is it even possible that you might have a real Hotpoint Laundry Products catalogue from say, 1967, or 1968, or 1969 or maybe even 1970?

Cause I loves me some Hotpoints. Forgive me, it's been a long day.

Let's have some pictures of it! Shots of the machine, control panel, inside the tub, agitator, filter pan, lid instructions, anything else will be appreciated! Hotpoints are nifty machines. I'd especially be interested in pictures of the agitator cap and all the inside guts of the agitator that create the Fountain Filter.

They never made the top-10 in Consumer's Reports during the last ten years at least of their production, but I would say they were probably good machines to own for people, like my maternal Grandmother, who washed lots of delicate things like women's clothing. I think they were weak at the "heavily soiled" stuff and sand disposal compared to Norges, Filter-flo's and Whirlmores, but for ordinary, not so soiled stuff they did the job. I remember watching my Aunt Sona's machine(which was similar to the one in the ad above); the action was graceful and quiet--almost hypnotic compared to the rough and crunchy activation in our Filter-flo (think, "Where Cathy adores a minuet, the Ballet Russe, and Crepes Suzette, while Patty's off on Rock and Roll a hot dog makes her lose control..."). Even the burpolation from the "Fountain-Filter" was a gentle pulse especially compared to the regurgitated spew from the Norge burpalator. I've always thought these machines were particularly fascinating; beautiful industrial design if not the best engineering. The dryers were clumsy and oafish. Thirty-one inches of nothing to crow about. I've never owned one, but from looking at them it looks like they were using a very outdated design from the Fifties minus their obsolete version of a "Filtrator" well into the late Sixties until somebody in the center office said, "screw it--let's just use the GE design for the guts, pop our control panel on top and call it a day".

Kills me to  remember this but there was an old family-run lumber yard in Kingston NY that I used to go to with my Father on the weekends called "Miron Lumber" in the very late Sixties and very early Seventies. They had an exclusive Hotpoint dealership  for the area with a big selection of washers and dryers on the showroom floor. My Father was never what anyone would call "patient" or "tolerant" of his son's fascination with what he considered womens' appliances so I only got quick looks until I was screamed at to come help him load 2 x 4's into the back of our station wagon to learn how to be a manly man like him (he fancied himself a carpenter but he sucked at it but everyone in the family except my princess bitch sister had to "help him play").

A@@hole.

Rest in peace but you were an a@@hole back then. And as it turns out your manly gun collection wasn't worth sh*t.

BITTER! Table for one!

... a very long day.

Ken, LOL. One thing I've noticed about REAL Hotpoint ads and such is that the women in them have this really excited smile on their face. The machines have to be one of the oddest looking machines I've ever seen with that HUGE control panel and strange assortment of dials. I know nothing of them, I've never seen one in person and very little in photos let alone operating. They seem like neat machines, but I know nothing about them, I second that some literature would be nice.

-Tim

It has been said that GE used the Hotpoint division (before GE became the corporate "Borg Collective" and assimilated them) to market some of their wildest and most creative gimmicks, bells and whistles. The more I look back at West Taylor Avenue Hotpoint, the more I think there's something to that theory. Hotpoint made some of the coolest stuff in the Fifties and Sixties and a lot of their stoves and ovens are still working today. I believe from what I've seen that the GE front-loading dishwasher was sired by established Hotpoint machines that worked very well and were well built. I feel badly that the men and women, among many others, certainly, who designed and built such wonderful products have passed on without some acknowledgment that what they created and what they made were icons of an American industrial congregation that helped make us, for a time, the envy of the modern world.  When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the first steps on the moon, Hotpoint products were still in the stores.