Thread Number: 49953
Today's P.O.D. 12/16/13 Agitator bleach dispenser? |
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Post# 721456 , Reply# 1   12/16/2013 at 14:05 (3,755 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 721462 , Reply# 2   12/16/2013 at 14:24 (3,755 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)   |   | |
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Here's a link to another Hotpoint Lady Executive thread, I think it's the best description and pics we have on this model. Check out a few of the pics, some show a small plastic thing inside the lid, one pic shows a decent sized plastic box attached to the lid. And near the box, above the rim of the tub, cut through the porcelain, is an opening. Did incoming water come from there, thru the lid-attached dispensers, into the wash or agitator? I DON"T have answers, I am reading the other thread as I post this--
It would be cool to have this BRAND NEW or watch it a few times, but ain't it a few notches over the top? I'd never want to restore one. CLICK HERE TO GO TO akronman's LINK |
Post# 721488 , Reply# 4   12/16/2013 at 17:05 (3,755 days old) by Mixguy (St. Martinville, Louisiana)   |   | |
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Could this be what is being referred to as an agitator beach dispenser? CLICK HERE TO GO TO Mixguy's LINK |
Post# 721591 , Reply# 5   12/17/2013 at 07:48 (3,755 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Tom is right, on the upper-end models, there was a cup inside the top of the agitator (similar to Frigidaire) that held the bleach until the agitation started and the cup was flooded and overflowed, dispensing the bleach. The agitator "cap" had a perforated center where the bleach was poured in, probably prior to loading the clothes. Similarly, the ring dispenser "Fountain" pictured directly above dispensed when the pumping of the agitator began and water flooded the ring.
Out on the Sacred Appliance burial grounds in South Dakota, there were many Hotpoints with the various agitators and dispensers. We should have taken more of those parts! |
Post# 721598 , Reply# 6   12/17/2013 at 09:00 (3,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Hotpoint was marketing 3 different types of bleach dispenser in the late 60's/ early seventies. One of them was the accessory pictured in the ad above. That one was short-lived and for some bizarre reason was made specifically for the Lady Executive model that had a wonderful solenoid system of dispensers for dry detergent and liquid fabric softener built into the top of the machine. I don't know what Hotpoint was thinking...the lint filter on the agitator was already a perfectly viable detergent dispenser; the bleach dispenser on this model should have also been a solenoid classic type and should have been put there instead.
What Tom was describing, very accurately, was a complicated system connected to the Hotpoint "Fountain Filter" built into their agitators that worked essentially the same way the Frigidaire Jet-Cone bleach dispensers worked, the user poured measured liquid bleach into an opening at the top of the agitator, wash water would flood the reservoir holding the bleach when agitation started, and then allowed the bleach/water mixture to overflow into the wash tub. It did the job, but Consumers Reports condemned the Hotpoint dispenser by pointing out that if, IF, sand were to get into the works it would require a service call, or a very long and complicated disassembly by the owner of the machine. If that wasn't enough, the unbiased technicians at CU broke down the whole agitator (the bleach cup is the clear plastic thing on the left) and photographed it for dramatic scare effect (boy, somebody was in a BAD mood back in 1969): |
Post# 721608 , Reply# 7   12/17/2013 at 10:48 (3,754 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)   |   | |
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Post# 721664 , Reply# 9   12/17/2013 at 16:54 (3,754 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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You're right; I forgot about that.
I wouldn't have ever even considered washing anything that heavy duty in a Taylor Avenue Hotpoint; the machine would have died of a stroke. As I've said before in other threads about Hotpoints, they were probably very decent machines if you washed light to medium loads as my Mother's mother did. Hotpoints were definitely NOT good choices for farm families or all those families featured in Norge and/or Whirlpool ads of the time.
We had a solid tub Filter-Flo at a beach house when I was growing up and I don't ever remember seeing sand in the bottom of that tub. |