Thread Number: 73364
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Vintage Hotpoint Washer |
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Post# 969032 , Reply# 1   11/20/2017 at 02:50 (2,320 days old) by mrsalvo (New Braunfels Texas)   |   | |
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I have never seen this pair before. They are sharp looking, I like the color. |
Post# 970059 , Reply# 5   11/26/2017 at 09:13 (2,314 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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There are many very jazzy Hotpoint TOL's that I've only seen in literature, those are a good example. I have heard and I think read in a thread on this website that General Electric used the Hotpoint brand as a technology bellwether in the Fifties and Sixties. These all-pushbutton machines, the Jumbo dryer, the in-oven rotisserie and the Duo-Load washer were all evidence of this. I'd love to find any of these, but unfortunately what was said above looks to be true, they weren't built to last a long time.
I will add that I had two Aunts, in the Sixties, that had MOL Hotpoint Silhouette washers and dryers (one machine was the MOL version of the machine in the picture below), bought at around the same time, that lasted at least 10 years. |
Post# 970116 , Reply# 6   11/26/2017 at 16:01 (2,313 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago)   |   | |
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Dad was an engineer for Hotpoint Home Laundry at 5600 Taylor.
During their lives they had three washers. The 1958 Hotpoint The approx 1975-1985 Hotpoint The approx 1985-1995 Hotpoint. In all three cases, each washer ate a timer early on. And in each case, transmission failure ended their lives. The first two refused to spin and the last unit still worked but was so noisy you could hear it down the block. We tried fixing the 1975 Silhouette washer transmission with new clutch parts, but they would last only a week and fail again and so we replaced it. The 1968 Silhouette dryer lasted until about 1990. It ate one timer in the early 1970s, one igniter and was fairly troublefree otherwise. The Hotpoint fellas were their own design group in a little white building across from 5600 Taylor for many years. I am sure they shared designs by parent GE but by no means was the Hotpoint brand a rebadge. They largely did their own thing. Just my experience.... |
Post# 970139 , Reply# 7   11/26/2017 at 18:33 (2,313 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Neighbor across the street had the dryer in that color. She got it from her sister, who had the matched pair. When the washer failed, she gave the dryer to her sister so she could get another matched set. The inherited dryer replaced a 1956/1957 star burst gas Frog Eye dryer. The Hotpoint dryer lasted until the very early 1980s when she got a an upper BOL center dial Kenmore. Which lasted until 2012 or 2013 when she ended up in assisted living. This is the neighbor that I posted pics of her KDS16 in the kitchen. |
Post# 970171 , Reply# 8   11/26/2017 at 23:27 (2,313 days old) by 70series ( Connecticut.)   |   | |
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Our first washer was a 1964 Silhouette. Never got to see it as it bit the dust only 8 years later when I was 2. No pictures except a slide photo, which is buried away. |