Thread Number: 90118
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Wanted: early '70s Hotpoint dishwasher! |
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Post# 1153503 , Reply# 3   7/6/2022 at 13:50 (631 days old) by steved (Guilderland, New York)   |   | |
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They want to sell as a set but maybe it's worth looking into. In Oshkosh, WI. CLICK HERE TO GO TO steved's LINK
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Post# 1153507 , Reply# 4   7/6/2022 at 14:48 (631 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 1153509 , Reply# 5   7/6/2022 at 14:57 (631 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 1153552 , Reply# 6   7/6/2022 at 21:29 (631 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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We've seen a few of these come up over the years from this same era - early 70's. My aunt in KC had the HP in pic #1-2, always loved the sound of the water swishing when it was running and the scents of vinyl/porcelain/chlorine/bakelite when finished. Reputed to be a positively pathetic performer, all dishes were thoroughly washed before loading. Drinking glasses and coffee cups were allowed to enter un-rinsed. Only tableware, never pots & pans, prep utensils. |
Post# 1153571 , Reply# 7   7/7/2022 at 06:21 (631 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Like in posts 3 and 6 were just awful DWs overall, noisy lackluster performance, Jeff and I fixed hundreds of them back in the 70s but few were still around by the later 80s.
Really the only great performing DWs from the late 60s into the 70s were Kitchenaid, Whirlpool, Maytag, and Westinghouse.
Today out of this group a KA is your best bet followed by a seldom used WP or MT, Westinghouse was also a great performer but as unreliable as the Hotpoints.
The HPs had terrible motors and pumps and the sumps would rust out and the motors would fall out. They also would leak from about everywhere a DW could leak, door gasket, around the float and the pump and motor itself.
John L. |