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Thread Number: 91835
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
1979 HotPoint RimFlo |
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| Post# 1163651 , Reply# 1 11/11/2022 at 17:06 (530 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas) | ||
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Post# 1163665 , Reply# 2 11/11/2022 at 20:22 (530 days old) by CircleW  (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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I don't know about the exclusitivity of the white tub, but the side opening lid was used for several years on the Hotpoint washers after manufacturing was moved from Hotpoint in Chicago to the GE factories. After a while, they found it more economical to use the same top and back opening lid for both the GE and Hotpoint models. | ||
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Post# 1163696 , Reply# 3 11/12/2022 at 11:11 (530 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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Post# 1163703 , Reply# 4 11/12/2022 at 12:14 (530 days old) by rinso (Meridian Idaho) |
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I always thought the rim lint filter was a better idea than the agitator-mounted lint pan in GE's. | ||
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Post# 1163724 , Reply# 5 11/12/2022 at 14:42 (529 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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Post# 1163728 , Reply# 6 11/12/2022 at 15:04 (529 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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I've come across about 4 rim-flo models years ago. These were branded as JCPenny and had the side swing lids. The rim flo removed the option of the owner being able to remove the lint as the washer was supposed to fling the lint over the edge of the tub when spinning. This it did do, however...the flaw in their thinking at GE was they assumed the lint balls/gobs would just fall down into the wash tub and be pumped out happily with the wash water.
Nope. I always found a line of stinking, moldy lint on the line of the upper tub. The wet lint flung off like a wad of gum and smashed into the outer tub and just stuck there. | ||
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Post# 1163736 , Reply# 8 11/12/2022 at 15:37 (529 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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GE filter-flo It's really a GE filter-flo with the hotpoint system and branding. | ||
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Post# 1163740 , Reply# 9 11/12/2022 at 15:50 (529 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Hotpoint!
This ia a nice machine - I like the white tub! I do perfer a back opening lid!
We had a TOL 77 Hotpoint rim flow it was a very good washer. I perfer the rim flow over the filter flow because those filter pans were always in the way. Ours also had the hand wash adijator. I used to clean the rim flow about once a month when damp by running my hand around the rim and the left over lint would come out. | ||
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Post# 1163741 , Reply# 10 11/12/2022 at 16:11 (529 days old) by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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... I prefer the GE filter-flo because the pan collected a lot more lint. | ||
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Post# 1163749 , Reply# 11 11/12/2022 at 17:02 (529 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Hotpoint!
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Post# 1163753 , Reply# 12 11/12/2022 at 17:27 (529 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Hotpoint! | ||
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Post# 1163804 , Reply# 13 11/13/2022 at 11:25 (529 days old) by chetlaham (United States) |
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| Post# 1163807 , Reply# 14 11/13/2022 at 12:16 (529 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD) | ||
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good find! I have a 1980 HP rimflo in collection:) straight vane agitator. | ||
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