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John Marinello · #1 06-12-2011, 07:46 PM

"It works when turn it on, I can hear the motor..."

Does it burn oil?
Any tappet noise?
How's the muffler?

http://cgi.ebay.com/1950s-HOTPOINT-S...item3cb8be41e2

ggregg · #2 06-12-2011, 08:40 PM

damn, same picture on every channel....

Sandy G · #3 06-12-2011, 09:42 PM

Aw, c'mon, you guys, you remember them ol' tellavishuns what had them motors in 'em back in the Fifties, doncha ? Yeah, they ran the annacannafrannistan wobulator on 'em that way...

mstaton · #4 06-12-2011, 09:57 PM

Probably has giant fins and gets 8 MPG.

Electronic M · #5 06-13-2011, 12:45 AM

Sooo....They still used scaning disc mechanical sets in the 50's....Must have been a LOW LOW budget model!

Tom C.

old_coot88 · #6 06-13-2011, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Electronic M

Sooo....They still used scaning disc mechanical sets in the 50's....Must have been a LOW LOW budget model!

Tom C.

Yeah, they still had all babbitt bearings and squirt oilers for the rods.

Sandy G · #7 06-13-2011, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by old_coot88

Yeah, they still had all babbitt bearings and squirt oilers for the rods.

Yep, & God help ya if ya tried to pick up one o' them UHF channels....(grin)

bgadow · #8 06-13-2011, 09:32 PM

Well, you know how cheap Gen.Electric was, he could really cook up some stuff. I worked on one of these Hotpoints and like Uncle Sandy said, that UHF, whoa, boy! It uses a gear reduction drive off the motor, to get that Ultra High speed going. The one I had, the grease had congealed and it just couldn't build up enough RPM. So, you'd tune in channel 14 and get channel 63. Once I tuned it up to channel 83 like that and some little guy in tights came on the screen-his antenna looked just like the antenna on the Hotpoint, so I knew I was onto something!