1952 KENMORE DRYER - HERKIMER, NY
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agitatorboogie
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agitatorboogie
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.....literature!
.....literature!
Wow... that one looks a heck of a lot nicer than the '51 I picked up last summer! I hope someone else needs one - this looks to be in great shape and no restoration needed.
recyclewasher
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Hhhmmmmmmmm! just that lingering...tiny..
Question, to stir things up..
I wonder if it's a Porcelain or painted cabinet/top? Heh heh
No the real question is ..I'm seeing a matching dryer to a 'rusty' washer posted elsewhere and what is the best way to go about shipping them to make a matched set!
Oooh the logistics.
Damn that dryer looks good!
Question, to stir things up..
I wonder if it's a Porcelain or painted cabinet/top? Heh heh
No the real question is ..I'm seeing a matching dryer to a 'rusty' washer posted elsewhere and what is the best way to go about shipping them to make a matched set!
Oooh the logistics.
Damn that dryer looks good!
A dryer that looked like this had the insulation wrapped around the drum. An electric model in this style had a fan in front of the heater box as well as the fan pulling air out of the drum.
danemodsandy
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Ah, Memories....
....Of the early, early '60s. We had one of these, plus the matching washer, for most of the first half of the decade.
I don't remember much about its performance aside from recollecting that ours got some sort of short in it that took a while for my Dad to find. If you were wearing Keds, you were fine. If you were wearing leather-soled shoes, and it was damp, you got a pretty fair tingle.
Turned out to be the dryer vent; my mischievous little brother had turned it upside down, which meant it funneled rain water into the dryer rather than keeping it out.
One spanking later, all was well.
....Of the early, early '60s. We had one of these, plus the matching washer, for most of the first half of the decade.
I don't remember much about its performance aside from recollecting that ours got some sort of short in it that took a while for my Dad to find. If you were wearing Keds, you were fine. If you were wearing leather-soled shoes, and it was damp, you got a pretty fair tingle.
Turned out to be the dryer vent; my mischievous little brother had turned it upside down, which meant it funneled rain water into the dryer rather than keeping it out.
One spanking later, all was well.
polkanut
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Is this beauty a gas or electric version? I think I spy a gas pipe coming down along the wall, but I'm not sure.
Polkanut
if I am not mistaken the gas version of this Kenmore Dryer like the Whirlpool version had an on off switch on the front of the dryer that you turned on so that the burner would light when you ran the Dryer I know at one time Robert had out the manual for the Whirlpool model in the Owners Manual library on this sight.PAT COFFEY
if I am not mistaken the gas version of this Kenmore Dryer like the Whirlpool version had an on off switch on the front of the dryer that you turned on so that the burner would light when you ran the Dryer I know at one time Robert had out the manual for the Whirlpool model in the Owners Manual library on this sight.PAT COFFEY
1952 KM Dryer
The dryer pictured is electric, the gas machines had a removable lower panel [ the earliest versions also had a white toggle switch on the upper right side that turned on the electrolytically ignited pilot.
This dryer like the matching washer has an all painted outer cabinet and top. They were reasonably durable dryers for the times [ no 1950s dryers were nearly as durable as most dryers are today ]. They were not the fastest or most efficient dryers of the day either.
The dryer pictured is electric, the gas machines had a removable lower panel [ the earliest versions also had a white toggle switch on the upper right side that turned on the electrolytically ignited pilot.
This dryer like the matching washer has an all painted outer cabinet and top. They were reasonably durable dryers for the times [ no 1950s dryers were nearly as durable as most dryers are today ]. They were not the fastest or most efficient dryers of the day either.
