1956 Duomatic

[supersuds]

I seem to remember reading they were around 3500 watts, but don't take that to the bank. Jon (Jetcone) or John L ought to know, among others.

 

[mopar65]

John SuperSuds

Thank you for your input.

 

[moparwash]

Keep up the great work!...Soon you will have the first load underway!

 

[gyromatic]

Heater wattage

The heater wattage is 4000 watts

 

[mopar65]

Jon

Thank you. I have been thinking about this for the best part of the night and I came up with an idea. Do you guys think if I made a plate and cut a hole in it at the vary rear and bolted a flange style 4,500 watt hot water heater element to it that it would work. I would have to bend the element around to make it fit but I was thinking this would be a cheep and EZ solution. I was also thinking that the 4,500 watt element would be ok as John L said before in 1956 we only had 220V serves so if one puts 240V to a 4,000W element  that = 4,500 watts. Just let me know if you guys think I have bumped my head lol      

 

[mopar65]

That or

I fig for sh*&'s and giggles I have a 4,000 watt hot tub heater element laying around that will fit right in there all I would have to do is make a plate and drill to small holes for the element to go threw.

 

[combo52]

56 Duo-Matic Air Heater

Hi Anthony, i dough the water heater elements would work well, they are usually only copper sheathed and not designed to run very hot as the are immersed in water all the time. I have been thinking about this and have a few ideas, I will try to call you later.

 

John L.

 

[mopar65]

John L

I was thinking about that too. Sounds good it will be nice to talk to you anyway.  

 

[mopar65]

And we are

Somewhat washing! I got to do some work to it the last few days and it got its first test with water today. I would say it went well only two leaks one at the vary slight drip on the cold water solenoid and the other being the seal on the lint screen. I would say that's pretty good. I also made a temporary dryer element plate that has two elements from some cheep China combo part # WD-2500-05. They work pretty well and have been through 4 45 minute runs now with no issues.

 

[mopar65]

 

[supersuds]

Yay, you brought it back from the dead.

I'm sure it will look great, too, when you have time to pretty it up.

 

[combo52]

56 Duo-Matic Air Heater

Great progress, how many watts were the Chinese Combo Elements ?, you might need to use 3 or 4 of them to get to 4000 watts.

 

[mopar65]

John

I will call you tomorrow. I do agree I think it needs more wattage.

 

[mopar65]

up date

On the fridge. My brother sent me these pics today. I think it came out good.

 

[jetcone]

Wow Anthony

Great progress on the '56!! You plugging away at it just fine !

 

I was going to start searching for a custom shop to get heat elements made for the dryer and the water heater. My magic heaters are both dead my '56 & '58. And  I love heated wash !!

I'll keep you posted on what I find !

That new boot looks TERRIFIC !!!

 

[mopar65]

Good luck with the magic heater. You may want to try bending a hot tub heater element. The wattage is the same and will work under water and they are cheep as dirt at $15 on line! The boot is grate! No leaks from it at all the only thing is the door doesn't want to close with it but that is a little adjustment.

 

[mopar65]

I got the itch to do some more work done the other day. After I was done I washed/dried 4 loads yesterday. Now the bad, I had a feeling this was going to be a problem and I was right. The pump shaft seal is leaking when draining. But on the good side the cheap heating elements work grate! It takes about 20 to 30 min to dry a load. As for the pump shaft seal I can’t get the impeller off without heating it up real hot. Do you guys think I will damage anything by doing so? Or should I just put an electric pump in its place? I’m just afraid it would be really loud.

Anthony