1956 Duomatic

[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