1971 Easy Dry Automatic Deluxe upright dryer - free, Sydney Australia

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Hi all - I have a 1971 upright 'easy dry' clothes dryer up for grabs. It hasn't been used for years but worked when last used. Due to the age I don't want to test it. It will need to be looked over by an electrician before using it and I take no responsibility for the electrical safety of this appliance.

Pickup from Pennant Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia. it's on rollers, not hugely heavy, more just an awkward shape.

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I actually don't know - it's got a 10 amp plug so no more than 2400 watts. I don't think it has a label on the back saying consumption.

Would be ever so grateful if you wanted it, it was my grandparents and if I can re-home it, it's facing going out to council cleanup.
 
Yeah I've listed it on Facebook marketplace and gumtree. Not much interest at all, so sadly probably going to council cleanup next week :(
 
Also known as a drying cabinet

Drying cabinets of various sorts were long popular with laundries, laundries in private homes (such as estates or mansions), and even smaller private homes. Flately and others made the things in various sizes suitable for latter.

https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collect...ng cabinet was,usually covered with wire mesh.

https://www.electroluxprofessional.com/commercial-laundry-equipment/drying-cabinets/

https://www.asko.com/za/laundry/drying-cabinets

Heated by steam, electric, or heat from a laundry range or stove (fueled by coal, coke, wood, or whatever) these things allowed indoor drying of laundry faster than hanging things over a clothes horse or lines. More to point didn't require heating up entire room or house and moisture was sent up the chimney or otherwise vented away.

While still useful for delicate and other items that want line drying, expansion of tumble clothes dryers (of all sorts) largely replaced drying cabinets.

In damp climates such as UK or elsewhere people have them in boot rooms or some place to deal with outer clothing after coming indoors.

Have never seen a drying cabinet on casters. Most that weren't built in had to be bolted to a wall in aide of preventing thing from tipping over.
 
I've never seen another one of these! My grandma loved it because it was far more gentle on the clothes than the tumble dryer!

I gave it a test today and it does work - I tried cool, warm and hot, but not rapid - it had that very burnt dust smell - like a fan heater that you haven't used for a while.
 
Smartdrive, do you ever come to Sydney? I can always hold onto it for you if you do.

Otherwise looks like it’s going out to council cleanup tomorrow night as sad as that is. 4 people across gumtree and Facebook marketplace have expressed interested in it but none are replying.
 
It’s a shame to me that folks express interest in an old appliance that someone is generous to offer for a great price or even free to a good home and I think there are good intentions of picking it up but it just doesn’t seem to happen even when it’s close by. I’ve seen it happen a lot here. Thanks for posting and I hope it ends up going to a good home.
 
Hi Melvin

This is a nice piece of history, but as a clothes dryer they were inefficient, slow and dangerous. By the late 70s, my grandfather was collecting them from the dump, removing the heater unit, installing shelves and turning them into cupboards.

Clothing quite often could end up stiff as a board and you’d have to crunch it when getting it out. With matching spin speeds of the era, it could take 2-3 hours to dry a load, with a high wattage element running in the bottom the whole time.

To finish the trifecta, most of them had no over temp cutout, so if clothing dropped off the rails and covered the fan outlet, they were great at catching fire.

Choice magazine here was recommending these by the late 60s, only if you couldn’t afford an expensive tumble dryer. Wooden clothes horses were recommended as just as useful and a lot cheaper.

It’s great that it’s being offered up to a new home, that is much appreciated, but it’s a very large collectible, that is essentially just a curiousity.
 
Thats’s interesting - my grandma always preferred this to her tumble dryer - always said it was so much nicer on the clothes. This one luckily has a safety cut out.

My problem with people on gumtree and Facebook marketplace is the lack of replies - I don’t mind if they’re not interested - just reply instead of leaving me on read.
 

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