The 1964 WCD is NOT a rapid dry. It looks like that machine has the delicate cycle where the soak cycle usually is on the bottom half of the timer display.
Another Dream Machine found! AMP style ~
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Congratulations Ben! What a treassure trove. In the picture of the 67-69 washer, there is a slice of what looks like an early 60s 30" Frigidaire range. If you have a chance when you go back, do you think you could snap a picture of it if you remember? That Frigidaire washer next to it had the most flexible speed selection of any of them. Normal agitate/fast spin (a little over 600 rpm), gentle agitate slow spin, Wash'n Wear is fast agitate & slow spin and that stupid Durable Press which was gentle agitate and fast spin. Good for woolens, but not much else. We had one of these and one of the 1010 spin models with three speed settings and that Durable Press was mostly good for nothing. The biggest disappointment with the space capsule style agitator was that the water jumped straight up out of the 4 openings in the top cone. The early drawings of that agitator in ads showed those 4 openings with little projections above them to direct the water sideways, but I guess they broke too easily. Somebody showed that agitator with a variable twist top (maybe in the patent of the day) that allowed for gentle or vigorous washing by opening or closing those 4 openings. I guess that was another dream that died. The water going straight up led to lots of rusting under the lid gasket; sad.
I am glad to see that you will have a dryer with an ash tray. That is what certain people thought the sprinkler drawer on the control panel of my DCI-60 was for.
I am glad to see that you will have a dryer with an ash tray. That is what certain people thought the sprinkler drawer on the control panel of my DCI-60 was for.
