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As some of us here have excellent reason to know, Automatic Ephemera is the greatest thing since sliced bread. I have benefited enormously from the offerings there, garnering service manuals, instruction manuals and advertising that really enhance the experience of owning vintage appliances. It's one thing to own a vintage dishwasher - it's fun. But it's even more time-warp fun when you can look at the sales brochure originally used to sell it, the instruction manual Milady got with it and the service literature repair techs used back in the day.

That having been said, there are some things I'm looking for that aren't yet on AE, so I thought I'd post a "wish list" here that other members can add to, and which, hopefully, people holding the needed items will see and be moved to loan them to Robert for scanning. Robert is offering a great service! Here goes:

- Early Maytag (HOH) DE806 dryer instructions (the early A806 washer instructions are already on AE, and of course, there will also be people wanting the early DG806 instructions for their gas dryers)

- KitchenAid KDS-15 instruction manual (hopefully in the works)

- Electrolux 1205 vacuum instruction manual (there are at least three versions of this, covering the different versions of the machine as time went on and running changes were made to it. I'm looking for the last one, dated 1973)

- Late Electrolux Model L vacuum instruction manual (The first one is already on AE, but again, there's more than one - there are at least four versions of this. I am looking for the last one, dated 1974).

- Electrolux B-8 floor polisher/shampooer. This is also in multiple editions.

- Amana Radarange RR-4D instruction manual - this is the first machine with Automatic Defrost.

That's my wish list - what's yours? And who out there has what it takes to make a lot of other people happy?

Thanks again to Robert for this wonderful service!
 
What a great site! I wish I'd known about it earlier.

A manual for an O'Keefe & Merritt early 60's DeVille.
 
Thank you so Sandy much for your kind words about Automatic Ephemera. I will definitively ask Fred about those vacuum manuals, he might have a couple of them. I don't think I have the D806 dryer operating instructions, but I will look you never know. I'm sure it will turn up at some point.

Davy there is a permanent link at the top of automaticwasher.org to Automatic Ephemera, it changes daily if something new is loaded into the Ephemera library.

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Sandy, you probably knew this but usenet has groups devoted to these requests.. I think the groups have "e-books" in their names.

Unfortunately and intentionally Google has made a censored mess of its usenet archive, so good luck trying to find anything useful from it. Other and far more complete archives exist in Germany (Univ. of Berlin), DK, NL and elsewhere.
 
Jeff:

I've located and downloaded manuals that way before, but I have yet to see the quality provided by AE. One of the things that's great on AE is that you get a copy as sharp and clear as the original, capable of huge enlargement to see detail.

And the cost of AE downloads is cheap when you factor in the time needed to locate stuff. I have the instruction manual for 1957 GE ranges, downloaded from AE in minutes for $3.99. I'd only been looking for it for ten years, without success.
 
Tom:

I'm not sure about '75 - that could be too new, not too old. The manual I'm looking for is the early DE806, which is a Halo of Heat dryer. It's fairly easy to tell a DE806 HOH dryer from later ones - it will almost always have blue paint on the control panel instead of gold, there will be no buttons on the control panel (just a dial), and there will usually be a narrow chrome-colored strip across the front, at the top of the front panel, where the front panel meets the porcelain top.

I don't know what arrangements Robert has for return of materials - hopefully he'll chime in here and let you know.

Thanks for reading the request and offering to help!
 
Sandy, the spun aluminum control dial and gold trim strip were introduced around March of 1975 along with the removal of the chrome strip on the front of the 806 models. This was near the end of the Halo-of-Heat dryers but they were produced with this trim for a little over a year until the "Big Load" (08 series) dryers were introduced in the summer of 1976.

The 06 series Halo of Heat dryers underwent several technical and cosmetic changes between their introduction in 1966 and the end of production in 1976.

Nov. 1968 - change to "bar baffles" from wire wound baffles on electronic control dryers. Eliminated the need to have the correct polarity on a gas dryer in order for the control to work properly.

Early 1969 - "Wash-n-Wear" was changed to "Permanent Press" on the control dial. This was merely a cosmetic change and timed to coincide with the addition of a Permanent Press cycle with cool-down on the 06 series washers.

1971 saw the introduction of the 307 & 407 Halo-of-Heat dryers that used a thermostatic dryness control as opposed to the "electronic" control of the 906, 806 & 606.

Late 1971 - Acrylic knob makes its debut on the 806 machines, by the end of 1972 all machines used this knob.

The last change, to my knowledge, was the dial and trim changes discussed above.
 
I bought the dryer in Atlanta at Davisons, not Macy's, in the early summer of 75, new on the pallet and used it about 7 months before everything was put into storage when I moved up here. It is the HOH design, has the blue band at the bottom of the control panel, the white plastic dial with black and turquoise letters and the big clear plastic faceted knob. The instructions are printed in black and white so this does not make much difference.
 
I have the instructions from when I bought my DE806 in 1975. Are those too old? If I send it to Robert and enclose a dollar, will it be mailed back to me?

Yes Tom, I don't want to keep any of this stuff as it takes up shelf space. That is the beauty of this whole project, having all this in electronic form, it doesn't take a single ounce of space. Someday when we are too old to be able to maintain a library, we will have access to this entire appliance doctrine library on our glass screens of the mid 21st century for the rest of our lives.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY -- NO please do not enclose a dollar, the return shipping is on me.
 
An early DE606 will also be the exact same thing just won't have the back lit panel.  All the exact same funcitonality, instructions, and features. 
 
It's GAWJUS!

I am absolutely blown away - the scan quality is phenomenal, and yes, there are little "ins and outs" that I didn't know.

The manual is applicable to Superba VariCycle, Imperial DuaCycle and Custom models, in both undercounter and convertible/portable versions. There is also a brief sales pitch on the last page for the top-loading Classic VariCycle and Electra portables, as well as the front-loading dishwasher-sink combo units.

Thanks, Matt! Thanks, Robert![this post was last edited: 1/13/2013-11:20]
 
Why Din't You TELL Me?

I'm teasing, but I was really surprised and happy to see that the installation manual for the 15-series machines has also been posted on AE.

I have, of course, downloaded it. That leaves only the KDS-55 Convertible/Portable conversion instructions unfound!
 

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