Some Hamilton features
My old Hamilton-the one Steve's picking up-has a drum light and the Sun-E-Day light (the 40-watt drum light serves as the ballast coil for the Sun-e-Day, which is actually a small, 4-watt mercury vapor lamp). The lights are on during the entire cycle, no provision for disabling them. However, anyone with enough electrical knowledge to restore old appliances can install a simple switch in the circuit. The lights also come on when the door is opened. This model has NO console light. The motor is made by Emerson, and is what I call an "old style" motor in that it looks like a real motor-not the skeleton-frame rubbish they began using in the 70's, which use non-replaceable steel bearings and are epoxied or tack-welded together. These old motors can be opened up, the wool-yarn packing around the bearings re-saturated with oil, or if necessary the bronze bearings can be pressed out of the end frames and replaced (just be sure to ream them before reassembling the motor). The motor in this dryer should be good for considerable more service if one takes the trouble to re-oil the packing. Note-don't overdo it, or oil will get into the starting switch contacts and cause all kinds of grief. A teaspoon or so per bearing should be plenty. Then put a drop of oil on each shaft bearing when you reassemble it.
