Birthday Presents #1

Gather App
Automatic Washer - The world's coolest Washing Machines, Dryers and Dishwashers

Help Support AutomaticWasher.org:

F

filterflo

New member
Joined
Jan 9, 2019
Messages
0
Location
Chicago Area
Rich and Graham visited last week and brought me this wonderful Philco Reverse Tumble Dryer. Its the first half of my dream Philco set, and Im thrilled to get it. It cleaned up pretty well, but I have not tackled the cosmetics on it yet such as removing the practical but ugly window latches that someone added to the front. ugh! I have an extra front panel but that will be a later effort.....

4-7-2007-10-01-13--FilterFlo.jpg
 
In the bottom of the case were broken pieces of black plastic, which is a very bad sign in a Philco dryer. They were famous for breaking the blades on their fans and subsequently breaking the fan housing/shroud.

4-7-2007-10-03-58--FilterFlo.jpg
 
But, I wisely saved all the Philco parts I could find, and lo and behold I had another one! Yeah! This is from the Philco dryer that I got out of the NASTY NASTY house a year ago. For all that effort it paid off in the extra parts that I was able to save........

4-7-2007-10-10-51--FilterFlo.jpg
 
Wonderful gift Jimmie! Congrats, all I can say is I know how important it is to have a new and used parts stash. My stash has saved me many-a-times.
 
What a beautiful machine

If your skittish about fixing the after-market screwholes for the window latches, how about taking the panels into an auto body shop? It would take them only a few minutes to fill the hole with a weld and grind it flush. You will need to repaint the cabinet of course.

Scoots
 
Thank you for a most fun and INFORMATIVE thread! The only time I've "experienced" a reversing tumble dryer was during a recent trip to France. It was made by Electrolux and when in the reverse mode there was, as I recall, no airflow. The reverse tumble period was quite short, just long enough to un-bunch the load. This was necessary since the drum was quite small.

Does the blower on your Philco operate normally and independently of the tumbler's direction? I'm guessing it does.

I've often thought it would be useful to be able to have a slower tumble speed without a reduction in fan speed so that very small loads would not stay caught up in the baffles. Is that what happens on your "Low Air" setting?

Thanks again.

Marty Kaplan
 
How cool!

But what's all that stuff on the heating element?? Looks like someone had a BBQ!
Thanks for the gr8 pictures.

Congrats and Happy Birthday--- James
 
Nice looking dryer Jimmy!

If I were you I would replace that fan with a steel squirrel cage and not the original flyapart bakelite with no obvious reinforcing in the thermoplastic!!
What a screw up after what 100 years of fan production.

It's like the later Frigidaire 1-18 dryers where if you move the cabinet just the wrong way the drum pops off the poorly positioned rollers!
 
An enquiry from the UK

Hi guys, browsing the threads, saw this and a childhood memory was jogged into life again.

The era would be the early to mid 1980's and concerned a machine that lived across the road from my grandma's in the north west of England. I had never seen one before and was mesmorised by it - it was a Philco-FORD washing machine and, from the looks, the dryer above would have been pretty much an exact match to it.

In the UK we had both Bendix and Philco machines sold sepeartely, but I had never seen one badged as a Philco-FORD before!

The main questions are:

what was a FORD badge doing on a washing machine sold in the UK? Or the US for that matter - I notice that it is also present on the dryer pictured above.

&

can any of you guys fill me in on what the machine I remember as a child was likely to have been (pictures would be great!).

I am pretty sure that the basic machine was based upon the more common Bendix LA, LS and combined washer-dryer LT, an advert for which I have attached - sorry that its a bit small - it was on ebay UK about six months ago and I have kicked myself many a time for not buying it.
Hey ho!

Any info on Philco-Ford and its machines would be very greatfully received, as that machine across the road was one of the more unusual machines that I encountered as a child.

Cheers
Paul

4-7-2007-12-16-6--matchboxpaul.jpg
 
If these are common failures, I would consider reinforcing the unsupported end of the fan blades to prevent another failure. A band or wire around the periphery (under light tension) would prevent excessive flexing and subsequent failure due to centrifugal forces.
 
Damn Jimmy - these are by far one of the coolest control panels of any washer/dryer combo from the 60's! So many different colors and buttons - this dryer is a smash! Thanks for posting the service lit info about the reverse tumble feature.

Looking forward to seeing the washer next to this dryer in the near future ~

Ben
 
Didn't we discuss that a Maytag fan fits perfectly in the Philco? Maybe I am on crack, but I know that there was some brand out there that could use the Maytag fan for a replacement...

Congrats! And Happy Birthday!
 

Similar threads

aquarius1984
My Memories
Replies
5
Views
228
frigilux
frigilux

Latest posts

Sponsored
UnlistMe
Back
Top