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Great looking dryer Jimmy. I remember when they found that one, not long ago. Glad to see that it found a good home.
 
Very nice dryer! I cant imagine why they would use bakelite for the fan. It musta got off balance with lint build up and then blew apart. I have never seen anything like that. That fan looks like an old Speed Queen fan the kind that had the fan ,heater and motor and a belt to drive the fan. I just wonder how the 2 speeds for the high and low airflow were and how much air did it pull thru the drum.
I know when I had the Frigidaire dryer that had the reverse tumble feature the dryer would stop with the heater on and then reverse for something like 20 seconds and then reverse back to normal direction. That created a blast furnace effect on the load and the back of the dryer got discolored from the heat build up,.
Best of luck and let us know how you make out with the dryer.
 
Happy Birthday, Jimmy =- what a great gift..interesting that Philco kept the Custom Imperial as their top of the line for the last few years in the laundry business. I have the 1965 book and they weren't using Ford as part of the logo then - and I recall that my friend's Custom Imperial washer didn't have the Ford logo either -yet they didn't get the washer until 1967 - perhaps they got a deal on it since the father worked for Firestone.

Ethel ( on the "checkerboard britches"): "...oh I was wondering what to wear to all those smart dinner parties I give"..

Lucy: Look, wear them with an off the shoulder peasant blouse, a big crushy belt and ballet slippers and you're all set!.

Ethel: For what, Halloween???
 
Happy Birthday, Jimmy! You received some very nice gifts. I expect there will be some merriment at your mom's newly restored digs reminiscent of the past, replete with hot dogs, cake and ice cream, pin the tail on the donkey, and dropping clothespins into milk bottles, no? ;-)
 
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Jimmy I know you like your philco's and thanks to a good friend you have another addition to your collection. I like others will keep my eyes open for the "Match" and of course If I find it youll be the first to know Happy Birthday Dude
 
not to change the subject or anything, but...........

HOLY COW! AN AIRWAY SANITIZOR!!!! My parents still have one of those with the little accessory holster that hangs on the handle!

I totally forgot about that thing until I saw it peeking around the corner in Post# 201862!

Davy
 
Looks very nice Jimmy!

Happy Birthday a little late too, from one Aries to another!

Congrats on the great find!
 
Another late Happy Birthday Wish

From one Philco lover to another, congrats! So cool you have the correct parts to fix it too.

Scott
 
~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.

Did not see a direct response to this.....
but it can be seen in the pictured manual

Philco was a subsidiary of Ford.
Frigidaire was a divison or subsidiary of General Motors.
Air-Temp was a D or S of Chrysler.
 
...and Norge was Borg Warner, which I think did brakes or transmissions or some such thing. Interesting about washers and cars. I was a youngun when Ford owned Philco, and I always thought it was funny to see that car emblem on appliances.
 
501s for your dyer.

I just noticed the window locks in the first pic/panel holding the service/access panel closed.

I guess someone wanted easy & frequent access.
 
Extras

I am sorry for not keeping in touch. I have some extra stuff if you or anyone wants them. Paragraph: I like the Philco.
 
Jimmy, Happy Birthday and congrats on the dryer. That is the control panel that was on our 67 Duomatic with the nice colors and a few more buttons.

For those wondering about the fan: The fan moved maximum air in one direction and a smaller amount of air in the reverse direction. When the motor paused, the heat had to shut off. With an electric element, it was not so bad, but in a gas dryer all of that relighting could waste a lot of time. That is why the speed switch was offered. High speed was tumble in only the direction where the fan moved the most air. Low speed was with the motor reversed and the fan blowing a smaller amount of air and reversing tumbling gave you both.
 
Hi Tom, thanks for the BD greetings. Yes the Philco dryer has a rather strange motor in it. Its a two speed reversing motor, but its reverse speed is slower than the fwd speed. Fwd speed is the standard 1725rpm, but reverse speed (or if LOW speed drying is selected) is approx 1475rpm. Since the fan reverses with the motor, there is almost no pitch (angle) on the fan blades. Most all fan blades in other dryers have some pitch or angle to the blades. This is why no other fan will really work in this dryer. The reverse tumbling is a very interesting concept and would probably help keep clothes from tangling. All in all, its a fabulous dryer, and Philco/Ford went all out to realy try to make a glamorous dryer, when dryers as a rule are not real exciting........
 
Fascinating details keep coming out on these gorgeous Philco machines.

Reverse tumble does help. My F&P topload dryer looks to have the same kind of blower with no pitch to the blades. I can't say for sure that the reverse on it is a slower speed, but it may be as reverse is a leeeeetle bit quieter than forward.
 

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