Bizarre Dryer

[mattywashboy]

Hi guys, just surfin Australian Ebay and came across this bizarre looking dryer, i have never seen one like this before, just thought i would make it known, here is the link:

have fun guys!
Matty

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Jet-Clothes-Dryer_W0QQitemZ7551354963QQcategoryZ20714QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[JerseyMike]

Wow!

Boy that does that bring back memories! My mother had one that looked very similar to this. Her's was an earlier model (from the 1950's). The timer dial was on the inside back wall and the drying rack was u-shaped and was uncoated metal of some sort. You used it by putting one piece of folded laundry on the bottom of the dryer. (The bottom of the dryer consisted of a screen that was over a fan that was between a heating element (which glowed like the heating element in a toaster. (It was a 120 volt dryer and didn't have a grounding plug.) The rest of the wet laundry was draped over the rack. You set the timer and closed the lid, which would be forced up from the blowing fan and fall back down with a thud. (That's how it vented; the dryer was placed next to an open window when in use.) My mom hates dryers (she still uses a clothesline) so she gave the dryer to a neighbor when my sister was out of diapers. You used hear the dryer thumping away on rainy days! We eventually moved away from that neighborhood and I have no idea what happened to the dryer. My mom has no idea who made the dryer. I've always regretted the fact that she gave it away.

Mike

 

[mattywashboy]

cool, i personally prefer the tumble dryers, they fluff things up more, mines fun to watch, especially when it stops dead and then starts up again in the other direction, there is a rather long gap of time between the tumbles and at first i thought it had brokedn but then it started up again (*phew*). Also in this hot Australian climate, if you hang things out they dry too quickly and then end up over drying, my F&P dryer is sensor controlled so it turns off when the clothes are just right
Yay for dryer technology!
Matty

 

[tomturbomatic]

My very first apartment was total electric and had a couple of nifty electrical gadgets available to builders. In the bathroom was a metal-door, that opened into a wall cabinet that was a small 110 volt dry 'em while they hang, clothes dryer. It would warm a towel.

 

[jetcone]

Matty

In 1981 when I stayed up at Scarborough Beach just north of you I did a load of laundry at the Motel on the beach. And they had a Maytag washer, BUT they had this BIZZARE dryer! It was a floor to ceiling Metal shower stall with a door and metal (rusty) racks inside. You hung your load all over the place and a very puny heater-blower wafted hot air up over them through a vent at the top.
IT TOOK FOREVER! My underware took 3 Hours!! Now I know Maytags never spun worth a darn but 3 HOURS!
I missed the Scarborough Tour Bus!!

I did enjoy the beach though! Absolutely the best beach I have ever been to outside of the one I grew up on Nauset on Cape Cod.

Jetcone

 

[mattywashboy]

yeah, whenever my washer or dryer is down, i use that laundromat only i think they must have removed that particular dryer. When i first moved outta home i moved in with some friends of mine and they had a drying cabinet out back, at first i thought it was a refrigerator but when i opened it, it had racks inside. It had a very powerful fan blower that would dry my heavy work pants in 30 mins. The only thing was that there were three of us and we each had a 'laundry week' where it was our turn to do the laundry that week and if it was raining we could not fit a whole load in there. I ended up using the big dryers in that famous landromat on Scarbourough Beach.
Btw, i live in a suburb called Hillarys which is just above Scarborough, bout a 10 min drive and a 30 min cycle, an absolutely beautiful bech, i still pinch myself when i see it, just to check that i'm really there

 

[foraloysius]

Drying cabinets are still sold in Scandinavia. I've seen them overhere in Holland too, but that must have been more than 20 years ago.

 

[mattywashboy]

thats exactly what it looked like, only a lot older and the timer was broken so it didn't turn itself off, other than that it was a good dryer

 

[Cybrvanr]

I remember seeing a "Pimp my Ride" and they installed one of those style dryers in the back of surfer kid's van they fixed up. I was wondering how they work...I had never seen a top-loading dryer before and couldn't for the life of me figure out how it worked! I was also trying to figure out how in the heck they were getting so much power to run it off of in a van!