Craigslist turquoise TOL MT Dryer $100
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macboy91si
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I have also come to want one of these. John and I were just talking about this last night and poor Kevin spent most of the wash-in trip listeneing to me ozze of his. I think these are the neatest dryers. BOTH timed AND electronic. This is something that Maytag should have stuck with, when working, this is a VERY flexible dryer.
It's interesting that the next step up was the 750 push-button, was no other dial-based electronic dryer made until the 06 series in 1966? My 65 Highlander 502 is electrnonic but it's lacking a dial and it's in the Highlander cabinet. If you had say an A700, is this the only electronic control dryer that would match it? I noticed that the DE700 and DE702 were timed only.
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-Tim
I have also come to want one of these. John and I were just talking about this last night and poor Kevin spent most of the wash-in trip listeneing to me ozze of his. I think these are the neatest dryers. BOTH timed AND electronic. This is something that Maytag should have stuck with, when working, this is a VERY flexible dryer.
It's interesting that the next step up was the 750 push-button, was no other dial-based electronic dryer made until the 06 series in 1966? My 65 Highlander 502 is electrnonic but it's lacking a dial and it's in the Highlander cabinet. If you had say an A700, is this the only electronic control dryer that would match it? I noticed that the DE700 and DE702 were timed only.
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-Tim
This has a neat dial, but the Pre-HOH dryers were bigger and check rated by CU.
This dryer had one of the best control dials Maytag ever featured. You had a choice between automatic and timed settings which seemed to go away by the time the "Washpower Automatics" showed up.
macboy91si
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Timed and Automatic
It wasn't until I think the A407 came out in the 70's that this reappeared. The 407 was a thermostatic auto-dry machine, but the flexibility was nice, it had timed heat and air and automatic perm. press and regular cycles. The 408 bigload that came after added 2 heat setting to the control panel, I own 1 of each.
I've always wondered though, why Maytag made so many similar dryers. I mean the DE106, DE306 and DE406 (or gas respectively) were as far as I can tell the same dryer? The DE106 lacked chrome finish, but that's it, maybe someone can enlighten me to that.
But yeah, while the electronic control was nice, I always thought it made the upper end Maytags seem a bit flat featured. They got a little better when the 606 & 806 became 608 & 808 and added dryness and temp selections. Maybe I'm too picky.
-Tim
It wasn't until I think the A407 came out in the 70's that this reappeared. The 407 was a thermostatic auto-dry machine, but the flexibility was nice, it had timed heat and air and automatic perm. press and regular cycles. The 408 bigload that came after added 2 heat setting to the control panel, I own 1 of each.
I've always wondered though, why Maytag made so many similar dryers. I mean the DE106, DE306 and DE406 (or gas respectively) were as far as I can tell the same dryer? The DE106 lacked chrome finish, but that's it, maybe someone can enlighten me to that.
But yeah, while the electronic control was nice, I always thought it made the upper end Maytags seem a bit flat featured. They got a little better when the 606 & 806 became 608 & 808 and added dryness and temp selections. Maybe I'm too picky.
-Tim
Yeah Tim... you are just too picky!
Kevin
macboy91si
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Me Picky?
Oh listen to you with your Yeller and PANK Maytags over there! Plus you have actually HAVE the DG808 dryer with the buttons and the Supa fancy all computerizamdated fickled electronical one. I'm surprised they haven't attacked the poor KA dryer. I think there's a reason that auto-dry on the KA is broken... Fear of it's life...
-Tim
Oh listen to you with your Yeller and PANK Maytags over there! Plus you have actually HAVE the DG808 dryer with the buttons and the Supa fancy all computerizamdated fickled electronical one. I'm surprised they haven't attacked the poor KA dryer. I think there's a reason that auto-dry on the KA is broken... Fear of it's life...
-Tim
Maytag decided to go with the Highlander electronic control instead of this more sophisticated one, probably because the Highlander control was cheaper and less troublesome. Those Highlander dryers with just the 4 buttons next to the navel on the control panel were the height of low style. They were also the machines with the uber cheap door plug instead of an inner panel for the door. You have to hand it to Maytag, when they made somethng for the low end of the line, it looked it. Their lower end models looked like they were designed by the Amish (no offense to the Amish), but Spartan took on new meaning--sorta like those dryers Sears advertised for $99.00.
applianceguy47
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Back when, Maytag wasn't about fly-by-night frills and shit. The way they were, was really a Good example of America that just seems gone, now.
They were about dependability and reliability. Kind of like the subtle distinction of a Lincoln Towncar versus the cheap chrome of a Cadillac.
Think of them as the dependability people. Until Whirlpool bought them and now, just for forget them.
Or more appropriately, with the advent of the "center dial" 'pools, think of them as the pandering people.
They were about dependability and reliability. Kind of like the subtle distinction of a Lincoln Towncar versus the cheap chrome of a Cadillac.
Think of them as the dependability people. Until Whirlpool bought them and now, just for forget them.
Or more appropriately, with the advent of the "center dial" 'pools, think of them as the pandering people.
macboy91si
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Highlander
I quite like the Highlander styling. But there seem to be 2 different types of people, those who like lights and buttons and chrome and those who can appreciate austere beauty. I've never found the overall look of the Highlanders offensive in any way really. I think it's an interesting design and proof that Maytag did make a sturdy machine that didn't double as a chromed desk lamp. Like any machine, especially in that era, you could get real BOL both in features and looks. All makes and models made their "ugly duckling", I just don't think the smooth corners and flat tops looked that bad on these.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you're not a fan in general of BOL machines, judging also from some of your previous posts. It seems that the higher-end models are more collectible in general amongst us, but there are some of us that really like the beauty in a functional BOL machine, and when it comes to ugly, barebones and crude, I just don't think the Highlander fits the lowest bill.
-Tim
I quite like the Highlander styling. But there seem to be 2 different types of people, those who like lights and buttons and chrome and those who can appreciate austere beauty. I've never found the overall look of the Highlanders offensive in any way really. I think it's an interesting design and proof that Maytag did make a sturdy machine that didn't double as a chromed desk lamp. Like any machine, especially in that era, you could get real BOL both in features and looks. All makes and models made their "ugly duckling", I just don't think the smooth corners and flat tops looked that bad on these.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you're not a fan in general of BOL machines, judging also from some of your previous posts. It seems that the higher-end models are more collectible in general amongst us, but there are some of us that really like the beauty in a functional BOL machine, and when it comes to ugly, barebones and crude, I just don't think the Highlander fits the lowest bill.
-Tim
