Estate Sale Find

[angus]

There have been few estate sales in my area since winter and not much to offer when there was one. Today, saw two interesting items. The first was a pull out GE dishwasher which looked like it hadn't really been used that much and in fine cosmetic shape. Encouraged, I proceeded to the basement and in the far corner spotted a familiar silhouette and control panel. Since there was a lot of stuff piled up around I couldn't see the whole thing and thought I was hallucinating. It couldn't possibly be a Norge Timeline washer could it? Well, once I maneuvered through the maze, I found that it was not a washer, but a Norge Timeline dryer. The owner had marked the side of the control panel with a tag that noted an "in service date" of December 17, 1955 and a price of $179. Cosmetic shape was fine but could use a good cleaning and polishing, and the machine worked - nice and quiet. The unusual thing was that there was no outside vent, but rather the bottom of the front near the floor had a screen that ran the entire width of the front and tilted out. Seems like the dryer exhausted that way. Could that have been a factory set up or something the owner did "after market"? Anyway, would love to have that just for posterity if nothing else, but alas that was not for sale. Neither was the GE dishwasher. Then of course there would be the disconnecting of the hard wired electrical cord and moving the dryer, etc... Still, there must be a way. Have to think about this.

 

[tomturbomatic]

No, you are right about the Norge. On the fold down panel that allowed access to the lint screen there was a bracket that, when turned 90 degrees, would keep the panel half way open in an upward tilted position so that the air blown through the large lint screen would then be deflected upward out the front of the dryer. The problem with it was that with that access door open, the air did not pass across the full depth of the lint screen on the way to the back of the dryer where the vent was so it sort of short circuited and more lint was blown through the screen and out into the room. Neighbors had one used like that and there was a big cast iron drain pipe near the basement ceiling that was flocked white on the side facing the dryer. The owner must have put the full width screen in the opening because all the dryer would have had originally was the pull out lint screen behind that panel.

 

[arbilab]

Mid 50s we vented a Westy into a pan of water since the house had no vent provision. About 60% effective trapping residual lint. (Homebuilders seldom think about usability until codes force them to.)