FOR SALE:1950s(?) Pink Lady Kenmore dryer with room diffuser

[momssalvage]

FOR SALE:

Vintage 1950’s (?) PINK LADY KENMORE gas dryer with original room diffuser accessory/attachment.

Clean and in Very Nice condition! Small area of surface enamel is slightly chipped on front/right edge near lint lint trap. Othewise unit is in very good condition. Inside drum is clean with no rusting, no chipped enamel, or damage. Unit has been plugged in (110 power) and drum does rotate and tumble. We have no natural gas hookup so unfortunately, we cannot test or verify as to the operation of the heating element.

Asking $100.00 or best offer. Unit is located in Isanti, Minnesota (approximately 40 miles North of Minneapolis). Unit is not currently listed for sale anywhere else but may also be posted to Craigslist (Minneapolis) site in the near future if no immediate response is received from listing here on this website. Post any questions or comments here or direct your questions by email to Pam at [email protected].

 

[goatfarmer]

Nice dryer at a nice price. Good luck with the sale.

 

[thomasortega]

Gas dryer with a diffuser

Great, a 3-in-1 appliance!

Now you can dry your clothes, warm up the laundry room and kill yourself all at the same time! YAY!

 

[tolivac]

Would think that diffuser attachment would not be available for gas dryers-Happy CO poisoning!

 

[askolover]

Wish I had it...but distance prevents.

 

[combo52]

Gas Dryers and Carbon Monoxide

Gas dryers produce a fraction of the CO that gas ovens and cook-tops do and in many places in the world there is no requirement that gas ranges even have an outside vented hood let alone a requirement you actually turn the fan.

 

In out testing of gas dryers in my fairly small basement shop I have never gotten a reading on our CM detector running a gas dryer unvented in the winter, but a gas oven on the other will quickly give a reading of 35 PPM when you turn on the oven to 350F.

 

I do believe that gas AND electric dryers should be exhausted outside, probably the greater hazzard is the ultra-fine cotton lint that handling and drying clothing produces which is a carcinogen.

 

Low amounts of CO enter and leave your body all the time with little or no harm.

 

John L.

 

[akronman]

long ago

When I first bought my house and was NOT into the washer-dryer hobby, the previous owners left a gas dryer with an indoor water bucket sort of filter attachment. I used it for probably the first five years I lived here with no trouble at all, they used it all 9 years they lived here. Yes you should try to vent for sure, and my house is 1800 sq ft and 100 years old and leaks for sure, but an unvented gas dryer now and then is not a death sentence. Open a door or window for a few minutes in the laundry room. Now that I have 6 dryers installed, yes I vent everything.

 

[sfh074]

Vent free has been around forever ....

Good article that talks about all of the common concerns of vent-free appliances.

http://www.ventfree.org/content/view/42/18/

 

[fan-of-fans]

Interesting diffuser.

I remember when my parents bought their current home, the previous owners had no vent in the laundry room for a dryer. For a few years my parents had one of those buckets mentioned above. It was just a plastic rectangular container with a lid that the vent hose connected to with louvers on either side. It clearly said in the instructions for electric dryers only, which my parents was. I guess the water caught the lint and then the air would come out of the vents.

They used it for a few years then cut a hole in the drywall and concrete block to put in a proper vent. The previous owners only used it for a vacation home so only had a washer (a Filter Flo).

 

[fan-of-fans]

Also I see from wiring diagram, this has an ignitor for the gas instead of pilot light, plus an ozone lamp and a panel light. Very fancy!

 

[launderess]

Can we please remember

To place all these "for sale" listings where they belong, in "Shoppers Square"?

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