Found and bought off C/L: Coppertone 1971 Kenmore 800 dryer...

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I found this on Craig's List in Truckee and couldn't resist it. The price was very reasonable and I knew it's history. Winner! Made the drive up the hill and met the seller. I think it was his Mother In Law's. I asked the seller on the odd chance if the matching washer existed. Bummer, He said it died about 4-5 years ago and was replaced with a run of the mill W/P Direct Drive. Even bigger bummer: He remembered that the washer was an exact match to the dryer and he also remembered that it had >two< drain hoses! AARRGGHH! A Sud Saver! That sucks!

M/N 110.7108801C
S/N M13103410

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The console... A single heat dryer with the P/P pulser motor . I ran it and she tumbles nice and quiet with the heat temp on the money. Some pitting on the chrome but no dings/dents and the paint is in excellent shape.

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A sight for the darkened laundry room...

Nice dryer. I actually picked her up as a surprise for a good friend in mind so we'll see if he wants her. (Yeah, 'if...' Funny!) Otherwise, I'll have to find a mate for her. Add that to the list of stag dryers I have like the Maytag 641c and CDE906... sigh...

RCD

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Andy, that's the matching dryer to the childhood washer JasonL and I both had. I am wondering if these 800 dryers had a "variation" in their seeries. The last one I saw like this had a knits setting. However, it still was a Soft Heat dryer just like this one. Does the electronic sensor still work? The Wrinkle Guard tumbled every 5 minutse for 2.5 hours. That console is almost perfict. I always referred to that color around the dials as some kind of greenish gold.
 
Personally, and I'm biased, this was the last of the great non-LK washer/dryer pairs before they started taking away all the chrome, silver, lights, and big knobs.
 
I'd forgotten about this until now, but our washer arrived in February or March of 1971. My mom had a parakeet named Roberta whose cage hung in the breakfast room next to the laundry room. She'd start chirping and singing away when the Kenmore finished draining the tub of water and also while it was spinning. I guess that famous Kenmore pitch just got her to singing. It was kinda funny.
 
One of my neighbors up the street had the 800 set in Avocado. They got this in 1972; was her first automatic. Previous to this she used a Maytag wringer and a late 50's Kenmore dryer. I believe it had the Roto-Swirl agitator. They replaced them sometime in the mid 80's with another Kenmore set in Almond. I remember she didn't like the Dual-Action agitator in the new machine, and had it replaced with a Super Surgilator. I think she still has this Almond set.
 
Drum finish.....

It's either baked enamel or acrylic. Later machines had powder coated drums from 1984 or so. The enamel or acrylic finishes can be repained with spray cans of FSP drum paint, but I've heard of mixed results with it.

Gordon
 
This is a very nice machine Drew. I saw it on CL as well. Can the bulkhead on these machines be repainted with a paint that won't chip off. Epoxy?? This has a beautiful control panel. I remember these machines and more of that era well. They were very quiet and had a nice soft heat. We had a 1972 Whirlpool dryer with the variable speed tumbling. It had a lever that you moved up and down on the right side of the control panel. It was a great dryer. Thanks again for everything. Dan
 
>two< drain hoses! AARRGGHH! A Sud Saver! That sucks!

Indeed it does. Cryin' in my coffee for you, Drew.

Fear not, though, another one will come along, even if it takes a while.
 
another one will come along, even if it takes a while.

Sooner than later, if I'm any judge of Gordon's persistance. He'll be the proud papa of this one, too. If this keeps up, I'll have to look into one of those air powered delivery systems between Reno and Charlotte kinda like the one at the drive thru window at the bank. Just drop an appliance into the cartridge and push the 'send' button...

RCD
 
air powered delivery systems between Reno and Charlotte kind

I hear ya. I keep waiting for that super fax machine in the Chrighon novel and film, Timeline, where you can basically fax yourself--or a washing machine (yuk yuk)--back and forth thru time. Imagine how easy wash-in travel would be: we'd all just fax ourselves. We could have them all the time. Come to Buffalo for a couple hours this afternoon. I've got ten loads to do. Okay I'm free. RHEEEEEEEEEEE. Here I am. YAY
 
Appnut re: Roberta

"I'd forgotten about this until now, but our washer arrived in February or March of 1971. My mom had a parakeet named Roberta whose cage hung in the breakfast room next to the laundry room. She'd start chirping and singing away when the Kenmore finished draining the tub of water and also while it was spinning. I guess that famous Kenmore pitch just got her to singing. It was kinda funny."

I wonder if maybe the sound of the pump after the tub was drained made Roberta sing. WP/KM machines from that time had pumps that were well-heard when starved for water. According to Gordon (KenmoreGuy), WP made numerous different pumps through the years, some louder than others. I recall some non-suds-saver Inglis/KM washers made in the early 70's with pumps that made a rhythmic noise (glurrrk-glurrrk-glurrrk) that would definately get a parakeet's attention.

Gary "InglisCanada"
 

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