GE combo

[turquoisedude]

208 rpm on the '55 and '56 models. Drip dry was definitely the term... LOL

I can't think of a Combo that did not offer a 'wash only' option - but I've only ever seriously messed with GE, Bendix, and Kenmore combos.

 

[peteski50]

Combo!

Every combo that I ever saw had a wash only option!

 

[tomturbomatic]

With the first Easy Combomatics the stopping point of the cycle depended on where you set the stop pointer on the dial. Gladys Taber, who wrote a column for Ladies' Home Urinal told of her daughter and family coming to visit one weekend. Only the housekeeper operated the machine, but she was not there so they loaded it up and started it. Needless to say, the end of the cycle was eagerly anticipated as the family had to get back to the city. So the thing finally stopped and while they were preparing to unload, it, it started again and they rescued semi soggy baby things from it. Obviously, they had messed with the STOP POINTER. The sadder part of the story was that she was the Equipment Editor.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The Great Big 33" wide Lady Kenmore Combo had auto dry cycles as well as timed ones like for wash 'n wear so you would be there when it stopped. Their dryers, along with WP dryers, had a timed wash 'n wear cycle for the same reason. The Lady had a setting on the dry timer dial for "wash only" which was not an auto dry cycle, but it was not marked in minutes. It gave a 20 minute high heat dry cycle to keep the dripping to a minimum if you line dried a load. They knew that extracting water from fabrics in that machine was about as possible as pumping enough water out of the Titanic to keep it afloat so they attacked it with heat. Unless there was a failure, I doubt that many owners skipped the dry cycle.