I have never seen one except in this picture...has anyone else? PAT COFFEY
Has Anyone seen a 1970 Kenmore Dryer with this console before?
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Yes, my aunt had one. It had a door that flipped up to cover the controls. I believe it was called a "match all" dryer
It's a derrivative of their "match all" dryer. The clue to this is the flip-down cover that would flip-up over the control knob and start button as seen in the photo. All the other ones I seen of this "ilk" had a more horizontal pitch of the console. Can tell this model has 3 cycles--one may be auto dry. The other two look like air only and timed dry. Not sure if this is a soft heat model or not. Gordon will probably be able to enlighten us on specific features given we have the model number.
Match-All KM Dryer
My Mom had this dryer from 1973-2010, it started out life as an electric dryer but I converted it to gas about 30 years ago, and my younger brother gave it to someone when I installed a new Cabrio gas steam dryer two years ago.
This dryer had an electronic sensor auto dry cycle that included the 2 1/2 hour Wrinkle-Guard cycle. I think that it claimed to be a soft-heat dryer but by around 1970 Sears abandoned the true variable input soft-heat that they had started using around 1963. These SH dryers no longer had dual heating elements in the electric models and no modulating input in the gas models, so the SH name was really a farce by this time.
My Mom had this dryer from 1973-2010, it started out life as an electric dryer but I converted it to gas about 30 years ago, and my younger brother gave it to someone when I installed a new Cabrio gas steam dryer two years ago.
This dryer had an electronic sensor auto dry cycle that included the 2 1/2 hour Wrinkle-Guard cycle. I think that it claimed to be a soft-heat dryer but by around 1970 Sears abandoned the true variable input soft-heat that they had started using around 1963. These SH dryers no longer had dual heating elements in the electric models and no modulating input in the gas models, so the SH name was really a farce by this time.
chaskelljr2
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Interesting 1970 Kenmore Dryer...
Question....
Did this Dryer also have a Full-Width Door??
If it did, I believe I saw a Dryer similar to this one sitting on a porch of a house in my neighborhood about 10 years ago. The Dryer I saw also had concealed controls just like THIS ONE.
--Charles--
Question....
Did this Dryer also have a Full-Width Door??
If it did, I believe I saw a Dryer similar to this one sitting on a porch of a house in my neighborhood about 10 years ago. The Dryer I saw also had concealed controls just like THIS ONE.
--Charles--
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My childhood friend had this dryer, and it did have the full width door. I do remember seeing the wording "Fabric Master" on the control hood when it was flipped up. This must have been a Match All variation for 1970 given both its rather blank console, and lack of the trademark Kenmore indent that normally surrounds the surface.
