Heads Up! Vintage Hamilton Clothes Dryer

[launderess]

For those who like broiling their wash dry.... *LOL*

https://hibid.com/lot/174364238/vintage-hamilton-working-clothes-dryer?ref=lot-list

 

[tomturbomatic]

I wonder if that is a gas model. I can't tell if the little thing on top is the strange flue they put on the earliest gas models where the burner heated a radiant plate and the products of combustion did not flow through the dryer. I tried enlarging the picture with the model plate but could not read it.

 

[maytag85]

Reply #1

It’s electric.

 

[launderess]

Someone should have it; dryer is rather flexible as can be wired for either 115v/1650 watts or 115v-230v watts at 4700 watts.

Few of one's vintage ironers or presses have 1650 watts of power, that must have been upper limit back then to be in compliance with code or something.

In comparison later compact or portable dryers by Whirlpool and others maxed out then at 1450 watts.