Introducing the 1956 Rheem Gas dryer!

[badgerdx]

How fantastic. I was looking at that emblem thinking, WHERE HAVE I HEARD RHEEM? and then I remembered that the MONSTEROUS furnace that had taken up a quarter of the laundry room in the house where I grew up and my parents still live was a RHEEM. Speaking of laundry rooms: I SECOND the request on the 63 Kenmore series 70, as that's the one that my family had growing up. The dryer FAR outlasted the washer, but I still thought it a fantastically handsome design. (Coppertone, baby!)

Congrats again on your amazing find. They just don't make them like that, anymore!

 

[badgerdx]

Ozone Lamp?

I have to ask: What is the purpose of the "ozone lamp"?

 

[kimball455]

Incredible find ..
Harry

 

[jetcone]

Badgerdx

really! Do try to keep up, we've just been discussing ozone lamps in another thread. They freshen the clothes by pumping free radicals into the air and oxidizing everything organic. They also kill all the polio in the clothes for safer washing.

 

And they always run beside a regular lamp for ballast. That was your next question.

 

We had a Rheem electric hot water heater, lasted for years.

 

So Kevin you mean to say this is your second Rheem dryer and bygted got the other one??

 

 

 

 

[tomturbomatic]

Norge had "stop 'n dry" drying for drying with or without heat without tumbling and the rack could be placed between two of the tub baffles at the top of the tub to hang things like nylons or it could be rested on two baffles in the lower part of the tub if you wanted to dry objects like tennis shoes, stuffed toy animals or sweaters.

Jon, Given the amount of air forced through the flame, I could imagine a gas dryer burning as clean or cleaner than a gas range with an oven burner nearly equivalent in BTUs. The lint would be the major factor, but probably not the fumes, anymore than they would be from a gas range.

 

[revvinkevin]

A very OLD thread!

 

 

Thank you to everyone for words of praise for saving this dryer....

 

However <span style="text-decoration: underline;">[COLOR=#ff0000; font-size: x-large]this is a resurrected thread from 2009 [/COLOR]</span>and I no longer have this dryer! 

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