Kenmore dryer, 60's, columbus OH
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If nobody gets this...
I might just have to pick it up just to save it.
If someone wants this, SPEAK UP BY MORNING! I don't want to step on anybody's toes. If someone wants to buy it from me for what I have in it (plus a reasonable mount for 3 hours of driving) I'd sell it because I need it like I need a hole in the head.
Dave
I might just have to pick it up just to save it.
If someone wants this, SPEAK UP BY MORNING! I don't want to step on anybody's toes. If someone wants to buy it from me for what I have in it (plus a reasonable mount for 3 hours of driving) I'd sell it because I need it like I need a hole in the head.
Dave
gas or electric?
no tell tale sign in this photo. Any idea what year it is, still with that bowed front?
no tell tale sign in this photo. Any idea what year it is, still with that bowed front?
classiccaprice
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59 or 60, I'd guess...
franksdad
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I'm thinking 1961.
1960 70 series electric dryer. Quite pretty if you ask me.
80 series would have had buttons similar to the 1959 Lady K, and the 90 series would have been the Lady K.
EDIT -
What's strange is this dryer doesn't exactly show up in the '60 Spring catalog that Greg scanned and posted a few years ago. The CL ad dryer doesn't have the lint storage system. I'm going to shoot in the dark and say that it might have been either a mid-year change or there were multiple 70 series models to choose from.
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80 series would have had buttons similar to the 1959 Lady K, and the 90 series would have been the Lady K.
EDIT -
What's strange is this dryer doesn't exactly show up in the '60 Spring catalog that Greg scanned and posted a few years ago. The CL ad dryer doesn't have the lint storage system. I'm going to shoot in the dark and say that it might have been either a mid-year change or there were multiple 70 series models to choose from.
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1960 Sears Roebuck & Co.
I won a 1960 Spring and Summer catalog on the 'Bay, actually two of them so I decided to sacrifice one for the greater good of the AW.org archives. Here are the laundry and dishwasher sections for our enjoyment!
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Hey Dave
Dave--let me know if you get it, maybe a swap here or something, who knows. IT looks wonderful, especially if it's gas--Mark
Dave--let me know if you get it, maybe a swap here or something, who knows. IT looks wonderful, especially if it's gas--Mark
No news yet.
I emailed yesterday but haven't heard anything.
Dave
I emailed yesterday but haven't heard anything.
Dave
The CL ad dryer doesn't have the lint storage system.
According to what I saw in the 1959 Sears Wishbook at wishbook.com this dryer is an early 1960 model because the one in the 1959 catalog has the standard lint trap likke the one on CL. They must not have gone to the lint storage system until sometime after the beginning of 1960. This washer and dryer was offered through Christmas 1962 but the 1962 models had gone to the straight front cabinets like all Kenmore laundry appliances had done by that time......PAT COFFEY
According to what I saw in the 1959 Sears Wishbook at wishbook.com this dryer is an early 1960 model because the one in the 1959 catalog has the standard lint trap likke the one on CL. They must not have gone to the lint storage system until sometime after the beginning of 1960. This washer and dryer was offered through Christmas 1962 but the 1962 models had gone to the straight front cabinets like all Kenmore laundry appliances had done by that time......PAT COFFEY
Attn Dave Volvoguy
Dave---Check all your emails, he has responded--it's electric and available
Dave---Check all your emails, he has responded--it's electric and available
well
I shall be getting this machine at 6 pm tonight, and am already getting ready to lie/fudge the numbers and claim it's 1959, like me. We'll see.
I shall be getting this machine at 6 pm tonight, and am already getting ready to lie/fudge the numbers and claim it's 1959, like me. We'll see.
Home
in my garage.
Seller said his mother-in-law bought it shortly after her 1959 son as born, has owned it ever since. He knows she routinely also hung clothes outdoor and in the basement, it never got much use. He also said he has been her handyman/repairman for 36 years of marriage to her daughter, he doesn't remember a single problem ever.
It's got that beautiful bowed front, but the actual base is rectangular, Sears seemed in between transition. or simply in-between. Or transitioning.
in my garage.
Seller said his mother-in-law bought it shortly after her 1959 son as born, has owned it ever since. He knows she routinely also hung clothes outdoor and in the basement, it never got much use. He also said he has been her handyman/repairman for 36 years of marriage to her daughter, he doesn't remember a single problem ever.
It's got that beautiful bowed front, but the actual base is rectangular, Sears seemed in between transition. or simply in-between. Or transitioning.
console
these are not buttons, merely a chart. And it's not a light diffuser above, merely solid decorated metal, darn it.
these are not buttons, merely a chart. And it's not a light diffuser above, merely solid decorated metal, darn it.
console
last 3 of 6 cycles
last 3 of 6 cycles
timer knob
Timer has 3 overall cycles. I am guessing this is heat-versus-timer?? I won't get it downstars and plugged in for a few, sorry, just guessing here.
My take is 3 cottons cycles ABC with minor cooldown. Then D is delicate, likely low temp. E and F are WnW cycles, and you can specifically feel a detent in the turning knob as it goes into COOL AIR at the end of WnW. My guess is high temp but significantly longer cool down than regular cotton ABC? And the detent lets you easily choose AIR ONLY at the end of the WnW.
Timer has 3 overall cycles. I am guessing this is heat-versus-timer?? I won't get it downstars and plugged in for a few, sorry, just guessing here.
My take is 3 cottons cycles ABC with minor cooldown. Then D is delicate, likely low temp. E and F are WnW cycles, and you can specifically feel a detent in the turning knob as it goes into COOL AIR at the end of WnW. My guess is high temp but significantly longer cool down than regular cotton ABC? And the detent lets you easily choose AIR ONLY at the end of the WnW.
catalog
Here is a Christmas 1959 catalog showing what's new for 60. According to the ad, it has a drum light and a germicidal SunFresh lamp, I haven''t gotten into the machine to find out. My Model #110.6018700, serial M500057, if anyone knows mfg date??? Model corresponds to the advertisement here as far as that 1870, so I believe sweztoyz is correct, 1960 Serries 700. The ad says "...automatically dried just right...." Who/when did the heat-v-timer design come out?
Here is a Christmas 1959 catalog showing what's new for 60. According to the ad, it has a drum light and a germicidal SunFresh lamp, I haven''t gotten into the machine to find out. My Model #110.6018700, serial M500057, if anyone knows mfg date??? Model corresponds to the advertisement here as far as that 1870, so I believe sweztoyz is correct, 1960 Serries 700. The ad says "...automatically dried just right...." Who/when did the heat-v-timer design come out?
wiring
haven't studied it yet, but can read enough for AUTOMATIC on the 3 cotton cycles, and TIMED on the 2 WashnWear. I had no idea there was timer-v-heater back then. And left side of chart shows High and Low temp, no more, no less
haven't studied it yet, but can read enough for AUTOMATIC on the 3 cotton cycles, and TIMED on the 2 WashnWear. I had no idea there was timer-v-heater back then. And left side of chart shows High and Low temp, no more, no less
lint
small lint filter, way near the top. No scented bottle.
small lint filter, way near the top. No scented bottle.
drum
not bad. Labeled as a 10# dryer
not bad. Labeled as a 10# dryer
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