Let's Install A Kenmore Automatic Washer

[gansky1]

Dial

 

[gansky1]

Full Frontal in Garage

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

That is too cool Greg!
What is the story?
It is so cool that you and Robert found a unused Kenmore very close to one another.
Love the instructions!
You followed them well!
Thanks for the pictures!
Brent

 

[gansky1]

You-Crate-It was awesome!

 

[7080swashertalk]

I've had about 4 of these models back in 1981ish, when I first started refurbishing appliances. Most in avacodo and with a sudsaver,
but NONE were as beautiful and I'm sure as functional, as yours.

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

It came in two crates?!
Just kidding.....
What else did you find?
This is fun!
Thanks
Brent

 

[gansky1]

This is the set from Craigslist - Long Island, NY. The seller didn't give any history of this set and had come down on the price from a few months back when they first appeared for sale so I decided that new, never used machines from the 60's don't come along every day...and here they are!

This is the 67 Lady Kenmore dryer as I pulled it from the YouCrate container.

 

[gansky1]

The installation instructions are a little less complicated - starting with this step:

 

[gansky1]

Should I skip this? Noooo...

 

[7080swashertalk]

Not one,
but 2.

GUSH, GUSH, GUSH!!!!!!

(luv your garage by the way)

 

[peteski50]

Kenmore!

Greg,
This is a real beautiful Kenmore. I knew somone that had a very simular one but without the extra rinse feature.
Best Wishes,
Peter

 

[7080swashertalk]

look at the gleam in that dryer drum, and no scorching on the heater. For dryer 40 years old, WOW.

What is it about that new appliance smell?
I remember getting the last of the belt drive LK in 1986 in Black.
The dryer was new and it just had this smell of newness.

 

[gansky1]

Clean drum! Look at that shine!

 

[gansky1]

1967 Lady Kenmore

Controls

 

[gansky1]

Together, not a matched set but hey - never used!!

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

Oh Greg this is an awesome find for you!
I love the dryer. I think this the best dryer for drying accuracy that Kenmore ever had! Gas or Electric! Fast, and gentle on clothes. I never see this vintage!
How long did they make this drying system. I know some of the dryers, the sensor "moved" around the drum and even baffles at one point.
Awesome set!
Fun!
Thanks.
Brent

 

[gansky1]

I haven't dried a "whole" load in it yet - this is clothesline season and I'm old and set in my ways. We don't need to use the dryer - no use wearing it out when the sun and wind will do the work for free. Hee hee.

 

[angus]

Interesting finds. That washer was the identical washer our next door neighbor got in 69-70. And that dryer was our first dryer that my parents bought at the Sears Scratch & Dent outlet in West Haven in 1969. It was obviously two years old, but clearly never used. The electronic sensor dried flawlessly and it was a very quiet machine. I do miss that bubble gum smell of the air freshener.....

 

[trainguy]

Beautiful pieces Greg. Congrats and enjoy!

 

[Brent-Aucoin]

Hee Hee Hee!

Do you pull your racks out of your KDS-18 so they can dry on the deck to save? Well if you do, do they dry completely?
I need to follow in your footsteps, but I don't have a line up in the yard yet.
Love the set! Keep looking at them. Hope you don't mind.
Brent