Montgomery Ward Heavy Duty Electric Dryer

[launderess]

Cannot tell the age, this listing may belong in another room.

L.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Montgomery-Ward...615583268QQcategoryZ71254QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[appnut]

anywhre from late 80s to mid 90s. It's a WCI product.

 

[jaxsunst]

My first new set was this dryer and the matching washer. I bought them in 1986, and sold them in 1988 during my divorce.

 

[maytagbear]

Seller sez:

"it needs a chord."

I thought WCI discontinued the chiming dryer?

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[alr2903]

maytag bear

Its probably the brother that kept the "ringer" washer. alr2903 ( that ebay posting of RINGER washer just about does me in)

 

[toggleswitch]

Up on the choppin block is a electric dryer..........
With the price of (natural) gas I was going to hook it up.

HELLO?

Natural gas is STILL less expensive to run in most parts of the country because electricity is MADE from natural gas (or fuel oil). There are HUGE efficiency losses in making electricity from fossil fuels; approx 2/3 of the total energy consumed is wasted as heat when making electricity. (Perhaps less loss in these most recent years). THAT MEANS, right off the bat, electric costs three times more than gas to to use If natural gas or fuel oil is the source of power for electricity.

It takes less (natural) gas to heat the machine DIRECTLY than it takes to create the electricity used to heat it when natural gas is the source of the electricity's energy.

ERGO:

NO MATTER WHAT THE PRICE OF NATURAL GAS IS... ELECTRICITY THAT IS MADE FROM IT WILL BE ALWAYS BE PRICED HIGHER. (i.e. more expensive to use /run)

Here is the way I believe electric dryers can/may save over gas ones; when the venting is redirected indoors in the winter and the clothesline is used int he summer.

*WHEW* I feel better now. LOL

 

[stainfighter]

we had one like it, 1992 vintage

we had one that we bought used in 1996. Okay for a dryer except the annoying end-of-cycle signal with a LOUD (and I do mean LOUD) buzzer. Aside from the buzzer it was pretty good. I should have figured out how to disable the buzzer and kept it. What I wish I knew then that I know now...the matching washer was not all that great unless if you did a half load with the full-load water setting. Not much rollover at all, just kind of 'stirred' the clothes.