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[DADoES]

Clarification? Awaiting more pics ...

Call me dense, but I'm still not quite getting it. I understand there's a tube going *into* the collection bag, but how does the airflow exit the bag? If there's no exit, seems like the bag would inflate to a positive-pressure situation that would impede depositing of lint.

 

[Dick_S.]

See where my finger on my left arm is holding the lower portion of the tray. Okay, then check out the end of the pink bag and find what appears to be a white circle. That is all fine nylon mesh where the air coming thru the bag and depositing the lint exits.

 

[frigilux]

Dick-- What model 1960 KM dryer is that? a Model 70, maybe? I know it's not the Model 80 (which I grew up with). Is there a timer dial on the right side of the console that's hidden in the pic?

 

[lightedcontrols]

Dick S ! A match to your Kenmore!!!

Roanoke Robert has the match to your dryer! You might want to give him a call so that one way or another they could end up as a matched set.

Mark

Robert's phone number is: 540-309-1218
PS Your email address does not seem to work.

 

[Dick_S.]

Off the computer yesterday and busy with Chris doing lots of things including loading washers on the longbed for my journey up north starting Wednesday but am back now and will try and catch up with the questions asked.

Robert- I am surprised that those bags are so rare these days. Since posting the pix and reading the posts a bit of my memory is coming back and I'm beginning to think somewhere tucked away I have a package of those bags from Sears.

Toggleswitch you are correct--that was the place we decided to put the diswasher which required the minimum amount of remodeling. It worked out well and wasn't inconvenient at all. I don't remember what brand it was but I recollect it did a good job on the dishes and tons of cocktail glasses. ((--::

Frigilux-I don't remember the model of the dryer but it didn't have a timed cycle modifier-you just turned the dial to the corresponding letter and let her rip!

Mark-I don't believe what you just posted! A real shocker! Yes, and I just found out prior to your mention of my outdated email address that I never edited my profile when I went to DSL last fall! Shame on me! AND I need to sit down and write you. I will. It's been a while. And thanks a million once again.

 

[bajaespuma]

More, more, more

Oh come on folks! You can do better than this! More brands! More pictures! Here's another candidate, right in my bailiwick, TOL Ge's from the early sixties, the introduction of the minibasket!!

 

[gansky1]

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[tomturbomatic]

I believe the Kenmore lint storage system used a centrifugal separator to pull the lint out of the main exhaust stream and send it to the bag with only a small portion of the exhaust air. The air from the bag chamber is sucked back into the dryer and squirted out with the rest of the exhaust.

 

[bajaespuma]

A little too full, don't you think?

It's like the artist on that WARD's ad had never seen a washer full of water before. Jeez, leave the airbrush at home.

 

[partscounterman]

Don't blame the artist!

I think one of our members here probably "tinkered" with the pressure switch! (Timmy! Quit fiddling with the washer knobs!)

 

[gansky1]

"OUR best washer won OUR excellence award."

DUH.

 

[gmmcnair]

LOL gansky1

...good point, but they were a very nice, effective, and versatile washer (albeit they were as noisy as a threshing machine).

I would love to find one of these (or a similar Norge, Magic Chef, Admiral, Wizard/Citation) for a daily driver. They were wicked tough and washed (and extracted) like a dream from what I remember.

 

[gansky1]

I saw one of these at St Vince's a few years back and passed it up. TOL, and the most lovely shade of avocado...

 

[rinso]

When it came to placebo buttons and bells an whistles, no one did a better job of it than Lady Kenmore. Year after model year, she dressed up the outsides of her appliances to reflect the space age, all while running WW2 technology in her innards. It's was all very effective marketing, and only the Philco pictured in this thread, did a comparable job of the making a washer look like a multi-speed blender. (I'm surprised they don't have a button labeled "puree.") I loved it all at the time, and sort of miss those old "Just Push the Button" days.

 

[brettsomers]

yet maytag was very consistent in their minimalism. should be a thread on the PLAINEST 60s/70s washers (NOT necessarily BOL).

 

[gmmcnair]

Puree

Isn't Puree a setting on modern, direct drive Kenmore/Whirlpool washers? Wait, no, that's the Heavy Duty setting...same thing...LOL.

*Ducks and Hides*

 

[tomturbomatic]

Rinso, I agree with you about Kenmore's repackaging old technology under new control panels.

 

[knitwits1975]

Quite frankly, I am more in agreement to the "jukebox" theory. Because these machines looked so musical. Heck, they probably were, in their own way of course.

 

[toggleswitch]

Isn't Puree a setting on modern, direct drive Kenmore/Whirlpool washers?

*CLAP*
*CLAP*
*CLAP
*CLAP*

Modern GE's are no better!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Jukebox theory

There was nothing musical about Kenmore's unbalance buzzer; what an awful noise!