My first old find

[kenmore70]

Here's my first vintage machine that I actually found locally on my own after about seven months of looking around. It's a Kenmore Model 110.6218500 dryer which still works. It was still being used by the 93 old woman who just passed away recently and was being sold by her estate. For $50 I think it was worth it. She and her husband, who passed away about 25 years ago had no children, so I guess this didn't get a lot of use, probably why it was still working. It will need some cleaning up but the console is in pretty good shape, inside not so much but I guess that's to be expected. [this post was last edited: 7/28/2013-16:46]

 

[kenmore70]

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[kenmore70]

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[tomturbomatic]

Congratulations! Beautiful control panel.

You can paint the drum with two part epoxy paint and it will last for the rest of the dryer's life.

 

[akronman]

Wow

Congratulations on a great find. Any dryer that age can use a thorough cleaning/de-linting of the entire blower housing, exhaust tubes,  lint filter assembly/chute, everything. Also get dust and crud off the motor, a few drops of oil on each end of the motor bearings, a few more drops on the drum's main bearing(s)and you have a dryer for another 50 years. That console is quite nice, and you've got numerous heat levels, etc, a very capable and good looking dryer.

 

[combo52]

Nice Early 1960s KM Dryer

Congratulations on finding a rare KM dryer, this dryer should be from around 1962 and should also be a fairly easy to restore machine. And while it would be theoretically possible to keep it running for another 50 years I dough that anyone would want to use this dryer much as they were usually pretty noisy and slow and used about 25% more electricity than other electric dryers then and now. If you need any parts or technical help for it that you can't find easily get in touch with me , John.

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Well, since it IS his first vintage find, maybe he will use it a bit. Lets let him enjoy his intro post...

RCD