Instructions for the air freshener on 1960 Kenmore dryers (from owner's manual). I grew up with the Model 80. Thanks to gansky1 for this visual from a 2007 thread on his '60 Lady K.
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I'll tell you something. If you ever find one of these dryers with one of these bottles still in it, DO NOT get any of it on you. The smell is horrible and it does not wash out easily.
Tom-- Truuuuuu! As a teenager, I dipped a Q-Tip into the the bottle of air freshener and touched it to my left nostril. Despite a Silkwood-worthy scrub, I couldn't shake the smell for several days. It was wonderful dosed correctly for loads in the dryer, but full strength it was beyond brutal.
Well, I know at least one washer in the USA market that has the germicidal light nowadays.
I'd rather have the Frigidaire Filtrator experience
I've purchased 3 GE TOL dryers which came with their original "Air Freshener" canisters which were each sealed shut from age or emptiness. Pity, I would have like to have sampled the smell but the "Air Freshener" device on the 1957 DA-820P is march-of-time-friendly: rather than a pressurized canister, these dryers have a pretty little pink drawer that held a solid tablet (must have been the size of a VIM). Today you can pop in one of those old vacuum cleaner freshener horsie tablets and relive the experience of modern, convenient electric drying of the mid-Fifties. The DA-820P also allowed the user to regulate the amount of perfume allowed to enter the drum with a little, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">very breakable</span>, pink plastic damper that closed and opened the air-port.
I will say that I was disappointed when I read the first manual and learned that the gizmo simply spritzes its load into the backsplash and then depends on random airflow to bring it into the dryer drum. Also, who is going to wait around for the last 5 minutes of the dry cycle to press the vercockte toggle?? Not this bitch.
I've purchased 3 GE TOL dryers which came with their original "Air Freshener" canisters which were each sealed shut from age or emptiness. Pity, I would have like to have sampled the smell but the "Air Freshener" device on the 1957 DA-820P is march-of-time-friendly: rather than a pressurized canister, these dryers have a pretty little pink drawer that held a solid tablet (must have been the size of a VIM). Today you can pop in one of those old vacuum cleaner freshener horsie tablets and relive the experience of modern, convenient electric drying of the mid-Fifties. The DA-820P also allowed the user to regulate the amount of perfume allowed to enter the drum with a little, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">very breakable</span>, pink plastic damper that closed and opened the air-port.
I will say that I was disappointed when I read the first manual and learned that the gizmo simply spritzes its load into the backsplash and then depends on random airflow to bring it into the dryer drum. Also, who is going to wait around for the last 5 minutes of the dry cycle to press the vercockte toggle?? Not this bitch.
Interesting GE Dryer Air Fresheners
The air inside a GE dryer control panel is being constantly drawn into the air going over the heaters and into the dryer drum, the air in the control panel is changed every few seconds so it is far from random in operation.
Many years ago I did get to play with a GE dryer with the little aerosol canisters and it actually worked quite well, GE usually engineered things that worked, [ at least for a while ].
John L.
The air inside a GE dryer control panel is being constantly drawn into the air going over the heaters and into the dryer drum, the air in the control panel is changed every few seconds so it is far from random in operation.
Many years ago I did get to play with a GE dryer with the little aerosol canisters and it actually worked quite well, GE usually engineered things that worked, [ at least for a while ].
John L.
