Well work on the pink 1957 Lady Kenmore dryer is completed. I had to take the entire thing apart and give it a good cleaning as like most vintage dryers it was clogged with lint from use over the years. It also had the remains of a birds nest in the blower; they must have come down through the vent tube. I oiled the blower bearing, change both the blower and drum pulley cogged drive belts, checked both heating elements, cleaned out the "Lint-Lite" tube and put in a new 40watt Appliance bulb as well as a new Ozone bulb. Then I redid the 220 volt electrical plug where the dryer is going and rewired the line with 6 gage wire (6 gage wire is not fun to work with) and installed a 50amp 220 volt breaker.
The Lint-Lite system works with a simple washing machine pressure switch and clear tubing. When the lint screen gets full of lint less air is forced from the blower through the exhaust, the air has to go somewhere so it’s forced through the clear tube to the pressure switch and the red Lint-Lite lights! I adjusted the pressure switch so the system lights when the lint filter is slightly more than half full as I like a nice clean filter screen.
This dryer is unbelievable fast! It's 8400 watt elements does an super fast job at drying clothes, I'm just amazed at its performance on 10lb to 12lb normal sized loads, its much faster than the modern Harmony dryer, the Harmony is suppose to be the fastest dryer available today.
First I dried 8 cotton long sleeve button down shirts that were washed and spun out in the 550rpm Kelvinator. I set the dial for 20 minutes at Med heat (thinking I would have to reset it for more time) and I came back after 12 minutes to see how things were going and to my shock they were bone dry! Next I dried a set of sheets that were washing in a Unimatic, spun at 1140rpm, they dried in less than 5 minutes! Four Pair of jeans out of the Belt-drive whirlpool dried in 30 minutes and a large towel load out of the little Bendix, spun at 250rpm dried in 40! With the exception of the towel load in the very slow spinning Bendix, I have not needed more than 1/2 hour to dry any load in this dryer.
Now I’m on to working on the washer.
The Lint-Lite system works with a simple washing machine pressure switch and clear tubing. When the lint screen gets full of lint less air is forced from the blower through the exhaust, the air has to go somewhere so it’s forced through the clear tube to the pressure switch and the red Lint-Lite lights! I adjusted the pressure switch so the system lights when the lint filter is slightly more than half full as I like a nice clean filter screen.
This dryer is unbelievable fast! It's 8400 watt elements does an super fast job at drying clothes, I'm just amazed at its performance on 10lb to 12lb normal sized loads, its much faster than the modern Harmony dryer, the Harmony is suppose to be the fastest dryer available today.
First I dried 8 cotton long sleeve button down shirts that were washed and spun out in the 550rpm Kelvinator. I set the dial for 20 minutes at Med heat (thinking I would have to reset it for more time) and I came back after 12 minutes to see how things were going and to my shock they were bone dry! Next I dried a set of sheets that were washing in a Unimatic, spun at 1140rpm, they dried in less than 5 minutes! Four Pair of jeans out of the Belt-drive whirlpool dried in 30 minutes and a large towel load out of the little Bendix, spun at 250rpm dried in 40! With the exception of the towel load in the very slow spinning Bendix, I have not needed more than 1/2 hour to dry any load in this dryer.
Now I’m on to working on the washer.
