Pink Lady Kenmore 800 Dryer in Chicago
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1963 through 65 lady Kenmore gas dryer
Wow, that’s a nice example of a used but decent condition machine that could be restored, the only thing I see wrong with it is when they unscrewed the gas line from it and it looks like they took the 3/8 inch gas pipe with the fitting, but that’s easy enough to replace.
My best friend‘s mother had one of these in white down the street when we were kids she used to claim she could try a load of sheets in like seven minutes. I think she was exaggerating a little bit, but it was a very good fast dryer.
This one was built the middle of 1964, so it may have the DSI or direct spark recognition ignition system. The earlier versions used a little platinum 2 1/2 V glow coil to light a pilot which then heated up mercury pilot safety switch to turn on the main gas burner.
My business partner Jason has the turquoise 66 lady Kenmore and we added the extra felt seal behind though dryer drum so that the heat doesn’t bypass the drum and it’s by far the fastest dryer He has out of his four gas dryers. He really likes that dryer, the drum design of these Whirlpool also didn’t allow sheets to ball up because it was large in diameter and not real deep, the only downfall of this dryer is it not a huge drum but it was typical of dryers in the 60s.
I remember working for the Maytag dealer in the early 70s when we would occasionally replace a dryer like this with a new halo of heat gas dryer how disappointed the customers were and we always got a complaint. We had to tell him when we installed it that it was not gonna be nearly as fast.
It was kind of like whenever we pulled out a Frigidaire top load washer and put in either a new Whirlpool or Maytag top load washer we always had to warn the customer that their clothing would no longer be spun very dry.
Hope somebody gets this. This would be a great project to restore.
John L
Wow, that’s a nice example of a used but decent condition machine that could be restored, the only thing I see wrong with it is when they unscrewed the gas line from it and it looks like they took the 3/8 inch gas pipe with the fitting, but that’s easy enough to replace.
My best friend‘s mother had one of these in white down the street when we were kids she used to claim she could try a load of sheets in like seven minutes. I think she was exaggerating a little bit, but it was a very good fast dryer.
This one was built the middle of 1964, so it may have the DSI or direct spark recognition ignition system. The earlier versions used a little platinum 2 1/2 V glow coil to light a pilot which then heated up mercury pilot safety switch to turn on the main gas burner.
My business partner Jason has the turquoise 66 lady Kenmore and we added the extra felt seal behind though dryer drum so that the heat doesn’t bypass the drum and it’s by far the fastest dryer He has out of his four gas dryers. He really likes that dryer, the drum design of these Whirlpool also didn’t allow sheets to ball up because it was large in diameter and not real deep, the only downfall of this dryer is it not a huge drum but it was typical of dryers in the 60s.
I remember working for the Maytag dealer in the early 70s when we would occasionally replace a dryer like this with a new halo of heat gas dryer how disappointed the customers were and we always got a complaint. We had to tell him when we installed it that it was not gonna be nearly as fast.
It was kind of like whenever we pulled out a Frigidaire top load washer and put in either a new Whirlpool or Maytag top load washer we always had to warn the customer that their clothing would no longer be spun very dry.
Hope somebody gets this. This would be a great project to restore.
John L
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Does the Falcon or Ranchero come with?
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