philr
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Are you going to get it?!
Something followed me home....
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WOW cool!
It warms my heart just a bit to see so many esteemed folks on here enjoying a black-panel Kenmore. I like all KM belt drives, these very much are included. I am really glad that this really nice machine found a great home with someone who appreciates it.
Couple things to mention:
First, unfortunately that matching dryer is Golden Wheat color (aka harvest gold). The seller did the very rare bonus of putting the model number in the ad. The color code indicates gold. Actually by the time Toast and Platinum came out, these large cap dryers had switched to the E-Z loader door approximately a year earlier.
Toast is a pretty rare find these days. So many were made in white and Almond, so it's nice to see something a little different. This machine looks great in the mechanicals. --- nice save!
This model was in the top three of the best sellers from the 1983 Kenmore belt drive line up. Top seller was a nearly identical 70-series which had three fixed water levels instead of the infinite in this 80 series. The only reason I can see for a less flexible machine selling better was the $20 lower price. One of the most obscure of the 1983 line is a clone to this machine but it came with the double coated white basket of the Lady K of the time.
I have several of these machines that I would love to find homes for --- they are unrestored. I even have a couple of the 70-series models in toast. Send me an email if you're interested.
Great machine Scott!!!
It warms my heart just a bit to see so many esteemed folks on here enjoying a black-panel Kenmore. I like all KM belt drives, these very much are included. I am really glad that this really nice machine found a great home with someone who appreciates it.
Couple things to mention:
First, unfortunately that matching dryer is Golden Wheat color (aka harvest gold). The seller did the very rare bonus of putting the model number in the ad. The color code indicates gold. Actually by the time Toast and Platinum came out, these large cap dryers had switched to the E-Z loader door approximately a year earlier.
Toast is a pretty rare find these days. So many were made in white and Almond, so it's nice to see something a little different. This machine looks great in the mechanicals. --- nice save!
This model was in the top three of the best sellers from the 1983 Kenmore belt drive line up. Top seller was a nearly identical 70-series which had three fixed water levels instead of the infinite in this 80 series. The only reason I can see for a less flexible machine selling better was the $20 lower price. One of the most obscure of the 1983 line is a clone to this machine but it came with the double coated white basket of the Lady K of the time.
I have several of these machines that I would love to find homes for --- they are unrestored. I even have a couple of the 70-series models in toast. Send me an email if you're interested.
Great machine Scott!!!
dryer in reply #18
Scott, I think this dryer is a bit more period appropriate and also probably a little bit nicer featured dryer. this dryer has the true full-width door which I think was still the "norm" back when your washer was being sold. The dryer farther awayt doesn't have the signal adjust knob and has the different dryer door style, which didn't come out until the full DD line in 1986.
Scott, I think this dryer is a bit more period appropriate and also probably a little bit nicer featured dryer. this dryer has the true full-width door which I think was still the "norm" back when your washer was being sold. The dryer farther awayt doesn't have the signal adjust knob and has the different dryer door style, which didn't come out until the full DD line in 1986.
Full width door vs E Z loader...
Bob,
The full width door was replaced on all large capacity Kenmore dryers in mid 1983 by the EZ loader, three and a half years before the Full-line DD era. The full-width door however remained in production on select standard capacity dryers for another ten years at least.
The dryer with the signal adjustment is a 1981 model. The dryer without and with the newer door is a 1983 or 1985 model. This is the model that Sears paired with the 80 series washers for the 1983 line thru fall 1986.
The newer E Z loader door was included on every 70 series and up dryer from summer 1983 onward.
The model that appears to be in Toast without the signal adjustment is the model that appears most when these machines come up for sale as pairs. There were two versions, one with and one without a drum light. The next step up has the adjustable signal just like the 1981 machine here. The newer models have Soft Heat which the older model does not.
The differences are so slight between these machines that their individual condition or location would be the clinchers in deciding which to buy.
Gordon
Bob,
The full width door was replaced on all large capacity Kenmore dryers in mid 1983 by the EZ loader, three and a half years before the Full-line DD era. The full-width door however remained in production on select standard capacity dryers for another ten years at least.
The dryer with the signal adjustment is a 1981 model. The dryer without and with the newer door is a 1983 or 1985 model. This is the model that Sears paired with the 80 series washers for the 1983 line thru fall 1986.
The newer E Z loader door was included on every 70 series and up dryer from summer 1983 onward.
The model that appears to be in Toast without the signal adjustment is the model that appears most when these machines come up for sale as pairs. There were two versions, one with and one without a drum light. The next step up has the adjustable signal just like the 1981 machine here. The newer models have Soft Heat which the older model does not.
The differences are so slight between these machines that their individual condition or location would be the clinchers in deciding which to buy.
Gordon
searsbest
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Matching kenmore dryer calling...... yogitunes.....
So..... after I posted my Kenmore belt drive in toast,( which is now my daily driver and I love it to death!) Yogitunes (martin) posted a matching dryer on craigslist. I tried shake it off, let it go....I cant get it out of my head, ad still seems to be up on south jersey CL, anyone in jersey area willing to go on a mission? I would kill to have this dryer PM me if interested thank you!!!!
So..... after I posted my Kenmore belt drive in toast,( which is now my daily driver and I love it to death!) Yogitunes (martin) posted a matching dryer on craigslist. I tried shake it off, let it go....I cant get it out of my head, ad still seems to be up on south jersey CL, anyone in jersey area willing to go on a mission? I would kill to have this dryer PM me if interested thank you!!!!
searsbest
Well-known member
Matching kenmore dryer calling...... yogitunes.....
So..... after I posted my Kenmore belt drive in toast,( which is now my daily driver and I love it to death!) Yogitunes (martin) posted a matching dryer on craigslist. I tried shake it off, let it go....I cant get it out of my head, ad still seems to be up on south jersey CL, anyone in jersey area willing to go on a mission? I would kill to have this dryer PM me if interested thank you!!!!
So..... after I posted my Kenmore belt drive in toast,( which is now my daily driver and I love it to death!) Yogitunes (martin) posted a matching dryer on craigslist. I tried shake it off, let it go....I cant get it out of my head, ad still seems to be up on south jersey CL, anyone in jersey area willing to go on a mission? I would kill to have this dryer PM me if interested thank you!!!!
I contacted them, its still available, its up to you if your really want it....
