Thank You bygted!

[bajaespuma]

The DE806 was delivered yesterday and it rocks! Thanks for your help and cooperation with shipping as well.

Super clean machine; inside and inside the cabinet are immaculate; looks like it was from a church or some other venue that saw no water at all. Big surprise this is how vintage this model is: the dial is like the 1966 style, instead of "PERMANENT PRESS" it reads "WASH*WEAR", and the sensors on the drum baffles are multiple wires like the ones on my 1964 Maytag rather than the the two electric strips on later models. Could this be a 1966 model? Will post photos of the serial number and the rest of the machine soon.

 

[soapnsuds]

Hi Ken

Very nice find. Almost looks like a clam shell Frigidaire in a way.
I was wondering, I grew up with Kenmore, and I always hated the dryers because of how they had the MESSY lint screen on top of the dryer...why??? Why did they always (or ever even design) do that? Plus, I always thought it seemed like a very inefficient drying system. You have the heat element on the left and then right next to it, the exhaust. So heat goes in and then is immediately sucked right back out. Having the lint/exhaust in the front of the drum seemed to make MUCH more sense as you had to pull the hot air through the drum and then out.
Btw, what part of CT are you from? I grew up in Litchfield. -Laurent

 

[bajaespuma]

I'm in Branford, but I know Litchfield pretty well as my family had a house up in Lakeville. It's a pretty town. By the way, the dryer I got is the Maytag it front, not the Kenmore. Different dryers back in the day had different air flow systems and the evacuated air was usually screened for lint removal, less for the clothes, I imagine as they shed lint in the drying process but more to prevent a lot of lint build up in the exiting air and in the ducting where it becomes a serious fire hazard. Even though I wasn't a fan of Whirlpool/Kenmore dryers(although I think they were always rated highly by CU) the top-door lint screen seemed like a convenience to me, especially compared to the Maytag HOH dryers where you had to reach into the drum and pull out the filter from the back(bet those filters didn't get cleaned a lot). The GE filters were generally easy to clean and more importantly, they were right there in front where anyone, even most of the lunkheads that do laundry, could see the build-up of lint. I think that was always the key, you have to see the lint to do something about it.

The filters that fit into slots and holes don't get attended to. I remember we once owned an old house that had one of those 1940's Hamilton dryers that we've seen on this site. We had used the thing for two whole years before I even discovered the lint filter on the very bottom front of the unit. The machine was so old, I assumed that it didn't have a filter and was just venting somewhere in the back. Surprising that we didn't have a fire. That thing was like a broiler with a drum.