The Picture of Today (11-9-06)

[spiceman1957]

I am a new member and wanted to know if that was for real
that you could attach a hairdryer to this Norge Dryer or
was it a joke.
Thanks,
John

 

[appnut]

John, yes, that was a legitimate option. We had the 1964 version fo this dryer and it was shown in the users guide as an option and how to use it.

 

[gansky1]

Here's a small picture of the housewife filtering her drying clothes through her hair ;-)

 

[toggleswitch]

Greg, Isn't this the one that blows heated air into the drum rather than sucking it out?

Lint flocked walls anyone?

 

[eddy1210]

what next!

And of course she ground her meat while washing in her Maytag wringer LOL

 

[gansky1]

If there was a Norge dryer in a basement, you didn't have to walk too far down the steps to know it! I'm sure they weren't as bad when they were new, but the seals and gaskets would leak - sending lint and warm, moist air into the house. Norge/Wards had a pressurized design, blowing air into the drum then forcing it through the filter in the front, or under the drum in earlier models as pictured here and above. You can see the lint at the bottom of the door and all around the base of the machine. All other dryers used a negative pressure (vacuum) principle so if you had a reasonable vent for the machine, lint and exhaust were kept to a minimum in the house.

 

[sharples]

Grandma

My grandma didnt have an exterior exit for her dryer so it always felt like a tropical rainforest in her basement when ever she used her dryer. I know it is off subject but she hace a kenmore dryer.

 

[peterh770]

Wow! A 3-bladed, extra capacity Norge agitator. Who'da thunk?

 

[whirlcool]

What's that thing on top of the agitator that looks like a brush of somekind? Is it a lint filter ala a Filter Flo or a handy scrub brush for getting out stains? I have never seen anything like that before

 

[user 12105]

It looks like Norge's version of a scrubber cap.

 

[rickr]

Thats just sick!

My grandmother had a Filter Queen Vacuum that had a hair dryer attachment. Found it while cleaning out the house. It had never been out of the original wrapper. I gave it to a cousin as a joke, because he had a summer job of selling Filter Queens door to door one summer while home from college.

 

[tolivac]

I have a hairdryer attachment for a Rainbow vacuum-the owners manual states-"Dry your hair with clean waterwashed air'!Mine is still in the package.love that big 3 blade "angel wing" agitator in the Wards-Norge washer-that should stir things up!!Didn't Norge agitators have 4 large angel wing blades?