TURQUOISE Wards dryer
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Yup Norge.
Yes, the dryer is a Norge.
That push button for the dryer door is a holdover from at least 1956. It's the same as my parents' first dryer, a '56 gas fired Norge Timeline. The timer quit after five or so years, but the dryer functioned fine and was fairly quiet up until it was taken away when the notorious '67 Signature pair from Hell ascended to terrorize the household.
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Really old washer & dryer (60's era).
Both work, Dryer thermal fuse just replaced. Wires & hoses included.
$10.00 was the cost to replace the thermal fuse.
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Metal salvage if not taken.
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The washer of course is not 1960s. I don't think the dryer has a thermal fuse ...
We had a Wards Her Majesty that had auto dry before Norge had it because Norge did not have electric timers. It had velvet heat which was a version of soft heat, It ran at ran at full heat until a certain temperature was reached then the burner BTUs dropped to give a lower heat to finish the drying. It had a very attractive control panel with pretty colors. I don't know where it ended up.
Tom, our 1963/1964 Norge dryer that matched our Norge15 dispensomat washer, DID have auto dry and had the description you provided. It WAS a Norge. It had the drop down hamper door that was 3 position. Robrt got that copper tone Wards Signature pair that was the match to our Norge. I do believe it was Her Majesty models and had the same featuers as our dryer. The above dryer I do believe had auto dry. It was a match to our neighbor across the street that had the Signature Imperial Model. This dryer also has the metal accent strip where the top of the cabinet and the frot panel of the cabinet met and only the higher models had that. [this post was last edited: 6/29/2022-00:55]
Thermal fuse
If Norge designs carried over from the 50s into the 60s, the 'thermal fuse' was very likely just a time-delay style screw-in fuse somewhere on the lower part of the cabinet. Probably why the cover panel is missing!
If Norge designs carried over from the 50s into the 60s, the 'thermal fuse' was very likely just a time-delay style screw-in fuse somewhere on the lower part of the cabinet. Probably why the cover panel is missing!
There is no thermal fuse in that dryer as such.
John L.
John L.
I recall the late 1950s/early 1960s Kelvinator washer that a neighbor gave to granny had a screw-in fuse as such for motor overload protection.
My Hamilton dryer has a 4 amp fuse for the motor because it does not have a motor overload switch.
Bob, Sorry for my mistake. Other than a pair of Dispensomats, I did not see a TOL Norge dryer until the slanted control panel 2-14 line came out, but you need an electric timer to have an automatic dry control. I used to walk through the appliance department and set Norge dryer timers to various times so they went off with a chime a various times. Mostly the people who bought Norge dryers needed a gas one in our area, like people who put it in the utility room off the carport with the water heater.
Bob, Sorry for my mistake. Other than a pair of Dispensomats, I did not see a TOL Norge dryer until the slanted control panel 2-14 line came out, but you need an electric timer to have an automatic dry control. I used to walk through the appliance department and set Norge dryer timers to various times so they went off with a chime a various times. Mostly the people who bought Norge dryers needed a gas one in our area, like people who put it in the utility room off the carport with the water heater.
Auto-Dry Without a Timer
I recall mention of an early Westinghouse dryer with automatic dry that ran until an outrageous temperature was reached and the thermostat shut it off?
I recall mention of an early Westinghouse dryer with automatic dry that ran until an outrageous temperature was reached and the thermostat shut it off?
That's correct Glenn.
Many of those very early auto dry dryers were very simple but lacked a cool down since it just relied on a thermostat and once the thermostat opened, WHAM! It would just shut off and there’d be hot clothes inside along with a hot dryer drum waiting to scorch any hands since it was still that hot. Later on, they figured out how to make an auto dry cycle simply by advancing the timer when the heat cycled off and would stop the timer as soon as the heat came back on, advanced the timer on and and off until the cool down and would run the rest of the way until it reached to the off position on the timer. May not be a moisture sensor, but surprisingly works well and once owned a Maytag SOH dryer from the early 90’s with a auto dry timer and always got clothes dried and dried fairly quickly on the auto dry cycle.
The glitch with thermostatic auto-dry is the performance is thrown erratic if the dryer is operated in a space that isn't climate-controlled, subject to wide seasonal temperature swings between summer and winter. Electronic sensing and control that doesn't depend entirely on exhaust air temperature and can incorporate logic according to the curve of the moisture hits is more consistent over a range of ambient temperature conditions.
and we should not forget the Maytag Highlander electronic dry control without a timer.
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Forgot to mention that, Tom. Yeah, the Maytag electronic dry control was miles ahead of everything else at the time and heck, even far ahead of today’s dryers since all dryers now only use a single moisture sensor which isn’t very accurate since items can be quite damp afterwards. The 3 moisture sensors in the drum baffles were a very good and clever idea, surprised no one has done that since moisture sensors in the drum baffles can feel and detect moisture better than a single moisture sensor.
Forgot to mention that, Tom. Yeah, the Maytag electronic dry control was miles ahead of everything else at the time and heck, even far ahead of today’s dryers since all dryers now only use a single moisture sensor which isn’t very accurate since items can be quite damp afterwards. The 3 moisture sensors in the drum baffles were a very good and clever idea, surprised no one has done that since moisture sensors in the drum baffles can feel and detect moisture better than a single moisture sensor.
