Unusual GE dryer for sale

[bajaespuma]

"The Sum of All Dryers"

For all we know this could be a GE nuclear warhead cleverly disguised as a domestic helper. I mean, it is located close to DC, after all. When the user dials "Air Fluff" and hits the START button, that's all folks!

 

I suppose one of us could contact the seller and ask them to send us a picture of the rating plate.

 

It could be one of those totally odd-ball GE models designed to stand alone or go with another maker's washer like the ones from the early Sixties where they recycled a bunch of old parts and put them together. :

 

[tomturbomatic]

That last dryer you pictured had a matching washer and, as best as I can determine, it was sort of a rework of the white rectangular timer pod models of the late 50s-early 60s. I have seen a photo of Gloria Swanson in her kitchen with the timer pod washer. It originally appeared in (I think) a Life magazine article about her. The star could wash.

 

[redcarpetdrew]

I actually found one of these dryers recently but haven't even been able to locate a picture of the matching washer. For some reason this dryer and its possible washer mate intrigue me...

RCD

 

[applianceguy47]

Yes, Tom, "Lavadora" was on there.  Lava being short for bathing or washing in Spanish.

 

I remember picking it up, recognizing the shape of the washer, because one of my 1st daily use washers was the same.

And I bought it as part of a lot of a dozen machines.  But I never looked closely at the console, there wasn't time.

 

So, I get it to the workshop, start checking it over, and I had to look the panel over twice.  "WHAT ?" was my thinking. "Is my vision going?"  lol.  I was so rushed then.  

 

Then it was like, what do I do with it?  It was almost like this plastic console GE dryer from the early 60s.  It didn't fit into what I considered to be a "normal" GE appliance.  My brain was spitting out a Syntax error code.  "does not compute" lol.  I was like well, I pulled the sock out of it and it works, so...  that's something, right?  lol.

 

This plastic console GE dryer SO reminds me of the movie 9 to 5, when Judy (Jane Fonda) was assigned to the Xerox room to make various binders on this huge "xerox machine" (copier with sorter).  And we all remember how that went.

 

(on the phone) "Judy Bernly, Please Hold.  This is Judy"

 

Or, large copiers and computers of the 1970s.

 

Its interesting that GE did the first all plastic consoles, but didn't stick with it.  Then in the mid 70s, Sears picked it up with their base models, and even some of the MOL models.

 

 

 

[applianceguy47]

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[applianceguy47]

I can't find an exact picture.  darn-it.