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Quite literally an oven with a spinning drum. Only way to remedy that is to replace the main cycling thermostat that will open up at a significantly lower temperature, 120F to 130F.
 
“an oven with a spinning drum”

Does anybody know where they can get the thermostats and doesn’t it help improve drying speed as well as how many thermostats are normally located in that machine? As mine has one in the exhaust outlet, but I think that might be the only one
 
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My Aunt Imogene had a ‘55 set of Westie Slant fronts. Her dryer was wired for 120 regular household current. Perhaps this was why she didn’t have it wired for 240. My Grandpa was always after her to let him put in a 240 outlet for her dryer. She always declined his offer because she said she didn’t want all the clothing to shrink.

As I recall her dryer was pretty fast even on 120 current. I guess it didn’t really need the higher voltage to be efficient.

Eddie
 
D3 Westinghouse slant front dryer

We had one of these that we traded away, this dryer had a thermostatic dry control. It did not have a timer it would not be easy to convert. This dryer was not designed to operate on 120 V at all.

It has a nice dryness adjustment on it used properly. It did not ruin clothing, but probably was not designed for the newest synthetics.

Later, Westinghouse dryers had timers and they were able to be operated on 120 V they took three times as long and only used one quarter of the power so they actually were more efficient on 120 V but very slow.

John
 
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That’s why I might try experimenting with the Maytag dryer I am still in the process of putting together (waiting for the high and low heat double throw switch thermostats to arrive along with getting a 12 gage cord for it) to see if it will get things completely dry at a lower wattage. My hypothesis, is it will probably dry smaller loads in a reasonable amount of time on the auto dry section (timer motor won’t advance until it reaches 120F on low heat, 170F on high heat) since the timer won’t advance until one of the cycling thermostats open up along with smaller and medium loads being in the air stream since the airflow is in a 360 degree circle on the electric HOH models. Someone on YouTube (can’t remember the user off hand) jammed a load from a full sized Maytag washer into a DE50 portable dryer, dried in 75 to 80 minutes time.
 
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After I made the post I realized that my Aunt’s Westie Slant front set was actually either ‘53’s or ‘54’s, not ‘55’s. They had the dark red bakelite control knobs. They moved into the house that I remember them from in ‘55, but they actually had these machines in their former home before the move.

Anyway, they were beautiful to me at the age of 4 and the most intriguing washer and dryer set that I had access to viewing in my childhood. No one else that I knew had anything else like them. They really sparked my lifelong interest in washing machines.

And my Aunt loved them too. They sold their home in ‘64 and the Westie’s stayed with the home because my aunt and uncle moved into an apartment without WD hookup’s. They never ever had a repairman out to service either the washer or the dryer and with 3 kids those machines were running every time I was visiting their home, just doing what they were supposed to do.

Eddie
 

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