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Post# 268030   3/5/2008 at 17:33 (5,888 days old) by sharples ()        

Well i went to my favorite thrift store a couple miles away and i always look out behind their shops because that is where the appliances that arent pretty or don't work are kept for the scrap man. Low and behold i found this little darling there and asked how much, $5 whole bucks and it was mine. YAY A lovely 57' kenmore dryer with all the lighted controls. The moral of the story is to look out back for goodies to at your local thrift shops!!!!




Post# 268031 , Reply# 1   3/5/2008 at 17:47 (5,888 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        
Wow

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What a find. Absolutly Beautiful. I hope everything is good. What a great restoration project.

Post# 268045 , Reply# 2   3/5/2008 at 20:12 (5,887 days old) by golittlesport (California)        

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Can't beat that for $5!! Great find. Congrats. Thanks for posting the picture.

Post# 268046 , Reply# 3   3/5/2008 at 20:28 (5,887 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)        

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That is very cool - 5 dollar finds are so close to being FREE! I did not know there was a similar 57 Kenmore washer/dryer that looked like a Lady K but was not.

Ben


Post# 268050 , Reply# 4   3/5/2008 at 20:46 (5,887 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Very nice - the panel and top look nearly perfect!

Post# 268051 , Reply# 5   3/5/2008 at 20:48 (5,887 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Very nice find Graham, what's the model number and is the drum painted or porcelain?

Post# 268056 , Reply# 6   3/5/2008 at 21:11 (5,887 days old) by sharples ()        
Thank you everyone!!!

Robert,
The drum is deep blue (cobalt) porcelain.
Model #: 110 5708801
Serial # M 518133
-G


Post# 268062 , Reply# 7   3/5/2008 at 21:31 (5,887 days old) by rickr (.)        

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Cool dryer Graham! And the price was right... <: Hope you find the matching washer for that one. The 50's belt drives are so fun!

Post# 268084 , Reply# 8   3/6/2008 at 00:42 (5,887 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm)        
Nice Graham

My Mother got a matching set of those after our house remodel
in early 1958. I always loved that blue drum and the germeci-
dle lamp.


Post# 268114 , Reply# 9   3/6/2008 at 07:39 (5,887 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Behind the store shopping is just one step behind midnight appliance shopping behind the stores, treasure-wise. During store hours at a used appliance store my brother had found for me near Columbia Drive and Glenwood Road in Decatur, GA, John and I went out back with the owner and sitting there, with no hope of ever being resold was the very unique 1955 40 inch Westinghouse range with one giant 34 inch wide oven. I had seen ads for it in Saturday Evening Posts and here it was, ours for the taking. On a moving and storage company's loading dock, visible from I-85 in North Carolina, we found our Frigidaire WCI-58, again for free

Speaking of appliance ads, Saturday Evening Post issues are a gold mine for Westinghouse ads; the only place I have ever seen some of them. Unlike LIFE & LOOK, SEP issues were generally full of appliance ads. If you like good fiction, the going will be slow because the SEP was noted for featuring works by some of the best authors of the time. One of the absolutely best things about coming to the Library when I did was that I was able to read through the bound back issues of so many serials (and make copies of things I wished to save) before they were removed from the shelves and replaced by microfilm which transforms reading into research, taking every bit of joy out of the experience.


Post# 268125 , Reply# 10   3/6/2008 at 09:02 (5,887 days old) by northwesty (Renton, WA)        

Congratulations Graham
glad it got saved from the crusher!


Post# 268202 , Reply# 11   3/6/2008 at 20:01 (5,887 days old) by sdlee (south dakota)        
awesome, just awesome

I am always happy to see you guys save something. I keep on the lookout too but I have no way to store or keep. So when I do find something I let the club know..........Someday i will get to be an owner...lol

Post# 269021 , Reply# 12   3/11/2008 at 12:56 (5,882 days old) by fa_f3_20 ()        
Self-cleaning lint filter

I wonder how the self-cleaning lint filter referred to in the ad worked. It's definitely not the later one that was full of marbles; those were't visible to the user. And of course the regular waterfall filters were not self-cleaning. I know this for a fact because one of my first chores when I was little was to clean the damn thing.

Post# 269037 , Reply# 13   3/11/2008 at 14:48 (5,882 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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It was probably the marble-type filter .. but recirculated visibly through the waterfall port instead of directly into the tub. A visual reminder for consumers accustomed to the waterfall manual-clean filter that filtering was occurring.

Post# 269152 , Reply# 14   3/11/2008 at 22:26 (5,881 days old) by 70series ( Connecticut.)        

How cool is that? You get the fun of watching water recirculate, and no cleanup. Too bad they did not continue it that way. The unseen self cleaning filters in later TOL models take a little of the fun away from watching them work.

Have a good one,
James



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