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Thread Number: 31790
Mama wanted a Hamilton |
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| Post# 479520 12/5/2010 at 08:08 (4,884 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 479521 , Reply# 1 12/5/2010 at 08:09 (4,884 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 479522 , Reply# 2 12/5/2010 at 08:10 (4,884 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 479524 , Reply# 3 12/5/2010 at 08:12 (4,884 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 479525 , Reply# 4 12/5/2010 at 08:13 (4,884 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 479526 , Reply# 5 12/5/2010 at 08:13 (4,884 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 479528 , Reply# 6 12/5/2010 at 08:17 (4,884 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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So after mama died, daddy's mind started to go, so he had to move into an assisted living home. The nice next door neighbors helped him clean out the house, but didn't know what to do with the old, unused dryer. So they put it on eBay, where it sat and sat and sat. Until one day, a guy who was really fighting the hoarding urge gave into his urge, bought the dryer and drove from Atlanta to north of Detroit to get it.
I'm currently jockeying the stuff in the house around to get this installed and connected... | ||
| Post# 479540 , Reply# 7 12/5/2010 at 09:52 (4,884 days old) by A440 () | ||
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What a beauty Peter! Congratulations! Brent | ||
Post# 479552 , Reply# 8 12/5/2010 at 10:21 (4,884 days old) by jetcone  (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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OMG Peter thats G E O R G E O U S! | ||
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Post# 479553 , Reply# 9 12/5/2010 at 10:22 (4,884 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Peter, send me | ||
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Post# 479555 , Reply# 10 12/5/2010 at 10:23 (4,884 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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I love it when an | ||
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Post# 479557 , Reply# 11 12/5/2010 at 10:23 (4,884 days old) by lovestowash (St. Petersburg, FL) |
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Can you only use it on Holidays?... | ||
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Post# 479570 , Reply# 12 12/5/2010 at 10:56 (4,884 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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| Post# 479597 , Reply# 13 12/5/2010 at 13:29 (4,884 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA) | ||
Atlanta to Detroit? | ||
| Post# 479598 , Reply# 14 12/5/2010 at 13:39 (4,884 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Post# 479600 , Reply# 15 12/5/2010 at 13:50 (4,884 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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STUPID ALUMIUM DUCTING  | ||
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Post# 479606 , Reply# 16 12/5/2010 at 14:14 (4,884 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Green with envy  | ||
| Post# 479609 , Reply# 17 12/5/2010 at 14:18 (4,884 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Drying my first load of rags in the dryer. Relatively quiet, but it has a very distinctive thump. My guess is the belt for sitting so long. It seems to be mellowing out as it heats up.
Defintely belt... When I turn the drum by hand, the thump happens still rhythmically but at different places... This post was last edited 12/05/2010 at 18:34 | ||
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Post# 479617 , Reply# 18 12/5/2010 at 15:00 (4,884 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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| Post# 479688 , Reply# 19 12/5/2010 at 19:47 (4,884 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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| Post# 479691 , Reply# 20 12/5/2010 at 19:48 (4,884 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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Post# 479697 , Reply# 21 12/5/2010 at 20:09 (4,884 days old) by Toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Quote: The problem was the house was tiny and there was no place for it, except in the tiny kitchen between the stove and the water heater... Quote: And the tiny house only had 40 amps of service... LOL so the stove and/or the hot water heater must have been gas why get an electric dryer instead of a gas one? Their loss is your gain. What a beaut! | ||
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Post# 479698 , Reply# 22 12/5/2010 at 20:16 (4,884 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Hamilton! | ||
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Post# 479707 , Reply# 23 12/5/2010 at 21:10 (4,884 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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| Post# 479710 , Reply# 24 12/5/2010 at 21:16 (4,884 days old) by cornutt (Huntsville, AL USA) | ||
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I wonder if that's a paper dress... | ||
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Post# 479730 , Reply# 25 12/5/2010 at 22:58 (4,883 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Hamilton! | ||
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Post# 479732 , Reply# 26 12/5/2010 at 23:03 (4,883 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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| Post# 479746 , Reply# 28 12/5/2010 at 23:47 (4,883 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
"Peter's Excellent Christmas Bedtime Story" | ||
| Post# 479769 , Reply# 30 12/6/2010 at 00:52 (4,883 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Thanks, y'all!!!
First, I'm not happy with the set up in the laundry room. I need to do some rearrangements in there before I post the next pics.
For one, I'm still using the Miele 1918 washer. I did about a 1/2 mixed load in it (undies, socks, towels, sweat shirt, etc), spun it out at 1200 rpm and then dried it as the first official load. Dried in 20 minutes. I'm really loving this!!! The Hamilton is a MONSTER next to the Miele. Because you cannot change the door orientation, I put the dryer to the right of the washer. Well, 4 things immediately became apparent. 1) The previous owners of my house had the dryer vented thru the floor. With this current set up, the right rear corner of the dryer sits in the hole, making it not real stable. 2) The dryer vent is right up against the 30 amp outlet. Now because I am using the Miele washer, I need access to the outlet to switch between the washer and the dryer. 3) The washer is in the corner of the room. Very difficult to load/unload. If I pull it out to be flush with the dryer, the cats will use the space behind the washer (and on top of the stupid aluminum dryer duct) as a playhouse and maybe an outhouse. 4) The dryer is next to the doorway. Being so much bigger than the Miele dryer, it is in way of accessing the room. So that means I need to swap the washer and dryer locations. Will need to buy a longer 30 amp power cord to reach. And I need to reinstall the shorter stupid aluminum vent duct. OTOH, this dryer is a TRIP to use in the dark!!! The light is on through the cycle, so you get a disco effect in the laudry room as the clothes tumble in front of the window. Sometimes the flashing light is white from the bulb in the back of the drum, and sometimes it is a funky ultraviolet blue light from the ozone Sun-E-Day bulb in the front over the door. There is also a halo of light around the back of the dryer as the white light escapes from the openings in the back. If you look thru the window, the drum light is on the right, but on the left you have the warm glow of the heating element. VERY ENTERTAINING!!! If it wasn't for the thumping, this dryer is just about silent! So, as far as dryers go, Hamilton gets EXTREMELY HIGH MARKS for washtime drama!!! I think everyone should go out and get one (or two... or three...) @Peter -- Someone more versed in Hamiltonian will have to let us know about "Holiday" and model numbering. Yes, Norge was the washer, with the wonderful window in the lid! ;) @Brent -- I'm going to be studying the Hamilton Repair Master to see about the thumping. Steve Riley's Hamilton I believe is in Beltsville at the Museo De LeFevre. If so, someone may have a pic of it. His had the D-shaped window (like the one in the POD Wisk ad), probably a much newer model than mine. @Greg -- If we never discussed this while I was driving thru in August, I would probably had not gotten it. Curse you! :) The pair in the ad you posted are stunning! More Hamilton coming soon... | ||
| Post# 479840 , Reply# 31 12/6/2010 at 10:40 (4,883 days old) by lesto (Atlanta) | ||
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What a great find, Peter! It's great you found a "holiday dryer" just in time for the holidays. ;) Les | ||
| Post# 479853 , Reply# 32 12/6/2010 at 11:28 (4,883 days old) by retropia () | ||
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When Mama Ain't Happy, ain't nobody happy I'm glad for you she wanted a Hamilton! | ||
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Post# 479905 , Reply# 33 12/6/2010 at 16:07 (4,883 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI ) |
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I saw a similar gas Hamilton today when I went to look at a very well taken care of Maytag J2LP. The link is for the washer. The woman whom I met with to look at the washer said that the dryer has sat unused for several years because the homeowner was no longer to get down in the basement. It's for sale if anyone is interested
CLICK HERE TO GO TO polkanut's LINK on Wausau Craigslist | ||
| Post# 480012 , Reply# 34 12/7/2010 at 04:18 (4,882 days old) by magic clean () | ||
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Peter does the dryer have a 3" or 4" vent? Any idea what year this machine was made? all the best.....L.P. | ||
| Post# 480791 , Reply# 35 12/10/2010 at 16:59 (4,879 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Post# 481054 , Reply# 36 12/11/2010 at 20:39 (4,878 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Thats just like the Bendix dryer | ||
| Post# 481382 , Reply# 37 12/13/2010 at 12:20 (4,876 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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I have been reading my Hamilton Repair Master... In that book, the machine diagrams have my control panel on them, but the inner workings are similar to the 47 and 57 that I have -- lint drawer on the bottom of the machine. I found a publication date of 1967, so my dryer must be later than that, or they just didn't update the text for the publication date.
@Jet -- I think your Bendix is more like the WP/KM except the air enters and exits thru the front of the dryer rather than the back. This Hamilton sucks thru back to front. The 47 and 57 Hamiltons suck top to bottom. While I had the Bendix, I was very pleased with it's performance altho' the improvements you suggest will probably improve it. And I need to get a close up pic of the snazzier Sun-E-Day logo from this dryer. | ||
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