Tag Sale FIND OF THE YEAR (so far). It was after 2pm, prices cut by 50%. HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll get it down in the basement when the boyfriend comes over. It was plugged in and running at the owners home, he said 1949. It has a dial for Low Med Hi heat, and a 60 minute timer. No venting, just blows out the lower right lint filter, oh well. 30Amps, quiet running, almost no rust. some dirt and dents. Model 975E. Anyone date this?

lint brush in the side door, cool or what?

at top of the lint brush compartment. And notice how the timer has 60 minutes twice, and 2 OFF's

3 temps, dial does not have stops, apparently set it anywhere from high to low

and pretty darn big, this was before any standardized laundry sizes, I bet. More info after it is downstairs and cleaned up. You never know what you may find.....I forgot drum shots, coming soon

I remember picking those up off the dock at a retailer in the 70's. You couldn't give 'em away. Nice find!

Both are identical, WP and KM also did this on their first dryers on the WP both were labeled and on the KM only one side was labeled but it used the same timer as WP. I don't have a clue as to why this was done, anyone know?

About the dial: Efficiency and ease. If you've got a big load of towels, you just click to the right for 60 minutes or 50, instead of dialing all the way around. And a way not to waste all that space. An exceptionally fussy engineer.

The Blackstone has a complicated honeycomb filter allowing you to heat the room. They called it a Humid-O-Vent. Gotta love the 50's. Now you'll have a warm fragrant basement every time you Hamilton. Now you can save Suds and Air. Perfect!

Installed and running. While it was still in the garage, I took off the back and de-linted, wasn' bad, got dirt away from motor, washed down the exterior, etc. I don't think I'll attempt painting, this one is just gonna show its age. Now it's down in the basement, 2 loads of clothes so far. routine amount of lint, nice lint trap, the LOW heat feels like routine low to my hands, not exactly scientific research. The Germicidal Lamp works, so as some recent TV star from the Wisconsin part of Hollywood said, I've never had polio not even once since I got this machine!

 I can't wait until dark to watch the next load with that light only, dark basement, pretty cool.

With 5 minutes or so to go, it does a cool down cycle. High heat feels routinely hot to me, but I'm gonna play safe and rarely go over medium, the pros seem to suggest it's hotter than most modern machines.

Additionally, there's a drum lamp, but it's on the same door switch as the germ lamp, not sure why they needed a drum bulb too.

Airflow is spread over that large opening, hard to compare to every other dryer with a 4" tube, but seems slower, by design. The innards are all lint free, incoming air is from the top rear holes and a door in the kickplate. I laid on the floor to watch up through the door for the heater to come on, it cycles regularly and glows red.

Oh yeah------This is my only window machine, I'll probably keep the windex nearby, better than my home windows, lol.

I changed my posting background from Whirlpool to Hamilton, I'm a slut for my newest acquisition

You can sort of see the extra drum lamp shining thru that side door opening, this could become my newest night light in the basement.

Oh, the clothes came out fine, pretty normal dry laundry. But I won't attempt perma-press and delicates at all, plenty of other dryers for that.

And isn't that lint brush in the little closet just too cool?

The incandescent bulb acts as a ballast for the germicidal lamp, hence why they tag along like cookies and milk.

I've done plenty of loads in this, will have to get better at guesstimating timer dryers as opposed to sensor dryers, but this one is quiet and reliable and tons more fun than any others, with the UV light and all. I had the back off when it was in the garage, delinted a bit, all the asbestos is in place securely, wires all look safe and no scorched insulation anywhere. I need to wire in an additional 30 amp outlet on a different basement wall, then it will have a permanent place. When that's done, I will take a day or two to open the cabinet, complete cleanout, lube, oil the motor, etc, and take pictures. 61 years old but not enough rust to need a new paint job, and while I will try some additional 409 and Goo-BE-Gone, I think it's gonna be entirely ok for it to show its age, as do I.

Thanks for the tips on perma-press, I'll have to save up a load of office clothes for this Hamilton and see what's up. Normally, I reserve the DE606 for PP, it's great for that and I only need that small drum, but I will give this ancient and original dryer a couple of tests for PermaPress.

Except for the water/condenser dryers that quite a few folks made mostly in the 50's, is there any other dryer as historic/unique as this Hamilton? I'll take back these words some day, but right now this pretty much completes the dryer portion of my collection, what a find and what a steal. 3 electric and 3 gas dryers seems sufficient. But 3 years ago, one washer and one dryer seemd sufficient.