Thread Number: 40561
POD 5/31/12 WP COMBO with Jimmy & Gloria Stewart |
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Post# 600048 , Reply# 1   5/31/2012 at 07:28 (4,346 days old) by westingman123 ()   |   | |
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Tom, there's a window back there. Look near Mrs. Stewart's feet. Pretty combo, pretty couple. How time flies. |
Post# 600060 , Reply# 2   5/31/2012 at 08:34 (4,346 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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Post# 600065 , Reply# 3   5/31/2012 at 09:17 (4,346 days old) by golittlesport (California)   |   | |
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I met the Stewart's daughter at an event a few years ago and mentioned this ad and that I had it framed and hanging in my laundry room (next to Bing Crosby's Gas Bendix Duomatic ad). She was very familiar with it and said she had a copy of the ad also, and mentioned it was not actually photographed in their home.
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Post# 600068 , Reply# 4   5/31/2012 at 09:38 (4,346 days old) by rinso (Meridian Idaho)   |   | |
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Nice ad, and it's great to see the man of the house somewhat involved, though I seriously doubt that either of them actually HAD to do any laundry. |
Post# 600108 , Reply# 5   5/31/2012 at 12:54 (4,346 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Rich, Thanks. I figured as much as did Jon. |
Post# 600124 , Reply# 6   5/31/2012 at 14:42 (4,346 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Post# 600162 , Reply# 7   5/31/2012 at 19:27 (4,346 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 600201 , Reply# 8   5/31/2012 at 23:03 (4,346 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Sure they say it's a combo. I meant, compared to other combo ads which emphasize and repest "dirty goes in, clean AND dry comes out". The copy emphasizes the separate operations.
Maybe by then buyers knew that yes it was one step from the operator perspective but it took roughly 3 times as long doing it. Twice because obviously it can only do one thing at a time, and 3 because it didn't spin for squat. |
Post# 600236 , Reply# 10   6/1/2012 at 06:41 (4,346 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Sounds like I could do that w/ a separate set of machines: Do my towels last after doing the rest of my clothes ie. washing AND drying them afterwards...
(Though that may have been what I was occasionally doing all along...) Kind'a wondering "if" and/or "when" the Combo may make a come-back? -- Dave |
Post# 600238 , Reply# 11   6/1/2012 at 06:56 (4,346 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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The gas WP Combo featured in the ad was actually fairly fast in spite of very poor extraction during the spin cycle. This Combo was one of the most powerful dryers ever marketed for home use with its 37,000 BTU gas burner. A light load of clothing could be washed and dried in about an hour and heavier loads took an hour and a half, about the same time it takes a modern FL washer to just wash a load LOL.
The electric version was much slower as it only had 5600 watts of power available so it could take an extra 1/2 hour with most loads than the gas version. On some of the Sears versions of this machine they allowed the option on the electric models of connecting the machine to a 50 AMP line as these models had an extra heater and gave you 8400 watts of drying power which really helped close the drying speed gap between the gas and electric versions. |
Post# 600370 , Reply# 13   6/1/2012 at 18:01 (4,345 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)   |   | |
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