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1961 GE High-Speed Dryer |
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Post# 616566 8/12/2012 at 14:23 (4,267 days old) by pulltostart  (Mobile, AL) |
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 Anyone in the market for a mate to their vintage 1961 GE Filter-Flo washer? Ken? Mr. Webmaster???
lawrence
CLICK HERE TO GO TO pulltostart's LINK on eBay 
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Post# 616594 , Reply# 1 8/12/2012 at 16:17 (4,267 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 616652 , Reply# 3 8/12/2012 at 19:47 (4,267 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Oh, I'm so on this!!!!! | ||
| Post# 616660 , Reply# 4 8/12/2012 at 20:14 (4,267 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA) | ||
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Post# 616738 , Reply# 5 8/13/2012 at 06:47 (4,267 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Ken,
You were the first person to come to mind when I found this. I remembered that you have a 1961 FF and just couldn't imagine a more perfect companion to this dryer! I've never seen the foot pedal arrangement that's on this one. Very similar to the full-width foot pedal on Ralph's 1957 Combination. lawrence | ||
| Post# 616739 , Reply# 6 8/13/2012 at 07:04 (4,267 days old) by tecnopolis (Ocala/Dunnellon, Florida 34481) | ||
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Post# 616756 , Reply# 7 8/13/2012 at 08:01 (4,267 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Lawrence This style of foot pedal was only used on their 1961 dryers. Now that I have one that I can examine up close I understand why. It's more ergonomically designed than many others, because the user can hit it with their foot very easily at many locations on the wide bar. It is, however, attached to the dryer solidly at three points; there are no mechanical connections. It depends on the flexibility of the metal itself to yank the wire that operates the magnetic latch on the door. I expect there were a lot of early failures of this style of pedal because of metal fatigue and plain-old bending. It was replaced by the postage-stamp sized conventional pedal that are seen on TOL GE dryers from 1962 to 1970. They worked, but even in our house, we took to hooking our fingers around the edge of the door to open it; it was just easier.
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Post# 618333 , Reply# 8 8/19/2012 at 09:16 (4,261 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 618350 , Reply# 9 8/19/2012 at 12:15 (4,261 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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A dream machine acquired; thanks for asking! | ||
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Post# 618372 , Reply# 10 8/19/2012 at 14:21 (4,260 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Comes to the Rescue!
I have two vintage GE dryers coming my way, one pink (the DA-820P Alex posted an ad of, above), one blue. Happy camper!