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Just under the wire... A Frigidaire Dryer!
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Post# 719476   12/5/2013 at 17:06 (3,766 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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Well, even Hubby doesn't have to remind me that when this sign on the road to our house in Ogden goes up that the 'collecting season' is over... Well at least until next spring...




Post# 719478 , Reply# 1   12/5/2013 at 17:16 (3,766 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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But while the station wagon was still on the road, I made one last run to Ottawa...

Now Phil deserves all the credit for this one - he found the ad and determined that what the seller REALLY had was a 1962 Canadian Frigidaire Deluxe dryer (the seller had posted a photo of Norge in their ad... go figure!). His plan was to get this one and swap consoles so that he could have a matched dryer to his 64 Frigidaire washer... But after a '59 Imperial range found it's way to Joliette, he decided to pass on the dryer and graciously gave me the chance to grab it.

I did, too... LOL


Post# 719480 , Reply# 2   12/5/2013 at 17:19 (3,766 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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So, it's ALMOST a match to the '63 Frigidaire washer... It is indeed a DDAC-62
Sooo tantalizingly close... The dial is a large clear one and the panel colour is blue not light green.


Post# 719482 , Reply# 3   12/5/2013 at 17:21 (3,766 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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Love the Fabric Selector! So much choice!

Post# 719484 , Reply# 4   12/5/2013 at 17:24 (3,766 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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The timer confuses me a bit (no, it doesn't take much... LOL)

Note that there is a No-Heat section of the timer dial, but there was also a No-Heat setting on the Fabric Selector. Was that to avoid one having to change to Fabric Selector unnecessarily? Was this possibly just on the Canadian models??


Post# 719485 , Reply# 5   12/5/2013 at 17:27 (3,766 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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The dryer was sold 'in working condition' but I won't be able to find out for sure until spring... I JUST managed to get this into the top-secret off-site storage depot (off Dufferin Road in Stanstead) before the snow really started falling. One more day and I wouldn't have been able to get back up the driveway in Ogden!

So, the Frigidaire washer will get its mate in 2014.. Hope they get along well... LOL


Post# 719495 , Reply# 6   12/5/2013 at 19:27 (3,766 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
Cool 62 Frigidaire Dryer

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Always love the nice basic models, such a great buy, very thrifty.

Paul don't worry about getting to confused when making heat choices with this dryer as you only have hi heat and one low setting and air. The regular, bulky and Sturdy W&W setting are all just Hi Heat, these extra settings were merrily designed to make the housewife fell like she was making important choices while in reality the man of the house really was making the REALLY IMPORTANT CHOICES that made the 60s household really function, LOL.

John L.


Post# 719498 , Reply# 7   12/5/2013 at 20:00 (3,766 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)        
Hey John----

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John--I have a 62 Frig Flowing Heat electric dryer, the timer has both Timed and Auto sections, timer-versus-heat, and the Fabric Selector has the exact same as this, REg, Bulky, Sturdy W&W, Del W&W, and No Heat. Do I likely have only 2 real temps, like the one aboce of Phil's from 63? That would help explain some confusion I've had at times with it, though it works quite well. And at the start, I used the timer "Bulky" and Del and REg settings with very mixed results, then a while back I realized it's just exactly the same as any other dryer labeled "More Dry" and "Less Dry. So that already stopped some confusion. Knowing it's only 2 temps would solve my last questions. So is it just over-fancy knobs and print on a routine 2 temp timer-versus-heat dryer?

Post# 719499 , Reply# 8   12/5/2013 at 20:01 (3,766 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)        
and....

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the Fabric Selector switch, DIA-62. And one other dumb question while I got you-----Does maybe the W&W on the Fabric Selector give a longer cool-down, as opposed to REG?

Post# 719501 , Reply# 9   12/5/2013 at 20:08 (3,766 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
Cool 62 Frigidaire Dryer

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Unfortunately Mark you have the same thing as Paul, only Norge was worse about putting so many labels on only two different temperature settings on their dryers, LOL.

Post# 719505 , Reply# 10   12/5/2013 at 20:18 (3,766 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)        
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It ain't unfortunate, what the hell. Thanks for the info, it clears up lots!
And it runs well, especially since I know how to set it now: 2 temps only, and ignore the Cycle Selector crap and just think MORE and LESS dry based on what clothes are in it.

Thanks----it helps--now I don't have to confuse my pretty little head like a 60's housewife! Someone will shoot me for that line!
Mark


Post# 719559 , Reply# 11   12/6/2013 at 08:38 (3,765 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        
Interesting feature of the Frigidaire auto dry

Note that Del is closer to the beginning of the auto dry cycle than Reg. That was explained to me by John when we found my DCI60. The Del setting is low heat so the thermostat will cycle sooner on low heat than on hi so the Del auto dry operates longer to account for the thermostat cycleing sooner and more frequently. Time-Temp auto dry operates the timer motor when the heat is cycled OFF so that is why the Del cycle is longer on the dial than Reg even though it will not take longer to dry delicates than regular fabrics.

Frigidaire did a nasty with their lower end dryers. They used a lower wattage heating element (like Sears) and a blower that moved fewer cubic feet of air per minute so they dried slower than the higher end dryers.

Congratulations on the newest addition. You did not post about winterizing the house.


Post# 719561 , Reply# 12   12/6/2013 at 09:18 (3,765 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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The ad for the dryer Paul got did show a Norge dryer with a push button door release. The owner had found a picture of what she thought was a similar dryer (because of the push-button door release). But since she advertised it as a Frigidaire, I asked her if the dryer was the one pictured or if it was really a Frigidaire. Then she sent me some pics of the actual dryer in a text message with her phone as she didn't know how to upload it on internet.

 

The strange thing I found about the Canadian dryer is the fact that it has a "No Heat" setting on both the timer and the selector switch. It doesn't make much sense! 

 

I think that's because they just used the selector switch from the US-built, one-step-higher model in the lineup, the DD-62, which had an auto-dry cycle (so no "no heat" on the timer). Doing such things seemed like a common practice at the Canadian Frigidaire factory. 

 

Note that the US-made BOL DDA-62 has no selector switch. 

 


Post# 719562 , Reply# 13   12/6/2013 at 09:27 (3,765 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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Note that the US-built DDA-62 has a single heat setting. Paul's DDAC-62 dryer must have two heat settings. 


Post# 719572 , Reply# 14   12/6/2013 at 10:21 (3,765 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)        

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Years and years ago, I ran across a 1963 Deluxe Frigidaire dryer, behind Menards. At the time I was out of room, but it would have been perfect for you Paul. I'm glad you were able to shoe-in a 1962 dryer (and Canadian built too boot!)

Ben


Post# 719575 , Reply# 15   12/6/2013 at 10:33 (3,765 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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Tom,

The blower and wattage (4400W) of the heating element should be the same as other 1962 Frigidaire vented dryers. Frigidaire didn't use two blower sizes that year in it's vented models.

 

Later they did on some models, strangely, not always on BOL models. I had a 1968-70 DN66 Gold Crown vented electric dryer that was a single temp, timed-only, BOL model and it did have a regular large blower. I had parts from a higher-end Gold Crown DN5 (from 1968-70 too) that was also a vented electric model with an auto-dry cycle and a temp. selector and this one did have the small diameter blower (same size as those in Flitrator dryers). I thought that was weird!

 

The one at the left has the regular (larger) blower, the one on the right had the small blower. 


Post# 719577 , Reply# 16   12/6/2013 at 10:37 (3,765 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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If I remember well, in the archives, there was another 1963 Canadian washer/dryer set (bol models like Paul's) that was offered for sale, I think they were pink. I'd need to find that to see if the Canadian DDAC-63 also had the temperature selector. 

 

BTW, the ad for the dryer that Paul got is still active, here's the picture that the seller used (I'm wondering if she got it on this site!?)

 

 



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Post# 719590 , Reply# 17   12/6/2013 at 12:06 (3,765 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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Tom, the house is fully winterized - we go there every weekend and I'll spend a couple of weeks in the New Year torturing myself with the GE Combo...

The house was actually a full-time residence, so (and thank goodness) it's insulated and with a permanent heating system.

The road is closed only after the third residence on our stretch of it - the city can't plow that hill that you can see off in the distance so that's really what's closed.


Post# 719722 , Reply# 18   12/7/2013 at 08:24 (3,764 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Phil, you are right; it was the model line starting in 1965 that had the two levels of dryer performance. I remembered reading it in the spec sheets, but did not remember when they started making the differently performing dryers and I was only looking at US models. It was a crumby thing to do, like their cheapest washarm dishwashers not having a detergent dispenser so only one wash and no pre-rinse and that in the mid 60s. With the dryers, you have to wonder at the cost effectiveness with the parts involved. Frigidaire Flowing Heat dryers were on the slow side, too, when CU tested them and I think that the models tested were in the middle of the lineup, at least the deluxe range, so they should have had the standard heaters and blowers.

The thing I liked least about the Frigidaire dryer was how low the drum opening is. It is much lower to the floor than that of a GE dryer.


Post# 719753 , Reply# 19   12/7/2013 at 10:44 (3,764 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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Mark,
As John says, the fabric selector on your dryer has 3 different settings. Some newer Imperial and Custom imperial models achieved 4 different settings out of 6 pushbuttons so there were still 3 selections that did the same function! The 1962 Custom Imperial had 4 selections that were the same with it's 6 pushbuttons!


Post# 719897 , Reply# 20   12/8/2013 at 08:25 (3,763 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Norge Pic..

I think Ted posted that one a while back.

Post# 719898 , Reply# 21   12/8/2013 at 08:32 (3,763 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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Good eye, Hans! It does like one of Ted's photos!!

Post# 719900 , Reply# 22   12/8/2013 at 08:42 (3,763 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
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that Frigidaire dryer sure does have a unique backsplash on it. I can't quite make out from the pic you posted is it on pedestals?

 

That would make it unique in Frigidaire land

 


Post# 719901 , Reply# 23   12/8/2013 at 09:05 (3,763 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

I think that 1957 was the only year for pedestal-mounted timer controls on Frigidaire laundry appliances.

Post# 719904 , Reply# 24   12/8/2013 at 09:51 (3,763 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
Heat Selections On a Frigidaire DCIF-62

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Hi Phil, I believe my 62 Custom Imperial dryer only hi, low and no heat even though it has SIX buttons for fabric and heat selection.

Post# 719932 , Reply# 25   12/8/2013 at 12:47 (3,763 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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Jon, are you talking about the small picture showing a white dryer? That's the one that was the ad for Paul's dryer, it's a Norge!

 

If you're talking about the "colonial copper" ones, they are "N" series Gold Crowns, the one on the left being a very basic model with no heat selections and timed drying only, the one on the right is the equivalent of the DCDAN (that would match your Rollermatic washer) with a different console. 

 

About the '62 pushbuttons,

That's right John! That's what I meant with my previous post (4 pushbuttons have the same function - or 3 are useless!).

 

On the '65 Custom Imperial I got from you, there are still 6 pushbuttons but just 3 do the same action (or just two are useless)!

 

At least in 1966 with the electronic sensor dryers like the one you have, they replaced the useless buttons with a start and a cancel button so all 6 pushbuttons have a different function!

 

 


Post# 720067 , Reply# 26   12/9/2013 at 07:33 (3,762 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        
Post 719562, Reply #13

Look at those low heater wattages for those dryers in that chart: 4400 watts for the vented models. Most electric air-flow dryers had about 5KW of heat at the time, with Maytag HOH and Hamiltons being two exceptions. Old Filtrators had two 2200 watt elements right in there with the fabrics for broil-drying action. In these dryers, they were behind the drum so fabrics were not exposed to the direct radiant heat. No wonder they were slow drying compared to GEs.


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