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Late 50's Hamilton gas dryer |
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Post# 747685   4/4/2014 at 20:51 (3,645 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 747695 , Reply# 1   4/4/2014 at 22:20 (3,645 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Pity it's not working; it's glorious and it's near me. I guess designers in this period were focusing on automobile dashboards and flourishes more than house design. I'm so sick of the current fashion of household appliances that screeches "Blend In" at the cost of imagination, ergonomics and common sense. I want to see what I'm working with.
Again, I can only imagine what the matching washer would have looked like. I guess the moral of the story is that machines that don't deal with water intake and drainage have fewer parts to wear out, oxidize and fail. I wonder if there's anything in the Library about Hamilton products of this vintage...
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Post# 747705 , Reply# 2   4/4/2014 at 23:58 (3,645 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)   |   | |
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Post# 747707 , Reply# 3   4/4/2014 at 23:59 (3,645 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)   |   | |
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Post# 747721 , Reply# 4   4/5/2014 at 05:16 (3,645 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 747835 , Reply# 6   4/5/2014 at 14:45 (3,645 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)   |   | |
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Post# 747840 , Reply# 7   4/5/2014 at 14:56 (3,645 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)   |   | |
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Post# 747897 , Reply# 8   4/5/2014 at 18:49 (3,644 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 747924 , Reply# 9   4/5/2014 at 19:34 (3,644 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Cool Dryer, yes it is real late 50s but most likely early 1960s. The heat miser light comes on whenever the burner cycles off.
Yes this dryer could likely be restored, hopefully it does not have a constant burning pilot light, most Hamilton's did and it tended to destroy many parts of the dryers control panel and rust out the bottom of the dryers top. The matching washer to this would have been a solid tub Norge built machine, even if the dryer was only used till 1981 the matching washer would have been LONG gone for at LEAST a decade. |
Post# 749474 , Reply# 10   4/12/2014 at 08:16 (3,638 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)   |   | |
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Post# 750953 , Reply# 11   4/18/2014 at 13:40 (3,632 days old) by bluejay (Havre de Grace, MD)   |   | |
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Looks like it didn't sell; it's been relisted. It almost makes me wish we had a gas line! I love the control panel! CLICK HERE TO GO TO bluejay's LINK on eBay |