Thread Number: 57325
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
1950s Kenmore gas dryer - confusion! |
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Post# 796558 , Reply# 1   11/30/2014 at 00:28 (3,406 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 796602 , Reply# 3   11/30/2014 at 08:13 (3,406 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)   |   | |
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Post# 796608 , Reply# 4   11/30/2014 at 08:42 (3,406 days old) by Kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)   |   | |
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Kari -
Kevin is a smart man! Some early Kenmore dryers did indeed have back or rear mounted lint screens. Your dryer is a 1957 model. It is an entry level 400 series. Back in those days Sears offered series levels of 400, 500, 60/600, 70/700, and 80/800, and the Lady Kenmore started this year, which until 1964 was either an 800 or 900. There may have been a dryer under yours in the line-up, its hard to tell because my source (Sears parts direct's website) doesn't have models from the 1950s, they seems to start around 1960. I do know however that the basic 400 series machine from 1961 sounds very similar to yours --- basic heat/air switch, and one timed cycle --- and it is indeed included in Sears' parts site. I suspected that it has a rear-mounted lint screen, and sure enough, I pulled up the parts diagram and it shows a lint screen mounted on the rear cabinet in between the cabinet wall and the exhaust duct. If the '57 is anything like the '61, check the back where the exhaust duct is, your lint screen may be mounted in a box back there. Mark is right too...pictures will help us if you still have questions. Good luck Kari with the dryer, it sounds like it found a good home!! I hope we've been helpful. Gordon p.s. - the model number for the 1961 400 series that I looked at is 110.6107400. |
Post# 796614 , Reply# 5   11/30/2014 at 09:12 (3,406 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 796658 , Reply# 6   11/30/2014 at 13:37 (3,405 days old) by Classiccaprice (Hampton, Virginia)   |   | |
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