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Thread Number: 57601
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
OMG, Becky! Look at the size of that...! |
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| Post# 800048 12/21/2014 at 09:34 (3,405 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 800078 , Reply# 1 12/21/2014 at 12:41 (3,405 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 800082 , Reply# 2 12/21/2014 at 12:49 (3,405 days old) by Classiccaprice (Hampton, Virginia) | ||
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| Post# 800107 , Reply# 3 12/21/2014 at 15:16 (3,405 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Post# 800140 , Reply# 4 12/21/2014 at 18:54 (3,405 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Down the road there lives a man I'd like you all to know
He grew a great big marrow for the local flower show And when the story got around, they came from far and wide And when the people saw the marrow, everybody cried (Ooooh! What a beauty!), I've never seen one as big as that before (Ooooh! What a beauty!), It must be two feet long or even more It's such a lovely colour, and nice and round and fat I never thought a marrow could grow as big as that (Ooooh! What a beauty!), I've never seen one as big as that before (Oh-Oh-Ooooh! What a beauty!, we've never seen one as big as that before) He was leaning on the garden gate the other day And beckoned to a lady who lives just across the way He took her down the garden path and showed it her with pride And when she saw the size of it, the little lady sighed (Ooooh! What a beauty!), She'd never seen one as big as that before (Ooooh! What a beauty!), It must be two feet long or even more It's such a lovely colour, and nice and round and fat I never thought a marrow could grow as big as that (Ooooh! What a beauty!), I've never seen one as big as that before (It's stupendous!) (It's colossul!) (It's gigantic!) (It's bigger than that!) And then the flower show was held and everybody went To see the great big marrow, lying there inside the tent Soon the judges came along to give the prizes out They only took one look at it and then began to shout (Ooooh! What a beauty!, we've never seen one as big as that before) (Ooooh! What a beauty!, it must be two feet long or even more) It's such a lovely colour, and nice and round and fat I never thought a marrow could grow as big as that (Ooooh! What a beauty!, we've never seen one as big as that before Oooo-oooo-oooh! I've never seen one as big as that before | ||
| Post# 800167 , Reply# 5 12/21/2014 at 22:26 (3,405 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 800185 , Reply# 7 12/21/2014 at 23:57 (3,404 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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Post# 800187 , Reply# 8 12/22/2014 at 00:11 (3,404 days old) by Gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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| Post# 800207 , Reply# 9 12/22/2014 at 04:35 (3,404 days old) by lebron (Minnesota) | ||
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Post# 800217 , Reply# 10 12/22/2014 at 07:08 (3,404 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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o stupendous find | ||
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Post# 800231 , Reply# 11 12/22/2014 at 10:11 (3,404 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Frigidaires were good dryers. The main thing I don't like about them, as I have grown older is that the drum opening is lower than on a GE so the door opens closer to the floor and interferes with the clothes basket. This does not apply to the Filtrators of the clothes broiler design. | ||
| Post# 800242 , Reply# 12 12/22/2014 at 10:42 (3,404 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
"designated a model above Custom Imperial" | ||
| Post# 800247 , Reply# 13 12/22/2014 at 11:16 (3,404 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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How to move?
U-Haul with a ramp and two seatbelts!!
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Post# 800249 , Reply# 14 12/22/2014 at 11:17 (3,404 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 800265 , Reply# 15 12/22/2014 at 12:42 (3,404 days old) by brib68 (Central Connecticut) | ||
Pardon my ignorance | ||
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Post# 800267 , Reply# 16 12/22/2014 at 12:50 (3,404 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Not ignorant at all Brian This was a very short-lived TOL design for Frigidaire in the late 1960s. The high-style contained storage cabinets for laundry supplies and such--just think of it as the precursor for day's pedestals. I think there was probably also a range with this style. I did see these in person in avocado in the GM Pavilion of the Texas State Fair in like fall of 1967 or 1968. The companion washer had the variable speed knobs for both pulsating and spin and were total mechanical nightmares failure prone. But I was just beside myself when I figured out I could have dialed any speed wash or spin I wanted. As an adult, I now think they should have included variable water temperature settings also. | ||
| Post# 800282 , Reply# 17 12/22/2014 at 13:38 (3,404 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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I'm dreaming about these! So far, I only have the dishwasher from that ad! The rest wasn't available in Canada but if anything like that surfaces not too far from the border, I'll try to grab them. | ||
| Post# 800297 , Reply# 18 12/22/2014 at 14:28 (3,404 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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Tom, about the doors, I can tell you that the lower part of the door on my 1957 "Clothes Broiler" is 2" lower than it is on the 1961-70 Frigidaire dryers.
13½" for the 1961-70 dryers, 11½" for the 1957. | ||
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Post# 800299 , Reply# 19 12/22/2014 at 14:31 (3,404 days old) by Volvoguy87 (Cincinnati, OH) |
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Wow!!! | ||
| Post# 800301 , Reply# 20 12/22/2014 at 14:56 (3,404 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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How I found, and the history
How did I find it? Craigslist
This belonged to the aunt of the seller who became too old to live alone and moved I to assisted living. She had this dryer since her husband bought it for her. No, she did not have the matching washer, as he recalled. I asked him to call me if he ever found one. I cannot get good pics here in the house, so I will move it outside in the next day or two to get proper pics. | ||
| Post# 800302 , Reply# 21 12/22/2014 at 15:00 (3,404 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Door height | ||
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Post# 800402 , Reply# 22 12/22/2014 at 21:07 (3,404 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Great condition and wonderful find!  | ||
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Post# 800415 , Reply# 23 12/22/2014 at 22:03 (3,404 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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Post# 800421 , Reply# 24 12/22/2014 at 23:07 (3,404 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 800472 , Reply# 27 12/23/2014 at 07:26 (3,403 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Cool Dryer, Peter
These were about as fancy as a Frigidaire dryer ever got, It has a 2 speed motor, a dual heating element, sprinkler system for dryer fires, no actually for damping clothing for ironing, Electronic dryness control [ made by Texas Instruments, same system as used on Lady Kenmore dryers in 1966-7 ] It also looks like it had a control behind the door to give you a no tumble setting.
FD dryers by this time had gotten fairly good overall, but were still no match for the reliability of WP & KM and GEs electric dryers and probably a few others. Weak spots in the FD dryers were the motor, front and rear drum bearings and slides, idler pulleys, and wiring in the heating element circuit. I often said the good thing about a FD dryer was that their washers spun so well, usually a FD dryer paired with a FD washer lasted much longer that one that was paired with a BD WP-KM, GE-FF, WH FL washer etc. In any event it is an awesome find Peter, I hope it is in as good a shape mechanically as it looks and you get to use it, there is still no beating the speed and size of a American dryer especially when used with a modern FAST spinning washer. | ||
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Post# 800474 , Reply# 28 12/23/2014 at 07:44 (3,403 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Multi-use appliances Don S and I saw one of these, in green, at an old appliance shop in Toledo about ten years ago. They were using it as a storage cabinet and on top, a TV stand. We asked if he would consider selling it and the owner just stared at us a for a minute with a "but where would the TV go?" look on his face and politely declined.
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| Post# 800498 , Reply# 29 12/23/2014 at 10:06 (3,403 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Using it
The only real problem I have is the height of the dryer verses the (stuffed to the gills) built in shelves I have in the laundry room...
John Combo -- after that list of things that could go wrong, is there anything that could remain goof? LOL!!! I find it strange that there are so few options that other dryers would have: temp selections, end-of-cycle signal, fabric settings... There are no other controls on the dryer other than what is pictured. And the "storage cabinet"? Maybe a Harlequin Romance or two might fit in there, but the only product that would fit in there is maybe the thin boxes of ALL... | ||
| Post# 800932 , Reply# 30 12/26/2014 at 12:48 (3,400 days old) by hippiedoll ( arizona ) | ||
look who's making the scene..... | ||
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