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YET ANOTHER EXPENSIVE PINK MACHINE........KENMORE DRYER
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Post# 820592   4/23/2015 at 12:13 (3,262 days old) by agitatorboogie (Denver)        

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Gorgeous styling......but yowzaaaaah...i have to give a NENE LEAKES laugh....

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Post# 820593 , Reply# 1   4/23/2015 at 12:15 (3,262 days old) by bluejay (Havre de Grace, MD)        

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That's beautiful, but not for $800.


Post# 820598 , Reply# 2   4/23/2015 at 12:24 (3,262 days old) by oldskool (Kansas City, MO)        
While $800....

...is outrageous IMHO, I find the styling, details, and ornamentation of the older appliances (especially Kenmore), very attractive and appealing.

Most newer appliances, seem so bland, except the truly TOL products. Anyone else think similarly?

John


Post# 820615 , Reply# 3   4/23/2015 at 13:52 (3,262 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)        
It's a beauty!

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I'd love to see the matching washer. 


Post# 820630 , Reply# 4   4/23/2015 at 15:00 (3,262 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
What a neat model!

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I'm not a Kenmore expert, but I've never seen one that looks anything like this machine. Again, it's what the market will bear and I believe that people who have the good sense NOT to just throw beauties like this in the trash deserve to be rewarded...maybe not excessively, but hey, what if the shoe's on the other foot?


Post# 820678 , Reply# 5   4/23/2015 at 19:25 (3,262 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
1958 LKM Gas Dryer

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Very cool, this was only one of three years that WP built an all porcelain cabinet and dryer drum and the were only sold as Sears LKMs .          [ 57-58-and 59 ] These were nice fast dryers in Gas as they had a 37,000 BTU burner, the largest ever used in a home clothes dryer. 

 

You could probably buy this dryer for around $200, but if you had the matching pink washer it sure could be worth $800, We have certainly paid more for appliances we really wanted and were this rare.

 

Can you imagine the drying speed with a nice new fast spinning Washer, WOW 

 

John L.


Post# 820687 , Reply# 6   4/23/2015 at 20:57 (3,262 days old) by scoots (Chattanooga TN)        
Well...

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At least all those pictures are free...

Post# 820724 , Reply# 7   4/24/2015 at 05:00 (3,261 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore)        

that's a nice looking dryer but it isn't $800. nice!


Post# 820728 , Reply# 8   4/24/2015 at 05:38 (3,261 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)        
knobs

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Extremely cool dryer, wow. I can't read the silver knob on the left, and can't read the black lever on the right. Any ideas.
Wow


Post# 820736 , Reply# 9   4/24/2015 at 06:44 (3,261 days old) by retro-man (- boston,ma)        

So would this be the pre piano key lady Kenmore of the early 60's? Very nice condition. Be even better if it was a matched set.

Post# 820740 , Reply# 10   4/24/2015 at 06:59 (3,261 days old) by Gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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While in Palm Springs last month, Fred N and I drive up to see our own Dick S and part of his collection at his 'new' house (with the beautiful Flair range and Philco refrigerator). We had a really nice visit and enjoyed seeing his 58 Kenmore washer and dryer.

The black lever on the left is the room heater - opens a trap door in the exhaust stream and directs it into the room. I think 58 was the only year they did this?

Beautiful machines!


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Post# 820747 , Reply# 11   4/24/2015 at 07:45 (3,261 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)        
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It good to hear some news of Dick, I really enjoyed the thread that was running about the Flair and his new home. Sounds like both are doing well.

Al


Post# 820751 , Reply# 12   4/24/2015 at 08:01 (3,261 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)        

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I'm sure an appliance like this was for more than what most average families had when it was new...



-- Dave


Post# 821201 , Reply# 13   4/27/2015 at 19:14 (3,258 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )        
What happened?

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I can't say anything fresh, not said before or in this thread. What a universe apart is this design and appeal from today's machines. I don't know if I can hang my head any lower, many more times, after I find yet another appliance that reminds me of the schlock we get today, for design.

Thanks for finding and posting it. Yeah, $800 bucks is alot, but then, I consider it art…and good art is never inexpensive. Not that I can afford $800. It would be so much more enjoyable to have the matching washer!

So, this one is worth…an encore in photo.


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Post# 821295 , Reply# 14   4/28/2015 at 12:43 (3,257 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        
1958

It is amazing that the dryer still has the tape kit. Our green 58 LK washer had the tape kit replaced when the little chain that drove the tape started slipping and the Delicate cycle began at the Deep Rinse in the Normal Cycle. Unfortunately, only the Delicate Cycle's Wash remained. After the first spin, the timer ran into the OFF portion at the end of the Normal Cycle so the Rinse and spin for the Delicate Cycle sorta got swallowed and disappeared. In fact, that was the way mom discovered the breakdown. She had set a Normal Cycle load for an extra rinse and the machine filled with hot water and was doing a slow agitation. She, doing anything but a slow burn, yelled for me to figure out what was wrong. Boy, was Sears prepared for that particular timer spasm so we were far from the first to experience the problem! They guy came out and had all of these parts to re-do the control panel. After that, there was no more window where the cycles appeared and the cycles were printed in the original colors around the dial like the one in Greg's picture, but our machine was still a Lady Kenmore with all of the letter coding. It was pretty in that the dial surround was lighted by the fluorescent tube. The gold dial with the cameo of Lady Kenmore was replaced with a dial with a K in the center because the dial had to have a pointer now that there was no black line in the window to show where the setting was on the tape.

I hesitate to think what it would have cost to have all of that done if we had not had a service contract on the machine.



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