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Thread Number: 62836
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
My first vintage dryer...and its German...! |
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| Post# 853951 , Reply# 1 11/28/2015 at 02:37 (3,066 days old) by Matthewza (Cape Town, South Africa) | ||
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Pictures... Here she is in all her glory... Test load set to B with normal dryness and low heat because of my Nike dryfit shirts | ||
| Post# 854134 , Reply# 2 11/29/2015 at 05:16 (3,064 days old) by ronhic (Canberra, Australia) | ||
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Post# 854141 , Reply# 3 11/29/2015 at 07:43 (3,064 days old) by jetcone  (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Kool machine Mathew | ||
| Post# 854149 , Reply# 5 11/29/2015 at 08:07 (3,064 days old) by Matthewza (Cape Town, South Africa) | ||
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Age... If memory serves, this machine was made in the '80s. Trust the Germans to have already been using sensor drying back then. Just for interest sake, when did sensor drying technology start getting introduced? | ||
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Post# 854155 , Reply# 6 11/29/2015 at 08:52 (3,064 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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Congratulations on your find! That dryer is indeed from the mid 80's. My brother and SIL had an almost similar dryer, but with a white control panel. After Whirlpool took over Philips, Whirlpool used this design too.
That AEG Lavatherm 610 was a good dryer too. Did it still have the smaller door opening? The AEG dryers with the larger door opening were of a lesser quality IMHO. They were noisier than the older AEG/Zanker design. My first dryer was a Zanker Thermat 455, a very fast dryer and less noisy than the AEG Lavatherm 330 I have. I don't know when the first sensor dryer came on the European market. I think Miele's fist was the 460, that model was launched in the 60's IIRC. But perhaps another brand had one before Miele. I will see if I can get an answer. | ||
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Post# 854199 , Reply# 8 11/29/2015 at 13:31 (3,064 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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That's a nice looking dryer. What do the bright sun and the sorta of half sun settings mean? | ||
| Post# 854283 , Reply# 9 11/29/2015 at 23:20 (3,064 days old) by Matthewza (Cape Town, South Africa) | ||
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The bright sun is the indicator light for drying (heating as they say in the manual) and the half sun is the half heat button - pushed in to select half heat, out to select high heat. Then the fan is the indicator light for cooling, the broken line circle is for end/anti crease and the cross hatch one means the filter needs to be cleaned | ||
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Post# 854315 , Reply# 10 11/30/2015 at 07:36 (3,063 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Over here I think Maytag introduced sensor drying in either 1959 or 1960 but WP had a system just around then too.
Maytag had large copper wire coiled around one fin that was the sensor.
I think there might be a picture of that here in some deep thread.
Always thought the WP sensing was the best between the two. It ran to cool down just as the clothes hit the proper dryness. I have never shrunk anything in a WP dryer due to over drying. Maytag - not so much. Louis, you look very cold in that jacket !!
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Post# 854327 , Reply# 11 11/30/2015 at 09:53 (3,063 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands) |
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I don't know enough about the UK market, but the Miele 460 was the first dryer on the North Eastern part of the continent to have sensor drying. This dryer was introduced in 1966 and had two sensors on the baffles in the drum. Here's a video of a 1970 Miele 460.
Yes Jon, it was cold! It was in March in a little harbor town called Harlingen. www.webcam-harlingen.nl... | ||
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