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Almost new early Coronado dryer
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Post# 928159   3/21/2017 at 21:41 (2,563 days old) by moparguy (Virginia)        

A craigslist post for an almost-new Coronado dryer, was new in the box unused for over 50 years and just put into service three years ago!

sacramento.craigslist.org/app/60...



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Post# 928165 , Reply# 1   3/21/2017 at 23:08 (2,563 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Westinghouse

Didn't make this I am pretty sure.

Post# 928168 , Reply# 2   3/22/2017 at 00:20 (2,563 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Nope, not a Westinghouse. Likely a Beam Mfg. product. Sold under lots of store-brand names, Coronado was the house brand for Gambles stores.

$800 is a hopeful price, for sure.


Post# 928181 , Reply# 3   3/22/2017 at 03:58 (2,563 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)        

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Post# 928219 , Reply# 4   3/22/2017 at 08:55 (2,563 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

From the small glimpse of the timer dial, this looks to have one of the thermostatic dryness controls like some early Blackstone and Westinghouse dryers I have seen, but I agree that it looks like the Beam dryers sold under the SQ brand as well as others like APEX. I think that one of the features touted for the dryers was "vacuum drying" in which the air pressure in the chamber was lower, because of the exhaust fan which pulled air through the dryer, which helped water to evaporate faster. It made more sense than the medical benefits of tobacco, another advertising ploy of roughly the same time.


Post# 928250 , Reply# 5   3/22/2017 at 11:24 (2,563 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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That looks like an Apex made dryer, very cool!

Post# 928255 , Reply# 6   3/22/2017 at 12:27 (2,562 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

I liked the APEX version with a window, but I thought that Beam made these closely-related machines as Greg noted.

 

John was using the Blackstone in the shop at the museum and I think he said that dry control was pretty reliable.



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