Thread Number: 73729
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1959 GE Dryer Question |
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Post# 973782 , Reply# 1   12/15/2017 at 11:23 (2,295 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Just recently I was reading the same literature, and part of the instructions concluded with:
"When dryer turns off, remove clothes. Fold and place in a plastic bag to ensure uniform dampness" - this was in preparation for ironing.
I remember my mother sprinkling (by hand) clothes, wrapping them and placing them in the refrigerator to keep them damp until she was ready to iron them.
I think sprinkling clothes went away as permanent press garments entered the market and ironing went by the wayside.
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Post# 973787 , Reply# 3   12/15/2017 at 12:05 (2,295 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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I did not purchase the copy from this website, I have a hard copy of the brochure, so there could be printing differences? In my copy it is Instruction 5 under "Sprinkling" on page 11.
This copy is "PUB. No. 727A360P01"
I looked at some other literature and find reference to sprinkling/sprinkler in the 1960 Use and Care Guide. I do not have any information on the 1961 models, but there is no mention of this feature in neither the 1962 catalog nor later catalogs.
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Post# 973790 , Reply# 4   12/15/2017 at 12:30 (2,295 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 973798 , Reply# 6   12/15/2017 at 13:13 (2,295 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 973800 , Reply# 7   12/15/2017 at 13:16 (2,295 days old) by johnrk (BP TX)   |   | |
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from Lehman's are plastic, but they still have natural cork for the bottle end. And they work great, a lot better than trying to do like a priest- |
Post# 973803 , Reply# 8   12/15/2017 at 13:30 (2,295 days old) by ken (NYS)   |   | |
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Post# 973806 , Reply# 9   12/15/2017 at 14:00 (2,295 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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They probably got phased out because they broke eventually. It also makes servicing a model with a door pedal a little more challenging; in the case of dryers anyway. I had a '58 GE dryer with the door-opener pedal and I had a devil of a time getting it back in the right spot when I reconditioned the dryer. Let's see if the '57 model on the 2018 Restoration Resolutions List gives me the same grief... LOL |
Post# 973826 , Reply# 10   12/15/2017 at 16:42 (2,295 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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If you will look at a GE dryer drum, you might find some small holes at the back near the vanes. The GE sprinkler had a spring-loaded rod that held the cylinder in place against the drum vane. In early GE dryers, the no heat cycle was labeled "sprinkle." |
Post# 974435 , Reply# 11   12/18/2017 at 11:04 (2,292 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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We had a bunch of GE dryers with foot-pedal operated doors. I have a couple now and I can tell you that trying to find the pedal with one foot gets old real quick; you just end up grabbing the edge of the door and pulling it open. That's easy to do on a GE dryer but very hard to do on, say, a Hotpoint foot-pedal dryer where the door's edges are sunk into the cabinet front.
I wonder if the earlier wide-pedal mechanisms broke more than the later ones with smaller pedals. I've never seen one break. |
Post# 974442 , Reply# 12   12/18/2017 at 11:52 (2,292 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Post# 977817 , Reply# 15   1/10/2018 at 20:39 (2,269 days old) by arris (Rochester New York)   |   | |
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In response to Cornutt, the first dryer we had was a 65 Kenmore all American High Speed gas dryer, it had the Pink sprinkler ball... my mother used it just once !!!! It made a hell of a Racket, she was afraid it would dent the drum, it was the size of a basket ball... after that we used it for many years as a chlorinator in our pool.... we found it many years later.... it ended up being tossed about 10 years ago... I remember it looking like a land mine.... with a little screw cap on top to fill with water and pin holes all around it.... kind of wish I had saved it......
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Post# 977919 , Reply# 16   1/11/2018 at 18:34 (2,268 days old) by thunderbird6565 (annandale va)   |   | |
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Post# 977923 , Reply# 17   1/11/2018 at 19:04 (2,268 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 978001 , Reply# 18   1/12/2018 at 11:35 (2,267 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Jeff,
Thank you for the pictures of the sprinkler; I've never seen any photos of it and the best I've seen were simple illustrations of it in the operations manuals. It's something I would never have any use for, but, as a collector of bells and whistles, I'd love to find one. Also, it answers I question I've always had about GE dryers: "What's with all the holes in the drum?"
Didn't you do a thread with these machines?
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