Thread Number: 9919
Has anyone figured out the (lack of) a lint catcher on these old dryers? |
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Post# 183009 , Reply# 1   1/13/2007 at 16:03 (6,312 days old) by trainguy (Key West, FL)   |   | |
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Post# 183010 , Reply# 2   1/13/2007 at 16:03 (6,312 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Hi: We had a Kenmore pair of this vintage when I was a kid; Dad got them, erm, previously owned somewhere. This was the early Sixties, so they had some mileage on 'em. Wish I had those machines today! The dryer was a flat-out yard flocker, deluxe. The lint screen you have was long gone when we got the units, and the dryer just vented into the back yard. The vent pipe had to be dismantled and cleaned out from time to time. To give you an idea how primitive the setup was, the vent pipe was just that- a pipe that ran through the wall to the outdoors, no wall cap at all. To make things worse, the dumb-ass who installed the pipe angled it UPWARDS, so rain could run down the vent and get into the dryer's innards, creating a shock hazard. You approached that dryer VERY carefully after a rain, let me tell you. Once wall caps were invented (or at least after my parents became aware of their availability and purpose), we got one, so everyone's still alive, LOL. It was one of my chores to deflock the area under the vent pipe, since it discharged where it could be seen from our patio. Ick, especially after rain. Sometime around 1965 or so, we got a new BOL Kenmore pair, with actual lint filters, and that was the end of white Christmas in July. |
Post# 183018 , Reply# 4   1/13/2007 at 16:56 (6,311 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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I had a box on the back of the 1960 WP dryer that held a screen (which was missing) a hinged lid on top and a hole in the back for venting. I'm not sure why it was on this dryer as that model had a top-mounted lint screen but I brought it home - I'll have to look for it in the garage, I might still have it. Our 72 GE dryer wasn't vented outside for a while after we bought it, mom used a knee-high sheer stocking (plenty of those around to wear with those double-knit pantsuits!) but with all the other polyester getting snagged in the wicker laundry basket, the stockings didn't fill up with lint very quickly. |
Post# 183019 , Reply# 5   1/13/2007 at 16:58 (6,311 days old) by christfr (st louis mo)   |   | |
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