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Post# 203871   4/14/2007 at 10:18 (6,193 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 203910 , Reply# 1   4/14/2007 at 13:48 (6,193 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 203913 , Reply# 2   4/14/2007 at 13:58 (6,193 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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Kenny, I believe that is the match to Lawrence's (pulltostart) '61 GE Washer. I'll give him a call and get his attention. |
Post# 203915 , Reply# 3   4/14/2007 at 14:16 (6,193 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 203921 , Reply# 4   4/14/2007 at 14:59 (6,193 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 203982 , Reply# 5   4/14/2007 at 20:02 (6,193 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Kenny, Would you please be a pal and let us know what the model # on that @#@#!$#@ GE dryer is?? GE must have been slapping these things together on short order with spare parts because that is a DA 720V control panel(the dryer I grew up with from the GE pair that started this obsession) on a DA 620V cabinet!!! Lawrence is right, that console SHOULD BE ELEVATED ON PEDESTALS!! Also, ours didn't say "Clothes Conditioning Automatic Dryer". The first GE's we ever owned (which, by the way, lasted until we sold the house 17 years later), a WA 750V and a DA 720V, both from 1961: |
Post# 203984 , Reply# 6   4/14/2007 at 20:07 (6,193 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 203985 , Reply# 7   4/14/2007 at 20:08 (6,193 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 204099 , Reply# 8   4/15/2007 at 06:13 (6,192 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 204158 , Reply# 9   4/15/2007 at 13:22 (6,192 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 204162 , Reply# 10   4/15/2007 at 13:54 (6,192 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Thanks, Kenny, it makes some sense. GE model numbers (for the consumer) followed this format: DA 723 W Where: D=Dryer A=Automatic(presumably, both washers and dryers generally had the A designation until 1966 or 7 whenever GE intoduced its first gas dryer then the A would have been replaced by an E if the unit were electric or a G if it were gas) 723=Model ranking number(probably more complex than that, but I haven't deciphered it all yet. GE dryers from 1957 to 1966 generally followed the numbers from BOL to TOL: 420, 520, 620, 720, 820, 920, 1020/1220 ) W=1962 What I've been noticing since I've joined this club, is that GE produced many odd-ball models in any given year that look almost as if GE were throwing these models together as experiments or as simply a way to use up spare parts. This unit has the control panel of a DA 720W as I've said, but it's missing the pedestals. I would have expected the model # to be lower than 720 here, but maybe GE put it together as a response to Consumer Reports' criticism of GE's of that generation that the raised control panel allowed clothing to escape and fall down the back of the unit. I know that in the following year, 1963 both the 720 and the 820 models had no pedestals either. In 1964 GE did away with the pedestals on all of its appliances entirely. Yet again, CU kills off another cool retro feature of that generation. Here are the 820 and 920 from 1963: |
Post# 204165 , Reply# 11   4/15/2007 at 14:18 (6,192 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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I guess one of the reasons I'm so obsessed with GE's and their model numbers is that my Grandmother owned a great oddball like your dryer and I still haven't found it in any catalogue for GE's. I'm guessing it was a 1963 WA-723X, but I never thought to look for/at the serial plate when I was younger. I wish I had asked her for the literature that came with the machine because she would have kept all of it.
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Post# 204218 , Reply# 12   4/15/2007 at 17:50 (6,192 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 204384 , Reply# 13   4/16/2007 at 09:23 (6,191 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Hey Kenny, Would you be willing to remove that control panel, disconnecting the wires from the motor, nichromes, themosensor, etc. and send it to me for a price? I'd really like to have that thing but I can't afford the shipping for the whole unit right now. And at least the works can be used again/later without killing the thing. Lemme know. |
Post# 204468 , Reply# 15   4/16/2007 at 15:05 (6,191 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 204539 , Reply# 16   4/16/2007 at 19:05 (6,191 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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I originally thought the same way you did. But that's what's weird about this and why I think GE was slapping these things together with spare parts at the end of the model year to make way for the new line. The timer on this dryer is EXACTLY like our DA 720W with the automatic cycle. Only differences are no pedestals here, and ours didn't have the words "clothes conditioning". Ours had an interior light. Does this one?
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Post# 204540 , Reply# 17   4/16/2007 at 19:36 (6,191 days old) by sharples ()   |   | |
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Model No. 616W1 W |
Post# 204937 , Reply# 19   4/18/2007 at 07:39 (6,189 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 204944 , Reply# 20   4/18/2007 at 08:13 (6,189 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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