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Post# 213655   6/1/2007 at 22:11 (6,167 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Jamie (chromacolor) recently brought home a very nice 1967 RCA Whirlpool dryer from a thrift/consignment store near his hometown. He brought it over last Friday night and we did a little vacuuming, polishing and replaced the dial light and it works beautifully!




Post# 213656 , Reply# 1   6/1/2007 at 22:11 (6,167 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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It doesn't appear to have had much use...

Post# 213659 , Reply# 2   6/1/2007 at 22:19 (6,167 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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This is a two speed dryer - on Super Speed, it runs as any WP dryer would, 5600 watts and full air-flow. On Gentle Speed, it runs at 4600 watts and a small damper partially blocks the air-flow inside the duct before the fan. The temperature is controlled with a hydraulic thermostat (just like an oven) at the exhaust port that is extremely accurate and likely does help keep the temperature at an even level which would speed drying. It also has an infinite temperature selector - very flexible!

Post# 213668 , Reply# 3   6/1/2007 at 22:53 (6,167 days old) by pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI)        

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My great grandma has almost this exact dryer! I used to think it was scary when I was little, I was intimidated by the size of the control panel! She uses it once a month when she does her load of towels, everything else gets hang dried! Unfortunately, the matching washer died long long ago, she now has a DD Whrilpool suds saver! (And she uses the water all day too! That's 8 loads of laundry!!!)

Post# 213716 , Reply# 4   6/2/2007 at 07:04 (6,167 days old) by trainguy (Key West, FL)        

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Greg,

You and Jamie did a great job on both the outside and inside. That 40 year old dryer shines just like new!

Rich


Post# 213762 , Reply# 5   6/2/2007 at 11:04 (6,166 days old) by lightedcontrols ()        

Hi Greg! Did this washer not have a light under the controls to illuminate the top? Mark

Post# 213767 , Reply# 6   6/2/2007 at 11:39 (6,166 days old) by chromacolor ()        

Hi,
Rich, I lucked out on this dryer as it was pretty much in this shape "as found". When I feel more energetic I will wax it. (Where is Jubilee?!) The main dryer knob is pretty worn, but I have one coming from eBay so will replace that when it comes. This was found in a "thrift" shop in Oakland,NE. that I go to when I visit my parents. I got this dryer for the whopping sum of TEN dollars. They have some good deals. I buy ALL my clothes there as well. This is also the shop where Greg got all of those vacuums.
Mark, Greg looked and altho there is a strip of plastic where a light would shine thru there was NO light installed when we took the back off. Perhaps Whirlpool only installed the light on TOL models? Greg didn't think it would be hard to install one tho. It's got the space for it, but Whirlpool didn't install one on this model.


Post# 213787 , Reply# 7   6/2/2007 at 14:22 (6,166 days old) by tlee618 ()        

Well Jamie, of course you have to have Greg help you install that light, we must have our console lights!! LOL Hope that you are doing great!!

Post# 213852 , Reply# 8   6/2/2007 at 21:07 (6,166 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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When Jamie brought the dryer over to play with, the sticky residue and outline of a sticker still remained on the control panel (over the Moisture Minder logo) and I instantly recognized it as being one of these. I bought these on ebay several years years ago - from the 70's!

Post# 213934 , Reply# 9   6/3/2007 at 07:15 (6,166 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
OMG those

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are like Riki Tiki Stickies!! Remember those??? Flower power forever!



Post# 214286 , Reply# 10   6/4/2007 at 18:30 (6,164 days old) by fridgiman ()        

Simply beautiful dryer.
I ran into a similar one at an estate sale last year, in blue no less, and didn't get it. I'm still kicking myself over that one.


Post# 214415 , Reply# 11   6/5/2007 at 11:15 (6,163 days old) by askomiele (Belgium Ghent)        

Hey
I saw a bendix washer at the back... would you be a dear and show us some pictures... seems to be aan nice machine:o
thanks



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