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Brand New 1955 Blackstone Dryer For Sale
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Post# 233654   8/29/2007 at 07:23 (6,078 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        

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Nice machine just out of the box! No, I have never turned it on.

I am closing down my secret supply warehouse and cleaning house so you get the benefit of many years of collecting. I am offering this to the club directly instead of the ebay thing.
This machine needs a good home, you be the first to plug it in!!

Jon





Post# 233656 , Reply# 1   8/29/2007 at 07:24 (6,078 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
Inside shot

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See how new, how rare!!


Post# 233659 , Reply# 2   8/29/2007 at 07:27 (6,078 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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*FAINT*

FABULOUS!


Post# 233660 , Reply# 3   8/29/2007 at 07:28 (6,078 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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GASP! So that's where this gem has been hiding!



Post# 233661 , Reply# 4   8/29/2007 at 07:29 (6,078 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Does "Vanna LaFever" come with it?

Post# 233681 , Reply# 5   8/29/2007 at 08:45 (6,078 days old) by tlee618 ()        

If John comes with it I will take it!!LOL Calling Roger!!this would be a perfect mate to your Blackstone washer!!!

Post# 233695 , Reply# 6   8/29/2007 at 09:23 (6,078 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Oh Jon really Blackstone <> Bendix.

Post# 233713 , Reply# 7   8/29/2007 at 10:30 (6,078 days old) by washertalk ()        

WOW !

Post# 233748 , Reply# 8   8/29/2007 at 13:18 (6,078 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
HI all I have a buyer

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thanks for looking and I am sure the new owner will be showing off the baby when he gets it!

jon & al


Post# 234041 , Reply# 9   8/30/2007 at 13:44 (6,077 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

We bought this model in the gas version and it's cherry too. We exchanged an afternoon of removing the chases of old window air conditioners, cleaning and replacing them for a long-unused electric model of the earlier design with the 2 red knobs, one small and one tiny push to start, and the french doors. Like one of the old Westinghouse dryers, it only had the thermostatic auto dry system. The drier you wanted the load or the heavier the fabric, the higher you set the thermostat. I guess that, like the Filtrators at their highest heat setting, you could use the top of the dryer as giant warming plate if you had a dryer buffet. With the perforated drum, it was broiler drying at its best.

Post# 234076 , Reply# 10   8/30/2007 at 17:47 (6,077 days old) by askomiele (Belgium Ghent)        

Hai eum thermostatic auto-dry? Don't understand really the technologie. Am I correct that the drier you want the load the higher the temperature in the drum???


Post# 234208 , Reply# 11   8/31/2007 at 07:45 (6,076 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Askomiele, There were two early types of auto dry: Temperature and Time/Temperature. Westinghouse had a dryer with the strictly thermostatic auto dry control in the early 50s that had a dial marked 1-9 or 1-10(?). That was how you selected the level of dryness. Delicate fabrics or clothes that were damp dried for ironing were dried at the lower numbers, heavier fabrics, the higher ones. Basically when the dryer reached that temperture, it shut off. That is how the Blackstone control worked. I guess that is why they could use such a small dial, because you were not setting a timer. Westinghouse came out with a dryer in the mid 50s that had a timer dial with a large portion of the dial for the timed cycle, but also had a portion of the dial labeled DRY. When you used that cycle, the dryer ran until the exhaust temperature reached somewhere around 220 or 230 degrees F and then it just shut down; no cool down, it just stopped. With these systems, the heat did not cycle on and off, the dryer just kept heating until it reached a temperature that correlated with a level of dryness that the manufacturer had worked out. In the early Westinghouse and the early Blackstone, the user had some control over the degree of dryness so lighter weight fabrics and Nylon (the synthetic fiber at that time) could be dried in the dryer. The later Westinghouse DRY cycle was only for cottons. Heat sensitive fabrics were dried on the timed cycle and low heat could be selected.

Later came the gentler Time/Temperature Auto Dry where the temperature was held at lower operating limits and cycled on and off to maintain the temperature. In the automatic cycle, when the heat cycled off, the timer motor ran and when the heat cycled on, the timer motor stopped. As the clothes became drier, there were longer periods when the heat was off and the timer motor ran more which eventually put the dial closer to the OFF position. Three to five minutes before the dryer shut off, the control dial advanced into a zone where there was no longer any connection to the heater circuit so the clothes tumbled in unheated air and just the residual heat of the dryer. Since the heat level in these dryers was lower to begin with, the clothes were not uncomfortably hot to handle when the dryer shut off.



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