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Thread Number: 25046
Early Whirlpool Dryers |
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| Post# 386705 , Reply# 1 10/20/2009 at 21:16 (5,300 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
wp/km dryer | ||
| Post# 386706 , Reply# 2 10/20/2009 at 21:17 (5,300 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
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| Post# 386709 , Reply# 3 10/20/2009 at 21:21 (5,300 days old) by rickr (.) | ||
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| Post# 386714 , Reply# 4 10/20/2009 at 21:29 (5,300 days old) by ingliscanada () | ||
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Your dryer describes the earlier layout that I'm familiar with. I always thought that was the original WP dryer layout. | ||
| Post# 386782 , Reply# 5 10/21/2009 at 05:41 (5,299 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Lint filter at bottom. The only thing I know with a large filter at the bottom was a Norge, there is a door at floor level,the width of the machine,about 3 inches high, you pull this down and the filter slides out it is about 11/2 feet square. | ||
| Post# 386810 , Reply# 6 10/21/2009 at 08:09 (5,299 days old) by iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
I am in agreement with Norgeway | ||
Post# 386844 , Reply# 8 10/21/2009 at 10:18 (5,299 days old) by kenmoreguy64  (Charlotte, NC) |
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Being that this was a Canadian model, there's no telling, but we didn't have any Kenmores in the U.S. that I'm aware of with a side swing door until the nineties or late eighties, and by then the chromed handles were long gone. I have seen pic-of-the-day ads of Canadian Kenmores with the side-swing door though. Perhaps Simpson/Sears in Canada had a supply agreement with a maker other than Whirlpool at the time? | ||
| Post# 386855 , Reply# 9 10/21/2009 at 10:47 (5,299 days old) by ingliscanada () | ||
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KenmoreGuy64 Actually, my wife grew up in Phoenix AZ, so that machine was actually American. | ||
| Post# 386858 , Reply# 10 10/21/2009 at 10:55 (5,299 days old) by 70series ( Connecticut.) | ||
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American Kenmores: To my knowledge Whirlpool was the only manufacturer of American Kenmores, and all of them had the drop down door. Between the two brands, only Whirlpool branded dryers had side swing doors. Have a good one, James | ||
| Post# 386862 , Reply# 11 10/21/2009 at 11:03 (5,299 days old) by ingliscanada () | ||
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Evidentally, that old dryer my wife's family had was not a Kenmore, judging by the info I'm getting here. It might have been a Thor or something like that. | ||
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Post# 386865 , Reply# 12 10/21/2009 at 11:21 (5,299 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC) |
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My memory just flashed on ONE dryer model that in the late 60s/very early 70s was offered with Kenmore's sole large capacity washer of the time. We know the washer here as the 518 or Frankenmore. The dryer used a 29-inch control panel, but it was mated to a larger cabinet similar in size to the ginormous GE large drum dryers. The dryer was quoted as being nearly 8.0 cu ft. I believe. It had a side-swing big-a$$ door with the usual Kenmore chrome handle. I don't know where the lint was contained, but I had thought the design was an enlarged version of the standard dryer. There was also some Kenmore dryers in the mid-60s, and some true BOL models into the mid 70s that had their lint filters in the bulkhead instead of being top-mounted. Could one of these be the kicker? Gordon | ||
| Post# 386870 , Reply# 13 10/21/2009 at 11:27 (5,299 days old) by mixfinder () | ||
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Hotpoint My aunt had a 50's Hotpoint, so quiet you could barely hear it run. It had a lint screen the size of cookie sheet that pulled out from under the drum. We would warm our hands in the exhaust while we played outside. | ||
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Post# 386943 , Reply# 14 10/21/2009 at 16:35 (5,299 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 386945 , Reply# 15 10/21/2009 at 16:43 (5,299 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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| Post# 386947 , Reply# 16 10/21/2009 at 16:59 (5,299 days old) by whirlaway (Hampton Virginia) | ||
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Old Style T have a 56 frogeye Kenmore,last year I had to get a new belt.The long thin one,they are very hard to find.I finally procured one from an appliance store in Utah for 6 dollars.New old stock and it has worked perfect.I have been using it for an everyday dryer for 25 years paid 35 for it at a thrift shop. Bobby | ||
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Post# 386950 , Reply# 17 10/21/2009 at 17:06 (5,299 days old) by circlew (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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Where is the lint filter in the "frogeyes"? | ||
| Post# 387025 , Reply# 21 10/22/2009 at 00:10 (5,299 days old) by 70series ( Connecticut.) | ||
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Wow, I stand corrected. That model is one for the books. Have a good one, James | ||
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