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Post# 394095   11/17/2009 at 21:41 (5,244 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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I saw this in the haulaway pile this morning. What I think is a 1973 Kenmore dryer. The customer had taken the control panel completely off while looking for a buzzing/humming with no tumble. Happily, she simply undid the wiring gently vs. my usual customer who cuts or rips at the wiring. After reconnecting console wiring and mounting said console, It wasn't hard to peg a bad motor.

I'm a sucker for hard luck cases and had a spare motor so...





Post# 394096 , Reply# 1   11/17/2009 at 21:42 (5,244 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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Took her apart and changed out the motor and gave it a good blow with the compressed air gun. Wiped out the cabinet, too.

Post# 394098 , Reply# 2   11/17/2009 at 21:47 (5,244 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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Reassembled the unit and then wiped off the drum. Not horrible but I can't stand not doing a proper job of it. Added a aux ground wire from top to main cabinet as the older brass strap was long since broken. Runs very well. This pic was taken while tumbling...

"Stop - before proceeding further disconnect your electrical supply" says the sticker. One of THE most ignored warnings ever... LOL!


Post# 394099 , Reply# 3   11/17/2009 at 21:49 (5,244 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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The chrome on the console cleaned up very well. A real metal console, too. Single heat with a separate pulser motor on the timer for the periodic tumble for P/P.

Post# 394101 , Reply# 4   11/17/2009 at 21:54 (5,244 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        
Money shot...

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I'm sure before reading this, Gordon has already pegged the Model number and I'm almost sure he's used his Kenmore oriented mental powers to guess the serial number too but, for the rest of us laymen... (LOL!!!)

Model 110.7318610G
Serial F31511056
Stock 63666

I'll find a home for this one as she dosn't fit my collection but I'm sure with the newer motor, belt, idler and support rollers, she'll go another few years or so...

RCD


Post# 394104 , Reply# 5   11/17/2009 at 21:57 (5,244 days old) by travlincub321 ()        

Wow thats cool and a great find

Post# 394108 , Reply# 6   11/17/2009 at 21:59 (5,244 days old) by supremewhirlpol ()        

RedCarpetDrew, Could you please post some pictures of your haulaway pile so us far away people can drool over the appliances? Nice vintage Kenmore!!

Post# 394137 , Reply# 7   11/17/2009 at 23:42 (5,244 days old) by qsd-dan (West)        

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Ooohhhh, that's a pretty one that deserves to be rescued! Looks well taken care of. I'm sure the new future owner will come forward soon ;)

Post# 394138 , Reply# 8   11/17/2009 at 23:50 (5,244 days old) by lebron (Minnesota)        

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Whirly dryers such as this vs. HOH Tags's vs. everyone else (GE's)

Debate please


Post# 394208 , Reply# 9   11/18/2009 at 08:55 (5,244 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

It must be the lights that make the color so painful to look at, but a great dryer.

I know it's heresy to say this, so I will own up to having bought a brand new DE806 as my first dryer and still have it, but for speed and capacity both the GE and the WP-made dryers beat the HOH dryers. The great thing about the DE806 is that it will not over-dry. I guess it would be interesting to put them on meters to see which is the most efficient. The GE dries best with a relatively full load since it has the straight back to front axial air flow and small loads can circle the perimeter of the drum and miss the direct air stream. The HOH is similar that way. The WP 29" dryers have that aced with their superb placement of the inlet and exhaust grills. Even a small load falls into the incoming air stream and is lifted through it again as it is passes the exhaust grill. I don't believe I ever experienced rolled up sheets with the Maytag, but with king sheets there was not room in the drum to get them to roll. With the others, it was a crapshoot. I noticed with my 2 speed WP dryer that if I put the air speed selector to gentle, sheets were less likely to roll up. I saw the sheets get pulled against the exhaust grill just enough to cause them to bunch up and start rolling up on the regular air speed. The WP dryer with the variable tumble speed eliminated the rolling up of sheets if you used the highest speed for them. It kept them close to the perimeter of the drum for very nice results. HOH dryers can trap things against the Dynamic Disk lint filter. I got a bath rug that way. A customer brought one of those plush nylon bath rugs into the store saying it was ruined. I looked at the waffle pattern in the pile and told her she must have a Maytag dryer. She looked surprised and admitted that she did. I explained that she was drying it alone and it got stuck to the lint filter so she should dry it with a towel or something heavy enough to keep it off the filter. We replaced the rug because Rich's always did what the customer wanted. I had the "damaged" rug marked down to a pittance and bought it. Once it was washed in warm water, the waffle marks went away and I used it for years.

Of course, these dryers do not have an Ozone blub like the Hamiltons, or a window in the door.


Post# 394210 , Reply# 10   11/18/2009 at 08:58 (5,244 days old) by rll70sman (Hastings, Minnesota)        

Hey, glad you saved another one from a premature death!

Post# 394371 , Reply# 11   11/18/2009 at 18:58 (5,243 days old) by kenmoreguy64 (Charlotte, NC)        

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Hey there RCD, you are quite the appliance renaissance man of late, GOOD FOR YOU (and good for the machines too)!!

This is another odd-duck dryer. For reasons I don't have a plausible explanation for, Sears offered a number of different "one-off" models in the 1970-1974 time frame that were at least partially inspired during another time - the 1960s.

There were at least three dryer models, and a handful of washers that used versions of 1962 to 1968 Kenmore panels, coupled in many cases with 1970s knobs, as in this case. The panel frame design on your dryer goes back to 1966 I believe with the model 70. Some other models during the same early 70s period used panels right out of 1962, even with the little indented boxes on the left side and the raised 'Kenmore' bar on the lower left. The phrase 'Heavy Duty' was added that had not been there in the 60s.

I have a 1973 Kenmore dryer that almost perfectly matches a 1965 Kenmore 400 washer, even down to the timer knob. Yes, they used metal timer knobs in 1973 on that model. I don't know if this was to clear out old blank stock panels and other raw materials, or if someone was really in a retro-nostalgic mood in the Kenmore design offices, but I never saw this repeated after 1973. It seemed like in many cases the models were not paired, meaning the dryer was a lone model, or the washer was, etc.

NICE find Andy.

Gordon


Post# 394388 , Reply# 12   11/18/2009 at 20:37 (5,243 days old) by tsteves5 ()        
Metal Knobs

You make an interesting observation, Kenmoreguy64. I'm almost certain the metal timer knob on this dryer is the same knob that Whirlpool used on my old 1979 dishwasher.


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