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Post# 399121   12/11/2009 at 22:45 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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This came in today. I haven't seen a dryer quite like this one. I knew it to be a Norge but it's much older than any I've seen in a coon's age. Runs very well but the timer won't advance and it needs a door switch as it'll run with the door open.




Post# 399122 , Reply# 1   12/11/2009 at 22:46 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        
The console...

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Pretty clean but basic. Was already missing the temp control knob.

Post# 399124 , Reply# 2   12/11/2009 at 22:49 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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The back with a 90 angled vent output. By the way, how old IS this? I know the 1st numbers of the serial tell but I thought for some reason Ward's reversed them? IS this a 1956 or a 1965? I'm leaning towards 1965...

LNC-7426A
56X48994


Post# 399125 , Reply# 3   12/11/2009 at 22:51 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        
Money shot...

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The drum is highly polished. It looks big for a 16 pounder. We also have the door opener button.

Post# 399126 , Reply# 4   12/11/2009 at 22:52 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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I saw this tag on the door and looked for a lint filter. WTF? I thought they were out of their minds as I couldn't find it.

Post# 399127 , Reply# 5   12/11/2009 at 22:55 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        
Helen Keller to the rescue...

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It had been so long since I layed hands on one, I had forgotten about the little access door all the way at the bottom. I'll bet the housfrau's loved bending over for this. The metal lint screen is in excellent shape...

Post# 399129 , Reply# 6   12/11/2009 at 22:59 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        
The backlit dial...

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I guess it makes it easier to see the time left in the dark but you'd still have to turn on lights to see the time increments. Neat little dryer. I like the motor assembly acting as the belt tensioner using these big springs attaching the carrage to the chassis. I'm most likely not going to keep this one and will entertain requests for parts off of it.

RCD


Post# 399131 , Reply# 7   12/11/2009 at 23:02 (5,220 days old) by a440 ()        

Awesome looking Signature Dryer!
It looks mint! Minus the nob missing!
Is is electric? (Just Kidding)
I love the looks of this dryer.
I wonder if the controls on the washer were the same.
Great find!
Thanks for the pictures.
Brent


Post# 399133 , Reply# 8   12/11/2009 at 23:07 (5,220 days old) by americansuds ()        
ah yes...

pressurized airflow, HUGE rear drum fan blade, and air that flows out of the baffles which was actually a great idea except stuff used to fall down in the grating. And other problems like lint lint and more lint all over the place. yet fun...mine had the stuck switch too...so what i used to do is set the timer on it for as long as it would go, and since i didnt have any pets or kids in the garage, leave the door open and heat things up while i restored other machines. You couldn't overheat the elements that way because the air came through the elements first before entering the drum. Completely nuts, but fun. Neat old machine!

Post# 399134 , Reply# 9   12/11/2009 at 23:07 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        
Is is electric? (Just Kidding)

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Slap, slap, slap, slap! All with a wet noodle... LOL!

RCD


Post# 399154 , Reply# 10   12/12/2009 at 00:43 (5,220 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        
I Say 1965 and Not 1956

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Interesting similarities on this machine to a couple of Norges my mom had. The first dryer I remember her having was probably a mid-50's Norge with metallic blue console and red knobbed time-line arrangement that I never knew to work. It had a round push button to open the door. Her '67 Signature had the identical push button to the one on the subject machine pictured above, but it was above the door which was the same width as the cabinet, and the door opened downward and flat, I suppose for stacking folded clothes or some such thing if one wanted to stoop that low. Both machines had the filter access on the bottom just like the one pictured. I remember the sound the '67 would make when the pilotless ignition would kick in. It sounded like somebody threw Tinker Toys into the drum or something. After a repair was made somewhere along the line, we'd get bad interference on TV and radio signals when the ignition started, and it would continue in a diminished state as long as the gas burner was lit. But that damned dryer wouldn't die. In later years it produced an exhaust smell that was likely poisoning us all with CO for a significant period of time before the machine was finally replaced.

I just can't warm up to Norge anything. Well, except that fabulous stove with the adjustable task light that we saw pictured here a while back.

Ralph


Post# 399195 , Reply# 11   12/12/2009 at 07:50 (5,219 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)        
Matching Washer

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Our neighbors, growing up, had the matching washer to this dryer. I thought the timer dial was one of the coolest I had ever seen. That was the first washer I had ever encountered that had the EXTRACT instead of spin. Plus the noise was awesome. I could tell they were washing clothes from my house.

Thanks for posting...

Malcolm


Post# 399207 , Reply# 12   12/12/2009 at 08:54 (5,219 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Yeah, 16 pounders were like 1966 and 1967. I associate the 16 pound capacity with Norge's VHQ marketing campaign. Oh and the door switch button sticking must have been a very common problem with that switch design. It happened on both our mid-50s timeline and the 1964 Norge.

Post# 399217 , Reply# 13   12/12/2009 at 11:10 (5,219 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        
Forgot About Two Things

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The door switch button that would get stuck, and the term "extract" on the companion washer.

Both machines were right off the family room, but there was no door to the laundry area. Watching TV while those things were operating was an exercise in futility. What a difference after I finally dragged my mom to Sears in 1975 and aimed her towards the "Quiet Pak" washer that served her for 25 years in almost complete silence, as opposed to the racket from the Signature that died slow and noisy (well of course--it was a Norge) death from transmission failure in less than 8 years.


Post# 399218 , Reply# 14   12/12/2009 at 11:15 (5,219 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        
Door Gasket

I would like to buy the door gasket if nobody wants to save this very nice machine. I have an early 60s electric Norge in very nice shape, but without any lights in the control panel. It has the same brown and beige wavey designs on a white background control panel markings as the TOL Norge pair in the American Gas Association ad that sometimes appears on the POD. There should be a wire retaining ring on the drum side of the gasket that holds it to the lip of the opening. I don't know how different the gasket is from the one made for my dryer. The door on mine does not have the recessed circle.

You should see what happens if you have a load in it and you open the door and it keeps running. It will blow the dry clothes out of the dryer


Post# 399311 , Reply# 15   12/12/2009 at 21:19 (5,219 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Good dryer BUT!!!

You all know I love Norge.....but it will flock your house!!! it was also available with a hair dryer attachment, you lowered the door as far as it would go,then snapped this contraption over the opening...looked about like a door with a square duct protruding from the front at an angle, on the end was a regulation hard plastic hair dryer bonnet, then you turned on the dryer...and set a chair in front , stuck your head up under it and presto...a salon hair dryer.

Post# 399321 , Reply# 16   12/12/2009 at 22:20 (5,219 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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This is at best a MOL model, It doesn't have the 3-position drop-down door nor does it appear to have the stop-n-dry feature. If no one wants this dryer, and it heads to the crusher, you might want to save the lint screen. I seem to vaguely remember someone around here found a Norge dryer but it doesn't have the lint screen and I do believe it was the same style, the one where it's hidden behind the flip-down door at the bottom.

Post# 399322 , Reply# 17   12/12/2009 at 22:21 (5,219 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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And also becuse there is no auto-dry cycle, only timed dry.

Post# 399412 , Reply# 18   12/13/2009 at 12:23 (5,218 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)        
Bob

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Yes, my mom's had all the features you mentioned. I forgot that the drop-down door had three positions. I don't think she ever used the stop-and-dry setting though. I remember the knob being hard to turn to that setting because by turning it, the user was actually disengaging the rotating mechanism.

Ralph



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