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Post# 399121   12/11/2009 at 22:45 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 399122 , Reply# 1   12/11/2009 at 22:46 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 399124 , Reply# 2   12/11/2009 at 22:49 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 399125 , Reply# 3   12/11/2009 at 22:51 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 399126 , Reply# 4   12/11/2009 at 22:52 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 399127 , Reply# 5   12/11/2009 at 22:55 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 399129 , Reply# 6   12/11/2009 at 22:59 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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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 ()   |   | |
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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# 399134 , Reply# 9   12/11/2009 at 23:07 (5,220 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 399154 , Reply# 10   12/12/2009 at 00:43 (5,220 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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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)   |   | |
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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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Post# 399217 , Reply# 13   12/12/2009 at 11:10 (5,219 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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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# 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.
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Post# 399322 , Reply# 17   12/12/2009 at 22:21 (5,219 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 399412 , Reply# 18   12/13/2009 at 12:23 (5,218 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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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 |