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Thread Number: 30145
Old Norge dryer - worth investigating? |
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Post# 457465 8/17/2010 at 10:54 (4,993 days old) by kevin313  (Detroit, Michigan) |
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Here's something posted on the Detroit CL - any clue as to the vintage of this old Norge dryer? Are these good machines?
CLICK HERE TO GO TO kevin313's LINK on Detroit Craigslist | ||
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Post# 457476 , Reply# 1 8/17/2010 at 11:33 (4,993 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.) |
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Cool Norge dryer | ||
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Post# 457486 , Reply# 3 8/17/2010 at 12:07 (4,993 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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Post# 457492 , Reply# 4 8/17/2010 at 12:36 (4,993 days old) by kevin313 (Detroit, Michigan) |
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Post# 457495 , Reply# 5 8/17/2010 at 12:43 (4,993 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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Post# 457511 , Reply# 6 8/17/2010 at 13:36 (4,993 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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any clue as to the vintage of this old Norge dryer? | ||
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Post# 457537 , Reply# 7 8/17/2010 at 15:05 (4,993 days old) by kevin313 (Detroit, Michigan) |
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Post# 457550 , Reply# 8 8/17/2010 at 16:11 (4,993 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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Hey, it's FREE.... go for it! | ||
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Post# 457557 , Reply# 9 8/17/2010 at 16:39 (4,993 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Is that lint around the door opening?
Nah... Can't be.... ;-) When I was like 12, a neighbor had one similar to this but more BOL. When you started the machine, the whole cabinet would shudder and creak like an old tractor. I thought it was just too cool how it would blow clothes out of the dryer when you opened the door while running. Those that flew out first were always dry. | ||
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Post# 457646 , Reply# 11 8/17/2010 at 23:37 (4,993 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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BW Selling Off Norge
This is one of those questions we need to set up a FAQ section for! *LOL*
Pipe: CLICK HERE TO GO TO Launderess's LINK | ||
| Post# 457651 , Reply# 12 8/18/2010 at 00:06 (4,993 days old) by sensi-temp () | ||
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I don't see any place underneath for the filter, I'm wondering if it's in the door like my 60's Frigidaire. There appears to be an opening at the top the door that makes me think this. SQ uaed an in the door lint filter too. | ||
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Post# 457705 , Reply# 14 8/18/2010 at 07:26 (4,993 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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PRE 1967 NORGE DRYERS
These dryers were very rugged good performing machines, they were easily the most heavily built in terms of drum support and drive strength. I once had an old gas one sitting on my recycle heap and it had been filled with old washer motors, timers water valves etc for recycling at least 150 pounds of stuff. My brother was standing around and I said lets plug it in and see what happens. When started it easily started tumbling that load of scrap metal it sounded like rock crusher with all those washer motors in it, no other home dryer ever built would have been able to tumble that much weight. But as stated by others they did leak air at many points which carried lint with it because the drum was under positive air pressure. Very few other dryers ever did this, the first westinghouse spacemats 1956-1963 also did this. Norge in 1966 went from building the most rugged dryer to the worst dryer in 1967 and they still had the lint problem. These 1967 and on models were the ones that could be very noisy. Norge made positive air flow dryers until about 1980 when they completely redesigned and came out with the 27" machines they eliminated the lint problem but it was never a great dryer, they were always slow. The electric models only had a 4700 watt heater and the gas only had a 18,000 BTU burner, the smallest in any full size domestic dryer. MT continued making this machine until the WP buy out of MT, WP promptly closed out this design and did what should have done 20 years earlier.
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Post# 457753 , Reply# 15 8/18/2010 at 12:34 (4,992 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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