Fun dryer Mark and Ben thanks for sharing your experiences with it. Tom and I have this Filterater and everyone from 1950 on that Frigidaire built. This is only the second year for auto dry, In fact very few manufactures had auto dry settings until about this time. In my experience using these dryers they dry fairly well if you have the temperature set at hi or close to it, at the lower temperatures they get very slow. These dryers operate at higher temperatures because they will not dry quickly at normal temperatures. And indeed in spite of drying in a steaming environment once the moisture is gone the clothing will reach 200 degrees+ and you can easily ruin delicate clothing in these dryers if not used carefully and properly.

 Ben I will be interested to here how you like using this dryer.

Mark I too only use these in the colder months of the year, can you imagine using one of these when the central A/C is running. Interestingly when I compare just the electrical power use of a air-cooled condensing dryer [ I have compared 1950s and my 1962 Frigidaire CI dryer, and a 2000 Asko ] to just a regular 29" WP or KM electric dryer, the condenser models are not only far slower and dry far hotter but also use 25% more total power. I have never tested our old 1956 MT water condensing dryer for power consumption, I will have to do this sometime.

Tom and I rescued a TR-61 20+ years ago that I still have and use at times in the winter. It was exactly the same as the 240 volt TR-60 except it had one 1700 @ 120 volts instead of having two 2200 watt @ 240 volts. It is very slow but not as slow as trying to run the 240 V model on 120 as that would only give you 1100 watts of heat. These 120V models were made throughout the 1950s and they could be fairly easily converted to 240Vs by installing the 240V heaters, all the wiring was already in place and the same.