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Post# 93097 11/9/2005 at 17:58 (6,736 days old) by pulltostart  (Mobile, AL) |
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If you can see past the bad photography.... They claim it still works, the price can't be beat. It appears to be a DDE8200 (pre-1976), harvest, large-capacity model. Lawrence CLICK HERE TO GO TO pulltostart's LINK on eBay | ||
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Post# 93116 , Reply# 1 11/9/2005 at 20:25 (6,736 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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| Post# 93155 , Reply# 2 11/9/2005 at 22:41 (6,736 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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| Post# 93195 , Reply# 4 11/10/2005 at 07:21 (6,736 days old) by kenmore1978 () | ||
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basic info It's amazing how people still leave out basic info like is it GAS or ELECTRIC?! | ||
| Post# 93197 , Reply# 5 11/10/2005 at 07:24 (6,736 days old) by kenmore1978 () | ||
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unless unless they are so dumb, they assume it's electric because it's a General ELECTRIC machine | ||
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Post# 93198 , Reply# 6 11/10/2005 at 07:27 (6,736 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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The huge door was a great feature, but I found CR to be right in their testing - you couldn't put an average laundry basket on the floor in front of the machine and open the door. I was told the problem was that GE used the same fan in these machine that they used in their smaller dryers and there wasn't enough air flow for speed. The machine I had also had problems with lint collecting all around the door opening and around the round door air vent (the pregnant belly with the holes). Despite all this, they still made this dryer for a number of years, Hotpoint, JCPenny and other brands as well. The first gas models of this style had a huge burner in them, like 24,000 BTU which probably helped the speed some but the burner was reduced to 18,000 in later models. | ||
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Post# 93335 , Reply# 10 11/10/2005 at 21:57 (6,735 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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The first gas models of this style had a huge burner in them, like 24,000 BTU which probably helped the speed some but the burner was reduced to 18,000 in later models. ?????? How is 24k huge? Aren't most dryer burners here 22,000 BTU/hr these days? (Remember the averge stove-top burner is 12,000 BTU/hr.) from 18k to 24k is a 25% difference in size | ||
| Post# 93438 , Reply# 11 11/11/2005 at 16:47 (6,734 days old) by knitwits1975 () | ||
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My grandparents used to have a dryer like this one, (bought it in 1979) and it worked very well, dried really quickly. But you are right about the 1,000 springs thing. The opening was full round instead of the 3/4 round like the typical GE/Hotpoint. | ||
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Post# 93457 , Reply# 12 11/11/2005 at 19:23 (6,734 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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