Thread Number: 40847
Vintage G.E. dryer-Knoxville Craigslist |
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Post# 604368   6/18/2012 at 02:38 (4,323 days old) by d-jones (Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh Area))   |   | |
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I've never seen one one like this. Offered for fifty dollars. Looks like a lighted control panel.
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Post# 604378 , Reply# 1   6/18/2012 at 06:00 (4,323 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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It's another oddball. I'd guess that this is one out of the first run of the new designs of 1964 when they phased out the pedestal-style panels and went to the solid slant-backs that they would keep for about 40 years. I'm going to ask the seller for the model number. Either that or could it be a Canadian model? It's still being called a "Clothes Conditioning..." so it would be early. |
Post# 604385 , Reply# 2   6/18/2012 at 06:53 (4,323 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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We saw quite a few of these dryers and even the matching washer around here, it was certainly a regular model, and this is about the first model series dryers that GE made in gas. Interestingly the gas dryers matched the washers but DID NOT say GE on the control panels, but instead were called Premier as were gas ranges that GE sold around this time that were sourced from Coloric { I guess that having the General Electric name on gas appliances was just to much for GE to bare, GE was still promoting Nuclear Power that was going to be too cheap to even worry about metering. But competitive pressures forced them into selling gas dryers and unfortunately gas ranges and by the 1990s they even started building their own gas ranges }
By about 1965 GE came out with washer and dryer consoles that had the full width florescent light under the consoles and the compensated dry control thermostat system continued for a few more years. |
Post# 604395 , Reply# 4   6/18/2012 at 07:31 (4,323 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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I believe that this feature was always used on machines with an auto dry cycle. The neat thing about this cycle was it was used with the compensated dry control thermostat, so when you pushed the economy button you could use the same setting on the timer dial and a little heater-resistor mounted on the dry thermostat would cause the thermostat to still cycle properly even on 1/4 the input heat. On all GEs early auto dry dryers the model tag was riveted on one side and had a screw on the other so you could remove the screw and pivot the tag and expose a slotted shaft that could be adjusted to allow the dryers auto dry cycle to properly shut off on different power supply voltages. You could set it to use the dryer on 120 volts, 208, 230, 240 and have the auto dry cycle shut off properly. |