Thread Number: 4220
Vintage Water Cooled Condenser Dryer Query |
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Post# 97339   12/8/2005 at 00:01 (6,685 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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At school, our Home Economics lab had a large brand name washing machine and dryer. The dryer am almost sure was a water cooled condenser type as teacher had to turn on water behind the unit before staring the machine. Miss. also complained that even during water shortages she still had to use water when operating the dryer. Can anyone shed light on whom might have made such a unit? Want to say Whirlpool as some how that name comes to mind, but not sure. These were not small compact units at all, but a large full sized washer and dryer. TIA L. |
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Post# 97344 , Reply# 2   12/8/2005 at 01:26 (6,685 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 97375 , Reply# 4   12/8/2005 at 07:58 (6,685 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Maytag had a water-condenser dryer up until about 1965, it would have looked like a gas model as there was a small door on the lower right front of the machine that was the lint trap. Hotpoint had one in the early years, Jimmy (filterflo) has one from about 1956. There were also condenser models from others as well but they were usually combined with in a combo washer-dryer. Westinghouse had a condenser dryer that was a spacemate, meant to be mounted on top of the f/l washer and used a gravity drain. I've never seen or heard of any condenser units from Whirlpool, GE, etc and I don't know of any stand-alone dryers made into the 70's though...
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