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Thread Number: 60767
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GE electric dryer Milwaukee |
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| Post# 833947 7/26/2015 at 16:38 (3,194 days old) by pumper (SE Wisconsin) | ||
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Post# 833951 , Reply# 1 7/26/2015 at 17:00 (3,194 days old) by bajaespuma  (Connecticut) |
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Same whine: Why, why, why is it always the dryer and not the washer? (Yeah, I know the answer, but I don't have to like it):
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Post# 833957 , Reply# 2 7/26/2015 at 17:31 (3,194 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Nice! | ||
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Post# 833969 , Reply# 3 7/26/2015 at 20:47 (3,193 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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That was fast.
But here's another GE dryer, lightly used. CLICK HERE TO GO TO ovrphil's LINK on Milwaukee Craigslist | ||
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Post# 834033 , Reply# 4 7/27/2015 at 09:21 (3,193 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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John LeFevre has this dryer and the matching washer in Beltsville. Robert has the 950, one step down, but still a TOL in more ways. The controls on the 1050 series were pretentious and designed to impress the geek husbands more than be useful to the wives or others actually doing the laundry. The 950's had 2 cycles instead of 1 and had versatile, common-sense controls. I think all the manufacturers back then were trying to mimic the TOL Maytags without having the guts or the engineering skill to commit to that true "One Button" operation. This dryer was much more successful in that respect; all those TOL GE's of that vintage, especially the 1960 and 1961 models, featured a control dial that did everything. The button on the RH side was for the fancy-schmancy air freshener canister. Also, according to John, that groovy bleach dispenser was prone to rusting the cabinet with chlorine fumes from the storage well. Still, I wouldn't throw any one of them away. | ||
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Post# 834051 , Reply# 5 7/27/2015 at 11:49 (3,193 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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I am surprised the control panel lasted with the way it flexed when you pulled the "pull to start dial" which this dryer had instead of the push to start button. | ||
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Post# 834067 , Reply# 6 7/27/2015 at 12:57 (3,193 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Mine doesn't flex at all so you might have some screws loose.
1961 was the only year GE chose to feature the "Pull to Start" dials in its 3 TOL models(1960 used it only for the 1020 model) so it's safe to assume that somebody significant preferred the separate "START" switch. It would have been better had they used a mechanism, like the Maytags, where the user pushed the dial in, rather than pulled.
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Post# 834187 , Reply# 7 7/28/2015 at 12:38 (3,192 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Plenty of screws loose, but this was on the showroom floor and it did not impress me favorably. | ||
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