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Thread Number: 72743
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
POD 10-7-17 1958 Westinghouse DRY Button Dryer |
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Post# 961102 , Reply# 1 10/7/2017 at 10:31 (2,385 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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Post# 961110 , Reply# 2 10/7/2017 at 11:26 (2,385 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA ) |
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My similar 1960 dryer shuts the heat off near the end of the Auto-Dry cycle, of which there is a cycle choice of low heat Auto-Dry and regular heat Auto-Dry. If you open the door before the cool down starts, you can almost see the load burst into flames its so hot in there! A theory bandied about here is the drying temp had to be so hot because their washers had poor water extraction. If I take a load out of my 1961 Laundromat and put it in the DD Kenmore on spin, there is a lot more water that still comes out of that load.
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| Post# 961113 , Reply# 3 10/7/2017 at 11:31 (2,385 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida) | ||
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| Post# 961278 , Reply# 7 10/8/2017 at 03:32 (2,384 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
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| Post# 961279 , Reply# 8 10/8/2017 at 03:38 (2,384 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
 Westinghouse family, Dad's entire career. Apparatus and nuclear, but we got appliances wholesale.
IINM, W never designed a TL. The first ones with the badge were Easys and the next ones were Whites.
Don't remember tangling being a huge issue with the slants. Course when you're 8-18 you're not 'collecting issues' like adults do.
Got a square front; besides breaking down a lot mom didn't like it so we got a Weasyhouse TL. She kept it in the divorce and some time after.
She didn't keep the dryer. It lived through 3 FLs and a TL (with a little help from my own pubescent self). Bit of a maintenance liability but nothing I couldn't handle with dad's primitive tools. Yes it got crazy hot. Unloading while still hot was painful. | ||
| Post# 961343 , Reply# 9 10/8/2017 at 13:51 (2,384 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
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| Post# 961353 , Reply# 10 10/8/2017 at 16:09 (2,384 days old) by jeb (Mansfield Ohiio) | ||
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Westinghouse top loaders Yes early Westinghouse top loaders were Easy purchased from Easy, (Westinghouse badge on them)but Westinghouse did design their own top loader and it was in production may years. C.P.A. (center post agitator)was the abbreviation the factory used for the line. | ||
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Post# 961373 , Reply# 11 10/8/2017 at 18:45 (2,384 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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As opposed to the revolving agitator in their early automatics. In those days, they used to really slam center post agitators that tugged and pulled, but then, the people who made center post agitator machines used to slam revolving agitators until they started selling tumbler washers. | ||
| Post# 961433 , Reply# 12 10/9/2017 at 03:04 (2,383 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea)) | ||
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It must have been a honey Jeb, with Hupp and then White making them and they still held up.
Index tub if I remember. I wasn't living at home at the time.
Guess dad was saving up to put 4 kids in college. We went straight from the chevron door (I rebuilt more than once) to the square front. Don't recall ever seeing those pictured above in real life; maybe in commercials is all. | ||
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Post# 961577 , Reply# 13 10/9/2017 at 18:34 (2,383 days old) by lotsosudz (Sacramento, CA) |
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Westinghouse Dryers
They were always hot, and their thermostats were the weak link. I can remember pulling sheets out, and burning my hands. My Father was always having to replace thermostats. I think if you paired it with an early slant front machine, you might have needed the extra heat. My mother used the low heat setting a lot.
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| Post# 961788 , Reply# 14 10/10/2017 at 16:41 (2,382 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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We used a slant front dryer for ever It was wonderful. | ||
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