Thread Number: 72912
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
Ozone Dryer Light |
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Post# 963306 , Reply# 1   10/19/2017 at 05:20 (2,380 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 963308 , Reply# 2   10/19/2017 at 05:25 (2,380 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Post# 963309 , Reply# 3   10/19/2017 at 05:46 (2,380 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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Great thing you cant get anymore! |
Post# 963313 , Reply# 4   10/19/2017 at 06:24 (2,380 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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A huge selling point during the days of Polio and when people washed pails of stanky, dirty diapers, teeming with cooties, along with everything else. Gevault! Cold Water Wash-----NAAAAH! Hot water and lots of Chlorine Bleach------YAAAAH! Quick, shine the blue light on it! |
Post# 963316 , Reply# 5   10/19/2017 at 06:45 (2,380 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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The ozone light in dryers seemed to appear fairly early on - possibly as early as the late 1940s. I don't know if it's the ozone light or the drying system, but clothes dried in an older Frigidaire Filtrator dryer smell wonderful! I'd better be careful or I'm going to wear out my '51 Frigidaire dryer, I use it that much... LOL
I have the ozone lights in the 1956 Whirlpool and the 1966 Inglis dryers, but the '65 Lady Kenmore (which, thank goodness, still works...LOL) no longer had one. Likewise, the '56 Whirlpool washer and '66 Inglis washers have an ozone tub light. It just looks cool... |
Post# 963321 , Reply# 7   10/19/2017 at 07:46 (2,380 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Don't know if ozone and ultraviolet lamps are similar, but my 1959 Lady Kenmore washer had an ultraviolet lamp, ostensibly to kill germs. I have the gravest doubts it did anything of the kind, but it did make the layer of suds 'pop' visually; akin to how the colors of a blacklight poster would jump out at you.
On perfuming: Our 1960 Kenmore Model 80 dryer had a bottle of 'air freshener' in the console. You could control how much, if any, scent you wanted in a load. The bottle stood upright in a little well in the console and a rubber hose coming out of the top lead to a hole in the base of the console. No idea where it went from there. The bottle of air freshener had to be changed every six months or so. |
Post# 963364 , Reply# 8   10/19/2017 at 12:15 (2,380 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)   |   | |
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Post# 963369 , Reply# 10   10/19/2017 at 12:45 (2,380 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806)   |   | |
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Post# 963374 , Reply# 11   10/19/2017 at 13:39 (2,380 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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It has nothing to do with soft and fluffy and like I wrote earlier, with modern high airflow dryers, you do not notice the ozone because the small amount produced is so diluted in the large volume of air. |
Post# 963375 , Reply# 12   10/19/2017 at 14:12 (2,380 days old) by kd12 (Arkansas)   |   | |
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I remember someone on here had a turquoise 1963 70 or 80 series dryer with an original scent bottle still attached. Did anyone besides Sears use the scent bottles in the dryer? |
Post# 963381 , Reply# 13   10/19/2017 at 14:37 (2,380 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Finding out about those Ultraviolet "Sunshine" Lamps, I remember thinking how cool they must be--spoofs, skits & sit-coms of dryers showed that purplish light bursting out of open dryers...
I used to make a purple magic marker blot, covered w/ a dark blue right over it, when I drew pictures of appliances (or diagrams of) and designated light bulbs or made actual light & bulbs... How cool it would be in these times, fearful w/ germs if they could be used in the machines of today, even given with their frail quality... -- Dave |
Post# 963390 , Reply# 14   10/19/2017 at 15:23 (2,380 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 963395 , Reply# 15   10/19/2017 at 15:59 (2,380 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 963405 , Reply# 16   10/19/2017 at 17:30 (2,379 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio)   |   | |
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Post# 963452 , Reply# 19   10/19/2017 at 23:14 (2,379 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Instructions for the air freshener on 1960 Kenmore dryers (from owner's manual). I grew up with the Model 80. Thanks to gansky1 for this visual from a 2007 thread on his '60 Lady K.
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Post# 963474 , Reply# 20   10/20/2017 at 03:56 (2,379 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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I'll tell you something. If you ever find one of these dryers with one of these bottles still in it, DO NOT get any of it on you. The smell is horrible and it does not wash out easily. |
Post# 963511 , Reply# 21   10/20/2017 at 11:28 (2,379 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 963729 , Reply# 22   10/21/2017 at 19:58 (2,377 days old) by thomasortega (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porciúncula)   |   | |
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Well, I know at least one washer in the USA market that has the germicidal light nowadays. |
Post# 963869 , Reply# 23   10/22/2017 at 12:44 (2,377 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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I've purchased 3 GE TOL dryers which came with their original "Air Freshener" canisters which were each sealed shut from age or emptiness. Pity, I would have like to have sampled the smell but the "Air Freshener" device on the 1957 DA-820P is march-of-time-friendly: rather than a pressurized canister, these dryers have a pretty little pink drawer that held a solid tablet (must have been the size of a VIM). Today you can pop in one of those old vacuum cleaner freshener horsie tablets and relive the experience of modern, convenient electric drying of the mid-Fifties. The DA-820P also allowed the user to regulate the amount of perfume allowed to enter the drum with a little, very breakable, pink plastic damper that closed and opened the air-port.
I will say that I was disappointed when I read the first manual and learned that the gizmo simply spritzes its load into the backsplash and then depends on random airflow to bring it into the dryer drum. Also, who is going to wait around for the last 5 minutes of the dry cycle to press the vercockte toggle?? Not this bitch.
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Post# 963891 , Reply# 24   10/22/2017 at 15:37 (2,377 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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The air inside a GE dryer control panel is being constantly drawn into the air going over the heaters and into the dryer drum, the air in the control panel is changed every few seconds so it is far from random in operation.
Many years ago I did get to play with a GE dryer with the little aerosol canisters and it actually worked quite well, GE usually engineered things that worked, [ at least for a while ].
John L. |