Thread Number: 77151
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
POD "Super Fast Dryer" |
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Post# 1010928 , Reply# 2   10/15/2018 at 19:53 (1,990 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Was something touted (and likely much needed) early on when many housewives were still using wringer washers. This and or with top loaders that had rather low rpm final spin speeds. This coupled with still often heavy cottons many households still used meant you wanted a dryer with some "oooph" to get loads done quickly.
There are only two main mechanical ways to get water out of laundry; bake it out (ironing, heated drying), or use compression/centrifugal force to extract it out. Remember reading an old Peanuts comic strip. Lucy reaches into dryer to fetch out Linus's blanket, then hands it to him with same. Poor lad then jumps from contact with that blanket that was still scalding hot. That it made it into a comic strip of the time tells me many dryers of 1950's or so ran quite hot. |
Post# 1011049 , Reply# 3   10/16/2018 at 09:17 (1,990 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Bendix machines had pretty pathetic water extraction so it's nice they were trying to deal with it. Their earlier dryers did not. |
Post# 1011110 , Reply# 4   10/16/2018 at 19:18 (1,989 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 1011117 , Reply# 5   10/16/2018 at 20:38 (1,989 days old) by mrsalvo (New Braunfels Texas)   |   | |
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Laundress, LOL. Love Peanuts. That's a good one. Guess some of those super fast dryers" baked the clothes, maybe just put them in the oven?!?!! LOL. That marketing ad just struck me odd. Barry |
Post# 1011128 , Reply# 6   10/16/2018 at 22:53 (1,989 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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We moved into a house in 1962 that had a Speed Queen washer and dryer, either 55’or 56’ models. The dryer was electric, and that sucker got so hot that its a wonder the clothes didn’t burst into flames when you opened the door, no joke! You could get a blister from a hot zipper, fresh out of the dryer.
My Mom hated both of these machines! We had left our 55’ Norge Timeline electric dryer and 58” GE FF in the home we had just sold, and neither of these SQ’s were anywhere near as good as far as my Mom was concerned. Within a month of moving to this house we had new a Whirlpool MOL washer and dryer. That dryer lasted until about 72’, and from 63’ till 72’ it sat out on an open porch, exposed to the weather on two sides, and always worked jsut great, and it didn’t fry the clothes! Eddie This post was last edited 10/16/2018 at 23:11 |
Post# 1011162 , Reply# 8   10/17/2018 at 15:07 (1,988 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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IIRC many laundromat dyers back in day ran quite hot as well. Again given the often poor final extraction of washing machines (top and front loading) all that heat was needed to get things dry with fast enough throughput. Otherwise bottle necks were created and or owner had to increase ratio of dryers to washers.
Way around this was to install Bock extractors, but that came with its own issues. |
Post# 1011272 , Reply# 11   10/18/2018 at 10:04 (1,987 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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My Mom hung up the laundry in the basement too before we had a dryer. My brother and I used to ride our tricycles down there under the hanging laundry. I don’t remember her ever going to the laundromat. But I used to go to the laundromat to dry my laundry that I’d washed with my Maytag Wringer, when the weather was rainy.
But I don’t recall ever seeing signs giving priority for dryer use to customers that had washed there too. And seems like one 10 cent cycle was never enough to dry a load, and I put it on high to save money. When you are bringing home about $50.00 net a week, you didn’t want to waste it on dryer change when you could be partying. This was 1972 and a draft beer at the local gay bar was 25 cents! Eddie |
Post# 1011292 , Reply# 13   10/18/2018 at 13:46 (1,987 days old) by washerboy (Little Rock Arkansas)   |   | |
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Is it true gas dryers yellow clothes? We had a Norge gas dryer for a number of years and never recall my mother complaining about yellow clothes. I don't know anyone now that has a gas dryer except the laundry matt |
Post# 1011310 , Reply# 14   10/18/2018 at 15:57 (1,987 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Don't believe it is the source of heat per se (gas), but rather something else entirely.
Textiles laundered with soap, and or not being rinsed well may turn a "yellow" cast due to residues coming in contact with high heat sources. This can be a dryer or even ironing. Same happens if high alkaline pH is used for the wash but laundry is not properly neutralized before being subjected to heat. In other words source of that old wives tale is what it has been for ages; poor laundry day habits looking to shift blame elsewhere. IIRC gas dryers are vastly more common than electric, yet you don't see many running around with yellowed laundry. |
Post# 1011319 , Reply# 15   10/18/2018 at 17:09 (1,987 days old) by JustJunque (Western MA)   |   | |
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Post# 1011346 , Reply# 17   10/18/2018 at 19:00 (1,987 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 1011379 , Reply# 18   10/19/2018 at 00:18 (1,987 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806)   |   | |
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Maytag GAS Halo Of Heat dryers were probably one of the slower GAS dryers out there, and they were one of the last gas dryers to use a standing pilot, but I just thought of something recently.
What if you were about to put a Kenmore soft heat variable burner in a Maytag GAS HOH dryer, sure it would require some modifications, but it would probably dry faster since the burner would be turned down instead of off. I don't how well a Kenmore soft heat variable burner would work in a Maytag GAS Halo Of Heat dryer, but that is something that popped in my mind the other day. |
Post# 1011667 , Reply# 20   10/21/2018 at 12:17 (1,984 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 1011689 , Reply# 21   10/21/2018 at 17:10 (1,984 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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Post# 1011697 , Reply# 22   10/21/2018 at 18:14 (1,984 days old) by rinso (Meridian Idaho)   |   | |
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When I was a teen, we had the exact Maytag HOH dryer as in the POD. It was anything but fast.
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Post# 1011698 , Reply# 23   10/21/2018 at 18:31 (1,984 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 1011783 , Reply# 25   10/22/2018 at 09:30 (1,984 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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Post# 1011785 , Reply# 26   10/22/2018 at 10:08 (1,983 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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It is the Bendix (although not in the title, nor the date it was our curren POD) but I guess in the digress of off-topic ramblings that go off the beaten path of the main thread, and in the case of another make of dryer promising clothes bone-dry take-out as quickly as you put them in, that is how the Maytag seemed to claim attention here...
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Post# 1011955 , Reply# 27   10/23/2018 at 21:58 (1,982 days old) by rinso (Meridian Idaho)   |   | |
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Yeah, I made that mistake. Sorry, my bad. I am a bit not-so-bright. My mom smoked while she was carrying me. |