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Thread Number: 86141
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
Has anybody seen a well and truly fully automatic dryer |
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Post# 1107071 2/6/2021 at 22:48 (1,173 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac  (Canberra ACT) |
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Insured is what I mean as in examples there is no time and no water temperature settings to change all you do is push a button
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| Post# 1107080 , Reply# 1 2/6/2021 at 23:51 (1,173 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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| Post# 1107081 , Reply# 2 2/6/2021 at 23:58 (1,173 days old) by qsd-dan (West) | ||
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| Post# 1107088 , Reply# 3 2/7/2021 at 01:22 (1,173 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Post# 1107092 , Reply# 4 2/7/2021 at 07:23 (1,173 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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 The dry function on my 56 GE combo comes close and it was a very early attempt at fully automatic drying! There is no time selection for drying however there are 2 heat settings - normal and delicate. This controls how the 2800 watt calrod heating element is used in the dry cycle - in normal mode, it cycles on while a 1200 watt heater stays on most of the time; in delicate mode only the 1200 watt heater is used, cycling if necessary. | ||
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Post# 1107103 , Reply# 5 2/7/2021 at 09:08 (1,173 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Come to think of it.. my 58 Westinghouse D110 dryer has 'automatic' function on it. There is a temperature selection (normal, delicate or air) but when the 'dry' pushbutton is pressed, the timer is not engaged and the dryer will run until clothes are bone dry. The instructions on the time/cycling chart say to use the normal heat setting for this type of drying. | ||
| Post# 1107109 , Reply# 6 2/7/2021 at 10:22 (1,173 days old) by maytag142c (Syracuse NY) | ||
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My Maytag DE502, all I do is load the clothes and push a button. No timers dials or anything. Push and go. | ||
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Post# 1107114 , Reply# 7 2/7/2021 at 10:43 (1,173 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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The 4 button electronic dry control on the Highlander 502 was later chosen as the control of choice for Maytag's electronic control dryers, eliminating the timed drying option from the dial. The 4 buttons were selected and activated by the dial in front of them.
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Post# 1107128 , Reply# 8 2/7/2021 at 12:21 (1,173 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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My 1985 TOL Kenmore electronic dryer. I can still hear the deep "buuup" sound it made when ever you made a selection. And the smell of newness when you opened the door or if you smelled the exhaust.
If you didn't put anything in the dryer and started it, it would soon sense nothing in the dryer and shut off. But when actually drying clothing, did it finish by folding and neatly stacking clothing? No, at that it was not fully automatic and just a total failure. :-( lol
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| Post# 1107133 , Reply# 9 2/7/2021 at 13:42 (1,173 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
Any dryer was easier to operate than this I know I've talked about my mom's old Apex dryer several times on here but I finally found a pic the same model. Here's what you had to do to dry a load of clothes.
#1 This was the gas on/off knob. You turned it to on which would start the flow of gas to the unlit pilot. If you walked away at this point you'd smell gas after awhile.
#2 This was the spring-loaded ignition knob. You turned it and held it for at least 30 seconds or so. You would hear the zzzzzzzzzzzz of the automotive spark plug as the pilot was lit. Then after enough time you released it.
#3 You set the timer knob. It looked like a Robertshaw oven control form an old gas range.
#4 Then you pushed the start button and things started rolling.
# 5 You looked through this viewing window to see if the burner was on. If not, you went back to your friendly ignition switch because you cheated.
Punishment time when I was a little kid meant you had to go in the laundry off the kitchen and sit on the floor in the corner. If the dryer was on it meant entertainment time for me. I'd watch the clothes tumble in the perforated drum and wonder how they never caught fire with the flames dancing in the upper left-hand cover. That glass would get very hot. The dryer must have had a high cycling temp. There was no temperature control. This is also the dryer my mom told me that if I opened it while it was operating I'd get sucked up inside. It had no door switch.
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Post# 1107136 , Reply# 10 2/7/2021 at 14:06 (1,173 days old) by LowEfficiency (Iowa) |
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 One could argue that fully automatic drying has always existed...
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| Post# 1107138 , Reply# 11 2/7/2021 at 14:19 (1,173 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Since this is on the subject of dryers, here’s my 1963 RCA Whirlpool Imperial dryer. Doesn’t have a auto dry timer, but works well and I always go by the suggested drying times and temperatures and so far it hasn’t let me down and left things damp after I was done drying a load of laundry in it.
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Post# 1107143 , Reply# 12 2/7/2021 at 14:31 (1,173 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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Post# 1107153 , Reply# 13 2/7/2021 at 15:56 (1,173 days old) by bradfordwhite (central U.S.) |
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I don't know Bob. They had gloss black back in the mid 80s and for a few years a dove (pastel) gray. That's probably what you are referring to.
The charcoal gray I think that was late 90s or something.
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Post# 1107224 , Reply# 14 2/8/2021 at 04:10 (1,172 days old) by servis-dream (planet 90s, Hotpoint factory, Peterborough ) |
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fully automatic dryer
the Hotpoint 9344 is quite a reasonable example, it's a sensor dryer that is fully automatic, manifactured in (i think) 1988, it's not my machine, i just found it on an ebay thread on here
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Post# 1107225 , Reply# 15 2/8/2021 at 05:11 (1,172 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT) |
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Thank you everyone for your lovely responses, Although to clarify and Contacts I mean one that doesn’t have the option of a time to dry I mean one that is completely well and truly automatic, can I know even my 1970s GE dryer has an automatic function as well | ||
| Post# 1107273 , Reply# 18 2/8/2021 at 14:14 (1,172 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Did the very early Whirlpool and Kenmore gas dryers have some sort of switch you switched on to ignite the burner? Saw a early 50’s Whirlpool gas dryer some in the archives and it has a switch up front for the burner I believe. Never saw one of those dryers operate and only 50’s Whirlpool dryer I’ve ever seen operate was a 1956 Whirlpool Imperial gas dryer owned by a friend of mine but it wasn’t hooked up to gas at the time.
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Post# 1107284 , Reply# 20 2/8/2021 at 17:19 (1,171 days old) by jons1077 (Vancouver, Washington, USA) |
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1975 Lady K
Basically you just set the temperature (no heat, low heat or high heat) and toggle to your selected dryness level and hit start. Only other options we’re adding the post-cycle intermittent tumbling to prevent wrinkles and a variable level end-of-cycle signal. The times dry options were 20,40 and 60 minutes.
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Post# 1107346 , Reply# 21 2/9/2021 at 11:48 (1,171 days old) by Marky_mark (From Liverpool. Now living in Palm Springs and Dublin) |
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| Post# 1107379 , Reply# 22 2/9/2021 at 15:25 (1,171 days old) by reversomatic (east anglia,england,u.k.) | ||
white knight intellidry
Hi Marky mark ,Would it have been a White Knight Intellidry. Just one large button to press no other settings . Nige.
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