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Post# 166600   11/9/2006 at 20:19 (6,349 days old) by spiceman1957 ()        

I am a new member and wanted to know if that was for real
that you could attach a hairdryer to this Norge Dryer or
was it a joke.
Thanks,
John





Post# 166607 , Reply# 1   11/9/2006 at 20:34 (6,349 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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John, yes, that was a legitimate option. We had the 1964 version fo this dryer and it was shown in the users guide as an option and how to use it.

Post# 166611 , Reply# 2   11/9/2006 at 20:52 (6,349 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Here's a small picture of the housewife filtering her drying clothes through her hair ;-)

Post# 166625 , Reply# 3   11/9/2006 at 22:27 (6,349 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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Greg, Isn't this the one that blows heated air into the drum rather than sucking it out?


Lint flocked walls anyone?


Post# 166645 , Reply# 4   11/10/2006 at 00:11 (6,349 days old) by eddy1210 (Burnaby BC Canada)        
what next!

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And of course she ground her meat while washing in her Maytag wringer LOL

Post# 166654 , Reply# 5   11/10/2006 at 01:02 (6,349 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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If there was a Norge dryer in a basement, you didn't have to walk too far down the steps to know it! I'm sure they weren't as bad when they were new, but the seals and gaskets would leak - sending lint and warm, moist air into the house. Norge/Wards had a pressurized design, blowing air into the drum then forcing it through the filter in the front, or under the drum in earlier models as pictured here and above. You can see the lint at the bottom of the door and all around the base of the machine. All other dryers used a negative pressure (vacuum) principle so if you had a reasonable vent for the machine, lint and exhaust were kept to a minimum in the house.

Post# 166658 , Reply# 6   11/10/2006 at 01:21 (6,348 days old) by sharples ()        
Grandma

My grandma didnt have an exterior exit for her dryer so it always felt like a tropical rainforest in her basement when ever she used her dryer. I know it is off subject but she hace a kenmore dryer.

Post# 166706 , Reply# 7   11/10/2006 at 10:13 (6,348 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA)        

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Wow! A 3-bladed, extra capacity Norge agitator. Who'da thunk?

Post# 166858 , Reply# 8   11/11/2006 at 12:44 (6,347 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)        

What's that thing on top of the agitator that looks like a brush of somekind? Is it a lint filter ala a Filter Flo or a handy scrub brush for getting out stains? I have never seen anything like that before

Post# 166860 , Reply# 9   11/11/2006 at 12:50 (6,347 days old) by agiflow ()        

It looks like Norge's version of a scrubber cap.

Post# 166865 , Reply# 10   11/11/2006 at 14:17 (6,347 days old) by rickr (.)        

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Thats just sick!

My grandmother had a Filter Queen Vacuum that had a hair dryer attachment. Found it while cleaning out the house. It had never been out of the original wrapper. I gave it to a cousin as a joke, because he had a summer job of selling Filter Queens door to door one summer while home from college.


Post# 166937 , Reply# 11   11/11/2006 at 23:47 (6,347 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)        

I have a hairdryer attachment for a Rainbow vacuum-the owners manual states-"Dry your hair with clean waterwashed air'!Mine is still in the package.love that big 3 blade "angel wing" agitator in the Wards-Norge washer-that should stir things up!!Didn't Norge agitators have 4 large angel wing blades?


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