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1971 Easy Dry Automatic Deluxe upright dryer - free, Sydney Australia
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Post# 1153835   7/9/2022 at 20:42 (653 days old) by oldmacs (Sydney)        

Hi all - I have a 1971 upright 'easy dry' clothes dryer up for grabs. It hasn't been used for years but worked when last used. Due to the age I don't want to test it. It will need to be looked over by an electrician before using it and I take no responsibility for the electrical safety of this appliance.

Pickup from Pennant Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia. it's on rollers, not hugely heavy, more just an awkward shape.


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Post# 1153841 , Reply# 1   7/9/2022 at 22:24 (653 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT)        

I might be interested in this, what’s the electrical consumption?

Post# 1153851 , Reply# 2   7/10/2022 at 03:01 (653 days old) by oldmacs (Sydney)        

I actually don't know - it's got a 10 amp plug so no more than 2400 watts. I don't think it has a label on the back saying consumption.

Would be ever so grateful if you wanted it, it was my grandparents and if I can re-home it, it's facing going out to council cleanup.


Post# 1153984 , Reply# 3   7/11/2022 at 09:21 (652 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT)        
I sadly may not be able to

Due to space constraints, Have you thought about listing it locally on gumtree or Facebook marketplace?

Post# 1154174 , Reply# 4   7/13/2022 at 05:12 (650 days old) by oldmacs (Sydney)        

Yeah I've listed it on Facebook marketplace and gumtree. Not much interest at all, so sadly probably going to council cleanup next week :(

Post# 1154238 , Reply# 5   7/13/2022 at 20:02 (649 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        
Also known as a drying cabinet

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Drying cabinets of various sorts were long popular with laundries, laundries in private homes (such as estates or mansions), and even smaller private homes. Flately and others made the things in various sizes suitable for latter.


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Heated by steam, electric, or heat from a laundry range or stove (fueled by coal, coke, wood, or whatever) these things allowed indoor drying of laundry faster than hanging things over a clothes horse or lines. More to point didn't require heating up entire room or house and moisture was sent up the chimney or otherwise vented away.

While still useful for delicate and other items that want line drying, expansion of tumble clothes dryers (of all sorts) largely replaced drying cabinets.

In damp climates such as UK or elsewhere people have them in boot rooms or some place to deal with outer clothing after coming indoors.

Have never seen a drying cabinet on casters. Most that weren't built in had to be bolted to a wall in aide of preventing thing from tipping over.


Post# 1154274 , Reply# 6   7/14/2022 at 05:26 (649 days old) by oldmacs (Sydney)        

I've never seen another one of these! My grandma loved it because it was far more gentle on the clothes than the tumble dryer!

I gave it a test today and it does work - I tried cool, warm and hot, but not rapid - it had that very burnt dust smell - like a fan heater that you haven't used for a while.


Post# 1154277 , Reply# 7   7/14/2022 at 07:56 (649 days old) by Smartdrive1100 (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)        
I would totally love to have it!

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Shame I live pretty far away, seems like a cool dryer.

Post# 1154407 , Reply# 8   7/16/2022 at 09:07 (647 days old) by oldmacs (Sydney)        

Smartdrive, do you ever come to Sydney? I can always hold onto it for you if you do.

Otherwise looks like it’s going out to council cleanup tomorrow night as sad as that is. 4 people across gumtree and Facebook marketplace have expressed interested in it but none are replying.


Post# 1154411 , Reply# 9   7/16/2022 at 12:05 (647 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas)        

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It’s a shame to me that folks express interest in an old appliance that someone is generous to offer for a great price or even free to a good home and I think there are good intentions of picking it up but it just doesn’t seem to happen even when it’s close by. I’ve seen it happen a lot here. Thanks for posting and I hope it ends up going to a good home.

Post# 1154430 , Reply# 10   7/16/2022 at 15:44 (647 days old) by Brisnat81 (Brisbane Australia)        

Hi Melvin

This is a nice piece of history, but as a clothes dryer they were inefficient, slow and dangerous. By the late 70s, my grandfather was collecting them from the dump, removing the heater unit, installing shelves and turning them into cupboards.

Clothing quite often could end up stiff as a board and you’d have to crunch it when getting it out. With matching spin speeds of the era, it could take 2-3 hours to dry a load, with a high wattage element running in the bottom the whole time.

To finish the trifecta, most of them had no over temp cutout, so if clothing dropped off the rails and covered the fan outlet, they were great at catching fire.

Choice magazine here was recommending these by the late 60s, only if you couldn’t afford an expensive tumble dryer. Wooden clothes horses were recommended as just as useful and a lot cheaper.

It’s great that it’s being offered up to a new home, that is much appreciated, but it’s a very large collectible, that is essentially just a curiousity.


Post# 1154433 , Reply# 11   7/16/2022 at 16:30 (647 days old) by oldmacs (Sydney)        

Thats’s interesting - my grandma always preferred this to her tumble dryer - always said it was so much nicer on the clothes. This one luckily has a safety cut out.

My problem with people on gumtree and Facebook marketplace is the lack of replies - I don’t mind if they’re not interested - just reply instead of leaving me on read.


Post# 1154489 , Reply# 12   7/16/2022 at 23:37 (646 days old) by Smartdrive1100 (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)        
I rarely head to Sydney

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If I did it would be for a trip so the car would be packed, thanks for the offer anyways oldmacs!


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