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Thread Number: 94933
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
Windowed Inglis Royal Dryer |
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| Post# 1195746 12/20/2023 at 18:15 by bellalaundry (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) | ||
I came across this Facebook Marketplace post. Nice vintage! Anybody want a trip to Montreal?
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Post# 1195747 , Reply# 1 12/20/2023 at 18:47 by DADoES  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1195751 , Reply# 2 12/20/2023 at 19:42 by GELaundry4ever (Nacogdoches, TX, USA) |
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matching washer Where's the matching washer? | ||
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Post# 1195753 , Reply# 3 12/20/2023 at 19:57 by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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That control panel could probably be put on a newer solid bulkhead dryer and you would have an efficient dryer. I remember John having this model in doeskin or something similar with the autodry. | ||
| Post# 1195755 , Reply# 4 12/20/2023 at 20:08 by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Tom, I am not certain if the porcelain top on this particular dryer would fit a model with the the newer style of bulkhead since it has the smaller lint filter which looks to be 3” away or so from the edge and simply wouldn’t match up all that well sue to the lint filter opening being off center. I could transfer the top of my Whirlpool to a newer style of Whirlpool dryer if I really wanted to, but would alter the originality of the machine since it wouldn’t the same anymore.
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| Post# 1195790 , Reply# 8 12/21/2023 at 17:00 by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Wasn’t trying to knit-pick in any form, just wanted to clear up some confusion if someone wants to go about doing a conversation to make the dryer more efficient. The only downside, is you’d loose the ability to select the wattage of the heating element since a majority of Whirlpool dryers from the early 60’s had the dual wattage element in them while only a select from after 1966 have the dual wattage element in them. I suppose if that Inglis has the ‘Speed’ selector, could wire up the newer style of machine (if it has the auto dry) to run the heating element on 120v power on ‘Normal’ or ‘Gentle’ and operate the heating element on 240v for ‘Super’.
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Post# 1195800 , Reply# 10 12/21/2023 at 20:17 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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1966 Royal Inglis dryer 
This is a very cool dryer, Tom is right we have a dough skin colored gas US version of this that I fully rebuilt. It’s a nice fast dryer even though the airflow is inefficient in these older dryers because of the 37,000 BTU gas burner.
hi RBM , while it’s true that electric dryer efficiency doesn’t very much there were a number of early dryer designs that were quite a bit less efficient. Most notably whirlpool and Kenmore dryers had miserable efficiency from 1947 through 1965 or 1966 on the spacific model. Early Bendix dryers were another one that had terrible airflow. They were slow and used a lot of power. Hi Sean, very few whirlpools had dual heating elements and that doesn’t have anything to do with the efficiency anyway only a couple top whirlpool models and soft heat Kenmore had dual heating elements because of the soft heat function, but again it didn’t make any difference with the efficiency of operation. You only have to look through the owners manuals and see how much longer the suggested drawing times were on these early whirlpool in Kenmore dryers. You also can look in consumer reports testing of drying speed to see that it was a poor design, even though the dryer itself was fairly rugged in long lasting. | ||
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Post# 1195806 , Reply# 11 12/21/2023 at 21:58 by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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I have the gas, RCA Whirlpool version of this dryer. It's a great dryer, I added some folded felt seal around the air/exhaust intake to help with the airflow pattern. Not sure it makes a big difference but it's a very accurate dryer and nicely cooled when finished.
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| Post# 1195815 , Reply# 12 12/21/2023 at 22:44 by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Nothing really to do with efficiency (does to a degree) by stepping the voltage of the heating element down to 120v but more so to with having more temperature options for delicate items or any clothes with vinyl decals on them. Merely would be controlled with the Gentle/Normal and Super speed selections, basically would be the same thing with the moving the Fabric Guide selector to Delicate as you would on the 1956 Whirlpool Imperial dryer like Paul has.
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Post# 1195816 , Reply# 13 12/21/2023 at 23:20 by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Greg, I love the way the panel light does nothing to illumine the controls. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Tom | ||
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