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Thread Number: 95613
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
Philco dryer |
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Post# 1202607 4/1/2024 at 16:44 by Countryford  (Austin, MN) |
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Back this past fall I found a Facebook marketplace ad for a vintage dryer. I drove over 3 hours to get it. It had belonged to the guy's grandmother. When she died in 2004, his dad didn't want to do anything with the house and it's contents. He passed away several years back and now the grandson is clearing the house out.
He did say it worked, when his grandmother was alive, but hadn't been used since. He said, although the house had no one living there him, his dad or his brother would go over occasionally to clean and the left the utilities on. | ||
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Post# 1202608 , Reply# 1 4/1/2024 at 16:51 by countryford (Austin, MN) |
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Post# 1202610 , Reply# 2 4/1/2024 at 17:21 by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA) |
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These were not amongst the fastest dryers of that era, however it looks cool, especially when lit-up. Nice window-door as well. I wish you well. It may clean-up nicely. | ||
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Post# 1202612 , Reply# 3 4/1/2024 at 17:39 by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Neat find Consumer Reports used to complain about the small diameter drum opening and the hard to access lint filter behind the lower access panel. I had the combo with the same door and never found the opening too small. Have fun. | ||
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Post# 1202619 , Reply# 4 4/1/2024 at 19:34 by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1202621 , Reply# 5 4/1/2024 at 20:10 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Philco Ford dryer
These were always such neat looking dryers, but I can guarantee this won’t become your favorite daily dryer.
I think this was the first US built dryer that had the reverse tumble option, probably why nobody else ever did it because it proves that reverse tumbling in a dryer is basically useless in a properly designed dryer. I remember the time my brother Jeff saw one of these on the curb and when he came home that night we drove all the way back into Northwest Washington thinking he had found a Philco combination washer dryer When we finally found the Machine it was still sitting on the curb And we were so disappointed that it was just a dryer that we left it there, lol | ||
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Post# 1202640 , Reply# 7 4/2/2024 at 07:52 by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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1967-1969 DG or DE-6G8 Philco Dryer!
Yay, glad someone here save this one, Justin! When the seller mentioned someone had already claimed it, I was hoping it was someone close. Is it gas or electric?
Tom - I did a quick glance through the gas service manual, and it didn't make mention of NOT firing off the burner during reverse tumble, or what they liked to call "low air flow". It's possible their thinking was that using a pilot burner allowed a quicker response to the extra cycling during normal use? Ben
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