What kind of dryer is this?

[Sudds]

What brand of dryer is this and approximately how old is it?



Discuss.

[Jefflange]

Huebsch Loadstar

[Adamski]

Sudds,

That is a Huebsch 50# Loadstar dryer. It's exactly like the ones my dad started with when he bought his first laundromat except his had the "Small Equipment Company" name plate where the "wave" plate is. That dryer was likely built about 1952.

[Sudds]

1952!? Geeze, I wasn't even born yet. That is a relic. LOL.

Thanks guys! :-)

[subati]

Might become a collectible item in a few years.

Cheers

[Adamski]

Guys,

I think that machine had a 180,000 btu stove on it if I'm remembering correctly. Each dryer in the row was like a small home furnace ... but then again, laundromats only had 8 - 18 dryers in those days.

[dbrown2508]

Just another 4 payments and they're paid off.

[CanCanCase]

That's what we pulled out of our #2 store. The journeyman-machinist seller kept them running well at all times, and when we first installed the Dexter 30 and 50 # stacks to replace them, a few old-time customers claimed the old dryers were hotter and they would NOT be using my new dryers.

(Side note: somewhere between the 190K BTU rating of the Dexters and the Express extraction of the washers, and every one of the old-timers is now completely addicted to my dryers and a regular customer once again. They've even tried the identical Dexter dryers in a competitor's store and not liked them as much because Mr. Competitor's washers aren't "Express." I don't know if it's the temperature, size of tumbler, airflow, or a combination, but the customer impression (you know, the part that really matters!) has shifted in our area away from the old standards and toward the newer "Express" models.)

Anyone care to venture a guess as to the weight of 12 of those dryers?

-Case

[mjwalsh]

Originally Posted by CanCanCase

Anyone care to venture a guess as to the weight of 12 of those dryers?

-Case

Case & others,

Our 1959 Huebsch 50# Dryers were right around 700#s a piece. We are glad we hired a forklift -driver combination to take them out & bring in the new! We did it as an all nighter - next day so we had less than a half a day of "all our dryers down". Still pretty vivid in my mind.

What blew our mind is that the local scrap metal yard at that time classified them as tin & did not give us anything for them. There were 12 of them. They seems to think they were doing us a favor by letting us drop them off at their facility. About 8400 pounds total for the 12.

I am thinking that the one in the picture was early 60s. I could be wrong. Dave Levenson is more current on some of those old dryers than some of the rest of us ... it seems.

mike

[DaveLevenson]

I have Huebsch Loadstar II dryers (model 30EG) from the early 1950's. My machines look similar to the photo, except that they have a much larger glass window in a door that is about the same size as the one in the photo.