A little Serial Number/Aging help?
I just acquired an E2LP from my elderly neighbor. She's approximately 85 and she says it was her mother's machine. Everything I have read so far tells me that it was built between '69 and '83, but I can't find a date chart for this Serial Number. A little help...
Any form of flexible ducting is going to have far more edges for lint to catch on than solid ducting. The more lint you have in your ducting, the less air that you are moving through it, the hotter your dryer and clothes are going to get, the more likely that something somewhere is going to...
Personally, I really have no problem with this dryer. The only thing I wish would work is Automatic Drying. Unlike later models that have the strips at the base of the lint filter opening inside the drum that "feel" the clothes, this model uses a pair of thermostats in the plenum to "figure out"...
After reading most of the responses so far I only saw ONE person mention the heating coil popping on an electric! My dad is a firefighter and went to dryer fires all the time, gas and electric alike! It doesn't matter if it is gas or electric DO NOT USE PLASTIC FLEXIBLE DUCTING! Avoid aluminum...
I have a dryer that I would like to sell.
It is not exactly vintage, but I do believe it is on the rare side. It is a Frigidaire Gallery Gas Dryer (Model FSG747GES1) 2-Way Tumble Dryer (11-97).
I have the matching washer (07-97) for it if someone in interested in keeping the set together...