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Heat Recovery Unit Back in the 1980’s I did rig up a system similar to what combo52 describes. The exhaust from a ‘conventional’ electrical dryer was piped to pass over the evaporator of an old window A/C unit and then vented outside. The cooling air for the condenser was drawn from the...

Heat Pumps In Dryers Richard I stand correction but it was/is my understanding that, as you say the warm humid air is passed over the evaporator of a refrigeration installation (the air conditioner coils) the warmed (evaporated) refrigerant is then compressed and then passed through a condenser...

Spider Corrosion To Launderess and sudsman. I would ask you to please closely look at the photographs above and tell me what you believe the white spots on the spider to be. Please note that there are similar ‘spots’ on the rear of the hub, which is between the spider and the stainless steel...

Spider Corrosion Spider shown in post 521458 above after pressure washer cleaning.

Reply to Tom Thank you for your comments. Actually I had a brief mental debate with myself on the best way of describing the spiders: Put ‘domestic’ between ‘modern’ and ‘front’, I decided ‘no’ because those in laundromats also have aluminium alloy spiders. Then there are the various names...

Water Extraction, pH and Corrosion Two Points. First to Launderess. Even with ‘line drying’ I still believe it is advantageous to remove as much water as possible because even if all the contaminants produced during the laundering process have been removed, and I doubt that they are, there are...

Rinsing To arbilab, First my apologies for incorrectly spelling your name in my last post. Secondly I have just noticed that our Frigidaire built ‘Kenmore’, the very, very close relative of the one Matt has, does not ‘spin’ at the end of the wash cycle but just ‘pumps out’, thus leaving more...

Water And Soil Extraction arilab, Thank you for your comments. I would largely agree with you. However please note that the original poster, Matt, did note soil in the water extracted by the spin dryer. Electrolux, who totally own Frigidaire, have informed me, in writing, that the water...

Drum Diameter of Spin Dryer Matt, For the diameter of the drum just measure the diameter of the 'safety disc' you refered to in the video.

Soil In Laundry After Final Spin Matt Thank you for the video. Could you please just clarify a couple of points? 1. The laundry placed in the video had come from the Frigidaire after its ‘fastest spin’ (900rev/min), is this correct? 2. What is the diameter of the tub in the spin dryer? For the...

Noise from bad bearings Here is a link which lets you hear what good bearings sound like. I think the ownwer had one of these detergent dispenser balls in during the wash cycle.

Cabrio Impeller Good to see it has the 'latest' impleller http://https//secured.whirlpool.com/Service/SrvTechAdm.nsf/d12cd4888abce86285256a42005ea985/eea007034feb11648525736e0049ae8e/$FILE/L8178694.pdf

Bearings Sounds like bearing failure to me. You only really notice the difference when you hear two machines one shortly after the other. One other point that does seem to be a lot of detergent and fabric softener. One way to check to see if the bearings are 'less than good'. try lifting the...

Longevity of Whirlpool Manufactured FL Washers Pierreandreply4, I would say that you are one of the luckier ones, those Whirlpool machines be they ‘Duets’ or the ‘Kenmore’ variant have had mountains of problems. Foul odours Corroded spiders Failed bearings Last but not least the dreaded F11...

User Error And here was silly me thinking the woman making the video did not know how to use the machine because she did not move the cycle selector knob to the desired cycle position but just pressed the name of the cycle she wanted. Heck the light next to 'Spin and Drain' stayed 'on' and even...

Users With little Or no knowledge Of What They Are Using To me, although this is a little further down the scale, it is in the same league as people getting in a car with a 'just qualified' driver. How many of you would feel comfortable getting in an aircraft knowing that the pilot was only...

Spin Speed Spin speed is not everything, a smaller drum spinning fast may not give you as great a speed at its outer edges, where the laundry ends up, as a larger drum spinning slower. It is an easy calculation to do, just multiply the diameter of the drum (in feet) by 3.1416 and multiply the...

Kw and Kwh Combo A’ kilowatt’ (Kw) is the instantaneous power being used, a ‘kilowatt hour’ (Kwh) is an average of one kilowatt being used for one hour. Your electric meters measure Kwh.

Plasic Spiders and Capillary Action In addition to what 3beltwesty says about fibre reinforced plastics being difficult to machine the exposed ends of any fibres immersed, or frequently exposed to most liquids will promote capillary action with all the attendant problems that can cause.

Spider location The spider is the piece that connects the inner drum to pulley and cannot be seen unless the outer drum is dismantled. The situation is slightly complicated on the Miel machines as there is, in addition to the spider inside the outer drum, another spider affixed to the back of...