And She Wonders Why it Took so Long to Dry - or - How to Blow a Hole in Your Halo

[matchboxpaul]

Indeed we do have 'numptys' over here too...

picked up a Hoover 3022 'matchbox' dryer about a year ago.

fine condition, but came with a present of fluff and lint!

 

[matchboxpaul]

and to the free gift...

 

[matchboxpaul]

...

 

[matchboxpaul]

quite a mattress had developed.

and people begin to wonder why their machines take an age to dry!

Paul

 

[electron1100]

Filters

probably the same people that never clean the filters out on their vacuum cleaners and then complain they dont work...............GIVE ME STRENGTH!

sorry to go off the topic of your lovely Maytag dryer

 

[revvinkevin]

When I picked up my 1962 Maytag A700 washer and DE701 dryer a few months back, it too had a number of loads of lint on the lint screen, thought not as much as the photos above. It also had a 40+ year layer of lint INSIDE the bottom of the machine when I opened it up! I didn't even think to take a photo of it though, I just cleaned it and tossed it in the trash.

 

[mayart]

Wow - that is incredible!

I clean my lint filter almost every time I dry a load & keep the vent clean, and still, when I took the bottom panel off the dryer last month I had lots of lint inside the dryer.

 

[foraloysius]

An appliance repair man wrote in an appliance magazine some years ago that he got a call from a woman who's dryer didn't work properly. When he arrived she showed him the dryer and asked if perhaps the blanket needed to be replaced.... LOL

 

[laundromat]

Yu know,a lot of people give that up for "lint"!---duck and hide!LOL

 

[autowasherfreak]

I clean the lint filters on my Maytag washer and Frigidaire dryer after every use. I have five cats and two dogs so about every three months I clean the dryer with the shop vac, and check the dryer vent for buildup.

I can't believe people are that lazy or stupid not to clean the lint filters. It's just as bad as people who don't ever empty their vacuum cleaner bags. A friend of mine just go a free Kirby Heritage II of of FreeCycle, owner claims it didn't work. He brought to me to look at the bag was overfilled and the tube was packed with dirt. Took all apart, cleaned it with the shop vac, washed the cloth bag, and now it works perfectly. Some people are just plain idiots I guess.

 

[volvoguy87]

Question.

We have started cleaning the dryer and the inside is a royal mess. This is a thousand times worse than the DE306 I cleaned a few months ago. My problem is the pulley that spins the drum. The darn thing is stuck in place. I have removed the bolt that holds it in position and put some zoom spout oil in the bolt hole but the pulley is still stuck fast. The inside is nasty and I know the blower needs to be cleaned and lubed. How do I remove the pulley?

Also, we got a new lint filter,
Dave