Reply to reply number 18
Hi Sean, the other time I ever heard of this type of thing happening was many years ago. I was working on a late 60s whirlpool gas dryer right here in Beltsville and the customer told me a story that they had bought the gas dryer. It was a floor model from Washington gas, and when the men came out and installed it and first fired it up, flames came out of the back of the machine and went all the way up the wall behind the machine, they shut it down immediately and discovered when it was sitting on the showroom floor apparently somebody had stolen the orifice out of the main burner jet and left it out.
Yes, normally I would expect that the orifice is screwed in sufficiently so that it won’t fall out but the Gibson dryer I was working on was not much of a dryer.
We had another experience with a Gibson electric dryer like this customer bought it because it was low priced and they thought they were getting a bargain. They had us go and hook it up level it up etc. and when I push the start button, the machine shimmy and shook so badly with nothing even in it that it walked away from the wall over 2 feet scared the heck out of me.
These were not very durable dryers the front bearing on the drum was dragging in such a way that it caused a horrible vibration however when you put a load of wet clothing in it actually worked she didn’t keep dryer. We replaced the washer in the dryer with a pair of whirlpool 9800s this was around 1980.
I really don’t have any experience with this WCI built washer from this. I’ve only seen about three of them in my life and I think they were all on the junk pile or ones that we were hauling out of a customers house when we were selling them a new machine Hopefully Justin can get it to work. It would be cool to see one run.
John
