How long is too long to dry in a domestic dryer

[adam-aussie-vac]

Hey guys, I have a question for you. How long is too long for running a clothes dryer?

Considering I’m giving my vintage Westinghouse dryer a marathon, as it’s been drying the same down pillows for around six hours over the past 24 hours, not continuously, but it takes quite a lot of heat to dry the insides of those pillows,
And technically, I’ve been trying to dry them for the past 10 hours as I did give them around two hours in my Simpson dryer, but I feel like it doesn’t get hot enough, and I’ve tried using my mum’s sensor dryer but that only dried the outside of it and it thought the pillows were dry when they were still moist internally open (when these pillows are moist, they absolutely smell horrible)
I’m almost considering giving my poor Westinghouse dryer a break and heading down to a laundromat and use some of their really hot dryers that absolutely BROIL with a dryer inlet temperature of about 100°C

 

[DADoES]

Moderate temperature and longer time seems more appropriate to coax out the internal moisture than incinerating them.

 

[maytag85]

What’s the wattage on your Westinghouse dryer?

 

[wayupnorth]

We had an ancient Bendix gas dryer that Broiled the clothes when I was a kid. My mother wanted the timer set for 1 hour and clothes came out way too hot. My Maytag set at Less Dry will usually dry a load fully in 30-45 minutes and the clothes are cooled down.

 

[launderess]

Hey guys, I have a question for you. How long is too long for running a clothes dryer?

Considering I’m giving my vintage Westinghouse dryer a marathon, as it’s been drying the same down pillows for around six hours over the past 24 hours, not continuously, but it takes quite a lot of heat to dry the insides of those pillows,
And technically, I’ve been trying to dry them for the past 10 hours as I did give them around two hours in my Simpson dryer, but I feel like it doesn’t get hot enough, and I’ve tried using my mum’s sensor dryer but that only dried the outside of it and it thought the pillows were dry when they were still moist internally open (when these pillows are moist, they absolutely smell horrible)
I’m almost considering giving my poor Westinghouse dryer a break and heading down to a laundromat and use some of their really hot dryers that absolutely BROIL with a dryer inlet temperature of about 100°C

Actually down filled items should be dried low (heat) and long periods. Doing so on high heat will incinerate down at outer part of item while those deeper inside will remain moist.

Proper way to dry eiderdown is also to put a few tennis or other dryer balls in with item. Also every so often items are taken out of dryer, fluffed, shaken, clumps broken up, then returned to dryer. This goes on for several hours til things are totally dry.

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

What’s the wattage on your Westinghouse dryer?

2.4 kW, that’s including the heater and the motor

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

Moderate temperature and longer time seems more appropriate to coax out the internal moisture than incinerating them.

Oh okay, as my Westinghouse dryer only has a single temperature setting, and it reaches around 70 or 80°C, as it’s not controlled via the timer or any sort of temperature selector

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

Actually down filled items should be dried low (heat) and long periods. Doing so on high heat will incinerate down at outer part of item while those deeper inside will remain moist.

Proper way to dry eiderdown is also to put a few tennis or other dryer balls in with item. Also every so often items are taken out of dryer, fluffed, shaken, clumps broken up, then returned to dryer. This goes on for several hours til things are totally dry.

Actually down filled items should be dried low (heat) and long periods. Doing so on high heat will incinerate down at outer part of item while those deeper inside will remain moist.

Proper way to dry eiderdown is also to put a few tennis or other dryer balls in with item. Also every so often items are taken out of dryer, fluffed, shaken, clumps broken up, then returned to dryer. This goes on for several hours til things are totally dry.

My dryer only has warm and hot for my large Simpson dryer, and only one temperature for my Westinghouse dryer , my mum‘s Fisher and Paykel dryer does have a low setting and a one hour setting, but I don’t think that would be long enough to gently bring the moisture out, I have roughly every 15 or 30 minutes taken it out of the dryer, shook it around even though it was probably barely hot enough to touch to try and break out the clumps, it would be nice if there was a way to take the stuffing out and put it into like one of them mesh bags so the stuffing could dry faster

 

[DADoES]

I run pillows on the 80-min timed cycle (maximum choice on the AeroSmart/SmartLoad) a minimum of 3 times, at low temp. Spin is at 1,010 RPM in the AquaSmart.

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

Yeah, cause my pillows were so dirty I actually spent the entire day getting them washed in three different automatic washing machines with the use of the extractor between each one of them until the water was clear, and I might see if I can try and do that but they do seem pretty much dry and I’m reasonably happy with them at the moment, and myextractor did spin at about 1400 RPM

 

[launderess]

My dryer only has warm and hot for my large Simpson dryer, and only one temperature for my Westinghouse dryer , my mum‘s Fisher and Paykel dryer does have a low setting and a one hour setting, but I don’t think that would be long enough to gently bring the moisture out, I have roughly every 15 or 30 minutes taken it out of the dryer, shook it around even though it was probably barely hot enough to touch to try and break out the clumps, it would be nice if there was a way to take the stuffing out and put it into like one of them mesh bags so the stuffing could dry faster

There are ways for taking down or feathers out of ticking to launder separately, then either placing back in same or new ticking. It is what housewives, laundresses and laundries did for ages. Sears catalog and other sources sold pillow ticking/cases ready made for this purpose. That or one simply purchased ticking fabric (sold by yard or piece) and ran the things up oneself using sewing machine.

One did so once and shan't bother again, used directions from one of our vintage laundry manuals.

Best to just send the things out for rejuvenation.

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