I'm just avocado green with envy.

[gadgetgary]

Tag sale-ing. WHAT FUN!

Well, I've got a new toy.

Getting into this form of recreation "real" America does here in central Connecticut.

Well here is the rear view.......

 

[toggleswitch2]

OOPSIE it's actually me, Steve here!

YES, another one.....

 

[toggleswitch2]

YES ITS ONE OF THOSE..................

 

[toggleswitch2]

A Maytag 110v portable dryer! In avocado!

 

[toggleswitch2]

Money shot

Rear location of filter.

 

[toggleswitch2]

120 minute timer. No apparent cooldown....at least no "click" for it.

0, 30,60, 90 , minute markings.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Filter close-up.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Free lint included! Shown partially removed.

In this shot it is located underneath the fine screen between the inner and outer potions of the filter assembly.

The view is of the part that fits against the back of the drum.

 

[toggleswitch2]

The female part of the filter (shown above) fits to this male post at the rear of the drum.

Joan Rivers "OH GROW UP!"

 

[toggleswitch2]

Plugged her in and she squealed like a stuck pig.

15a 125v rated plug on a 1,440 watt appliance. Methinks a 20a one would be better.......

 

[toggleswitch2]

The power (flex) cord is quite thick.

The vent openng is just greater than 3 inches in diameter. 76mm.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Time to open her up.

a classic Halo-of-Heat, with heating coils in the front. Nice beefy Maytag motor, too.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Drum and fan

 

[toggleswitch2]

Rear of dryer. (inside of back panel)

Holes are for motor pullley and fan pulley.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Drum sits in felt-lined circular opening in both front and rear portions of drum.

Here is another shot of the drum.

Note air intake mesh of holes in front (by loading door) that sits just after the heating coil.

 

[nmaineman36]

It looks like there is really not much to this dryer at all....very modular in construction. Thanks for posting the pics of the insides.

 

[toggleswitch2]

drum close-up

 

[toggleswitch2]

Wiring diagram.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Basically the drum that drives the belt is fine, it's the belt that drives the fan blower that was brittle and shot.

Ordered two. Let's see if they are atually available.

It was laid on its front in order to thread the drum belt over the motor pulley and the idler pulley.

 

[toggleswitch2]

It runs in a trough the projects further back than the rest of the machine (see earlier pictures).

Here is the broken brittle fan belt.

Looks like a thick piece of whole-wheat spaghetti.

 

[thomasortega]

Simply fantastic...
congratulations!!!

Thanks for the lovely pictures.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Side view.

So this little dryer, my new end table, is

24 inches wide. (60cm)
15 inches deep. (38 cm)
30 inces high with casters. 76.2cm

TA TA.

Here is is spooning with the Kitchen Aid dishwasher.

 

[toggleswitch2]

OOOPSIE 1,450 watts.

*LOL*

12 amps at 120v which is 80% of 15a and the maximum allowable on a 15a regular lighting circuit.

TTFN

 

[bpetersxx]

Enjoy them in good health

i had to give up on my Maytag TT project I aint gonna pay the money amount of a restored automatic

In fact one of them I think was green

 

[peteski50]

Maytag Dryer!

We had the same Maytag portable model dryer in white when I was in high school. My mom didn't use it all the time to dry the clothes as she complained it took to long. It was well built. We had a filter flo washer and we mostly took the cloths to the laundry room dryer which would dry a full load in 22 minutes.
Peter

 

[launderess]

Way To Go Toggles!

Always wanted a vintage Maytag or Hoover portable dryer to go with my Hoover TT, however the lack of an outdoor vent hose and scarcity put me off. Like your unit, my vintage Whirlpool portable runs on 1450 watts, and yes have it connected to a 20amp circut. Takes about an hour or so for a load of heavy things like towels and such, but if one is careful about loading drying times are manageable. All these dryers work better with loads that have been extracted to within an inch of their lives, such as with a Hoover TT spinner or any other washing machine that has >1000 final spin extract speed.

Good luck finding belts and other parts. Did you try Sears Parts?

L.

 

[dj-gabriele]

That dryer cord is just so thick! It looks as thick as the water pipe running to my washer! I really have never seen such a thick one in a domestic setting! The next similar thing was the cord for the air conditioner in my dad's laundy for a 25 amps service at 230V and shielded because it ran outside the building!
Anyway that drier is simply cool! And the avocado colour is so nice What is the weight that it can handle(or drum volume)?

 

[toggleswitch2]

The drum is 22.25 inches in diameter x 11.25 inches deep.

566mm diameter x 284mm depth.

As a square box that would certainly be less than 4.0 cubic feet (since we have a size that is less than 24". Rounding off the corners to make a circle, that intuitivley looks like less than 2.0 cubic feet to me.

Can anyone show me/us how to properly calculate the size of the drum?

 

[dj-gabriele]

Cilinder volume is pi x R^2 x h

Pi=3,14159
R= radius od drum
h= height of drum

or istead of R^2 you can use d^2/4

this gives around 71,5 dm^3 that is 71,5 litres of capacity, less than a standard 5 kg dyer drum I believe.
It is around 2,5 cubic feet.
Thanks for your quick answer!

 

[gansky1]

Very nice find! The belt was silicone and very similar to those used on Whirlpool fan belts and Maytag dishwasher belts but a different size, of course :-( If you don't find the belts this time, try Larry at Modern Parts in Parma, OH. He may have some around.

I used one of these in coppertone when I lived in Phoenix for about a year or so. They work very nice and are best when clothes are spun really well - as out of a twin-tub washer or good front-loader. A neighbor of ours had a Hoover TT and matching dryer to wash for a family of five - I was always amazed at how that little dryer could keep up fairly well with the washer. She used to roll the dryer outside on the patio in decent weather to keep the heat and lint out of the house.