Maytag A606 Washer And Maytag DG606 Halo Of Heat Gas Dryer

[swestoyz]

Congrats, Sean! This is a very nice looking set and it appears the original owners cared very much for their Maytags. Any chance you've looked at the serial codes to get the MFG dates?

Are you looking for the felt seal along the outside diameter of the drum? Looks like the 311534 can still be found even though it's marked as NLA on most sites.

Ben

 

[maytag85]

Here’s the pilot light instructions

 

[maytag85]

More photos of the Maytag DG606 gas dryer

 

[jasonlittle]

Wow! That set is awesome! Congrats!!!

 

[maytag85]

Here’s the Maytag DG606 in action!

 

[askolover]

It's possible to convert it from standing pilot to electronic ignition.  I know combo52 JohnL (and others) can tell you how if you wanted to do it.

 

[tazz]

electronic conversion

here ya go. I would get rid of the standing pilot asap. that dryer you have is in too nice of shape to not seeing how simple it really is to convert. all you really need is a doner dryer. here's my thread on doing it, we use this dryer almost every day, never a problem since I've done the conversion. https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?73537

 

[maytag85]

I will probably do that in the future, but everything seems to work fine at the moment. I imagine that my “new” Maytag A606 set seems to be fairly low mileage, and the dryer didn’t have much rust inside, and the rear panel had the most rust out of everything on the dryer, and I plan on cleaning it up as much as possible and painting it later this week

 

[maytag85]

I will probably do that in the future, but everything seems to work fine at the moment. I imagine that my “new” Maytag A606 set seems to be fairly low mileage, and the dryer didn’t have much rust inside, and the rear panel had the most rust out of everything on the dryer, and I plan on cleaning it up as much as possible and painting it later this week

 

[maytag85]

Ignore duplicate post

 

[maytag85]

The Maytag DG606 turns on and tumbles, but the electronic dry control doesn’t seem to turn off the dryer. The push buttons were stuck when I first got it, and I got them unstuck, but now it doesn’t shut off at all, and I have no idea what’s not allowing it to shut off. It has tried to shut off at least once, and it tried to sound the bell off when I open the door. Hopefully it is something simple that is causing the issue

 

[combo52]

DG606 HOH Dryer

Fun project, yes I would convert it to electric ignition, but you have many problems to solve first.

 

The front felt seals need replacement, you need to get it to shut-off properly, it also looks like it may still have the aluminum motor pulley which will need to be replaced to get the dryer to tumble with a load of wet clothing.

 

Also you might have to convert it to electric ignition to get it to heat at all if the current pilot safety is shot.

 

Good luck and keep us posted if you have any problems.

 

John

 

[maytag85]

Combo52, here’s a picture of the motor pulley (and pictures of the belts and pulleys) and this looks like it might be a steel motor pulley, but I could be wrong though

 

[combo52]

DG606 HOH Dryer

Hi Sean, you are correct the dryer does have the better steel motor pulley, these were a big improvement and never wore out, because of the dirt and corrosion on it it looked like the aluminum pulley MT used on earlier models.

 

John

 

[maytag85]

Combo52, the belts I have on the DG606 are the old belts from the DE306, and I kept the old belts just Incase I got another HOH dryer, and I put these belts that were formally on the DE306 since the belts that were on this dryer when I got it were pretty much compromised, and there would have been a high probably of them breaking as soon as I put them on. I also made the tension a little tighter on the DG606, and one observation I made with the DE306 is if the tension is too loose, there won’t be enough air pulled through the Halo causing the hi limit thermostat to switch off the heating element, and if the tension is too tight, it can cause the air to “skip” over the Halo, causing the hi limit thermostat to switch off the heating element, and it may not make sense, but that is what I noticed on the DE306 HOH dryer

 

[maytag85]

Here’s another picture of the Maytag DG606 dryer

 

[maytag85]

I am still having issues with getting the DG606 to shut off on damp dry with no clothes in it. The dryer turns on but won’t shut off, and I’ve already looked at the slip ring, and I’ve took the control panel off to observe the solenoid, and it doesn’t do anything when I put on damp dry, and I’ve even tried air-drying a small load to see what it would do, and it will run and run and run unit stop it

 

[maytag85]

Here’s what the Maytag DG606 does when I put it on damp dry

 

[maytag85]

The new inner felt seal I ordered did arrive today, but the outer felt seal I ordered never even arrived today. I guess I will have to figure out something with the old felt seal

 

[goatfarmer]

Is your dryer grounded? Separate ground wire?