Put the DG606 put back together, tested it on damp dry,and it run for a good minute or so before shutting off, I ran it several more times, and shuts off 20 seconds or so after it starts on damp dry. I will hook it up to the gas line to see what it does, and for now I am air drying a medium load of towels, and yes that isn’t the proper way to test out a HOH dryer lol, but I’ve done it before with the DG810 dryer when I got it back in 2016, and the DG810 did shut off when the load was dry.
Maytag A606 Washer And Maytag DG606 Halo Of Heat Gas Dryer
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KDG-606 Gas Dryer
Yay it works, be sure that you test the pilot safety by blowing out the pilot and making sure that the safety valve closes in less than one minute.
John
Yay it works, be sure that you test the pilot safety by blowing out the pilot and making sure that the safety valve closes in less than one minute.
John
John I actually dried a load of clothes in it last night, and it does work pretty well. It doesn’t get very hot, but it definitely gets hot enough to get stuff dried. Even though the HOH gas dryers don’t offer a 360 degree heating halo, at least they won’t bake or scorch the ever living heck out of clothes like the newer Speed Queen dryers do
I've had a few HOH gasers come through here and every single one had a weak hi limit thermostat which cycled the burner below the operating thermostat. The only conclusion I could come up with is that the standing pilot plays a role in weakening the bi-metal spring.
Something to think about.
Something to think about.
Dan you are probably right about the standing pilot weakening the bi-metal in the hi limit thermostat, but I definitely had a weak hi limit thermostat in my Kenmore portable dryer awhile back, and that thing barely got hot, and wouldn’t get any hotter than 115 F or 120 F, and ever since I put a hi limit thermostat that would normally go in the full sized WP 29” dryers, it seems to work much better now, but I haven’t used that dryer in awhile, and the drum belt is broken on that dryer, and that will be the next project after I’m done with the A606 and DG606 set.
You've got some fantastic skills for your age, Sean. It's very comforting to know there's a younger generation out there who are passionate and dedicated in learning and keeping these old machines running into the future when us older guys make the transition from drooling on ourselves in a retirement home to 6 feet under dirt.
Dan I’ve always been fascinated with how things worked for as long as I can remember, and 7 or so years ago I told myself I was going to own a vintage washer and deter set, and that day came around when I got the A810 set I have, and I discovered the HOH dryers in late 2016, and into early 2017, and I wanted to get one, but I just wasn’t having the best luck in 2017 with getting a HOH dryer, and the DE306 HOH dryer I have popped up on Craigslist, and I told myself “now is the time to get a HOH dryer” and I only paid $50 for the DE306, and I have been using it a lot since I’ve had it, and it seems to work just fine without any issues. After I got the DE306, I wanted to get a matching washer or a similar match to go with it, and I had no luck with that too, and a Maytag A207S(?) popped up for sale for $20, and was literally down the street from me, and I was literally about to go and pick it up, and it was marked as sold. I pretty much gave up on trying to get any more machines at that point, and a Whirlpool belt drive set did pop up for sale in Pomona, and I wanted to get it, but the seller was kinda flaky, and that deal never worked out. I was just browsing Craigslist to see if there were any vintage machines for sale, and the A606 and DG606 popped up for sale in Los Angeles, and they were only asking $30 for the set, and I jumped right to it. The reason why the seller was only asking $30 for the set is he said the dryer didn’t work, and I I knew it had to be something simple, and when I got it home, the push buttons in the push button assembly were stuck, and I sprayed some DW40 in the push button assembly, and that may not the the correct way to do it, but I got it working, and got the buttons unstuck.
Dan I might put the thermostat from the DE306 onto the DG606, but the DG606 seems to be working fine at the moment. I actually had to make a repair to the DE306 sometime in February because the wire that goes from the heating element to the hi limit thermostat burnt out on me and was making a funny burning smell, and I happened to have the correct gage of wire in my mini stash, and I made a new wire for it, and it’s been fine ever since. Technically the DE306 was still being used when I bought it, be the person who lived in the house I got the DE306 from had moved out, and the house was vacant for a month, and I bought it, and have been using it since, and I have had to use it since the drum glides on the DG810 are worn out, and makes a racket while in operation, and I plan on doing a partial refurbishment on that dryer.
KDG-606 Gas Dryer
Yay I am glad you got this working, Great job.
The high limit thromostat should never cycle under normal operating conditions, so if it is working you are good to go.
Sean, did you blow out the pilot and see if the safety cut off the gas, it should do so in less than 60 seconds.
John
Yay I am glad you got this working, Great job.
The high limit thromostat should never cycle under normal operating conditions, so if it is working you are good to go.
Sean, did you blow out the pilot and see if the safety cut off the gas, it should do so in less than 60 seconds.
John
John I did blow their pilot out, and the pilot safety works. The DG606 doesn’t get as hot as my newer DG810 dryer does, and the DG606 is pretty gentle. Everything works on the burner, but now have to adjust or reposition the carbon brush since it did shut off the first couple of times I tested it in the garage with no clothes in it, and and now it doesn’t seem to want to shut off now, and it is the carbon brush since it never wanted to shut off without it, and that is the issues I was having all this time since it didn’t have the carbon brush, and now I have to make an adjustment of some kind now
KDG-606 Gas Dryer
If the carbon brush in the sensor circuit is not there or making poor contact the dryer will always shut off too soon because it can not sense the moist clothing and keep running.
John
If the carbon brush in the sensor circuit is not there or making poor contact the dryer will always shut off too soon because it can not sense the moist clothing and keep running.
John
I made an adjustment to the carbon brush, and it sorta kinda works now, and when I open the door to see how dry the clothes are, and right when I close the door, I can hear it try to strike the bell to shut off, and I might have to make and adjustment to the slip ring, and I will have to do some more fine tuning to the DG606 to get it to shut off properly
Sunny Yellow Maytag A902 Pair
Too bad you missed these Sean, Was that yellow dryer one of the rare electronically controlled water condensing dryers ? It looks like it might have been.
John
Too bad you missed these Sean, Was that yellow dryer one of the rare electronically controlled water condensing dryers ? It looks like it might have been.
John
John the dryer was just a vented model, and it looks like a gas HOH model at first, but it’s the older style of Maytag dryers with the perforated drum, and lint filter that slides out like a drawer. I really wanted to go get them, but I wasn’t able to because of the horrible wind storms we had here in SoCal in December of 2017, and we had 100 mph winds that day and it knocked down a 40 foot tall tree in front of my house, and it took me a long time to clean up that mess. I’ve seen at least 5 or 6 vintage Maytag sets pop up for sale here in SoCal, and they still do pop up for sale every now and again
Sunny Yellow Maytag A902 Pair
Hi Sean, I think it was the rare water condensing model, MT never built an all Push-Button electronically controlled dryer before the HOH dryers came out, but they did continue the older style water condensing dryer through 1965 with the lint filter in the lower front.
John L.
Hi Sean, I think it was the rare water condensing model, MT never built an all Push-Button electronically controlled dryer before the HOH dryers came out, but they did continue the older style water condensing dryer through 1965 with the lint filter in the lower front.
John L.
John I don’t think Maytag ever made dryers with the electronic dry control, but in the photos the seller had on Craigslist of the A902 set, they did show a picture of inside the drum, and it was the older style of Maytag perorated drum. That is a mystery Maytag dryer, maybe someone put together parts from a bunch of other Maytag dryers to make this one? Or maybe it was a floor/display model? That is one mystery that will be difficult to solve. John I think your brother Tom might be able to identify that Maytag dryer, and he may have seen a couple before
Now the DG606 doesn’t want to shut off at all now. I’ve adjusted the carbon brush and slip ring, and I looked at all of the connectors, and I looked at everything a couple times over, any ideas? The little pilot light above the knob flickers, and is it normal for the little indicator light to flicker? When I got the DG606 to shut off the first couple of times, the pilot light didn’t flicker, and since it’s not shutting off properly, the indicator light now flickers
Yellow Maytag pushbutton dryer
Hi Sean that yellow dryer that you almost got was definitely a water condensing electronically controlled dryer probably the only such American dryer ever built, Frigidaire did have an air cooled condensing electronically controlled dryer however.
The flickering light on your KDG606 just means that the little neon light is burning out has nothing to do with the dryer running stopping starting etc.
If the dryer is not shutting off you either have a bad electron a control but more likely something is grounding out on the slip ring or baffles try disconnecting the yellow wire from the slip ring if the dryer shuts off then you know you the control is good and you’ve got a problem in the baffle circuit or slippering.
Hi Sean that yellow dryer that you almost got was definitely a water condensing electronically controlled dryer probably the only such American dryer ever built, Frigidaire did have an air cooled condensing electronically controlled dryer however.
The flickering light on your KDG606 just means that the little neon light is burning out has nothing to do with the dryer running stopping starting etc.
If the dryer is not shutting off you either have a bad electron a control but more likely something is grounding out on the slip ring or baffles try disconnecting the yellow wire from the slip ring if the dryer shuts off then you know you the control is good and you’ve got a problem in the baffle circuit or slippering.
John I disconnected the yellow wire from the slip ring, and tried running the dryer on damp dry to see if it would shut off 20 seconds or so, and I didn’t shut off. I am thinking it may be something in the baffles or something, but I will check to see if anything is grounding out on the slip ring
Check out the following thread from 2017 that's dealing with your same issues. This poster spent an elaborate amount of time fixing and replacing components only to find a tarnished slip ring being the main culprit.
https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?68522
https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?68522
Kdg-606 Dryer
Hi Sean, if it does not shut off with the yellow disconnected and isolated the reason it does not shut off has nothing to do with the slip ring at this point, although you could also have problems with the slip and baffle circuit...Carefully follow the thread that Dan referenced and hopefully you can fix it.
John L
Hi Sean, if it does not shut off with the yellow disconnected and isolated the reason it does not shut off has nothing to do with the slip ring at this point, although you could also have problems with the slip and baffle circuit...Carefully follow the thread that Dan referenced and hopefully you can fix it.
John L
The tarnished slip ring is likely the main culprit. It’s funny how it worked when I was testing it in the garage on damp dry, and it took a minute or so for it to shut off when I put it on damp dry, and after it shut off for the first time, I tried it again, and it shut off 20 to 30 seconds after I tried it the second time, and when I tried it the 3rd time, it shut off 20 seconds or so after I put it on damp dry with no clothes in it. I guess something got bumped or knocked loose when moving it into the laundry room to test it with it hooked up to gas
HI Sean, I am sorry but your posts are not making any sense, if the dryer won't shut off with the yellow wire disconnected there is another problem other than a tarnished slip ring.
Furthermore Tarnished brass and copper are still perfectly conductive and a little tarnish will not affect the operation of the electronic control system.
John
Furthermore Tarnished brass and copper are still perfectly conductive and a little tarnish will not affect the operation of the electronic control system.
John
John I apologize if my posts don’t make a whole lot of sense, but I am trying to get an idea of what I need to do to the DG606 to get it to shut off properly. I will have to spend more time on getting the DG606 up and going, and I did hook it up to the gas line and it does heat up, and the burner cycles normally, but now I have to figure out what else is wrong with it.
I still can’t get the DG606 to shut off, and I’ve adjusted the carbon brush and slip ring a couple of times and it still doesn’t want to shut off properly. I have no idea what the issue is, and I’ve already looked at it a couple of times already
Non Shutting Off KDG-606 HOH Dryer
Hi Sean, try soldering the terminals on the little circuit board and see if this helps, Gas MT HOH dryers really had problems with corrosion and poor connections in this area, I saved many of these dryers by doing this quick repair for customers over the years.
John L.
Hi Sean, try soldering the terminals on the little circuit board and see if this helps, Gas MT HOH dryers really had problems with corrosion and poor connections in this area, I saved many of these dryers by doing this quick repair for customers over the years.
John L.
John I traced the problem to a bad electrolytic capacitor, and I will need to replace that capacitor. I looked at all the other components on the little circuit board and they appear to be fine. Richard (speedqueen) helped me trace the problem down to the bad capacitor, and Richard (speedqueen) is good at repairing electronics, he might be able to help me find a new electrolytic capacitor for the DG606.
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