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Installing Felt Seals On A Gas HOH Dryer

Hi Sean, the inner Wide seal gets glued to the front heat shroud, the thin outer seal you put around the porclean drum, then put the shroud in place and then you inch the narrow tension felt forward into place. With the narrow felt band overlap the wide felt by about 3/4" then put a dime sized spot of glue between the narrow and wide felt in four places to keep the narrow tension felt from creeping out of place.

 

Then place the cabinet back on the frame screw in place then attach the 4 Phillips screws around the door opening to hold the heat shroud in place, hoe this helps and yes HOH dryers were a pita to work on unless you have a lot of space and time.

 

John
 
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.
 
John I actually got the Maytag DG606 hooked up to gas, and it works! Got a video of the burner turning on, and it will be in the link

 
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.
 
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.
 
You remind me of a younger version of myself. The advantage I had is that I could pick up rare TOL appliances for free and parts were cheap and plentiful, with most still available through Maytag.
 
If you're feeling frisky, you can swap the hi limit thermo from your DE306 into the DG606 and see if you can coax a bit more heat out of it. They're interchangeable.
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 

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