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
