Maytag to GE Console Adaptation

[Chetlaham]

According to GE's link I posted, the burner cutouts when the pan temperature reaches 450*F:

 

 

 

How do you know the pan temperature is actually allowed to reach 1000*F when auto ignition temperature of grease and cooking oil is below 1000*F?

 

Have you read UL 858? The intent UL858's new rules is preventing grease fires.

 

The American public does not vote on UL or NFPA standards. You don't know how the system works.

 

Site a source for all your claims, otherwise I'm not buying any of them.

 

 

People are complaining, have a look at the internet. The complaints for sensi temp are scathing, plentiful and racking up thousands of upvotes.

 

 

 

[qsd-dan]

Chet,

What is your current dryer? I know you have a pre 2018 Speed Queen top loading washer.

Are you looking into making a custom dryer as a 2nd dryer or as your one and only dryer?

For shoes, I don't recommend tumble drying those without a rack. They can loosen/damage the baffles. If one has an interior light in the path of tumbling items, shoes can damage the lens cover. During the winter months, I put shoes upside down over the heater registers. During the summer months, I take one of my vintage fans, point it slightly downward and air dry on high speed overnight.

When drying a comforter, it's a good idea to turn it inside out at least once to get the middle dry. Running the dryer for an hour and a half without doing this can over dry/damage the outer fabric. With a sensor dryer, use the "more dry" option (if that is an option). Turn the comforter inside out and either use the sensor dry again or use timed dry. If you're using a 29" Whirlpool/Kenmore design, be prepared to do this several times due to the rear intake/exhaust/sensor mounted on the rear bulkhead (these machines do NOT play nice with drying large items!).

I never had a problem drying pillows in under an hour and that's out of a commercial front load washer with a 500 RPM final spin. Time dry should work if you want to over dry them vs sensor dry.

 

[Chetlaham]

My current dryer is a Maytag MEDC300XW0, delivered in early 2013. This is my daily use dryer. I plan is to adapt a General Electric WE4X525 / 963D123G009 timer to it.


 

 

Comforters you do have to pull out and re-arrange/un-ball several times. Some dry faster than others.

 

 

 

[Chetlaham]

Here is the inside of the my Maytag Dryer

Dan, I disagree that shoes and other loads damage the dryer when done right. I use this dryer every day, and despite the routine overloading and heavy, rough loads the inside of the dryer still looks like it did new. I have to say that this probably one of the best dryers ever built hands down. The drum and paint is superb without any scratches except a little bit around the exhaust. The baffles are strong, they have not loosened, bent, cracked, warped, or broken. Zero discoloration except slight yellowing of the light bulb cover.

 

 

 

If you take a look, the heat vent has only a little bit of browning indicating the grate does not get super hot. The venting is excellent and I only dry on low and medium heat.

 

 

The door hinges however are not in good shape, they are putting out a black grime on everything around them.

 

[Chetlaham]

Heat Vent

Hear is an up-close of the heat vent. Does this vent look like it has been overheating?

 

[qsd-dan]

I used a 29" dryer for almost 30 years, I'm well aware of them. Never will go back to one, either. Mine was from the early 80's when they still used that ultra shitty thin interior paint that wore out in 10 years. It took Whirlpool until the late 80's (what, 4 decades?) to put a decent coat of interior paint inside their dryers...like every other manufacture was doing from the very beginning. Speaking of ultra thin shitty paint, you'll never see rustier dryer top than a Whirlpool made one.

Drying bulky items such as comforters was a constant invert and rotate for hours on end from the rear bulkhead intake/exhaust/sensor placement, don't miss. Sensor accuracy was "okay" for clothes, but miserable for bulky items. Having lint dust flurry all over the top every time I removed the filter....don't miss that either. I can still hear that under designed screechy idler wheel right now. At least they reengineered those for the better in later years. I could go on like the hilariously cheap foam weather strip seals around the intake and exhaust vents on the rear bulkhead that deteriorate quickly and leak. The blower area that collects lint and reduces efficiency. The coarse exhaust grill that gobbles small items and dumps them into the blower/blower area. Thank God those days are long over with!

Your complaints about under drying of items, especially bulky items, is definitely right on par with my experience. I know it all too well!!!

 

[Chetlaham]

I think we can agree and see eye to eye on bulky items not drying. I can also empathize with the rusty top, it scratches very easily. And by that I mean if you literally drag a plastic wash pan over the surface it will mar and scuff. The outer paint is a super weak area on these dryers. The side of the dryer that faces my Speed Queen washer has a huge rust spot with the paint totally worn off. I will spare your innocence and not show it LOL.  

 

 

Do you have any experience with Whirlpool 27 inch dryer platforms?  I am thinking about getting one of those. 

 

[qsd-dan]

No experience with the 27" models although they look suspiciously identical to the Maytag SOH's minus the 2 front support rollers (which, BTW, is a weak spot on these dryers, especially on the LG and Samsuck models who both copied this exact design. Plenty of evidence on Youtube to back up my claims). At least with these dryers, you have bulkhead to bulkhead airflow which is an added plus for large items. However, as with all bulkhead mounted sensors (front bulkhead sensor vs rear bulkhead sensor on the 29"), they're not the most accurate in sensing moisture.

"The side of the dryer that faces my Speed Queen washer has a huge rust spot with the paint totally worn off. I will spare your innocence and not show it LOL."

Trust me, I know! Had a pinhole leak in a jug of laundry detergent that bubbled up most of the paint on the top of my '81 Kenmore around 1991. It was rusty within a week and continued spreading until I sanded/repainted it days before giving it away. Had a very similar occurrence with my SOH Maytag many, many years later when a leaky spigot slowly oozed an entire brand new jug of Tide all over the top and front panel. Wiped it right off the porcelain finish. It didn't even bother/fade the paint on front panel where it drooled down.

 

[qsd-dan]

When is the last time you cleaned your vent hose?

Last time you took the back cover off, removed the filter plenum and inspected it? These dryers LOVE the collect lint in this area.

 

[Chetlaham]

Somewhere around 2016 (ish) I took the filter plenum off for cleaning. There was no lint build up at all much to my surprise.

 

I say that because in 2009 I cleaned out the Estate dryer which came with the old house, and, the plenum was absolutely packed in with hard cemented lint. Never saw such or so much before- even in the obscene exhausts of apartment GE/Hotpoint dryers. Obscene because sometimes you had tenants that would take the filters out and run the dryers without them. The Estate dryer had been heavily neglected and abused by the previous owner. When the rollers started screeching on the Estate I bought the Maytag on a black Friday sale and had it delivered in January 2013. 

 

 

The only thing that gets clogged are the exterior vent flaps, and I have to clean those monthly. But the rest surprisingly remains clean-ish though to be fair I have not checked the exhaust plenum the last couple of years. 

 

[DADoES]

 
<blockquote>qsd-dan:  No experience with the 27" models although they look suspiciously identical to the Maytag SOH's minus the 2 front support rollers (which, BTW, is a weak spot on these dryers, especially on the LG and Samsuck models who both copied this exact design.</blockquote> Which is minus two front support rollers?  The WP 27" or 'tag SOH?

 

[kalanikaau1]

Reply# 24

Your candid description of Samsung major appliances is spot on!

Both korean manufacturers produce outstanding consumer electronic devices such as TV's and cell phones, but atrocious major appliances.

Certain features on their appliances are noteworthy, but the execution and longevity of such features falls short, way short.

 

[qsd-dan]

Which is minus two front support rollers? The WP 27" or

What's unclear about this statement?

"No experience with the >>>27" MODELS<<< although they look suspiciously identical to the Maytag SOH's minus the 2 front support rollers."

For clarification, I helped a neighbor fix a 27" WP dryer (one of the 2 front support rollers broke, it looked like it seized up from my guess) but I never played with one myself...as in dried my own laundry. Due to that, I can't form an opinion on its performance.