My 1970 Maytag 806 is lonely!

[captainmoody]

I bought this Nice Maytag 806 built in January 1970 last year thinking I could find the matching Gas or Electric dryer easily.. Not!
It's been a year, and I have turned up absolutely nothing. Does anyone out there within a reasonable distance have a dryer? Gas or Electric is fine. I would like to find the older one that has the matching chrome strip like the washer.

 

[volvoguy87]

Halo of Heat

You'll be looking for a Halo of Heat dryer. More folks like the electric version than the gas version. The gas version has a standing pilot light.

The gas version of your target dryer is KDG806.
The electric version of your target dryer is KDE806.

There is a DE806 where I live, and I find the performance to be superb.

Good luck,
Dave

 

[bajaespuma]

That gorgeous Spanish Avocado specimen you have there is, to me, the quintessential Maytag Washing Machine. I will look for a mate for you, but my territory is the Northeast.

 

[goatfarmer]

I have an avocado one in gas, but it's spoken for.....

 

[appnut]

Dwight, I have a feeling its mate will show up sooner than you think.  It should be lonely too much longer.  Just like none of us should be alone. 

 

[captainmoody]

For some reason, I always just find either the washer or the dryer!
I was never able to find the match for the Imperial Mark XII washer (with the genuine fake woodgrain front!) and ended up giving it to Jamie before moving.

 

[appnut]

Dwight, it's been said a few times around heree, and youu've been a member long enough, that it takes some time for washer or dryer karma to work.  But several people believe that the mate to a washer or dryer will eventually show up, but it may take several years.  I remember when jamie got taht washer, it was always one of my favorites, even when they were new to the market.  And I personall,y, small segment of population, really did like that fake woodgrain front.  I just feel it in my bones that Maytag dryer is going to show up. 

 

[retromania]

Captain! You have a grand vintage machine there. Don't believe I've ever seen that shade of green before. Love it! That particular model of Maytag ran and ran and ran and ran and ran and then ran some more. A cousin of mine had one like your's, but in white and I want to think she had it 20 plus years. Now I don't know how much it got used.

 

[captainmoody]

LOL! I know, I need to have more patience!
Around here the washer is usually the one tossed out first, and the dryer remains.. (or soldiers on) Sometimes for years.

 

[polkanut]

I was very fortunate to locate an A806S, and DE606 pair for $60 in May 2009.  I wsn't really looking for a Maytag pair at the time, but in my area these don't pop up all that often.  I've been more than pleased with their performance during the time I've had them.  Just have patience, and take Bob's advice about karma.

 

[autowasherfreak]

I have a DG806, but mine is harvest gold, don't know if I will ever get it up and running.

 

 

[pierreandreply4]

about dryers you are right

i agree with you my grandmother 's inglis whirlpool dryer lasted her for 40 years and i think she hd her dryer since the 70 don't know the exact year she boought it but i was a child when she had this dryer here is a pic of her forty year old dryer that she rplace in fall last year

 

[combo52]

MATCHING WASHERS AND DRYERS

I would love to find a coppertone WP imperail mark 12 washer, I have the gas dryer already, I would also consider other colors as may partner can repaint it at his autobody shop. Bob I also always liked the fake wood fronts, but I also liked a lot of the station wagons with the wood panling. It is the only potion that my old 1994 Chrysler Town&Country AWD minivan did not have.

 

Dwight I always prefer a gas dryer but the MT HOH gas dryers are a little harder to rebuild than there electric counter parts. But it is not only much less expensive to run a gas dryer but much better for the environment to burn gas rather than coal to dry clothes.

 

[steve1-18]

I have an avocado halo of heat Maytag that is not an 806 but would be a pretty close match. Heats good, but it's in Georgia. If you want it, it's yours! Come and get it. Would like to see it go to a good home. Will get out to the storage building later today and get a picture.

 

[mistereric]

Dwight - I feel your pain!   I've had my white 1971 A806 for 2 years now and its still lonely!  Been a chore looking for a gas 806 machine to match.  I've got a DE606 HOH machine that no one wants, that I can't afford to use, and a almond DG309 with only a single heat setting.  Meh.  I've kinda given up, and would take just about any good looking well featured gas dryer at this point, so long as its not a standing pilot model.

 

[appnut]

Eric your DG309

Eric you may think your DG309 is only one temperature.  But the cmoparable HOH back in the late 1960s, it had high temp for the regular cycle and low heat for the Perm Press cycle.  So maybe your DG309 is like that too. 

 

[mistereric]

Bob,

 

Hmm... I wonder if there is any literature about that.  I use the permanent press cycle almost exclusively, since it has a cool down.

 

[retromania]

Was your grnadma's Whirlpool gas or electric?

 

[pierreandreply4]

it was electric if that answers your question