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Reply #18 & #19

I don’t buy the “stinky explosives gas burner” along with the “highly explosive gas burner that isn’t completely contained in the metal duct” since I’ve been using gas dryers throughout the years and haven’t had ANY of those issues. Since you don’t like natural gas, I suggest you write a check to someone who has a all electric home, you’ll be shocked when you have to pay a $500+ (in some cases close to $1000 electric bills) vs someone who has natural gas appliances with a much cheaper electric bill.
 
Converting heat sources on clothes dryers

We have converted many dryers from electric to gas and a few from gas to electric over the years to suit situations.

We have converted far more electric ones to more desirable gas dryers because they’re more valuable and better for the planet to use.

If you have the appropriate parts from a donor dryer it’s easy to do I’ve also use heat relays like the one suggested in reply number 16 to do it as well.

Brad it would be interesting to see you cram a 5000 W electric heating element in a Maytag halo if he gas dryer the only thing that would save it as a lotta good safety thermostats it would probably be about as successful as your remotely mounted window air conditioner lol

Back in the early 70s my Maytag sales representative converted his old Highlander gas HOH dryer to electric because he moved to Maryland to an all electric house.

One time when he was on a business trip the dryer stopped heating and his wife called a local Maytag guy to come look at it and the guy opened up the little door down in the front and told her the
problem is the pilots out, he had left the gas burner in place but also installed the new electric heater shroud in the dryer and put the regular heating element in it.

John L
 
#20

We don't need to go into the full details of how dangerous and dirty natural gas in fact is as that's been done in other posts. With an electric dryer you (might) pay a bit more (depending on if you have your own solar electric generation) and it's worth it. It's safer, cleaner, easier to control, and doesn't explode. The monthly usage cost is not the only expense to consider.

I only present the conversion option to Pete since he's having issues currently with his hoh dryer. Also it sounds like this dryer is otherwise appreciated. Typically with an electric dryer there's very little that can go wrong with the heater.

I also had never thought about converting a gas dryer to electric using a relay and found that it would be rather simple and affordable. If a person is handy, has a dryer cord and some 10 gg wire, they could convert for about $100. You'll spend much more than that just getting an appliance repair tech out, and that's if you can find one that will even know how to service a dryer of this age.
 
Reply #22

Gas dryers are NOT as dangerous as you might think they are. There’s no sense in arguing about how natural gas is dangerous etc since it takes for more resources to generate electricity (would be less if there were more nuclear power plants in existence) than it is to send natural gas to your home. If Natural gas was REALLY that dangerous then people would have moved on from natural gas appliances a LONG TIME AGO but since there are more regulations on natural gas appliances compared to many years ago, they have gotten safer to the point it’s on par with electric.
 
#23

As I stated earlier, this post is about Peters hoh dryer not working.

 

We've had discussions of facts about the dangers of gas in our homes here:

 https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?89062

 

and here:

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?89301
 

we've even talked about how bad heat pumps are here:

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?86493
 

there's even the discussions about entire cities banning new gas service installations here:

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?79945
 

and we've all seen the very real videos of the odd gas main or house blowing up due to leaking gas, but that's not important here.

Lets respect this post for Petes dryer.  All those other posts can be continued.  I'd be happy to discuss it with you <span style="text-decoration: underline;">there.</span>

Pete's looking for solutions to fix his dryer.
 
Reply #24

You basically are arguing about nothing and literally keep on beating on the same dead horse over and over and over again and frankly you are going about things the way I did when I first joined the forum back in 2017 and yes I was 18 at the time but since I am now 23, I’ve matured quite a bit and have gained some wisdom since then. There’s no real point on arguing about on how dangerous natural gas is and I could form the very same arguments on how electricity can be dangerous but again there’s no real sense in arguing over something trivial since any fuel source wether it be electricity or natural gas since they both have their dangers along with their pros and cons.
 
That's not fair!
You were just on the verge of getting a replacement.

This requires something devious like breaking it on purpose to get even! ha-HAA.

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...or you could just get a different dryer if you want one. No excuses necessary.

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