bills716
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Good morning I’m reaching out for help in identifying this Dryer by the inclosed photo I believe it’s from the 1980’s but I could be wrong any Help would be Appreciated thanks and have a great day
Need help with identifying this Dryer by the photo
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Maytag!
It's a BOL Maytag
It's a BOL Maytag
I found a reference to it as model DG303. It has Regular Fabrics and Perm Press thermostatic auto-dry cycles, timed Air Fluff. No timed heat-dry cycle.
The pics I have are saved of one from a sale someone shared three years ago. The serial number on that specimen is April 1989. I have no specifics on for what time-frame they were produced.
And the heated dry is what on higher dryers was low/delicate.
thatwasherguy
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This is, indeed, late 80’s vintage gas dryer...
Maytag gas dryers of this vintage are super easy to tell apart from the electric ones due to the access panel that they have on the front to make servicing the gas valve easier. You can tell that it is late 80’s by it still retaining the little knob for the door handle, just like my 1978 DE408, as well their earlier Halo-of-heat models had used since 1966. Around 1990, they changed to a small plastic handle in the upper corner of the door, like what my 1992 LDE7600 has. These Stream-of-heat dryers are renowned for reliability, and can last you a very long time if taken care of. My ‘78 model was in regular use for 43 years by the time I got it, and it was still in working condition.
Hope this helps,
Thatwasherguy.
Maytag gas dryers of this vintage are super easy to tell apart from the electric ones due to the access panel that they have on the front to make servicing the gas valve easier. You can tell that it is late 80’s by it still retaining the little knob for the door handle, just like my 1978 DE408, as well their earlier Halo-of-heat models had used since 1966. Around 1990, they changed to a small plastic handle in the upper corner of the door, like what my 1992 LDE7600 has. These Stream-of-heat dryers are renowned for reliability, and can last you a very long time if taken care of. My ‘78 model was in regular use for 43 years by the time I got it, and it was still in working condition.
Hope this helps,
Thatwasherguy.
Basically, late 80s Maytag dryer
We still have a couple customers with these dryers, we have one customer with this dryer in electric in a small apartment building. We’re about six people live in total so it gets a fair amount of use. It’s coupled with a Speed Queen front load washer
I wouldn’t want to imagine how many repairs we’ve done on this electric dryer. I know it’s had a new heating element. It had wires burned off the safety thermostat had a bad timer once I’ve replaced the motor the blower at least twice the front slides a belt and idler pulley.
The nice thing about these dryers is they were good money makers because they were fairly easy to fix but not terribly reliable maybe average at best, long-term reliability is ruined by having too many major plastic parts. Eventually, the lint filter housing breaks up or the inner door panel and those parts are hard to find now.
John L
We still have a couple customers with these dryers, we have one customer with this dryer in electric in a small apartment building. We’re about six people live in total so it gets a fair amount of use. It’s coupled with a Speed Queen front load washer
I wouldn’t want to imagine how many repairs we’ve done on this electric dryer. I know it’s had a new heating element. It had wires burned off the safety thermostat had a bad timer once I’ve replaced the motor the blower at least twice the front slides a belt and idler pulley.
The nice thing about these dryers is they were good money makers because they were fairly easy to fix but not terribly reliable maybe average at best, long-term reliability is ruined by having too many major plastic parts. Eventually, the lint filter housing breaks up or the inner door panel and those parts are hard to find now.
John L
bills716
New member
Thank you everyone for your help and advice I appreciate it I’m still looking at options I’ll let everyone know when I decide on what dryer I end up getting at this point I’m still looking at other dryer/ washers from the 80s
