older Cissell and other commercial dryers

[tbolt25]

Has anyone been around any Cissell or other brand commercial dryer and had the lower front panel fall down flat on concrete floor, scaring anyone in the room half to death( I used to work in a laundry that had older Cissell dryers with that problem)?

 

[sudsman]

If not closed properly when cleaned

Any of them will do that. Not a thing strange or out of the ordinary about it,

 

[peterh770]

Oh yes. Usually whoever cleaned it didn't seat the panel properly for the lock to catch. It LOOKS locked, but... SURPRISE!!! While the dryer is running, the suction keeps it in place. As soon as it turns off and the pressure behind it normalizes, BAM!!!

 

[vintagekenmore]

The first hotel I worked at had a Cissell dryer in it, it was a real bear to get the door to latch properly as you had to make sure the door was in the little grooves or it would not even latch properly. We also had the big Milnor washer with the cycle charts that could be changed out, the main one which we always used had the grooves cut in the chart for the sheets, towels and colored linen cycles, you had to make sure you had the tounges on the charts aligned correctly at the beginning of the cycle or you would have to spin the timer all the way back around to whatever cycle you needed for the load that was in the machine. We also had a chart for stained linen which was interesting to see engineering take the regular chart off and put the one on for the stained linen. Also, since the chemicals had to be hand added to each compartment, we had to make sure we thouroughly washed each one before doing stained linen. The nasty chem reaction from the first go round was NOT pretty, LOTS of smoke and we had to air the laundry out for half an hour once we got the mess cleaned up.

 

[autowasherfreak]

The hotel that my roommate and I used to work at had Speed Queen commercial dryers, and every now and then one of the lint compartment doors would come open and hit the concrete floor scaring the hell out of me and the other housekeeper.

 

[tbolt25]

my souvenir dryer lower front panel

I actually have one of those panels off one of the old Cissell gas dryers from my former workplace-a nice souvenir, takes me back to the old days (the lock and latch mechanism is missing)!