mikeklondon
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HOH ?
Hi Sorry but what is HOH??
Hi Sorry but what is HOH??
POD 11/30/12 MAYTAG HOH DRYER
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Halo of Heat, Maytag's description of a dryer design introduced about 1957 where the electric heating element was positioned in front of the drum in a circle. Air was drawn over the heating element, thru the drum and then exhausted from the center of the rear of the drum. With the heating element in front and the blower mounted at the center rear of the drum, it made for a shallow drum, much smaller than their previous check rated dryer. In the original Highlanders, the drum was not porcelain, but zinc-coated steel. An aunt of mine had to have her 1957 dryer drum "recoated" in the 70s but with what, where or how, I do not know. Maytag kept this ancient engineering with all of the heavy steel construction way past other dryers in their refusal to update a design as if their machines were memorials to someone.
Rinso, if your dryers had sat for any length of time and the belts had developed flat spots, you would have heard thumping when it was in operation. My 1967 GE does not thump and it has the belt around the porcelain drum.
Halo of Heat, Maytag's description of a dryer design introduced about 1957 where the electric heating element was positioned in front of the drum in a circle. Air was drawn over the heating element, thru the drum and then exhausted from the center of the rear of the drum. With the heating element in front and the blower mounted at the center rear of the drum, it made for a shallow drum, much smaller than their previous check rated dryer. In the original Highlanders, the drum was not porcelain, but zinc-coated steel. An aunt of mine had to have her 1957 dryer drum "recoated" in the 70s but with what, where or how, I do not know. Maytag kept this ancient engineering with all of the heavy steel construction way past other dryers in their refusal to update a design as if their machines were memorials to someone.
Rinso, if your dryers had sat for any length of time and the belts had developed flat spots, you would have heard thumping when it was in operation. My 1967 GE does not thump and it has the belt around the porcelain drum.
Noise And HOH Dryers
HOH dryers could be very quite dryers but with Maytag's spotty quality control the last several years of production of the HOH dryer did not guarantee you a quite smooth running dryer. I started working for MT in 1973 , we were selling and servicing MT appliances and quite a few MT HOH dryers had fairly severe noise problems from the get go. We often had to replace poorly balanced motors and blowers and tighten and add washers to rear panel screws to reduce annoying vibrations.
And everyone I am not just picking on Maytag products, I would not have any Whirlpool built dryer as a daily driver that was built before 1966, these earlier WP built dryers were not only inefficient, had small capacity's and often had noise problems. I try to share my experiences sharing from selling and repairing appliances for over 40 years for our companies over 50,000 customers so that everyone that is interested in these cool older appliances can get realistic reviews about how these appliances worked, how reliable they were and what it took to fix and rebuild them.
HOH dryers could be very quite dryers but with Maytag's spotty quality control the last several years of production of the HOH dryer did not guarantee you a quite smooth running dryer. I started working for MT in 1973 , we were selling and servicing MT appliances and quite a few MT HOH dryers had fairly severe noise problems from the get go. We often had to replace poorly balanced motors and blowers and tighten and add washers to rear panel screws to reduce annoying vibrations.
And everyone I am not just picking on Maytag products, I would not have any Whirlpool built dryer as a daily driver that was built before 1966, these earlier WP built dryers were not only inefficient, had small capacity's and often had noise problems. I try to share my experiences sharing from selling and repairing appliances for over 40 years for our companies over 50,000 customers so that everyone that is interested in these cool older appliances can get realistic reviews about how these appliances worked, how reliable they were and what it took to fix and rebuild them.
danemodsandy
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Mike:
The HOH is also sometimes referred to affectionately as the "Halo from Hell" due to the difficulty of servicing its heating element. It's not as bad as all that, I understand, but it's not a breeze like later Maytag heating elements were, either.
The HOH is also sometimes referred to affectionately as the "Halo from Hell" due to the difficulty of servicing its heating element. It's not as bad as all that, I understand, but it's not a breeze like later Maytag heating elements were, either.
mikeklondon
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Thanks
Many Thanks for the info. I never understand why so many people say that there dryers seem to take so long to dye a load mine dries a full load in around 40 minutes MAX on low temp and 10 of that is cool -downI would have thought that give the size of most dryers in the US that would dry a lot quicker
Many Thanks for the info. I never understand why so many people say that there dryers seem to take so long to dye a load mine dries a full load in around 40 minutes MAX on low temp and 10 of that is cool -downI would have thought that give the size of most dryers in the US that would dry a lot quicker
tecnopolis
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<span style="font-size: large;">From the archives/Combo52 shows the rear workings of the HOH dryer components.</span>
tecnopolis
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From the archives/Combo52 bench test a HOH heating element.
A simple and elegant design.
A simple and elegant design.
tecnopolis
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1958 Print ad demonstrating the advantages of the Maytag Halo of Heat drying system.
<span style="font-size: xx-large;">"Safe as Sunshine!"</span>
<span style="font-size: xx-large;">"Safe as Sunshine!"</span>
tecnopolis
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<span style="font-size: xx-large;">"No Hot Spots!"</span>
What Halo of Heat dryer are you using that provides a 10 minute cooldown? I have never seen a HOH with the timer dial so marked and on the electronic control dryers the cooldown was thermostatic. Even the Perma Press cycle on my mom's SOH only had a 7 minute cooldown.
adjustable thermo
2 folks up above both mention a 90 degree thermostat instead of 120 for the final cooldown. Any PN# I can search for that? It sounds like a pefect aftermarket change for my DE608.
Thanks
Mark
2 folks up above both mention a 90 degree thermostat instead of 120 for the final cooldown. Any PN# I can search for that? It sounds like a pefect aftermarket change for my DE608.
Thanks
Mark
whirlaway
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Kenmore Seems Ok!
I use a 1955 Kenmore dryer with the matching washer as my everyday machines,it dries in about 35 min on med heat,its called a high speed dryer on the front top.It also has a basket type of lint filter you remove from the top rear,it sure catches alot of lint.I clean it after every load.No problems with it,buts it not as quiet as the 57 Kenmore I have without a lint filter,it also has a lighted drum and an ultraviolet bulb in it,the clothes smell so good and I dont and never have used fabric softeners or dryer sheets in either one.But it does have the same pulley set-up as the Maytag in the previous threads. Thanks!
I use a 1955 Kenmore dryer with the matching washer as my everyday machines,it dries in about 35 min on med heat,its called a high speed dryer on the front top.It also has a basket type of lint filter you remove from the top rear,it sure catches alot of lint.I clean it after every load.No problems with it,buts it not as quiet as the 57 Kenmore I have without a lint filter,it also has a lighted drum and an ultraviolet bulb in it,the clothes smell so good and I dont and never have used fabric softeners or dryer sheets in either one.But it does have the same pulley set-up as the Maytag in the previous threads. Thanks!
