POD "Super Fast Dryer"

[daveamkrayoguy]

POD 10/21/18–wish I didn’t miss yesterday’s Kitchen Aid!

Well, today’s POD, can dry loads in TWENTY-SIX minutes, and that is the GAS Maytag Halo of Heat with “its ring of fire..., Its ring of fire”...

— Dave

 

[twintubdexter]

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">I saw several electric Halo of Heat dryers where the high limit thermostat failed and the element burned a big ring in the enamel front. It wasn't pretty but probably dried even faster than 28 minutes...at least once.</span>

 

[rinso]

When I was a teen, we had the exact Maytag HOH dryer as in the POD. It was anything but fast.

 

 

[DADoES]

 
I don't have any daily-use experience with HOH dryers but a family friend (granny's BF at the time) had one.  We'd go over and play in his pool, then wash-up the towels after.  Took a l-o-n-g time to dry those big heavy pool towels.

 

[tomturbomatic]

The HOH was one dryer series where the gas was slower than the electric. Maybe Maytag was talking about a mixed load of lightweight cotton fabrics like underwear, play shirts, sheets, etc. or, since they mention Wash and Wear garments, maybe they were talking about them.

 

At any rate, this discussion has no justification for being included in the POD thread for the Bendix Super Fast dryer.

 

[twintubdexter]

<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">I thought this thread was about a Maytag drying a load in 28 minutes. I'm confused but it ain't the first time.</span>

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Why not just "fast dryers" altogether??!!

It is the Bendix (although not in the title, nor the date it was our curren POD) but I guess in the digress of off-topic ramblings that go off the beaten path of the main thread, and in the case of another make of dryer promising clothes bone-dry take-out as quickly as you put them in, that is how the Maytag seemed to claim attention here...

-- Dave

 

[rinso]

Yeah, I made that mistake. Sorry, my bad. I am a bit not-so-bright. My mom smoked while she was carrying me.

 

[easyspindry]

Our first dryer . . .

. . . was a Maytag HOH electric. Didn't have gas in the house at that time.

My mother was thrilled with the HOH dryer, especially when grandchildren came to visit and there was more laundry to do and less time to do it in.

I was traveling for work, sometimes getting home on Friday, doing laundry on Saturday to repack and leave again on Sunday. If it rained on Saturday, I was in trouble, so I got the dryer.

It was fast. But I didn't time it. We had a Frigidaire washer, so most of the water was spun out of the clothes before being put in the dryer.

That was in the late 1960's, and the dryer was still going strong when we sold the house in the 1990's.

Jerry Gay