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How about trying some J-B WELD epoxy to stick in on? It is rated to 600 degrees.
Polit light will not stay lit after letting up the red lever on a Maytag DG606
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Anybody know?
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I have a white nylon spacer like this one the front of the blower fan should there be one on the back also?
The felt will definitely need to be replaced eventually. When the felt seal is compromised, it won’t allow for the burner to stay on for very long and will kick off the burner. You can make a new felt feel for it out of new felt, and one thing I did was is I used steel wire to basically make new staples to hold the felt onto the shroud, and so far it’s held up very well. I also use a long piece of felt Weather stripping and I put that around the larger out felt seal to put tension on it, and I use a paper clip to hold everything together and I’ve have no issues with that either. John suggested I glue the smaller felt strip onto the outer felt seal but I didn’t want to put glue onto the new outer felt seal, but I want to make it easier to put back together when I disassemble my Maytag DG306 for cleaning and piling of the bearings and such.
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Hi Robert, no you only need the white spacer in front of the blower wheel, it was not in your earlier picture and you were asking about washers so I thought you may not have it.
You can either use Hi-temp glue or the stuff you were talking about to secure the seal to the metal shroud.
John L.
Hi Robert, no you only need the white spacer in front of the blower wheel, it was not in your earlier picture and you were asking about washers so I thought you may not have it.
You can either use Hi-temp glue or the stuff you were talking about to secure the seal to the metal shroud.
John L.
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Working on the felt now. How tight should the felt be around the drum?
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The felt needs to stay in contact with the drum as it revolves so excess air cannot be pulled in around the felt and instead is pulled from the gas burner area, but it does not need to be very tight.
John L.
The felt needs to stay in contact with the drum as it revolves so excess air cannot be pulled in around the felt and instead is pulled from the gas burner area, but it does not need to be very tight.
John L.
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I got it running but it does not sound good. I put on new belts but they only stay on about 5 seconds before coming off. So I used the old belts. What do you think is wrong with it?
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Listen to that.
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I don't get sound on any of those vids.
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I am not hearing anything either, nor do I see any belts coming off.
John L.
I am not hearing anything either, nor do I see any belts coming off.
John L.
Same... No sound.
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Try this link
Noisi HOH dryer
The drum is scraping either on the front burner shroud or the cabinet when you take the back panel off these dryers the whole thing goes catty Wompus and out of alignment.
It’s always important to have the all 4 feet sitting solidly on the floor before you remove the back and then don’t move the dryer after you’ve done that but it will realign when you put the back back on maybe it’ll work.
John
The drum is scraping either on the front burner shroud or the cabinet when you take the back panel off these dryers the whole thing goes catty Wompus and out of alignment.
It’s always important to have the all 4 feet sitting solidly on the floor before you remove the back and then don’t move the dryer after you’ve done that but it will realign when you put the back back on maybe it’ll work.
John
Appears to me that the drum is rubbing on the left side panel (from rear POV) on each revolution. I was waiting a day or so to see if anyone else would bring up about HoH dryer cabinets going out-of-square when the back panel is off.
My Maytag DG306 did something similar but the thing that was scraping was the makeshift felt I made for it. Tried using felt weather stripping but that didn’t work but here’s my HOH with the rear panel removed and this was the first power up of it a week after I got it
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Thanks everybody. After working on it for about a week it runs great. One more question on a DG606 about how long should gas burner run for each cycle when drying clothes?
Should run for a good 30 to 40 minutes before cycling off but I recently had to replace the cycling thermostat on my Maytag DG606 I converted to a DG306 since it was stuck and wouldn’t really want to cycle off the heat and I am borrowing the low heat cycling thermostat off of my Maytag DG810 from 1981 until I source a 120F low heat thermostat.
A large load/extra large of towels takes 75 minutes to dry in my DG306 and 60 to 65 minutes for a normal/large load of towels
A large load/extra large of towels takes 75 minutes to dry in my DG306 and 60 to 65 minutes for a normal/large load of towels
Heat Cycling Off On A 606 MT Dryer
On either an electric or gas version the heat should not cycle off at all till the clothes are nearly dry with a normal sized load, if the load is going to take 60 minutes to dry the heat should stay on for around 45-55 minutes.
A very small load may allow the exhaust thermostat to get hot enough to cycle off before the clothing is nearly dry.
If the burner is cycling 10 minutes or so into the drying cycle [ very common problem with a MT HOH gas dryer ] and possible with any dryer there could be a number of problems allowing the dryers safety thermostat to cycle.
Most common problems are long exhaust vent, clogged or restricted vent system [ the first thing to try with this problem is to try running the dryer with no vent and see how it behaves.
Common MT gas HOH problems that cause this are bad front felt seals, bad safety thermostat, worn motor pulley that is slipping, worn pulley groove on the blower pulley, replace either the motor pulley or the blower.
Of corse the dryer needs belts that are not worn out and the blower bearing should be clean and oiled and the blower housing needs to be clean.
John L.
On either an electric or gas version the heat should not cycle off at all till the clothes are nearly dry with a normal sized load, if the load is going to take 60 minutes to dry the heat should stay on for around 45-55 minutes.
A very small load may allow the exhaust thermostat to get hot enough to cycle off before the clothing is nearly dry.
If the burner is cycling 10 minutes or so into the drying cycle [ very common problem with a MT HOH gas dryer ] and possible with any dryer there could be a number of problems allowing the dryers safety thermostat to cycle.
Most common problems are long exhaust vent, clogged or restricted vent system [ the first thing to try with this problem is to try running the dryer with no vent and see how it behaves.
Common MT gas HOH problems that cause this are bad front felt seals, bad safety thermostat, worn motor pulley that is slipping, worn pulley groove on the blower pulley, replace either the motor pulley or the blower.
Of corse the dryer needs belts that are not worn out and the blower bearing should be clean and oiled and the blower housing needs to be clean.
John L.
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