Roadside Find.....

[yogitunes]

Found this a week ago along side the road....brought it home.....it's a LG TROMM Electric dryer....Model DLE5977S....outside of a major lint and hair cleanout, lubed the rollers(which were not turning), and put a cord on it.....I can't find a single thing wrong with it!

my main question here, after having it open and seeing the insides, What makes this machine so freakin QUIET?....if it weren't for the lights and seeing the clothes tumbling, you barely know its ON!...the only damper pads I see were 2 strips around the drum, other than that, a hollow shell like any other dryer, not even blower noise.....

 

[yogitunes]

Not a machine I would normally choose, but got to love the lights, display, and chimes....

 

[Ultramatic]

Oh, really nice Martin...

<span style="font-size: medium;">You'd never see something like that thrown out here. Congratulations!</span>

 

[revvinkevin]

Nice dryer!

 

 

I'd sure pick it up if I saw it on the street too!

 

BTW Martin, I  L O V E  Garfield in the dryer window, that is awesome!!!

 

Kevin

 

[launderess]

You'd never see something like that thrown out here.

Oh I don't know. *LOL*

Problem is those roving bands of scrappers would have gotten to it within an hour of being put curbside. One sees them in Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, etc.. with license plates ranging from NYS to PA, to NJ.

Here in Manhattan many apartment building workers have their own they look after and will contact them when things are going to be thrown out to give a heads-up. Also many of the same are either offered outright or simply claim anything decent that is thrown out.

Finally it is not unheard of for the construction contractor and or his workers to claim appliances (amoung other things) when doing a renovation job.

 

[whirlcool]

Did they cut the cord on the dryer? For some strange reason a lot of people who throw things away do that.

 

[dj-gabriele]

Did they cut the cord on the dryer? For some strange reason

Over here is stated on each manual that the curbed appliance should be rendered inoperable, so cutting the cord is the most common and easiest method do do so.

 

[frigilux]

Nice find, and Garfield-approved to boot! I have friends with an LG pair and their dryer is virtually silent, too. I've lived with LOUD Frigidaire dryers since '96, so it was especially noticeable. Sharp-looking machine.

 

[yogitunes]

cord was just not there.....what I found odd, normally if your throwing out a dryer, you would take out the screws and remove the cord, in this case, they put the screws back in, which I had to remove to install the new cord....if the dryer is going to scrap, would it matter if you re-installed the screws and cover plate?...

I think I have more Garfield stuff than anything else!......

forgot to mention.....the load of towels they were drying was also left inside....nice white ones at that, not sure if I want to use them on the car or not....very bizarre!

 

[kenmore700bill]

Martin, Great Find..

 

[ovrphil]

Strange and amazing. I have never seen such a nice machine tossed out. Were the owners evicted..or just transported back to the mother ship? Congrats, those are mesmerizing lights.

 

[mrb627]

More Than Likely...

The washing machine suffered an early death and the owner was so pissed, bought a new set of a different brand.

That would be my guess.

I had one of thos LG dryers and it became the squeakiest rattling thing I have ever heard!

Malcolm

 

[laundromat]

When I came to visit back in July, I bough 3 sets of LGs. This is similar except mine has the steam drawer.Got them all from Homo Depot. For my favorite aunts and uncles  and one of my cousins. All have the steam feature and two are stackd. The other is sxs with the storage drawers. Great performance and real quiet.

 

[launderess]

Almost Every Owner's Manual One Has Seen For A Major App

And even small ones advises to either cut the cord or at least plug before discarding. Don't understand the rationale behind the suggestion but on many things found crubside the cords are chopped off. Happily the vintage Hoover floor polisher that was going to be discarded near Park Avenue did not suffer that fate. It now hangs in our broom closet. There was a plastic bag tied to the handle containing all the brushes and pads as well.

 

[Iowegian]

Maybe the cheezy silver paint job dampens cabinet vibrations and makes it quieter.

Were you lucky enough to score the matching washer off the curb, too?

 

[Iowegian]

@launderess:

Agreed, it's good practice to dispose of any electrical device sans cord.

We live in a litigious enough world that if we were to leave a defective appliance at the curb that it might come back to bite us.

 

[tecnopolis]

I guess they don't want anyone plugging anything in that may have been exposed to moisture and shock the unsuspecting curb-side customer.

-Alex

 

[tolivac]

Interesting and unusual curb find-was it out for trash day?Machine looks to nice and new to be thrown out-and doesn't look damaged-so it didn't fall off a truck.In the "Classic Refuse Truck" videos the trashmen cut cords off the machines before they put them in the trucks "Krusher"Besides the broom and dustpan,shovel,there is now a pair of wirecutters on the side of the truck for lopping off cords.Its said they save the cords for copper.--but then why put the appliance in the krusher?That would have more metal and copper than the cord???Some trash pickups don't allow the compaction trucks to take appliances.

 

[launderess]

Thinking About It

One can only assume the advice to cut power cords for electical appliances would be to prevent children who might be enticed to play around near or with the thing from harming themselves.