Simpson Maxidry Dryer video

[mattywashboy]

here is just a quick vid of my friends Simpson Maxidry clothes dryer. These were good dryers from what i can remember. This dryer is in the classic Australian position- hanging above the washer for easy loading and space use. He also has a Maytag washer but i don't know which model, all i know is it is 8kgs and LOUD lol.
Sorry about the background noise, this was taken at a party and people needed to dry their clothes after being in the pool (don't worry, i made them all spin their clothes first lol)
Enjoy
Matt

 

[gansky1]

I like the window in the door. I'm surprised that wall-mounted dryers never caught on here, but with the ban on outdoor clotheslines and drying, I guess it would have been doomed from the start.

Maytag and others had compact dryers that could be mounted on the wall above a washer - I did this when I lived in Phoenix, AZ with a Maytag Porta-Dryer.

I think Kelly, mixfinder, has a WCI - GE labeled machine that was sold to hang on the wall above their compact top-loading washer.

 

[exploder3211]

Where is it banned to hang ones things out of doors to dry?

 

[oxydolfan1]

What ban on outdoor clotheslines??

 

[oxydolfan1]

You mean there's someone who doesn't want to wake up to this outside their bedroom window?

http://www.futureofthebook.org/itinplace/archives/laundry.jpg

 

[appnut]

Well, no wonder the Maytag is loud. It's what's known here as the Performa. Has the plastic wash bowl. These are the machines (top loaders) that helped kill Maytag. Had the "name" but poor, cheap quality. A lot of tub seal and transmission problems.

 

[oxydolfan1]

Appnut, I am SO confused....

Did your post get vortexed, or did I miss something, LOL!

 

[appnut]

He also has a Maytag washer but i don't know which model

Scott, that's the phrase I picked up on and noticed the washer under the dryer in the video. It's a Performa.

 

[gansky1]

Many residential communities/subdivisions have restrictions on outdoor clothes drying - my parent's development forbids it completely.

 

[MrX]

That's absolutely crazy. Why would you want to ban drying clothes outside? It's far far more environmentally friendly.

In an age when we're trying to cut down greenhouse gas emissions that's simply nuts.

 

[hoovermatic]

When I lived in Oz I thought it was a great idea to hang the dryer on the wall but they all seemed to be small dryers. Do they hang the full sized ones as well or are they just too heavy?

 

[toggleswitch]

~That's absolutely crazy. Why would you want to ban drying clothes outside?

In densely packed/populated urban areas (verticle cities) line-drying can become unsightly.

In many areas of this country heating season and/or below freezing temps may be longer than half the year. Line drying is not necessarily a practical option.

Enivironment:
If you have to iron much of your laundry with an electric iron when line-dried (esp. if spun and wrinkled to death) as opposed to drying it with gas (fluffy and much de-wrinkled), I'm not sure there is a huge energy savings.

Food for thought. What is "wasted" by machine drying may be compensated-for by high-density smaller-unit housing. Much is saved by heating and cooling attached and surrounded apartment units rather than a free-standing house.

 

[askomiele]

I don't know but here it's normal to dry clothes outside. I line dry every sunny day, winter summer. When there is wind and clear weather, laundry dries in no time. And since gas dryers are not know and electricity is soooo expensive, line drying is common. Wrinkling, I get that even when drying in a dryer so ironing is the same...

 

[lavamat_jon]

Enivironment:
If you have to iron much of your laundry with an electric iron when line-dried (esp. if spun and wrinkled to death) as opposed to drying it with gas (fluffy and much de-wrinkled), I'm not sure there is a huge energy savings.

I've actually found that hanging laundry to dry outside causes less creasing than drying clothes in the dryer. As long as all garments are shaken out, and hung correctly most if not all of the creases fall out of the laundry. Only way line dried laundry gets creases is if somebody tries to be helpful by collecting in the washing but just dumping the clean dry washing in a heap rather than folding them, or laying the load in a pile over the back of a chair. Even after a 1600rpm spin in the washing machine.

It is a no-brainer really that line drying is more environmentally friendlier than tumble drying. Plus you get that nicer, longer lasting "fresh" smell when laundry has been hung out.

Jon

 

[oxydolfan1]

It's a cultural thing, to a certain extent.

Many of our parents were from the old-school immigrant class, who struggled to get out of the tenements and now associate the old clotheslines, fire escapes, etc. with the bad old days.

Having a private home with a backyard and a clothes dryer meant a sort of respectability. Finally, they were SAFE...they could put things like hanging lines of drying laundry, and uncontrollable brats like me on the rooftop "fly fishing" for the neighbor's laundry (Sorry, Mom, lol!) into the memory hole forever...

Similarly, my mother noticeably cringes when she sees old-school radiators and tin ceilings painted in traditional silver! She's fully aware that they throw off more heat that way....doesn't matter. It still reminds her of the old days, and the tough times.

It may not seem rational, but they are our mothers, and mothers aren't required to be rational. (Or so mine keeps telling me, lol!)

 

[toggleswitch]

I'm not attacking anyone, just showing that there are di

~It is a no-brainer really that line drying is more environmentally friendlier than tumble drying.
No one said it is not. Like everything else in life, it has advantages and disavantages.

Well as far as more environmentally friendly goes, perhaps we should not excrete our (human) waste products anymore.So please, no energy fields, gasses, liquids or solids allowed out of anyone anymore. Agreed? *LOL*

Also "environmentally friendly" can be thought of as having ONE washer per family. Not 10 per person! *LOL*

BTW, Our dryers are larger. They iron for you and save on that chore, and the energy consumed doing it. Besides good smell or not, I don't care for sandpaper towels or other articles of clothing. (Fabric softener is NOT environmentally friendly, in the sense of unnecessary.)

Remember: Everyone believe their way is best, or they would change it!

Here's another culturalism "Time is money". I could be working an extra half hour a day making money rather than hanging out laundry. Or for the lazy, reclining for an extra half hour a day!!!! *LOL*