Halo of heat, Maytag, gas dryers
Used a lower 18,000 BTU burner as did some other poorly designed gas dryers.
I’m sure Maytag was being cautious because of the placement of the flame so close to and under the flammable seal and because of the general poor blower performance on halo of heat dryers. The belt tension was very light for the primary belt on these dryers so there is a good deal of Slipyj, especially with a heavy load on the primary belt at the motor, pulley and some of the blower pulley as well. The blower itself was not nearly as robust as the blower and Kenmore and whirlpool dryers either GE for that matter
Of all the popular dryers the halo if he gas dryer was certainly the slowest one at trying to load of clothing. It was the only gas dryer I ever saw when consumer reports test that took longer than the electric version ,
The electric halo of heat dryers also were lower wattage that almost any other dryer it only 4800 W you had whirlpool in Kenmore dryers at 5600 W for example.
Between the lower capacity and slower performance, you can see why Maytag dryers were not favorite for large families. Lots of laundry needed to be done on a weekly basis.
One of our neighbors that had nine children had a Maytag halo if he gas dryer that thing ran all the time, but she still hung a lot of laundry on the line
When we finally replaced it with a whirlpool gas dryer in the early 80s, she proclaimed that she never knew a dryer could be so fast and keep up with the washing machine.