Westinghouse fires?

[paulg]

Only one dryer personally

My friend Jim's dryer caught fire. It was a center-dial Maytag, but I don't recall much else. This happened somewhere in the 1980's.
The family knew something was going wrong when the vent outside started blowing black smoke.
Fortunately, the damage was only to the dryer itself. Cause, unknown.

 

[classiccaprice]

The fellow clarified today. He was referring to the washer.

 

[bendixmark]

Slantfront Fires

I have seen at least two westinhouse slantfronts over the years at the Winchester town dump that had fires because something had hooked onto that chickenwire screen over the heater duct inside the drum and caught fire.I have seen numerous GE dryers that caught fire because something got caught in the holes on the rear of the drum.

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

reply 22

here in Australia most if not all modern dryers made by the Simpson electrolux company ( once was EMAIL), have a positive drum pressure and they have stuck with that design for the last 10 years

 

[vacerator]

Adam Aussie-vac; and slant front dryer fires

You have or had the Westingouse brand ther. What manufacturer made them?
The slant front's are old. If any of the wiring is old and brittle, it can short out, spark, ignite lint, insulation, or dust.

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

The Westinghouse dryer I own was manufactured by email

They made the Australian variant of the Westinghouse laundromat and clothes dryers, for the moment none of the wiring in my Westinghouse appears brittle for the time being