Your Favorite Dryer

[partscounterman]

My mistake

I once made the mistake of buying a Maytag MDG9420aww because it was a "special edition" with the old time cursive "Maytag" logo on it. Thats the only reason I bought it. It did not have a way to shut the cycle signal off. Its not that it was so loud, just that it would catch you off guard if you were down the basement doing something else. More than once I darn near "pit my shants" when that buzzer went off

 

[appnut]

I don't have a favorite dryer. Is there something wrong with me? I mean, I've never erally be overly excited with any of the dryers in our family. Two Norges, 2 big-mouth GEs, a Kenmore, and now my Matag. None really light my jets.

I do like my Maytag Dependable care with the moisture monitor. It's fun to watch in the dark utility room.

My ideal dryer would be a 29" WP produced dryer with electronic sensor, infinite temps (inlcluding air on the temp knob); huge drum; and side-swing door.

 

[westytoploader]

Bob, were the Norge dryers you had the "lint-blower" design?

How was this design different from the other dryer designs around at the time?

 

[appnut]

Oh yeah, both the TimeLine & the 1964 were lint blowers!!

Norge dryers dried differently. Greg will have to comment on that.

 

[kenmore1978]

electronic drying sensors

"Thermostatic/mechanical auto dry- (where the timer only advancs when the heat is off). I hate the electronic ones. Other than newer Maytags I always had wet clothes at the end of the cycle, especially with partial loads!"

I find that the sensor on my 78 LK works perfectly for ALMOST everything. I've learned the exceptions over the years, which seem to consist of two circumstances.

Heavy cotton items like with thick seams and such have to be set one degree higher on the dryness control.

Synthetics like polyester, nylon, etc., need to be set to Maximum Dry.

Sorting of the clothes is critical, too. Light cottons like sheets, trousers, shirts, boxer shorts should be dried together.

Likewise heavy cottons like jeans, towels, heavy cotton underwear like T shirts and briefs.

And, of course, synthetics should go together.

Mix those itmes and it confuses the sensot and causes over or underdrying, depending on the mix of materials.

Follow those sorting and setting rules, and the automatic sensor will stoop at exactly the right time almost always.

Incidentally, the early KM electronic dryers had the sensors on the baffles like the Maytags

 

[the7]

kenmore1978,
Thanks for tips in using electronic sensor dryer.

 

[washoholic]

Steve here is a picture...

Kithchen Aid Dryer KGYW778B with a glass window. It has a push to start button that also turns to control the drum light (Off/On) in case you want the light on while you're drying.

 

[washoholic]

Model KGYW977B has Electronic Controls.

And by the way, my favorite feature is the hamper door. It seems like 1 item always falls on the floor every time I put clothes in the dryer.

 

[MrX]

That looks really like an oven! (at least from a european perspective anyway)

 

[partscounterman]

Oh, yes please!

I DO want the light on while drying!

Thank You!
David

 

[partscounterman]

Mdg9420Aww

You can maybe see how I got sucked in to buying this one

 

[rinso]

It's taken me at bit of time to think up my most favorite feature on a dryer. It could be the clothes damping disc that mom got with her 1963 Maytag. You'd fill it with water and it attached on the center back of the drum where the lint filter snapped in. Then there was the hair dryer attachment you could get for Norge/Wards dryers. I'm guessing that those who used it ended up with a hair full of lint, but I guess you could just pass it off as a bad streak job. Oh, I know, I loved the reverse tumbling that Gallery dryers had for a while. At first I thought it was a stupid idea, but it really did help un-ball large items like big comforters or bedspreads.

 

[SactoTeddyBear]

Re: Kitchen Aid Dryer's with Window:

Hi! Jeff, thank you for sharing the Pix's of the Kitchen Aid Dryer's with the Windows. What year are these Washers and Dryers, I've never seen them ever before, but I've seen the Windows in the Unitized Whirlpool Larger Capacity Top-Load Washer, with the Dryer Stacked on top, with the same Rectangle Window.

Peace and Happy Kitchen Aid Drying, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...

 

[toggleswitch]

LOL isn't a feature, in this case an electronic sensor, supposed to eliminate work and guess-work?

Lovely, but not for me!!!!!

 

[kenmore1978]

sorting

Nothing is perfect, and those exceptions are few. Actually, that's the way things should be sorted even going into the washer, IMHO

 

[shanonabc]

INTUITIVE DRYER

Definatly the intuitive dryer. it is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!

 

[DADoES]

For those not aware the "Intuitive Dryer" is F&P's SmartLoad version now marketed in NZ/Aus. The control panel is redesigned to match the IWL12 washer instead of the GWL11, and there are several additional pre-programmed cycles similar to the Lifecycles on the IWL12.

 

[DADoES]

DEIX1

Control Panel

 

[maytag85]

Old thread

My favorite dryer is the Maytag Halo Of Heat, quiet in operation, gentle (that’s if the venting isn’t restricted along with the lint screen), and fairly easy to service. Wish I had experience with the pre HOH dryers but sadly don’t since I haven’t had any of those style of Maytag dryers come through but heard they dry fairly quickly, though.

 

[gelaundry4ever]

favorite dryer

Mine would be a GE that matches the washer. I always preferred matching washers and dryers.