I remember I purchased a 1996 Maytag dryer, thinking it would be like the Halo of Heat my Mom had.

It was bigger, to be sure. But the lack of porcelein interior drum made the white paint sort of fade to green in spots, or perhaps it was worn off with zipper contact and that greenish tinge was the undercoat.

I just remember coming home for the Holidays and using my mom's dryer and it looked great inside and mine had all these greenish streaks on the white paint. That sucks.

Every White Maytag dryer I've seen has this.
The inside drum IS porcelain of some sort. It might be thin, but this staining is not anything coming off.
We wash alot of jeans at home, and that's what did it i think.

Even our OLD 1982 Maytag dryer had this staining, but it was very hard to see on the grey interior. You could only see it if the sun shined into the dryer.

It can be cleaned off, but it takes so much elbow grease that it's not worth it.

Maytag stopped using porcelain in dryer drums around 1975. The powder-coating in dryers made since is prone to staining and/or wear under heavy use. Indigo dyes are the worst offenders, I know the white painted steel increased visibility, but it sure looked rough after a while. Planned obsolescence most likely. My 4 year old Whirlpool Duet has minor blue staining which doesn't bother me at all, but if the drum were blue to begin with...

wow, it sort of looks and feels like porcelain.....
i stand corrected.

I'm always amazed by the fact that so many US dryers have painted or enamel drums. It's bound to eventually wear off.

We had a very old 1978 Hoover Tumble Dryer with a dark blue enamel drum, but that's the last one I've seen in our house. Any dryer I've used subsequently has a stainless steel drum.

Creda, Hoover, Miele (Parents)
and my current Electrolux 7kg dryer all have stainless steel drums.

It also seems to reduce static problems. The enamel surface rubbing on the clothes generates serious amounts of static, where as the stainless steel does not have that effect. Also, the drum's usually grounded too which helps a lot!

you're assuming Mr. Ireland that the U.S. has superior appliances to Europe....but you're wrong.
U.S. goods continue to always be sub standard to their European counterparts, be it appliances, cars or simple things like jam for your toast and tea.

Speed Queen used stainless steel in their dryer drums, mostly TOL models up until 1978, but they were about the only ones.

Maytag did continue to use porcelain in the Porta-Dryers through their end of production in 1983. Powder-coated finishes on dryer drums seems to be fairly durable, except for the little more than annoying staining from fabric dyes. I have a client that had a ballpoint pen pop in their Whirlpool dryer - they scrubbed on it for days but the stains are permanent. It's actually kind of pretty when you open the door! Year ago, a neighbor had tar from her husband's work clothes melt all over the inside of her Halo-of Heat Maytag. She scraped it off the porcelain with a razor blade, bought a new lint-filter grille and the dryer was fine.

I wasn't assuming they were superior, just that they might be built to at least a similar standard at the same price points.

My Neptune 7500 gas dryer drum also got stained blue. I called warranty support and they said not to worry about it. LOL. I guess they had too many other problems with that line (although I've never had a mechanical problem with the dryer). Oddly, they wouldn't say what caused it, but I surmise it's the dye from some new blue jeans I had acquired and washed and dried.

I tried to remove it with various cleaners, but had zero luck. It looks like the powder coat (which is a polyester) simply absorbed the dye into its matrix, so it's not something that can be cleaned off the surface.

"I wasn't assuming they were superior, just that they might be built to at least a similar standard at the same price points."

LMAO!
You crack me up.
No, our stuff here is quite inferior, even at the higher comparable price points.

I was joking and being sarcastic in my last post.
Our U.S. stuff has really become garbage lately.
Our stuff USED to be pretty damn indestructible...but, those were the old days.

ha ha my tag at home stains up too i use good old car wax in a can and elbow grease to clean it off. works for me

Mrx,

In my experience, some UK driers had Stainless Steel drums (the upmarket Zanussi TC480 Condenser), whereas the model my grandparents had, and the models my parents and I have, are zinc-alloy Zanussi TC470's (cheaper model).

Grandparents and parents both had the TC470 Mk1; I had the TC470 Mk2. They all had zinc drums, with plastic lifters.

I find that the zinc coating in my machine went rather dull-grey, toward the back of the drum. I don't know if the greyness was staining from dark items, or damp washing sitting in the machine overlong (I used to run the machine on the cheaper electricity, in the early morning).

cheaper electricity?
where can I get some?