I have seen some posts(not from here) about halo-from-hell, etc, and how hard they were to repair, and how slow they are to dry. I have a DG906 from 1971(from a good member in Michigan),that I put in new belts, pilot tube and pilot light assembly, but not bad maintence for a dryer that is 36 years old. The thing is a German Tank, no rust and a cabinet that you could stand on, and fix your basement pipes. The automatic dryer settings are easy,and take the guesswork out of drying, saving money, and blah, blah.
I have a 1995 Maytag dryer and a Kenmore dryer at my Dads place and nothing, I mean nothing compares to the lint free and wrinkle free drying that the Maytag halo-of-heat gives on T-shirts,knits and socks, despite the limited capacity compared to todays bohemoth dryer drums, with which I will point out, not an increase of lint filter design or exhaust capacity.
Halo-of-Heat was a really good design from the standpoint that the heat came from the front and it was vacuumed through the clothes to the back in a really big lint filter, in the drum, not on top of the drum. My black t shirts come out immacualte in the Halo-of-Heat, wheras on the Kenmore and Maytag 1995 dryer, they come out with lint.
While not the biggest capacity, the Halo-of-Heat did a good job of vaccuming the clothes due to its on the spot lint filter in the drum compared to the drums that are much larger without an increase of lint filter capacity or even exhaust size capacity. Seems to me that Maytag had the balance right of drum size and exhaust as well as heat entry.
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