Thread Number: 1745
Portable gas dryers taken to the next level? |
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Post# 62448   4/7/2005 at 09:29 (6,951 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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I remember someone posting a thread regarding apartment-sized washers and dryers, and the possibility of running a little gas dryer off a propane tank. The idea sounds marvelous--and I was thinking about it because, as my collection grows, I'd like to acquire a gas dryer (perhaps the 1971 Kenmore 70 lurking around my grandparents' place) to supplement things. Right now, you can do wash for days, but there's only one dryer, and two loads need three hours to do from start to finish. Another dryer would help immensely. Can you connect a propane tank to a regular gas dryer? Do you need special equipment, such as a special regulator or such (I know they have one kind that comes with your average-issue barbecue grill...would that work on a dryer)? The reason I ask is that I've lived in places where the piped-in gas is LP, and others where it's methane. I'm guessing the dryer's methods for interfacing with both would have to be different, e.g., using different regulators. Does the ignition and burner equipment inside the dryer remain the same? And has anyone tried this for a while? I wonder how much life you get out of a propane tank. I think it'd be a neat idea, but not if you have to swap tanks every dryer-load. Thanks in advance to all of you for your help and information! :-D |
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Post# 62512 , Reply# 2   4/7/2005 at 20:18 (6,951 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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