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Post# 357572   6/16/2009 at 19:14 (5,398 days old) by gotwasher (minnesota)   |   | |
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Hi all i see we always have a debate worst washer but how about dryers just for once I understand this is a washer site no offense to anyone but i think we change it and see so lets go. thank you john |
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Post# 357573 , Reply# 1   6/16/2009 at 19:15 (5,398 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 357592 , Reply# 2   6/16/2009 at 20:38 (5,398 days old) by passatdoc (Orange County, California)   |   | |
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I had a White Westinghouse washer from 1988 (bought at Price Club---predecessor of Costco) and it barely lasted seven years, and then only with three or four repairs. Piece of crap. |
Post# 357640 , Reply# 4   6/16/2009 at 23:03 (5,398 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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...but that huge Norge blower and the way the air entered the drum made for super-fast drying at fairly low temperatures. The opposite was true for the Frigidaire Filtrators which dried with such high heat that stuff that went in white came out pastel yellow. And that awful slide out Filtrator unit was almost impossible to clean. The Norge's at-the-floor lint screen was no picnic either. Our Norge owner's manual showed how to use the dryer to cool pies (really) using the "Stop n' Dry" feature and the drying rack. I'm sure any pie would have come out looking like coconut. I would love to tell the group about my Mom's Apex gas dryer and how it operated, but I'm not sure anyone is interested. |
Post# 357646 , Reply# 5   6/16/2009 at 23:12 (5,398 days old) by golittlesport (California)   |   | |
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Post# 357651 , Reply# 6   6/16/2009 at 23:32 (5,398 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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Post# 357656 , Reply# 7   6/16/2009 at 23:56 (5,398 days old) by rinso (Meridian Idaho)   |   | |
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Joe, you are right that this is most probably in the wrong index. I doubt if anyone on here would slap you for mentioning it. |
Post# 357679 , Reply# 8   6/17/2009 at 06:55 (5,397 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 357757 , Reply# 9   6/17/2009 at 13:26 (5,397 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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Post# 357761 , Reply# 10   6/17/2009 at 13:33 (5,397 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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Post# 357798 , Reply# 11   6/17/2009 at 18:34 (5,397 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Post# 358044 , Reply# 15   6/18/2009 at 19:07 (5,396 days old) by gotwasher (minnesota)   |   | |
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good job lets keep it going |
Post# 358051 , Reply# 16   6/18/2009 at 20:00 (5,396 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Post# 358161 , Reply# 17   6/19/2009 at 09:00 (5,395 days old) by maytagwc401 ()   |   | |
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that's the type I am talking about. Ours was harvest Gold. So ugly to look at. I can't stand them. |
Post# 358162 , Reply# 18   6/19/2009 at 09:04 (5,395 days old) by maytagwc401 ()   |   | |
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here it is! Different controls, but same type of machine |
Post# 358163 , Reply# 19   6/19/2009 at 09:05 (5,395 days old) by maytagwc401 ()   |   | |
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or like this one. |
Post# 358219 , Reply# 20   6/19/2009 at 16:24 (5,395 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Post# 358222 , Reply# 21   6/19/2009 at 16:31 (5,395 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 358242 , Reply# 22   6/19/2009 at 17:41 (5,395 days old) by maytagwc401 ()   |   | |
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My Whirlpool is ten years old, and still white inside. A few blueish marks near the door, but otherwise very white everywhere else. |
Post# 358269 , Reply# 23   6/19/2009 at 20:18 (5,395 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)   |   | |
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Post# 358343 , Reply# 24   6/20/2009 at 09:12 (5,394 days old) by robliverpool (england Liverpool)   |   | |
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Well there has to be two for me, first one being an old hotpoint from late 80's it took hours to dry the clothes and the drum turned anti clockwise and everything used to roll itself into a ball and every 5 mins you would have to take the clothes out and untangle them second one would be a whirlpool we got in 2001 with the sqaure door, after 9 weeks it went on fire and burnt all the clothes. currently have a hotpoint (ariston) dryer thats is 15 months old and the element blew the othew week so now its only blowing out warm air instead of hot, goodness know what i am going to get next, anyone reccomend anything? |
Post# 358391 , Reply# 25   6/20/2009 at 15:47 (5,394 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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Even though norge is my favorite washer,the dryers were dreadful,,I used a 68 model for a year or so ,gansky called them flockomatics,and boy was he right,it was slow and blew lint all over the house. |
Post# 358566 , Reply# 26   6/21/2009 at 18:15 (5,393 days old) by aldspinboy (Philadelphia, Pa)   |   | |
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Hey Guy's I would have to say .... Those FRIGIDAIRE Stack units, they are soooooo slow and the lint stays on the dryer door, and it is wet, and loud with jeans or a lot of button item's. I don't know how people do multiple loads in them, a jean load 4 of them took 1:20 min eeew....lol . Scott I agree with those older G.E. - Hotpoint speckle basket dryers,they are very slow I used them so much in my mothers apartment, I had to put more coins in ...And that was after 60 min already ooooooh i had my share of those units. Darren k |
Post# 358638 , Reply# 27   6/21/2009 at 22:01 (5,393 days old) by moonvalleycacti ()   |   | |
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Bosch... Awful POS..Died at 5 months |
Post# 358644 , Reply# 28   6/21/2009 at 22:43 (5,393 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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moonvalleycacti......Bad Bosch? OH NO! I guess there can be a bad 1 of anything. Im currently drying with a bosch dryer and been quite happy with it. May i ask what happen to it? aldspinboy......Those dryers were hiddious! The ones with the "D" shaped inner door were not SOOO bad, but still not as fast as other brands. The only good thing about those dryers is they were quiet. Which as long as they took to dry quiet was a good thing. |
Post# 820502 , Reply# 34   4/22/2015 at 22:38 (3,262 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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I remember seeing a Gibson Vacu-Dry from the 1980's-1990's era at my local Salvation Army store...
Just some ordinary WCI-built piece o' crap that would have easily been picked over by a more desirable Kenmore, Whirlpool or GE that was also there among the five dryers, to every washer that seemed to be present...
-- Dave |
Post# 820695 , Reply# 37   4/23/2015 at 22:34 (3,261 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY)   |   | |
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I've only ever experienced GE or Whirlpool/Kenmore dryers. Only ONE of them was a GE, the rest were WP/Kenmore. I remember the first time I used the GE dryer I was horrified that the lint screen was in the DOOR, and not on the top, like the WP/Kenmore's....I HATED that! The GE dryer was OK, but the WP/Kenmores were the best..but I do HATE that too Malcolm, the white interior getting blue stained, although my Duet dryer is white, and it's still pretty white amazingly. The dryer before that was stained blue from jeans. Not sure why this one hasn't.
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Post# 820778 , Reply# 38   4/24/2015 at 15:50 (3,260 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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I've had bad experiences with 2 GE family dryers. One was an older model, complete with light up console. I was so excited, because that dryer was the first time that I'd ever use a non-WP type dryer.
I created a thread about that dryer under my original AW.org screen name: www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T... Unfortunately, it was less exciting in use...it seemed to take forever to dry. Although there may have been an issue with the vent system, or something not working right in the dryer itself past design flaws. Fortunately, I dried very little with a dryer then--I air dried almost everything during the time I was living with that dryer. More recently, a Hotpoint like the one pictured above in #19 was supplied in my current laundry room, and words cannot express how much I hated that dryer. It took forever to dry anything. In this case, I know it was not a vent issue--the vent here is very short, and I know it was straight and clean. It was a huge pain, because there are times when one wants to get a load of laundry done fast for whatever reasons. Also I don't think the dryer got hot enough to have any real sanitizing effect, which I like for some loads (e.g. hand towels). One fine day recently, that dryer went to the Great Big Laundry Room in the Sky. It was a huge pain having no dryer, but in a way that dryer's demise was the best thing that could have happened: it encouraged my landlady to put a WP in that actually works. Other things I disliked about the HP: as stated above, the drum is a rather dark, dreary place. I can't remember if the one I used had an option for a light or not, but there was no working light. The other thing I realize I don't like is how the door hinges to the side. I never really realized this before, but the approach of having the door hinge at the bottom, so that it opens to create shelf, is very handy. |
Post# 821168 , Reply# 40   4/27/2015 at 14:13 (3,257 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 821183 , Reply# 41   4/27/2015 at 17:20 (3,257 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Post# 821184 , Reply# 42   4/27/2015 at 17:37 (3,257 days old) by kb0nes (Burnsville, MN)   |   | |
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Post# 821217 , Reply# 43   4/27/2015 at 21:26 (3,257 days old) by fan-of-fans (Florida)   |   | |
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My parent's Kenmore dryer has the blue tint also. I don't recall their old wheat colored Kenmore doing that, it was more of a beige colored drum though. |
Post# 829129 , Reply# 44   6/23/2015 at 03:20 (3,201 days old) by Chetlaham (United States)   |   | |
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Post# 829347 , Reply# 47   6/24/2015 at 11:10 (3,199 days old) by programcomputer (Ann Arbor Michigan, USA)   |   | |
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In all that I've had I'll tell you my favorite, and my one that I hated most.
My first dryer was a 1964 Kenmore 800. Which paired with my 1965 Kenmore 800 washer. It worked well enough, but I found an even more mint dryer.. I "HAD" to have. 2. 1966 Lady Kenmore. That one ended up having fairly weird sensor issues where the metal fingers rode the drum...and.. I got tried of it taking forever to dry.. 3. It was replaced by a Maytag 806 set with an electric dryer. It was a halo of heat model, and I hated the rear filter. Otherwise MEH.... 4. Shortly later, in the breezeway of the house I had, my partner then and I put in a 1-18 set in white. All I can remember about that set, and the dryer was that I liked it better and it seemed to dry a shade faster than the Maytag. I left them and the Maytag's when we broke up, or maybe The Maytags were already gone at that point... But I took the White-Westinghouse Spacemates when I left... the less I remember of those years, the better....LOL 5. I ended up somewhere in that "time frame" with the aforementioned Westinghouse Stackable set that we kept in the upstairs garage apartment. I loved that set. Like really loved it. In fact that set stayed with me a LONG time till 2005. I never had any issues whatsoever with that dryer. It was an early WCI dryer, but It never gave me a lick of issue, and was pretty reliable...The washer however, was a floor wetter...and eventually it became too much to deal with. Sooo.... 6. When I moved to Ann Arbor in the fall of 2005, I traded in the Westhinghouses, and got a reconditioned 2003 Frigidaire (rear-controls)set with that reversa-tumble dryer. That was by far the dryer I hated MOST. I had that apart so many times It's not even funny. Belts, and the rollers, and the FAN...Jesus I hated that MFin thing.... 7. In 2011, I got a reconditioned Kitchen Aid All Pushbutton set that had a gas dryer. IT was an AWESOME dryer. In fact looking back I really regret getting rid of it. BUT I cant handle un-matched sets. It's my parrallel line disorder... It was probably the best one out of the bunch. 8. My second to current dryer was a gas Maytag DG408? That was the slowest EVER. I got totally sick of that after a month, and found a matching electric dryer to the washer... 9. Now- an electric Maytag DE406-8?, a side knob early 80's model is just as good as my Kitchen aid was...but not quite... and the electric just whizzes along and no issues. Soo... Worst- WCI Fridigidaire Revsa-Tumble POS, Second Place-Maytag Gas dryer. Fair- Maytag Electric, Halo of Heat, Second Place WCI Westhinghouse Best- KitchenAid Gas Pushbutton Electronic dryer.... Chad |
Post# 829456 , Reply# 48   6/25/2015 at 00:13 (3,199 days old) by Kitty ()   |   | |
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I DIDNT!!!!!!! *LOL* |