Maytag DE-50 Teardown

I have FINALLY started on the DE-50 seriously tonight. Got some touch-up paint and some white spray paint to fix the top of the dryer. After cleaning thoroughly the paint wasn't all that bad, just some scratches. I'm thinking the A-50 washer could survive with the touchup, but the DE-50 dryer top is toast, I'm still not sure what happened to that poor thing. One of the things I'm noticing is that these machines have been used VERY LITTLE from the looks of their mechanics. The washer is a 1980 model and the dryer is a 1981, they were originally installed on a boat and were advertised for sometime on CL as "Marine Washers" and I had to literally hunt them down, they were only about 20 minutes from me, but it took me about 2 months to secure them. I think they suffered more damage in the guys van than in the boat. Anywho, I opened up the dryer for a closer inspection, and I was surprised at what I found. Below is a pic of the internals and they're spotless. The felt bearing on the back was the only part that looked questionable but I'm starting to think it might be made like it is (see 2nd message down) as it is very clean and unscathed. The dryer is near silent when running. Also did a full load from the A50 in about 50 minutes bone dry. Nice. I thought I'd share some pics, I've been making a mess here, I'm extremely bored tonight :P

-Tim

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Post# 373700 8/21/2009 at 22:08 (5,359 days old) by macboy91si (Frankfort, KY)
Checkrate/Likes I have FINALLY started on the DE-50 seriously tonight. Got some touch-up paint and some white spray paint to fix the top of the dryer. After cleaning thoroughly the paint wasn't all that bad, just some scratches. I'm thinking the A-50 washer could survive with the touchup, but the DE-50 dryer top is toast, I'm still not sure what happened to that poor thing. One of the things I'm noticing is that these machines have been used VERY LITTLE from the looks of their mechanics. The washer is a 1980 model and the dryer is a 1981, they were originally installed on a boat and were advertised for sometime on CL as "Marine Washers" and I had to literally hunt them down, they were only about 20 minutes from me, but it took me about 2 months to secure them. I think they suffered more damage in the guys van than in the boat. Anywho, I opened up the dryer for a closer inspection, and I was surprised at what I found. Below is a pic of the internals and they're spotless. The felt bearing on the back was the only part that looked questionable but I'm starting to think it might be made like it is (see 2nd message down) as it is very clean and unscathed. The dryer is near silent when running. Also did a full load from the A50 in about 50 minutes bone dry. Nice. I thought I'd share some pics, I've been making a mess here, I'm extremely bored tonight :P -Tim CLICK HERE TO GO TO macboy91si's LINK

Post# 373702 , Reply# 1 8/21/2009 at 22:11 (5,359 days old) by macboy91si (Frankfort, KY)
Checkrate/Likes *Rear Felt Support/Bearing* The black area seems to be cut this way, the felt in the middle didn't look worn off, but like it was never there, just the plastic. Anyone know? It's very quiet still. The link is to a set of photos. CLICK HERE TO GO TO macboy91si's LINK

Post# 373765 , Reply# 2 8/22/2009 at 08:58 (5,358 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)
Checkrate/Likes *DE-50 BEARINGS* Your dryers bearings are in original new condition the black strip is teflon and it rides on the porcelain drum. The DE50 was the first MT dryer to use a polyvee belt around the drum to drive it at sales meetings they would tell that such a drive system would not work well on a full size dryer. They were still making the halo of heat system thats way when they finely went to a pollyvee belt drive on the new dryer they ran the belt around the drum and idler backwards. It took MT 28 years to change to the system WP started using in 1961 when they came out the 27" dryer.

Post# 373787 , Reply# 3 8/22/2009 at 11:10 (5,358 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)
Checkrate/Likes *That's the way it should be...* Very nice shape. There is a little half panel on the front that is removable so you can easily thread the belt around the motor pulley and idler with it standing upright. Here's a picture I posted not too long ago when I went thru mine. You can see the front bearing/seal in it. They are VERY quiet running dryers and do a good job for a 110v. dryer. RCD