Thread Number: 47818
Maytag Performa/Magic chef dryer |
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Post# 694061 , Reply# 1   8/3/2013 at 21:11 (3,890 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)   |   | |
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Most Chef design dryers like that, when I see them, can/will lint up right where the filter housing meets the blower housing. Venting can have something to do with that build up, of course. If the element is getting hot enough to trigger the high limit above it, then you most likely have that pesky venting to deal with after you've eliminated the linted up filter housing or maybe a bad/stripped out blower wheel. The blower would be an easy one to peg if only for the absolute racket it makes...
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Post# 694137 , Reply# 5   8/4/2013 at 10:18 (3,889 days old) by norgechef (Saint George New Brunswick )   |   | |
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It looks pretty identical though. How do you know if a dryer has bad drum rollers? are they just noisy or what? I have never had that happen but id like to know what it sounds like if they ever wear out. |
Post# 694142 , Reply# 6   8/4/2013 at 10:51 (3,889 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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NC you diffidently should completely disassemble and clean this dryer before putting it back into service and as Andy suggested be sure the blower is still tightly attached to the motor shaft.
These dryers are SLOW drying by design, they crammed the heater in such a small area that is had to be 650 watts smaller than any other full sized US built dryer, this coupled with a poor airflow pattern through a very restricted lint filter housing made for a SLOW dryer under the best of conditions. And to make matters worse they had to use a VERY sensitive Hi Limit thermostat because the heater was directly under the dryers top so if your vent was not very short the HLT was going to be cycling off frequently further lengthening the already slow performance of these dryers.
Overall these dryers work OK for light use, short vent installations where they are coupled with a washer that has a spin speed of over 850 RPMs, when coupled with a regular TL washer the dryer runs so long to dry normal loads that it will have a much shorter life span. |