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Post# 783818   9/15/2014 at 07:14 (3,482 days old) by dogstarb52 (Athens, GA 30601 usa)        

I have an old Maytag Dryer...age, please?
I am not sure if it is worth fixing yet.
The motor buzzes only. It might be done.
I have to excavate to investigate...

Maytag Model DE 306

Serial#672736 BW

70's ?

Thanks, p





Post# 783849 , Reply# 1   9/15/2014 at 11:30 (3,482 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)        

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Hi Paul, 

 

If I'm reading this correctly, it looks like it was built in Oct 1966.

 

Kevin


Post# 783904 , Reply# 2   9/15/2014 at 17:40 (3,482 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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Might just be stuck from sitting.

 

BTW, I have a DE306 dryer I picked up last week, there is a date stamped on the backside  of the console face, that says XX/XX/1966 I believe. But it has a plastic sunburst  timer knob on it, not the small chrome one that I would expect.

 Maybe replaced at some time in it's life?


Post# 783921 , Reply# 3   9/15/2014 at 19:21 (3,482 days old) by dogstarb52 (Athens, GA 30601 usa)        
Maytag DE 306, Serial#672736 BW ?

I have a 1974 Maytag Washer A107.
The dryer has the same console design, but with only the timer dial and button.
Were not the 60's models' top consoles different ?
I found no information, stamping, plate other than the one inside the door, upper left corner?

Thanks, Paul


Post# 784684 , Reply# 4   9/20/2014 at 04:52 (3,477 days old) by dogstarb52 (Athens, GA 30601 usa)        
Oct 1966 DE306, Aaaaaarrrrgh, slight setback

I uncovered dryer enough to look at it from the rear. It was coated with lint everywhere. I cleaned it manually, removed the frayed belts and managed to activate the motor, but it would shut itself off. I thought I would spray some brake parts cleaner in the motor without thinking--it was hot. I sprayed too much and it exploded into a fireball. I had unplugged it and the motor was not running, but I suffered severe second degree burns on my right lower leg, foot, arm, and milder ones on my face. My careless stupidity sent me to the ER. Luckily it burned the aerosol VOC and melted wire insulation at the motor only. It blew the door off w/o any damage. I am an id10t. I am paying dearly in pain. I went back to it a couple days later, cleaned and separated the bare wires, plugged it in and tried it. No luck was awarded, big surprise. I am not dead yet. Ol'Maytag '66 is a bigger question mark?
Acetone, toluene and CO2 under pressure, hard lesson learned, bloody mess. No shrapnel, just fireball 500. I am a jackass, rather had my ass kicked--Post Traumatic Stress Dryer. If only I had been wearing my Nomax coveralls, anything more than T-shirt, shorts and shower slides...?!?


Post# 784687 , Reply# 5   9/20/2014 at 05:39 (3,477 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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Tough way to learn, hope you're feeling better.


Post# 786173 , Reply# 6   9/29/2014 at 00:57 (3,469 days old) by dogstarb52 (Athens, GA 30601 usa)        
Maytag DE 306, Serial#672736 BW, update

No progress except healing of burns to person...I was wrong about ignition of VOC solvent vapors--it was actually the pilot light of the gas water heater, close by the dryer and the reason for the delayed effect and the fireball from too much flammable vapor, but I am still an idiot, a very lucky idiot and jackass.
Time marches on...



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