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Post# 250727 , Reply# 1   11/27/2007 at 23:18 (5,965 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago)   |   | |
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Every White Maytag dryer I've seen has this. The inside drum IS porcelain of some sort. It might be thin, but this staining is not anything coming off. We wash alot of jeans at home, and that's what did it i think. Even our OLD 1982 Maytag dryer had this staining, but it was very hard to see on the grey interior. You could only see it if the sun shined into the dryer. It can be cleaned off, but it takes so much elbow grease that it's not worth it. |
Post# 250741 , Reply# 2   11/28/2007 at 00:27 (5,965 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Maytag stopped using porcelain in dryer drums around 1975. The powder-coating in dryers made since is prone to staining and/or wear under heavy use. Indigo dyes are the worst offenders, I know the white painted steel increased visibility, but it sure looked rough after a while. Planned obsolescence most likely. My 4 year old Whirlpool Duet has minor blue staining which doesn't bother me at all, but if the drum were blue to begin with...
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Post# 250835 , Reply# 3   11/28/2007 at 12:03 (5,964 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago)   |   | |
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Post# 250933 , Reply# 5   11/28/2007 at 20:36 (5,964 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago)   |   | |
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Post# 250964 , Reply# 6   11/29/2007 at 01:09 (5,964 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Speed Queen used stainless steel in their dryer drums, mostly TOL models up until 1978, but they were about the only ones. Maytag did continue to use porcelain in the Porta-Dryers through their end of production in 1983. Powder-coated finishes on dryer drums seems to be fairly durable, except for the little more than annoying staining from fabric dyes. I have a client that had a ballpoint pen pop in their Whirlpool dryer - they scrubbed on it for days but the stains are permanent. It's actually kind of pretty when you open the door! Year ago, a neighbor had tar from her husband's work clothes melt all over the inside of her Halo-of Heat Maytag. She scraped it off the porcelain with a razor blade, bought a new lint-filter grille and the dryer was fine. |
Post# 251108 , Reply# 7   11/29/2007 at 17:02 (5,963 days old) by mrx ()   |   | |
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I wasn't assuming they were superior, just that they might be built to at least a similar standard at the same price points. |
Post# 251134 , Reply# 8   11/29/2007 at 20:09 (5,963 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California)   |   | |
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My Neptune 7500 gas dryer drum also got stained blue. I called warranty support and they said not to worry about it. LOL. I guess they had too many other problems with that line (although I've never had a mechanical problem with the dryer). Oddly, they wouldn't say what caused it, but I surmise it's the dye from some new blue jeans I had acquired and washed and dried. I tried to remove it with various cleaners, but had zero luck. It looks like the powder coat (which is a polyester) simply absorbed the dye into its matrix, so it's not something that can be cleaned off the surface. |
Post# 251153 , Reply# 9   11/29/2007 at 21:22 (5,963 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago)   |   | |
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"I wasn't assuming they were superior, just that they might be built to at least a similar standard at the same price points." LMAO! You crack me up. No, our stuff here is quite inferior, even at the higher comparable price points. I was joking and being sarcastic in my last post. Our U.S. stuff has really become garbage lately. Our stuff USED to be pretty damn indestructible...but, those were the old days. |
Post# 251212 , Reply# 10   11/30/2007 at 06:19 (5,963 days old) by christfr (st louis mo)   |   | |
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Post# 251569 , Reply# 12   12/2/2007 at 01:04 (5,961 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago)   |   | |
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