Jamie, first of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.  It's hard to believe I met you almost 9 years ago this summer!!  2nd of all, I noticed the dryer windows (with the light on showing it's square dimension) reminded me very much of the Kelvinator/AB-O-Matic dryer which Lighted Controls has in pink, the set.  That dryer window was pretty much the same shape as what is viewable on this dryer.  3rd did you notice in the manual you are able to adjust degree of dryness--increase it by 30% (I think last time I looked), which may rseult in the dryenss level you are expecting from a "normal" dryness setting.  4th  That is a very beautiful dryer.  Bob

Happy Birthday!

That is a sexy dryer - love the black.  I was contemplating that dryer, gas in the silver color that was on clearance at the Mart a couple of weeks ago.  I like the 27" WP platform, it really is a great dryer. 

Enjoy your new toy!

and congrats on your new purchase. Is that charcoal, graphite or black? Love the window! It would contrast nicely with my Neptune...hmmmm

Oh! Remember you don't want things too dry as they won't go well through the Ironrite in your future!

makes it look like one of Robert's vintage TV's!

Happy New Dryer day!!!

I too wondered why Whirlpool/Maytag doesn't use a stainless drum in their dryers.  Bummer.

And happy 21TH BIRTHDAY I was just talking to a friend in Florida tonight who sells appliances at Lowes, and he asked what I thought of these large WP built dryers and I told him that they are probably the best dryers ever built for home use. Is yours gas or electric? A year and a half ago I gave my mother the WP version of the steam dryer in gas and she just loves it.

I think it is generally a waste of money and precious resources to make dryer drums out of SS as the power coated drum will last at least 50 years, I think it is better to put the money into thing like the four roller drum support for the drum unlike the junk that GE and Frigidare build.

Me don't understand.  Is nickle in short supply?  Will to world soon run out of Stainless Steel?  Does anyone still have a Delorean they can recycle?

I just says'n that at $1,000 for a dryer, I would like mine to sparkle inside, that's all.

Beautiful dryer, Jamie! You are so going to love the steam refresh feature for getting wrinkles out of pants and shirts that haven't been worn enough to warrant washing.  If you can add steam to a regular cycle, you'll find loads of shirts emerge less wrinkled, too.  

Yes nickel is in short supply and a large % of it comes from China. So often when it is used for things like dryer drums it ends up being so thin that it is noisy and gets little dents in it easily or gets bent out of round. On the Samesung dryers it is so thin I have seen several that crack and split where the drum rides over the support rollers. And Samsung won't cover the part after the first year, they want over $300.00 for it so every dryer I have seen do this has ended up getting crushed for scrap.

If you do want a real SS washer and dryer SQ has an all SS pair that is made of a really good grade and thickness of SS including the dryer drum and bulkhead. They don't work a bit better and cost another 1,500.00 extra for the pair, but they are cool looking if you don't mind sending all the cash to China.

They prefer I use my debit card.  Or American Express.

Besides, I already own Maytags.

SQ I thought was built right here in the USA??? Whats the skinny??

For the nickel to make the SS.

China has made significant increases in internal production levels in the last three years and is snapping up mineral mining rights all over the world. They control approx. 97% of the rare-earths mineral deposits (you can't build a computer without the Chinese) and they have more coal than you can shake as stick at.  China is the Saudi Arabia of minerals and is saving up the S&H Green Stamps we're selling them to buy Africa. 

I know a couple of people that have the Samsung dryers mentioned before, even at only a year old I can hear the lack of solid construction and cheap materials.  I bought a two year old Whirlpool Gold 27" gas dryer with the steel, powder-coated drum  and the noise level is half that of the Samsung.  LG isn't much better.  Time will tell, but if you're looking for work ...

Are not Samsung, and LG Korean companies?

Gansky, nickel isn't one of the rare earths, and the while the Chinese do currently produce 97% of rare earths, by dint of their willingness to ignore environmental matters, they only control about 37% of the world's rare earth deposits. There's a big opportunity for other countries to ramp up rare earth production if it is in their interest; Molycorp is doing that in California now. As with so many other things the Chinese cost advantage is a problem.

I agree with your concerns about Africa. One can see parallels  with the Japanese"Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" of the 1930s.

   I know nickel isn't a rare-earth, just trying to illustrate the point about China's growing dominance in the mineral markets. It's interesting that they are able to control so much of the market and are buying into mines all over the world and their influence even in South America is ballooning too. It's not unusual for industrialized countries to seek out raw materials all over the world but backed by our IOU's, their money has brought about their transformation so fast. Cheap, inexhaustible labor makes their cost advantage almost unbeatable. China and India will be fascinating to watch in the coming decades if they can sustain the levels of growth they must to maintain their new standard of living. I read a brief article the other day that China's economy is more of a "ponzi scheme" than meets the eye, an interesting theory, we'll see.

Greg I think you told me workers are demanding larger wages. And so the government is just closing the costal factories and moving them inland to the farming districts where people will work for less. Foul the nest and move west as my Dad used to say.

I hope China does not implode back to poverty, I hope its people benefit for the long haul from the new transitions. They need a lesson in European history, Rome wasn't built in a Day.

Also the central government has never valued the average everyday Chinese in the street. My perception is our government used to do that but doesn't now however but I could have blinders on.

Li Na stated on NPR yesterday she fought the government for better wage relations, they were taking 95% of (her) women's tennis earnings and she pushed them down to  12% and now that she has won the French Open she has real bargaining power and she hopes other young girls will take up the racket too.

Education Education Education, can't say or do that enough!

Hadn't heard that about Li Na. Funny.

Demographically, the Chinese are facing a severe problem due to the longstanding one-child policy. Like the Japanese, they're facing a future in which suddenly everyone is old and there may not be enough young people to maintain the economy's momentum. We shall see.

are also facing problems due to the one child policy where they selectively aborted the females so they would have a male aire.  Unfortunately when they did that they eliminated the females for the males to carry on the family name with.

Often the great solutions are shortsighted.