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Post# 104534 , Reply# 1 1/18/2006 at 21:54 (6,665 days old) by pulsator  (Saint Joseph, MI) |
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Post# 104569 , Reply# 3 1/19/2006 at 00:29 (6,665 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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I've also not had a gas dryer, but it is my understand that the combustion byproducts go through the drum and clothes along the regular airflow path, so it stands to reason that a misadjusted burner could cause some trouble. Interesting side-note: The Whirlpool dealer for whom I worked during high school refused to sell any gas dryers. He said they're too hard on clothes. | ||
| Post# 104572 , Reply# 4 1/19/2006 at 00:38 (6,665 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio) | ||
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I've only used/owned gas dryers, and I have never experienced such a phenomenon as you describe. I think wear on clothes is more a temperature related issue than a fuel one. After all, coin laundry dryers are all gas.--at least the ones I know. Lawrence/Maytagbear | ||
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Post# 104596 , Reply# 5 1/19/2006 at 07:06 (6,665 days old) by parunner58 (Davenport, FL) |
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Cybrvanr, I can remember appliances all the way back to when I was 2 and I am now 47. My mom and grandmother always had gas cooking, drying and heat and water heating. and I now have my second gas dryer since purcahsing my house in 1984. None of us has ever had that kind of exsperience with soot apearing on clothes. But I am of the mindset to never say never. Anything can happen.( remember 9/11 ) The way all of the dryers I have looked at underneath are made, as DADoES said, if soot were to happen, it would get sucked into the drum, just hope it would never happen. I do not have any experience with adjusting gas appliances so I do not touch them. My parents had a gas water heater burner go bad and soot accumulated on the front area where the controls were, they wound up replacing it. The gas compnay said it was old and could not get the burner adjusted since the parts were all worn. The soot was a greasy mess to clean off. MikeO | ||
| Post# 104702 , Reply# 8 1/19/2006 at 20:39 (6,664 days old) by tbolt25 (Kentucky) | ||
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I'm scared to death of gas operated appliances! I personally am scared to death of gas operated appliances, as the gas can EXPLODE, and blow the whole house sky high to smithereens. | ||
| Post# 104722 , Reply# 9 1/19/2006 at 21:40 (6,664 days old) by andrewinorlando () | ||
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I've had gas dryers forever, and never experienced a soot problem, though the gas burners do have an air mixture adjustment, which may be off on yours, causing soot. | ||
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Post# 104780 , Reply# 10 1/20/2006 at 10:18 (6,663 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Interesting side-note: The Whirlpool dealer for whom I worked during high school refused to sell any gas dryers. He said they're too hard on clothes. IMHO the burning of gas gives off water vapor. This makes the dryer more gentle, esp at the end when the clothes are bone dry. Cleanliness: Electric dryers carbbonize lint and dust and can then put it on clothes. Gas dryers would burn such things complelety. However as described avbove gas is sirtier than electric in general and can cause soot when combusiton is not complete. Natual gas should burn entirely blue. Propane (bottled) gas has tell-tale yellow orange tips(CARBON!)no matter what. Here is a GREAT way to get soot: Propane system with a natural-gas tuned dryer. The flames will be HUGE and burn orange. SOOT galore.It happened to my sister. Sears REALLY goofed up. (she deifnitley ordered it READY for propane.) I saw LIGHT coming out of the back and bottom of the machine. Then when listening to the machine,the flame ran for two minutes and cut-off. I knew right away what the deal was. She had to wash the drum our completeley of all the soot once the machine was adjusted. Good things the flames did not enter the drum! | ||
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Post# 104781 , Reply# 11 1/20/2006 at 10:25 (6,663 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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stoichiometric
LOVE that word. Big fancy way to say *in proper proportion.* An automobile's carbeurator has the function of stoichiometrically mixing air to gasoline in a precise 14.1 to 1 ratio for proper combustion. The OI in Greek is a dipthong (not a thong, a dipthong) much like the EI in English. Makes the word IMPOSSIBLE to say in English. [usually the first letter does the talking and the second one does the walking- i.e. elongates the sound of the first vowel.] CLICK HERE TO GO TO toggleswitch's LINK | ||
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Post# 104782 , Reply# 12 1/20/2006 at 10:27 (6,663 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Dipthongs | ||
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Post# 104784 , Reply# 13 1/20/2006 at 10:35 (6,663 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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One of the functions of a Venturi-jet is to pre-mix air (for the oxygen) into natural gas in the proper proportion. Secondary combusiton air is needed at the point of combustion. Older gas stove top-burners got some air frrom BELOW the cooking sruface. New sealed top-burners tend to have very TALL grates to allow secondary combusiton air to get to the flame. The venturi preceeds the orifice in the gas flow. Just past this is the (usually) adjstable air-flow shutter (and y'all thought Queen Cloaca was a totally shallow B--ch.) | ||
| Post# 104786 , Reply# 14 1/20/2006 at 10:40 (6,663 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio) | ||
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Not totally, your Majesty! Love and laughter. Lawrence/Maytagbear | ||
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Post# 104787 , Reply# 15 1/20/2006 at 10:40 (6,663 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Said: I'm scared to death of gas-operated appliances!
Said: I'm scared to death of gas-operated appliances! I personally am scared to death of gas operated appliances, as the gas can EXPLODE, and blow the whole house sky high to smithereens. For gasses to burn they must be perfectly stoichiometric (proprotioned) to the air. Too much or too little and NOTHING. Just as with electricity (which is friend OR foe) there are internalized rules of safety for natural gas that become second-nature. Just apply good sense! Pulling the gas stove out from against the wall every 6 months to clean behind it puts a HUGE stress on the flexible connector. Not a bright idea! But we lived. LOL | ||
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Post# 104788 , Reply# 16 1/20/2006 at 10:42 (6,663 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 104790 , Reply# 17 1/20/2006 at 10:54 (6,663 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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cleaning behind the gas stove, constantly | ||
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Post# 104799 , Reply# 19 1/20/2006 at 12:16 (6,663 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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TO TTETTPOMENON FUGEIN ADUNATON- (My grandpa would be thrilled that I remember his words.) Fate can not be avoided/escaped. When your time is up, your time is up. The universe will find a way to getcha even if you don't have gas appliances. A person can drown with two tablesponns of water- I KID YOU NOT. Try not to worry. It solves nothing. | ||
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