Thread Number: 50053
FIRE...But Who Knows When or Where |
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Post# 722739 , Reply# 1   12/23/2013 at 16:06 (3,774 days old) by stchuck (Winfield, il.)   |   | |
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Post# 722782 , Reply# 2   12/23/2013 at 19:30 (3,774 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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This is very repairable, this was either caused by a bad wire on the thermostat or a metal foreign object fell through the drum seal above and caused a short. MT later added a metal shield above the thermostats to stop these shorts and resulting fires from happening so often.
If this is a gas dryer you may want to check the circuit breaker for the outlet where the dryer is plugged in, as this is a lot of damage from a short, usually we only see this type of damage on electric dryers as they are on 30 Amp breakers where you can get lots of fire works when something goes wrong. Ideally a vintage [ or really any ] gas dryer should only be on a 15 Amp circuit for greatest safety. This dryer like most dryers of this vintage were a much greater fire hazard than dryers in the 80s where manufactures started adding thermal safety fuses. These early MT SOH dryers were more dangerous than most other dryer of this time period because of all the plastic parts used, and worst of all the blower wheel loved to strip loose from the motors shaft leaving you with a dryer running with a gas flame or a 5400 watt heater heating away with no air movement, never a good situation. |
Post# 722839 , Reply# 3   12/24/2013 at 03:43 (3,774 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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