As someone who worked on many Norge dryers, both gas & electric including the model pictured, I'd be equally concerned about lint. There's plenty of places a small amount of lint could accumulate in the air flow and work it's way loose while a lady was drying her coiffure. How embarrassing to have the girls at the bridge club whisper behind her back "hasn't she been told about Head & Shoulders in the gallon family size?"

These were excellent dryers. Not only did they dry fast, but they did it using a lower cycling temperature. Dryers use two things to dry, heat and air. Norge used more air. If you've ever taken one of these old units apart (Timelines were the same) you would see that the blower fan was huge. The drum turns on rollers instead of a pulley. With the back off it gives you an optical illusion that the drum and the fan are turning on the same shaft in opposite directions.

Air enters the dryer through three ports at the back end of each drum vane effectively blasting the clothes with air. The drawback is the fact that these Norge dryers worked in reverse. Heated air was blown into the drum instead of sucked out. As the dryer aged, the door seal and the seal around the "pain in the neck floor-mounted lint filter" leaked moisture-laden air. If the dryer was in a garage it was no big deal, but in a laundry room it was a different story. All of the paint in my mom's laundry room peeled off the walls. And when it came to replacing the door seal it was awful. The seal was held in place by a wire loop that was almost impossible to replace.

I'm sure all members are tired of my trips down vintage-appliance memory lane, a time when I was young and didn't need a cane to walk to the bathroom.