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Thread Number: 89631
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1956 Kenmore high-speed gas dryer |
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Post# 1142227 2/14/2022 at 23:59 (799 days old) by Marky_mark  (From Liverpool. Now living in Palm Springs and Dublin) |
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Post# 1142233 , Reply# 1 2/15/2022 at 05:09 (799 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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That water heater is like mine. | ||
| Post# 1142238 , Reply# 2 2/15/2022 at 06:15 (799 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas) | ||
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Post# 1142244 , Reply# 3 2/15/2022 at 06:58 (798 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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| Post# 1142263 , Reply# 4 2/15/2022 at 14:04 (798 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas) | ||
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Post# 1142306 , Reply# 5 2/15/2022 at 20:26 (798 days old) by Marky_mark (From Liverpool. Now living in Palm Springs and Dublin) |
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| Post# 1142320 , Reply# 6 2/15/2022 at 21:23 (798 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas) | ||
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| Post# 1142513 , Reply# 8 2/18/2022 at 12:46 (795 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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| Post# 1142514 , Reply# 9 2/18/2022 at 13:05 (795 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Post# 1142528 , Reply# 10 2/18/2022 at 17:40 (795 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Whirlpool and Kenmore dryers with two blowers | ||
| Post# 1142554 , Reply# 11 2/19/2022 at 01:15 (795 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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Post# 1142559 , Reply# 12 2/19/2022 at 04:56 (795 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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They could have added a bigger fan of course, but it’s a balance between heat input and air movement adding a bigger fan probably wouldn’t of made it much faster because these early dryers were only 4800 W or 25,000 BTUs.
Then there’s the other factor of trying to make the machine not to Noisy there’s already quite a bit of noise from the fan in your 63 dryer and having two fans that size in the dryer might’ve gotten a little loud. John L | ||
| Post# 1142582 , Reply# 13 2/19/2022 at 12:02 (794 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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It may get loud with 2 full size fans but the only way to find is it put 2 full size fans on a Whirlpool or Kenmore dryer of that era and I believe you might have all the parts in your parts stash to do that. To compensate for the noise with the 2 full size fans, might want to put dynamat all over the inside of the cabinet which will help quiet it down a little.
Having 2 full size fans in a 50 amp dryer definitely will speed up the drying process even more since there will be a ton of air flow along with the high wattage element in it. | ||
| Post# 1142674 , Reply# 15 2/20/2022 at 11:27 (793 days old) by Maytag85 (Sean A806) | ||
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I can see that adding felt strips is the easiest and simplest way to improve efficiency on those dryers. It still would be cool to see a high speed 50 amp dryer with 2 full size fans on it, and that may be overkill but would be fun to experiment with. One of these days when I get my hands on a older Whirlpool or Kenmore electric dryer from the late 50’s, I definitely will try experimenting with 2 full size fans on it to see how it does. Probably would dry fairly quickly since there’s positive incoming and out coming air which means it would have a insane amount of air flowing through it every single minute it was running.
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