Put my parents Maytag and Washer dryer in. Dryer hooked up used it works great, 47 years old.
Giving my Maytag which is new world odour quality to my neighbour. Her 59 year old GE just went. I see her husband pumped it into the floor as no other easy way and it goes to the basement crawl space, it was also hard wired in.
Figured i better take it apart with all the dust here. Belt is fine wheels are fine but see the drum is scraping on the lower fan housing maybe only on heavy loads it worked well never an issue not sure over 10 years old maybe 15 years old main thing it worked fine. Ill be careful moving it as thse heater things likely get more brittle when older.
What causes the scraping? does the felt wear and compress more then a bit of tilt on the drum then it drops down to make contact?
Ill clean it really well and oil then look at how this pipe can exit. might have to cut a new hole in her floor then it will be if there is a joist there. Its not the right way to hook it up but she has had that for 59 years. Will put a plug in though rather than hard wire.
You can see the scraping on the main drum where it was rubbing on the left top of the fan housing. Figure that was only on heavy loads but hand turning it felt like too much resistance to me.
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