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Drew345
Joined: 24 May 2005
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 Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 2:34 am Post subject: Need new dryer (preferably with lent trap?) |
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I�m in the market for a new washer/dryer. The one I have is broken, and never really worked well anyway. It get�s the clothes really hot, but doesn�t remove the water in any way. I use it to �bake� my clothes for 30 minutes so that when I hang them, they dry faster. At first I though that this �baking� kind of dryer was just because it was an electric dryer, not gas like we use in America. But at my friend�s house in Thailand, there is an electric dryer that works pretty well. The strange thing is, this dryer in Korea get�s the clothes much hotter than that Thailand dryer, and much, much hotter than US gas dryers, but seems to have no system for actually removing the water.
I noticed one big difference in the dryers concerning lent traps. US dryer�s have lent traps, the Thailand electric dryers have lent traps, and the Korean dryers don�t have lent traps. So my line of reasoning is this: lent traps = drying by air flow = good dryer. No lent trap = baking the clothes = bad dryer. I am not sure if that reasoning is correct, but has anyone ever seen, or have, a Korean dryer with a lent trap? By lent trap I mean that you open the door and just below the door on the inside of the dryer is a removable filter that catches the lent as the air is blown through it. Anyone have a dryer like that in Korea?
I would prefer to get a separate washer/ dryer, stacked unit. But I haven�t seen those in Korea either. I�m not real big on these combo units (washer/dryer in the same unit), but I guess they could work (mine doesn�t). Can�t use gas as don�t have a place for an air vent to blow out.
Thanks for any recommendations on dryer that works well. |
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Chokse
Joined: 22 May 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:19 am Post subject: |
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You mean a filter that traps Lent: The Catholic celebration of the period preceding Easter that in the Christian Church is devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness?
... or did you mean "lint?" |
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ed
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:37 am Post subject: hey |
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I have an airblower dryer with a lint tray.
I found it in a store around the corner of the end of the main street in itaewon.
it was small enough to throw in the backseat of my car and it does a full load of laundry. |
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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Chokse wrote: |
You mean a filter that traps Lent: The Catholic celebration of the period preceding Easter that in the Christian Church is devoted to fasting, abstinence, and penitence in commemoration of Christ's fasting in the wilderness?
... or did you mean "lint?" |
...this world is in dire need of more lent traps.  (read...ways of reducing archaic religious rituals.) |
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drydell
Joined: 01 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: Need new dryer (preferably with lent trap?) |
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| Drew345 wrote: |
I�m in the market for a new washer/dryer. The one I have is broken, and never really worked well anyway. It get�s the clothes really hot, but doesn�t remove the water in any way. I use it to �bake� my clothes for 30 minutes so that when I hang them, they dry faster. At first I though that this �baking� kind of dryer was just because it was an electric dryer, not gas like we use in America. But at my friend�s house in Thailand, there is an electric dryer that works pretty well. The strange thing is, this dryer in Korea get�s the clothes much hotter than that Thailand dryer, and much, much hotter than US gas dryers, but seems to have no system for actually removing the water.
I noticed one big difference in the dryers concerning lent traps. US dryer�s have lent traps, the Thailand electric dryers have lent traps, and the Korean dryers don�t have lent traps. So my line of reasoning is this: lent traps = drying by air flow = good dryer. No lent trap = baking the clothes = bad dryer. I am not sure if that reasoning is correct, but has anyone ever seen, or have, a Korean dryer with a lent trap? By lent trap I mean that you open the door and just below the door on the inside of the dryer is a removable filter that catches the lent as the air is blown through it. Anyone have a dryer like that in Korea?
I would prefer to get a separate washer/ dryer, stacked unit. But I haven�t seen those in Korea either. I�m not real big on these combo units (washer/dryer in the same unit), but I guess they could work (mine doesn�t). Can�t use gas as don�t have a place for an air vent to blow out.
Thanks for any recommendations on dryer that works well. |
You've just described my frustration perfectly!
Thought I was going mad or that the Samsung washer installers had done a botched job. Several hours of heating the clothes very nicely but when they come out - very hot -but no drier than when they went in.. useless!..(and it wasn't a cheap machine)..
Back in the UK we usually use hot air tumble dryers that blow the moisture out the machine like you described with a lint filter. Downside to these is that over time the fabric thins out from this method.. is this why the Koreans are using heat but no air dryers now? or maybe it has always been so..
I'm sensing a mad-as-a-box-of-frogs Koreanism to all this. I do know for sure that korean superstition means parents can't buy their children machines that produce wind as it means bad luck - so newlyweds often wont get their AC included in the post wedding gift bonanza for this reason... maybe this is why? if there is a practical reason i'm all-ears because quite frankly these heater dryers are rubbish. |
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