Dryers.  Has there ever been a dryer installed on a college campus that
\dried a full load of laundry on the first try?  I'd like more options
\than (1)sending it through a second time and scorching everything andd
(2)strewing damp clothes around my room for two days.  Is a dry waistband
or warm socks too much to ask for?

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Ah, laundry, a subject dear to my heart.

When I was in college way back when, they had a humongous coal-fired
clothes dryer in the Student Utilities Building.  You'd take your wet
clothes, wrap them around this extra long pitchfork, open the dryer
door (standing a bit to the side so as not to be blasted by the heat),
and stick the pitchfork in for about 45 seconds.  The clothes would
come out bone dry.

They don't make 'em like they used to.

When I was in college we had electric dryers, but to make them faster the
heat was turned up to 50% beyond the maximum...
The joke was that your clothes where dry when the zippers on your jeans
glowed red.

 we really need a laundry conference here on Grex.

rotfl...We must go to the same school, Hunter.  I have to put my towels in for
an average of 120-130 minutes, my socks are never dry, and I've learned to 
just hang my jeans up (this also saves me from ironing them).  I think it's the
school's ploy to suck more money out of us...NMU, however, includes laundry
costs in your room and board, so I never have to scrounge around for soda
cans to put a load on :)

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do you clean out the lint trap?  
i have no trouble <except w/ jeans and they never dry completely even at home>

Up at MTU in Wadsworth Hall the dryers worked pretty good and there were 
always a few that were stuck on... I have had dryer trouble in every other
place I have lived in since then, except for the house I am in now... crazy?

   Valerie gets an award for the most-you-can-easily-do-to-make-the-dryer-
work.
   The other thing to do, if you want to feel like a geek, is to get a
battery powered temperature probe (Fluke makes one) and get a strip of
bouble-sided sticky tape.  Use the tape to apply the temp meter to the
wall of the dryer and turn it on.  Some driers in big places are rather
cooler then others, owing to the fact that tend to burn out after a while.
So a cooler temp. driver won't really help you, even if you keep the clothes
in for many hours.  (You can also get weird stares as you attach the meter
inside the dryer, and even more stares when thats all you pull out of it.)

Crisper...my friend lives in Wadsworth!  :)  Anyways...one solution I have
come up with is to simply hang up my pants and shirts, and dry towels and 
sheets.  This also avoids any congestion in the laundry room.  We have four
washers and four dryers on a floor with 109 people.  :)  I usually do my
laundry at three a.m. to avoid the rush.

Driers?  You mean you aren't supposed to just put the clothes on damp?

re #9...four washers and drieers for 109 people!!  That would be such a pain..
and I thought it was bad here with 2 washers and 2 driers for approx. 40
people....

I know someone that said he puts his clothes in the microwave because
it doesn't cost $.75 a shot and they come out dry.

Can I guess who that is, nephi...am I close w/my guess of Baker 316???

No fair!  You were there for the conversation!

Hmm..from 0 to 9 they were dryers, and then they became driers. How many
of you use dryers, and how many use driers?

I noticed that, too, Rane. Now that the weather has turned, our clothes will be
dried by the world's most energy-effecient dryer. <DOH! Does she mean the sun?>

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dryer is an acceptable substitute for drier.

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My American Heritage Dictionary indicates that the spellings are
interchangeable but that for "machine that dries clothing", "dryer" is
preferred.

The drier meaning less wet is a comparative form of the *adjective* dry.
The material that accelerates the "drying" of paint is usually spelled
drier. Is one that drys, a dryer or a dryor?

Dunno, but the dryor who dries with the dryerier dryer dries driest.

is there another name for that machine that makes wet pieces of clothing dry?

The Sun?  I remember a couple of hostel owners in New Zealand laughing their
heads off at the sight of an American girl who didn't know how to operate
a clothesline.  I guess there are also "manglers" which both dry and iron,
but that technology is also rather forgotten and the term with it (though
that new movie may bring it back).

        ((Don't see that movie!  It's *really* stupid.))

(What movie are you guys talking about?)

        ((((_The Mangler_))))

En droogtoestel. (In Dutch)

 The book is better.

I believe it was a short story.

Well my grandmother owns and uses a mangle <it's a real interesting 
and very large appliance>  All of the grandkids used to <still are?>
afraid of the thing.

The "Y vent" thing used to get me.  On occasion, I might let my fully
dried clothes sit awhile before removing them.  Someone else would fire
up the neighboring dryer with their clothes, thus resulting in a bulk
transfer of water from their dryer to mine --> wet clothes.  It would
also happen in tandem if their dryer was set to a higher temperature than
mine.  Most annoying.  (The higher fryer beats the wrier dryer :)

Another suggestion is to run the spin cycle twice when you WASH your
clothes.  I do this with the jeans at home and they dry more quickly.
Less water in the clothes to start with means less drying time :)

Using a centrifuge will save several dryer cycles. 

Now to find a large enough centrifuge.

I've noticed that if I put my clothes in for about ten minutes, then hang them
up, they don't wrinkle...it saves on a *ton* of ironing.  Plus, people are
happy to have the available dryer.

I've noticed that if I put my clothes throught he drier normally, and then
dump them on my flor for a few days until I get around to putting them
away, they do wrinkle.  I've also noticed that having wrinkled clothes
doesn't bother me at all.  I really don't understand why some people seem
to go to such great pains to keep their clothes from getting wrinkled.

One of my friends in another dorm here has a dryer in their dorm that
never stops and you don't even have to put money in it.  Consequently, 
he always leaves it in there too long and when he has to take it out,
discovers that it's not only dry, but REALLY hot. ;)

Wrinkle clothes don't bother me either, at least not up here at school.

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