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?74 responses total.
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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Yeah, I never iron my clothes...I put them in the dryer for 20 minutes (if at all) and then put them on wet. Then they fit your body and don't bunch up.
<nephi wonders why popcorn thinks that abchan has chest hair>
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Well, I don't iron *all* of my clothes, but the ones I wear for work or important occasions have to look nice! When it comes to jeans, it's wash and wear.
take it to laundry! /
Re: 41 Where did *that* come from? *sigh*
You did see the smiley, right? (38 & 39)
Of *course* I saw the smiley *sigh* I guess you didn't "see" mine... it was intended thought... I forget grex doesn't let people hear you say what you type. ;)
Anybody heard about the microwave dryer one company is working on? It's faster and uses less energy.
I've always wondered why most places seem to offer the same number of dryers and washers in most facilities, despite the fact that running a load through the washer takes around half the time it takes in the dryer. Strange. I guess it evens out in the fact that you can make due with non-dryed clothes. When I was in school, I'd hang-dry all my t-shirts (and I mostly wore t-shirts, because the buildings were overheated so much that even in the cold of winter one had to go down to a tshirt to be comfortable indoors.) Hanging them dry prevents shrinkage, prevents heat damage to the design, and makes them easy to grab the next day. You can dry at a lower temperature to achieve the same effect, but since most college dryers charge by time it's a waste of money to run them at any setting other than "incinerate". Jeans are always the hard stuff, of course. I'd just hang the jeans, not straight out of the washer but after one dryer cycle. They weren't bone dry, but they're dry enough that if I hang them they'll be dry tomorrow. Things like socks and underwear are the only thing that really need to come out of the dryer bone-dry, and they're not that hard to do. Putting clothes through an extra spin cycle generally isn't an option for most municipal laundry machines, as you cannot control the cycle other than plunking money in to start it. We did have one machine that acted as a centerfuge, in that you would put clothes in, deposit your money, and it would just spin for about five minutes and then stop. Unfortunately this did not seem to effectively spin the dirt out of the clothing, though it did help make up for the machine next to it, which had a habit of stopping during the rinse cycle without draining, let alone spinning.
Whatta scam!
the centrifuge will - and does - save mucho dineros on the drying time and money (not the one disguised as a washer though).
I could not live without a washer and dryer in my house. In fact, this year my old pair bit the dust and I spent aconsiderable amount of time and money purchasing a new pair with stainless steel drums. I also take the clothes out after they are mostly dry and hang them to avoid wrinkles... I also refuse to buy stuff which has to be ironed to look decent, thereby avoiding ironing all together! I do not like to send my children to school in wrinkled clothing, nor do I like to wear my own when wrinkled... just doesn't seem to fit well. However, I have noticed that my children do not seem to mind the wrinkles...as noticed after examining their drawers. I may just quit folding the clothes and toss them in like they do...it will save a lot of time and effort...either that, or make them do their own laundry!!!! Yeh! that should teach them! And save me work too! Should have thought] of this before!
agora 43=laundty 5
Here's a good question: Why do socks disappear in the dryer? I
have a theory that the rapid spinning action occasionally allows a sock
to reach c and warp into the future. That's why you usually find the
missing one later -- you've 'caught up' with it again. ;-)
Further research is needed.
Something has to disappear now and then to provide the source for the lint production.
Did anybody see the Ren & Stimpy episode where they went into the Black Hole in space and found out what happened to all the left socks?
Actually, I've discovered that we have a sock monster in our dryer... Even if I match up all the socks before putting them in, at least one always disappears...it has to be a sock monster!
I like #54 - makes sense to me! After all, the mass for that lint has to come from somewhere, right?
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Life as a sock is dangerous.
I think part of the problem is actually sock mutation. I put a pair of plain brown dress socks in the drier, one turns greenish, and the other sprouts ridges, leaving me with two unmatchable socks.
Has anyone ever actually seen these socks do this, or is it just speculation based on circumstance?
Yes, I once followed a pair of socks through both the wash and dry cycle (you need very large capacity machines, and lots of dramamine) and watched them mutate before my eyes. Never saw any vanish though.
Maybe these dryers all have a secret sock compartment -- it could be a conspiracy with the sock manufacturers, to give them more business.
When I clean the lint trap, I take it out, and there is a *hole* there - a very black hole. There was a lot of lint around the event horizon, but little below. Perhaps some socks enter that black hole, and get crushed to nothingness - or even reappear in another dimension!
Yeah.. on other planets they have too many socks, and all their unmatched socks start matching spontaneously. Of course.. there's also that nifty feature they have which adds lint to all their clothing.
I thought you were never suposed to have socks that match...even at our house where I know I put in 2 socks alike I never get 2 back...and I do most of the laundry.... I wonder where they go?
what are matching socks?
When I buy socks I buy a dozen identical pairs - no matching required.
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I have about 2 dozen pairs of socks. About as much underwear, too. You tend to do this sort of thing when doing laundry is something that requires you to leave the building...
I have three socks which I wear in cycles.
tricycles?
When I was in college, we had working dryers. Of course, seeing how it seemed like at least two or three were broken at any given time, we ended up standing on lines for them. Officially we had 6 washers and 6 dryers for about three hundred people but I don't remember ever seeing them all working at once.