5 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

This is why, here on TV, I am rightfully thought of as being one of the few geniuses who post on the forum.

I suggest starting an entirely separate topic dedicated to this conclusion. I am sure everyone will be in full agreement. Never mind that most people find your topics completely nonsensical, incoherent, and impossible to follow. They simply fail to appreciate that they are in the presence of a rare and stable genius whose thoughts arrive in forms too advanced for ordinary human comprehension.

The fact that readers regularly cannot determine what point you are trying to make should probably be taken as further proof of your brilliance rather than a possible weakness in communication.

22 minutes ago, ArchieBunker said:

Who uses a dryer in this climate for gods sake!

Once you go dryer, you never go back.

1 minute ago, BilllyGOAT said:

Once you go dryer, you never go back.

I had a dryer in the United States and I ain’t going back. Besides that chore is someone else’s business these days.

I used a dryer in the UK because it rained constantly in the winter and so was very hard to get clothes dried..here in Thailand I put them out on a clothes line in the sun, dry in a couple of hours and the intense UV kills off the lurgies 😋

11 hours ago, Kyoto Kyle said:

Do you use a clothes dryer?

No.

The lint screen is the loom of the thrifty housewife ...

6 hours ago, khunPer said:

No – I don't 'use a clothes dryer — Sun and a bit of wind do an excellent job for me...

I assume you just freshly printed that 20 Baht note and that is why you have it hanging out to dry?

1 hour ago, ArchieBunker said:

Who uses a dryer in this climate for gods sake!

Drying outside in the rainy season isn't very quick and moving indoors raises your household's humidity.

2 hours ago, ArchieBunker said:

Out yours or up yours. Either is correct depending on the situation.

Yes, I agree.

Out, means OUT.

Up, means UP.

However, I hope that you do not believe that UP and OUT can be logically used....

Interchangeably.

2 hours ago, BilllyGOAT said:

I suggest starting an entirely separate topic dedicated to this conclusion. I am sure everyone will be in full agreement. Never mind that most people find your topics completely nonsensical, incoherent, and impossible to follow. They simply fail to appreciate that they are in the presence of a rare and stable genius whose thoughts arrive in forms too advanced for ordinary human comprehension.

The fact that readers regularly cannot determine what point you are trying to make should probably be taken as further proof of your brilliance rather than a possible weakness in communication.

I have always written this way.

From the very beginning, I have.

I am a ham, at heart.

A Chinese Ham, if you must know.

I cannot change my spots, this late in the game.

This is my REAL Persona....

IF I had one of those mechanical dryers with the circular window in front....

I would not leave the room......

When I was young, I could sit for hours just watching the clothes spin and tumble.....

I sat in front, entranced.

Maybe this is why I love this vid.......

I can watch and listen forever, until the power goes off......here in the sticks......

I love things that go round and round.

But, if I want to just get my clothes dry in a hurry, with a minimum of wasted electricity...then I use my ACs, as stated above.

50 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

IF I had one of those mechanical dryers with the circular window in front....

I would not leave the room......

When I was young, I could sit for hours just watching the clothes spin and tumble.....

I sat in front, entranced.

Maybe this is why I love this vid.......

I can watch and listen forever, until the power goes off......here in the sticks......

I love things that go round and round.

But, if I want to just get my clothes dry in a hurry, with a minimum of wasted electricity...then I use my ACs, as stated above.

Your prayers have been answered.

13 hours ago, rocketboy2 said:

Don't own one in Thailand.

Dry on line at house or balcony at condo.

Sorted.

Same as me when I am in LOS, but use one in OZ, I think it might not be a good idea to line dry in Britain.......

1 hour ago, still kicking said:

Same as me when I am in LOS, but use one in OZ, I think it might not be a good idea to line dry in Britain.......

I used to line dry everything until some sniffer stole 30 pairs of my knickers.

There's a washing machine / drier repair man on Youtube who says most modern machines have built iin obsolescence. He does give names of some manufacturers that do not.

Might be worth searching for his or other similar videos before buying.

You can get a combo washer/dryer all in one unit, which I have, it's a LG. The only problem with the ductless vent dryers is that they take up to 3 hours to dry the clothes as it uses an electric heat pump and makes the water evaporate, meanwhile a vented dryer takes about 45 minutes to dry.

The ductless dryers also produces heat.

5.7 cu.ft. WashCombo® with ezDispense®, TurboWash®, Heat Pump Dry

I have an old GE dryer upstairs that has lasted for 25 years and is very easy to use and dries quickly. The new LG dryer I bought for downstairs has an out flow for the water, but too many useless buttons and it takes forever to get your clothes dry. I prefer the simple old one. The others can use the fancy one and complain about what settings to use and why it takes so long to dry. To each their own.

On 6/10/2026 at 10:28 AM, daveAustin said:

Might last longer and ok for normal clothes, but for cacks, bedding and towels ideally you want to be burning bacteria away with hot water followed by hot dryer. The Otteri launderettes are ideal.

As to the op, dryers of old can last for decades. It is essentially a drum, motor and element. Similar today but much more complex and not built as sturdy. The LG's are good.

If you hang in the Sun your clothes go through Solar Disinfection with UV light. Additionally your skin is actually very effective at preventing any stray bacteria from causing you any problems

I have tried the inverter/heat pump style of dryer, and I have never, ever been satisfied with it. When renovating our house, adding a laundry room, I made sure to accommodate for a dryer with an exhaust hose. No way was I going to use those new fangled dryers. The clothes never got dry, no matter how many hours you put them in there. And it takes so much longer. I need results, and the old-style forced air dryer does the job and does it well. We bought an Electrolux that handles 10kg and we use it every day. With the amount of use we ask out of it, one of the never-dry takes-hours-for-damp-clothes inverter types just would not meet the standard.

An interesting topic as I cannot live without a dryer. When I bought my condo in Bangkok one of the most important considerations was the ability to install an extra capacity washing machine that would wash comforters and pillows as well as a large dryer machine. I had to punch out brick walls in this condo and pay for an extensive remodel to accommodate these appliances. But it was worth it and I do so enjoy taking fluffy warm sheets out of my dryer and putting them on my bed.

In Thailand, No.

In my home country, Yes!

@dsj @jcmj @jcates29 @phetphet

There are some important differences between vented dryers and heat pump dryers. Vented dryers typically run at 75°C to 80°C. This isn’t good because the threshold where cotton fibers and elastic collars start to warp, bake, and experience severe structural degradation is right around 60°C. For example, the LG DUAL Inverter Heat Pump model RV10VHP3W operates at a much safer 50°C to 55°C on the standard easy care cycle.

Onto the next point, do heat pump dryers really dry your clothes? I watched my friend put a load of about 15 to 20 T-shirts in the dryer, and after about 2 to 2.5 hours they were very dry, the dryer possibly even got a bit too hot, since the clothes were very hot and dry to the touch when finished. This was on the regular "Cotton" setting, which is good if you want to shrink clothes a bit, but it can also start to cause damage, so it’s safer to use the "Easy Care" cycle.

If you really want to get the same high temperature on this heat pump model as with a vented dryer, put the setting on "Cotton", then click on dry level and set it to Extra/Cupboard+, and it will run at similar high temperatures to a vented dryer.

Also, does a heat pump dryer machine get hot and give off some heat? All dryers do. Vented dryers actually get hotter, since they typically dry clothes at higher temperatures than heat pump dryers.

The fact that heat pump dryers take longer to dry the same clothes is a good thing. It means lower heat and less clothing damage. If you dry a large load and the dryer gets the whole load dry within 45 minutes, that’s not a good thing. The clothes are being damaged and the colors faded.

Also, I don't think these LG dryers have a built in obsolescence. They have a 10 year warranty on the Dual Heat Inverter system. Since technology keeps improving, it's probably not a bad idea to replace machines every 10-12 years anyway.

One last point, my current old dryer only has only a 5kg drum capacity, that means I often have to split a load of laundry into two batches and dry them each separately for about an hour. The heat pump dryer will take longer but it has a 10kg drum, so it has a much larger drying capacity, which means the total dry time for one full load will take about the same total time.

Spouse and I do at least one load of clothes a day and sometimes two. Yes, we have a clothes dryer and we could not live without it.

Bought the type that collects water in the tank, my wife used it about a dozen times over a 20 year period during the rainy seasons, then stopped using it for some reason. Gave it away to a relative, she's happy with it since she never experienced a dryer before.

On 6/10/2026 at 6:10 PM, ArchieBunker said:

Who uses a dryer in this climate for gods sake!

Those who wish to waste petroleum and coal, and heat up Earth's atmosphere, leading to increased Global Warming, and dire Mass Migration...

That is who.

But, do I care?

No I do not care.

We are doomed, anyway.

Therefore, those who wish to use dryers, when not necessary, are free to do so.

I actually think that speeding up Global Warming might help to dry clothes faster, for those who choose not to use an electric dryer.

Or, maybe not...because....Global Warming increasing the water vapor in the atmosphere.

I will need to work this out, exactly, to see if this is true.

For example, higher surface temperatures on Planet Earth leads to higher rates of evaporation.

So, I think that even though we will see increased precipitation, clothes hung outside on a clothes line will still dry faster, the hotter the Globe becomes.

Everything is interconnected, as we can see.

This is what I call: The Butterfly Effect and Simple CHAOS THEORY.....

Samsung washer and dryer front loader unitsunits ,, believe the washer is a 16kg

then we have a seperate samsung washer for all the dog towels/blankets

would love line drying some items but.. not a fan of bird crap and farm machinery dust

23 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Those who wish to waste petroleum and coal, and heat up Earth's atmosphere, leading to increased Global Warming, and dire Mass Migration...

That is who.

But, do I care?

No I do not care.

We are doomed, anyway.

Therefore, those who wish to use dryers, when not necessary, are free to do so.

I actually think that speeding up Global Warming might help to dry clothes faster, for those who choose not to use an electric dryer.

Or, maybe not...because....Global Warming increasing the water vapor in the atmosphere.

I will need to work this out, exactly, to see if this is true.

For example, higher surface temperatures on Planet Earth leads to higher rates of evaporation.

So, I think that even though we will see increased precipitation, clothes hung outside on a clothes line will still dry faster, the hotter the Globe becomes.

Everything is interconnected, as we can see.

This is what I call: The Butterfly Effect and Simple CHAOS THEORY.....

It’s impressive that you’d fixate on the electricity used by a dryer that someone might run once every week or two for a few hours to dry a load of laundry. Meanwhile, you run an absurd number of air conditioners, computers, and refrigerators 24/7/365. Your carbon footprint is well beyond that of the average person in Thailand.

Talk about being completely deluded and in total denial about your own impact on the environment. It’s the environmentalist version of stepping on a scale with your eyes closed and declaring yourself fit.

You remind me of Leonardo DiCaprio flying to India on a private jet to lecture poor villagers, many of whom don’t even have reliable electricity or flush toilets, about reducing their carbon emissions on their coal burning used for cooking. The average Indian’s carbon footprint is roughly one sixth that of the average American, while DiCaprio’s is probably closer to a few hundred times that of the people he’s lecturing. Nothing says “save the planet” quite like burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel to explain to people with almost no footprint at all that they’re the problem.

The irony here is that you’re obsessing over a clothes dryer while ignoring the far larger environmental impact of your own lifestyle. That’s not environmental awareness. That’s selective accountability.

Such a shame you’re opposed to clothing dryers. If you weren’t, you’d probably buy five of them, run them all at the same time, and then spend the afternoon lecturing everyone else n AN about how wonderful and environmentally conscious your lifestyle is thanks to all your modern appliances.

After all, when it comes to consumption, your hypocritical philosophy seems to be that excess is perfectly acceptable, provided it’s your excess.

19 minutes ago, BilllyGOAT said:

It’s impressive that you’d fixate on the electricity used by a dryer that someone might run once every week or two for a few hours to dry a load of laundry. Meanwhile, you run an absurd number of air conditioners, computers, and refrigerators 24/7/365. Your carbon footprint is well beyond that of the average person in Thailand.

Yes.

But,
I would say "impressive" is not the best choose of a word for it.

Why not use the more accurate word ABSURD, instead?

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Those who wish to waste petroleum and coal, and heat up Earth's atmosphere, leading to increased Global Warming, and dire Mass Migration...

That is who.

But, do I care?

No I do not care.

We are doomed, anyway.

Therefore, those who wish to use dryers, when not necessary, are free to do so.

I actually think that speeding up Global Warming might help to dry clothes faster, for those who choose not to use an electric dryer.

Or, maybe not...because....Global Warming increasing the water vapor in the atmosphere.

I will need to work this out, exactly, to see if this is true.

For example, higher surface temperatures on Planet Earth leads to higher rates of evaporation.

So, I think that even though we will see increased precipitation, clothes hung outside on a clothes line will still dry faster, the hotter the Globe becomes.

Everything is interconnected, as we can see.

This is what I call: The Butterfly Effect and Simple CHAOS THEORY.....

You have really lost it. Do you have any real friendships outside of this dystopian platform?

39 minutes ago, ArchieBunker said:

You have really lost it. Do you have any real friendships outside of this dystopian platform?

Yes.

I have friends.

But, they are mostly Chinese, Thai, Cambodian, and Burmese friends.

I had one very close Farang friend, a Jew, living in NYC, a Columbia Uni Prof...

But, these days, he is getting too old to contact me.

Yet still, I have good memories of the friendship.

Good friends, true friends, are not easy to find.

I have plenty, just he same.

I believe quality is more important than quantity, in this regard,

And, seeing your Profile Name, I would say you know even more than I about BUNKERS....

Am I right?