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Free clothes washer and dryer... any 'shop' use for them?

Lil'John

Lil'John

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Title is short.

Longer: I'm getting rid of a house here shortly and I have them available for free. I can leave for free too. I've got Speed Queen at my house currently so I have zero actual use for the unknown brand washer and dryer.

I'm thinking of the washer for nuking shop rags and such. Keep it in a light covered area with access to elect and water then break it out when I've got greasy rags. Is there any other use for it?

I'm not sure I see a 'shop' use for a clothes drier(electric). I know I could scrap it apart and use the drum for a fire pit. Anyone smarter than me see something? Throw a bunch of nuts, bolts, and brackets to piss the neighbors off?:lmao::homer:
 
YES

had one at the yard, then brought it home

if you git space, keep it
 
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dryer makes a decent heater
really oversized though unless you're using it for drying stuff
 
I keep a 100' hose laid up in a steel washer tub. With a hole in side at the bottom for connection to a hose bib. Just pull out lenght you need. No sun damage and storage in the winter when disconnected. Drum lid on top all the time.
 
Lil'John said:
They are in my garage near a creek... they may end up in another yard near a different creek:lmao:

It is sounding like best bet is just haul them 40 minutes as a shop clothes/crap cleaner.
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Keep for now. I screw up a lot of clothes in the shop and the drier is nice for drying rain gear if you’re outside getting shit done. If it is LPG just run a bottle and a flex hose on it. I have a couple used twin regs if you want one. Put on some pallets outside under a tarp so you don’t stand out in the neighborhood as some fancy pants. Kidding, I want to move across the river some day. I’ll also fit in.
 
We have a washer/dryer at work, ostensibly for grubby work gear, realistically mostly used for gym clothes:laughing:.

I'd keep em, then when your speed queen breaks and no one will get back to you regarding warranty, you can break out the old one again.

Curiously specific situation? Yes.:mad3:
 
I've cut the sheet metal off of them before to use for projects. Also when you crack them open you might find some money. I swear one of them had like $15 in change in it. :laughing:
 
Ummduh said:
Electric dryers can also be turned into shop heaters
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Did this with the one that was left in the house when we moved in. Kept me warm with a propane heater at 10 degrees and no insulation. I wanna try 4 gas dryers for the heaters one day.

But yes, extra W/D for dirty stuff works great. Pet beddings and all could go in their.
 
Etyler2 said:
Keep for now. I screw up a lot of clothes in the shop and the drier is nice for drying rain gear if you’re outside getting shit done. If it is LPG just run a bottle and a flex hose on it. I have a couple used twin regs if you want one. Put on some pallets outside under a tarp so you don’t stand out in the neighborhood as some fancy pants. Kidding, I want to move across the river some day. I’ll also fit in.
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If I tarp them, I'll stand out in my area:lmao:
 
Ummduh said:
Electric dryers can also be turned into shop heaters
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dryer makes a decent heater
really oversized though unless you're using it for drying stuff
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The $40 marketplace one I turned into a shop heater didn't work for shit unless you were sitting within 24" of it. Total waste of time and $40.
 
If I had an abundance of space I'd keep it for shop stuff.

I do not have an abundance of space, so I wash my nasty shop towels in my main washer with mechanics detergent, regular detergent, bleach, and the sanitize cycle. Then I re-run it empty with the same mix of chems to get residual grease out. After that I clean the filter and move on. I've not had an issue yet, but I do throw away some of the nastier towels I would try to save if I had a dedicated machine.

You could always sell it cheap too. I have been VERY appreciative of good people that sell appliances over the years, especially during the lean times in my life. I'm thankful for the ones that bothered selling instead of trashing and these days I try to pay it forward when I can.
 
I have so many old worn out t-shirts and other stuff for rags that I'll probably never have to wash another rag in my life. That being said the pressure washer on the concrete slab cleans up up pretty decently or just throw em in a bucket of soapy water and then pressure wash them out.

Most the time I just keep using them and downgrading them until they're so caked with grease and shit they go right into the burn barrel. Clean stuff gets clean rags, nasty stuff gets nasty rags. Real nasty stuff gets the gasoline and air hose treatment and wiped down with paper towels that immediately go into the trash...
 
arse_sidewards said:
I've picked up scrap appliances solely for the stainless skins a time or two. :laughing:
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I built this sweet little metal box out of nothing but the back ribbed panels and other oddball sheet off a dryer. Saved the good stuff for a "better" project! :laughing:

EDIT: Oh the box "frame" are those little angle iron hanging file supports out of a lateral file cabinet. :flipoff2:

And no it would not fit into a 20mm ammo can. That was the #1 first thing I tried.


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Needed the box to store this little 12v hydraulic snowplow pump in. Rigged it up with some quick connects so I can raise or lower implements that I buy at auctions and then pin/chain them up and tow them home with a pickup. No tractor required.

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I saw a cool video where a guy threw an alternator into a spinning dryer, it was entertaining for like 30 sec.
 
Use for you clothes after you shidded yourself not to nassty up the good washer. :laughing:
Plugs rags, the dog's blanket (like friggin 10lbs of hair in them things), clothes after a hydraulic or fuel hose bukakkes all over you, etc.
 
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