Help me get the coins out

[n175h]

I walked into my laundry today and found a guy standing on a basket half his body inside the top dryer of my American Stack digging through the basket, trying to extract the coins.

These are the old style ADC dryers with the lint tray on the angle to the right side of the drum. The bottoms of the dryers collect all kinds of trash and a lot of coins. I've had people cut holes into the baskets to extract coins. It ruins the baskets!!!

I've tried brushes, vacuums, compressed air, and other things to get those coins out. It is exasperating work to just remove a few coins.

Has anyone come up with a way to do this? I would surely appreciate an idea.

David

[MSKLAUNDRY.]

Why not remove the front panel, which should give you access to the coins.

[pete f]

I had a 3 month old dryer cut open for a coin, belt buckle, I don;t know. It was sickiening me. I was able to weld it back ( the cutter left the piece of basket behind) Lucky me. I hate it when that happens..

[KJD]

I have ADC's as you describe.

Get yourself a drum brush.

Mine is 24" long with 4" stiff brissels you poke down through the holes in the drum and rotate the drum with the brush in the drum towards the lint trap and it will wisk all debris and coins into the lint tray.

Then I follow up with a powerfull 20 gallon QSP shop vac to vacuum out the remaining lint and dirt particles up through the holes in the basket.

As Marc said you can pull the front panel off but you still cannot reach under the drum as some only have about a 1/4" clearance under the drum but the last time I pulled the front panels off of my 20 ADC's to vacuum out all the buildup between the drum and the front panel I made about $ 85 bucks in change.

[n175h]

I have a drum brush. I have a shop vac. I have taken the front off. That is hard to say the least and not too effective since I can only reach the back with a stiff wire, very time consuming.

You cannot get the coins up over the lint trap track. I called ADC to get some suggestions as to a way to do this. They were as helpful as a fire ant in a sleeping bag. The guy said, "I've never heard of anything like this before". I asked him, "why did you change your lint traps to the bottom on the 360X2 dryers, then?" He had no idea.

If the traps were on the bottom of the drum, the coins would fall into them. No cutting open necessary.

I am thinking about laying a piece of light flashing across the bottom that will lay just past the edge of the lint trap track. That will give it a smooth bottom and allow the coins to be swept out with the drum brush. I have to make sure I don't affect the air flow to do this.

Engineering this will be time consuming, but something has to be done. I am tired of repairing the cut up baskets.

David

[Anonymous]

Next time kick the basket he's standing on out from under him,problem solved...kidding aside,theres just no easy way to do it other than down n dirty and some Speed Queen rash...(a term all service men use meaning the cuts and abrasions you get when putting your arms and hands in the cabinet of any SQ product,we used to say someone in final assembly must file all the edges sharp before it leaves the factory)

[Anonymous]

These must be ADC230 dryers. They were a nightmare.