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Important Safety Instructions ....................................
_k WARNING _ To reduce the risk of fire, electric shock or injury to persons when using
your appliance, follow basic precautions, including the following:
I. Read all instructions before using the appliance. 10. Clean the lint screen before or after each load.
2. To avoid the possibiIity of fire or explosion: 11. Keep the area around the exhaust opening and sur-
a. Do not dry items that have been previously rounding areas free from lint accumulation, dust and
cleaned in, washed in, soaked in, or spotted with dirt.
gasoline, dry-cleaning solvents, other flammable 12. The interior of the dryer and exhaust duct should be
or explosive substances as they give off vapors cleaned periodically by qualified service personnel.
that could ignite or explode. Any material on 13. This appliance must be properly grounded. Never
which you have used a cleaning solvent, or which plug the appliance cord into a receptacle which is
is saturated with flammable liquids or solids, not grounded adequately and in accordance with
should not be placed in the dryer, until all traces local and national codes. See installation instruc-
of these flammable liquids or solids and their tions for grounding this appliance.
fumes have been removed. There are many high-
14. Do not sit on top of the clothes dryer.
ly flammable items used in homes, such as: ace-
tone, denatured alcohol, gasoline, kerosene, some
liquid household cleaners, some spot removers, ,_ WARNING -- Do not place into your
turpentine, waxes and wax removers, dryer items that have been spotted or
soaked with vegetable oil or cooking oil.
b. For the Dryel Fabric Care cycle, use only Dryel Even after being washed, these items may
products that have been approved for use in stan-
contain significant amounts of these oils.
dard household dryers. The remaining oil can ignite spontaneously.
c. Items containing foam rubber (may be labeled The potential for spontaneous ignition
latex foam) or similarly textured rubber-like increases when the items containing veg-
materials must not be dried on a heat setting, etable oil or cooking oil are exposed to
Foam rubber materials, when heated, can, under heat. Heat sources, such as your clothes
certain circumstances, produce fire by sponta- dryer, can warm these items, allowing an
neous combustion, oxidation reaction in the oil to occur.
3. Do not allow children to play on or in the appliance. Oxidation creates heat. If this heat cannot
Close supervision of children is necessary when the escape, the items can become hot enough
to catch fire. Piling, stacking or storing
appliance is used near children.
these kinds of items may prevent heat from
4. Before the appliance is removed from service or dis- escaping and can create a fire hazard.
carded, remove the door to the drying compartment.
All washed and unwashed fabrics that con-
5. Do not reach into the appliance if the drum is mov- tain vegetable oil or cooking oil can be dan-
ing. gerous. Washing these items in hot water
6. Do not install or store this appliance where it will be with extra detergent will reduce, but will
exposed to the weather, not eliminate, the hazard. Always use the
7. Do not tamper with controls. "cool down" cycle for these items to
reduce the items" temperature. Never
8. Do not repair or replace any part of the appliance or remove these items from the clothes dryer
attempt any servicing unless specifically recom- while hot or interrupt the drying cycle until
mended in published user-repair instructions that the items have run through the "cool
you understand and have the skills to carry out. down" cycle. Never pile or stack these
9. Do not use fabric softeners or products to eliminate items when they are hot.
static unless recommended for dryer use by the
manufacturer of the fabric softener or product. Save These Instructions
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