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