A Note To You 2. Understanding Safely 3. Knowin Your Dryer s F eatures 5. Operating Your Dryer 6. Laundry Tips 16. E2tE 22.

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1 Home Appiances UseAndCare A Note To You 2 Understanding Safey 3 Knowin Your Dryer s F eatures 5 Operating Your Dryer 6 piirg For Your 12 Laundry Tips 16 If Yy Need E2tE 22 Warranty 24 MOO-b&ROPER Ca us with questions or comments. ELECTRIC AND GAS DRYERS PART NO

2 A Note To You Thank you for buying a Roper@ appiance. You have purchased a quaity, wordcass home appiance. Years of engineering experience have gone into its manufacturing. Use this Use and Care Guide to safey and efficienty operate and maintain your appiance. Compete and mai the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. This wi hep us notify you about any new information on your appiance. Your safety is important to us. This guide contains safety symbos and statements. Pease pay specia attention to these symbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expanation of the use of each symbo. This symbo wi hep aert you to such (scratches, dents, etc.) and damage to Our to-free number, ROPER ( ), is avaiabe 24 hours a day. If you have a question concerning your appiance s operation, or if you need service, first see If You Need Assistance Or Service on page 22. If you need further hep, ca us. When caing, you wi need to know your appiance s compete mode number and seria number. You can find this information on the mode and seria number abe (see diagram on page 5). For your convenience, we have incuded a handy pace beow for you to record these numbers, the purchase date from the saes sip and your deaer s name and teephone number. Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. Mode Number Seria Number Purchase Date Deaer Deaer Name Phone 2

3 Understanding Safety For your safety the information in this manua must be foowed to minimize the risk of fire or exposion or to prevent property damage, persona injury or oss of ife. -Do not store or use gasoine or other fammabe in the vicinity of this or any other appiance. vapors and iquids -WHAT TO DO IF YOU SMELL GAS: Do not try to ight any appiance. Do not touch any eectrica switch; do not use any phone in your buiding. Cear the room, buiding or area of a occupants. Immediatey ca your gas suppier from a neighbor s phone. Foow the gas suppier s instructions. If you cannot reach your gas suppier, ca the fire department. Instaation and service must be performed by a quaified instaer, service agency or the gas suppier.

4 IMPORTANT SAFEW INSTRUCTIONS Read a instructions before using your dryer. Do not machine wash or machine dry items ceaned, washed, soaked in, or spotted with wax, paint, gasoine, oi, dry ceaning sovents, and other fammabe fuids. The fumes can create a fire hazard or exposion. Aways hand wash and ine dry items containing these materias. Do not aow chidren to operate, pay with or craw inside your dryer. Supervise chidren when your dryer is used near chidren. Do not reach into a dryer if the drum is moving. When removing from service or discarding a dryer, aways remove the door to prevent accidenta entrapment. Do not dry rubber, rubber-ike, and heatsensitive materias with heat. Insta an&or store dryer where it wi not be exposed to the weather. Do not tamper with the contros. You are responsibe for making sure that your dryer is instaed, repaired and has parts repaced by a quaified person. Use ony fabric softeners specificay abeed as not being harmfu to the dryer. Do not aow int to buid up inside the dryer or exhaust system. Ceaning shoud be done periodicay by a quaified person. Cean int screen before or after each oad. Do not et dust, int, paper, rags, chemicas, etc. pie up around or under the dryer. Dryer must be eectricay grounded. See the Instaation Instructions. Understanding your responsibiities Never operate the dryer if: -it is not working right (i.e. noisy, too hot). -it is damaged. -parts are missing. -a panes are not in pace. -the int screen is oose, damaged or missing. Unpug the power suppy cord or turn off eectrica power before attempting to service your dryer. Shut off gas vave if you have a gas dryer. Do not wash or dry items that are soied with vegetabe or cooking oi. These items may contain some oi after aundering. Due to the remaining oi, the fabric may smoke or catch fire by itsef. Store fammabe sovents or fuids away from your dryer. Dry ceaning sovents or fuids shoud never be put directy into your dryer. Be sure that your dryer: -is propery instaed and eveed on a foor that can support the weight in a we-ventiated room.* -is connected to the proper outet and eectrica suppy. -is propery connected to fue and exhaust systems (gas dryers must be vented outdoors).* -is not instaed against draperies or curtains, or on carpet. -is ocated in an area where the temperature is above 45 F (7 C). -is propery maintained. -is used ony for jobs normay expected of home cothes dryers. -is not used by anyone unabe to operate it propery. *See the Instaation Instructions for compete information. - SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS - 4

5 Knowing Features Your Dryer s The parts and features of your dryer are iustrated beow. Become famiiar with a parts and features before using your dryer. NOTE: The drawings in this book may vary from your dryer mode. They are designed to show the different features of a modes covered by this book. Your mode may not incude a features. Temperature seector* Cyce contro temperature knob settings ) Side-swing door* Mode and seria number abe tint signa End of cyce signa seector* Other doors: Fu-width hamper door* Mini-hamper door *Avaiabe on some modes

6 Operating Your Dryer I In This Section Paw Bet~aB~ngyourdry#,,, Undentanding your cyder M-.7 Startingyourdrysr, Meeting the right cyce and etting,.-.--.g Stopping your dryer,-,,,---, End of cyce signa _y 11 Restarting your drycw -.._-_ The information in this section heps you earn to use your dryer efficienty and safey. Refer to Laundry TIPS on page 16 for additiona contro setting, sorting, and oading information. Before starting your dryer Wipe the dryer drum with a damp coth before using to remove dust from storing and shipping. Starting your dryer 1. Load cothes into the dryer and cose the door. 2. Turn the Cyce Contro Knob either way to the desired setting. (If your dryer has a Temperature Seector, set the seector to the desired setting.) 3. Push the Start Button. NOTE: Your dryer stops automaticay when a cyde ends. Stopping your dryer You can stop your dryer any time during a cyce. Open the dryer door or turn the Cyce Contro Knob to OFF. NOTE: The Cyce Contro Knob shoud point to an OFF area when the dryer is not in use. If you want to stop the dryer before the cyce is finished, turn the Cyce Contro Knob to an OFF area. Restarting your dryer 1. Cose the door. 2. Seect a new cyce and temperature (if necessary). 3. Press the Start Button. 6 Push to start

7 Understanding your cyces See the chart beow for descriptions of the cyces that are on your dryer. See page 9 or 10 for hep in seecting the right cyce. NOTES: Use the Energy Preferred Automatic Setting (*) to dry most oads. The ast few minutes of a cyces are without heat to make the oad easier to hande. To hep reduce wrinking, remove the oad from the dryer as soon as tumbing stops. This is important for permanent press, knits, and synthetic fabrics. Shaded areas in the iustrations show cyce ocations. Use your automatic cyce to dry most oads. Your automatic cyce(s) shuts off when the seected dryness is reached. The Cyce Contro Knob wi not move unti the oad is amost dry and the coo-down portion of the cyce has been reached. After the coodown, the Cyce Contro Knob automaticay moves to an OFF area and tumbing stops. Dry most oads using the Energy Preferred Automatic Settng b). If the oad is drier than you ike, seect a setting coser to LESS DRY the next time you dry a simiar oad. If the oad is not as dry as you ike, compete drying using a Timed cyce. Seect a setting coser to VERY DRY the next time you dry a simiar oad. NOTE: Some modes offer high heat and ow heat automatic cyces. Seect the cyce to match your oad. Use your Timed cyce to compete drying if some items are damp after automatic drying. Timed drying is aso usefu to dry deicate items that require a short drying time. NOTE: Some modes offer high heat and ow heat timed cyces. Seect the cyce to match your oad. continued on next page

8 The Air cyce is unheated. Use this cyce to fuff or air dry bedding, pastic tabecoths, foam piows, sneakers, etc. See Warning on page 9 or 10. (on some modes) Use this cyce to dry items to damp eve or to dry items that are damp and do not require an entire drying cyce. Two exampes are heavy cottons, such as jeans, which you do not want to become stiff, or cotton cothes which are easier to press when damp. (on some modes) The Wrinke Free cyce removes wrinkes from cothes that have been packed in a suitcase, or from items not removed from the dryer at the end of a cyce. As soon as the dryer stops, fod or put the items on hangers. (on some modes) When you are unabe to remove a oad from the dryer as soon as it stops, wrinkes can form. The WRINKLE PREVENT cyce tumbes the oad without heat every few minutes for up to 45 minutes after the automatic cyce ends. This tumbing rearranges and fuffs the oad to avoid the wrinkes that set in when the oad remains in the dryer. You do not have to set the Cyce Contro Knob for the WRINKLE PREVENT cyce. If you do not open the door within a few minutes after Ihe automatic cyce stops, the WRINKLE PREVENT cyce takes over to protect the oad. A signa sounds every few minutes during the WRINKLE PREVENT cyce. The signa 8

9 Seecting the right cyce and setting Modes with the temperature settings in cyce contro knob Use the chart beow to guide you when making drying seections. Use a timed cyde ony it the recommended automatic setting is not avaiabe on your dryer. (Your mode may have cydes with one or two temperature settings.) Do not overdry. Overdrying can cause shrinkage, static cing, and damage to some fabrics. Fire Hazard Do not dry heat-sensitive fabrics, pastic, nabber, or some stuffed items with heat. Use the Air cyce, or ine dry. Faiure to do so coud resut in fire or damaged items. TYPE OF LOAD AUTO CYCLE(S) TIMED CYCLE(S) Check ma& (J) denotes the mcommended sethg. Seect minutes UIO setbng avar abe cm your dryer. Hgh Low Hgh Low COTTONS AND LINENS Extra Heavy-Bedspreads, mattress pads, quits / Heavyweight-Towes, jeans, corduroys, work J cothes Mediumweight-Sheets, cotton undenvear, diapers J / Lightweight-Satistes, organdies, ingerie / 20 / 30 PERMANENT PRESS, SYNTHETICS AND BLENDS Heavyweight-Work cothes, jackets, raincoats J MediumweightShirts, pay cothes, sheets, sacks J Lightweight-Lingerie, bouses, dresses / / 20 J 30 KNTS Heavyweight-Cottons, rayons, bends, T-shirts, J sacks, shirts MediumweightSynthetics (poyester, acryic, J etc.), dress sacks, skirts, sweaters LightweightSynthetics (poyester, acryic, etc.) and bends, ingerie, bouses, dresses DELICATE FABRICS Sheer curtains (2 or 3 panes), gauze, ace, etc. RUBBER, PLASTIC, HEAT-SENSITIVE FABRICS Foam Rubber-Piows, bras, stuffed toys PastioShower curtains, tabecoths Rubber-backed rugs Oefin, Poypropyene, Sheer nyon J J 20 J 30 Use Air cyce, min Use Air cyce, min Use Air cyce, min Use Air cyce, min Use Air cyce, 1 O-20 min 9

10 Modes with a temperature seector Use the chart beow to guide you when making drying seections. Do not overdry. Overdrying can cause shrinkage, static cing, and damage to some fabrics. Fire Hazard Do not dry heat-sensitive fabrics, pastic, rubber, or some stuffed items with heat. Use the Air cyce, or ine dry. Faiure to do so coud resut in fire or damaged items. TYPE OF LOAD - CYCLE TEMPERATURE OR TIME COTTONS AND LINENS Extra Heavy-Bedspreads, mattress pads, quits Heavyweight-Towes, jeans, corduroys, work cothes Mediumweight-Sheets, cotton underwear, diapers Lightweight-Batistes, organdies, ingerie Auto cyce HIGH HIGH MEDIUM LOW PERMANENT PRESS, SYNTHErICS AND BLENDS Heavyweight-Work cothes, jackets, raincoats Mediumweight-Shirts, pay cothes, sheets, sacks Lightweight-Lingerie, bouses, dresses Auto cyce HIGH MEDIUM LOW KNTS Heavyweight-Cottons, rayons, bends, T-shirts, Auto cyce sacks, shirts Mediumweight-Synthetics (poyester, acryic, etc.), dress sacks, skirts, sweaters Lightweight-Synthetics (poyester, acryic, etc.) and bends, ingerie, bouses, dresses HIGH MEDIUM LOW DELICATE FABRICS Sheer curtains (2 or 3 panes), gauze, ace, etc. RUBBER, PLASTIC, HEAT-SENSTIVE FABRICS Foam Rubber-Piows, bras, stuffed toys PastioShower curtains, tabecoths Rubber-backed rugs Oefin, Poypropyene, Sheer nyon Auto cyce Air cyce LOW min min min 1 O-20 min 10

11 End of cyce (on 8ome modes) signa The dryer sounds a signa to et you know when the cyde is finished. The signa is hepfu when you are drying permanent press, synthetics, and other items that shoud be taken out as soon as the dryer stops. The signa is not adjustabe and cannot be turned off. 11

12 Caring For Your Dryer I In This Section Page Maintenancehevery oad _ Maintenanceas needed Dryers require reguar maintenance. Foow the suggestions beow to maintain your dryer propery. Paw I Maintenance-every Ceaning the int screen The int screen is ocated under a id on top of the dryer. Cean t before each oad. A screen bocked by int can increase drying time. 1. Open the id and pu the int screen straight out. oad Product and Fabric Damage Hazard Do not run the dryer with the int screen oose, damaged, bocked or missing. Doing so can cause overheating and damage to both the dryer and fabrics. 2. Ro int off the screen with your fingers. Do not rinse or wash the screen to remove int. Wet int is hard to remove. 3. Push the int screen firmy back into pace and cose the id. Lint signa (on some modes) Restricted airfow reduces drying efficiency. The signa (a whiste tone) ets you know if the airfow is restricted. Turn off the dryer and cean the int screen. NOTE: Cean your int screen before each oad. Do not wait for the int signa. The int signa indicates excessive int present on your int screen. If you wait for the int signa before you cean the int screen, drying efficiency wi be reduced. 12

13 Removing accumuated int Lint can gather inside the dryer and be a fue for fire. It is recommended that int be removed every 2 to 3 years, or more often, depending on dryer usage. Ceaning shoud be done by a quaified person. If you have any questions, pease ca our to-free number Eectrica Shock and Persona Injury Hazard 1 Unpug the power suppy cord or turn off the eectrica power before removing dryer panes. Make sure the dryer is coo. Dryer parts can have sharp edges. Use care when handing. When repacing front pane after int remova, the wire cips hoding the door switch wires must be anchored to top of front and side panes. Wires MUST NOT touch rotating drum. (See page 15, Step 7.) Faiure to do so coud resut in eectrica shock or persona injury. For a eectric dryers, or gas dryers which have a ower front access pane NOTE: See page 15 if your dryer is gas and has a fu front pane. 1. Unpug the power suppy cord or turn off the eectrica power. 2. Remove back pane (eectric) or ower front access pane (gas). See the Instaation Instructions. 3. Remove int from shaded area in iustration with a soft brush or vacuum ceaner. Avoid damaging wires, thermostats (eectric), funne (gas) or ignitor (gas). 4. Repace pane; reconnect and eve dryer again, if necessary. Thermostats Eectric dryer with back pane removed Gas dryer with ower front access removed pane 14

14 Removing accumuated int Lint can gather inside the dryer and be a fue for fire. It is recommended that int be removed every 2 to 3 years, or more often, depending on dryer usage. Ceaning shoud be done by a quaified person. If you have any questions, pease ca our to-free number Eectrica Shock and Persona Injury Hazard Unpug the power suppy cord or turn off the eectrica power before removing dryer panes. Make sure the dryer is coo. Dryer parts can have sharp edges. Use care when handing. When repacing front pane after int remova, the wire cips hoding the door switch wires must be anchored to top of front and side panes. Wires MUST NOT touch rotating drum. (See page 15, Step 7.) Faiure to do so coud resut in eectrica shock or persona injury. For a eectric dryers, or gas dryers which have a ower front access pane NOTE: See page 15 if your dryer is gas and has a fu front pane. 1. Unpug the power suppy cord or turn off the eectrica power. 2. Remove back pane (eectric) or ower front access pane (gas). See the Instaation Instructions. 3. Remove int from shaded area in iustration with a soft brush or vacuum ceaner. Avoid damaging wires, thermostats (eectric), funne (gas) or ignitor (gas). 4. Repace pane; reconnect and eve dryer again, if necessary. Thermostats Heat eement Ee ctric dryer with back pane removed Gas dryer with ower front access pane removed 14

15 f your dryer Is gas and has a fu front pane, remove front pane as foows 1. Unpug the power suppy cord or turn off the eectrica power. 2. Open int screen id. Remove two screws from int screen area. 3. Open top by puing forward and up at each front comer (see View A). Rest raised top against wa behind dryer (top is hinged at rear). 4. Remove two interna screws from front pane fanges (near top front corners). Lift front pane sighty, ifting off ower cips (see View B). Sowy pu front pane forward, disengaging pane from drum. (Drum wi drop sighty.) 5. Move front pane aside and rest edge against side of dryer. Avoid disconnecting wire cips (see View C) or damaging wires. 6. Remove int from area shown in gas dryer iustration on page 14 with soft brush or vacuum ceaner. Avoid damaging wires, funne or ignitor. 7. Reassembe in reverse order. Before cosing the top, check the foowing: -Drum sea must be fared out (see View D) and propery positioned against pane at back of drum. Rotate drum countercockwise one fu turn to check drum sea. -Bet shoud be centered and tight on dryer drum. -Wire cips which hod the door switch wires must be anchored in sot in top of front pane (see View C) and aong top edge of side pane. Door wires must not touch drum when dryer is operating. See Warning, page Repace top pane and int screen screws. Top and front panes must be securey in pace before operating dryer. 9. Reconnect power and eve dryer again (if necessary). Drum sea \ 4 View B.. View A Side pane Remove screws before opening fop Wire cb-hods door s&h wires View C NOTE: Ca our to-free number , for assistance or more information. View D 15

16 Laundry Tips In This Section Page Before you dry Drying specia-care items Using dryer fabric softeners Page Saving energy Vacation care Soving aundering probems This section reviews proper drying techniques, gives you additiona drying information, and discusses causes or soutions to common drying probems. Before you dry Before using your dryer, see pages 3 and 4 for Important Safety Information. Drying tips Cose zippers, snaps, and hooks to avoid snagging other items. Remove pins, buckes, and other hard objects to avoid scratching the dryer drum. Remove heatsensitive trim that can be daming. Check garments to make sure a spots and stains were removed during the wash. If stains were not removed, do not tumbe dry. Heat may permanenty set stain. Soied items can aso eave stains on the dryer drum. These stains can be picked up by other items in the oad. ckets. Sharp or heavy objects can damage your washer or dryer. Do not ay these objects on your washer or dryer after emptying pockets. Turn pockets of heavy items inside out for even drying. Tie strings and sashes so they wi not tange. Turn int takers and dark items inside out to hep prevent int pickup. Pace sma items such as baby socks or hankies in a mesh bag for easier remova. Artices to be ironed shoud be removed from the dryer whie sti damp. Sorting Separate dark from ight coors; coorfast from noncoorfast. Items propery sorted for washing are usuay propery sorted for drying. Separate heavy fabrics w (denim, towes) from ight fabrics (synthetics, permanent press). Separate int givers (towes, chenie) from int takers (corduroy, synthetics, permanent press). When possibe, turn int takers inside out. Load sizes Mix arge items with smaer items. Load the dryer by the amount of space items take up, not by their weight. Do not overoad the dryer. Overcrowding causes uneven drying and wrinking, and can cause items to wear out faster (because of piing). You may need to rearrange arge items (sheets, bankets, tabecoths) during a cyce to reduce baing or roing up. Reduce wrinking of permanent press and synthetics by drying smaer oads and removing items from the dryer as soon as tumbing stops. For better tumbing action when drying ony a few sma items, add one or two int-free towes. This aso prevents sma, ightweight items from bocking airfow. 16

17 Drying specia-care items Most garments and househod texties have care abes with aundering instructions. Aways foow abe directions when they are avaiabe. Genera drying instructions for some specia washabes are incuded in this section. Air drying Heat sensitive fabrics, pastic, rubber or some stuffed items require drying (heat sensitive without heat. Use an Air setting or ine dry. The Air setting is usefu for items) fuffing bedding and piows, and dusting draperies and cothing. See Warning on page 9 or 10. Heat-sensttve fabrics Oefin, poypropy- Foow care abe directions. ene, sheer nyon Cotton and If shoes can be machine aundered: canvasshoes 1. Pace severa bath towes in the dryer to act as a buffer, or pace shoes on drying rack if your dryer has one. 2. If rubber or foam rubber materias are part of the shoe, use an Air setting. For other materias, see page 9 or 10 for cyce, time, and temperature recommendations. Piows, stuffed 3. Remove shoes from dryer whie sti damp and aow to air dry. toys Feather, foam, If manufacturer recommends machine washing, dry one piow at poyester a time and: 1. Make sure coverings are securey stitched. 2. Shake and fuff the items by hand severa times during the cyce. 3. Make sure piows are competey dry. Feather piows take a ong time Pastic, rubber to dry. items Shower curtains, Foow care abe directions. tabecoths, baby panties Scatter rugs Foow care abe directions. Bankets and Machine drying knitted wooens is not recommended. Bock to shape wooens when wet and aow to air dry. Line dry bankets in shade on a breezy day over two ines. Pin edges together and straighten them. When party dry, turn the banket over, repin and restraighten. When dry, brush nap. Cotton, rayon, Dry as recommended for permanent press fabrics on page 9 or 10. synthetic bankets If manufacturer recommends machine drying: Eectric bankets, 1. Pace one or two dry towes in the dryer and preheat 3-5 minutes on a eectric sheets, high setting. This wi dry bankets faster and hep avoid piing. wooen bankets, 2. Put banket in dryer with warm towes. Set contro for 20 minutes. washabe wooen 3. Check after 10 minutes. Remove when sti damp. Overdrying and ong garments tumbing can cause shrinking and piing. 4. Pace banket on fat surface or over two ines to finish drying. Genty stretch to origina size and shape. 5. When competey dry, brush genty to raise nap. Press binding with coo iron if needed. continued on next page 17

18 Curtains, sipcovers Draperies, sipcovers Remove drapery weights and hooks before aundering. For sipcovers, repace whie sti sighty damp. They wi dry to fit tighty. Dry ony a few minutes. 1. Leave room in dryer for oad to fuff. 2. Remove from dryer whie sighty damp. Do not overdry. Sheers, some Dry ony a few minutes. synthetic curtains Bonded or Line dry these items. aminated fabrics Diapers, cothes baby Wash and dry sma items in a mesh bag or piowcase for convenient handing. 1. Dry according to manufacturer s instructions. 2. Remove diapers and cotton knit items whie sti sighty damp. They wi fee softer, shrink ess, and be easier to fod. Eastic items Remove from dryer whie sti sighty damp. Fibergass materias Do not machine wash or dry fibergass materias. Sma partices can stick to fabrics washed or dried in foowing oads and cause skin irritation. Fame- Some items have been treated with a fame-retardant finish to improve retardant their resistance to burning. Such items are ceary abeed. To retain finshes fame-retardant quaities through continuous use and washing, cean and dry according to the manufacturer s instructions. Napped items Dry separatey or with simiar coors to avoid int transfer. Foow care abe directions.. Corduroy, veveteen 1. Dry according to manufacturer s insiructions. 2. Remove from dryer whie there is sti a trace of moisture. 3. Smooth, reshape and air dry before putting away. Quited, down- Foow care abe instructions. fied items 1. Dry one at a time. 2. Remove from dryer and shake or fuff the item during the drying cyce. 3. Smooth and reshape before putting away. Snowsuits, jackets Nyon, poyester-base Check abe for fiber content, then foow care abe directions. Dry according to manufacturer s instructions. 1. Dry garment for about 10 minutes. Remove and turn inside out. Dry for 10 more minutes. 2. Remove from dryer immediatey and hang on a nonrusting hanger to finish drying. This wi hep eiminate wrinkes, Tinted, dyed or Dry according to fabric, weight and care abe instructions. Wipe the dryer noncoorfast drum carefuy to remove any dye or int that can be transferred to other items oads. See Ceaning the dryer interior on page

19 Towes Washabe knits Seect cyce according to fabric type. Some towes, particuary those made of a bend of synthetic fibers and natura fibers (poyester and cotton bends), may shed more int than other towes causing your dryers int screen to get fu faster. Be sure to remove int from the dryer int screen before and after drying new towes. Do not overdry knits. Overdrying can cause shrinking and static cing. 1. Seect cyce according to fabric and construction. 2. Turn synthetics and bends inside out when drying to avoid piing. 3. Remove cotton and rayon knits whie sti sighty damp. Stretch into shape and ay fat to finish drying. Using dryer fabric softeners Dryer fabric softeners are recommended for reducing static cing (static can aso be reduced by not overdrying) and for softening fabrics. Aways foow package instructions carefuy. Put fabric softener sheet on top of the oad before starting the dryer. Do not add a fabric softener sheet after the cyce has started. Instant heat can cause the fabric softener to spot fabrics. Cear, grease-ike spots can resut from the fabric softener sheet becoming tanged in an item during tumbing. If fabric softener causes a stain, wet the stain and rub with iquid detergent or bar soap, rewash.. Some fabric softeners can cog the int screen and sow drying. Use fabric softeners abeed as dryer safe. Saving energy Use your automatic cyce to dry most oads. Dry ony fu oads without overdrying. Avoid overoading dryer, adding wet items to a party dried oad, or opening the door unnecessariy. Pan your aundry to dry one oad after another. A warm dryer shortens drying time. Shorten drying times by exhausting dryer propery and ceaning exhaust duct and outside exhaust hood as needed. -Keep the int screen cean. -Use your dryer in a room where room air temperature is above 45 F (7 C). -Sort oads by fabric weight and type. Vacation care 1. Unpug power suppy cord or turn off eectrica power suppy. 2. Cean int screen. 19

20 Soving aundering probems Most aundering probems are easiy sofved. Check the foowing ist for probems you may have and possibe causes. If you need additiona hep, check the Assistance or Service section of this book. PROBLEM CHECK IF CAUSES/SOLUTIONS Greasy Dryer fabric softeners Foow manufacturer s directions carefuy. spots were used Undiuted washer fabric softener was used Enough detergent was used Items were cean before they were dried Diute fabric softener before adding to the fina rinse. Use enough detergent to hod soi in the wash water unti it drains away. Undrained soi can stick to outer tub of the washer and cause greasy spots with next oad. Soied items can stain other items in the oad. They can aso eave stains on the dryer drum that can be picked up by items in ater oads. Dryer heat may permanenty set these stains. Lnt Lint screen is cogged Load is propery sorted Static eectricity is attracting int Load is too big or heavy Paper or tissue was in pocket Enough detergent was used Piing is being mistaken for int Cean int screen. (See page 12.) Sort intgivers (bath towes, etc.) from inttakers (synthetics, permanent press). Use fabric softener in the washer s fina rinse. Use correct dryer settings for fabric. Overdrying synthetics can cause intattracting static eectricity. Dry smaer oads. When items can t tumbe freey, air is unabe to carry int to int screen. Empty pockets carefuy. A sma scrap of paper can cause a ot of int. Use enough detergent to hod the int in the water unti it drains away. Base detergent amount on water hardness and soi in wash oad. Piing (surface fuzz) is caused by norma wear and aundering. Pis do not break away easiy from the fabric and can often coect int. Synthetic fabrics are more ikey to pi than others, especiay at neckbands, ebows and knees. 20

21 PROBLEM CHECK IF Shrinking Items are overdried Fabric type and quaity is suitabe for drying Sow drying There is a arge amount of moisture in the oad to be dried Cod rinse water is used Room air temperature is beow 45 F (7%) Dryer is exhausted according to Instaation Instructions Lint screen is cogged Exhaust duct or outside exhaust hood is cogged Proper eectrica suppy is used CAUSES/SOLUTIONS Remove items whie there is sti a trace of moisture. Some items shoud be removed whie damp, then shaped and air dried. Some knits are stretched during manufacturing. Washing and drying returns them to the origina size. This is norma. Check quaity of garment before buying. Foow fabric care abe directions carefuy. Some items hod more moisture than others (cottons more than poyester). They take onger to dry. Fu oads take onger to dry than sma oads of the same fabric. A oad rinsed in cod water wi take sighty onger to dry than a warm one. Cod rinses, however, hep save energy and reduce wrinking more than warm rinses do. Insta dryer in a room where the air temperature is warmer than 45 F (7 C). Cod air increases drying time and may cause wrinkes not to be removed. Insta and exhaust your dryer according to the Instaation Instructions provided. Cean int screen before or after each use. Cean if needed. Propery connect the dryer to a grounded eectrica circuit that meets the eectrica requirements stated in the Instaation Instructions. Static eectricity Load is overdried Fabric softener is used Synthetics, synthetic bends, permanent press and knits are in oad Remove items whie there is sti a trace of moisture. Use a fabric softener and foow package directions carefuy. Synthetics, synthetic bends, permanent press and knits buid up static eectricity. Use a fabric softener and be carefu not to overdry the oad. 21

22 If You Need Assistance Or Service 1. Before caing for assistance... Is the power cord pugged in? Is int screen cogged with int? E5 - Is exhaust duct or outside exhaust hood cogged with int? Have you bown a fuse or tripped the circuit breaker? If you need more hep, check the chart beow. PROBLEM Dryer wi not run Dryer wi not heat CHECK THE FOLLOWING Is the power cord firmy pugged into a ive circuit with proper votage? Has a househod fuse bown or circuit breaker tripped? Has a time-deay fuse been used? Is the dryer door firmy cosed? Did you firmy push the Start Button? Are the contros set in an ON position? Is the cyce in the ast few minutes? (There is no heat during that time.) Has a househod fuse bown or circuit breaker tripped? Has a time-deay fuse been used? If you have a gas dryer, are the vaves open on both the dryer and the suppy ine? Drying time too ong Is your int screen cean? (See the Sow drying section of the tabe on page 21 for additiona information.) Is your exhaust duct or outside exhaust hood cogged with int? 22

23 2. If you need assistance*... Ca our to-free number. Da to-free from anywhere In the U.S.A.: 1-80~ROPER (1-8owt ) and tak with one of our trained consutants. The consutant can instruct you in how to obtain satisfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. If you prefer, write to: Mr. Wiiam Cark Consumer Assistance Representative Roper Brand Appiances 2000 M-63 Benton Harbor, M Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 3. If you need service*... Contact the deaer from whom you purchased the appiance or the authorized servicer in your area. For hep finding an authorized servicer in your area, ca our to-free teephone number in Step 2. When askng for hep or service: Pease provide a detaied description of the probem, your appiance s compete mode and seria numbers and the purchase date. (See page 2.) This information wi hep us respond propery to your request. 4. If you need FSP repacement parts... FSP is a registered trademark of Whirpoo Corporation for quaity parts. Look for this symbo of quaity whenever you need a repacement part for your RopeP appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specifications used to buid every new Roper appiance. To ocate FSP repacement parts in your area, refer to Step 3 above or ca our to-free teephone number in Step If you are not satisfied with how the probem was soved... Contact the Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane (MACAP). MACAP is a group of independent consumer experts that voices consumer views at the highest eves of the major appiance industry. Contact MACAP ony when the deaer, authorized servicer and Roper Brand Appiance warrantor have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. 23

24 ROPER Dryer Warranty LENGTH OF WARRANTY WHAT WE WILL PAY FOR FULL ONE-YEAR FSP repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects WARRANY in materias or workmanship. Service must be provided by (from date of purchase) an authorized Roper service company. WHAT WE WILL NOT PAY FOR A. Service cas to: 1. Correct the instaation of your dryer. 2. Instruct you how to use your dryer. 3. Repace house fuses or correct house wiring or pumbing. 4. Repace owner accessibe ight bubs. B. Repairs when your dryer is used in other than norma, singe-famiy househod use. C. Pickup and deivery. Your dryer is designed to be repaired in the home. D. Damage to your dryer caused by accident, misuse, fire, food, acts of God, or use of products not approved by us. E. Repairs to parts or systems caused by unauthorized modifications made to the appiance. s-93 This Roper appiance is warranted by Whirpoo Corporation. Under no circumstances sha it be iabe under this warranty for incidenta or consequentia damages and a impied warranties are imited to the same time period stated in the express warranties for Roper Brand Appiances. Some states do not aow the excusion or imitation of incidenta or consequentia damages, or imitation of impied warranties, so these imitations or excusions may not appy to you. This warranty gives you specific ega rights, and you may aso have other rights which vary from state to state. Outside the United States, a different warranty may aso appy. For detais, pease contact your authorized Roper distributor or miitary exchange. If you need service, first see the Assistance or Service section of this book. After checking Assistance or Service, additiona hep can be found by caing our to-free teephone number, ROPER ( ), from anywhere in the U.S.A. PART NO WhIrpod Corpofaron Q FkgSwd Trademmk TM Trsdsmsrk o WhIrpoo CorporatIm. Pdnied h USA