J3ome Appiances UseAndCare c P A Note to You..... 2 Dryer Safety....3-4 Parts and Features... 5 Operating Your Dryer... 6 Before starting your dryer...6 Starting your dryer... 6 Stopping/restarting your dryer..... 6 Seecting the right cyce and setting... 7 Understanding the End-of-Cyce signa..... 8 Using the drying rack... 11 Caring for Your Dryer....12-5 Laundry Tips..... 16-19 Troubeshooting....20-21 Requesting Assistance or Service..... 22 Index... 23 Warranty... 24 I-800-44-ROPER Ca us with questions or comments. PART NO. 3401084
A Note To You Thank you for buying a Roper@ appiance. Roper appiances give you a the functionaity of name brand appiances at a vaue price. TO ensure you enjoy years of troube-free operation, we deveoped this Use and Care Guide. It contains vauabe information about how to operate and maintain your appiance propery and safey. Pease read it carefuy. Aso, pease compete and mai the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appiance. This card heps us notify you about any new information on your appiance. Pease record your mode s information. Whenever you ca to request set-vice on Mode Number your appiance, you need to know your compete mode number and seria nunber. Seria Number You can find this information on the rn 3de and seria number abe (see diagrams, on Purchase Date page 5 for ocation of abe). Deaer Name Pease aso record the purchase date of your appiance and your deaer s name, Deaer Address address, and teephone number. Deaer Phone Keep this book and the saes sip together in a safe pace for future reference. I - Ca our to-free nurnber 24-hours a day. I-800-447-6737
Dryer Safety Your safety is important to us. This guide contains safety statements under warning symbos. Pease pay specia attention to these syrnbos and foow any instructions given. Here is a brief expanation of the use of the symbo. This symbo wi hep aert you to such dangers as persona injury, burns, fire, and eectrica shock. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 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 vapors and iquids in the vicinity of this or any other appiance. -WHAT TO DO IF YOU SMEL.L GAS: Do not try to ight any appiance. Do not touch any eectrica1 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 iinstructions. If you cannot reach your g/as suppier, ca the fire department. Instaation and service mus: be performed by a quaified instaer, service agency, or the gas suppier. continued on next page 3
To reduce the risk of fire, eectrica shock, or injury to persons when using your dryer, foow basic precautions, incuding the foowing: Read a instructions before using your Do not aow int to buidup inside the dryer. dryer or exhaust system. Ceaning shoud *Dryer must be eectricay grounded. See be done periodicay by a quaified the Instaation Instructions. person. Do not machine wash or machine dry Do not aow chidren to operate, pay with items ceaned, washed, soaked in. or or craw inside your dryer. Supervise spotted with wax, paint, gasoine, oi, dry chidren when your dryer is used near ceaning sovents, or other fammabe chidren. fuids. The fumes can create a fire Do not reach into a dryer if the drum hazard or exposion. Aways hand wash is moving. and ine dry items containing these Insta and/or store dryer where it wi not materias. be exposed to the weather. Do not wash or dry items that are soied Do not tamper with the contros. with vegetabe or cooking oi. These Do not dry rubber, rubber-ike, or heatitems may contain some oi after Iaunsensitive materias with heat. dering. Due to the remaining oi, the fabric may smoke or catch fire by Itsef. Unpug the power suppy cord or turn off eectrica power before attempting to Store fammabe sovents or fuids away service your dryer. Aso, shut off gas from your dryer. vave if you have a gas dryer. Dry ceaning sobents or fuids ShoJd never be put directy into your dryer. When removing from service or discarding a dryer, aways remove the door to Do not et dust, int, paper, rags, chemi- prevent accidenta entrapment. cas, etc. pie up (around or under the dryer. McLean int screen before or after each oad. Understanding your responsibiities Use ony fabric softeners specificay abeed as not being harmfu to the dryer. Be sure that your dryer: -is used ony for jobs normay expected of -is ocated in an area where the home cothes dryers. temperature is above 45 F (i C). -is not used by anyone unabe to operate -is propery instaed in a we-ventiated it propery. room and eveed on a foor that can Never operate the dryer if: support the weight.* - it is not working right (i.e. noisy, too hot). -is connected to the proper outet and - it is damaged. eectrica suppy.* - parts are missing. -is propery connected to fue and - a panes are not in pace. exhaust systems (gas dryers must be -the int screen is oose, damaged or vented outdoors). missing. -is not instaed against draperies or *See the Instaation Instructions for comcurtains, or on carpet.* pete information. -is propery maintained, repaired anc has parts repaced by a quaified Iperson. 4 - SAVE TH ESE INSTRUCTIONS -
Parts and Features The parts and features of your dryer are iustrated beow. Become famiiar with a parts and features before using your dryer. Page references are incuded next to some features. Refer to those pages for more information about the features. 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 Cyce contro (may incude temperature settings*) (PP. 7-8) seector: Start button (P- 61 Lint screen (P. 12) Dryer drum _ZC_ Mode and seria number abe (P. 2) Side-swing door* \ \ Other doors: Fu-width hamper door* Other features not shown: End-of-Cyce signa* (p. 8) Drying rack* (p. 11) Lint signa* (p. 12) Mini-hamper door* *On some modes
Operating Y our Dryer The information in this section heps you earn to use your dryer efficienty and safey. Refer to Laundry Tips on page 16 for additiona information on sorting, oading, and drying most types of washabes. Before starting your dryer Before using your dryer, wipe the dryer drum with a damp coth to remove dust from storing and shipping. Starting your dryer 1. Load cothes into the dryer and cose the door. 3. If your dryer has a Temperature Seector, set it to the desired setting (see page 9). 2. Turn the Cyce Contro Knob to the desired cyce. Use the Energy Preferred Automatic Setting (*) to dry most oads (see page 7). 4. Press the Start Button. NOTE: Your dryer stops automaticay cyce ends. when a Stopping/restartin!g your dryer You can stop your dryer anytime during a cyce. To stop the dryer, either: 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. To restart the dryer: 1. Cose the door. 2. Seect a new cyce and temperature (if desired). 3. Press the Start Button.
Seecting the right cyce and setting The foowing pages describe the cyces on your dryer. Refer to the charts on pages 9-10 for hep in seecting drying cyces. Drying guideines Aways foow care abe directions when they are avaiabe. To dry deicate fabrics, rubber, pastic, and heat-sensitive fabrics, aways use the No Heat/Fuff or Air cyce (depending on mode), or dry these items on a ine or rack (see page 10). 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 especiay important for permanent press, knits, and synthetic fabrics. Overdrying can cause shrinkage, static cing, and damage some fabrics. Refer to pages 16-9 for information about: - sorting cothes for drying - choosing oad sizes - drying tips - using dryer fabric softeners - saving energy - drying specia-care items. Cyce Automatic descriptions Cyce(s) Dry most oads using the Energy Preferred Automatic Setting (+). 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. After the coo-down, the Cyce Contro Knob automaticay turns to an OFF area and tumbing stops. 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. Some dryer modes offer high heat and ow heat Automatic cyces. Seect the cyce to match your oad (see page 9). Timed Cyce(s) Use a Timed cyce to compete drying if some items are damp after Automatic drying. Timed drying is aso usefu for: Deicate items and sma oads that need a short drying time. Buky items and arge oads that require a ong drying time. NOTE: Some modes offer high heat and ow heat Timed cyces (see page 9). 7
No Heat/Fuff Air Cyce (on some modes) or Use the No Heat/Fuff or Air cyce to fuff or a r dry bedding, pastic tabecoths, foam pi - ows, sneakers, etc. See the Warning and the chart on page 10 for more information about this unheated cyce. NOTE: If your mode does not have a No Heat/ Fuff or Air cyce, ine dry heat-sensitive items. Damp Dry Cyce (on some modes) Use the Damp Dry cyce to dry items to damp eve or to dry items that do not require an entire drying cyce. Two exampes are heavy cottons, such as jeans, which you co not want to become stiff, or cotton cothes which are easier to press when damp. Wrinke (on some Free modes) The Wrinke Free cyce removes wrinkes from cothes that have been packed in a suitcase or coset, 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. WRINKLE PREVENT Feature (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 feature tumbes the oad without heat every few minutes up to 45 minutes after the cyce ends. This tumbing rearranges and fuffs the oad to avoid wrinkes. You do not have to set the Cyce Contro Knob for the WRINKLE PREVENT feature. If you do not open the dryer door within a few minutes after the cyce stops, the WRINKLE PREVENT feature takes over to protect the oad. A signa sounds every few minutes when WRINKLE PREVENT is running. The signa and cyce stop when you open the dryer door. Understanding the End-of-Cyce signa (on some modes) The dryer sounds a signa to et you know when the cyce is finished. The signa is hepfu when you are drying permanent press, synthetics, and other items that shoud be removed from the dryer as soon as it stops. The signa is not adjustabe turned off. and cannot be 8
Drying cyces chart Use the chart beow to guide you when making drying seections. The chart suggests heat settings and drying times for various oads. NOTES: Use an Automatic cyce to dry most oads. Use a Timed cyce ony if the recommended Automatic cyce is not avaiabe. If some types of oads in the chart have more than one suggested temperature setting, choose the owest setting avaiabe on your dryer. Aways foow care abe directions when they are avaiabe. TYPE OF LOAD AUTOMATIC CYCLE* TIMED CYCLE (heat settings) (minutes) High Medium** Low High Low COTONS AND LINENS Extra Heavy Bedspreads, mattress pads, quits J 70-80 Heavyweight Towes, jeans, corduroys, work cothes J 50-60 Mediumweight Sheets, cotton underwear, diapers J Lightweight J 40-50 Batistes, organdies, ingerie J 20-30 PERMANENT PRESS, SYNTHETICS AND BLENDS Heavyweight Work cothes, jackets, raincoats J 40-50 Mediumweight Shirts, pay cothes, sheets, sacks J J 30-40 Lightweight Lingerie, bouses, dresses J 20-30 KNITS Heavyweight Cottons, rayons, bends, T-shirts, J 40-50 sacks, shirts Mediumweight Synthetics (poyester, acryic, etc.), J 30-40 dress sacks, skirts, sweaters Lightweight Synthetics (poyester, acryic, etc.) and J 20-30 bends, ingerie, bouses, dresses DELICATES*** Sheer curtains (2 or 3 panes :, gauze, ace, etc. I *Check mark J denotes recommended heat setting. Seect the setting avaiabe on your dryer. **Setting avaiabe ony on dryer modes with separate Temperature Seector. ***No Heat/Fuff or Air cyce (if avaiabe), or ine drying is aso recommended for deicate fabrics. (See page 10.) 9
No Heat/Fuff or Air cyce, or ine drying The chart beow incujes exampes of Ctems that require drying without heat. IJse the No Heat/Fuff or Air cyce (if avaiabe on your dryer mode), or pace the items on a ine or rack to air dry. NOTES: Heat-sensitive fabrics shoud not be cried in the dryer. Line dry bonded or aminated fiabrics. Aways foow care abe directions when they are avaiabe. TYPE OF LOAD Fire Hazard Do not dry heat-sensitive fabrics, pastic, rubber, or some stuffed items with heat. Use the No Heat/Fuff or Air cyce, if avaiabe, or ine dry these items on a ine or rack. Faiure to do so coud resut in fire or damaged items. NO HEAT/FLUFF or AIR Cyce* (minutes) DELICATE FABRICS Sheer curtains (2 or 3 panes), gauze, ace, etc. (Use No Heat/Fuff or Air cyce if ow heat is not avaiabe. See page 9.) RUBBER, PLASTIC, HEAT-SENSITIVE FABRICS Foam Rubber-Piows, padded bras, stuffed toys Make sure coverings are securey stitched. Shake and fuff piows by hand severa times during the No Heat/Fuff or Air cyce. Make sure piows are competey dry. Foam rubber piows take a ong time to dry. Pastic-Shower curtains, tabecoths Rubber-backed rugs Oefin, Poypropyene, Sheer nyon COTTON AND CANVAS SHOES. Pace severa bath towes in the dryer to act as a buffer, or pace shoes on a drying rack if your dryer has one. Remove shoes from dryer whie sti damp. Stretch shoes ard aow to air dry. 20-30 20-30 20-30 40-50 1 O-20 30-40 Reset cyce as needed to compete crying. 10
Using the drying rack (Avaiabe as an accessory on some modes) The drying rack ets you dry items that you 5. Seect the Timed drying cyce (and may not want to tumbe. The rack does not temperature if needed) or the No Heat/ move, but the drum turns. 1. Fit rear egs of the rack into Fuff or Air cyce (see pages 7-8). 6. Press the Start Button. indentations in the back wa of the dryer. 2. Lower the front so the egs rest on the dryer opening. 3. Put wet items on top of the rack. Leave space between the items so air can reach a surfaces. NOTE: Make sure nothing hangs over the edge of the rack. 4. Cose the door. NOTES: See the chat-t beow for suggested cyces and settings for the different types of items that might best be rack dried. The rack must be removed for norma tumbing. Drying time wi depend on how much moisture the items hod. The foowing chart suggests drying times. RACK DRY CYCLE TEMPERATURE TIME (minutes] Woo sweaters Timed LOW 60 (Bock to shape and ay fat on,the rac:k) Stuffed toys or piows (Cotton or poyester fiber fied) Timed LOW 60 Stuffed toys or piows No Heat/Fuff None; 90 (Foam rubber fied) or Air cyce is unheated. Sneakers or canvas shoes 30-40 *Reset cyce as needed to compete drying. 11
Caring for Your Dryer Proper care of your dryer can extend its ife. This section expains propery and safey. Ceaning the int scxeen Every oad ceaning The int screen is ocated under a id on top of the dryer. Cean it before each oad,, A screen bocked by int can increase dryig time. To cean: 1. Open the id and pu the int screen straight out. iiz 2. Ro int off the screen with - your fingers. Do not rinse or._ : wash screen to remove int. Wet int is hard to remove. i Ezf! 3. Push the int screen firmy back into pace and cose the id. IMPORTANT: Do not run the dryer with the int screen oose, damaged, bocked, or missing. Doing so can cause overheatins and damage to both the dryer and fabrics. Some towes made of synthetic fibers and natura fibers (poyester and cotton bemnds) may shed more int than other towes, causing your dryer s int screen to fi up faster. Be sure to remove int from the int screen before and after drying new towes. Lint signa d- how to care for your dryer As needed ceaning Laundry detergents and fabric softeners can cause a residue buidup on the int screen. Cean the int screen with a nyon brush every six months or more frequenty if it becomes cogged due to a residue buidup. Use the foowing method: I. Wet both sides of int screen with hot water. 2. Wet a nyon brush with hot water and iquid detergent; scrub int screen with the brush to remove residue buidup. 3. 4. Rinse screen with hot water. Thoroughy dry int screen with a cean towe; repace in dryer. (on some modes) The int signa (a whiste tone) NOTE: Cean your int screen before each indicates excessive int is pre- oad. Do not wait for the int signa. sent on your int screen. A fu int screen restricts airfow and reduces drying efficiency. When you hear the signa, stop the dryer and cean the int screen. 12
Ceaning the dryer interior Garments which contain unstabe dyes, such as denim bue jeans or brighty coored cotton items, may discoor the dryer interior. To cean dryer drum: 1. Make a paste with detergent and very warm water. 2. Appy paste to a soft coth and scrub area unti a excess dye is removed. La 3. Wipe thoroughy with a damp coth. 4. Tumbe a oad of rags to dry. Vacation care 1. Unpug power suppy cord or turn ofi eectrica power suppy. 2. Cean int screen. Exposion Hazard Turn off the eectrica power before ceaning the dryer interior. Make sure the dryer is coo. Use nonfammabe ceaner. Faiure to do so coud resut in eectrica shock or injury, fire, or exposion. 13
Removing accumuated int Lint can gather inside the dryer and be a fue for fire. Lint shoud 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 questions, pease ca our to-free number: -800-447-6737. Eectrica Shock 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. 5. Reconnect and eve dryer again, if necessary. Eectric Thermostats Heater Heat eeme box terminas dryer with back pane removed gnitor 1 Gas dryer with ower front access removed pane 14
If 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 corner (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 ower cip inset of View 13). Sowy pu front pane forward, disengaging pane from drum. (Drum wi drop sight,y.) 5. Move front pane aside and rest edge against side of dryer. Avoid disconnecting wire cips (see wire cips inset of View B) or damaging wires. 6. Remove int from area shown in gas dryer iustration on page 14 with s oft brush or vacuum ceaner. Avoid darnag,- ing wires, funne, or ignitor. 7. Reassembe in reverse order. Before cosing the top, check the foowing: -Drum sea must be fared o~ut (see drum sea insets of View B) and p~*opery positioned against pane at back of drum. Rotate drum countercockwise one fu turn to check drum sea. -Bet shoud be centered and tight Ion dryer drum. -Wire cips which hod the door switch wires must be anchored in sot in top of front pane (see wire cips inset of View B) and aong top edge of sid e pane. Door wires must not touch drum when dryer is operating. See Warning, page 14. 8. 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). View A View B For more information, Remove screws before opening top ca our to-free number 24 hours a day. -800-447-6737 1 15
Laundry Tips This section provides information on preparing cothes for drying, drying guideines, and instructions for drying specia-care items. NOTES: Refer to your washer Use and Care Guide for proper washing techniques and additiona aundry tips. See pages 3 and 4 of this book for Important Safety Information. Sorting cothes Separate dark from ight coors; coorfast from non- a coorfast. Items propery sorted for washing are usuay propery sorted for drying. w Separate heavy fabrics (denim, towes) from ight fabrics (synthetics, permanent press). Choosing oad 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. Drying tips Cose zippers, snaps, and hooks to avoid snagging other items. Remove heatsensitive trim that can be damaged by drying. Tie strings and sashes so they wi not tange. Check garments to make sure a spots and stains were removed during the wash. Do not tumbe dry soied or stained items. Heat may permanenty set stains. Separate int givers (towes, chenie) from int takers (corduroy, synthetics, permanent press). When possibe, turn int takers inside out. 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. Sharp or meta objects can damage your dryer. Check pockets for pins, cips, money, bots, nuts, etc. Do not ay these objects on your dryer after emptying pockets. Turn pockets inside out. 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. 16
Using dryer fabric softeners Dryer fabric softeners are recommended for reducing static cing and for softening fabrics. Aways foow package instructions carefuy. Put one 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. Remove fabric softener stains by wetting the stains and rubbing them with iquid detergent or bar soap and rewash. Some fabric softeners can cog the int screen and sow drying. Use fabric softeners abeed as dryer safe. Saving energy Use an 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). -Sot-t oads by fabric weight and type. 17
Drying specia-care items Most garments and househod texties have manufacturer s care abes with aundering instructions. Aways foow care abe directions when they are avaiabe. Pages 9 and 10 incude drying instructions for most types of washabes. The chart beow provides drying instructions for specia-care washabes. ITEMS Bankets wooens and Cotton, rayon, synthetic bankets Eectric bankets, eectric sheets, wooen bankets, washabe wooen garments Curtains, sipcovers Draperies, sipcovers Diapers, cothes Eastic baby items Fame-retardant finishes DRYING INSTRUCTIONS Machine drying knitted wooens is not recommended. Bock to shape 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. Dry as recommended for permanent press fabrics on page 9. If manufacturer recommends machine drying: 1. Pace one or two dry towes in the dryer and preheat 3-5 minutes on a high setting. This wi dry bankets faster and hep avoid piing. 2. Put banket in dryer with warm towes. Set contro for 20 minutes. 3. Check after 10 minutes. Remove when sti damp. Overdrying and ong 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. 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. Wash and dry sma items in a mesh bag or piowcase for convenient handing. Remove diapers and cotton knit items whie sti sighty damp. They wi fee softer, shrink ess, and be easier to fod. Remove from dryer whie sti sighty damp. Some items have been treated with a fame-retardant finish to improve their resistance to burning. Such items are ceary abeed. To retain fame-retardant quaities through continuous use and washing, cean and dry according to the manufacturer s instructions.
ITEMS Napped Corduroy, veveteen items Quited, downfied items Snowsuits, jackets DRYING INSTRUCTIONS Dry separatey or with simiar coors to avoid int transfer. Foow care abe instructions. 1. Remove from dryer whie there is sti a trace of moisture. 2. Smooth, reshape, and air dry before putting away. Foow care abe instructions. 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. Check abe for fiber content, then foow care abe instructions. 1 Nyon or poyester 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 noncoorfast dryer drum carefuy to remove any dye or int that can be transferred items to other oads. See Ceaning the dryer interior on page 13. Washabe knits 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. 19
Troubeshooting Most aundering probems are easiy soved if you understand the cause. Check the foowing ist for aundry probems you may have and their possibe causes. Aso refer to the next page for a dryer checkist which can hep you sove some simpe probems without caing for service. If you sti need hep, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page 22. Common aundrv probems PROBLEM CAUSE Greasy spots Dryer fabric softener impropery used. See manufacturer s directions. Drying soied items. Lint Fu int screen. (See page 12.) Shrinking Overdrying. Load not propery sorted. Overdrying, especiay synthetic fabrics that cause int-attracting static eectricity. Load size too big or heavy. Sow drying Fu int screen. Tissue or paper eft in pockets, Piing (surface fuzz caused by norma wear and aundering) attracts int. Fabric type and quaity inappropriate for drying. Dryer settings incorrect for fabric type Manufacturer s care abe instructions not foowed. Load too arge and buky to dry quicky. Dryer ocated in room with temperature beow 45 F(7 C). Stains Drying soied items. Exhaust duct cogged, restricted, or too ong. Dryer fabric softener impropery used. See manufacturer s directions. Dryer interior stained. (See page 13 for ceaning procedures.) Static eectricity Wrinking Overdrying. Dryer fabric softener impropery used. See manufacturer s directions. Load incudes synthetics, synthetic bends, permanent press, and knit fabrics that buid up static eectricity. Overoading. Overdrying, especiay permanent press and synthetic fabrics. Cothes eft in dryer at end of cyce. 20
Common dryer probems Before caing for service, check these: q Is the power cord pugged in? Have you bown a fuse or tripped the circuit breaker? For gas dryers, are the vaves open on the dryer and the suppy ine? Is the dryer door firmy cosed? Are the contros set in an ON position? R Did you firmy push the Start Button? Is int screen cogged with int? SIs exhaust duct or outside exhaust hood cogged with int? Is the dryer making noise? Is there a thumping sound from support roers indicating dryer has not been used for awhie? Is the int signa sounding? If you sti have probems, see Requesting Assistance or Service on page 22 21
Reauestina Assistance or Before caing for assistance or service, pease check Troubeshooting on pages 20-21. It may save you the cost of a service ca. If you sti need hep, foow the instructions beow. 1. If you need assistance*... Ca our to-free number. Dia II to-free from anywhere in the U.S.A.: -800-44-ROPER -800-447-6737 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 Whirpoo Corporation 2000 North M-63 Benton Harbor, M 49022-2692 Pease incude a daytime phone number in your correspondence. 2. If you need service*... Contact the deaer from whom you purchased the appiance or the authorized servicer in your SERVICE area. For hep finding an authorized servicer in your area, ca is our to-free teephone number in Step 1. 3. 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 Roper@ 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 2 or ca our to-free number in Step 1. 4. 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 Whirpoo have faied to resove your probem. Major Appiance Consumer Action Pane 20 North Wacker Drive Chicago, IL 60606 *When asking 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. MACAP wi in turn inform us of your action. 22
Index This index is aphabetica. Look for the word or phrase you want, and then ook for the page number. TOPIC PAGE TOPIC PAGE AIR cyce... 8 NO HEAT/FLUFF cyce... 8 AIR DRYING... 10 AUTOMATIC cyces... 7 CARE/CLEANING Dryer interior... 13 Lint screen... 12 Vacation... 13 CHOOSING LOAD SIZES..... 16 CYCLES... 7-8 DAMP DRY cyce... 8 DRYER Fabric softeners... 17 Features... 5 Restarting..... 6 Safety... 3-4 Starting..... 6 Stopping... 6 DRYING Cyces chart..... 9 Rack... 11 Specia-care items... 18 Tips... 16 END-OF-CYCLE signa... 8 ENERGY Preferred setting..... 6-7 Saving... 17 LINE DRYING... 16 LINT Accumuated... 14 Remova... 12 Signa... 12 LOAD Size... 16 Sorting..... 16 SAFETY... 3-4 SELECTING CYCLE/SETTING..... 7 SERVICE... 22 SORTING LOAD... 16 START BUTTON... 6 TEMPERATURE SELECTOR... 6, 9 TIMED cyces... 7 TROUBLESHOOTING Dryer probems..... 21 Laundry probems... 20 WARRANTY..... 24 WRINKLE FREE cyce... 8 WRINKLE PREVENT feature... 8 23
ROPER Dryer Warranty LENGTH OF WARRANTY 1 WHAT WE WILL PAY FOR FULL ONE-YEAR FSP@ repacement parts and repair abor to correct WARRANTY defects in materias or workmanship. Service must be (from date of purchase) I WHAT WE WILL NOT PAY FOR orovided bv an authorized Roper service company. 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. 6-94 This Roper appiance is warranted by Whirpoo Corporation. Under no circumstances sha it be iabe under this warranty for incidenta or consequentia damages. 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 Requesting Assistance or Service section of this book and then, if you need additiona hep, ca our to-free teephone number, -800-44-ROPER (-800-447-6737), from anywhere in the U.S.A. PrInted on recyced paper- 10% post-consumer waste 50% recovered mater& PART NO. 3401084 0 1994 Whirpoo Corporation @ Registered Trademark/TM Trademark of Whirpoo, US A. Prmted I U.S.A.