I am using the stretchable metal type. Not vinyl and not foil. The hose
clamp is 1/2 wide which just makes it except some of the back panel of the
dryer balloons out so you really don't get to have the clamp flush against
the panel because the ballooned out back pushes out the portion with the
adjusting screw.



"Ashton Crusher" wrote in message
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:27:36 GMT, "Art"
wrote:

I'm hooking up my parents electric dryer and the exhaust pipe from this
Whirlpool manufactured unit only sticks out half an inch tops. I remember
having a Whirlpool dryer 25 years ago and it had the same stupid design
making it almost impossible to securly put the duct work on it and clamp
it
down tightly. My Maytag gas dryer has at least an inch or 2 sticking out
which makes sense. Any idea why Whirlpool did it this may? When I had
the
problem 25 years ago, I took off the back and fed the ductwork thru and
attached the clamp and put the back back on. A pain in the rear for a
stupid design.


I have a Kenmore with the short exhaust and was able to hook it up
without any particular trouble. Perhaps the type of external duct you
are hooking it too is the real problem - some of them are so flimsy
it's hard to get them to even go on the outlet, esp the wire/vinyl
ones.