"jd" wrote in message
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Hi there,

Wondering if anyone can help. I've got a White Knight condenser tumble
dryer. The water normally collects in a removable plastic tank which
needs emptying after a few uses. However, the water is now no longer
being collected in this tank, the dryer still heats up and the clothes
get dried (eventually!) but I am curious as to what might be wrong.
Also, I'm assuming that the water normally collected in the tank is
simply evaporating into the atmosphere. Any ideas?
Thanks,

Depending on what you are drying you'd sure as hell know if it was
evaporating into the environment as you'd find your kitchen/lounge/utility
room/whatever [delete as appropriate] bathed in steam - have you ever opened
the door about 20 mins in while drying say - jeans? The cloud of wataer
vapour that comes out looks like a dry ice effect - stunning!

If yours is anything like ours (and Bosch and WHite Night seem to have a lot
in common conondenser wise - someone suggested the bosch ones were made by
white knght?) there's a pipe at the back that you can pop off to connect a
drain hose - check that hasn't come adrift.

Failing that - the only other reason I can find for this is that the bottom
corner where the condensate gets pumped up into the drawer could be clogged
with crap. Have you taken the condenser unit out, cleaned that through
thoroughly, cleaned the air path from the drum down to the condenser ad
hoovered that thru - then - stick yer arm into the back behind the condenser
drain channel - it goes *right to the back* of the unit. There you'll
probably find untold crap collected around the back and in the base. If you
feel around you'll probably find something grim and matted and invariable
blue/brown and quite fowl smelling in the corner - it's a case of get out as
much as you can!

As a rule I do this once a month and have never had a blockage.

You could do this more easily and effecively if you too the top and the two
side panels off - as you could get totally inside then - but that's a bit of
an arse as if Bosch and White Knight are the same - they use a pig awful
slot-cum-star head screw that's put in with a threadlock solution - so takes
quite a bit of effort - but quite easy to do if you have 20 mins and are
patient.

When you do get inside there'll be a lot of fluff caught in places you never
imagined it could get - out with the hoover if you are going this far -
and - even consider taking the drive belt plate off he back if it has one -
it gets all sorts of cack in there too.

Have fun! Let us know how you get on....if that doesn't solve it - then I'd
suggest runnning it out in open space and seeing where the water is
going.......I reckon what I've suggested should help work things out tho

[condenser user for - errm - 8 years - and ours gets a real thrasing work
wise!]

Cheers
Dan.