On 11/11/2019 14:00, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 14:14:02 +0000, Matthew Mitchell wrote:

Hi, I was just given a Creda Excel mini dryer.

Check it's not one of the ones that have a recall (at last..) for
catching fire.


Our Miele dryer stopped working, and on checking the code I discovered
it was stuffed up with fibres. The back of the machine was full, and the
exit hose was solid. Goodness knows how it had kept going for the last
20 years without ever being cleaned out. The point, though, is that it
stopped working, without drama. It can't be hard to have a temperature
sensor in the machine that shuts it off if it gets too hot.

I appreciate that Miele is more expensive than Creda, but this is a
foreseeable and serious fire risk, pretty easily avoidable with
appropriate sensors. It's an obvious design criterion.

I extracted a few kilos of very dry, finely shredded fibres from the
machine plus the hose. Normally, the fact the fibres are compressed
would help suppress fire, but when the dryer is running there's air
being blown in to fan any embers.

If Creda have sent out machines that catch fire easily, that's sheer idiocy.