garage HEATER from old Clothes DRYER electric Solar Powered?

today i'm gonna convert an old electric dryer into a shop heater but not just any shop heater this thing's gonna be amazing it's gonna put out about four times the amount of heat than anything you can plug into a conventional outlet wanna see how it's done keep watching so this was a non-working dryer but i'm going to go over the most common things they're really simple to make these things work and why they kind of go out so if you find a free one on the side of the road something like that you can get it working again for dirt dirt cheap this is a maytag but it is a whirlpool design so this is like a whirlpool kenmore uh whirlpool also sold them to like roper so a lot of them are exactly the same they look like this they're gonna be the exact same so take out a little filter um some screws here here's pop pop that pops off you're inside a couple little screws here a couple little screws there and this whole front this is your belt suspension drum the whole door just comes off it is you know besides taking off a couple screws pretty much this is just as easy the belt will stay down there this is an amazing fire pit and that's about all you got to a dryer belt motor one side spins this belt which spins the drum and the other side spins a big old fan which is the air flow through this whole thing over here is your heating element and so hot air is pulled through here by that fan down there so it's pulled through here into the close back through here across this filter media so right behind here this uh this this your uh your screen is just sitting right behind here then the fan down there blows it out the vent hole so it pulls air across through the fan and out on the back here you can see the heating element is in here where the air is pulled just room air is pulled through here and into the dryer across there and i just removed a couple screws through here let's pull through here through with the fan the fan is right here the other side is connected to spin the drum and then it just blows directly out here that's it the most common failure for these is if the dryer works everything it doesn't get hot the heating element coil is broken in here about a 20 fix other than that there's a little um this particular one had a little thermal fuse right here that just blew so a little fuse i just joined the wires together it works just for testing purposes but that's it um so this is a five dollar thrown away dryer you know a dryer thrown away for a five dollar quick fix it so i want to utilize all these original controls because there's nothing wrong with them if i can set the heater to be on for you know 70 minutes an hour and a half whatever it is i think it probably goes up to about 90 80 minutes you know if i just want the heater go on for 30 minutes very very useful this one has a low medium high that's a useful function and it has an on off it's not complicated kind of looks like it is but there's really not that many wires um they go to just two or three spots um now we got to this is the main like back support backbone for the dryer and the motor um actually goes through there you see the motor can't fit through that way and the fan is way bigger down there so it can't fit through so uh i'm gonna look at that for a minute either gotta just either just cut it away um i might wanna utilize some of it for my framework for my heater which i probably will do but i can remove i might need to start removing these sides i'm gonna look at it for a minute we'll be right back so the heater coil is one of the main reasons it'll just not produce heat everything else works fine and it won't produce heat i'll show you that real quick it's just held on two screws and this is this is a 20 part all it is is these wires right here that just get red hot and a lot of times they'll just get so you know heat cycled that they'll just break somewhere and it's as easy as just taking a multi-meter if you can't see the brake usually you can just see the brake but just take any sort of multimeter one with a continuity tester which what most of them beep when you when you touch them so if we just touch this side and this side of course with everything unplugged don't be an idiot see there's connection my heater coil works in this everything works in this dryer now um make sure you get it working before you if you're going to do this like make it work before you start cutting it all apart because then it's it's much easier to diagnose stuff with it as a complete unit than it is to tear everything apart so essentially the cold air comes in here hot air comes out here gets pulled across here just through this this is just nylon yup hot air directly onto plastic and just out and then you have a couple little um like regulating thermostats right here that you know will turn off the heat if this thermostat right here gets too hot it'll turn the heating coil off off and on as it needs to on here there's a bunch of safety mechanisms right here here so if this gets too hot um because not not enough cold air is being pulled across it if this gets too hot it'll turn off the heating coil um same with down here there's there's a couple different ones down here uh pretty basic system we're gonna keep all these safeties in in check so i'm gonna reverse operation a little bit i'm going to have cold room air get pulled across this fan pushed out here and then that cold air is gonna blow across my heating coil but we should be able to there we go half the dryer's gone now we're left with this this was cut out right here because i need to change the uh the outlet or went out your vent pipe to the inside here i just cut out a little notch and so here's my heating coil and that's going to back up to right here the heating coil only goes to here so a lot of this is unnecessary so i can actually even cut this off wherever i deem it doesn't need to direct anywhere i can go just go straight out just cut that off flush and then put some slits in the back to start bending the metal out i'm going to put a little block off plate here but um it kind of comes i don't know if you see kind of you know flowed so the air could come out here i want it to flow that way so i just beat a little piece of sheet metal a little concave and i'm going to set that in there and what that's going to do is that just directs the airflow out the other way i'm gonna weld this stuff in welding is a hundred percent not necessary you could just simply put that on and use one of the million sheet metal screws you removed from this and just put some sheet metal screws i'm just gonna put some tack welds because it's quicker for me so i cut down this piece and it went just like this um kind of don't want stuff falling in it i could put a some screen across it or something i think i'm just going to rotate it and so it pulls cold air so this piece right here is supplying all the extra sheet metal to make stuff so now i've you know where this was kind of split open now i just kind of bend up a piece of sheet metal and i'll screw it on there i mean it's just a flat piece of sheet metal kind of bend around i'll form it to this so this creates a a nicer opening and then i may form this or add some more sheet metal to that so it forms to go into here better but we'll just kind of bend this out set this around you can see that it flows out nicely now you can see with that piece right in there it just flows out nicely okay this was mounted to the heater box the heater coil box and i cut that off and i mounted this i mounted this this is just this was actually the original mount the mounted on the bottom this is just a scrap piece this actually held on to the um the top lid held it on kind of slit so i made this all mount on here so it's secure and then the heater coil will go right in here and so this fan will blow directly through there all the way through here and then right here what i did is i decided to cut out the same pattern as this so this will slide over there so this will be the front and this will be where the heat comes out into the room and the hole i cut out the stuff i cut out for right there is a perfect patch for the bottom because now i need a bottom patch and that'll slide over there and this will be on the front and it also gives me the ability to slide this in and out a little bit to get my fitment just right gives me you know probably two inches of play you know depending on where i put the uh the face piece move the center the sensor that was right here um i can actually keep it there it'll just be mounted down here same same difference so sensors and safety stuff is all in the same spot so that's the piece i formed up and then i took the outlet the actual outlet that was on the other side and i just kind of put that on there and smooshed it where i want and everything is just tack welded it doesn't need to be perfect it can leak air it does not matter nothing is an airtight fit in these systems this side the bottom and the other side from the factory are all just one piece they just bend them and we cut that off because we need to be quite a bit more narrow so i'm going to reattach this onto here and you can just overlap it and put some sheet metal screws um i'm just gonna weld it not a big deal but so you can see a line right here so what i did is i notched right here notch right here and i'll take my angle grinder and i'll just score just lightly score the inside right here and that'll just create a weak point and then i'll just bend this right over and it'll bend and give me a perfectly crisp line right there and that'll lay down over the entire top then this side right here i'll likely just chop it just straight off and then have this way over the top and then have another little piece of it bend again okay i got this cut off flush and i got this scored where it can bend over but i just kind of want to finalize stuff in here i could extend the wires and stuff but i'm just trying to do it with the length of wires i have this is the back of the dryer where the main cord you know where this plugs in it actually bolts to those three things and just sits on the back um i thought about where i wanted to have i really don't have any room on the back so i'm going to mount the entire bracket i think right here and then you can just reach in the front and bolt those on and the cord uh i could just run the cord directly out the side but i think i'm just gonna run it out the back we'll see i'll run it out the back and if i don't like that i can drill a hole run out the side for now i'm just gonna run out the back everything else is reaching this stuff just needs to sit in this area a couple sensors i had two sensors that were on the back of the fan that monitor temperature i don't need those anymore because heat's not going through the fan anymore so they're just kind of they're dumb they don't do anything so i just one's mounted just i just mounted right here for no reason and then the the center that actually went out the little fuse that burned out because got too hot back here that's just bypassed completely but all the other sensors will get hooked up so if this gets too hot if this gets too hot at all it will actually trip it and turn itself off um this is the light for the inside rather than cut out that out of the harness i just screwed it down there's no bulb in it i just screwed it down doesn't matter that just saves me from clipping off wires and taping up wires now you can see the bends um they're actually not bad you can see the cold air intake nothing's going to be back here you can see the bend on this side so the only thing that has to be modified with the wiring is the door switch and i thought about just wedging this open and just leaving it like that but you know after months of vibration or something it could just if it triggers off it's going to drive me nuts to open the whole thing back up so i just did a test on it and it's these two outside wires the blue and the white just need to be connected together i took the switches out for a minute i'm going to have to stack them one on top of the other but i need to cover this panel i think first and so i have a lot of extra panels laying around this was part of the other side so i'm going to put that over first cut out the hole for the heater and then we'll probably cut out some holes for the switches and and stuff let me get to that but everything's installed i pulled the uh the model number and label case need parts for it in the future off of the door with heat gun and then just stuck it inside here i did take another little scrap of metal right here and just kind of uh made a heat shield a little bit to keep the heat from entering that as much because this is going to radiate heat a little bit but i did spray paint that black i'm going to paint the whole thing black i just wanted to get black underneath my um this is actually aluminum um so i just riveted it to the steel and we'll go from there yeah just choking from junk parts right ginger to that there we go there's the finished product you can hop out now come hop out yep so it's pretty self-explanatory you just put it to a heat setting um to this probably about 80 minutes the last couple the last probably uh 20-30 minutes is generally like just a cool down where it's just blowing air over the clothes or but then i just put it to 70 minutes push the heat button and instantly hot air and it gets to the point i mean it puts out a lot of hot air now it puts out the btus of roughly four of these full-size ones whatever size they are all these like standard plug-in ones you all put out the exact same amount of heat um and this puts out about four times the amount and it blows like i mean that's an amazing fan back there this is pushing heat out 10 feet across the room i can hold my hand here for probably about 10 seconds and it gets too hot i let it run for about 30 minutes and nothing gets hot on here the top gets like warm just because any heat residual heat off the box is kind of raising up but it never gets over maybe like 100 degrees or something just it's just warm to the touch this you can only touch for maybe about two seconds i mean it's hot but nothing even you know because this isn't actually touching nothing around here gets hot everything if you block off the flow i actually blocked off the flow from the intake on the back the safety triggers automatically turn off the heat function turn off the coil and it just blows air through cools up down once it cools off heats right back up so everything works so something fell in front of it you know if i you know if a clothing or something fell in front of it it would trigger the safety switch and it would never catch anything on fire just like it's supposed to all the safety's there actually works pretty freaking good so months back i built a gas version of this and that was the world's first ever never seen it before i haven't seen it since gas dryer turned into a shop heater and i have that actually tucked up against the roof and that puts out good heat but you guys asked for an electric version and so here you go the world's first fully completed full like almost retail looking gas dryer turn into a shop heater that should function for you know decades to come parts are available because it just is a dryer you can you know parts are cheap you can look read the model number off of it and order parts if the heater element goes out or switch or anything else but make sure if you want to build something like this you read the video description because sometimes i do little updates and stuff like that over you know over the first week over the first months months years and i put all the details down in the video description of what i plan to do it actually doesn't weigh very much 30 pounds could be tucked under like a vehicle something else like that you know yes it runs off 240 which most people don't have but i mean if you're getting a tesla you know you could plug this into the same port as your tesla when you're not charging that thing every night but uh thanks for watching guys hope you guys enjoyed that if you want to see the gas version of this check out that video right after here but um i have that tucked up over there so thanks for watching guys have a good one bye introducing the amazing ginger and that is that fancy come on good job can you jump up good job stay hey say goodbye to people ready ready jump that's it good job see you later goodbye guys

Channel: sixtyfiveford

Views: 422,224

Keywords: Furnace, heater, heat, gas, log, stove, oil, burner, garage, workshop, space, solar, motor oil, waste, lift, ford, home, eco, appliance, repair, weld, fabricate, make, maker, diy, cheap, craftsman, kobalt, milwaukee, husky, dewalt, tools, wera, german tools, knipix, vise grips, pliers, hammer, vintage, xcelite, fuller, Sears, pittsburg, pittsburgh, pro, harbor freight, icon, yukon, vulcan, titanium

Id: 0gxbGD5f9og

Length: 20min 14sec (1214 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 06 2021