How to Clean a Spin Dryer? Anyone?

[DeedeeDashwood]

Hi. I have a Creda spin dryer which came to me after one of my older neighbours moved out to live with her niece and redistributed her household items amongst the locals. Several months later, the machine (which I find enormously useful) is starting to niff and I'm unsure what to do about it. Presumably some sort of mould/bacterium is breeding deep in the inner recesses of the contraption, requiring a major sluice-down with bleach or disinfectant, but I've no idea how to proceed. Meanwhile that unmistakable dirty dishcloth smell is beginning to fill the kitchen.

If I simply poured disinfectant solution into the spin dryer, it'd presumably just come straight back out through the drain-off vent. So am I meant to dismantle the whole thing, removing every screw I can see, and then wash every component in bleach or similar? Or is there a simpler way of addressing the issue?

Info about spin dryers is almost non-existent on the Web, because most folk'd see them as Stone Age technology these days, but I surely can't be alone in owning one.

Would anyone care to share their arcane wisdom with me? Thanks.

Probably not the exact model but this manual says you can do a rinse in them, so you can add water with something in. Maybe an old towel to slow the draining then pour bleach water in? It also says to leave the lid unlocked between uses. That should prevent the smell in future.

Youvebeenseeingsos, this manual is a real education. I had absolutely no idea that you could do anything more with a spin dryer than simply use it for spinning water out of clothes that have already been washed, rinsed and wrung out. That said, the idea of putting soapy clothes into a spin dryer and then pouring a gallon of water in on top of them is kid of counterintuitive, like you'd expect the spin dryer to pack up or explode.

I've just poured a jugful of pine disinfectant into my own dryer and amazingly it hasn't come straight back out. I'll leave it there for an hour or so and then try spinning it, which hopefully won't trip every single tripswitch in the consumer unit.....

Thanks for taking the time to respond. 🙂

'Kid of''? What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Kind of.