vacuum clothes dryer

Step 4 Use

Make sure that you create a vacuum. This will suck the water off of the garment.

Comments

[dsanco]

What I am looking for, and this might just fit the bill, is a way to apply vacuum to my tumble dryer. Open the dryer door, the screen will keep clothes in dryer, bucket should be big enough to trip the door closed sensor, and drying time for clothes should be cut in at least half, depending on vacuum.

[glorybe]

I would use caution in that many electrical components count on air flow to avoid over heating and fire. A sharp engineer might be able to show us the energy consumed if a known pile of clothing is saturated with a measured quantity of water and a high vacuum is pulled, I suspect it would use more energy than tumbling in hot air. But nothing beats a common clothes line. A small vacuum container can work wonders for pulling water out of wrist watches and electronic items.

[fiducianullus]

 For electronics a vacuum will work but is overkill. WD-40 displaces water. Just spray it.

[dsanco]

Thank you Glorybe! I agree when applying vacuum to the dryer care must be taken to supply it to the chamber only and not to the entire cabinet. for one thing the cabinet might collapse, being thin sheet metal in a ballanced pressure environment. Here is a link to some comercial applications. I don't know if tumbling is involved at all comercially but I think in clothing it would be a bonus.
http://www.mcgillairpressure.com/vac/textdocs/aboutus.html

[Spinergy]

no wet/dry vac really needed, just put the vacuum hose hole in the side of the bucket towards the top and the water will collect at the bottom of the bucket. This is basically how wet/dry vacs work. If you do use a standard vac, just remove the bag so you don't wind up with a soggy paper mess from the humidity. Newer "bagless" vacs would work great.

[Derin]

the bagless vacs would work well because the container+filter combo is WATER. ;)

[vinisterz]

where do we put the clothes to dry though ? in the bucket or outside the mesh wire ?

[Brick-To-Face]

I think you are supposed to attach a vaccuum cleaner hose to the hole, when the air is sucked out it will create a low-pressure environment, (not quite a vacuum), and the water's boiling temperature will be substantially lower, the water will turn to steam/vapor and get sucked out of the bucket. When you hear an increasing strain on the vacuum, that means there is no gas left to remoe (no water either) you know you're done.

[Scwounch]

I think he means you would place the garment on top of the bucket/mesh. That's the only way I can see getting a vacuum. And it does seem that a wetvac would be needed.

[sharath]

how to create a vacuum? I suspect the project is incomplete!

[hensonkid]

Does this have to be a wetvac? Do you divert the water?

[Chas]

Create a vacuum how?!