Or maybe pretty damn good considering.....
Our Creda tumble dryer has not been performing as well as it used to. Longer drying times and sometime not as dry as we would expect despite poking out various bit of fluff etc.
Yesterday I stuck the power meter on it and it read about 1250 watts running and heating and 150 watts on the cooling cycle.
Hmm!
I diagnosed about half the heating power compare with what it should be and sure enough this morning off with its back to find one of the two elements broken.
Looking for the model number I also did a guess at decoding the serial number and its date of manufacture is possibly May 1986 and thinking back sort of fits in with when I built the utility room.
Maybe 30 years life for an element is not too bad eh?
Replacements - no problem on ebay parts shop £21 inc delivery. It will be here Wednesday before the next load of washing at the weekend. The element is rated at 2.2kW so even the sums worked out!
A quick sweep out of more dust, a drop of oil on the drum bearing and we should be good enough for another 30 years maybe?
Bob