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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4867966, member: 105098"]yes, quarter is definitely an industrial dryer coin, caught between the spinning inner tub and the stationary outer drum on edge and spinning for a while. the edge is pushed in and up to the front and back of the coin, surfaces look like it's spent time in a fire almost. not quite that bad as a fire though. </p><p><br /></p><p>consumer driers tend to max out at 135F top end, however the commercial and industrial ones that businesses use run up to about 190F. for reference cotton (which is combustible) will start to break down and generate it's own heat and scorch at around 205F.\</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, some will say "a dryer can't scorch metal" this is true of residential dryers, not so of commercial/industrial dryers that are run constantly at high temperatures, and in no time a coin trapped between the inner tub, and outer drum can look like this quarter pictured. Just ask the Maytag repair man![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4867966, member: 105098"]yes, quarter is definitely an industrial dryer coin, caught between the spinning inner tub and the stationary outer drum on edge and spinning for a while. the edge is pushed in and up to the front and back of the coin, surfaces look like it's spent time in a fire almost. not quite that bad as a fire though. consumer driers tend to max out at 135F top end, however the commercial and industrial ones that businesses use run up to about 190F. for reference cotton (which is combustible) will start to break down and generate it's own heat and scorch at around 205F.\ Anyways, some will say "a dryer can't scorch metal" this is true of residential dryers, not so of commercial/industrial dryers that are run constantly at high temperatures, and in no time a coin trapped between the inner tub, and outer drum can look like this quarter pictured. Just ask the Maytag repair man![/QUOTE]
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