Anyone familiar with coin-op dryers?

[White Horseradish]

We wound up getting a Maytag Commercial washer and dryer set for the rental property. This worked swimmingly for a couple of months, but the other day the dryer mysteriously stopped taking coin.

You can drop coins in all you want, but nothing happens, it stays at 0 minutes.

I'm not wholly sure how the coin mechanism works and what to check. And I can't get a hold of the people we got it from.

[Brad Johnson]

Coin detection will be either mechanical (microswitch) or optical (eye) unless you got a pretty high end model with electronic coin sorting.  Pull the mech and see which one you have.  Chances are there is a schematic and a parts list taped somewhere inside the case, on the back, or inside the rear access panel.  You'll need that, too.

Brad

[Jim147]

The thermal fuse may include the neutral for the coin mech. I've never had any of the dryers apart. The washers are the ones people always destroy.

jim