I find there’s three types of hand dryers: the standard kind that blows really hot air to evaporate the water, the ones that blow strongly to push the water off the hands, and the ones that are supposed to do one of these but don’t. At my university almost all of the hand dryers fall into the third category.

Why are hand dryers like this, and am I somehow drying my hands wrong?

  • P1nkman@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I saw one in an airport. I doubt they change then often enough to not go thoroughly a round or two 🤮

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      3 days ago

      They don’t go around more than once… there’s a take-up roll and the clean roll. Of course it also relies on someone changing it when it gets to the end…

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          I mean someone would still have to go and open it up, swap the rolls around, plus it wouldn’t work well since the towels don’t wind up cleanly in the cabinet and they’d still be wet.

          If you’re gonna send someone in to do anything they might as well change the towels while they’re at it.