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Also, since noone else has pointed it out, you don't have to replace either the receptacle or the pigtail (cord). Run down to Home Depot and get a receptacle that matches your dryer plug and a plug that matches your apartment and a small piece of wire and make an adapter. Combined with the correct breaker as Mark pointed out, This would be a great solution. Plus you can hang on to it when you move so that you can use either kind of receptacle at the next place. Then again, it's probably just as easy if not easier to change the pigtail on your dryer to match. It's just screw terminals on most dryers.


It's even easier still to just change the receptacle. It's easier to open the junction box than the drier. Probably only $10 for the receptacle, I would suspect the pigtail would be more.

Generally speaking, less connections is better than more.