If you have a little access panel you can open and clean out the extra secret lint trap, that might help. I seem to remember that working once (I think a professional repair person showed me where the one on my dryer was. Or washer. It was a while ago.)
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-t - Mar 13, 2024 3:08:41 pm PDT #29146 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Steph L. - Mar 13, 2024 3:14:50 pm PDT #29147 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Hey, Tim just got home and is examining the dryer (he said he was going to just hit it like Fonzie), so I'm going to go mention the secret lint trap!
JenP - Mar 13, 2024 4:06:59 pm PDT #29148 of 30000
Where's the secret lint trap? Now I want to check mine!
-t - Mar 13, 2024 4:44:02 pm PDT #29149 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Mine is on the front lower right, it looks like not much of anything and you have to pry it open with a screwdriver, but sometimes socks and things end up in there and that, I don’t know, messes something else up. Fixed some problem I was having once or twice. If you can Google up a user manual it might tell you where it is?
Steph L. - Mar 13, 2024 4:59:30 pm PDT #29150 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I am not making this up: I went downstairs to tell Tim about the secret lint door, and Tim had the dryer open to poke around at...something, I don't know what, then he closed it and hit the side (like Fonzie), and the damn thing started! I just gaped at him and said "What the fuck? WHAT THE FUCK?" because I really didn't expect anything to actually work. (He did say that when he first tried to turn it on, nothing happened, so at least he doesn't think I hallucinated a non-functional dryer.)
So now the towels are dry. But we're going to get a new dryer in the very near future.
smonster - Mar 13, 2024 5:09:36 pm PDT #29151 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
If it’s an old one, might be worth repairing. New ones don’t last, etc, shaking cane, etc, kids.
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smonster - Mar 13, 2024 5:10:28 pm PDT #29152 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
then he closed it and hit the side (like Fonzie), and the damn thing started!
Ahahaha I love me some percussive maintenance.
smonster - Mar 13, 2024 5:11:56 pm PDT #29153 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Trifecta, because it needs its own post - three years since amyth left us. I always forget and think it’s tomorrow, but that’s Pi Day. It’s a busy week, with the pie and the stabbing and the leprechauns.
Steph L. - Mar 13, 2024 5:14:23 pm PDT #29154 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
If it’s an old one, might be worth repairing. New ones don’t last, etc, shaking cane, etc, kids.
It is an old dryer (Tim says it came with the house when he bought it in 2002, so it's at least 22 years old, but very likely older), and we did have it repaired about 5 months ago. So the fact that the repair only lasted for 5 months might mean that it's time to replace it (even though I do strongly agree with the general belief that new ones don't last).
smonster - Mar 13, 2024 6:01:56 pm PDT #29155 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Ah yes. Sounds like. Bummer.