It All Worked Out

I was able to determine which part was bad, turns out it was the heater assembly. I removed it along with the parts attached to the assembly. I went ahead and ordered the part. Then I decided to leave the front off which was a pain to remove. It was still attached to the door switch assembly, which I never really looked at. That night I walked into the laundry, didn't turn the light on and immediately tripped on the door. As I grabbed for something to hold on, I could hear many little parts skittering across the floor. OK then. I gathered up the pieces and spent an hour figuring out what it was. Next morning I ordered that part. Now the whole idea was to save a lot of money. So far I have purchased an ohmmeter, 1 set of standard wrenches, 1 set of metric wrenches, 1 heat assembly, 1 door switch assembly and a ratcheting hex nut driver.

I currently have a working dryer. I put it back together again, and it smelled like something was burning so I turned it off and ran out of the house. Then I remembered that machine oil usually has to burn off. Next I went into the kitchen to clean up all of the tools on the counter and found a part for the dryer. That explained the 3 extra screws! Fixed everything. Put the dryer back together again, opened the dryer to throw a wet towel in to see if it would dry and noticed the wiring assembly was hanging down and caught. Took the front off yet again and fixed that problem. Next came the hard part. I needed to duct tape a new dryer vent to the opening in the wall and attach that piece to the dryer. Well....it's a short piece. I had to keep pulling the dryer closer to me. Became trapped between the dryer and the wall. After a lot of finagling, I escaped.

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