Fixed the dryer! (and helpful link)

[Green Lantern]

I get an enormous sense of self-satisfaction when I manage to repair a broken appliance in my home. Our dryer was making ungodly noises and I thought maybe the belt was worn out. I found a nice site called www.applianceaid.com that told me everything I needed to know about taking the thing apart (we inherited the dryer but not a manual.) Once I had the drum out and could see that the belt was fine, I found that the two rollers were sitting at weird angles and there were big piles of metal shavings on the floor below them. The axles of both had been completely worn away.

It's a Whirlpool, so I called Lowe's and they connected me to their parts warehouse who got the new rollers out to me in a couple days. The whole thing turned out to be only about a $20 fix and my wife was extremely grateful. I could make a Solon-inspired "worshiping in the fertility groves" reference here, but I'm way too classy.

Anyway, that Appliance Aid link was great and has resources for all major-brand appliances.

[mtnbiker]

I had something similar, a couple of months ago. Dryer was making a loud thrumming noise. But when I took off the front panel, everything looked pretty good. Rotate the drum by hand, no particularly bad noises anywhere. I finally figured out that the scroll fan had become somewhat worn on its shaft, and was wobbling as it turned, and was rubbing against the front panel. So when the panel was off, there was nothing to rub against, and no noise.

I bought a new scroll fan online and now the dryer is nice and quiet again. Funny thing is, a few weeks later I was out in the back yard trimming trees, and heard the same noise from the neighbor's house. I told them how I fixed the problem, and they were able to do the same thing.

[landpoke]

Funny thing is, a few weeks later I was out in the back yard trimming trees, and heard the same noise from the neighbor's house. I told them how I fixed the problem, and they were able to do the same thing.

Did you get to worship in your neighbor's "fertility grove?"

[Green Lantern]

Did you get to worship in your neighbor's "fertility grove?"

Somebody had to make this joke and I applaud Landpoke for taking the initiative.