[DenisMoor]

Are you sure its not booby trapped?

[F1grandprix]

Yeah. Asking a repair question here was a real good idea. That's all coming clear to you now, isn't it?

Good luck.

[MontyP@thon]

http://www.applianceaid.com/wp_element.html

[Green_Monkey23]

You mean, he's one of THEM?!?

[Poll Pitt]

[hellencomstar]

In appliances like this: if you don't know how to remove it, don't.

[tinetttstation]

Originally posted by Lancer
He's fixing his own appliance isn't he? So you admit McCain supporters are either too dumb to fix things or too elitist to do it themselves?

[Gakeincidoniac]

Good deal. Glad it helped. I'm assuming it helped. When Oerdin mentioned the first step, I had high hopes.

[Psymoussy]

I didn't think I could remove the chimney w/o a lot of work or damaging the unit (not yet ruling out the latter). Turns out it was pretty easy.

Unfortunately now that I have the element out I don't see anything wrong with it. There are no breaks in the coil and no obvious spots of corrosion, but it is pretty old, and had a lot of dust caking the coil. The wires seem fine and themostat and cut -offs look fine. I haven't pulled out the fuse but it looks okay too.

In case you were wondering the only problem with the unit is no heat when it tumbles.

[purchasviagra]

The unit gets plenty of power.

I tested the element and fuse and themostat with an ohm/voltage tester and they're all fine. Someone at the appliance store suggested the themostat might be stuck in the 'closed' position.

[StampNews]

I think using WD-40 on a thermostat, set inside a clothes dryer, would fit under the definition of BAD.

'Open' and 'closed' in this case refers to the flow of electricity.

[slima]

This belongs into the tech forum

[Narkeere]

Originally posted by Theben
I think using WD-40 on a thermostat, set inside a clothes dryer, would fit under the definition of BAD.

'Open' and 'closed' in this case refers to the flow of electricity. Read the label, but WD 40 is supposed to be non-conductive, or at least fast-drying, for such occasions.



Originally posted by Theben
Well after taking everything off and re-installing it it works now. I wish I knew what I did. It happens all the time

Most probably having cleaned it up helped.

[mbaueee]

Oh I am. It was certainly the cheapest way to get it resolved. Plus I have more knowledge on how dryers work w/o destroying anything. I give credit to Sloww since he gave me a link and I haven't been nice to him lately. If something happens to go wrong I'll blame Lancer because he probably deserve it.

[Aceroassert]

I'm with N35t0r. Cleaning was a lot of the problem, I think.

[berdyanskdotsu]

The flux capacitor! Crap. We overlooked the obvious.

[SypeKifef]

Originally posted by Lancer
Reverse the polarity of the tachyon inverter. Also, the element doesn't have to look burned out to be. Got a continuity tester? What do Oerdin and Lancer have in common? They don't read my posts, that's what. I hope this isn't a recent trend.

(Don;t let this thread die, its you best evar) If that was meant to be a compliment, it fell waay short of the mark.