Ooooh, so you have your eye on that slick new dryer, do ya? The one that costs about a grand and dries clothes like nothing you've ever seen before? Yeah, that's the one. We were sucked in by the front load washer and matching Samsung dryer in 2008. We've done 3-4 loads of laundry a day for 10 years. What you see above is what has to be removed from that oh-so-sexy dryer when it tumbles and rumbles but won't put out any heat. Each one of these things has 4-8 screws holding them together, too. Kind of like an erector set for grumpy old men.
Nope, not a keg of beer. It's the drum. But you could fool someone by saying it's a keg of beer. It's really light, so it would be an empty keg.
The shell of a once sexy dryer. You have to take it down to it's very last pieces to get to here. The heater element...a wear item...was buried in there. Kind of like putting the oil filter on a car in a place that would require you to lift the engine to change it. Yeah, exactly like that.
And here is the offending little SOB. It's super flimsy. It costs $16.95 on Amazon. The belt, which turns the big keg of beer drum, is $8 and I'm going to get one of those just because I don't ever want to tear down this dryer again. My bleeding arm thanks me. Now I will wait at the mail box until the parts arrive from the evil empire.
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