Dryer repair

[Patchouli]

Hey. Realized my dryer heater is not functioning. Are there fuses on dryers? Could it be the element has gone bad?
Will research online directly in a moment.
It is a May tag, less than 5 years old. Not used every day but frequently enough.
I normally run it on LOW, once in awhile MEDIUM, rarely HIGH. Usually on a timed setting. (Has nothing to do with it but is why I don’t use the jeans setting: After the cycle, the jeans setting goes into an intermittent tumble setting that I have turned off, but the dial still turns in that setting, meaning it is using electricity but not drying or tumbling).

 

[Patchouli]

Aw heck no. I’m not going there (to the back of the dryer with tools and watching this guy on my phone.)
I think it is do-able by any one of you guys but I would get into trouble with it.

 

[elkhound]

call owner or may tag repairman...i swear its always something....just fixed mine with a heating element last week.

hope its something simple...there is a fuse thingy in back on older ones...who knows how these new ones are designed now.

good luck !!

 

[Patchouli]

call owner or may tag repairman...i swear its always something....just fixed mine with a heating element last week.

hope its something simple...there is a fuse thingy in back on older ones...who knows how these new ones are designed now.

good luck !!

I forgot I still have insurance on it so I've set up an appointment but don't even know if I can have off work at that time, in a couple of days. Fingers crossed but now I have to set up the laundry thing to dry the towels.

 

[Caribou]

For those that search this thread in the future. Look for a fuse, check the element, look for a burned connection or control. Check for power going into a control and coming out. Check continuity of the element.

 

[dademoss]

3+ decades ago it was always the element on an electric, back when Sears existed and had a huge parts warehouse.

 

[old tex]

I am not handy around the house nor do I know anything about electricity. All I'll say is that I've had 2 or maybe 3 dryers stop working & it was always the heating element & I changed them all myself.

The hard part was opening it (top or back), then you unplug the element & get a replacement.