You may want to take your dryer apart and clean it every once and a while

[+Warwagon MVC]

You may want to take your dryer apart and clean it every once and a while. Not just your ducts need some love.

 

 

[SnoopZ]

Luckily I don't need to use a dryer often the clothes rack does that for me.

[freedonX]

On 25/09/2022 at 10:44, Warwagon said:

You may want to take your dryer apart and clean it every once and a while. Not just your ducts need some love.

 

 

 

HA! Spoken like a true adult.
Just got a new dryer+washer combo. I started to read the manual and how to actually take advantage of all the fancy features. 
...if that isn't being an adult, don't know what is.

....actually yes...
A client gave me 1 small plant when I moved in my new apartment 2 years ago. Currently I have 11 pots of plants in my balcony.

[+virtorio MVC]

I recently took my 15+ year old dryer apart to replace the capacitor and it didn't look anything like that inside.

[Sulphy]

If i remember correctly, there should be a lint filter inside the dryer to prevent that kind of buildup! 😛 

 

[He's Dead Jim]

You need to be relatively wealthy to run a dryer these days.

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 26/09/2022 at 04:41, Sulphy said:

If i remember correctly, there should be a lint filter inside the dryer to prevent that kind of buildup! 😛 

 

I clean that every time.

On 25/09/2022 at 23:55, virtorio said:

I recently took my 15+ year old dryer apart to replace the capacitor and it didn't look anything like that inside.

There was a cover inside the dryer that also had to be removed to gain access to it.

[Astra.Xtreme]

That's a lot of buildup!  Good thing you noticed that and cleaned it out since that's where the fire risk resides.

 

I had an issue with that same fan wheel recently where it backed out of it's threads and stopped spinning.  It caused the hot air to not circulate and wouldn't dry anything.  At least it was an easy fix!

[shockz]

Honestly I’d rather just buy a new washer and dryer after 10 years instead of dealing with that. 
 

I’ll stick to duct cleaning every couple years. 

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 26/09/2022 at 09:49, shockz said:

Honestly I’d rather just buy a new washer and dryer after 10 years instead of dealing with that. 
 

I’ll stick to duct cleaning every couple years. 

Washer and dryer still run great.

[Matthew S.]

@Warwagon what in the blue fire hazard........

[+Warwagon MVC]

On 26/09/2022 at 16:50, Matthew S. said:

@Warwagon what in the blue fire hazard........

How many people take their dryers apart besides emptying the lent trap and getting their ducts cleaned?

 

 

[Matthew S.]

I usually stick my vacuum down there

[adrynalyne]

On 26/09/2022 at 15:58, Matthew S. said:

I usually stick my vacuum down there

That’s what…she said?

[neufuse Veteran]

On 26/09/2022 at 21:44, adrynalyne said:

That’s what…she said?

loves the suction

[adrynalyne]

On 27/09/2022 at 05:19, neufuse said:

loves the suction

I mean, it could be "he" as well.

[Matthew S.]

On 27/09/2022 at 11:16, adrynalyne said:

I mean, it could be "he" as well.

Got a bit of girth to er ehh?

[FrancoisC]

Is this a Frigidaire/Electrolux EFMC 617 or 627 something? If so, there is a service bulletin for this because it's definitely isn't supposed to do that

[hagjohn]

They probably didn't empty the lint filter very often.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

yea, I don't know.  This is my 20-year-old dryer.

 

 

I did take the vacuum to it ... but this pre-vacuum picture looks nothing like the OP.