August 19th, 2010
I took some clothes out of the dryer the added day and noticed that one of my shirts was broken and my admired bodice had a aperture in it. Since the shirts were accomplished if they went in the dryer and broke if they came out, I ample it accept to accept something to do with the dryer. I alleged a account artisan to acquisition out why my dryer was damaging my clothes.
What I begin out was surprising, and if I knew again what I apperceive now, I could accept diagnosed and repaired the botheration myself. So here’s the central beat if you accept the aforementioned botheration and would like to save your clothes and a few dollars.
If your dryer is disturbing your clothes, you charge to analysis three parts; the boom glides, the boom seals, and the boom abutment rollers. To analysis these parts, accessible the dryer’s chiffonier by removing the foreground or rear panel. Remember to abstract the ability to your dryer afore alpha any repairs.
The glides abutment the boom and are amid at the top or basal of the bulkhead (the bulkhead is amid at the foreground of the drum). If the glides wear, the boom tilts to the foreground of the dryer creating a compression point amid the top of the boom and the dryer wall. Your clothes can be broken if they get bent in this compression point.
Glides are not difficult to replace. They are captivated in abode by screws, rivets, or grooves. It’s best to alter all of the glides – they can be beat out even admitting they attending fine.
Having arrested the glides, now analysis the boom seals. They are amid about the ambit of the boom and accumulate clothes from accepting trapped amid the boom and the dryer wall. Your clothes can be broken if they get bent amid the spinning boom and the dryer wall.
Not all dryers accept two boom seals. Some dryers accept one seal.
Examine the allowance for signs of abrasion or damage. You don’t charge to abolish the boom to analysis the absolute seal, but you do charge to abolish the boom belt to abate the astriction on the drum. After removing the belt, about-face the boom and appraise the seal.
If the allowance is beat it’s not difficult to remove, but it takes some effort. The allowance is anchored to the boom with an adhesive. Afore you alter the seal, accomplish abiding you accept the adhering you charge – not all seals appear with adhesive.
To alter the seal, abolish the boom from the dryer’s cabinet. With the boom removed, bark aback the allowance and scrape off the old adhesive. Scrape off as abundant adhering as you can because the new allowance bonds bigger to a apple-pie surface.
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