Apr 26th, 2025

Author: donich_admin

Broken Dryer

I’ve been thinking there was something up with our tumble dryer for the last few weeks as it has been making an ominous squeaking noise indicative of failing bearings.  Today the drum suddenly just stopped turning (the heat was still running though so it wasn’t an electrical fault).  So in order to have to avoid buying a whole new dryer, I bought a £16.99 replacement bearing kit from Amazon and opened up the plate at the back (the one saying “no user serviceable parts – do not remove – most gross danger of death – you have been warned”).  Inside it looked like this

The drive belt had completely disintegrated into black oily dust, the exhaust tube had huge holes in it, and the electrics looked, to use a technical term “dodgy”.  I’m all for trying to fix things but this had the look of something that was going to take an increasingly large number of parts, take hours and then not work.  So I gave up and ordered a new one.

In the meantime, I thought I would try a medieval way of drying my duvet covers and hang them on a bush outside.  This looked as if it was going to work, and then 10 minutes later it started raining hard.