One of the perks of having an extremely, extremely popular website such as this is that I can occasionally hijack posts to talk about my dryer.
Alright folks, we're having major dryer issues. Consistently, my dryer shuts itself off after a few minutes of running. For those few minutes, it is pumping out hot air and everything is fine. It does this no matter what setting it's on. I checked the exhaust line and verified that, when the dryer's running, all of the bad crap is getting sucked out through the exhaust. So, what do I do now? Anybody have any ideas?
In the extremely likely event that I can't make this thing work again, I have two options. The first is to buy a new dryer. As the street people say, this ain't happenin'; I'm not made out of GE gift cards. The second, almost charming option is to erect a clothesline in the backyard. While my clothes would be stiff as a board and stink of alley cats, I could dry as many shirts as I want for free. I'd also get some valuable life lessons, such as "Never buy a dryer from a crazy dude off of Craigslist."
(Unspoken option number three: buy ANOTHER dryer from the same crazy dude off of Craigslist! Statistical analysis tells me that there is no way that a dude with a garage full of dryers has more than one bad dryer in there. There's just no way.)
(Another bad option, that happens to be number four: just wear wet clothes. That sounds weird and abrasive.)
I'll go back to watching the All Star Game now, and hoping that some magical clothes-drying fairy sneaks into my house and hooks me up in my sleep.
Posted by Cody at July 10, 2007 10:18 PMYour thermostat might be fucked up and the dryer is shutting itself off because it thinks it is too hot.
Posted by: Frito at July 11, 2007 1:06 AMThe weird thing is that right after I posted this, it ran all the way through its cycle. It's the power of positive thinking, baby!
Posted by: Cody at July 11, 2007 9:05 AMHey Cody this is Kyle. To troubleshoot this problem, disconnect your dryer from the wall tube and run it that way. If it still does the same thing then the problem is in the dryer. If it doesn't then it is in your duct work. Lint gets through that filter and can accumulate in the exhaust path (either one). Call me once you know which is the problem and I will give you the next step. Good luck.
Posted by: tigerchevy at July 11, 2007 9:29 PMHey Kyle or Cody,
My dryer is doing the samething. I have already changed out the vent tube, and it still shuts down after a few minutes. I sometimes use my dryer as an iron lol, and during the few minutes that it runs the clothes are super hot.
But anyway whats my next step?