Good job on the dryer. Sometimes for me tho, if it's an age issue, it isn't too long after that it gives up the ghost. So yeah, $10 would've been the limit.A small triumph:
My electric dryer stopped stopping. As soon as it was on the end part of a cycle, where no heat was being applied, the timer knob would not advance, so the drying would just keep tumbling the clothes endlessly, albeit without heat.
For a while (no, I'm not going to tell you how long a while), I've been dealing with this by setting the timer that's on my microwave so that I'd know when to go stop the dryer.
A couple of weeks ago, I finally got a properly routed dryer duct, which involved cutting holes in the house. The holes existed previously, but they were not aligned... the kind of thing you might expect in a doublewide mobile home. So, for 25 years I've been using one of those not terribly safe plastic dryer duct hoses, because it's the only thing that could be contorted enough to go through the unaligned 4" diameter holes.
Now, with a properly routed duct made of metal, the time had come to do something about the improper functioning of the dryer itself.
Dozens of YouTube videos and a new control timer later, the problem was not solved. I returned the timer, and ordered a resistor on Ebay. Eureka! A $10 part that was quite easy to replace got things right! Yay! It definitely gave me a feeling of accomplishment to diagnose (read: take a wild guess) what the problem might be.
On Monday, I'm having 50 cubic yards of rock delivered. The plan is to make my 800' "driveway" (read: dirt path) less susceptible to the elements and more conducive to 2 wheel drive vehicles, such as those driven by UPS and FedEx.
I also find myself on the you tube often and those vids can get pretty hard to watch, lol. Maybe I should put the vids on the big TV for a change now that I have a real modern TV set.
