Not Nearly Dry Enough
Aug. 4th, 2024 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperWell, that's disappointing.
The dryer barely managed to dry the last load of laundry from yesterday. The load of towels from today didn't dry at all, despite my best efforts to clean out the lint trap.
I put some new batteries in the fiber-optic scope and stuck it down into the lint trap. The trap itself looks fine, but there's a structure over on the left-hand side that I believe is the fan. There is lint caked all over it and there is no obvious way to get it off without doing major disassembly of the dryer. I believe this to be the most likely cause of the persistent d90 errors that cause the dryer to shut down without drying anything.
A bit of research on my posting history tells me that the dryer is over nine years old. I am of the opinion that a dryer should last longer than that and, of course, I could probably get someone to come in and repair the existing dryer, after which I would have a nine-year-old repaired dryer. And given the amount of disassembly that's going to be required to get to the part that needs to be cleaned off and the number of hours this is going to take, getting it fixed feels like throwing good money at a bad problem.
I could *probably* fix it. Maybe. But it would take a lot of hours that I don't have.
Happily, I *do* have money to throw at a new dryer.
So tomorrow, I will go do that.
In the meantime, I did manage to finish mixing another song while watching the dryer fail to dry things.
*sigh*
The dryer barely managed to dry the last load of laundry from yesterday. The load of towels from today didn't dry at all, despite my best efforts to clean out the lint trap.
I put some new batteries in the fiber-optic scope and stuck it down into the lint trap. The trap itself looks fine, but there's a structure over on the left-hand side that I believe is the fan. There is lint caked all over it and there is no obvious way to get it off without doing major disassembly of the dryer. I believe this to be the most likely cause of the persistent d90 errors that cause the dryer to shut down without drying anything.
A bit of research on my posting history tells me that the dryer is over nine years old. I am of the opinion that a dryer should last longer than that and, of course, I could probably get someone to come in and repair the existing dryer, after which I would have a nine-year-old repaired dryer. And given the amount of disassembly that's going to be required to get to the part that needs to be cleaned off and the number of hours this is going to take, getting it fixed feels like throwing good money at a bad problem.
I could *probably* fix it. Maybe. But it would take a lot of hours that I don't have.
Happily, I *do* have money to throw at a new dryer.
So tomorrow, I will go do that.
In the meantime, I did manage to finish mixing another song while watching the dryer fail to dry things.
*sigh*