Unpopular opinion: I stopped replacing thermal fuses on every dryer call

Most guys swap the thermal fuse first thing when a dryer won't heat, but I had a unit last month that kept blowing them. Instead of just putting in a new one again, I checked the vent run with a leaf blower. Found a huge bird nest crammed in there causing the overheat. Cleared it out, and the original fuse worked fine. Now I always check airflow before I touch the parts, lol.

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zara5121mo ago

My neighbor kept replacing her dryer's heating element before someone finally asked about her vent line. Turns out a family of mice had built a condo in there! Totally get what @jake718 is saying about fixing the cause, not just the part.

alice_anderson3528d ago

Exactly, it's a band-aid fix if you don't find the root cause. Gotta look past the easy swap sometimes.

jake7181mo ago

Man, that's spot on. It's like how people will just keep taking medicine for a headache but never drink water, when they're just dehydrated all the time. Or throwing a new battery in something when the real problem is a corroded connector. We get so used to swapping the obvious part that we skip the basic check for what's actually causing it to fail.