"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
04/07/2020 at 16:51 • Filed to: None
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"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
04/07/2020 at 16:51 • Filed to: None | 1
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Earlier today, I was cooking some lunch, and my wife hollered up to me from the basement that the dryer wasn’t working. I checked it out and the knob on the timer switch had broken off. Not sure what to do right in that moment, I texted my landlord about it and went back to making lunch.
He started working on contacting appliance repair folks, and I posted this on facebook:
A friend reminded me, hey, maybe check youtube videos. First I found one about just replacing the knob, but the shaft of the timer switch wouldn’t turn at all when I tried with a pliers, which indicated the switch itself was probably bad.
Around the same time I started tracking down the requisite parts, the appliance repair guy my landlord contacted called me with some questions. Then he told the landlord it’d be $223 to fix it, and of course I’d have to let a person into my house.
I was able to track down the necessary parts, namely a new timer switch and a knob, at a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! for $110, in stock and everything, and they’re only doing curbside pickup. So I paid for the parts, picked them up, popped them in, and bam, the dryer’s back working! Now I just deduct that $110 from the upcoming May 1 rent payment and all is right with the world.
Chariotoflove
> Textured Soy Protein
04/07/2020 at 17:20 |
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This happened to our dryer last year. I was able to find the logic board part online , and with YouTube’s help, I too was able to resurrect the beast. Glad this worked out well for you.
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> Textured Soy Protein
04/07/2020 at 17:30 |
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This is the realm where ‘YouTube” and “Ebay Parts Suppliers” converge to make life simpler and less expensive...
I’ve got a dryer project coming up to convert one from natural gas to propane (for the laundry in the shop). $12 and a YouTube vid. Try that in the old days.
VincentMalamute-Kim
> Textured Soy Protein
04/07/2020 at 17:33 |
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It’d be fair for the landlord to deduct $223 from your rent.
Future next gen S2000 owner
> VincentMalamute-Kim
04/07/2020 at 17:38 |
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Time ain’t free.
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Textured Soy Protein
> VincentMalamute-Kim
04/07/2020 at 17:43 |
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Haha well that’s a good thought but unfortunately in this case I’m not exactly going to charge for my labor. I had some really contentious shit with them a year ago with fighting over replacing moldy carpet so I’m doing my best to repair the relationship. They’re happy I saved them some money and I’m happy to have a working dryer without letting a person into the house.
ttyymmnn
> Textured Soy Protein
04/07/2020 at 18:09 |
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I’ve fixed my dryer on a number of occasions in exactly the same way. Saved a ton of money.
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Textured Soy Protein
04/07/2020 at 18:18 |
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I’ve had to replace a heating element on an electric dryer in the past and YouTube saved my bacon.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Textured Soy Protein
04/08/2020 at 02:52 |
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my dryer shat itself too, sadly the timer is no longer available.
had to fork out for a new one, AUD$327 (cheapest i could find locally)
no timer available on alibaba or made-in-china.com or eBay
google searches with the part number only brought up one supplier, tried them, but no luck for me.