Dryer died on a Tuesday and I fixed it with a $7 part

Honestly, my clothes dryer stopped heating up last month on a random Tuesday night. I was halfway through drying my work shirts and they came out cold and damp. I was about to drop $400 on a new machine from Lowe's, but my neighbor Mike said to check the thermal fuse first. I watched a YouTube video on my phone, took the back panel off, and there it was - a blown fuse for under seven bucks at Ace Hardware. Swapped it out in 15 minutes and the dryer fired right up. Saved myself a ton of money and felt like a genius for an hour. Has anyone else fixed a big appliance with a tiny part like that?

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the_robert22d ago

Ngl I get that it's satisfying to fix something cheap, but a thermal fuse blowing usually means there's a bigger airflow issue that's gonna kill the dryer again in a few months. You might've just bought yourself some time before the real problem shows up.

the_piper22d ago

Wait, $400 for a new dryer? That's insane, I didn't know they got that pricey. But hey, @the_robert might have a point about the airflow being a ticking time bomb. Still, a seven dollar fix beats dropping four hundred any day, even if it's just a bandaid.