sage52•1mo ago

My 20 year old Kenmore dryer finally died and I tried fixing it myself instead of calling a repair guy

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Oh great, another diy hero who saved fifty bucks but wasted eight hours and a Saturday. Hope you didn't rip the belt off balance or short something out that could start a fire. If it runs hotter and slower than before, you just turned a dead machine into a hazard.

mason_jackson1mo ago

Three years ago I watched my neighbor spend an entire Sunday rebuilding a lawnmower engine from a YouTube video. He got it running but it sounded like a bag of rocks and smoked for an hour before it seized up completely. That's the thing with fixing stuff yourself - there's a real gap between watching someone do it and actually doing it right. People treat these appliances like they're simple machines but washers have sensors and electronics that can get fried real easy if you don't know what you're doing. It's the same mindset where folks think because they changed their own oil once they can rebuild a transmission. Sometimes the best repair is just calling someone who does it every day.