I Oiled the Pooley on Whirlpool Dryer and Its Making Loud Noise Again

(2014 Edit: Apparently, putting lube on a squeaky wheel is merely a temporary prepare and can really brand the trouble worse. If you take a squeaky wheel, it'southward a practiced idea to buy and install a replacement gear up.   I wrote about what happened to my lubed wheel in my mail, Y'all Don't Demand Whiskers To Do That.

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Meet my dryer.

We've had it for about 12 years, I call up. It'south not fancy, and information technology's got its share of boxing scars, but commonly it works just fine.

A few years ago, information technology started making dreadful sounds, and it turned out that we needed to replace some parts…we ordered a dryer repair kit from Dave's Repair and got information technology all fixed up.

Well, in the last month or and so, the dryer started making some high-pitched squeaking/shrieking noises. It was the sort of pitch and volume that could give you a headache in very short guild.

Now, I have to tell you that when appliances starting time having issues, I immediately think that the problem is terminal and I feel terrified about the prospect of taking autonomously the big, scary, white box.

I'chiliad e'er all, "Oh, great. The issue is probably hugely complicated and we won't be able to figure it out and we'll have to buy a brand new one. AAAAHHHH!".

But!

Mr. FG and I accept stock-still our washing machine (twice, even) and our dryer once, and so I'g getting a wee bit better about the panicking.

(emphasis on the "wee")

And so, instead of hopping online and browsing new dryers, I sent an e-mail to the ever-helpful Dave from Dave'southward Repair, bold I'd need to buy some new parts.

Simply no! He suggested that the problem was just a lack of lubrication on the rollers.

(You have to love a parts seller who doesn't always suggest that you buy a new office.)

Mr. FG's costless time had been taken up with a lot of other projects, and so I decided to give this a continue my ain.

Using memory from the last dryer repair and a very helpful YouTube video, I took the dryer apart (I unplugged it first, of class.)

The inside of an appliance is never quite every bit complicated as I imagine it to be.

See those red and black rollers? I rotated them with my hand and sure enough, in that location was a serenity version of that familiar squeal (they weren't moving very freely either.)

Then I rummaged around and institute some 3-in-1 oil, which Dave recommended.

I put a teensy flake on each roller shaft and rotated the wheels until they were moving smoothly.

While I had the dryer open, I also cleaned off all the visible lint from the interior of the dryer since lint build-upward there isn't safe.

Then I put information technology all back together and anxiously turned information technology on.

What did I hear?

But a gentle hum.

No squeaking.

No squealing.

Oh aye!!!

To say I was pleased would be an understatement…I'm always and then thrilled when I manage to conquer a project that is really intimidating to me.

Was this project worth it?

Well, information technology took me about an hour from start to stop and cost me nothing in terms of parts.

In fact, I found a quarter and a penny within the dryer, so, yous know, in that location's $0.26 I didn't know I had before.

I'm just estimating here, but I'd venture to judge that if I'd hired someone to do this job, it would have price $fifty-$100.

If that's true, I think this was definitely worth an hour of my fourth dimension.

Not simply did I save myself the repair cost, I also gained knowledge about my dryer and confidence in my ability to fix this type of thing. And that will probably aid me to avoid repair costs in the future.

Plus, there'south the whole feeling-like-superwoman-considering-I-stock-still-an-appliance bit, which makes me lean towards thinking that DIY was the right option. 😉

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Source: https://www.thefrugalgirl.com/i-fixed-my-dryer-all-by-myself/

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