a photoblog of what i did today.....

[glatt]

Productive weekend. Among other chores, I
-Washed the old car in preparation for selling it, including removing bumper stickers.
-put new wiper blades on the new car. We learned on Saturday that the old ones sucked.
- fixed our dryer

I'm going to document the dryer fix.

The problem was that the lint gasket at the rear of the dryer drum was falling apart. A gap was opening up back there and stuff was falling down in the back of the dryer. Coins and stuff from the pockets, and also socks and underwear. I ordered the parts a month or so ago but had been too busy until now to focus on it. I got a new drum belt too because when I replaced the motor a year ago I noticed the belt was getting old and cracked.

We start by pulling the bottom panel off. A screw driver as a lever probably would have been smart, but I just pried it off with my fingers. Broke a nail. Annoying.


Then I know from working on this dryer in the past that the duct is going to get in the way, so I remove it now. Just wiggle it off.


Then I pulled out the lint trap.


And removed the two little screws that hold the lint trap body in place.