Appliance Repair

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Our gas oven died a few months back. It's old and abused and came with the house.
While looking for a replacement we stumbled onto to a video showing how to replace the igniter. A Amazon search later we had one the following day. Fixed the oven and saved 2000 dollars and hassle. As I'm not an appliance guy, I was shocked at how easy the repair was and also at how easy it was for us not to consider it an option.
 
My 32 year old Admiral dryer stopped working last week ... the drum belt snapped.

$16 and change at Reliable Parts on Caledonia Rd for a new belt and it's working again.

How many people would just throw that out? Not me - that things got no circuit boards and just plain and simple, just the way I like my appliances.
 
LBV said:
My 32 year old Admiral dryer stopped working last week ... the drum belt snapped.

$16 and change at Reliable Parts on Caledonia Rd for a new belt and it's working again.

How many people would just throw that out? Not me - that things got no circuit boards and just plain and simple, just the way I like my appliances.
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The two most common problems with old dryers are the door switch (they’re cheaply made) and the thermal overload which stops your dryer from bursting into flames when the lint trap or duct is blocked. Both are $10-$20 parts.
 
I replaced the circuit board on a Whirlpool stove at a rental unit my son owns. It was the cheapest, simplest stove money can buy and yet the part was $240 from a Whirlpool distributor. You can get non-oem boards on Amazon for half that but the tenants are whiners and I didn’t want to have to go back if it was the wrong one or failed.
 
LBV said:
My 32 year old Admiral dryer stopped working last week ... the drum belt snapped.

$16 and change at Reliable Parts on Caledonia Rd for a new belt and it's working again.

How many people would just throw that out? Not me - that things got no circuit boards and just plain and simple, just the way I like my appliances.
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A circa late 60's early 70's gas Maytag dryer came with my house, spoke to my appliance guy about replacing it 25 or so years ago he said "don't" the thing is still powering along with the rare part needed still readily available.
Sometimes vintage rules.
 
Few years back our new dryer had a TSB as one of the vane's inside had a small hook to grab clothes stuck in the corners but this hook can also pull out the lint trap which is what ours did causing it to suck a sock into the fan (TSB is to replace the one vane with a normal non-hook one). That's what ours did. So the tech came out (under warranty) then came out and said "well good news is I got the sock out of the fan. Bad news is I shorted out the control ecu when I took the front panel off so it'll be a couple weeks until that comes in".
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