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Unpopular opinion: I stopped replacing thermal fuses on every dryer call
Most guys swap the thermal fuse first thing when a dryer won't heat, but I had a unit last month that kept blowing them. Instead of just putting in a new one again, I checked the vent run with a leaf blower. Found a huge bird nest crammed in there causing the overheat. Cleared it out, and the original fuse worked fine. Now I always check airflow before I touch the parts, lol.
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zara5126mo ago
My neighbor kept replacing her dryer's heating element before someone finally asked about her vent line. Turns out a family of mice had built a condo in there! Totally get what @jake718 is saying about fixing the cause, not just the part.
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alice_anderson356mo ago
Exactly, it's a band-aid fix if you don't find the root cause. Gotta look past the easy swap sometimes.
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jake7186mo ago
Man, that's spot on. It's like how people will just keep taking medicine for a headache but never drink water, when they're just dehydrated all the time. Or throwing a new battery in something when the real problem is a corroded connector. We get so used to swapping the obvious part that we skip the basic check for what's actually causing it to fail.
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