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My wife called me down to the basement Wednesday night because the dryer was making a weird grinding noise when the drum was turning. Some quick online troubleshooting suggested it could be an issue with the rollers, the bearings, or possibly a foreign body that had gotten lodged somewhere. I opened up the cabinet and didn't see anything obvious. I decided I was not up for removing the belt and drum and exploring further. While I had it open, though, I took the opportunity to give it a good cleaning. I scooped out all of the built up lint I could reach without doing additional disassembly. If anyone thinks the lint trap captures everything, it doesn't. Lots of lint gets past that and really clogs up the insides of the dryer.
I didn't bother putting the cabinet back together since I was going to call in a repair person to figure out where the noise was coming from. Turns out that was my mistake.
Repair guy came this morning. He took a look at everything including removing the belt and drum and checking the bearings. He couldn't find anything wrong. He put it back together and turned it on and it was fine, no more noise. I told him what I had done and he was pretty confident that in the course of opening it and cleaning out the lint, I had fixed the problem. He said the lint that built up on the blower motor could have been causing the noise, not the drum itself, and by cleaning it, I solved the problem. Either that or there was a little foreign body that got dislodged by me getting in there.
We did have to pay for a service call but at least that's all it was. And if anything happens within 30 days, they'll come out again for free, but he was sure all was well. Had I just put it back together and tried it, I probably would have discovered the same thing and saved us the service call (and 4 days without a dryer).
I didn't bother putting the cabinet back together since I was going to call in a repair person to figure out where the noise was coming from. Turns out that was my mistake.
Repair guy came this morning. He took a look at everything including removing the belt and drum and checking the bearings. He couldn't find anything wrong. He put it back together and turned it on and it was fine, no more noise. I told him what I had done and he was pretty confident that in the course of opening it and cleaning out the lint, I had fixed the problem. He said the lint that built up on the blower motor could have been causing the noise, not the drum itself, and by cleaning it, I solved the problem. Either that or there was a little foreign body that got dislodged by me getting in there.
We did have to pay for a service call but at least that's all it was. And if anything happens within 30 days, they'll come out again for free, but he was sure all was well. Had I just put it back together and tried it, I probably would have discovered the same thing and saved us the service call (and 4 days without a dryer).
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