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Repairing My Electric Dryer and a Little Math

I came home the other night and my wife reported that our clothes dryer was not generating any heat for drying clothes. She called a repairman and he could not repair our dryer for a long time and was going to charge a lot of money (e.g. $90 for a heater coil that was $30 from Amazon). While I know NOTHING about clothes dryers, I decided to try to fix it myself. As with most of my repair adventures, I started with Youtube. After a couple of minutes, I found the following video where a repairman gave a great demonstration on how to change the heater coil (Whirlpool part number 3387747) in my clothes dryer. Continue reading

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