Do-It-Yourself, Repairs and Fixes

3392 readers

1 users here now

Share tips and tricks to keep people from throwing out that broken item. Repair before replace!

founded 7 years ago

MODERATORS

Joeyfingis@lemmy.ml

Long shot, dryer is making weird noises (leminal.space)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Azzu@leminal.space to c/diy@lemmy.ml

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

It's still drying fine as far as I can tell, the noises I attach here a recording of only happen around idk, 5% of the total drying time. They start, then stop again after a a few seconds or a minute, throughout the whole drying process.

Mainly I was just wondering if anyone could imagine what it might be, what I could take a look at, or if it's nothing to worry about. I understand it's probably a long shot :D

Thanks for whoever takes a look at this, here is the recording, first half is the noise, second half is normal running: https://gofile.io/d/RyWmFq

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I had a very similar noise on my dryer. The tensioner was a friction pad instead of a wheel. It had worn through and was running the belt on metal before the belt wore through and snapped. If you're digging into it might as well replace them both while you're in there

Worn through tensioner

[–] Azzu@leminal.space 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no idea what those things are, but I'll be sure to look for something like this when I open it up :D thank you so much!

[–] nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Should look similar to this; it tensions the belt to the drum so it has the grip drive it. If yours is a wheel then the bearing is probably shot. You can manually spin the drum and listen for where the sound comes from to see it's a different part failing (this pic is from a video of me doing exactly that)

installation location of tensioner