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

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

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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

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[–] 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