after months, finally got the parts for the dryer shipped here without paying CDN75 for shipping. we're talking a fuse and a thermostat. up to cdn151 to ship via amazon canada. got amazon u.s. to ship them at about $5u.s. per part.
got the dryer apart and the fuse and thermo put in, and didn't watch the video close enough so took off the support rather than pop the bearing out (old dryer).
a full day of angst passes here.
there was zero lube on the bearing so had to buy some. no luck at home depot. the best they had was wd40 knockoffs (remember we are in canada, not in the states). lucky i anticipated that and had bought brake lube from the parts store.
i said parts store. put the bearing on the drum and scheduled py to help reinstall the plastic part that holds the bearing (no more idiot's quests for me - or so i thought)
figured that out and then the bit - the almost only one in the house fell off the screwdriver. lucky there was one in with my drill.
got everything back together in proper order (including a 15 minute wrestling match with the idler pulley) and put the door (meaning the door and its frame) on and the drum wouldn't spin.
py got frustrated several times during this - i am recovering from pneumonia and not quite there yet so she was being muscle. the dryer is on top of the washer. py went to do other things from which i had been stopping her.
i am still looking at the drum and when i spin it, the right clips pop out and the door comes dangerously open. i think, i will put in one screw. remember the bit from my drill? not magnetic. the screw drops inside the guts of the dryer.
so now i am looking at videos trying to see what i did wrong because the drum won't spin and in all the videos no one shows how exactly it is put on. so far i have looked at about 15 of them and the repair guy is always standing in the way.
thinking of getting py to move the dryer to the window so i can push it out. instead she takes off the door and i look in vain for my bit and the screw. i drop the other screw to see where it might go. no dice. dragged a magnet all through that sucker and no bit, no screw.
so now i have a new screw (which i will take perverse delight in using; it's a phillips head and not the ubiquitous canadian square head) but am no closer to figuring out why putting it back together the way it was taken apart doesn't work.
i am going to procrastinate by grading papers.
