"Charlie Bress" wrote in message
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I'll venture that what you are looking at is not a real thermal fuse,
a device with a metal link that melts (fuses) when it fails. Those
will not recover at all after failure.

How could such a device provide protection? You don't want a fuse "fusing"
to a short!


More likely what you have is a thermostatic switch that opens a circuit
by the motion of a bimetal strip. These will recover when cool. Replace
it and you should be done.

Unless the thermostat is broken, how will this fix the problem? If the dryer
has such a thermostat, and it opened, it most likely opened BECAUSE THERE
WAS AN EXCESSIVE LOAD elsewhere in the circuit. And the OP has to find that,
and fix it.