On Feb 14, 3:16*pm, (Arthur Shapiro) wrote:
In article , Jan Philips wrote:

We have a Frigadaire clothes dryer that is about 7 years old. *On the
"normal" setting it used to dry the clothes in 50 minutes

I had a similar problem with a gas dryer - irrelevant to you - and it was
advised here to replace several parts. *It happened to involve fairly
comprehensive disassembly of the machine, which I was able to do with videos
and instructions for my particular model found on the web.

The thing that is important in your circumstance: others have mentioned the
buildup of lint. *When I had the machine apart, the amount of lint throughout
the machine was remarkable. *Much was inside, or just past, the compartment
into which the user-cleanable lint screen slides. * But there was lint
build-up everywhere. *Between the vacuum cleaner, brushes, and leaf blower I
got the machine pretty clean.

If you could at least clean out the cavity into which the lint screen goes,
either using someone with small hands, a vacuum cleaner's narrow nozzle
attachment, or by blasting it with a compressor or leaf blower, one would
expect at least a substantial improvement in your drying time.

Art

Based on the problem you found, your dryer likely had a very long vent
run with numerous elbows, right? Not on an outside wall with short
direct flow, correct?

Joe