On 1/22/2021 8:32 PM, Rod Speed wrote:


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On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:45:09 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 1/22/2021 1:36 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 1/21/21 8:37 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I cannot imagine the dryer working at all with this

https://imgur.com/gallery/xltnzaE

The videos on that site appear to be endlessly looped, making it appear
to be even more stuff.


Yes, but it does change texture at one point though it could still be
partly faked.Â* In any case, it is too much lint and not enough care.

They do get pretty nasty if nobody cleans them.

Never like that.

Maybe they tried bushing a brush through and it got stuck.

That would be visible with the rigidity of what came out.

I just pull mine out and throw it away every few years. It isn't
worth screwing with once that dryer sheet goo gets in the pipe.
A stick of 4" galv stove pipe and a couple elbows are about $10.
In 3 years you might save that much on electricity.
Then there is that fire thingÂ* ;-)

It's a fake, stupid.

Fake or not it is a good idea to check vents occasionally.

I had three issues myself:

In a rental with dryer in basement a rabbit got in the ground level vent
and died in the dryer and essentially ruined it. We were moving to a
new house and bought a new dryer for the last weeks in the rental.

Birds got under the old dryer flap in my house and were filling it with
nesting material. Might have caught fire if cat had not responded to
noises and had me check.

A repairman pointed out that vinyl coated spring venting I was using was
out of code and if there was a fire I could have an insurance problem.
I replaced it with metal.