After what seemed a success yesterday, with the dryer reportedly
working, my wife told me that they dried three loads of clothes. Then
the machine displayed a message "CLEAN LINT FILTER" and stopped
working since. (despite them, obviously, cleaning the lint filter
belatedly).

I took out the igniter again and bench tested it out of
desperation. It worked fantastically from 110v.

I put the igniter back again and the damn machine started working fine
again. I am doing a load right now. I am not as much excited about it
as I was yesterday. Feels like an afermath of a "bear market rally".

Out of the things that I did tonight, I do not know which could even
possibly help, but something did help.

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On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:37:00 -0500, Ignoramus26567
wrote:

After what seemed a success yesterday, with the dryer reportedly
working, my wife told me that they dried three loads of clothes. Then
the machine displayed a message "CLEAN LINT FILTER" and stopped
working since. (despite them, obviously, cleaning the lint filter
belatedly).

I took out the igniter again and bench tested it out of
desperation. It worked fantastically from 110v.

I put the igniter back again and the damn machine started working fine
again. I am doing a load right now. I am not as much excited about it
as I was yesterday. Feels like an afermath of a "bear market rally".

Out of the things that I did tonight, I do not know which could even
possibly help, but something did help.


Teach yoiur wife to disassemble, and change out the fasteners to
aircraft push and lifts

Gunner

"Human nature is bad. Good is a human product*
A warped piece of wood must be steamed and forced
before it is made straight; a metal blade must be put to the whetstone
before it becomes sharp. Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected
they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual
and moral principles."
—Sun Tzu
*

Ignoramus26567 wrote:
After what seemed a success yesterday, with the dryer reportedly
working, my wife told me that they dried three loads of clothes. Then
the machine displayed a message "CLEAN LINT FILTER" and stopped
working since. (despite them, obviously, cleaning the lint filter
belatedly).

I took out the igniter again and bench tested it out of
desperation. It worked fantastically from 110v.

I put the igniter back again and the damn machine started working fine
again. I am doing a load right now. I am not as much excited about it
as I was yesterday. Feels like an afermath of a "bear market rally".

Out of the things that I did tonight, I do not know which could even
possibly help, but something did help.

I have had good results with problem electric dryers by taking them out side and
blowing out all the air passages and around the drum with compressed air or a
leafblower. Lots of lint comes out, and then they work. Maybe yours wants this
treatment?

Ignoramus26567 wrote:
After what seemed a success yesterday, with the dryer reportedly
working, my wife told me that they dried three loads of clothes. Then
the machine displayed a message "CLEAN LINT FILTER" and stopped
working since. (despite them, obviously, cleaning the lint filter
belatedly).

I took out the igniter again and bench tested it out of
desperation. It worked fantastically from 110v.

I put the igniter back again and the damn machine started working fine
again. I am doing a load right now. I am not as much excited about it
as I was yesterday. Feels like an afermath of a "bear market rally".

Out of the things that I did tonight, I do not know which could even
possibly help, but something did help.

If taking it apart and putting back together
temorarily fixes it, then the probability there is
a bad connection is very high. Check all crimp-on
terminals, examine related circuit boards for
cracks or bad solder joints, and if the only thing
you are disassembling is the igniter, then it has
to be the igniter or the wires to it.

Of course, if you have to tear the whole machine
apart to get to the igniter, then it could be any
number of wires and connections are being jostled
when you open it up.

The clean lint filter message sounds like maybe an
air flow sensor is not seeing enough air flow, so
either the blower is packed with dust, the vent
pipe is restricted, or the sensor has gone bad.
Or, another bad connection that got fixed by
opening it up. The pros probably have a secret
flow chart for diagnosing this kind of stuff.

Jon

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:14:47 -0500, Jon Elson
wrote:


The clean lint filter message sounds like maybe an
air flow sensor is not seeing enough air flow, so
either the blower is packed with dust, the vent
pipe is restricted, or the sensor has gone bad.
Or, another bad connection that got fixed by
opening it up. The pros probably have a secret
flow chart for diagnosing this kind of stuff.

Jon

Your answer is in this paragraph somewhere. I second the above.
Thank You,
Randy

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On Mar 10, 11:14*pm, Jon Elson wrote:
Ignoramus26567 wrote:
After what seemed a success yesterday, with the dryer reportedly
working, my wife told me that they dried three loads of clothes. Then
the machine displayed a message "CLEAN LINT FILTER" and stopped
working since. (despite them, obviously, cleaning the lint filter
belatedly).

I took out the igniter again and bench tested it out of
desperation. It worked fantastically from 110v.

I put the igniter back again and the damn machine started working fine
again. I am doing a load right now. I am not as much excited about it
as I was yesterday. Feels like an afermath of a "bear market rally".

Out of the things that I did tonight, I do not know which could even
possibly help, but something did help.

If taking it apart and putting back together
temorarily fixes it, then the probability there is
a bad connection is very high. *Check all crimp-on
terminals, examine related circuit boards for
cracks or bad solder joints, and if the only thing
you are disassembling is the igniter, then it has
to be the igniter or the wires to it.

Of course, if you have to tear the whole machine
apart to get to the igniter, then it could be any
number of wires and connections are being jostled
when you open it up.

The clean lint filter message sounds like maybe an
air flow sensor is not seeing enough air flow, so
either the blower is packed with dust, the vent
pipe is restricted, or the sensor has gone bad.
Or, another bad connection that got fixed by
opening it up. *The pros probably have a secret
flow chart for diagnosing this kind of stuff.

Jon- Hide quoted text -

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Or just hang a rubber mallet next to it, operate a needed and when it
finally quits, you won't have an intermittent to solve.

Stan

"Ignoramus26567" wrote in message
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After what seemed a success yesterday, with the dryer reportedly
working, my wife told me that they dried three loads of clothes. Then
the machine displayed a message "CLEAN LINT FILTER" and stopped
working since. (despite them, obviously, cleaning the lint filter
belatedly).

I took out the igniter again and bench tested it out of
desperation. It worked fantastically from 110v.

I put the igniter back again and the damn machine started working fine
again. I am doing a load right now. I am not as much excited about it
as I was yesterday. Feels like an afermath of a "bear market rally".

Out of the things that I did tonight, I do not know which could even
possibly help, but something did help.

--
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When faced with this situation I have found that VERY carefully checking the
female socket parts of connectors will often find the problem. Measure the
pins and get a drill bit or something else very close in size. Check the
sockets for good TENSION on the pin. Especially if there are high current
connections, be sure they are good and clean. I have scraped out sockets
with a bent needle point. A magnifier will often help.

If there are circuit boards involved there will sometime be a hairline
solder crack at or near the connector and just carefully re-melting the
connectons will do the job. Bad wire crimp joints are not unknown also.

Good Luck, Don Young