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Cleaning dryer vent ducts

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SteamingatMohawk
SteamingatMohawk Member Posts: 1,098
in Strictly Steam

A few years ago, I did some repairs on a dryer in the parsonage of the church I attend. I had to remove the drum so I could replace the bearing in the back. To do that, for this particular dryer, I had to remove the cover inside the back of the drum. This is what I found between the cover and the drum!

My guess is no one ever removes this cover to clean or vacuums the inside of the dryer. I had never done it in the 52 years of owning a house. And being that it is at the vent exit from the drum, it ss the hottest part of the exhaust path

Fire trap, maybe??

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  • SteamingatMohawk
    SteamingatMohawk Member Posts: 1,098

    "is" not "ss"

  • Big Ed_4
    Big Ed_4 Member Posts: 3,485

    Fabric softener leaves a sticky mess on its way out ..

    There was an error rendering this rich post.

  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 20,035

    @SteamingatMohawk

    I think I had one worse than that. We always pull and clean the drier screen every time we use the drier. Every 2 years I pull the vent pipe off and clean it. Usually not much in it.

    Then we noticed the clothes were taking a long time to dry. So, I took it all apart the fan housing was absolutely packed with lint. Cleaned it all out and it worked fine.

    A few days later it tripped the non-resettable high limit. When I cleaned the drier some lint got stuck on the thermstat so it went to high limit and tripped. Replaced the limit and all ok now. The thing is over 20 years old and still going.

  • SteamingatMohawk
    SteamingatMohawk Member Posts: 1,098

    I just realized I had the direction of flow backwards! The hot air comes into the drum from the back and exits at the screen in the front of the dryer. As the youngsters would say, "My bad!"

    With this realization, my statement that the air is the hottest at this location is even more true as the air has not yet gotten to the clothes.

    Thanks EBEBRATT-Ed, your comment brought me to true reality, making my concern even more valid.

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