Roaring over here

So the parts for my dryer came on Tuesday!!  I spent most of the evening on it to replace both pieces of the thermostat, because I believed that's what was wrong. After several minutes of swearing in German, thank goodness for Hogan's Heros!!, I managed to finally figure out how to take the little clasps off the little slidy doo hickeys.  So SIMPLE!!!  now....  

Got the pieces replaced  and I plugged it back in.  Threw someone's swim trunks in and turned that puppy on!  Still... no heat!

Ok, SOMETHING is wrong with this thing!  I just spent $60 on two parts that weren't the problem and here I was determined NOT to spend $150 for a $2 part!!  

I still was determined even though they cost more than $2.

Started looking around on the internet for my brand of dryer and it's symptoms.  Found a video that showed how to make your dryer hot again, simply by cleaning it out!  Okey doke!

That turned into a comedy of errors.

In pulling off the cover of the fan and lint trap tunnel, I managed to drop a screw and the end of my ratchet tool behind the fan inside the dryer.  I'm going to need those!!!  So I tilted the dryer one way, careful not to twist the gas line too much.  They both rattled to the side.  Something fell of the top onto the floor.  No big.

I tilted it backwards a little.  Something fell into the lint trap hole around the barrel.  g.reat...  It was my screwdriver.  I might need that too!  I definitely need it NOT in the area around the barrel!!!  Not sure what else fell in...   Don't care.  I fished out the screwdriver and cleaned off the entire top of the dryer.  I will be wiser this time!

I managed to fish out the screw and the ratchet piece with some needle nosed pliers and in the process, bent the lower flap thing that the back cover connects to, so now the back won't go on... whatever...

The video that I found showed how to check the outside air vent for any clogs.  So I went out in the dark with only Leon's dinosaur flash light that he got for his birthday.  Because WHO knows where their flash lights are?  and why don't any of them work when you need them?!  

It roars. constantly...

I reached into the vent and started pulling out layers of junk.  Oh yuck...  If THIS isn't the cause of the problems, then I don't KNOW what!  After I cleaned that out with a long wire brush, I plugged the sucker back in and turned it on with the swim trunks again.  

No heat.

and I found that I'd cut my hand somehow because there was blood encrusted on my hand and pants leg...  wonderful.

After cleaning up, I went back to the internet.  SOMEONE must know what is wrong with this thing and with a dryer, there aren't a whole lot of pieces that can go bad!!!  Found it.  Use www.partselect.com next time you want to fix something!!!  You put in the model # and it will give you a list of the symptoms that could go wrong with this model and next to each piece, you get a number.  That number will tell you how this piece fixed this issue 54% of the time, for example.  How cool is that!!  

So for another $10 + cheap shipping, the part came Thursday.  YEAH!!!  I put it in last night and instantly those swim trunks heated up!!  So all the clothes hanging in my living room got a warm tumble last night to loosen them up and today I'm getting caught up on all the clothes that no one wants to see hanging for the world to see.  

I have a lot...

I am WO-MAN!!!  Hear me ROAR!