A couple of days ago, my dryer stopped working. I knew it was the drum belt b/c I could hear the motor whirling away, but didn't hear the drum rotating. I just went about my business, like nothing was wrong. Procrastination is one of my favorite past-times, btw.
Today, I got a wild hair and jumped over to You Tube. Well, all the dryers are basically the same. An older GE, like what I have, isn't all that easy to change out the belt. Once I got the back hatch pulled off, I realized the part of the drum that protruded through the back wasn't pointing through a large metal ring, where it was supposed to be. The metal ring had a large gash in it and the protrusion had dropped and over time worn away the metal plate and continued to moved down. I stopped right there.
Smoking a cigarette on the couch, I stewed over the situation, "Now, I've got to buy a dryer. There goes my emergency fund. Why didn't I do this before I paid on my credit card?" Finally, I came to the conclusion of not worrying about it right now. I replaced enough screws to hold it together.
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