http://fixitnow.com/wp/2005/09/23/kenmore-electric-dryer-works-for-5-minutes-then-shuts-off-dryer-repair/ Your appliance repair weapon of mass instruction for all your appliance repair needs! Tue, 15 May 2012 21:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://fixitnow.com/wp/2005/09/23/kenmore-electric-dryer-works-for-5-minutes-then-shuts-off-dryer-repair/comment-page-1/#comment-339 Mandelbrot's Chaos Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://fixitnow.com/wp/?p=877#comment-339 Samurai, or whatever you prefer to call yourself online, you forgot one other simple solution, the goober test that I, not being a tech, didn't think of: Check the inside body of the dryer for lint. My dryer would run for about 5 minutes then cut off, and after cooling down, would start back up again. So, I took the drum off to inspect the motor, and I found that there was enough lint in there to knit a sweater, or at least a few socks. Had it not been for the high-limit thermostat stopping the dryer, a fire could have started without much trouble. I should have thought about that when I had to replace the thermal fuse, but I'm an officeworker, not a tech. lol Samurai, or whatever you prefer to call yourself online, you forgot one other simple solution, the goober test that I, not being a tech, didn’t think of: Check the inside body of the dryer for lint. My dryer would run for about 5 minutes then cut off, and after cooling down, would start back up again. So, I took the drum off to inspect the motor, and I found that there was enough lint in there to knit a sweater, or at least a few socks. Had it not been for the high-limit thermostat stopping the dryer, a fire could have started without much trouble. I should have thought about that when I had to replace the thermal fuse, but I’m an officeworker, not a tech. lol

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