Revived!

I was on a bit of a roll this weekend, so I decide to take a second look at that poor Westy dryer of mine. I was more than a bit miffed that the dryer wouldn't run after I reassembled it following a fresh coat of appliance epoxy. I had been contemplating what I had done wrong with the lint trap trip rod and with the advice and information I got here, I knew I had a bad electrical connection somewhere. So, the first thing I did was to re-do the connectors on the wires leading to the door switch. I also took a good look at all the wiring and I found a huge potential problem. When I had dropped the door panel the last time around, I had pulled the neutral lead to the starting relay out compleltely. I never would have seen this if I hadn't taken the front panel off again.
BUT here's the weird part... I hooked up a temporary connection to just the 110-volt side of the terminals, pulled the 'start' switch and...nothing!!
I was more than a bit annoyed... So, I figured I had nothing to loose; I hooked the dryer up to a 'kids - don't do this at home' extension to the main dryer line. With hubby standing by at the breaker panel, I pulled the starter and...
It worked!! I ran a 10-minute cycle and I was delighted to find that the dryer cycled through to the end all by itself. 'How Dry I Am' never sounded so good!!


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Post# 524179 6/12/2011 at 22:25 (4,693 days old) by turquoisedude (.)
Checkrate/Likes I was on a bit of a roll this weekend, so I decide to take a second look at that poor Westy dryer of mine. I was more than a bit miffed that the dryer wouldn't run after I reassembled it following a fresh coat of appliance epoxy. I had been contemplating what I had done wrong with the lint trap trip rod and with the advice and information I got here, I knew I had a bad electrical connection somewhere. So, the first thing I did was to re-do the connectors on the wires leading to the door switch. I also took a good look at all the wiring and I found a huge potential problem. When I had dropped the door panel the last time around, I had pulled the neutral lead to the starting relay out compleltely. I never would have seen this if I hadn't taken the front panel off again. BUT here's the weird part... I hooked up a temporary connection to just the 110-volt side of the terminals, pulled the 'start' switch and...nothing!! I was more than a bit annoyed... So, I figured I had nothing to loose; I hooked the dryer up to a 'kids - don't do this at home' extension to the main dryer line. With hubby standing by at the breaker panel, I pulled the starter and... It worked!! I ran a 10-minute cycle and I was delighted to find that the dryer cycled through to the end all by itself. 'How Dry I Am' never sounded so good!!

Post# 524191 , Reply# 1 6/13/2011 at 00:05 (4,693 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)
Checkrate/Likes I love a simple fix. And I love vintage Westinghouse slant front machines. Congratulations!

Post# 524193 , Reply# 2 6/13/2011 at 00:43 (4,693 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)
Checkrate/Likes That's good news for your 3000th post! What's on top of the dryer? Insulation?

Post# 524256 , Reply# 3 6/13/2011 at 11:58 (4,693 days old) by turquoisedude (.)
Checkrate/Likes Wow, I didn't even notice that this was number 3000! Never realized I talked so much... LOL Yep, that's a fresh layer of insulation over the original,evil, and highly irritating glass-fibre stuff from the 50s. I am still itching from messing with it yesterday...

Post# 524285 , Reply# 4 6/13/2011 at 15:32 (4,693 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)
Checkrate/Likes Yay - another Westinghouse back in service again!