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Thread Number: 95674
/ Tag: Vintage Dryers
Whirlpool Dryer Timer |
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| Post# 1203213 4/11/2024 at 11:11 by gregingotham (New York) | ||
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Is a new timer for a Whirlpool dryer made between 2000-2004 hard to find? And what would be the typical cost? | ||
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| Post# 1203215 , Reply# 1 4/11/2024 at 11:15 by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas) | ||
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Post# 1203220 , Reply# 2 4/11/2024 at 12:12 by DADoES  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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| Post# 1203238 , Reply# 3 4/11/2024 at 16:00 by dominic20 (Souix falls) | ||
good news  | ||
| Post# 1203275 , Reply# 4 4/12/2024 at 02:20 by Stan (Napa CA) | ||
Greg | ||
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Post# 1203283 , Reply# 5 4/12/2024 at 07:49 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Servicing a clothes, dryer timer
There’s really no such thing as dirty contacts in a clothes dryer timer, this isn’t an old television tuner where the cleanliness of the context could affect the operation.
Occasionally, you can find a contact that is armed and burned, and you can get in there and bend it a little bit and get it to work, but it’s pretty rare to be able to save a time or that way anymore. It might also be possible if you had a timer motor that failed to swap one from another timer but even that’s not easy to do on modern timers and many cases. John | ||
| Post# 1203322 , Reply# 6 4/12/2024 at 22:33 by Stan (Napa CA) | ||
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John
I value your knowledge & opinion. I often times look for your answers first to questions posted.
So help me out here. To my knowledge these are contacts. The right side from say 1:00 to 4:00 are the high heat modes (A though C) I’ve repaired a Kenmore/whirlpool dryer by cleaning these contacts/points, or at least made it functional again. Can u explain further
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Post# 1203330 , Reply# 7 4/13/2024 at 06:38 by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Fixing dryer timer contacts
Hi Stan, thanks for the great picture of the newer whirlpool dryer timer.
I guess it’s really a matter of terminology you can go in and sand and file and maybe bend slightly, the timer contact area and often get a timer to work again. I’ve certainly done it many times. You’re not actually going there just cleaning they don’t develop dirt or oxide that causes them not to work, like you would clean an old television tuner for example. You’re not gonna be able to just spray contact cleaner in there, for example, and fix a dryer timer because you’re dealing with high voltage and current. The new timer you pictured is an absolutely awful timer. Whirlpool has been using these for the last decade or so and they have a lot of trouble with contacts and cams and cam followers. They typically stop heating because that’s the contact that takes the most current , I ran into one yesterday in fact on a Kenmore dryer that’s just six years old every time you touch the knob the main motor stops running. We’ve sometimes been able to successfully get these new timers to work again you’re generally better off just replacing them except that some of them are pretty expensive . John | ||
| Post# 1203355 , Reply# 8 4/13/2024 at 14:13 by Stan (Napa CA) | ||
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Thanks John
For further info.
I don’t own a can of spray contact cleaner. What I’ve used on those contacts was a metal nail file file followed by a piece of material from a fingernail buffer. LOL And as you say..only on that side that takes the most current. The contacts or point in the pics below were cleaned with a piece of steel wool. And if I remember correctly, I once made a timer functional by inserting a piece of plastic where a plastic cam follower had broken off, I think I cut a chunk off a collar stay to fit in the spot as a quick fix. Obviously new timers would have been a better choices, but I don’t do this for a living. These repairs were for friends and family and they were told to order a new timers, but u know how it goes.. “I don’t wana spend $80.00 on an old dryer” My response was “well it ain’t gona last” They still are but? My own Kenmore dryer with same style timer has to be close to 25 years old and has never had any repairs. I once replaced a timer on a 70s Maytag and that was a whole other animal! That was before I had a cell phone, so I had to draw out a picture on paper before removing and replacing to get the wires connected to the right terminals. And I don’t remember much plastic in that one. Thanks again John for stopping by I greatly appreciate your knowledge and expertise. | ||
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