Oh my goodness you're the best. I had Same problem. Early this morning I sat there with long kitchen utensils since I had nothing else. Unbelievable what I pulled out. Now I have a working dryer!!! Thank;you a billion times!!
You are very welcome - really glad to help and thank you for the friendly comment! Love hearing this type of fix helped someone out and got their dryer working well again! - DIYNate
Awesome - Love hearing it helped you get up and running! Thanks for posting and glad to hear it looks like smooth sailings for you for a while. Happy 4th and best wishes! - DIYNate
Glad to have saved you the headache of disassembling the dryer or calling a tech! Yes - great to use lint as a fire starter (as long as it doesn’t start inside your dryer - haha!). I do the same with my lint. Thanks for watching and the positive comment! - DIYNate
Hi Nate, another great video. I noticed the same on mine. After playing with the needle nose pliers like you did, I made up a little tool for my shop vac by taping a short length of clear tubing to a small funnel. The funnel end goes on tip of vacuum hose and the clear tubing is small enough to get into that opening. Not perfect but I was able to suck a lot of junk out.
Eddie - Love your idea of making a tool to hook onto the end of a vacuum to suck out the lint and other junk - I am sure that worked pretty well and is a really creative hack! Appreciate you sharing in the comments (and sorry it took me a while to respond). Best, DIYNate
I really hope it wasn’t designed with the old ‘planned obsolescence’ but you never know. In my case, I think it may have had a tear in the lint trap to begin with so I am sure that contributed to my issues quite a bit. Thanks for your comment! - DIYNate
Haha - Marty, that comment made me laugh - appreciate you putting a smile on my face this morning! Glad this helped out and appreciate you watching! - DIYNate
Ok - so, I totally get where you are coming from. But... If you can get a light down there, I think you are going to find that possibly some lint slipped below the dryer screen (maybe in a corner or where you are meeting the most resistance when trying to push it down). If you can get something like a pair of needle nose pliers, a coat hanger with some tape on it, or some other thin grabbing utensil down there, I can almost guarantee the reason it won't sit right is something is stopping it short on the rim of the dryer. Shining a light on it was when I realized there was a chunk of hardened lint causing the lint trap not to seat right. Once I got it out of there, it fit right and I was able to close the dryer door again. Good luck and I feel for you - quite annoying! But don't throw the dryer away just yet ;) - DIYNate
So Nate your completely missing the boat. If you take it apart( like a real repairman ) you will find it packed with lint below the filter ass'y like 10 x what you pulled out. Samsung models do the same thing. My theory is people don't empty the lint trap enuf !!!!!
Hey Kirk - Thanks for your comment and definitely sounds like you have some great experience! Totally agree that there is a really good chance there is a ton more that has slipped even further down into the dryer building up at the bottom. In this particular case, my lint screen had a hole in it (from a screw that went through the wash and made its way into the dryer). From there, lint got underneath the shelf where the dryer screen should seat, however, I could barely get my dryer screen to close due to the buildup on that shelf. I opted to simply go from the top to clean out the shelf to get the dryer screen to seat properly, vs. taking it all the way apart like a real dryer repairman (in the interest of time and effort). You are absolutely right though - doing it the right way to make sure all the lint is cleared, taking it apart would be the right way to handle for the best long term results. We were emptying the lint trap with every clean, but the hole in the screen was the culprit causing lint to build up and not allowing the dryer screen to seat causing the door not to close and low drying efficiency. Appreciate your insights and comment, sir! - DIYNate
@@DIYNateno he is right, just take the front off and you’ll find the blower cage /wheel full of lint and dryer sheets. It doesn’t matter that you have a hole, the filter isn’t catching shit.
Oh my goodness you're the best. I had Same problem. Early this morning I sat there with long kitchen utensils since I had nothing else. Unbelievable what I pulled out. Now I have a working dryer!!! Thank;you a billion times!!
You are very welcome - really glad to help and thank you for the friendly comment! Love hearing this type of fix helped someone out and got their dryer working well again!
- DIYNate
Great video!!! I had to both clean the lint and replace the filter. My dryer works great now!!!
Awesome -
Love hearing it helped you get up and running! Thanks for posting and glad to hear it looks like smooth sailings for you for a while. Happy 4th and best wishes!
- DIYNate
I'm really glad I watched this video before disassembling everything. This worked..👍
I make fire starters, using my lint.
Glad to have saved you the headache of disassembling the dryer or calling a tech! Yes - great to use lint as a fire starter (as long as it doesn’t start inside your dryer - haha!). I do the same with my lint.
Thanks for watching and the positive comment!
- DIYNate
Hi Nate, another great video. I noticed the same on mine. After playing with the needle nose pliers like you did, I made up a little tool for my shop vac by taping a short length of clear tubing to a small funnel. The funnel end goes on tip of vacuum hose and the clear tubing is small enough to get into that opening. Not perfect but I was able to suck a lot of junk out.
Eddie - Love your idea of making a tool to hook onto the end of a vacuum to suck out the lint and other junk - I am sure that worked pretty well and is a really creative hack! Appreciate you sharing in the comments (and sorry it took me a while to respond).
Best,
DIYNate
Thank you so much!! Problem solved. Thank you and God bless.
Love hearing the video helped, Victoria! Very welcome and God bless you and yours as well!
- DIYNate
We have a similar dryer. The lint trap is very poorly designed. Why would they make it so we cant keep it clean?
I really hope it wasn’t designed with the old ‘planned obsolescence’ but you never know. In my case, I think it may have had a tear in the lint trap to begin with so I am sure that contributed to my issues quite a bit. Thanks for your comment!
- DIYNate
Yeah Thank You fixed mine easy!
Awesome - love hearing the fix for the dryer / lint screen worked for you. Thanks for letting me know and for the feedback!
- DIYNate
Thanks, dude, you saved me from using my biggest hammer 😂
Haha - Marty, that comment made me laugh - appreciate you putting a smile on my face this morning! Glad this helped out and appreciate you watching!
- DIYNate
Thank you
Sure thing - thanks for your comment!
- DIYNate
That extra lint can cause a fire! It happens a good bit wt the Samsungs
Gotta keep the lint out of there to make sure it dries and doesn’t create a safety risk for sure. Thanks for the comment!
- DIYNate
The blower cage has to be cleaned as well
I've been cleaning mine out. No matter what we do, it won't go all the way down and the door won't even closed. The dryer is useless.
Ok - so, I totally get where you are coming from. But... If you can get a light down there, I think you are going to find that possibly some lint slipped below the dryer screen (maybe in a corner or where you are meeting the most resistance when trying to push it down). If you can get something like a pair of needle nose pliers, a coat hanger with some tape on it, or some other thin grabbing utensil down there, I can almost guarantee the reason it won't sit right is something is stopping it short on the rim of the dryer.
Shining a light on it was when I realized there was a chunk of hardened lint causing the lint trap not to seat right. Once I got it out of there, it fit right and I was able to close the dryer door again.
Good luck and I feel for you - quite annoying! But don't throw the dryer away just yet ;)
- DIYNate
Bad like that strip whole machine overdue and exhaust line too,will soon pay for it in reduced bills.
So Nate your completely missing the boat. If you take it apart( like a real repairman ) you will find it packed with lint below the filter ass'y like 10 x what you pulled out. Samsung models do the same thing. My theory is people don't empty the lint trap enuf !!!!!
Hey Kirk -
Thanks for your comment and definitely sounds like you have some great experience! Totally agree that there is a really good chance there is a ton more that has slipped even further down into the dryer building up at the bottom. In this particular case, my lint screen had a hole in it (from a screw that went through the wash and made its way into the dryer). From there, lint got underneath the shelf where the dryer screen should seat, however, I could barely get my dryer screen to close due to the buildup on that shelf. I opted to simply go from the top to clean out the shelf to get the dryer screen to seat properly, vs. taking it all the way apart like a real dryer repairman (in the interest of time and effort). You are absolutely right though - doing it the right way to make sure all the lint is cleared, taking it apart would be the right way to handle for the best long term results.
We were emptying the lint trap with every clean, but the hole in the screen was the culprit causing lint to build up and not allowing the dryer screen to seat causing the door not to close and low drying efficiency. Appreciate your insights and comment, sir!
- DIYNate
@@DIYNateno he is right, just take the front off and you’ll find the blower cage /wheel full of lint and dryer sheets. It doesn’t matter that you have a hole, the filter isn’t catching shit.