sage52•2mo ago

My 20 year old Kenmore dryer finally died and I tried fixing it myself instead of calling a repair guy

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Oh great, another diy hero who saved fifty bucks but wasted eight hours and a Saturday. Hope you didn't rip the belt off balance or short something out that could start a fire. If it runs hotter and slower than before, you just turned a dead machine into a hazard.

mason_jackson2mo ago

Three years ago I watched my neighbor spend an entire Sunday rebuilding a lawnmower engine from a YouTube video. He got it running but it sounded like a bag of rocks and smoked for an hour before it seized up completely. That's the thing with fixing stuff yourself - there's a real gap between watching someone do it and actually doing it right. People treat these appliances like they're simple machines but washers have sensors and electronics that can get fried real easy if you don't know what you're doing. It's the same mindset where folks think because they changed their own oil once they can rebuild a transmission. Sometimes the best repair is just calling someone who does it every day.

lisa_grant1mo ago

lol "diy hero who saved fifty bucks but wasted eight hours and a Saturday" - that's exactly it. People act like they're sticking it to the man by fixing stuff themselves but they never count their own time as money. If you spend all day messing with a dryer that's already toast, you could've just worked an extra shift or picked up a side gig and paid a pro in way less time. Plus half the time they end up making it worse and then the repair guy charges double to fix the original problem AND their bad patch job. It's just stubborn pride disguised as being thrifty lol.