Home Improvement & Health Care

Let’s listen with amazement as Sublime Master john63 from the Samurai School of Appliantology unveils the mysteries of disassembling an LG dryer. This particular procedure was for model number DLE7177WM but is largely applicable to all current LG models. 1) Unplug the dryer.

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Model numbers MHS2000 MHW2000 MLE2000 If you have a unit with the MHS model number, it’s the same as the MLE and MHW units. Maytag labeled the washer MHS so they could be tracked at the assembly plant and just to confuse everybody else outside of the assembly plant.

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Sublime Master Willie in the Samurai School of Appliantology dispenses these indispensable pearls of appliantological wisdom for troubleshooting a microwave oven that keeps blowing the internal fuse: Quick n’ easy way to see if the high voltage system is blowing the fuse, disconnect the wires to the primary side of the high voltage transformer and make sure they are safely away from any part of the microwave.

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Easy as bip, bap, boom! Fisher-Paykel DD603 Drawer Removal If you need more help fixing your own appliances, come see us in the Samurai School of Appliantology . Samurai Appliance Repair Man http://fixitnow.com Parts==> http://parts.fixitnow.com Forums==> http://appliantology.org Facebook==> http://facebook.com/fixitnowsamurai Twitter==> http://twitter.com/fixitnowsamurai Newsletter==> http://newsletter.fixitnow.com SMS==> 603-505-8460 Related posts: Mailbag: How to Remove the Front Panel and Drawer in a Fisher-Paykel DD603 Dishwasher Quick check for the diverter valve on a Fisher-Paykel GWL10 EcoDrive washer Are you a Master Appliantologist? A special offer for Brethren in The Craft

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Example LG model number: WM2277HW but applies to many others. Sublime Master of Appliantology john63 enumerates the dance steps in this repair for us in the Samurai School of Appliantology : Possible causes: 1) Damaged/broken wiring at the THERMISTOR PLUG (very common) 2) Weak/Intermittent connection at the THERMISTOR PLUG (add small amount of dielectric grease to plug) 3) Weak/Intermittent connection at PLUG behind CONTROL PANEL (disconnect all plugs behind the “jog dial” add dielectric grease) 4) Failed THERMISTOR (rare)—Should be 2.5 ohms to 180 ohms (changes ohms at differing temperatures) 5) Failed HEATING ELEMENT (rare-but does occur): 10 ohms to 30 ohms 6) Failed MAIN BOARD (rare): 120 volts at HEATER connections during TEST MODE. This test can be performed at the MAIN BOARD connector for the HEATING ELEMENT The correct MAIN BOARD should be ordered using both the MODEL *and* SERIAL NUMBERS

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Example LG model number: WM2487HWMA but applies to many others. If you’re having intermittent drain problems or seeing the “OE” error code, you need to get some fingers and eyeballs inside the pump volute and impeller area to see there’s some gookus in there jamming the pump impeller.

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Konnichiwa! Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving holiday with friends and family. In between mouthfuls of turkey and beer, I was busy morphing the Samurai Appliance Repair Forums into our shiny new Samurai School of Appliantology at http://appliantology.org — add this to your bookmarks and all those other presents under your Christmas tree. The new School has been running for about three weeks now.

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Someone posted this nifty Youtube video from Dave’s Farm in the Samurai School of Appliantology .

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Introduction to Microwave Oven Repair

If your LG dryer (example model number DLE7177WM) won’t start, one possibility is that the thermal limiter is burned out. This usually happens in situations where the dryer was taking too long to dry laundry the last several loads. If this was the case, the THERMAL LIMITER on the heater housing may have shut-down the dryer.

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Replacing the thermal limiter in an LG Tromm electric dryer