Disassembly of Hotpoint dryer.

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snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote:

There is no bottom access panel on this unit which I thought was quite odd. The appliancepartspros link gave a good parts blow up but not really instructions on how to disassemble. I'll make another trip over to the dryer and bring my torx screwdrivers.

-- Thanks for your reply,

David Farber

IBM5081 wrote:

Hi,

That will be NBXR463GB0WW

Access helps...

Nope.

jeff. Appliance Repair Aid

Hi Jeff,

Those pictures were very helpful!

Thanks for your reply.

-- David Farber David Farber's Service Center L.A., CA

Now that I've been able to get this thing apart, I was able to power it on with the drum off to see what was going on. The igniter comes on, then after about twenty seconds, there appears to be a humming noise from one of the solenoids, the igniter shuts off, but no gas flame appears. I put my meter across the flame detect switch to see if it was opening but no voltage ever appeared across it. I removed the flame switch from the circuit and tried heating it up over a small flame on a stove but it still wouldn't switch open. How do you test this thing and why would the igniter turn off if the flame detect switch didn't open?

Also, this dryer may have been worked on before. How can you tell the proper way to install the booster/main coil? The three terminals are toward the bottom of the pole whereas the safety coil has the terminals toward the top of the pole.

Thanks for your reply.

-- David Farber L.A., CA