Hello,
I have an older Kenmore Electric Dryer SER #M61901833 Mod #86671100
66711.A few months back I checked the clothes mid-cycle and found the inside door and the clothes to be very hot, hotter than I thought was normal.
This week I did 3 loads back to back, the room developed a stink like a dead mouse! I traced the smell to two very hot 30A (screw in) fuses. The fuses do not blow. The dryer has it's own box right off the main, and the dryer is only a few feet from the box. No recent changes to anything.
When I run the dryer on a AIR (no heat) cycle the fuses do not get hot. I can turn the drum OK by hand. When I run a Heat cycle on low/med/or high the fuses start heading up after some time, maybe 5-7 mins not sure.
I checked the wire connections in Main, side box, outlet, pigtail, one-time dryer fuse, cycling thermostat, and high-limit thermostat and all are tight and clean. The high-limit thermostat (2-wires) is in the heater chamber (tube), the cycling thermostat (4 wires) is near the exhuast vent.
Could the cycling thermostat be stuck closed? What about the high-limit therm? Any way to bench test these parts to see if they open at all? I am little concerned that the 30A (fast acting) fuses did not blow, nor did the dryer's one-time fuse.
Any help/suggestions are welcomed.
Thanks for your time, Jim