Gum in dryer

Gum usually responds well to an ice cube. That makes it brittle & more easily removed.

GOOGLE "remove gum"

At the risk of making this a 500 post thread-- I'd use WD-40- then dry a old towel in there if I didn't like the smell of WD-40.

Jim [odorless turpentine would work, too-- but I'd have to go the store for that]

Did you consider that it might be a gas dryer, maybe even with a pilot? That stuff could all go boom.

Did you consider that it might be a gas dryer, maybe even with a pilot? That stuff could all go boom.

On Thu 10 Sep 2009 07:51:51p, told us...

This happened to us when my partner's son left a partial pack of gum in his pants pocket when he did his laundry. I told him that he made the mess and he would clean it up. I gave him a bottle of Goo Gone and a box of Mr. Clean Magic Eraser Sponges. Worked like a charm.

Peanut butter eats gum.

I doubt you'd get much of a boom. Worst case, a tiny, 'pfoof'.

Actually, my dryer is gas- and I think there is a pilot. I said "I'd use. . ." - and I would. And I wouldn't concern myself in the least about a couple spritz's of WD-40- a couple feet from, and protected by a layer of steel, a small pilot light.

If I felt the need to spray the pilot assembly itself I might blow it out first-- or maybe I'd try a spritz first for the hell of it.

If this was the most dangerous thing I'd done in my life I would have died of boredom 50 yrs ago.

Jim

Nice to see specific advice and a good outcome. Thanks.

FWIW, I put a blue ballpoint pen through the dryer years ago, in the pocket of white nurse uniform. The uniforms had blue blotches all over, but all came out without a trace with normal commercial dry cleaning.

Put in a couple pounds of pebbles and run for 3 hours.