Moms 1958 GE electric dryer (installed in the kitchen) may have died, I am still trying to fix it.
It has an odd, to me, “down” exhaust air discharge under the machine through the floor. I can not tell if the hole in the bottom of the dryer is a factory hole or someone cut it there when it was originally installed.
Most modern dryers seem to discharge out the back.
Anyone run into this situation?
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Many dryers have the option to discharge out the bottom. I know our Maytag does. I think you may have to buy a "kit", though, if you want factory parts.
What's wrong with the dryer? There's really not that much to them, and likely some of the parts can be replaced with ones from a newer model, if the old parts are unavailable (which is likely the case).
no heat.
I have checked the high temp cut off and the cycling thermostat, am working on other possibilities
It's probably the heating coil then. Breaks can sometimes be hard to see, maybe try a continuity tester if you have one.
Yeah, likely the heating coil. A minor PITA to replace, but not rocket science. Check coil continuity, and if it's open, take it out and take it to a decent parts place. (Bring along the model/serial, of course, and also the nameplate wattage rating.) They should be able to find an element to fit, though you'll likely have to restring it yourself.
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Since you've already been given good advice, it's here where BT sometimes flows into multiple postings of really no benefit. So, I'll start. When I was stationed in Hawaii as a light fighter, I noticed old dryers sitting on the porches of homes you knew belonged to long-time residents (gray wood walls, sagging porches, etc.). Many would have old dryers on their porches, and it wasn't until watching a fishing show that I realized why they were there. The heating coils were either burnt out or rendered inoperative, and the natives would use the dryers to tenderize octopus. They'd put the calamari in the dryer, turn it on, and some time later have something that didn't stretch when you tried to bite it off. Resourceful..
My thinking that it is not the coils ai that the machine has two coils -to me odd that both would break at once - as there is no heat at all but I plan to look into that anyway