Yep, like the car in the Johnny Cash song.
It was the wrong part, and the old part fell to pieces while I unscrewed it, so the dryer is totally out of action until the new part that I desperately hope is the right part arrives.
It’s truly the gift that doesn’t stop giving.
The diy that never ends and it goes on and on my friends…
After I moved in with my gf, her old gas dryer was the cause of our first “fight”. Her dryer was ancient, and she wanted a new one, but it worked fine. Then it stopped working. I did some troubleshooting, diagnosed the problem, and got the part. I fixed it!! I was happy, she was pissed.
A few months later something else went wrong. Again, I fixed it and she was pissed. Eventually the belt went, I replaced it, but she ordered a new dryer. She donated the old one to an animal shelter, where it continued to run for years.
I like this outcome.
I’ve repaired our dryer so many times. And many instances meant “Find this weird part, replace it, well, guess that’s not it; try this other part (after it gets UPS’ed from Kalamazoo), okay, it’s working until next month…”
But in our case, it’s because we have steep, skinny basement stairs, and couldn’t get a new dryer down there.
Take it apart. 
Might as well.
The new part worked! Looks like the dryer (and my wife’s husband) shall live to fight another day.
Your dedication to that dryer is nothing short of amazing! Personally, I would have given it the Office Space printer treatment:
I noticed you didn’t say anything about pollution so bad that it is hard to see and breathe. Has that improved?
Short version of a longer story. I picked up my mail the other day expecting a cheque from our fine government, and indeed there it was, for $2300. I was happy. There was also a bunch of junk mail and other garbage that I threw into recycling, but then I noticed that one of the items I was throwing out was another official-looking envelope that I had overlooked.
I fished it out and opened the envelope I had nearly thrown out. In it was another cheque from the fine and generous Government of Canada, this one for nearly $10,000. It would have been a shame to have thrown it away! 
I’ve got lots of rants this month but let’s just stick with the medical procedures. My sick-in-the-something patootie doc has decided I get two days of clear liquid for my colonoscopy instead of just one, along with drinking the dreaded aquarium water. I’m not quite sure why as last time I presented with perfectly empty insides and got two thumbs up. They are just cruel bastards, that’s what.
Why do you feel that you have to do what the doctor wants if the normal one-day cleansing works for others and worked for you last time? I’d just ignore him and do what worked for you before.
I’m reminded of the time that my cardiologist scheduled me for a nuclear stress test. This is when they inject you full of radioactive stuff so that you practically glow in the dark, and then run you on a treadmill until you collapse, or possibly die. I queried the doctor about what useful information that test would provide. He said it might indicate the need for cardiac bypass surgery. I told him that since there was no way on God’s green earth that I would subject myself to bypass surgery, what useful information would the test then provide? In the absence of any good answer, I cancelled the test.
We’re trying to spruce the house up a bit prior to putting it on the market. Our area rug in our living room was dirty, so I asked our cleaners how much to clean it. It’s only a synthetic thing which cost maybe a couple of hundred dollars at most. He (and later another cleaners) said it would cost about $125 to clean a 5’ x 7’ rug. I gasped and declined.
Then I went to Home Goods and looked at their area rugs. I found plenty of 5’ x 7’ rugs which were very pretty, and they sold for between $59 and $79 each. Criminy! That was a no-brainer. So we took the dirty old rug to the dump and now have a pretty new rug in a fashionable pale shade and a modern pattern.
So my rant is that it costs less to replace a rug than to clean a rug. Sheesh.
Because we have dogs, we invested in a rug shampoo thing that has paid for itself many times over. I’ve used it on throw rugs as well as our carpets. There is definitely a learning curve to its use. My gf decided to use it one day and couldn’t figure out how to do the initial set-up. So, I’m the carpet guy.
I have just paid $108 for a 16-pound bag of cat kibble. Canadian, so maybe US$80, but still. Definitely outpacing inflation.
I buy good kibble because the cheap stuff just means more time for us all in / at the litter box, but ye gods.
Not that I’m suggesting that you should have done this, but you can take rugs down to the self car wash and spray them until they’re clean. You may find out that some of the dyes in it aren’t fast, but it only costs a couple of bucks. Works better if you have a pickup truck to haul it home.
Do you drag the rugs out to the driveway and shampoo them there?
Next house prep rant: I’ll never, ever again have Venetian blinds. We have them in our living room, and when we were younger, it was easier to clean them. But now we’re 67 and 73, and moving all the furniture so that we can climb up on a stepladder and vacuum the dust off of them is a major chore. Mr. brown refuses to use anything but a vacuum attachment, because anything else “just moves the dust around”. We have to steel ourselves into performing this all-day chore. Can’t avoid it, because the blinds are dark and the dust is thick and visible on them. I’m hoping the professional cleaners who come to prep the house will do Venetian blinds.
Our driveway is gravel, so that would be a horrid experience. I take them down to the basement and shampoo them on the concrete floor. It is pretty simple, not messy at all, as it cleans & sucks up stuff as you go.
I also hate Venetian blinds. That said, a favorite local band from way back in the day was Whitey & The Blind Venetians.