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RR Valley, ND; MN native | When I was a poor college student...
Rented house with room mates and the dryer in the basement was making a horrid screeching noise that echo'd up the duct work to my room making it impossible for me to concentrate on my homework/studying. Asking the roomy to not dry their laundry when I was studying was not going anywhere. Pestering the landlord; it could take weeks to get anything done.
So, investigation found the bushing holding up the rear of the dryer drum was shot and the shaft ate a slot downward into the housing so that the drum too low and was rubbing on something to make that screech.
Drawing on my handiness from the farm growing up.... Bought some grease from my non-existent "fun" money and a tin snips. A empty soup can cut a strip off and rolled it into enough of a shim to jam into the bottom of the worn through bushing and with that grease got the drum to stop rubbing on whatever it was rubbing on. Screech stopped and I got back to my studies.
I always wonder how long that "fix" lasted as this was during the last semester before I graduated and we all moved out some weeks later. | |
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Most creative use of a zip tie and a stick
