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    May 20, 2007, 02:37 PM
    No heat from dryer. Burning rubber smell.
    I was using my Whirlpool dryer on high heat to get wrinkles out of a pair of paints. All of a sudden I smelled burning rubber, and the garage was filled with smoke. After cooling things down, we tried the dryer. It works but does not have any heat. Got any ideas about what is wrong?
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    May 20, 2007, 03:12 PM
    It sounds like maybe your heating element shorted out, can you remove the back of the dryer and pull the element to inspect it?
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    May 22, 2007, 04:41 PM
    I HAD A SIMILAR PROB. WITH MY MAYTAG,I'M TALKING ABOUT THE LOSS OF HEAT ONLY. I cke'd with a couple people. It came down my coils. Mine look like two small blk. Thread thimbles.mine were in the front of the dryer easy to get to. Yours? Nx thing would be lower limit thermostat . Then hi limit treromstat.GOOD LUCK HOPE IT HELPS.JAKERAIN1:
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    May 22, 2007, 06:03 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by pgslavin
    I was using my Whirlpool dryer on high heat to get wrinkles out of a pair of paints. All of a sudden I smelled burning rubber, and the garage was filled with smoke. After cooling things down, we tried the dryer. It works but does not have any heat. Got any ideas about what is wrong?
    Does the drum in the dryer rotate (open the door when it is drying and see if it stops spinning)? If not, it could be a dryer belt. Happened on my parents dryer about 10 years ago.
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