Having a washer and dryer in your home can make laundry a much simpler task. It gives you the ease and convenience of quickly cleaning your clothes on your time in your own home as opposed to traveling to a laundromat or dry cleaners. This convenience can be derailed, however, if you dryer breaks. You might be intimidated when you research your speed queen dryer parts, but you don’t need to be if you understand the basic mechanics of your washer and dryer, and the five common parts that might break.
Motor
The motor is the piece of machinery that turns on your dryer and gets it moving. Sometimes motors will overheat, similar to a car, and this can cause the machine to stop working. Even if it starts again later after it cools down, though, this is still a sign that it needs to be replaced.
Water Pump
The water pump is the part that adds and drains water to your washing machine. These parts can break easily and potentially fail to drain the water from your machine or leak water on your floor.
Belts
In a washer, a dysfunctional belt can stop the tub inside from rotating and cleaning your clothes. In a dryer, it will keep the machine from working entirely because the drum will not spin at all, which is the action needed to dry clothes.
Gaskets
Gaskets are pieces added to the ends of hoses to keep things such as heat or water from escaping before they can get into your machine. A faulty gasket can make it difficult for your dryer to heat enough to dry clothes.
Thermal Fuse
This is the element that helps the dryer produce to do its job. If this part goes out, the machine cannot produce enough heat to effectively dry clothes.
