Dull Men's Club

I'm an expert at fixing washers and dryers. Not the mechanics of the drums and such, that's real work, but that doesn't break too often. It's usually the circuit board/switch behind the big button.

Take off the covers, take pictures of the switch from every angle, and go look up the part number and model on Google. You'll find it somewhere, possibly even Amazon. Carefully compare it to the pictures and order it.

When it arrives, pull out one plug on the circuit board and replace it, and do that with each plug, referring to your photos. Then comes the hard job of putting it all back together properly.

I just did it for my mom's dryer. The service call, parts, and labor would have cost more than a new dryer. My repair was $145 for the part, which is already too expensive.

It's never failed to work for me, and my wife is always amazed at any sign of competency from me. It usually gets me about 2 hours of goodwill until we're back to normal, and I'm a moron again.

It's possible for the switch behind the knob to fail. They're called selector switches or rotary switches (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stove+rotary+switch). In my case, some plastic from the casing melted and became a conductor, so the element could not be turned down or turned off. This is also an easy replacement.

Turn off the breaker, unplug from outlet, open up the back of the stove/oven (take a pic or mark the wires to remember where they go), remove the offending switch and look for a model number on it so you can search for and order a replacement online. All I needed was a phillips screwdriver. You can still use the rest of the stove top elements without the broken switch until your replacement arrives.

I swapped out all the coils and drip pans last summer. I didnt realize you can just tug on the coil and it just comes off. Game changer.

Don't worry, you ain't learning anythin. Gonna happen again and again 😅

But was it the... Fifth element?

Same thing, window button for drivers window in my old mazda stopped working reliably, it would take a bunch of clicks and sometimes randomly would finally put the window back up. I let it go for like 6 months, finally got frustrated enough to remove the module, pry the button up, scratch off the carbon build up on the electric pad, put everything back together, and boom works fine now. Another 20 minute fix after months of frustration.

Are these the "standard" to have in the US? In Denmark I feel like almost all stoves use induction, and I've never seen ones with this design here, but they seem pretty normal to have in US.

"Fell out of" doesn't sound great for something that regularly shovels quite a bit of amps. Are the other ones properly connected?

Theres always something like that to fix man. Some things just take priority, then when you have the time, the energy, and the money in some cases, you fix it.

That's how we got Captain America's shield.

Jokes and references aside ... Well done.