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Kenmore 60172 Electric Commercial Dryer

Kenmore 70 series clothes dryer

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posted by ksjrsm on Feb 15, 2007


My dryer runs for a few minutes and then shuts off. I can turn it on right away, it is not overheating.
Sometimes it runs for 2 or 3 minutes and sometimes 15 minutes before it shut off.
Can you help me ?
Thanks, Shirley
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Posted by snowwhos on Feb 25, 2008

I seem to have the same problem, model# 110.66722694 It will run for about 15 min then shut off. I can restart it just fine but will shut off 15 min later. I disconected the flo pipe and same result. Any hints to fix this?

Posted by JayHenry on Feb 20, 2008

on a 70 series kenmore
the heat element is not heating up but also it seems that this problem started when the timer started not shutting off as well what is the problems and what parts do i need to fix it.

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posted on Aug 12, 2007
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troylove11

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It possiblly a timer going bad.
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