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Anonymous Posted on Jan 24, 2011

Drier has no heat. Seems to run fine, otherwise. might I nee d to re-light the pilot through the small hole in the front of it?

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Hi,

If you are having problems with your gas dryer not heating the most common problem is that the ignitor goes bad. Even though it glows sometimes it is still not working properly.


if you dryer is gas check out this gas no heat tip....


If you have an electric dryer, you can have many different things that can go wrong causing the dryer not to heat.


check out this electric no heat tip...

heatman101

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