Thread: [FIXED] Kenmore Series 90 - no heat again and again

Model Number: 110.69912990

Brand: Sears Kenmore

Age: 6-10 years

My dryer has no heat. Again. Here's the story.

Fix #1) About 5 weeks ago I had no heat. We tested everything and found the heating coil was broken. Replaced heating coil. It worked!

Fix #2) about 2 weeks ago, again no heat. tested the fuse, thermostat, heating coil with an ohm meter. Fuse had the open circuit, ordered that and replaced it. It worked!

Now #3) so now again we have no heat. I again tested the three parts fuse, thermostat, heating coil with an ohm meter. This time both thermostat and heating coil were found to have an open circuit i.e. broken. I haven't re-fixed it again, so now my dryer is not working. I could replace the two broken parts and the dryer will probably work again, but for how long. Is there some underlying problem causing all of this? I'm looking for thoughts on how to move forward. Do not want to throw good money after bad.

In all cases there was nothing that looked burned or horribly wrong. My suspicion is that there is something else causing these problems, something that is triggering these failures.

in all cases between fix #1 and fix #2 and between #2 and #3 we used the dryer (about 4 loads/week) and everything worked well.

The dryer, when it runs, runs well, quietly, efficiently. No funny sounds, smells, etc...

One thought I had, when I ordered the replacement fuse (for fix #2) Sears sent me both the fuse and the thermostat. I replaced only the fuse since the thermostat appeared to be ok, based on the ohm meter reading. Were they trying to give me a hint?

Any ideas? Any other tests that I can run to validate things or just go ahead and replace the fuse and thermostat?


Thanks!