Your clothes dryer Won't Heat Up? Samsung dryer not heating and your clothes dryer won't dry clothes? We'll show you how to replace dryer heating elements when you find your dryer not heating. With a dryer not drying well your root cause is going to be a dryer heating element that has gone bad. So you'll learn DIY dryer heater element replacement for this Samsung dryer, including testing and measuring the correct ohms resistance for your dryer heating element. This is a Samsung Dryer, Model DV42H5200EF/A3, it's a good time for a dryer vent cleaning at the same time that you debug your Samsung dryer not drying. If you don't have a dryer vent cleaning kit get one, or soon you will have a clothes dryer not drying clothes.

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00:00 Repairing Clothes Dryer When it won't heat up
02:04 Take Apart The Dryer
08:16 Removing The Dryer Heating Element
10:15 Testing The Dryer Heating Element
17:54 Install NEW Heater Element
22:11 Assemble Dryer Back Together
24:45 Cleaning Lint Filter
25:17 Checking Gooseneck Vent Outside, Confirm Dryer Blowing Hot Air

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How To Fix A Dryer Heater DIY style

Is your dryer not getting hot? Here is the most common fix. If you don't own a dryer vent cleaning kit, and you don't clean out your dryer vent tube every year, you are asking for a clog, and possibly a house fire. The "dryer not getting hot" problem will manifest itself in your dryer not drying your wet clothes. Maybe you'll notice the dryer not getting hot. Even if you got your dryer vent cleaning tools, and quickly learn how to clean a dryer vent, it might already be too late with no dryer heating, chances are your dryer heating element needs to be replaced now to solve your dryer not heating problem otherwise no amount of dryer vent cleaning will help you now, although you still need to clean the dryer vent tubes, and vacuum all the lint out from inside the clothes dryer, which accumulates throughout the year.

dryer not heating Samsung

Now of course this is a Samsung dryer, and although the taking apart of the dryer might be different than other brands, they all essentially pull apart similarly, and once you get inside, the procedure and location of the dryer heating element are the same across most brands, as is the testing methods, only the part number of the heating element changes.

If you have a dryer not heating up, the most common cause is the dryer heating element has gotten so overheated that the coil broke, and now you have an open circuit. Now you have an expensive dryer repair on your hands, and you must replace the broken dryer heating element. So if your dryer is not working, this video shows you how to replace the dryer heating element and get you back up and running and drying clothes again. Be sure to use the dryer vent cleaning tools in this video.

dryer heater element test and replacement

This video also shows you how to perform a dryer heater element test, as well as testing the thermistor and thermostat which measure the heat coming off the dryer heater element. If you have the dryer not drying clothes situation, you need to pull out the dryer heater element for the test, that's the only way to test and repair the dryer heater.

Samsung dryer not drying

These Samsung DV42H5200 series dryers are quite a bit of tedious work to get at the heating element. Once you extract the heating element from the dryer, now you have to remove 9 screws and twist 4 tabs to open up the heater element housing.

Once you DIY install your new dryer heating element, you will not have a dryer not drying well anymore. Just be sure to clean those dryer ducts and dryer vents at the same time.

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