A tenant of mine called and announced the dryer was squealing horribly and she needed me to come over and fix it. It had a horrible burning smell, so she shut it off. I showed up at the house and found she had three bottles of detergent stacked on top of the dryer. One bottle was a brand new three gallon thing that weighed more than several third world countries. I pulled the bottles off the top of the dryer and fired it up. Worked great, no smell no sound.
What happened? Dryers have rubber belts connected to pulleys at the motor and around the drum. The drum pulley is very large in diameter and close to the sheet metal top. If you sit on a dryer that is running quite often you will hear a horrible noise and smell burning rubber. I learned this by mistake years ago while climbing over a dryer that was running. Two bottles wasn't enough to push the top down enough, but the third large bottle was, and the squealing started.
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