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Also, Trash has been asking, begging, and imploring M. Giant to buy a new drier for the last 2 years. But you don't have to take that into account when answering him...

By  Anonymous, at June 9, 2006 at 7:40 PM  

It might be that your dryer is scratched up on the inside, and is burning your clothes. You can get enamel repair spray paint at a hardware store, I think.

By  Michelle, at June 9, 2006 at 7:48 PM  

The time has come to wave good-bye to your old dryer and buy a new one, M. Giant.
You may be amazed at how the amount of your electric bill drops when you get your new dryer, because that old one is eating up electricity like you would not believe.
Your old dryer has become unreliable. The major clue to unreliability is the scorch-mark thing.
Listen to Trash. Get a new dryer.

By  Anonymous, at June 9, 2006 at 8:21 PM  

I'm with Trash - kick it to the curb. After all, you have all of the extra recapping money you didn't expect.

By  Anonymous, at June 9, 2006 at 8:27 PM  

Buy a new dryer. It's cheaper than having to deal with shirts catching on fire in your dryer, which is the next step after the scorch marks, according to the experiences of a friend of mine. 13 years is old for a dryer these days, and I agree that it will help your electricity bill by more than you expect.

Three cycles to dry something on low? You can get dryers these days with moisture sensors that dry your shirts just until they are dried but not until they are scorched, you know... (grin)

By  Anonymous, at June 9, 2006 at 8:46 PM  

Drycleaners.

By  Anonymous, at June 9, 2006 at 8:51 PM  

Yep, time for a new one. I once had one that was doing that, and then to avoid feeling left out the washing machine started leaving grease stains on my white shirts too, but luckily they had come with the apartment so the landlord wound up just replacing them with new appliances (after I threatened to have him replace my entire wardrobe every week, of course...)

And what wendryn said about moisture sensors? Totally the way to go, my dry cycle now takes less time than my wash cycle...

By  BadYogi, at June 9, 2006 at 9:56 PM  

I highly suggest the Whirlpool Duet... We recently bought one and even though it's a little more expensive, it was totally worth it.

By  Melinda, at June 10, 2006 at 10:01 AM  

As the dryer ages, the, uh, barrel part sort of loosens from the, uh, casing (sorry, dude, I don't know the proper dryer terminology) and your clothes get pinched in between the two. In my house we call 'em dryer bites. I imagine a new dryer is the way to go.

By  Anonymous, at June 10, 2006 at 2:20 PM  

Go down to the appliance store (not Conn's, their repair and installation guys are lazy asses who don't do jack) and buy a Maytag. Not even a fancy one, just any Maytag. They last longer. I also have had a good run with my G.E. dryer, but I've only had it for four years, so I don't know yet what kind of life expectancy it has.

Your old dryer, my friend, is now an oversized flower pot for all the good it will do you. Eighty-six it now, before your home catches fire and somebody gets hurt. You seriously do not want to find yourself in need of hospitalizing a cat, or worse, your baby, just because of a stupid dryer that you could have replaced ages ago.

(There, Trash, maybe that will light a fire under his ass.)

By  Sleepless Mama, at June 10, 2006 at 10:39 PM  

Dude. Seriously. A dryer that routinely scorches things is a little like a garbage disposal that hurls compost back out into the kitchen. Stop enabling this horrid machine. It's never going to change. Unless it's the worn-out enamel thing, and the collar points are getting sucked or wedged into little vent holes.

Still. I'm going to go all Dan Savage here and say DTMFA.

By  Febrifuge, at June 12, 2006 at 12:51 AM  

First off, "Febrifuge" is now Anthrofuge's arch-enemy.

Secondly, I make it a point to never agree with Trash, nor let her think she has won - EVER. This being said, you should buy a new dryer and hide it somewhere (maybe the garage or the neighbor's house). Pretend you have fixed the old dryer and go one step further, mention how it was obviously TRASH'S fault it was scorching your shirts. Then continue to run the old dryer completely empty and at the same time, do your drying in the secret spot, and she'll never know. And of course, when she does find out, blame the whole thing on me.

By  Anonymous, at June 12, 2006 at 6:56 AM  

OMFG, Chao, it has officially been too long for us to have gone without a face-to-face meeting. Not to mention, I just got done with my year in New England, during which I honed my foosball skills to a surgical point. It is on.

Giant, let's find this made-up-word-band of Chao's a spot on the bill at the Triple Rock or the Turf Club or something; we must have some connection somewhere, right?

By  Febrifuge, at June 12, 2006 at 3:24 PM  

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