Re: repairing hair dryer

spudnuty_at_lycos.com
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: 9 Feb 2005 15:31:05 -0800

I have seen this and repaired it by replacing the part from an
identical broken unit. Looking at a couple dryers in my house they have
both the resetting thermal bimetalic type that resets after the unit
goes over temp but then you also see the thermal fuse. Is it there
because of reliability issues with the bimetal part? If so then it may
have blown because the bimetal is faulty and (if you're like me and use
it to shrink heat shrink) it may blow again. BTW I got a real heat gun,
much better!

Richard