rip in the felt seal |
Greetings gents,
Our 17+ years-old Maytag MDG9316AWW gas dryer developed a small rip in the felt seal, per attached picture.
Not sure if this would cause some of the lint to be pushed out of the dryer, bypassing the lint filter and the intended warm air discharge path. Certainly, there is an increase in the amount of lint that settles around the laundry area, compared to what it used to be.
I did not have enough time to mess with it tonight, but the inside of the dryer (took the loading door and the 'front housing' off) looks fairly clean. Dryer was vacuumed well back in December 2014 when I replaced the igniter glow element. Checked for the air coming out of the dryer at the outside wall and it looked like no problems there. All air ducts, both HVAC and laundry discharge one were cleaned some 18 months ago.
To a layman, since the warm air gets sucked out of the dryer and not pushed in, the lint should have traveled along the discharge line and not get pushed out through the rip in the felt.
What do you guys think?
Thanks!