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Dryer had a slight squeak, started getting way worse. I spun the drum by hand and heard a snap. Assumed it was the belt so I ordered a new one. Took the dryer apart and the belt was fine but the idler pulley had come off. Put it back on and reassembled the dryer. Front panel doesn’t sit flush and has a gap on the bottom sides. I think it may have been like that before.. It’s on the prong thingys and everything but nothing fits together perfect. Still squeaks!! It doesn’t squeak when I spin the drum by hand but as soon as I turn it on it sounds like this. Also dropped my socket inside the dryer after tightening the screws so I’ll have to go get another of that size to take it apart again or I would check the drum rollers etc. now.

I don’t wanna keep ordering parts if they aren’t what I need, and I don’t have the money for a professional.

What could be wrong with my dryer and is it any easy fix I can do myself?
Do I need the basic dryer repair kit with new idler puller, drum rollers, etc. ?
Could the drum be misaligned because of the front panel?
Could it just need greased, and what grease is safe for dryers?

Please help!!!!!

Hey,

I own a Focusrite 18i8 and it had some broken parts, so I tried to find a way to get to the circutboard.

So I tried to find some screws or other clues, nothing.

But I found a way, because seemingly no one on the internet did.. (or at least I could findSo I found a way, but its not the best sadly you could hope for.. You damage your backplate!

You probably need some kind of cleaning alcohol, like isopropyl or at least over 90% Ethanol
[Note if you use one of my recommended alcohols that shouldn‘t damage the electronics, but be careful]
And a small Screwdriver, fitting screwdrivers for the screws afterwards and some pliers
I recommend doing that on the back plate, but the black plastic on front is going to be damaged, so you can calculate with breaking it! But there is some kind of protection between..

So:
You pour you alcohol all around the edges of the back plate to resolve some of the glue (The glue to stick the back plate to another plate is filled so not only around the edges)

Then you take your little screwdriver and take an edge or corner and try to peel the backplate out, if you don‘t get anything out, try more alcohol or take something that is already open like the charge port and peel from there.

Then you try to go all around the edges, if something doesn‘t work, you probably need more alcohol
If you can lift the plastic plate pour some alcohol across the plate you see beneath and try to pull the plate out
If you got the wobbly plastic plate out, congrats the most disturbing part is done!

Then you need to screw out all of the screws you see
Note! The line outputs have also some kind of screws!
I recommend taking pliers and try to screw them out.
Once everthing is done you can try to lift up the plate carefully! (I recommend using the screwdriver and taking a port to put it in and lift)
Note! Be careful the powerbutton is still connected and you have to pull the plug from the circutboard to take it off completly!

If you wanna take out the circutboard, there are some screws if you look way down to the otherside inside the Focusrite, but I didn‘t try it so I may get some updates here to do it the most safe way.

If you have questions, feel free to ask!
(I don‘t know why the 18i8 3rd Gen is so much pain to open lol)

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SQUEAKY DRYER! HELP!!!!

How to open the Focusrite 18i8 3rd Gen [Solution]