I don't think it matters much for this, but the dryer is a Kenmore 110.60602990. Basic electrical dryer that came with my house.Link to album showing where the short wasBackground: I had an issue the other day where the drum started binding up, so I wanted to open the dryer to figure out what was binding so I could fix that. After I took the screws off the top, I thought better of opening it without disconnecting, so I started sliding the dryer out so I could access the outlet and unplug the dryer. While sliding the dryer out (and I wasn't being bumpy about this) I heard a pop and saw a blue flash, and the lights went out in the whole house.It actually got the breaker for the dryer, and also tripped the master breaker for the whole house. Anyway, I unplugged the dryer and sorted those out.Issue seemed to be in the back where the power enters, so I took the back panel off. I can see the black soot from the short on the terminal for the black hot lead. I haven't seen anything that looks like damaged insulation, and the terminal block was secure, the hot wires and neutral were secure (about ground, see next paragraph), internal wiring looks in good condition and well secured.I forgot to get a wide picture of everything before I started taking screws out, but I found the green wire from the cord floating, so obviously that was far from ideal. I'm hoping that it was actually on one of the screws holding a panel to the cabinet, but I don't remember that. And it definitely wasn't on the green bolt provided for grounding. I haven't touched that.Question: What should I do about this? The way I see it options are: * Put it back together fixing the ground issue and see what happens * See if I can replace the terminal block and maybe the cord * Just replace the cord * Buy a new dryer out of an abundance of caution. And actually connect the ground on this one.TLDR: Short happened in terminal block of dryer while moving dryer. What do? via /r/DIY https://ift.tt/2IUKWyl
