Who sells a dryer without the cord?????

I believe that if a product or service is being provided to a customer, all attempts must be made to ensure that the customer has all the essentials to successfully operate said product or service once they have it in their possession.

So I was asked to help setup a dryer, a sweet piece of machinery, as their original machine that was in use suddenly died. The dryer was opened, and I was armed with my instruction manual, it seemed to be straight forward.

I looked to the back of the machine only to discover there is no cord to connect the machine to the 220 volt wall plug. Having searched the inside of the dryer,  and the entire box we called the store in which  the dryer was purchased only to discover that the cord is sold separate. I mean really?

Really? Even if you included the cost of the electrical cord in the cost price of the dryer, customers would still purchase the machine or even if upon purchase if the customer was informed about the separate purchase of the cord, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference.

As a result, what to me should have been a simple plug and use turned into a easy DIYS challenge

For this challenge all that is needed is a crescent wrench, and a Phillip head screw driver.

Instead of purchasing a brand new cord, I decided that I would use the cord from the old machine.

Electrical outlets for a three (3) prong 220 volt outlets for dryers resemble the following  

The 3 pronged electrical cord looks like the following

Once the cord was removed, I began to install it unto the new dryer.

 The first step would be to open the access panel; this is located at the back of the dryer. 

There is a screw that holding the cover, that can be removed using a crescent wrench or a socket set.

Secondly pass the cord through the opening once the access panel has been removed.

There should be three brass coloured contacts that have screws on them, these must be removed to successfully place the cord in its correct positions.

The third step would be to attach the new cord. In most instances the cord will be colour coded, however, if not, the centre cord is identified as the neutral line this we will match the centre contact with the electrical cord. Having done this, we will follow by screwing on the two remaining lines on each side.

 Fourthly we must cover the access panel and screw the bracket firmly.

The moment of truth would be to plug it in and test the dryer. 

Start the dryer and observe if the dryer is spinning, heat being generated or if the electrical breaker trips or anything out of the ordinary.