Thanks for your reply, Adam. In the few weeks before our dryer started acting up, it would make a kind of screeching noise when it first started up, like the belt between the motor and the drum was slipping a little. It wasn't very loud, so I didn't pay much attention to it. Could that be an indicator that there's something wrong with the motor? Since the motor works fine and the drum turns as long as the start switch is pressed, I didn't think it would be the motor. But if there's some other circuitry in there that would cause it to shut off when I let up on the switch, that could explain it.
I'd really like to fix this myself, because the cost of a service call (and whatever fix it requires) is probably more than the dryer is worth now.
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