Ok guys/gals, this started when a gallon of bleach fell from the shelf and spilled all over the top of the dryer. When my wife went to use it the next time she found it completly dead, I found the breaker tripped in the main panel, threw it back on and it tripped again instantly. I was hoping (yea right) that maybe it would dry out inside and be fine in a day or two but no...

So heres where we are now, I can't see any corrosion or anything out of the ordinary except for a little black soot mark on the back of the timer near a terminal marked B. I have a meter and pretty good skills but I need some direction. The motor on the timer does run just fine I checked it w/115v un installed from the dryer, took the cover off the timer and all the contacts inside are clean and dry.

I have found now that there is a terminal marked B on the back that has a double red wire (appears to be one leg of the main power from the cord and then goes somehwere else. If I disconnect only this wire the breaker will not trip, also can read 115v on the red wire when not connected. But with no power the red wire is not shorted to case ground nor is the terminal marked B shorted to ground.

I have no wiring diagram and thus far have not found one on the net. Any ideas, tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated...

Hi Dave

I know you are anxious to get an answer, but this Forum is staffed by volunteers (mostly) and if you look on several pages you see that we have a lot of questions that either go unanswered or take a long time.

Anyway, as far as your machine is concerned, in my opinion it is done, gone to its reward, it is pushing up daisies. It is a dead dryer.

Bleach, particularly undiluted grocery store bleach is very corrosive. You do not know what damage has been done, and you will never know. A dryer can be a dangerous machine, high voltage and high temperature do not go well with bleach.

It is not worth the risk to your family and your home to try to rehabilitate this machine. Send it too the scrap heap (write the problem on it so someone else doesn't try to operate it) and get a new one.