The problem was that someone replaced the high heat thermostat with a kit that comes with both thermostats and the original one that is next to the heating coils was the problem.If bought separately it has 3 wire hook-up. If bought in the kit form with both thermostats it don't. The one in the paired kit is a two prong unit and you have to take the spare parts that come with it to rig up a place for the orange wire to fit on. Someone had left off the orange wire and taped it up to be unseen and unused. With only the two red wires on the thermostat it would not allow the timer to run in all automatic modes nor the end of the timed mode once it gets to the cool-down at the end of the cycle.I found this out by simply untapping the orange wire and touching it to the heater coil side of the 2-wire thermostat and the timer then started running and soon the dryer turned off.I want to Radio shack and bought their brass wire end connector kit that is used to piggyback several speakers in a series.You get several brass fittings of the type that allow you to connect two wires onto a single terminal.This allowed me to add the orange wire but I did have to grind down the width if the terminal I used to allow the narrower orange connector to push onto it.You could file it too.Or cut off the wire-end of the orange wire and crimp on one of the same width of the red wire that connects to the same terminal.This is the kind of thing that happens when you work on something that you thought was stock and untouched by someone else.I saw that the orange wire had to be used by the wiring diagram that came with the machine.JDY no reply necessary.Thanks