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What happens when you mention to your D&D group, who mostly have ADHD, that your tumble dryer is broken?<br>Free labour!<br>About six months ago, my tumble dryer started making a small grinding sound, as if something had been dislodged.<br>Past Phill decided that this was very much a Future Phill problem.<br>Two weeks ago Future Phill had to deal with Past Phill&rsquo;s laziness when the dryer began vibrating itself off the shelf it was on.<br>Our tumble dryer (a DV70F5E0HGW/EU) was manufactured in 2014 (in Korea), so I made the initial assumption that because of its age, it was due to be sent to the big tumble dryer playground in the sky.<br>But last weekend, while I was running my monthly &lsquo;Storm King&rsquo;s Thunder&rsquo; D&D campaign, I asked one of the group to help me get the dryer down from the shelf.<br>Immediately the group set to work removing the back panel and trying to figure out what was wrong with it, while still playing D&D.<br>Some assembly requiredI&rsquo;m not a detective, but I think the impeller was broken.<br>Before the end of the session one of my group had sent me an eBay link to a replacement, and the spare part turned up at my house on Thursday.<br>Can you tell which is which?All I had to do was sand down the back panel where the old impeller had friction welded itself to it.<br>Panels these days. No tolerance.Additionally, I made sure to find all the old impeller pieces, so they didn&rsquo;t destroy the new one.<br>Replacing the part was really simple, and saved me £600-ish on a new tumble dryer.<br>I am happy to report that the tumble dryer is back on its shelf and humming away in a non-threatening manner.<br>Footnote: I stole the title Dungeons and Dryers from a mate of mine, and I&rsquo;m giving him zero credit for it.

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