Anyone know how to splice together a broken dryer drive belt?

[Seymour Flops]

I have one on order, but it won't get here until Wednesday at the soonest. Meanwhile, Mrs. Flops has the house looking like a laundry run by immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century (Praise Allah for our immigrants who built this country!)

I'd love to temporarily fix it, but I figure I'll only have one chance, because any failed attempt to fix it would render the belt unfixable. Any solution will be welcome, but if it involved duct tape in any way, that would be all the more annoying to the little woman.

Thanks in advance!

 

[pknopp]

When ours broke I just went to Lowe's and picked one up and fixed it same day. I know of no successful way to fix one.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

I have one on order, but it won't get here until Wednesday at the soonest. Meanwhile, Mrs. Flops has the house looking like a laundry run by immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century (Praise Allah for our immigrants who built this country!)

I'd love to temporarily fix it, but I figure I'll only have one chance, because any failed attempt to fix it would render the belt unfixable. Any solution will be welcome, but if it involved duct tape in any way, that would be all the more annoying to the little woman.

Thanks in advance!

Not possible. It has to be replaced

 

[Ridgerunner]

Clean-up the 2 ends...
melt both ends and fuse together as well as you can...
Apply bonding agent of your choice...
Wrap with duct tape...
Throw an extra fin in the collection plate tomorrow morning and pray...

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

I have one on order, but it won't get here until Wednesday at the soonest. Meanwhile, Mrs. Flops has the house looking like a laundry run by immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century (Praise Allah for our immigrants who built this country!)

I'd love to temporarily fix it, but I figure I'll only have one chance, because any failed attempt to fix it would render the belt unfixable. Any solution will be welcome, but if it involved duct tape in any way, that would be all the more annoying to the little woman.

Thanks in advance!

How far away is your fire dept?

 

[Concerned American]

I have one on order, but it won't get here until Wednesday at the soonest. Meanwhile, Mrs. Flops has the house looking like a laundry run by immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century (Praise Allah for our immigrants who built this country!)

I'd love to temporarily fix it, but I figure I'll only have one chance, because any failed attempt to fix it would render the belt unfixable. Any solution will be welcome, but if it involved duct tape in any way, that would be all the more annoying to the little woman.

Thanks in advance!

You might try some staples. Would super/gorilla glue on two square cut ends work? I think Ridgerunner has the best suggestion.

 

[Yarddog]

You might try some staples. Would super/gorilla glue on two square cut ends work?

like the heavy cardboard box staples

 

[Yarddog]

I have one on order, but it won't get here until Wednesday at the soonest. Meanwhile, Mrs. Flops has the house looking like a laundry run by immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century (Praise Allah for our immigrants who built this country!)

I'd love to temporarily fix it, but I figure I'll only have one chance, because any failed attempt to fix it would render the belt unfixable. Any solution will be welcome, but if it involved duct tape in any way, that would be all the more annoying to the little woman.

Thanks in advance!

it would be fun to try I guess.

 

[Yarddog]

another option might be, just load up the old Hippy wagon and head out to the laundro-mat.
probably just have to suffer through it for one day but it might be easier than splicing the belt,
and might take just as long.

 

[Seymour Flops]

When ours broke I just went to Lowe's and picked one up and fixed it same day. I know of no successful way to fix one.

Lowes had dryer belts, but not Maytag. I went to a Maytag store that my relatively small town happens to have but they were closed, probably until Tuesday.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

A giant rubber band?

A clothesline in the back yard maybe????

There's been many times I've had to wash my clothes in the bathtub and hang them on everything in the apartment to dry. I didn't have money for the laundrymat.

I remember many times, a tub full of clothes, stomping on them like I'm Lucy in a grape vat crushing grapes.
The hard part was wringing the water out of them well enough without them dripping all over and making the carpet wet.

Luckily, this apartment has a washer and dryer in it.