Rant: That time I tried to fix my dryer belt and made it 10x worse

I was at my buddy's garage last Saturday working on my 3 year old Samsung dryer. The belt snapped and I figured hey, how hard can it be? Watched a YouTube video for maybe 4 minutes, thought I had it down. Pulled the whole thing apart in 20 minutes, got the new belt on, but when I put it back together I had this random screw left over. Fired it up and it sounded like a helicopter landing in my laundry room. Turns out I had the belt routed wrong around the tensioner pulley, and that screw was holding the drum support bracket. Had to take the whole thing apart again, this time with a proper service manual from the manufacturer's website. The second try took 2 hours because I was triple checking everything. Has anyone else dealt with those Samsung dryer tensioner springs that always pop off when you try to reattach them?

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piper_lopez1h ago

Man, it's just a dryer belt, you're acting like you rebuilt a transmission.