That dryer was basically a felt factory running a 30 year shift.

Reminds me of the time our dishwasher died mid rush and I hand washed everything in a bus tub for like a month to pay for a new motor. By week three my hands were cracked and I was dropping plates left and right. Sometimes the cheap fix now just moves the pain somewhere else.

My buddy went through almost the same thing last spring, except his was a power surge during a storm that killed the file mid-save. He swore off fancy software and just started emailing himself the draft every night before bed. Takes him like two minutes, and now he's got every version sitting in his inbox forever. Not saying it's the perfect setup, but it saved his butt twice already this year. Sometimes the dumb simple thing works better than the clever one.