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It is a safety switch designed to prevent the drum from turning while the door is open. If the switch were removed and the circuit closed by connecting the wires the drum will turn and the dryer will work. Can you get someone to tell you it is an okay thing to do, not likely.
I have a Whirlpool duet dryer, model number WED8300SW1. It quit heating, today I found a wire that has been melted. It looks like a thermal fuse BUT, I have several of these fuses and they all look like a thermal fuse. I have looked at several pictures of the inside of my machine and can not find where I had the burnt wire.
I have a Kenmore Elite electric dryer and the door switch appears to have failed. But I'm not sure how to access the switch. It appears to be a very similar switch on many models (so the guides I've found aren't model-specific either) I found a video for a model with the lint screen in the lid.
The sensor is just two pieces of metal. Wet clothes contact the pieces of metal and conduct, telling the dryer that the clothes are still wet. With the sensor missing, no current will flow no matter how wet the clothes are and the dryer will stop too soon on auto. Most likely, no other harm will result.
The door closed. The door switch may be wired directly into the heater circuit, or via the control board. The control board to turn the heater "on" — obvious stuff like actually running, a cycle with heat selected (not "air fluff"), and so on. Troubleshooting is just a matter of checking each of those.
Yes, you can bypass the high limit switch for testing. It's as trivial to do as it sounds. It's the acme of foolishness to run it like that for any length of time, though, and I think you already know that it could cause more damage. The high limit switch is there to protect against the type of heat damage you describe, along with fire.
The reason for the interlock is to prevent operation of the microwave and the resulting generation of microwave radiation while the door is open. I would not risk trying to adjust, repair or bypass the switch. If you misadjust the switch the unit may start with the door not completely sealed.
The start button not holding down may be there form of a “pull in device” if the door switch breaks the circuit it won’t stay pulled in but that’s just a guess. (When I say bypass the door switch this is for testing not meant to be left in a bypassed condition. The other common issue with dryers is a thermal safety fuse.
I moved into an apartment with an old dryer that had issues starting and getting the clothes very hot. I had to hold the start button in and the dryer would "ramp up" before it would start. Anyway, I bought a new dryer and hooked it up and it too requires the button to be held in until it ramps up and will then run.
Very often these have adjustments for switch or sensor position to accommodate variation in manufactured parts. Many times the open and closing of the door over a period of time can cause the mechanism to get out of adjustment. In the case of a detect switch it may have its switch point change after many cycles.