Product review (5 stars): A good heater element
It wasn't what I needed, but it was certainly what I ordered. Many times over the years, the heating element on my Maytag dryer failed and I had to replace the heating element. Sometimes, we got the complete assembly (like this one) and other times, we just got the nichrome wire and standoffs and re-threaded the old heater can. The re-threading is a bit of a pain, so having a fully-assembled heating element for the same price as just the nichrome wire was a definite plus.

So, I ordered the heating element. When it arrived, I took the dryer apart and removed the old heating element, and it tested good! (No heat, but proper continuity.) By then though, I figured that I would just put the new element in anyway (the old one was quite a few years old), and look elsewhere for the problem.

When I opened up the control panel, I was chagrined to discover that one connection had come loose - the wire was just dangling in free air. All I had to do was clean the contacts and put it back together. So I now have a dryer working like new, with a brand new heating element that I really didn't need, but probably would have needed within a few years anyway.