DP has just broke my dryer

Blimey that is pretty pathetic. I am not much older than OP and presumed that knowing that you can change a plug and how is really, really basic.

I wish I did! I keep meaning to get some. If I use the plug behind the washing machine, with the socket on the opposite wall labelled 'washing machine' the electrics trip leaving me scrabbling about in cobweb hell.
If I plug washing machine in to normal socket - happy days.

Of course, I could be living in a death trap but the council maintenance seem to... Not give a shit. Or, be very busy and backed up with other jobs, since Covid it would seem.

hes a pickle,

It's really unkind to berate OP for not knowing how to change a plug. I know how to, but that isn't because I'm better or smarter; I'm just of a certain vintage.

It's one of those life skills that used to be essential but is now never needed by the vast majority of people. It's a bit like mocking young people for not knowing how to write a cheque, or how to send a fax, or how to manually spool back a cassette tape with a pencil.

Plenty of young adults now have other instinctive skills that most people of my generation probably don't instantly know anything about; and maybe never will learn at all.

That’s interesting, I did it in year 7 at school, I’m 55, and I don’t remember doing it to a plug after the school lessons, maybe that is when the plugs started being included on new appliances then. I just made it, you just missed it.

Nothing wrong with changing sockets. An electrician not required. My 14 year old niece was being taught how to wire a plug in school a couple of weeks ago. If you can't do something use YouTube.

I’m 54 and I was never taught how to change a plug in school either 🤷🏻‍♀️.

i do know how to change one, but I had to learn how to do it myself.

It really hasn't.

Wiring a plug was part of the physics curriculum in the early noughties but that was pre-Gove.

I didn't learn at school but do remember goods coming without plugs, so was shown what to do by my dad. However, I haven't changed a plug for many years

To add to my previous post, I think we are all presuming you are in the UK @Pinkdreams , if not then I'd ignore 99% of the advice here
If you are in the UK this is a nice clear video.
https://youtube.com/shorts/QwzfMhxdr-I?si=4yRsCW5o_XJNap1E

If it's a moulded plug, just cut it off, strip the outer insulation off just above where it will be clamped inside the new plug (pliers are useful for this), and the inner insulation (i.e. on the individual coloured wires) just enough to secure the bare bit inside the terminals.

Yeah, I actually had to go & buy one yesterday, very strange 🤣

@Pinkdreams how the helk did he break a plug?,

I would however add, people make mistakes, don't be so angry unless he was a nob about it.

Honestly I'm fifty and don't remember getting appliances without preattached plugs. I do remember wiring plugs at school but never having to do it. Probably because I only had rented or secondhand stuff until I was about 40!

youtube is your friend here OP. You will need a screwdriver and maybe some wire strippers. After this, you’ll be able to take on replacing the belt and sorting out the drum too!

The Sainsbury delivery driver looked aghast when he saw me midway through the belt replacement. The following week he was congratulating me!

I'm 44 and we did learn about it in one lesson at secondary school in the 90s, but having never done it before it since because everything is already wired up when you buy it, I'd have to refer to YouTube too.

Don't feel bad Op. It wouldnt surprise me to hear you never covered it at school. Good on you for checking. At least you'll save the money of calling out a repair person or worse, ordering a new drier when you don't need one.

really?? It is not on the school curriculum in Australia, unless maybe in subjects specifically for people who want to do a trade.

What you have to remember is that brown is the live wire. Because that will be the colour of your trousers if you touch it.

@Pinkdreams the easy thing to remember when rewiring a plug is bLue to the Left and bRown* *to the Right and anything else up the middle!

That is a very strange accident to have. I am quite confused as to which part is broken.

I thought that most supplied plugs on appliances these days are moulded shut so you can't rewire them.

Can you post a photo?

@Pinkdreamsback in the day (1980s ) appliances often came without the plug! You had to wire it yourself!

That must have been a lot of force your DP used to have snapped the cord. A grown man could swing on all the appliance cords I’ve ever seen and not broken them.

I would want to check the wiring on the dryer side too - just that he hasn’t pulled anything loose inside the dryer.

i’m 46 and I got taught at school but I already knew it.

Remember taking a plug off something else to add to something new. I could wire a plug in 5 minutes or so. Just remember ‘George Brown was a LIVE wire, Gods Green EARTH’