is that what it was fixed next to the heater.it did have a resistance but not open circuited so i thought that it was an nct. probably it is a saftey cut out. i should have checked. Thanks for that.
found the fault in the dry fan and resoldered the spade so the fan is now okay and running.
The cut out was .07M ohm between the two connections. I shorted it out and all the machine would do was continually click round and round. I disconnected both connections to open circuit and the fan came ON but no heat.
Can anyone confirm if the component near the heater is a cutout or nct. I suspect that here is another fault.