Our clothes dryer won’t start spinning unless we give the drum a hand to start.

As you can imagine, this is a bit inconvenient - put a pencil into the hole where the door catch is, wiggle it around until one hears the microswitch operate, press start, when one can hear the motor buzzing, spin the drum with the other hand to get it spinning. Then, while it’s spinning close the door whilst removing the pencil - and hope the drum continues spinning.

It usually doesn’t, so try again - and again - and again...

Then, when the timer stops it to rotate the drum in the opposite direction, do it all again.

The dryer is long out of warranty but has had very little use so I’m not looking to replace it. My wife is!