Come on, people. mudshark specified a Splendide WD802M.
I had a lint filter on my WD802M, and Dick Zeiter found the lint filter on his. It's accessed via the back left corner of the top of the machine. I had a shelf above my machine, but the RV manufacturer cut a hole in the shelf to get to the lint filter. I could look through that hole and see the handle for the lint filter, which I would pull up on to remove the lint filter. It caught a LOT of lint.
My manual didn't mention anything about it, and didn't picture it in any of the diagrams. But it was there.
mudshark, if you looked in from the outside, you should have seen it because it's at the back of the machine, blocking the exhaust tube. But maybe you didn't look far enough.
Are you the original owner? At some point, Splendide's official line was to just remove the screen material from the plastic housing, re-insert the plastic housing, and let the lint fly. A previous owner might have done that.
The WD802M also has the lint filter that people are talking about that is in the lower right corner of the front of the machine. That one has "wet" lint (water discharges through it). The one on top is a regular dryer lint filter.
And a note to those who like their WD802M machines--baby it, and keep it going as long as you can. Mine finally died after 15 years and several repairs, and I replaced it with a used 2000S. I knew it wasn't going to be a "just twist the knob" machine like my WD802M, but hoped that getting an older one might mean it's not as "computerized" as the newer ones.
I hate the new machine with a passion. Starting with the idiotic "feature" that your clothes have to sit in the drum, wrinkling, for two minutes at the end of the dry cycle (not the wash cycle--the DRY cycle). That can be overrridden with some mechanical tinkering, but that means the door can be opened at any time, including when the machine is full of water. And during the dry cycle, the drum keeps spinning when you open the door.
And the dryer timer doesn't count down, so you can't glance up and see that your clothes have been drying for 30 minutes--all you see is the original amount of time you set. And the dry cycle has to be "associated" with a given wash program--they're not separate.
And worst of all--in a machine that has constant complaints about wrinkling clothes, not only do they lock the dryer door after the dry cycle, they have a high-speed spin cycle in the middle of the "regular" dry cycle. Yes, the dry cycle. So the clothes that you fluffed up before starting to dry them, because you know about wrinkles, will become pasted to the sides of the machine during a high-speed spin. And you can't just jump up when you hear it happening and advance the knob past that stupid spinning part because you can't manually advance the knob.
So your choice if you want to dry clothes is to pick the highest heat version, but it includes that spin, or go with a lower heat version that will take longer. Some choice.