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[randomdreams]

Tonight's project. You know that thing in the bottom of a dishwasher that goes around and around? Well, mine now just goes up, once, and then doesn't do anything at all.
So I'm trying to figure out how to build a little retaining ring to reinforce the fingers were supposed to hold it in place but have now apparently worn out.

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[amaebi]

You are amazing.

[randomdreams]

Getting to do some lathe work is really soothing, meditative stuff compared to the rest of my life.

[amaebi]

I'm glad there's that bonus.

[basefinder]

Good luck! I find it awkward to even reach inside the dishwasher to clean it, much less do any repair work. Darn the downward pivoting door.

Same with an oven.

Why can't we have dishwashers and ovens with side-opening doors, like a dryer?

[randomdreams]

I think in the case of dishwashers it's so they can have the lower drawer roll onto the door rather than having to provide it with its own sliding brackets, but I'm not sure.

[basefinder]

That could certainly explain it. Or maybe it's easier to make a fairly watertight seal along that hinge point.

How about a top-loading combo dishwasher / clothes washer? Lustron homes of the late 1940s came with the Thor Automagic!

[marahmarie]

Same with an oven.

You know, on some ovens the door...comes off (lift up and out and it'll either come off or not; if not, chances are it simply doesn't).

Getting it back on, though, can be another story (it's heavy and awkward to lift back onto the same hinges it came off of).

Dishwashers/their doors are the worst. Ours is on the fritz right now (won't clean dishes and won't dry them, so two separate issues). I keep side-eying it to decide if I should tell our landlord about it but really, the less I have to use/look at/clean the damn thing, the better, so it might very well stay broken.

[randomdreams]

My oven door comes off all too easily, and it is wretched to get reinstalled correctly.

[basefinder]

Hmm. Mine doesn't easily come off, and I'm afraid to push the issue and break something. LOL Don't want to explain to the apartment office why I broke an oven door! :-)

[randomdreams]

Note by "comes off easily" what I mean is "comes off before the oven lifts up when I unwisely try to use the oven door handle to lift the front of the oven". It takes a fair amount of pull to do this. And when it comes off it is extremely exciting.

[basefinder]

This is reminding me of the time I unwisely opened up a vacuum cleaner thinking I could fix it. (I do not recall what the problem was.) When I pulled the case apart a huge spring unwould with great velocity, scattering various small parts around the room. It never worked again.

[twoeleven]

You know that thing in the bottom of a dishwasher that goes around and around?
Not personally, but it has a good reputation.

[randomdreams]

Even better now!
Well, it does Get Around...

[elusis]

... somehow I feel like this might be a job for Replacement Parts, but then I feel like saying that is taking your fun away.

[randomdreams]

I did that too. But I wanted to get it working first to address the backlog. (I wasn't even sure replacement parts existed, but they do and will be here on Tuesday.)

[darkoshi]

How can you tell what it's doing, when the door needs to be closed for it to turn on and run? (doesn't it?) Your dishwasher doesn't have a glass door, does it?

[randomdreams]

No glass door. I was trying to figure out why it wasn't working well, and was pushing and pulling on bits to find out if they were clogged, and it simply lifted up and out. When it's operating, the water pushes it up against the lower rack, where it snags and doesn't turn but lets all the water pressure escape. If it were functioning correctly it would spin and the remainder of the water pressure would run up a hose to the middle and top rotating wash assemblies.