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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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[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.