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Dec. 30th, 2008
Can be done, now, please?
Dec. 30th, 2008 21:23Another trip into Dishwasher Hell. The thing got clogged from the cheap paper label from a glass jar of Amish jam, which we were washing preparatory to recycling it.
I should have known better than to put an Amish jar in a modern dishwasher. Fucked the whole thing up.
I rolled up my sleeves and, like the Village Idi---er, Repairman, dove in to clear the clog. I took it apart to within an inch of its life, right down to part #15. (I wouldn't have had to go that far, but I dropped a fucking screw and couldn't retrieve it, not even with a magnet.1) It was pretty gunky in there, and it took a vegetable brush, a toothbrush, an ice pick, a razor blade, and a tall can of Nebraskan compressed air2 to clear the clogs from parts #7, #6, and #2.
The Water must flow.
I put it all back together all Humpty-Dumpty-ish (without the sticky yellow center - and in the process shearing off one of the screw mounting studs, yea me) and fired it up.
No leaks, powerful water flow. Losing the use of one screw didn't appear to hurt anything at all, and it runs a mite quieter than it used to.
And no big plumbing Bill3.
On the bright side, I've done as much to this dishwasher as can reasonably be expected of a honey-doer, and thus, should anything else go wrong, I can throw up my hands and defer to a professional. Or just buy a new one.
1 The only thing below that is the plastic box the comprises the washing compartment. To go further would have required a saw. Or a length of primer cord. I have a saw.
2 That would be me.
3 About which I have already made a joke, and so will refrain in this case.
I should have known better than to put an Amish jar in a modern dishwasher. Fucked the whole thing up.
I rolled up my sleeves and, like the Village Idi---er, Repairman, dove in to clear the clog. I took it apart to within an inch of its life, right down to part #15. (I wouldn't have had to go that far, but I dropped a fucking screw and couldn't retrieve it, not even with a magnet.1) It was pretty gunky in there, and it took a vegetable brush, a toothbrush, an ice pick, a razor blade, and a tall can of Nebraskan compressed air2 to clear the clogs from parts #7, #6, and #2.
The Water must flow.
I put it all back together all Humpty-Dumpty-ish (without the sticky yellow center - and in the process shearing off one of the screw mounting studs, yea me) and fired it up.
No leaks, powerful water flow. Losing the use of one screw didn't appear to hurt anything at all, and it runs a mite quieter than it used to.
And no big plumbing Bill3.
On the bright side, I've done as much to this dishwasher as can reasonably be expected of a honey-doer, and thus, should anything else go wrong, I can throw up my hands and defer to a professional. Or just buy a new one.
1 The only thing below that is the plastic box the comprises the washing compartment. To go further would have required a saw. Or a length of primer cord. I have a saw.
2 That would be me.
3 About which I have already made a joke, and so will refrain in this case.
Can be done, now, please?
Dec. 30th, 2008 21:23Another trip into Dishwasher Hell. The thing got clogged from the cheap paper label from a glass jar of Amish jam, which we were washing preparatory to recycling it.
I should have known better than to put an Amish jar in a modern dishwasher. Fucked the whole thing up.
I rolled up my sleeves and, like the Village Idi---er, Repairman, dove in to clear the clog. I took it apart to within an inch of its life, right down to part #15. (I wouldn't have had to go that far, but I dropped a fucking screw and couldn't retrieve it, not even with a magnet.1) It was pretty gunky in there, and it took a vegetable brush, a toothbrush, an ice pick, a razor blade, and a tall can of Nebraskan compressed air2 to clear the clogs from parts #7, #6, and #2.
The Water must flow.
I put it all back together all Humpty-Dumpty-ish (without the sticky yellow center - and in the process shearing off one of the screw mounting studs, yea me) and fired it up.
No leaks, powerful water flow. Losing the use of one screw didn't appear to hurt anything at all, and it runs a mite quieter than it used to.
And no big plumbing Bill3.
On the bright side, I've done as much to this dishwasher as can reasonably be expected of a honey-doer, and thus, should anything else go wrong, I can throw up my hands and defer to a professional. Or just buy a new one.
1 The only thing below that is the plastic box the comprises the washing compartment. To go further would have required a saw. Or a length of primer cord. I have a saw.
2 That would be me.
3 About which I have already made a joke, and so will refrain in this case.
I should have known better than to put an Amish jar in a modern dishwasher. Fucked the whole thing up.
I rolled up my sleeves and, like the Village Idi---er, Repairman, dove in to clear the clog. I took it apart to within an inch of its life, right down to part #15. (I wouldn't have had to go that far, but I dropped a fucking screw and couldn't retrieve it, not even with a magnet.1) It was pretty gunky in there, and it took a vegetable brush, a toothbrush, an ice pick, a razor blade, and a tall can of Nebraskan compressed air2 to clear the clogs from parts #7, #6, and #2.
The Water must flow.
I put it all back together all Humpty-Dumpty-ish (without the sticky yellow center - and in the process shearing off one of the screw mounting studs, yea me) and fired it up.
No leaks, powerful water flow. Losing the use of one screw didn't appear to hurt anything at all, and it runs a mite quieter than it used to.
And no big plumbing Bill3.
On the bright side, I've done as much to this dishwasher as can reasonably be expected of a honey-doer, and thus, should anything else go wrong, I can throw up my hands and defer to a professional. Or just buy a new one.
1 The only thing below that is the plastic box the comprises the washing compartment. To go further would have required a saw. Or a length of primer cord. I have a saw.
2 That would be me.
3 About which I have already made a joke, and so will refrain in this case.