Anyone else get a sense of accomplishment keeping their appliances working?
Had a bit of a rough time repairing my 10+ year old dishwasher over the weekend. It started about a month ago when the thing sucked down an olive pit nearly into the circulation pump but trapped at the last screen and the chopper blade. Unfortunately olive pits are too tough to chop up in this manor so the motor stalled, buzzed, and stopped cleaning my dishes.
It was an easy time to pop the widgets and thingies and get down to the area. I'd changed out this part quite a few years back but the latest replacement had not come by the weekend so I decided to just clean it and put the part aside.
Well the repair went wonky this week the night we had company and thus a triple load of dirty dinner dishes. I'm not sure if I did a bad job reinstalling last time or the cutter was worn out, but I changed it anyway.
But... this time was the worst getting the cover off the thing. One screw holds the cover down, but for reasons I can't figure it can take me forever to get this cover off. Was in there for 2 hours Friday, then another hour this morning when the cover just popped clean off. After 3 hours of futzing around I got the new cutter on and got the washer back together in under 15 minutes.
My favorite repair was our clothes washer. One day it just refused to drain the water out. Found the flush pump online, was near 80 bucks of so but much much cheaper than a new washer. Ordered one and the weekend after it came I got the washer drained and on it's back so I could drop the old pump. When I got the hose from the tank off a quart of dirty water came out... followed by a white gym sock.
I just put things back together and it still works to today. I have no idea how the sock got in there.
Had a bit of a rough time repairing my 10+ year old dishwasher over the weekend. It started about a month ago when the thing sucked down an olive pit nearly into the circulation pump but trapped at the last screen and the chopper blade. Unfortunately olive pits are too tough to chop up in this manor so the motor stalled, buzzed, and stopped cleaning my dishes.
It was an easy time to pop the widgets and thingies and get down to the area. I'd changed out this part quite a few years back but the latest replacement had not come by the weekend so I decided to just clean it and put the part aside.
Well the repair went wonky this week the night we had company and thus a triple load of dirty dinner dishes. I'm not sure if I did a bad job reinstalling last time or the cutter was worn out, but I changed it anyway.
But... this time was the worst getting the cover off the thing. One screw holds the cover down, but for reasons I can't figure it can take me forever to get this cover off. Was in there for 2 hours Friday, then another hour this morning when the cover just popped clean off. After 3 hours of futzing around I got the new cutter on and got the washer back together in under 15 minutes.
My favorite repair was our clothes washer. One day it just refused to drain the water out. Found the flush pump online, was near 80 bucks of so but much much cheaper than a new washer. Ordered one and the weekend after it came I got the washer drained and on it's back so I could drop the old pump. When I got the hose from the tank off a quart of dirty water came out... followed by a white gym sock.
I just put things back together and it still works to today. I have no idea how the sock got in there.