Prof. Sam Lawler
I know I'm super lucky to have a dishwasher. I use it at least once a day for all the cooking we do. Washing dishes is my LEAST favourite chore, and I'm happy to delegate it to a machine.
But my 3 yr old dishwasher is dead. We have incredibly hard water here (and don't have a water softener because the plumbing is ancient and terrifying). I'm guessing that the hard water killed the circulation pump.
Worth fixing? Buy a new one? Getting parts out here is hard.
Prof. Sam Lawler
I watched a bunch of youtube videos, then took out the circulation pump and took it apart. Nothing obviously wrong or stuck. I cleaned it and put it back together. And now the dishwasher seems to be running!! AMAZING.
Of course, I had to loosen a couple of hose clamps and I broke at least one stupid little plastic bit while taking the pump off. So probably won't last long. But I appreciate at least one more load of dishes my machine will do for me!
Prof. Sam Lawler
Special thank you to everyone who posts questions and answers on good old-fashioned web forums, and people who make and post repair videos.
Did I get any help from chatGPT or other stupid energy-sucking things like that? No. Would it have been helpful? Also no. I got help from people here, and from questions random people asked and answered years ago.
Prof. Sam Lawler
Thanks for all the advice. I took apart as much as I was confident I could get back together without creating new leaks (which was not much), restarted it, and it's still broken. 100% out of energy now so I guess I'll try watching more repair videos tomorrow.
Prof. Sam Lawler
Once I'm done with this batch of cheese (and washing dishes, dammit) I'll get back to this. From a bunch of reading and youtube videos, I think the circulation pump died. Going to try taking that out once I find hose clamps to replace the ones I'm going to have to destroy to get it out, try cleaning it and putting it back together. If it still doesn't run, I can order a new circulation pump for $90ish and try that in a few days when it arrives.
Prof. Sam Lawler
...IF wherever I can order from actually ships to rural PO boxes, that is... (I've had that complaint on here before too - I don't have an address! I only have a PO box. That's how most of rural Canada works, and yet, a large fraction of companies won't ship to PO boxes. So dumb...)
Ooof so much mundane complaining this morning. I promise I'll get back to goats, cheese, and SpaceX shitposting soon.
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