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Posted by Jeff Wisnia on June 18, 2007, 11:17 am
Michael Paul wrote:
> (Note: to skip straight to the solution, read the last paragraph.)
>
> I live in an apartment complex where I'm simply afraid to call
> maintenance because of their complete incompetence: on their first
> visit, one guy almost electrocuted his pal trying to fix light
> sockets. On their most recent visit, they practically broke our air
> conditioner. So when our dishwasher was making grinding sounds, I
> decided to investigate.
>
> The noise was coming from the bottom of the dishwater, so I removed
> the kickpanel and listened around to isolate the noise. After some
> time, I concluded that it was the motor. More research on the
> internet. Yes, motors do go out on dishwashers... they make a grinding
> sound... but something wasn't adding up, because my grinding noise was
> intermittent; it happened during every cycle, but it comes and goes...
> sometimes louder, sometimes softer.
>
> The final conclusion I made was that I had broken some glass in it a
> month back and there was still some glass in there somewhere banging
> around. This was confusing, since we had only been recently hearing
> the noises and the sound was not coming from the tub, but from
> underneath the tub... so, I took out the bottom basket, unscrewed the
> filtering thing that catches large objects/food, and what do you
> know.... sitting at the very bottom of the hole where the water gets
> pumped was not glass, but a cherry pit!
>
> This makes perfect sense since a couple weeks ago I had eaten a bunch
> of cherries and threw all the pits on a plate. When I scraped the
> plate, I must have missed a pit that got stuck to the plate, and into
> the dishwasher it went. the pit was small enough to slip through the
> filtering grate at the bottom of the dishwasher and, as the water is
> getting pumped through the dishwasher, it's perhaps hitting the pumps
> propellers (?) causing this grinding sound.
>
> So long story short: before you go spend lots of dollars on a service
> call, just roll up your sleeves, grab your power screwdriver, a strong
> light, a fan to keep you cool, and see what you can see. It may just
> be something as simple as a cherry pit that's causing all that racket.
>
Shall I alert to Nobel Prize Committee? <G>
Jeff
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Jeffry Wisnia
(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)
The speed of light is 1.8*10^12 furlongs per fortnight.
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