After a long day working I thought it would be nice to try and fix Pete and Tesha’s dishwasher that had mysteriously broken sometime over the past few months. I figured why not help a friend out and since they have a oven I’ll kill two birds with one stone and cook myself a pizza while I work on it. So Pete and I finally dig into this project. We did several tests and could not find out what was wrong so the next step was to take it apart further. By the end of our dismantling there were over a dozen various sized screws laying on the linoleum with several different pieces of the machine nearby. A few shocks and a couple of screws later we finally figured out that the switch which turns it on only when the door is closed was not functioning properly. The pain of this one was that we could not just get a new piece because a plastic piece of the switch had broken. So we had to get a little crazy with the solution. Ultimately we ended up drilling a hole through the plastic cover for the control panel to expose the button on the switch. Then by rigging a screw through a metal plate they would be able to toggle the switch on and off with the twist of a screw. As it turns out the cockamamie system we designed to fix the dishwasher actually worked. Yeah there is a small screw extruding from the face of the machine a little like Frankenstein, but at least it’s alive now.

- Carson