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I wonder if that's why my now something like nearly 40-year-old dishwasher is so bad for leaking, on certain cycles? Maybe the pods foam up too much, because it seems hell of a foamy inside.

At some point, I'll maybe post up the pics of repairing the door hinges - previously it was leaking badly because the chunky metal hinges had cracked and bent, pushing the door up enough to not squash the bottom lip seal. Unobtainable parts now, but if you have a welder...

If you don't use a JTAG cable and a MIG welder on the same project in the same day, can you really call yourself "full stack"?

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> Maybe the pods foam up too much, because it seems hell of a foamy inside.

Dishwasher detergent doesn't make suds. Dish soap does. Are you sure you're using the correct stuff? Or prewashing the dishes for some reason and not getting all the soap off?

Anecdote: My spouse and I visited some friends for supper at their place. After the meal, was when they decided to try out the dishwasher in their apartment for the first time.

With dish liquid.

It's almost like the movies where the wash machine fills the house with suds, and the occupants go floating out the front door.

I bet they had a really clean kitchen floor afterwards!

I think it’s a rite of passage to do this at least once.

At 40 years, there is an expectation that the rubber and most plastic components have become embrittled. The hinges likely only wore out after the spring had reduced function (and lack of lubrication)

After your weld, I hope you consider replacing all rubber with silicone, and add lubrication to at least an annual list.

i replaced few years ago dishwasher that was at this point of time 20 years old (GE). When it was removed from below countertop plastic connector on top of dishwasher (water hookup) fall apart into dozen of small pieces.

The plastic and rubber bits are absolutely fine.

The hinges broke because someone leaned on the door with their full weight while it was open. The grease on the hinge pins was perfectly okay too.

Ariston used to be a quality company.

Anecdotally we started using these dishwasher sheets and the dishwasher started erroring during the cycle and also leaked slightly. On observation when it errored it looked very foamy inside.

Simply changing back to powder completely stopped the error and the leaking and this was in a 1 year old dishwasher

MIG is for hobbyists. Real programmers use TIG.

I haven't got space for a TIG. However a couple of weeks ago Hofer had an inverter gasless MIG about the size of a Commodore 64 power brick, not including the spool of wire. Can't say I wasn't tempted to get myself a hot-glue-gun-for-metal kind of tool.

> gasless MIG

I hate when people use that term the G in MIG stands for Gas. If you are not running a Gas (argon, CO2...) it isn't Mig. There are flux core wires that are commonly used and called Mig, but they are not Mig (unless there is also a gas flow - this isn't uncommon) and have very different weld properties.

So do I, but everyone knows what you mean.

I've also got one of those wee inverter stick welders that's about the size of two VHS tapes, and that is an incredible bit of kit.

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