Being sort of mechanically inclinded has its advantages!
 

Old dishwasher bit the dust, pulled it out, all mechanicals were fine but it appears the "brain" bit the dust. Went to Lowes and found a Bosch that I liked, stainless steel interior, they had a floor model, "as is". Missing a few plumbing fittings. Bought a $500 dishwasher for $300 and had to buy another $1.29 of plumbing fittings that were missing. Comes with a one year warranty too. I guess it helps to be able to do a few minor mechanical/plumbing things yourself.

Well done.

You can spend the $200 on something frivilous with a clear conscence.

I thought you were going to say you did a 2 hr. brain transplant/swap then returned the Bosch as defective. :D

That would have made for a better ending really.

Steve Martin was doing brain swaps in 1983!

One of the best 80s movies ever! (The Man with Two Brains).

I am now going to put it on! Thanks for giving me a reason!

That's where I thought it was heading too! We're a bunch of unethical SOBs, aren't we?:p

I love the part when he is stopped and has to do the tough "field sobriety test"

Last week I bought 5 year old Kitchen Aid with stainless interior, barely used in a summer shore cottage. $50 on Craig's List.

I am constantly amazed of the number of 'men' who cannot even use a hammer or screwdriver. I have to thank my dad for letting me (ok, making me) help him to projects as a kid. I've never hired a plumber or electrician (except when required by code).

What model is the old dishwasher? I bet you can find the part to fix it on Ebay.

Tom

Ya know I think it's like 20 years old. This new one is so quiet I had to put my hand on it to verify that it's running.

Years ago I had a typical dishwasher from the early 70s. It had a mechanical timing mechanism that quit working. I took it apart and went to an appliance parts store. The young guy at the counter just shook his head and said he had never seen anything like that in stock. I told him the make & model of the dishwasher and he looked it up on the inventory computer. They had nothing listed. As I was about to leave the "old gray" walked by. He instantly picked up my controller and said "wow an old model 123ACB I have not seen one of those in years." He then reached under the front counter and grabbed a box with a brand new one inside. It had about 1/4 inch of dust on it. It was the exact model I needed. It even had a warranty card inside. Old gray told the kid that they never even put it in the inventory computer because it was so old. That dishwasher was still working fine when I sold the house several years later. It only cost a few bucks to fix my dishwasher.

About a week ago, the washing machine quit draining. It, and the dryer, are about 20 years old so the wife dusted off the plans for buying new ones. Of course, this would entail invoking the next phase of the Master Plan, moving them out of the pantry and into the garage, which means losing the garage workbench and drawers, lot's of plumbing, then redoing the pantry to fill the void. Cost of the new appliances, maybe $1,500, the cost of the rest of it, north of $10k. The mother-in-law determined that the pump was shot, so there was no saving it. I decided to investigate.

I check the usual suspects, the controls and found nothing amiss. I decided to test the lid switch and realized that the mental midgets that designed this POS required that the top be removed, which entailed tunring the machine over to get at four screws on the underside of the top, reaching through the bottom of the machine. Lacking a 4-foot screwdriver, and with a washer full of foul water. I elected to pull it out between the top and the basket. I couldn't get it all the way out but I could see that the plastic body of the switch had split, rendering it useless. One zip tie later and we were back in business.

Problem solved, and one up on the MIL.

JR

Dang, I thought this would going to a story like this one from a guy at work.

He's standing in line at a convenience store when a hot red head in a black dress asks the clerk if they have lint brushes. The clerk says no, so my buddy suggests using tape. She buys a roll of tape and turns to my buddy and says, "OK, get the lint off" Some guys have all the luck :D