The inside of a dishwasher

Our dishwasher has been doing a poor job of cleaning the dishes lately. And I've always wanted to see what it looks like inside a dishwasher during the cycle. So I cut a piece of acrylic, screwed on a few 1x2's, tricked the dishwasher into thinking the door was closed, and let 'er rip.

Note that overriding the "door closed" sensor isn't exactly safe--I found out the hard way a while back that the position switches carry 120VAC.

It became immediately apparent why the dishes weren't being cleaned--the spray arms weren't spinning. So I did a little cleaning here, a little modification there, and now the dishwasher works better. A follow-up video showing the fix is in the works...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• dishwasher
• repair
• fix
• howitworks

[poiiihy]

i have a maytag dishwasher too. its sucks.

[redking15ca]

My dishwasher is doing the same thing...

Got my apartment manager up to look at it and he just said "Yeah these dishwashers are crap, you gotta wash all the dishes before you put them in"

LOL