Comment by smackeyacky
12 days ago
My personal favourite save is a Bosch dishwasher that was kerbside. The drain motor was stuck, had melted plastic around the impeller. I have it in my workshop but it’s better than the one in the house.
12 days ago
My personal favourite save is a Bosch dishwasher that was kerbside. The drain motor was stuck, had melted plastic around the impeller. I have it in my workshop but it’s better than the one in the house.
Mine was pretty easy to fix - I was surprised how simple it was. IIRC, there's an inlet valve, a circulating/heater pump, and an exhaust pump.
Dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, threadmills, all have common issues and fairly simple fixes, if spare parts are available. I'm actually surprised there aren't general purpose boards, electric motors, heaters pumps etc out there that could be just swapped in. As long as the enclosure is in presentable state, that is
I found a place* that repairs appliance control boards. They replace the caps and relays and then reflow the whole thing. They give a 2-year warranty, which is 24 times what you get buying a new board. FedEx the board to them, they turn it around in a day and FedEx it back. We no longer dread the oven throwing errors at Thanksgiving, etc.
* Circuit Board Medics, but I understand there are others.
I recently came across a slew of replacement boards that basically completely take over your washing machine and runs it. Some Chinese generic stuff that is meant to install in any machine missing its original control board.
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The Bosch dishwasher has a kind of a plastic brain on one side as well, a labyrinth of water that sets off certain things in the washing cycle. It's neat!