Recent content by louise2

louise 2 re: dw won't drain Well, hip, hip, horray! It is fixed! I did inquire on our neighborhood list serve for recommendations of someone "experienced with old dw's" (read: gray-haired, as you advised" and got 3-4 people to choose from. He came and diagnosed that a line froze in our...

louise2: won't drain This is all good advice. Our large neighborhood has a list serve reaching 400 households where I can ask for an experienced person who can work to save older machines. Also, I am glad to know the correct name for these parts. Keep the advice coming; it is invaluable. I...

from louise: not draining You are all wonderful! Just curious: What are the various parts called that you see in the bottom, for instance: in the rear right corner there is a silver domed round thing about baseball size. Incidentally, under that I found a crusty, chewed up, half circle...

from louise I don't quite know how I am supposed to write back to people here who answered my original post.

kitchen aid dishw. not draining This is "louise" again (is this how I reply?) My dishwasher is a Kitchen Aid Patrician by Hobart, model no. KDP-20D from the 1980"s. It stopped draining. I think I tried "cancel cycle" which didn't drain the water. It has buttons that you push, not a dial...

I decided to join since I found this both entertaining and hopefully helpful. We have a 1980's kitchen aid patrician dish washer which runs through cycles fine but lately won;t drain. It happened when the outdoor temp was 2 degrees so maybe something froze? When it warmed up, I tried again...