A couple years ago I bought a retro Kenmore dishwasher home with me. It worked fine until about 6 months ago. I have the parts to fix it now, but that will be in another thread, later. To fill the gap, while I fixed the Kenmore, or got something else, retro fabulous, to take it's place, I bought this GE Potscrubber, on close out. I wanted something that would work well, and that would be pleasant to use with the Kenmore in dry dock. For 6 months, all was well. I, like most of us in appliance land, left the dishes as dirty as possible when they went into the dishwasher. The Potscrubber performed well, and was suprisingly quiet while operating. That is, until last night; upon turning on the dishwasher, my previously nearly silent kitchen sounded rather like some sort of grind factory. Completely disturbed by this, I let the dishwasher drain, emptied it, and removed the filter, to look at the food disposer blade. I found the culprit. (It wasn't me, or my habit of putting food laden plates in the machine) A small oval piece of plastic material very light orange in color, sort of like what a tarp might be made out of, obviously stuck in the machine somehow during manufacture, was wrapped around the blade. I removed it, cleaned the filters, put it all back together, and silence has returned to my humble home!! I couldn't be more happy. I can still throw the odd bowl of vegetables in the Potscrubber, and watch them disappear!! I'm getting better at this diagnose, and repair thing! Life is good!! Now if I could just learn to take a decent picture.... =)
