Has this ever happened to you, with a Maytag MDB4949?

[lovestowash]

Yesterday, I was attempting to refill the rinse aid dispenser. Sadly, I grabbed the wrong bottle of blue liquid. Instead of JetDry, I grabbed Ajax dishwashing liquid. After I began to refill the dispenser, I realized the error. Is there any way to remove the Ajax from the dispenser?

George

 

[ea56]

George,

I’ve haven’t made this  mistake myself, mainly because I haven’t used our DW since Easter 2018.  But I think you may be able to try two different  things.

 

 First,  if you can get an eyedropper or a syringe into the rinse dispenser opening try syphoning out as much  of the Ajax dishwashing detergent as possible.

 

 Then after you’ve removed as much of the detergent as you can by syphoning next fill a plastic squeeze bottle with water and try to flush out the  rest of the detergent by filling the dispenser over and over again with fresh water until the water that flows out is no longer sudsy.

 

I think you may be able to get enough of the detergent out this way so that you can use your DW without having an  avalanche of sudsing. 

 

Good Luck!

 

HTH,

Eddie

 

[DADoES]

 
A turkey baster may also be functional for that purpose.

 

[maytaga806]

Your going to have to go ahead and remove the dispenser out of the door and you can then flush water into the rinse aid hole and flush all of that out. I believe on these newer sliding dispensers, the reservoir tank is attached to the back side of the whole dispenser for rinse aid so it’s as simple as just removing that dispenser out of the door and flushing it out with water, or replacing it entirely.

An eye dropper will not fit into the rinse aid opening on these dispensers, it’s impossible to get anything out of them unless you remove the entire dispenser and flush it with water.

 

[combo52]

Liquid dish detergent in the rinse agent dispenser

This may cause a serious subbing problem when it goes to dispense in the final rinse, you could run the machine and see what happens but I think you're gonna have to get the detergent out of there as much as possible.

It's a fair amount of work to remove the dispenser But it is a possibility if you're quite handy.

I've had customers do this, and I take a meat baster and a container of water open the door. Take the cap off the rinse agent dispenser and take a bath towel, lay it all around the dispenser on the inside of the door and just keep flushing water into the dispenser and soak up the soapy water with the bath towel that can be put in the washing machine. You don't wanna flush the soap out just to let it run into the dishwasher either that'll just make a problem really fast.

Hopefully, you'll be able to flush enough of it out that it won't be a problem. You might want to get some simethicone tablets and throw one in with the detergent when you use the dishwasher and if you have a sudsing problem in the last rinse, throw one in the last rinse That will kill the suds very quickly, and it should work its way through, but it will take quite a few cycles in some cases.

Some of my customers simply just paid me to replace the detergent dispenser assembly because they didn't wanna bother with it, but it would probably cost over $200 to have a service call to do this.

John

 

[bpetersxx]

I got a meat injector thing with some of the grills I bought

small needle

Also Tony Cajun or whatever his name is had a one of those injector with the jar of flavoring

Eddie and all are right

 

[lovestowash]

No baster, no eyedropper...

Thanks for the suggestions. I opened the dispenser lid, and flooded with hot water, over and over. I ran consecutive cycles, including Sanitize (for the 1st time), until the sudsing was gone. Remarkably, the sudsing was no worse than using a Cascade pod. Thanks again for your ideas!

George

 

[gelaundry4ever]

rinse aid

Cascade and Finish do make rinse aids. The way you can tell is by the design of the rinse aid bottle.