Hi everyone!
The lovely sixties Roto-Rack, still the apple of our eye, is now the apple of our eye in the living room, and the Maytag JetClean is pinch-hitting, due to some unicouple-related events.
The original unicouple tossed its ball bearings down the drain when the original collar (already fractured) snapped apart; no great loss, since the hoses were almost rock hard, and it wasn't very pleasant to use. So, naturally, I swapped in the perfect-match unicouple from another D&M portable, and all was good.
That is, until something happened (file under "when someone else runs the dishwasher, and stuff inexplicably happens") to the new unicouple, such that it now can't seal properly against the faucet adapter.
The Maytag works fine with the faucet adapter, so I know the adapter isn't the issue. The D&M, however, sprays water out from around the collar, but the bearings and collar are fine, so I suspect it's the wide, rubber packing seal that's further down the unicouple barrel.
I've never seen a definitive way to replace these. I'd love to, because unicouples cost more than the machines do, and installing one in this model is not all that much fun.
I've seen people use O-rings, with varying degrees of success, but they tend to be awfully tight, it seems. I'm trying to find a repair solution that doesn't require a lot of careful jiggling afterward to attach to the faucet, because otherwise, said Other Person will not run the dishwasher when it's full, which means I'll have to run it--WAIT, THAT'S TOTALLY FINE.
No, actually, I'm concerned that someone will very likely press upward against the faucet with great force to seat the now-overly-tight unicouple, and I'll come home to a faucet with the spigot broken off.
Anyhow, I'd prefer to avoid having to purchase a whole new unicouple on account of some POS $0.04 rubber bit. Can anyone steer me in the right direction, or has anyone had luck with this? It seems almost like--since the early sixties--no one has intended for that packing to be serviceable and replaced.
Either that, or I'm not looking for the right thing when I Google.
Thank you all in advance!
The lovely sixties Roto-Rack, still the apple of our eye, is now the apple of our eye in the living room, and the Maytag JetClean is pinch-hitting, due to some unicouple-related events.
The original unicouple tossed its ball bearings down the drain when the original collar (already fractured) snapped apart; no great loss, since the hoses were almost rock hard, and it wasn't very pleasant to use. So, naturally, I swapped in the perfect-match unicouple from another D&M portable, and all was good.
That is, until something happened (file under "when someone else runs the dishwasher, and stuff inexplicably happens") to the new unicouple, such that it now can't seal properly against the faucet adapter.
The Maytag works fine with the faucet adapter, so I know the adapter isn't the issue. The D&M, however, sprays water out from around the collar, but the bearings and collar are fine, so I suspect it's the wide, rubber packing seal that's further down the unicouple barrel.
I've never seen a definitive way to replace these. I'd love to, because unicouples cost more than the machines do, and installing one in this model is not all that much fun.
I've seen people use O-rings, with varying degrees of success, but they tend to be awfully tight, it seems. I'm trying to find a repair solution that doesn't require a lot of careful jiggling afterward to attach to the faucet, because otherwise, said Other Person will not run the dishwasher when it's full, which means I'll have to run it--WAIT, THAT'S TOTALLY FINE.
No, actually, I'm concerned that someone will very likely press upward against the faucet with great force to seat the now-overly-tight unicouple, and I'll come home to a faucet with the spigot broken off.
Anyhow, I'd prefer to avoid having to purchase a whole new unicouple on account of some POS $0.04 rubber bit. Can anyone steer me in the right direction, or has anyone had luck with this? It seems almost like--since the early sixties--no one has intended for that packing to be serviceable and replaced.
Either that, or I'm not looking for the right thing when I Google.
Thank you all in advance!
