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Maybe it's the sun spots, baby.

I would beat the rush and buy a new TV and stereo now ...

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 712023)

Car -no interior lights, battery light constantly on and door unlocker intermittent

Lights and locks still an issue, battery light no longer so after $650 breakdown in downtown Chicago

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Microwave -made weird smells and sounds and now randomly requires stupid amounts of time to heat stuff

New one

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My computer. Insanely slow and old and the battery no longer holds charge, and just tonight the power cable snuffed it so I can't use it at all and I have shitloads of work to do. we just managed to back up the files onto Beest's computer and now i've hijacked that for my evening's fucking about on the web....

I has new.... and we got a new power cable for the old one. The kids use it to skype with grandma in the UK and other stuff

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Kettle -reasonably new, lid snapped off the hinge, needs to go back, can't find receipt

Living with it -fucker still boils water

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Bread machine -paddle fell down the waste disposer and got snapped (last week)

$12 Salvation Army

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basket system we had for the microwave died (day before yesterday), we cook rice often

unresolved

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Dishwasher -nothing's getting clean even though beest has taken it apart and cleaned off all the shite and we've tried every detergent going (it's about 8 years old)

New WishDosher ordered today!

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Washing machine held onto some bleach from the whites wash and dispersed in the next (last weekend).....

didn't happen again

That would be such a cool store name:

Come to Electronics Armageddon for our end-of-the-world sale.

My washer did the same to me and now I always wash towel after washing whites. Just in case.

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Originally Posted by Pico and ME (Post 743210)

My washer did the same to me and now I always wash towel agter washing whites. Just in case.

I still make sure there's nothing we really care about in the next load....

There's always that bit of water that the spin cycle can't eliminate. I wonder if that is normal or if the washer is just going kinda kaput.

hmm, I don't notice that

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 712037)

Dishwasher problem is universal, they've reformulated every detergent to not contain phosphates.

I was gonna suggest buying some TSP and adding it in, but it's getting hard to find real TSP too.

Knock Knock.
Who's there?
Armageddon
Armageddon who?

Armageddon sick of all the elctronic shit breaking all the friggin time.

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Originally Posted by Beest (Post 712167)

Explains a lot, I noticed the Palmolive detergent we had said "eco friendly, no phopshate" I knew this was a bad sign.

The interior of the door is caked with a white crust, the top spinner was compeletly clogged too, I expect that there is build up inside somehwere harder to reach .

In the article one woamn has bought Phosphate fromt he store and is adding it back in, might be wortha try.

white crust sounds like mineral deposits. Hard water? Try running a cycle with mineral remover or vinegar. Obviously you'd have to wait for the pump out cycle to be done, then pop it open and dump a bunch of vinegar in. That might work, it seems to work for coffee makers which are essentially dishwasher running in reverse, right?

I highly recommend this site for all things appliance related:
http://fixitnow.com/

For cleaning the inside of the dishwasher, we love this stuff. Of course with the new dishwasher, this won't be relevant to you for awhile...