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We need a new dishwasher.
 
I had dozed off in my chair at my computer (room next to the kitchen) and woke up smelling something burnt.  Steve came into the kitchen about the same time, and wondered abouyt the smell, too.
 
We observed that the kitchen outlets (refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher)  were off.  Steve went to the breaker box at the other end of the house, found a tripped breaker, and reset it.
 
I was in the utility room off the kitchen putting out some cat food, and i heard a HEAVY arc somewhere in the kitchen, and the breaker tripped again.
 
The dishwasher apparently has an internal electrical problem.
 
This is a picture of an area on the inside of the dishwasher door where the plastic inner panel has been partly melted in an area about two inches long.
 

 
So we gotta get the landlord to install a new one.

Have you been feeding the Gremlins after Midnight again?

TazManiac wrote:Have you been feeding the Gremlins after Midnight again?

No, but i have been putting out sugar water to appease the Hornets...

We have a 1954 dishwasher in our house- no electronic involved. Works great.

Please tell me you aren't referring to a person...

Alkarii wrote:Please tell me you aren't referring to a person...

Aw, Sarge wouldn't lie to you like that.

My model is a 1968... The hardest part is getting it started...

So... Does getting the dishwasher loaded involve alcohol?

Speaking of booze, that reminds me: Tomorrow makes six months since I've been drunk. Huh. Not a recovering alcoholic or anything, I just hadn't thought of it until just now.

Alkarii wrote:So... Does getting the dishwasher loaded involve alcohol?

Yup. Works on the coffeemaker, too.

Sarge, I've got a 195-something one, for real. Doesn't work, although it looks great. I don't want to have it hauled off for scrap, but who would ever want to buy it? But since I can't afford a new one anyway, it's a moot point for now.

Pst- Hornet (yellow-jackets, wasps...) They could care less about Sugar Water. They will revel in Animal Flesh, Protean, made available for them and in small enough doses as to avoid putrification before consumption.

We are not talking here about Honeybees and Butterflies and Hummingbirds, after all.

TazManiac wrote:Pst- Hornet (yellow-jackets, wasps...) They could care less about Sugar Water. They will revel in Animal Flesh, Protean, made available for them and in small enough doses as to avoid putrification before consumption.

We are not talking here about Honeybees and Butterflies and Hummingbirds, after all.

I must beg to differ. Yellow jackets and hornets certainly will go for sweets (fruits, sodas, etc.) in addition to proteins (meat, insects, etc.). That's my own experience, and The Great Font of Dubious Knowledge (Wikipedia) agrees.

Apparently, the adults consume the sugars and other carbohydrates themselves (flying takes much energy!) while meat is chewed up and then fed to the larvae in the nest.

chicgeek wrote:Sarge, I've got a 195-something one, for real. Doesn't work, although it looks great. I don't want to have it hauled off for scrap, but who would ever want to buy it? But since I can't afford a new one anyway, it's a moot point for now.

... er... I was referring to myself... a 195? dishwasher?!?... didn't know they actually existed... picture?

Sgt. Howard wrote:

chicgeek wrote:Sarge, I've got a 195-something one, for real. Doesn't work, although it looks great. I don't want to have it hauled off for scrap, but who would ever want to buy it? But since I can't afford a new one anyway, it's a moot point for now.

... er... I was referring to myself... a 195? dishwasher?!?... didn't know they actually existed... picture?

I... wouldn't be surprised to see that you are both talking about the same thing...

TazManiac wrote:Pst- Hornet (yellow-jackets, wasps...) They could care less about Sugar Water. They will revel in Animal Flesh, Protean, made available for them and in small enough doses as to avoid putrification before consumption.

We are not talking here about Honeybees and Butterflies and Hummingbirds, after all.

As has already been said, but i want to emphasise - adult wasps live on plant sugars. They gather meat for the larvae.

TazManiac wrote:Pst- Hornet (yellow-jackets, wasps...) They could care less about Sugar Water. They will revel in Animal Flesh, Protean, made available for them and in small enough doses as to avoid putrification before consumption.

We are not talking here about Honeybees and Butterflies and Hummingbirds, after all.

Wasn' really talking about wasps at all.

The Hornets i was referring to were the progenitors of Gremlins...

I'll take a picture later, but have this.

And this looks close.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4048/4586 ... 94c1_z.jpg

chicgeek wrote:I'll take a picture later, but have this.

And this looks close.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4048/4586 ... 94c1_z.jpg

Well... I stand corrected... I honestly thought the original statement was some sort of love/hate sarcastic statement about one's mate, or something to that effect...

I know that a dishwashing machine was demonstrated at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition (though I know nothing about how it worked or was powered), so they've certainly been around for a good long while.

I've only ever owned one dishwasher machine. I have no idea if it actually worked well--or at all--because I only ever used it as a storage space for bulky bags of foodstuffs.

TazManiac wrote:Pst- Hornet (yellow-jackets, wasps...) They could care less about Sugar Water. They will revel in Animal Flesh, Protean, made available for them and in small enough doses as to avoid putrification before consumption.
We are not talking here about Honeybees and Butterflies and Hummingbirds, after all.

But, but, but- I'm supposed to know stuff & stuff; seems I wrote too fast without thinking it through and relied on my anecdotal observation vs my own common sense, let alone actually knowing what I was talking about.

Sorry.

Might happen again...