Bernard wrote:

Over the past year, at least 3 GE Model ZBD4800 dishwashers in our condo complex failed to cycle properly and stuck on water. Water flowed from the dishwasher onto the floor and from there down the inside of walls to apartments underneath. We seldom use our dishwasher and after 5 months of non-use […]

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, we sing about it all in The Karaoke Lounge. Always some fresh new tidbits of news and commentary to check out and you can post your own knowledge nuggets, too.

If your Jenn Air or Maytag refigerator is warming up, this is usually a defrost system failure. Hey, ain’t no thang. You probably just need a new adaptive defrost control board. Had a pretty good discussion about this in the repair forum, check it out.

This is almost always a sign of a bad motor. This forum thread has some good information for determining if this is the case as well as background information on how electric motors work.

A good discussion and technical information on this problem.

At last, a permanent solution to the vexing problem.

In case you’re wondering why I haven’t been posting much lately, it’s because I’ve been busy setting up the new dojo for the repair forum, also known as the Samurai School of Appliantology.

Until recently, the forum was hosted at MSN Groups. I was becoming increasingly disgusted with MSN’s crude forum features: no search […]

If you’re repeatedly replacing electronic control boards in your appliances, you might be a victim of dirty power. Samurai’s 17th Law of Appliance Repair states that, “Raw power is dirty power.” Power comes to us on the power lines with surges, spikes, and swells and then we crap it up further with harmonic […]

I got a great email from an engineer, Iceman, who successfully repaired the thermostat on his Jenn-air range. I was so impressed that he took the time to write up his lab report and send it to me that he has earned a permanent place in the Samurai Hall of Fame. This is […]

KSDK, a TV station in St. Louis, MO, picked the Samurai’s humble dojo as their website of the day for April 5, 2005. Mucho domos, KSDK!

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