[Shop-talk] Epoxy recommendations?

[Jim Franklin]

On Jan 25, 2009, at 3:04 PM, John T. Blair wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> While this isn't an answer to your question, your dishwasher is 8  
> yrs old and
> broke.  Fom my experience, they aren't worth the trouble to try and  
> fix.

I disagreed, so I went ahead and JB Welded it. The good news is the  
epoxy held, even though it squeezed out of a previously invisible  
hairline fracture in the plastic shaft that was clearly the problem.  
Bad news is there were two shouldered rubber gaskets with plastic  
washers inside them fixed (or so I thought) on the shaft. Once I  
cleaned the shaft there was no more grease to hold them on the shaft  
and they escaped. I have no idea how they were oriented on the shaft  
and the online parts manual shows a different (updated?) sealing  
mechanism.

So I need to buy a new motor anyway because no matter how I orient the  
seals, it leaks. Bah.

jim