Don't know yet, running a load now. It's been doing a crappy job cleaning things lately. I figured there were clogged lines or spray bars or something, so pulled it out from under the counter and took it out to the garage. Found the main filter about 3/5 clogged with crap on its inner surface. I could have cleaned that in place, but pulling it provided the opportunity to give it a good cleaning, fix some loose brackets that hold the top basket, fix a few leaks, replace the drain adapter to the garbage disposal, etc. It will have been worth it if it works. If it doesn't, then it's off to the appliance store for a new one later this week.
Although, given how clogged the filter was, I'm not surprised it wasn't cleaning well.
Check your dishwasher detergent. Many states have banned phosphates in household cleaners, and most makers just dropped the trisodium phosphate rather than make two different kinds for "ban states" and "free states". And of course the new "green" ones absolutely suck. They're mostly just Sodium Carbonate, which is a water softener, some bases like sodium hydroxide and others (take a stab at saponifying any greases or oils... and do a $#!%*@ job of it too, leaving it all over your other dishes...) and a bit of low foam surfactant.
Mainly, the new phosphate-free stuff is just letting the heat and agitation of the dishwasher itself do most of the work...
And it's not just the libtarded 17 state legislatures that caused this. Phosphate prices are up, and the detergent makers saw an opportunity to cut their bottom line in the name of being "green".
Even better, the restaurant and service industries lobbied these legislatures, and commercial diswasher products still have trisodium phosphate in them.
Now that you know this... I have an easy fix:
http://www.chemistrystore.com/Trisodium_Phosphate-TriSodium_Phosphate_8lbs.html Just throw in a teaspoon or two with your normal "green" detergent, and all is right with the world again.
If the algae blooms so bad in the lake that I can walk to the western shore of Michigan from Milwaukee? I don't give a damn. I just want clean dishes.
I suspect TONS of people have chucked their dishwashers for new ones, thinking it was the machines, and are oblivious as to what's happened to the detergent.
Or, if you don't like mixing it yourself, you can get the commercial grade stuff shipped to you as well:
http://www.restockit.com/cascade-automatic-dishwasher-detergent-85-oz-(34953pg).html 32lbs ought to last most people awhile.
