When I started doing home maintenance stuff I thought, $10 seems like a lot when the other stuff probably works just as good as silicone caulk. Turns out no, silicone is really good at keeping water out and other options are often useless.
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I remember when my dishwasher stopped draining.
the hardest part of the repair is having my ex telling her how I broke it (given that i was the only one in the house who did the dishes and cooked, it was obviously not her).
i found a shard of glass stuck in a pump, spent more time explaining how it couldn't really have been my fault than I spent fixing it.
God how I don't miss that cancer
I wouldn't even dare opening that shit for inspection. I know it won't work after I close it back up.
By this point, I've taken this washer apart and replaced things so many times it's nearly a Washer of Theseus.
I had a dryer like that. Ancient thing. Simple as fuck too, unlike modern dryers with 1000 features. I replaced just about every part on that thing, sometimes multiple times. Finally the control board broke and it started turning on the heating elements without running the fan. Damn dryer tried to burn my house down. Can't get the boards anymore.
I almost shed a tear putting that dryer to the curb.
resisted the urge to test it immediately, and let it cure overnight.
Also my experience with silicone paste. It takes quite long to (dry out? Settle? Harden?) properly.
Cure is the word