
The rollers on the upper basket of our Kitchenaid dishwasher are crumbling.

They are losing teeth…

Two lost all the teeth that hold the wheels on. So I tapped 5/16” coarse thread.

A 5/16 hex bolt fits the wheel recess perfectly, I just turned down the top and made a screwdriver slot with the bandsaw.

And it will work ok for a while longer. Note the zip ties holding the wheel assemblies to the basket, the clips that did so, do no longer.

The Datadesk keyboard Max used for a while.

It got a bit sticky…gross.

Modular design…

Has a separate board for the USB hub and input.

I cleaned all teh switches with contact cleaner. It works fine now at my treadmill desk.

All I did was take the housing off and clean the switch contacts. Not that exciting.
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I think some of my stuff could use contact cleaning. I've never done it before - can you point me to a good how-to reference?
I'd just look at youtube videa, there are a bunch of people posting for various objects like amplifiers, etc. The quality is variable...
Basically you want to squirt a little contact cleaner into the switch and work the switch a bunch of times. Same with potentiometers as on volume controls, etc.
Thanks, Nick. Summer project!
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