Bought our current house (2018) from my my mom after my dad passed in 2017. They had just remodeled the kitchen, new dishwasher, a KitchenAid (fairly nice one, all stainless inside/out, but not overly expensive at $650). Well maybe 2020 it messed up, I took it out and gave it to a guy to fix, he replaced the whole bottom assembly at around $200-250. Well about a year ago it messed up again, I took the circulation pump off (the pump wouldn't spin) cleaned it, reinstalled, and it has worked for awhile. Yesterday after having the same issue I took it apart again, noticed the graphite bushings in the circulation pump were worn out BAD. It would let the armature touch the plastic housing, causing it to not be able to spin. I decided I was going to try to make some bushings on the lathe, but didn't have any brass. Then my mom had the genius idea to 3d print some.... There are actually similar bushings on eBay printed out of PETG for $13 shipped. I printed these out of ABS, hopefully this will be the 'fix' for a poor manufacturer design... Actually found the file on thingiverse, but I had to modify it a touch as they were a little loose.
