My dishwasher has a problem: it's made by Samsung.
In this particular case, that means that it suffers from a completely pointless and preventable malady: the vent fan that exhausts hot dishwasher air out of the tub at the end of the cycle is made out of a soft, easily heat-deformed plastic.
You can probably see where this is going.
At the end of the cycle, the fan spins up and draws steaming hot air over the plastic blades. Those blades soften and, thanks to the centrifugal force they splay outwards, buzzing against the fan enclosure.
Not ideal.
So, out the old one comes.
It's in relatively good condition, other than the part where it's completely broken.
The dishwasher looks so naked like this. Scandalous!
Anyway, it's thankfully an easy part to install, so in goes the new one.
Yup, looks exactly the same as when I started.
I didn't take a picture of the whole door reassembled, because it just looks like... you know, a dishwasher.
Anyway, here's a shot of the warped fan blades.
The perspective makes it a bit hard to parse, but there's some lighter discoloration around where the blades attach to the hub in the back, and the blades are bent slightly counterclockwise since they flex back at an angle.
Thankfully the new fan works nicely. For now. We'll see how long that lasts.
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