Mike P.
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In the process of replacing my under sink garbage disposal, I noticed a substantial leak in the dishwasher discharge hose. It emerges from the dishwasher as a plastic covered wire spiral (I don't know what to call it but assume this is fairly standard) and it terminates at the garbage disposal as a standard clamped rubber hose.
I'm not surprised that it's leaking where the two segments have been joined. The dishwasher discharge hose was simply inserted into the (slightly larger diameter rubber hose) and clamped. This seems to me to guarantee leakage, no matter how tight the clamp, and there was apparently an attempt so cover the outside of the wire spiral hose with some kind of white plumbing cement before inserting to mitigate leakage.
Seems kind of half baked but I can't figure out what possible adapter I could buy that would marry these two hoses and am fearful that I'm going to have to try to reconstruct the glued connection. This is all somewhat complicated by the fact that the dishwasher is super difficult to get access to so I'm trying to avoid that direction if I can.
Any ideas on good, or even just serviceable answers to my problem? It all seems so strange - surely other people have this problem - this is a standard relatively new dishwasher trying to connect to a standard garbage disposal and yet there seems no easy way to interconnect them or establish a sturdy termination to the line coming from the dishwasher.
I'm probably missing something really basic. In any case, any suggestions on how I can lash something together that might work?
Thanks again,
Mike
In the process of replacing my under sink garbage disposal, I noticed a substantial leak in the dishwasher discharge hose. It emerges from the dishwasher as a plastic covered wire spiral (I don't know what to call it but assume this is fairly standard) and it terminates at the garbage disposal as a standard clamped rubber hose.
I'm not surprised that it's leaking where the two segments have been joined. The dishwasher discharge hose was simply inserted into the (slightly larger diameter rubber hose) and clamped. This seems to me to guarantee leakage, no matter how tight the clamp, and there was apparently an attempt so cover the outside of the wire spiral hose with some kind of white plumbing cement before inserting to mitigate leakage.
Seems kind of half baked but I can't figure out what possible adapter I could buy that would marry these two hoses and am fearful that I'm going to have to try to reconstruct the glued connection. This is all somewhat complicated by the fact that the dishwasher is super difficult to get access to so I'm trying to avoid that direction if I can.
Any ideas on good, or even just serviceable answers to my problem? It all seems so strange - surely other people have this problem - this is a standard relatively new dishwasher trying to connect to a standard garbage disposal and yet there seems no easy way to interconnect them or establish a sturdy termination to the line coming from the dishwasher.
I'm probably missing something really basic. In any case, any suggestions on how I can lash something together that might work?
Thanks again,
Mike