My wife swears that when we moved into the house, the dishwasher door opened and closed silently. Frankly, I don't remember. Two years later, when the dishwasher door is opened or closed, you can hear the springs making an annoying spring stretch sound. The dishwasher is a very new Kenmore (made by Whirlpool). I've removed the access panel, greased the springs in axle grease, lubed all points where they hook, even tried encasing them in a cut piece of bicycle innertube. Nothing works. No matter what I do, I cannot get the door to open and close silently. If anything, I may have made it slightly quieter. But it still makes a sound. In looking at the springs as they stretch when the door is lowered, they seem to rotate ever so slightly as they are stretched. And that's when the sound is generated. They aren't rubbing up against anything that I can tell. The door itself doesn't make a sound, because if I disengage the springs, the door operates silently. So how can I get silent springs? Do they make springs that don't make a sound when stretched?
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20 years ago