Rotting dishwasher rack

No, I've not had seen the problem.

The rust points go very deep, with the metal all splaying out. I think one would need to heat the whole thing to above boiling to get all remaining wa ter out of the many rusted areas, then somehow hope to seal the epoxy onto failing plastic coating as well as the piles of rust. It might be doable, b ut certainly not as simple as glooping some epoxy on.

I expect pickling & hot dip galv would work, don't know what it would cost.

NT

As a quick and dirty fix where there is a "free" end, I would be inclined to remove all the loose coating and the worst of the rust, and fit a length of "sticky heat shrink" over the wire, extending slightly beyond the end of the metal. With any luck, the glue will seal the end.

Could use rust converter to stop further corrosion too

or angle grind the rusted end off & apply epoxy. Rust at joints is a much bigger problem than ends though.

NT

Not in a dishwasher. You would need something that can take 100+C.

Our dishwasher doesn't go over 60.

Andy

The drying phase takes mine much, much higher.

Do your contents come out wet?

I?m sure you?re right, but not every dishwasher uses such high temperatures. Our Fisher Paykel twin drawer dishwasher uses relatively low temperature fan driven warm air to do the drying. You can open it at any time and it?s never really hot like our previous dishwashers were.

Tim

I once got a frame like that coated in something for a friend, not having a dishwasher myself, from a plating company we used ourselves. I'm just trying to recall what was done. I believe it was blasted to remove all paint, then etched to remove rust, then anodised... or a similar process for the material it was made of, though it might have been dipped in some coating I do not recall now. Whatever it was it outlasted his dishwasher, and so my thoughts on these racks, though most these days are crappy plastic, is that the standard of coating put on when new is rubbish. Brian