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We have a top-of-the-line Sears Kenmore.  I paid more for it than
I would have for a lower model because
* the racks are covered with nylon, not vinyl.  I *hope* the
coating will last longer!
* premium sound-reducing.

It has a variety of ways of flipping the rack tines this
way and that to allow placement of odd items.  You know what?
I never use them.  Everything I want to wash will set in
around the tines just fine.  Even pots and mixing bowls just
get set down over the tines.  So what if they rest on the
tops of the tines?

The ridiculous thing about this washer is that after a week
of use it developed a vivid orange stain inside.  The repair
guy said that we needed to not wash tomato products in it
for the first 40 cycles.  Yeesh!  He gave us some cleaning
goop (I've forgotten the chemical name, but it's the same stuff
that's in acne medicine.  Really.)  That did a miraculous job
of cleaning the inside, and now that we're past the break-in
period, the liner withstands tomato products.  Like it should
have in the first place.  This certainly fits in with the
outgassing issue that someone else described here.
Topher Eliot
eliot@alum.mit.edu
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