On 2006-10-03, AJH wrote:

The dishwasher is working otherwise well but my experience of messing
with these old clockwork timers is not good, weighting the handle with
a string wound round it to help it along causes it to jump steps. A
replacement is over 100 quid! As the dishwasher is 20 years this
repair doesn't seem worthwhile.

Could you set the dishwasher to "manual on" and connect it to a
plug-through appliance timer (probably £5 to 15)?

Set it to run then unplug it or switch off the socket; wait a while
and plug it back in --- if it starts up normally, this could be a
cheap solution to the problem. Make sure you get an appliance timer
rated for 13A --- I think some sold as lamp timers are only rated for
3 or 5A.

On 2006-10-03, AJH wrote:
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 12:56:06 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:

Could you set the dishwasher to "manual on" and connect it to a
plug-through appliance timer (probably £5 to 15)?

Essentially that's what we used to do but the clockwork programmer on
the dishwasher "sticks" part cycle and needs a gentle twist to get it
to the next part of the cycle.

Oops, I misunderstood the question!

I thought your dishwasher had a built-in delay timer that was
sticking, but you're talking about the control module.