Be sure to use hi temperature ( * TEMPERATURE not 'strength') Loctite on the nuts as losing one in the dishwasher has the potential to destroy the dishwasher's water pump.

Or use really BIG nuts that can't be sucked in - have to try fitting them by hand to see what size goes in and what doesn't.


(I thank my father for hours of garage time when I was a teen. We had to 'invent' tools and stuff to get various car repair jobs done so creativity in solutions was part of my training.)

I expect you to pay me some royalties if you go and market the idea and make millions selling the hillbilly colander to Martha Stewart!

* EDIT- heat softens normal Loctite so a hot dishwasher cycle could negate the Loctite if you use the wrong stuff.