Dishwasher not working - beginners problems - salt and rinse aid

Ever run your dishwasher for as long as the salt and the rinse aid runs out? Run it until Flashy blinky lights come up, and you continue to use it (because it works)?

I have and today it stopped working! It simply would not start (or at least i can't find a way to make it do a normal wash cycle) It is a BOSCH dishwasher and the Refill Salt Red Light is On and Steady (not blinking). Also it displays the digit 4 on the display where the remaining time is usually shown.

I found this video useful: Bosch - How to refill salt and rinse aid on my Bosch dishwasher.
Brilliant and simply demonstrated (i don't imagine starting to look for the appliance manual, i have not got a clue).

http://youtu.be/TizY3IeAoao - video with instructions showing what you need (to buy) and how to refill salt and rinse aid (also explains what rinse aid is - and what to do when you spill some salt by mistake inside the appliance, handy!)

I am off to the shops to get some Salt...... fingers crossed!

Bike Maintenance - using a instant temporary sealant to fix a puncture

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I want to share my mistakes and let you learn from them. Let you tap on my experience

 Bike Maintenance - using a instant temporary sealant to fix a puncture

 Tried to seal a puncture on my inner tube by using a sealant foam/spray from a can i bought on the high street retaiers (one of the 1 pound shops). The idea is simple, you get a small pressurized can with an adapter; then you attach the adapater to the tyre and depress the button on the can - voila - in 5-10secs the tyre is both pumped up automatically and the puncture is sealed (temporarily).
Mistake: something happens but the tyre after 4hours was flat again, the ventil was leaking white foam, and here comes the mistake - as soon as you tried to pump the tyre up - assuming the pucture is sealed - the foam comes into my pump hose and I might need a new pump hose - i didn't expect this!
Learning: don't try and pump up your tyre after it is being filled with this temporary foam sealant
Learning: tyre is not permanently sealed (exactly as the manufactures says)

original from: http://lozarev.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/mistakesmistakes.html