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I'm not much of a hardware guy at the best of times and installing a new dishwasher was always going to be an interesting experience.

Always assume that everything currently installed in your house is a special case. Our old dishwasher was attached to the water supply with a copper pipe.  This copper pipe had non-standard fittings at both ends.  I spent over an hour trying to bend the old copper pipe to be where the new dishwasher wanted it to be. Then I realized it couldn't be made to fit the new dishwasher.  So I took the old copper pipe to Preston Hardware, looking at the pipe they told me that my shut off valve had non standard thread size (oddly enough I think someone installed an outdoor tap as shutoff).  So I had to cutoff the old thread from the existing shut off, install a new compression adapter (there was just enough pipe to do this) and install the new hose.

All told it took over 3 hours to install the new dishwasher!! but it doesn't appear to have leaked, so it was worth the effort (and the infinite supply of plumber's tape I used).