Pump problems. I had a fairly light load of dishes that needed to run so I thought I'll put some

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I had a fairly light load of dishes that needed to run so I thought I'll put some plastic fruit on the top rack to also get clean. Well, when the load was done and I opened the door everything was covered and I mean everything with a whitish substance aka wax! One of the fruit was made of wax an melted all over the entire interior of the dishwasher. We had 30 people now arriving for dinner so I just left it all alone. I should have run it again immediately but I didn't. Now after removing as much wax as possible and my husband cleared the hoses mostly we can't get the pump tp drain and can't figure a way to get at it. The warranty has expired-just.