When I first saw the then new APOven I read the spec as being a plastic tank & my heart sank, it had no visible heat buffer for the connections that were visible, & it was plastic in close proximity to a high heat producing machine, connected at the hip, you don’t put those clear plastics on a hot wash, or any wash within a dishwasher unless you want to weaken the stability of the plastic, which here is clearly the case, I’D HOPED that any sensible designer would have fought for better materials such as a silicone dampened pyrex glass type water container, but no, …any idiot could forsee these problems which have become synonymous with the APO.