[geeks] food geekery question

[Phil Stracchino]

gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Honestly, unless you do something really outrageous with it, you're
>> unlikely to do anything that'll break a current all-metal(-again) Pro
>> series.  My wife used hers for all kinds of things, including bread
>> dough and pizza crust, for several years with only one problem; that
>> problem was that the phenolic gearbox housing fractured.  I replaced it
>> with the now-standard-again metal housing; end of problem. 
> 
> How much did it cost for the housing, and how easy was it to fix. Most
> people I know have trouble changing the beaters, let alone a gearbox.

A few dollars for the housing.  Remove one screw, remove the shiny trim
band, remove ... (four?) screws previously hidden by it, lift off the
top cover, remove four more screws, lift off the gearbox housing, scrape
the grease out of the old housing and repack the new housing with it or
with comparable kitchen-equipment-grade grease, reassemble in reverse
order.  15-minute job.

>> The
>> following year, we sold it for most of the price we paid for it, after
>> our neighbor across the street gave her a Hobart C-100.
> 
> So we have a contest between someone who used to use a KitchenAid telling
> him to buy one versus someone who used to use a Sunbeam telling him to buy
> one. :-)

Heh.  :)


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