Post by mach12 on Jul 21, 2015 23:35:08 GMT -5
It's sure easy to get distracted from working on my ranges and doing the kitchen remodel. Last Fall, Goodwill opened an outlet store in our area and had a big opening with everything 1/2 price. The place is set up with bins of stuff and you take what you want, put it in a cart and then weigh the stuff and pay by the pound. I looked over and saw a guy digging through a bin and tossing stuff into the next bin and he picks up this mixer and gives it a toss. I went over and looked at it and it was an all chipped up and dirty as can be early 1970's K5-A (looks like it must have been used by someone who sold scones or something). It had the bowl but nothing else. I put it in the cart, paid for it and brought it home, figuring that if it was worth fixing it'd be a great gift for my son. I got it home and tore into it and other than the grease being hard as a rock it was in decent shape. I took it completely down, cleaned and inspected everything, ordered new gaskets and a couple of gears that showed some wear, painted everything with white epoxy appliance paint, and reassembled it. A month or so ago the rear bearing in my table saw motor gave up the ghost and when I was ordering a replacement bearing the website (ereplacement dot com) popped up a note that they had whisks and beaters on sale for KitchenAid mixers (their system had to have been digging through my cookies since I'd been searching for KitchenAid parts earlier). Since the price was really good and they weren't knockoff parts, plus the shipping was a flat rate and I'd be paying it anyway, I ordered them. Then about a week ago I was digging through a bunch of old appliance books in a thrift store and there was a 25th anniversary KitchenAid mixer manual. That's a couple of years older than the mixer (2 or 3 years) but still correct. The mixer works like a champ and since last Sunday was my son's birthday it's now living at his house. I took some "before" pictures and need to pull them off the camera card but here's the "after":