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I have one of those mixers and I've replaced the sacrificial gear at least 3 times, although I usually get the gears for far less than $50. I gotta learn to not
by HeyLaughingBoy 3y ago
I have one of those mixers and I've replaced the sacrificial gear at least 3 times, although I usually get the gears for far less than $50. I gotta learn to not overload it with bread dough :-)
Based on what I see when I open up the unit, the reason they don't have an all metal gear train is that doing that would impose the need for higher strength on everything in the transmission and the chassis up to the motor. That would increase the cost to the point where it would cut into sales.
The larger consumer mixers (6qt?) are built more heavy duty since I know that they can take a larger vertical load, but I don't know if they also have the nylon gear.
- winrid 3y agoThey can use glass reinforced plastic instead, and powdered metal or nylon gears like the mid range $150 consumer drills...
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoI think I may have misunderstood GP's post. I thought they meant that one of the gears was changed to plastic (as in mine) with the rest remaining metal. But it's more likely that they meant that the newer models are now using a fully plastic geartrain based on what I've read since.
- kortex 3y agoWhy not a shear pin? There's no need to make the (more expensive) gears the shear point when you can use a pennies-each shear pin (or shaft, or similar).
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoNo idea. I didn't design the thing :-)