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Adam what happened to the others from the show I looked up to you and Jamie as a kid and to this day I still do and the others tori if I remember what happened to her and the other two that filmed with her
Be lucky model of Kitchen Aid Mixer is older, some newer models made sometime in 2010's onward would be made unrepairable by people becuse screwdriver used for outer case would need to be a specific one only people from company could use as they are only one with tool for repair ability.
We had an old KitchenAid mixer and it was very weak with the stirring strength, and when we opened it, it was full of metal shavings and dried up oil. The gear inside had ground all of it's teeth down to stubs, so we had to buy a new one
Adam, get yourself a set of Wera VDE Electrician's screwdrivers. They're used by sparkies everywhere and will prevent any stray hands getting an electric shock :D
there is something so extremely charming to me about adam savage, a guy with decades of experience in fabrication and practical physics and mechanics, doing home repair with an instructional youtube video on in the background. its so humble. its so universal. we always have something left to learn.
I found a mixer just like this in a garbage dump. Took it apart, cleaned it, installed new brushes, and gave it a paint job. About 10 years later is it going strong! It's sad to see the "throw away" attitude but so many people lack the skills and confidence to just dive in. Great video.
What find frustrating is when the rest of an appliance is "built like a tank", but the brushes in the built-in motor are permanently installed and removing them (for replacement) would basically destroy it.
It's not just that, it's that a lot of modern appliances are no longer user-repairable; so most people don't even try anymore. Hell, most EV cars aren't 'backyard mechanic' repairable. Look at that monstrosity of Musk's, the Cybertruck. _Nothing_ on that pos can be repaired by the owner/user.
I'm 36 and at one point in time in my adolescence I was on the path to becoming a maker such as yourself, a bit of bad news regretfully took me in a different direction and getting back into this space comes with many challenges now that I'm an adult. I have kids now and so I'm working with them on their creations which brings me joy but truthfully seeing your videos is the cherry on top. I feel like you and I are so similar and I really whole heartedly feel like I should have pursued my dreams regardless of the bad new news and now a little voice in my head just keeps saying it's too late. I'm trying to ignore my internal naysayer and so I just want to say Thank you Adam for your consistency and bringing these visuals and commentary into my life. I live vicariously through you in a major way.
I switched careers and finished training as an electronics technician at age 43, and now work as the electronics tech at a university chemistry department. Basically, I tinker for a living now, since it’s tons of one-off experimental setups and whatnot. Anyway, point is that it’s definitely possible to switch! Don’t forget that in those 36 years, you’ve been getting life experience (and likely been nurturing your curiosity anyway), such that even as a “new” graduate, you’re actually more valuable than a 20-something greenhorn.
About 35 years ago I bought a Sunbeam mixer without the stand at a yard sale. Worked fine, but was heavy for a hand-held. Then maybe 10 years after that, I was at an estate sale, I saw this thing that looked like just the stand. Bought IT, and sure enough, I now have the whole package. And it works fine now.
Adam is the internet’s favorite oddball Uncle. He’s the Uncle ALL the kids want to hang out with and the parents are slightly concerned when they do. 😁 I picture the kids coming home and excitedly telling their parents that they’ve learned how to use a fire extinguisher.
I think it's just as likely that they come home telling their parents they've learned how to use a flamethrower as a fire extinguisher. Maybe first one, then the other lol
This is the third video over the last 3 years, where Adam has posted a video project about the exact project I am doing at the very moment. (my KitchenAid is red, and everything, though the faults were slightly different and mine isn't back together yet). Love seeing these "real-world" jobs mixed in with the "only in Hollywood" type stuff.
Haven't finished watching yet, but I gotta say thank you for every time you announce and show the plug is unplugged. Much more relaxing to watch when I know you are thinking about it
I do EXACTLY the same thing when I'm repairing something electric or electronic like that. Maybe I don't announce it to myself, but I'm paranoid about getting (another) shock.
I LOVE fixing these old Kitchen Aid mixers!! They're so much fun to resurrect, knowing that (when properly restored) they'll continue to serve for decades to come!
They are beasts that last forever. My mom still has my grandmas. I have a newer one and I doubt it will last as long. edit: it is probably at least 50 years old or more. Probably from the 60s actually.
This is one of the videos that Adam does that just makes me happy. I watched the entire video thinking exactly what his closing remarks were, the fact that a company maintained a single product for over 20 years and still manufactures parts!
We’ve had a KitchenAid mixer like that for 30 years. Only kitchen appliance I have never had to fix or replace. It was cool seeing some of the the insides. Appliance Parts Pros is a godsend.
We replaced our small mixer at work a while ago because it wasn't running consistently. But I had faith in it and took it home instead of throwing it away and went through the same steps trying to tune it and then replacing the control plate. I don't remember if I felt like I had a reason to or just because I like taking things apart but I also went deeper into the mechanical side of it. Its full of grease, if you were wondering. Grease that will get everywhere. Also managed to break the shift linkage while in there and its held together with a zip tie or something I think. 5 years later I still never used it and now its on permanent loan to a coworker
These are such multi use tools. My wife has one in the kitchen and I have one in the shop. I use it to mix small batches of drywall mud (powder is the way to go), paint, stain, etc... The stainless steel bowl makes it a breeze to clean. I also have the pasta making attachment, I use it for kneading putty compounds like Milliput or other epoxy putties. I even found one of the peel and core attachments on marketplace that was busted, I fixed it and modified it to be a wire and cordage winder. Essential tool in my shop.
This is exactly what I needed! Old KitchenAid mixer stopped working about a month ago. I've been meaning to open it up, but I hadn't found useful instructions for repair until I came across this video.
Watching you troubleshoot this reminded me of watching my dad when he was working on a particularly tricky car that didn't want to give up the actual problem but everything other then the root of the problem. I miss those days, so thanks for the nice reminder of fond memories.
I went to an auction. They had several Kitchen Aid Artisan mixers, new in the box. But all the boxes had orange stickers on them as being returned as defective from new. I bought one very reasonably. I knew they were new so what could be wrong with them? The one I bought ran even when the switch was off. Using online tutorials I simply adjusted the same screws Adam did I quickly had my mixer running fine.
What? There is a company who has not changed their product in decades? A 20 year old mixer is repaired for less than $50.00 and a little sweat equity and some good old fashioned elbow grease. Now that is quite remarkable. Way to go Adam, and way to go Kitchen Aid.
Also the new ones have combination motors and plastic gears are combined meaning either one of those goes, all of the components have to be replaced. The older ones they were all separate, so they could be replaced individually.
I have an inherited one of these from the 70s (I assume) and it is still going strong. All I've done to it is some light cleaning and installing a grounded power cord. I was scared to use a machine that has a metal shell and an ungrounded (and unpolarized!) plug. I love how repairable they are!
I could watch Mr.Savage freeze water and find it interesting. Thanks for the tutorial on how to repair hands down the best home stand mixer money can buy.
@@ironsmiterI'm picturing a steam powered refrigeration unit complete with a "balls out" centrifugal governor, and of course a steam whistle. Bonus points if it burns hydrogen. ;)
Something I've used in the past when working with electrics is an isolation foot switch, i.e. you have to actively engage to apply power. Then a bench mounted outlet with a little ON light and you should be good. I've also got a 'dim bulb' tester, which is a great way of applying current limited power.
The foot switch is a great idea, I may buy or build one of those at work. (I’m the electronics technician at a university department, so all kinds of lab equipment comes to me for repair. I have a stack of magnetic stirrers waiting to be looked at…)
Personally, I unplug it and blue-tape the plug on the item, within field of view. So when I get the "is it unplugged?" heebie-jeebies, I can glace and see the plug and the blue tape.
I used to buy any broken kitchen Aid for $20 or less and fix them for family... then I ran out of family without kitchen aids.. They are easy to fix with lots of parts available so I highly recommend
Loved this. Seeing you do this will give other people the confidence to try. I fixed a washing machine one time and I was so proud and it worked great. Thank you to the companies that sell parts and the people that make videos of how to fix things.
Re-motored my Mom’s old K45. Was needed, as it’s 40something years old, and as far as I could tell, was the original motor. Now, it’ll probably run another 40 some-odd years.
Im so proud of myself. I just recently successfully repaired two vintage fluorescent light fixtures. One was a lovely chrome fixture for the bath that dates from the 1940s. In addition to the base being chrome it also had this chrome shade in front of the bulb that tilted up and down so that it is both a reflector and a shade depending on how you position it. Some triple x steel wool polished that up nicely and I had to re-wire it from where someone had previously cut the wires to the switch and the built in shaving outlet. The other was a nice big heavy fluorescent desk lamp dating from the 1940s. This was functioning but it had apparently suffered a fall and it was damaged. A large molded metal base that supports a large shade via two square posts that extend up and then curve forward holding the shade, each with a ball socket joint. A fall had pulled one of the ball sockets apart and I had to disassemble the lamp to feed the wires back through ball socket and put it back behind its retaining ring. Everything went back together perfectly and the fluorescent bulb is quite old so it cast this nice vintage fluorescent green glow you dont see anymore.
I fixed my mom's 50 plus year old mixer and those required the speed spring to be attached to the speed control. Her machine still works perfectly after restoration.
Adam tightening those nuts with a pair of needle nose pliers...Me: Get a wrench you monster! It still doesn't sound right on low speed after the repair.
Adam needs a set of ignition wrenches. It sounded like the motor was hunting when it was running at the slow speed. On a different video I saw, the guy mention a circuit board with resistors and a capacitor that was there to remove the electrical noise generated from the speed control contact arcing and I wonder if the circuit board also helps the motor run smoothly when it is running at the slow speed setting? There may be a bad capacitor or resistor on the circuit board. It would be interesting to see the schematic of how it is all connected.
I used to custom powdercoat these mixers for people. Had to repair many of them. My mom's mixer from 1975 is identical to ones sitting in the stores only the gears now are nylon. You can get every single part in these new online!
If I was doing it I would have replaced the motor carbon brushes on a 20+ year old machine. It sounds to me like on low speed the brushes may be arcing.
I fixed one of these... kind of lol... I couldn't get the spacing on that back plate quite right. Had a knocking sound after but it did work. I took the brushes out of the motor by accident, and was really tough to get back in. A 2 hr project turned into about 5 days, I took it completely apart and loved doing it, cool machine!
I love buying and flipping KA mixers that are "broken" it's usually a speed controller that needs adjustment or replacement $15. It's a good idea to regrease them also if they are the older models.
I have watched mythbusters for years and even still at times, but just found out this channel. I love how adam still has the same voice and energy you know. He makes it fun to watch things
Finally, some regular guy repair stuff! I knew you could do it! That's where quality built items are now in America. You have to look for industrial versions of things to find items that are repairable, because unlike consumers, business people cannot afford to keep wearing out - then throwing out things to buy new ones. Spoiler here... for something you intend to use for many years, you will SAVE money over that period by buying said industrial quality items and repairing them when needed. Sadly, since most buy cheap for the short term savings, the need for Emmet's Fix it shop has all but disappeared.
I have a 25-year-old Kitchenaid who ceased up while making Christmas cookies and found a tutorial on how to disassemble, clean, and lube it. I use it to make bread which is hard work for a mixer. Followed the steps now it is better than new. These machines just keep going and going.. You can't kill'm.
12:08 there is a contactor on the front lower part of the speed controller that the contacts need to be cleaned, the contactor possibly bent to the correct position, and the piece that holds it in place needs to be tightened and you can avoid replacing it. it gets loose over time and bent out of position causing it to be near impossible to dial in the lower speed. once the contactor is secured the low speed can be set.
We absolutely destroyed a hair dryer that started making burning smells. The kid got to go ape with a screwdriver and I got a high speed fan for the parts pile.
This video brings me back. 40 years ago, part of my duties as a service tech for Hobart Corp, I repaired Kitchen Aid mixers. Before Whirlpool bought them, Kitchen Aid was the consumer division of the commercial food equipment company Hobart.
These are the best! All parts are still available from Kitchenaid and they are reasonably well built for repair! Old school design. ❤ The ice cream maker bowl works way better than I expected.
Was just watching a video where a radio in a 10 year old GM product was no longer supported or stocked by GM. Even the suppliers of the radio did not have the parts to repair the radio. Two thumbs up for Kitchen Aid.
Surprised nobody has posted about the governor's working, which I was really mesmerized by. It really looks like an electrical version of a steam engine's governor, where the centrifugal force of the running motor pushes out a powered pin (varying with speed), and the angle of the speed control plate then decides how many of the contacts on the plate the powered pin makes contact with. Overall it then regulates how long the motor is powered during a single rotation. During the slowest setting you could tell the motor was sputtering because it only got powered in parts of the rotation.
Larger commercial mixers have a built in transmission on the gear box, not too dissimilar to what Adam has in his lathe. They are far more consistent regulating speed but it is hard to cram an identical system into something that sits on your counter top.
I worked on our kitchenaid recently because the gears had stripped out (there’s one plastic gear to prevent damage to the rest when it’s overloaded). It’s amazing how serviceable the gearbox end is built.
I know you said this channel is not about How Tos. I do however remember you making a tutorial on how to make a halloween lantern with amazon parts. We made it, and it was my first "makers" project and I loved it. Wished since then you made more how-tos for two left handed people like myself.
haha including the tutorial video playing on the phone while working is such a familiar vibe. like when i replace a car light or clean a carburetor or adjust a bike shifter
Kitchen Aid mixers are one of the best household investments because you buy them once and they last through generations of children as hand-me-downs and rarely ever break. They also function as a multi-purpose tool with things like a meat grinder attachment. I have one that's probably 40 years old.
Those 1999 through 2005 kitchenAid mixers are the best. Only 3 things ever go out on them, the speed control plate, the power supply and rarely the motor. Fantastically made.
I was lucky enough to get a ProLine 5qt back in 1991. Still runs like a work horse 30 some years later. I do have a spare Hobart made I need to go over at some point.
My wife's KitchenAid mixer is 45 years old and was one of the first colored models. It is beige colored. I think prior to her model they were all painted gray. I replaced the white power cord that was singed and discolored. Found a new white cord online for it easy peasy. I also bought a new insulator plate that goes inside of the end bell Adam removed. Still works great. This mixer design was created before Whirlpool bought them. We recently bought a KitchenAid side-by-side refrigerator expecting similar quality, but it has been a total disaster. The icemaker quit working 6 months after the warranty expired, due to a wire loom breaking where it enters the bottom of the freezer door. You have to replaced the entire sealed door unit, which costs over $1,100.00. Oh and the new replacement doors have the same design defect.
One of the more charming things about Adam is that even with his truly vast knowledge and skillset he is usually just some dork trying to figure out how to do something with varying degrees of success and keeping at it.
Not bad, Adam. My wife’s 40+ yr old KitchenAid mixer, which looks just like your friend’s, runs quite smoothly on slow at about 69 RPM. But anyhow, thanks for the video! As I was playing with the mixer I noticed that the left side motor brush plug was about half way out. Much easier fix than you had to deal with! Cheers!
KitchenAids rule the mixer kingdom for a reason! They’re so robust to begin with, but they’re also SUPER maintainable thanks to their motor construction. Fun fact KitchenAid was a name they slapped on Hobart mixers (think bread factory) when the first home models came out in the 50s 😊 An amazing brand and lifetime investment
Yes! I did a powerpoint on them for community college once and learned a lot. There's a way of adjusting the height of the beater head that I did a slide on and half the class sat up and took notice lol. You could tell which of us were non-traditional students pretty clearly in the response to it.
The KitchenAid is a separate product line from what you would now think of as Hobart mixer (Hobart sold the Kitchenaid brand to Whirlpool in 1986 but kept the patents for their professional mixers). The Hobart mixer has rhe motor always at full power and has a variable transmission, the KitchenAids emulates "gears" by slowing down the motor (which means you have miserable torque in low gears because your nominally 300 Watts motor produces only a fraction of that). Beatiful machines though.
21:26 Find the following objects: Sanding disc, foam cutter, Radio Shack sign, space suit, dodecahedron, dial gauge (3), mirror ball, dummy head, alligator leads, start/stop buttons, light panel, hazard sign, stool on wheels, solder drawer, too many power adaptors.
If we can't fix it, it ain't broke. And if it's not broke, we can fix that too. Made plenty of bread with that model and its slightly larger brother. And when I didn't feel like bending over to get the mixer, well, I used the old Mark I mixer - my hands. The Mark I mixer does come with a lifetime warranty. ;)
We purchased an Amana RadarRange not long after we got married (and we just celebrated our 52nd anniversary). It was still working fine in 2009 when we sold it a Garage Sale because it was so damn heavy. Now we regret parting with it. They just don't build stuff like they used to, that's for sure. Kudos to Adam for adding new life to a well-made "forever" product. Like many others, it pains me greatly to send cheaply-made unrepairable products to a landfill. Yet that seems to be today's idea of how to build stuff. I do not like it at all. When I see the exceptions like this venerable KitchenAid Mixer being restored it makes my heart glad. Thanks, Adam.
Oh, Adam. This was the time to replace the grease in the planetary. With heavy use, it is recommended to replace every year. Of course, that is a bit ridiculous, but every 20 years isn't unreasonable. That grease is thick, dark, and gummy in there. Loving this video as I just went through the exact same stuff, same frustrations, on mine. But I replaced the grease as well.
I've been down the same road with three KitchenAid mixers for family and friends. Awesomely simple yet effective machines. Just don't ask me to replace the clutch on a top load clothes washer. Never doing that again.
Reading/watching this, and describing this mixer as "old" makes me feel old, since we got one of these as a wedding gift, and it's still in our kitchen being used regularly.
My partner ran one of those almost every day for 15 years-mostly making bread dough. It was a reconditioned trade-in when she got it. Finally the gearing just wore out. The parts were close to half the cost of a new one, so off to the great appliance home in the sky. Her mother's is on its second life with a new family friend after more than thirty years. The heavier one we now have is likely to outlive us both. Love appliances that can be re-built.
In my family, a KitchenAid mixer is what you get for a wedding present, and not any sooner. My Mom finally caved when she realized I'd never marry, and got me a KitchenAid for Christmas - this exact color, too. It's nice to know it's easily repairable! (She still has the one she got from her wedding, so, nearly 40 years old and still running like a dream.)
Distilled water works really well for cleaning electronics, as long as there's no residual charge in the electronics, and as long as you let it completely dry before giving it power.
Distilled water? When I worked at a board assembly house we loaded all the boards we made into a regular dishwasher hooked up to city water to wash the water soluble flux off of them. The water in that city was harder than a carp too. Lots of minerals in it.
@@1pcfredThat’s horrible! It doesn’t take much minerals to cause problems down the line. With that said, even the hardest water in USA isn’t _that_ hard. “Hard” water in Europe is literally off-the-charts hard by US scales! I now live in Switzerland, in a place with medium hard water (i.e. very hard by US standards) and I’m glad that at work (a university), we have both regular hot and cold tap water, but also a cold deionized water tap. Only for the most demanding analytical chemistry do they need to further soften and distill that. Super handy to be able to casually use deionized water for cleaning electronics or glassware.
@@tookitogo my buddy lived in that city and he ran a humidifier. In a day his TV screen would be caked with this white crust. So then he had to start getting into reverse osmosis water purification. That tap water was harder than a coffin nail.
9:48 There's a weird blur box right at the tip of that blue glue bottle... I don't know what's up with it lately (or if it just started or I just started noticing it...)
It looks like it may be an encoding artifact to me. RUclips encodes every video they serve. They encode it multiple times too. So it is an ongoing process over the course of time. The whole deal is complicated. Resources are finite so they're prioritised and optimized. But that means not everything is instantly optimal.
I have a KitchenAide 6qt lift-bowl mixer that's over 12 years old now. One of the sacrificial gears failed on a large ball of pizza dough. It was messy, but I got the replacements parts(gear and food-grade grease) for like $20. It took about an hour(mostly degreasing), but it was good as new.
Harley Davidson needs to take a page out of the KitchanAid playbook. I've heard people say once a Harley is 10 years old, you can't get parts for it unless they're aftermarket parts. You'd think they'd continue to make parts for a 12 or even 20 year old motorcycle.
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Adam what happened to the others from the show I looked up to you and Jamie as a kid and to this day I still do and the others tori if I remember what happened to her and the other two that filmed with her
Be lucky model of Kitchen Aid Mixer is older, some newer models made sometime in 2010's onward would be made unrepairable by people becuse screwdriver used for outer case would need to be a specific one only people from company could use as they are only one with tool for repair ability.
That motor sounds awfull, check brushes and bearings!
We had an old KitchenAid mixer and it was very weak with the stirring strength, and when we opened it, it was full of metal shavings and dried up oil. The gear inside had ground all of it's teeth down to stubs, so we had to buy a new one
Adam, get yourself a set of Wera VDE Electrician's screwdrivers. They're used by sparkies everywhere and will prevent any stray hands getting an electric shock :D
there is something so extremely charming to me about adam savage, a guy with decades of experience in fabrication and practical physics and mechanics, doing home repair with an instructional youtube video on in the background. its so humble. its so universal. we always have something left to learn.
He's one of our best.
I can’t believe this is really Adam never in a million years would I have expected to see him on RUclips.
I found a mixer just like this in a garbage dump. Took it apart, cleaned it, installed new brushes, and gave it a paint job. About 10 years later is it going strong! It's sad to see the "throw away" attitude but so many people lack the skills and confidence to just dive in. Great video.
Yeah so much waste for things that can be easily fixed
If it’s already broke, you can’t lose anything by taking it apart and trying something
@@Minemac2 except explosive munitions found magnet fishing.
What find frustrating is when the rest of an appliance is "built like a tank", but the brushes in the built-in motor are permanently installed and removing them (for replacement) would basically destroy it.
It's not just that, it's that a lot of modern appliances are no longer user-repairable; so most people don't even try anymore. Hell, most EV cars aren't 'backyard mechanic' repairable. Look at that monstrosity of Musk's, the Cybertruck. _Nothing_ on that pos can be repaired by the owner/user.
“Adam’s Repair Shop” sounds like a lovely segment to be included in the tested catalog of videos. 😂
Yes!
I'm 36 and at one point in time in my adolescence I was on the path to becoming a maker such as yourself, a bit of bad news regretfully took me in a different direction and getting back into this space comes with many challenges now that I'm an adult. I have kids now and so I'm working with them on their creations which brings me joy but truthfully seeing your videos is the cherry on top. I feel like you and I are so similar and I really whole heartedly feel like I should have pursued my dreams regardless of the bad new news and now a little voice in my head just keeps saying it's too late. I'm trying to ignore my internal naysayer and so I just want to say Thank you Adam for your consistency and bringing these visuals and commentary into my life. I live vicariously through you in a major way.
I switched careers and finished training as an electronics technician at age 43, and now work as the electronics tech at a university chemistry department. Basically, I tinker for a living now, since it’s tons of one-off experimental setups and whatnot. Anyway, point is that it’s definitely possible to switch! Don’t forget that in those 36 years, you’ve been getting life experience (and likely been nurturing your curiosity anyway), such that even as a “new” graduate, you’re actually more valuable than a 20-something greenhorn.
Its never to late
I have an old Sunbeam mixer from the 50's I started restoring years ago and has been sitting in a box unfinished. This video inspired me to finish it.
Amazing!
Old stuff was made to be repaired, go to it!
I recently bought a 50's sunbeam mixer. Love using it as my grandmother and mum had one. Every time I use it I'm 5 years old again. Memories😊
Same here.
I must go and find it right now.
About 35 years ago I bought a Sunbeam mixer without the stand at a yard sale. Worked fine, but was heavy for a hand-held. Then maybe 10 years after that, I was at an estate sale, I saw this thing that looked like just the stand. Bought IT, and sure enough, I now have the whole package. And it works fine now.
"There is this little pin in here that can fall out. So be ready." *Adam immediately loses said pin*
I came here to say the exact same thing.
he did say be ready after he pulled the old one out soo might have lost it before warning
Cut out “Oh $#!+, Gov’nah!” footage, replace with: “…little pin, be ready…”
What he meant by “be ready” was be ready with your jewelers lathe to make that part.
As a mechanic we called these "Jesus pins" or "F#$& pins" because you would shout "F#$& where did that go"
Adam is the internet’s favorite oddball Uncle. He’s the Uncle ALL the kids want to hang out with and the parents are slightly concerned when they do. 😁 I picture the kids coming home and excitedly telling their parents that they’ve learned how to use a fire extinguisher.
I think it's just as likely that they come home telling their parents they've learned how to use a flamethrower as a fire extinguisher. Maybe first one, then the other lol
This is the third video over the last 3 years, where Adam has posted a video project about the exact project I am doing at the very moment. (my KitchenAid is red, and everything, though the faults were slightly different and mine isn't back together yet). Love seeing these "real-world" jobs mixed in with the "only in Hollywood" type stuff.
Yeah, I also have a ton of unfinished projects lying around 🙂
Was fully expecting Adam to say "Well, I've fixed it!" at 1:08
I was expecting Adam to hold up the speed control plate and say 'There's your problem right there!'
Was fully expecting him to say "well, i seem to have broken it." at 4:26 😂
yea same lol, then I looked at how much longer the video was lol.
I recently torn down and cleaned up what was my mother's first Kitchen Aid... it's more than 50 years old and still works like a charm.
Haven't finished watching yet, but I gotta say thank you for every time you announce and show the plug is unplugged. Much more relaxing to watch when I know you are thinking about it
I do EXACTLY the same thing when I'm repairing something electric or electronic like that. Maybe I don't announce it to myself, but I'm paranoid about getting (another) shock.
I LOVE fixing these old Kitchen Aid mixers!! They're so much fun to resurrect, knowing that (when properly restored) they'll continue to serve for decades to come!
They are beasts that last forever. My mom still has my grandmas. I have a newer one and I doubt it will last as long.
edit: it is probably at least 50 years old or more. Probably from the 60s actually.
They make the same exact thing today...there is nothing special about it..
The new ones have plastic internal gears... 👎
Honestly, in the upright vacuum world, Kirby is the same. There is (almost) no such thing as a "dead" old Kirby.
@@LuckyDawgzThere’s only one and it’s deliberately sacrificial to prevent all of them being stripped in the event of a problem. It’s easy to replace.
This is one of the videos that Adam does that just makes me happy. I watched the entire video thinking exactly what his closing remarks were, the fact that a company maintained a single product for over 20 years and still manufactures parts!
We’ve had a KitchenAid mixer like that for 30 years. Only kitchen appliance I have never had to fix or replace. It was cool seeing some of the the insides. Appliance Parts Pros is a godsend.
We replaced our small mixer at work a while ago because it wasn't running consistently. But I had faith in it and took it home instead of throwing it away and went through the same steps trying to tune it and then replacing the control plate. I don't remember if I felt like I had a reason to or just because I like taking things apart but I also went deeper into the mechanical side of it. Its full of grease, if you were wondering. Grease that will get everywhere. Also managed to break the shift linkage while in there and its held together with a zip tie or something I think. 5 years later I still never used it and now its on permanent loan to a coworker
These are such multi use tools. My wife has one in the kitchen and I have one in the shop. I use it to mix small batches of drywall mud (powder is the way to go), paint, stain, etc... The stainless steel bowl makes it a breeze to clean. I also have the pasta making attachment, I use it for kneading putty compounds like Milliput or other epoxy putties. I even found one of the peel and core attachments on marketplace that was busted, I fixed it and modified it to be a wire and cordage winder. Essential tool in my shop.
My KitchenAid is 49 years old, and still going strong. About 20 years ago I spent about $5 on a gasket, but that's all it's ever needed.
Apparently you don't bake pancakes every day
I know this may sound strange but watching you tinker or fix things is very soothing and therapeutic for me, thanks for all the content!
I refurbished my brother’s 1940s era mixer. His speed control plate had ignition points like the old cars. Finding that took some deep searching.
Oh, so cool!
Couldn't be filed to repair?
This is exactly what I needed! Old KitchenAid mixer stopped working about a month ago. I've been meaning to open it up, but I hadn't found useful instructions for repair until I came across this video.
You call this useful, some new parts for some that needed a little TLC & finesse?
They are pretty much bullet proof as long as you don’t abuse them and re-grease the main planetary gears per the manufacturer’s recommendation.
It’s such an amazing machine , I love all the extra attachments you can hook to the front too.
Watching you troubleshoot this reminded me of watching my dad when he was working on a particularly tricky car that didn't want to give up the actual problem but everything other then the root of the problem. I miss those days, so thanks for the nice reminder of fond memories.
I went to an auction. They had several Kitchen Aid Artisan mixers, new in the box. But all the boxes had orange stickers on them as being returned as defective from new. I bought one very reasonably. I knew they were new so what could be wrong with them? The one I bought ran even when the switch was off. Using online tutorials I simply adjusted the same screws Adam did I quickly had my mixer running fine.
And now you wish you bought all of them for eBay
What? There is a company who has not changed their product in decades? A 20 year old mixer is repaired for less than $50.00 and a little sweat equity and some good old fashioned elbow grease. Now that is quite remarkable. Way to go Adam, and way to go Kitchen Aid.
They have changed them. The newer ones have electronic speed controls in them now, but you can still get the parts for the old ones too.
Also the new ones have combination motors and plastic gears are combined meaning either one of those goes, all of the components have to be replaced. The older ones they were all separate, so they could be replaced individually.
@@TechnoGeek18023 I was always told that the plastic gears are sacrificial gears so you dont blow the whole mixer.
@@turtle79070- you nailed it! That’s exactly the intent of the plastic gear. Better to have it fail and save the motor than the other way around.
I have an inherited one of these from the 70s (I assume) and it is still going strong. All I've done to it is some light cleaning and installing a grounded power cord. I was scared to use a machine that has a metal shell and an ungrounded (and unpolarized!) plug. I love how repairable they are!
I could watch Mr.Savage freeze water and find it interesting. Thanks for the tutorial on how to repair hands down the best home stand mixer money can buy.
If he posted a video about freezing water, it would be interesting. And quite possibly a bit dangerous to replicate parts of. 🙂
@@ironsmiterI'm picturing a steam powered refrigeration unit complete with a "balls out" centrifugal governor, and of course a steam whistle. Bonus points if it burns hydrogen. ;)
Something I've used in the past when working with electrics is an isolation foot switch, i.e. you have to actively engage to apply power. Then a bench mounted outlet with a little ON light and you should be good. I've also got a 'dim bulb' tester, which is a great way of applying current limited power.
The foot switch is a great idea, I may buy or build one of those at work. (I’m the electronics technician at a university department, so all kinds of lab equipment comes to me for repair. I have a stack of magnetic stirrers waiting to be looked at…)
Personally, I unplug it and blue-tape the plug on the item, within field of view. So when I get the "is it unplugged?" heebie-jeebies, I can glace and see the plug and the blue tape.
Medhi could use that
as someone who is volunteering at a local Repair Cafe, this warms my heart!
Me too! So satisfying to be able to repair our own stuff, or do it for others. Many grateful folks leaving our repair cafe!❤
Do you also order $20 parts that you don't need?
It still doesn't sound right at low speed.
I used to buy any broken kitchen Aid for $20 or less and fix them for family... then I ran out of family without kitchen aids.. They are easy to fix with lots of parts available so I highly recommend
eBay!
Business!
Loved this. Seeing you do this will give other people the confidence to try. I fixed a washing machine one time and I was so proud and it worked great. Thank you to the companies that sell parts and the people that make videos of how to fix things.
Re-motored my Mom’s old K45. Was needed, as it’s 40something years old, and as far as I could tell, was the original motor. Now, it’ll probably run another 40 some-odd years.
I just rebuilt ours yesterday - new gears. These are great machines!
Im so proud of myself. I just recently successfully repaired two vintage fluorescent light fixtures. One was a lovely chrome fixture for the bath that dates from the 1940s. In addition to the base being chrome it also had this chrome shade in front of the bulb that tilted up and down so that it is both a reflector and a shade depending on how you position it. Some triple x steel wool polished that up nicely and I had to re-wire it from where someone had previously cut the wires to the switch and the built in shaving outlet.
The other was a nice big heavy fluorescent desk lamp dating from the 1940s. This was functioning but it had apparently suffered a fall and it was damaged. A large molded metal base that supports a large shade via two square posts that extend up and then curve forward holding the shade, each with a ball socket joint. A fall had pulled one of the ball sockets apart and I had to disassemble the lamp to feed the wires back through ball socket and put it back behind its retaining ring. Everything went back together perfectly and the fluorescent bulb is quite old so it cast this nice vintage fluorescent green glow you dont see anymore.
I fixed my mom's 50 plus year old mixer and those required the speed spring to be attached to the speed control. Her machine still works perfectly after restoration.
Adam tightening those nuts with a pair of needle nose pliers...Me: Get a wrench you monster!
It still doesn't sound right on low speed after the repair.
Adam needs a set of ignition wrenches. It sounded like the motor was hunting when it was running at the slow speed. On a different video I saw, the guy mention a circuit board with resistors and a capacitor that was there to remove the electrical noise generated from the speed control contact arcing and I wonder if the circuit board also helps the motor run smoothly when it is running at the slow speed setting? There may be a bad capacitor or resistor on the circuit board. It would be interesting to see the schematic of how it is all connected.
@@dandearman2871 Yes, it would, since capacitors are used for smoothing out pulsating voltage, making the waveform more linear.
Two of my favorite things to watch combine! The Repair Shop (Freevee) and Adam Savage doing something.
I used to custom powdercoat these mixers for people. Had to repair many of them. My mom's mixer from 1975 is identical to ones sitting in the stores only the gears now are nylon. You can get every single part in these new online!
If I was doing it I would have replaced the motor carbon brushes on a 20+ year old machine. It sounds to me like on low speed the brushes may be arcing.
I agree. I think worn brushes/commutator are the underlying issue to it's erratic operation. I would have started there.
I fixed one of these... kind of lol... I couldn't get the spacing on that back plate quite right. Had a knocking sound after but it did work. I took the brushes out of the motor by accident, and was really tough to get back in. A 2 hr project turned into about 5 days, I took it completely apart and loved doing it, cool machine!
I love buying and flipping KA mixers that are "broken" it's usually a speed controller that needs adjustment or replacement $15. It's a good idea to regrease them also if they are the older models.
Adam's evolution to creating videos of repairing old tech is almost complete
For a 20 year old appliance, that is in amazing condition on the outside. Hats off to Kitchen-Aid for building such an outstanding product!
Hats off to the owner!
They're torque _monsters_ stand mixers.
That's why they're all metal, they have to be, it would tear the machine apart before the dough.
They still make them the same way to the same quality standards hence why they cost so much
If it was outstanding it wouldn't need repairs.
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Nope, "zero maintenance" just means "landfill when it breaks"
And that's if it's something that doesn't kill you when it breaks.
Seeing Adam poke around in the back with a metal screwdriver while it's running gave me the heebie-jeebies
You haven't lived!
@@dt4676 Your lucky you still are!
It's only 115V.
Yeah, I would definitely be using a VDE insulated driver for this!
@@Okurka.120V. It hasn’t been 115V nominal for the better part of a century.
I have watched mythbusters for years and even still at times, but just found out this channel. I love how adam still has the same voice and energy you know. He makes it fun to watch things
Same colour as my KitchenAid Artisan! Love it so much!
Finally, some regular guy repair stuff! I knew you could do it! That's where quality built items are now in America. You have to look for industrial versions of things to find items that are repairable, because unlike consumers, business people cannot afford to keep wearing out - then throwing out things to buy new ones. Spoiler here... for something you intend to use for many years, you will SAVE money over that period by buying said industrial quality items and repairing them when needed. Sadly, since most buy cheap for the short term savings, the need for Emmet's Fix it shop has all but disappeared.
I have a 25-year-old Kitchenaid who ceased up while making Christmas cookies and found a tutorial on how to disassemble, clean, and lube it. I use it to make bread which is hard work for a mixer. Followed the steps now it is better than new. These machines just keep going and going.. You can't kill'm.
Classic Adam. "There's this little pin that can get lost if you aren't careful." ... "I lost this little pin so I need to make a new one."
I love how he keeps. Telling us,it's unplugged. We have all forgot to unplug
The machine. And got SHOCKED.❤️
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The difference between the first half and last half of the video makes me think he might have gotten bit by it at some point during the tear-down.
I was watching him stick the screwdriver in the back while it was running and holding the metal like "Thank goodness this video isn't live" 😰
I wish there was more commentary during initial adjusting. But I get it. Thank you non the less!
12:08 there is a contactor on the front lower part of the speed controller that the contacts need to be cleaned, the contactor possibly bent to the correct position, and the piece that holds it in place needs to be tightened and you can avoid replacing it. it gets loose over time and bent out of position causing it to be near impossible to dial in the lower speed. once the contactor is secured the low speed can be set.
I foresee our exact same model needing repairs soon, so this video is well-timed and much appreciated! 👏
"Broken" items found around the house are some of the best "teaching" moments I get with my 12yo son.
We absolutely destroyed a hair dryer that started making burning smells. The kid got to go ape with a screwdriver and I got a high speed fan for the parts pile.
This video brings me back. 40 years ago, part of my duties as a service tech for Hobart Corp, I repaired Kitchen Aid mixers. Before Whirlpool bought them, Kitchen Aid was the consumer division of the commercial food equipment company Hobart.
These are the best! All parts are still available from Kitchenaid and they are reasonably well built for repair! Old school design. ❤
The ice cream maker bowl works way better than I expected.
I have always loved how repairable these mixers are. Manuals, replacement parts, and accessible fasteners.
Was just watching a video where a radio in a 10 year old GM product was no longer supported or stocked by GM. Even the suppliers of the radio did not have the parts to repair the radio. Two thumbs up for Kitchen Aid.
Surprised nobody has posted about the governor's working, which I was really mesmerized by. It really looks like an electrical version of a steam engine's governor, where the centrifugal force of the running motor pushes out a powered pin (varying with speed), and the angle of the speed control plate then decides how many of the contacts on the plate the powered pin makes contact with. Overall it then regulates how long the motor is powered during a single rotation. During the slowest setting you could tell the motor was sputtering because it only got powered in parts of the rotation.
I was going to say that I would not have guessed there was all of *that* in there just to select from several speeds. Thanks for the explanation.
Larger commercial mixers have a built in transmission on the gear box, not too dissimilar to what Adam has in his lathe. They are far more consistent regulating speed but it is hard to cram an identical system into something that sits on your counter top.
0:01 I looked forward to that laugh in MYTHBUSTERS.
That sounded like @MrMixer316 in the background when you were adjusting the old controller. He's a great source for all these mixers.
I thought so too! His video and parts have been a big help in keeping my wife's stand mixer going, and his customer service is outstanding.
We call ours our “Kitchen Tractor.” It’s lovely to work with (and work on very rarely) something made of solid metal with simple and effective design
I worked on our kitchenaid recently because the gears had stripped out (there’s one plastic gear to prevent damage to the rest when it’s overloaded). It’s amazing how serviceable the gearbox end is built.
I know you said this channel is not about How Tos. I do however remember you making a tutorial on how to make a halloween lantern with amazon parts. We made it, and it was my first "makers" project and I loved it. Wished since then you made more how-tos for two left handed people like myself.
haha including the tutorial video playing on the phone while working is such a familiar vibe. like when i replace a car light or clean a carburetor or adjust a bike shifter
Kitchen Aid mixers are one of the best household investments because you buy them once and they last through generations of children as hand-me-downs and rarely ever break. They also function as a multi-purpose tool with things like a meat grinder attachment. I have one that's probably 40 years old.
Those 1999 through 2005 kitchenAid mixers are the best.
Only 3 things ever go out on them, the speed control plate, the power supply and rarely the motor. Fantastically made.
I was lucky enough to get a ProLine 5qt back in 1991. Still runs like a work horse 30 some years later. I do have a spare Hobart made I need to go over at some point.
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Excellent
My wife's KitchenAid mixer is 45 years old and was one of the first colored models. It is beige colored. I think prior to her model they were all painted gray. I replaced the white power cord that was singed and discolored. Found a new white cord online for it easy peasy. I also bought a new insulator plate that goes inside of the end bell Adam removed. Still works great. This mixer design was created before Whirlpool bought them.
We recently bought a KitchenAid side-by-side refrigerator expecting similar quality, but it has been a total disaster. The icemaker quit working 6 months after the warranty expired, due to a wire loom breaking where it enters the bottom of the freezer door. You have to replaced the entire sealed door unit, which costs over $1,100.00. Oh and the new replacement doors have the same design defect.
My parents have a 40+ year-old mixer and the only maintenance needed in all that time was the gears needed to be cleaned and relubricated.
One of the more charming things about Adam is that even with his truly vast knowledge and skillset he is usually just some dork trying to figure out how to do something with varying degrees of success and keeping at it.
Not bad, Adam. My wife’s 40+ yr old KitchenAid mixer, which looks just like your friend’s, runs quite smoothly on slow at about 69 RPM. But anyhow, thanks for the video! As I was playing with the mixer I noticed that the left side motor brush plug was about half way out. Much easier fix than you had to deal with! Cheers!
I feel you. I just repaired a "broken" welder that only needed a new lock washer on a screw holding a drive gear.
KitchenAids rule the mixer kingdom for a reason! They’re so robust to begin with, but they’re also SUPER maintainable thanks to their motor construction. Fun fact KitchenAid was a name they slapped on Hobart mixers (think bread factory) when the first home models came out in the 50s 😊 An amazing brand and lifetime investment
It's unfortunate the newer kitchenaid mixers aren't built to last like the old ones
Yes! I did a powerpoint on them for community college once and learned a lot. There's a way of adjusting the height of the beater head that I did a slide on and half the class sat up and took notice lol. You could tell which of us were non-traditional students pretty clearly in the response to it.
The KitchenAid is a separate product line from what you would now think of as Hobart mixer (Hobart sold the Kitchenaid brand to Whirlpool in 1986 but kept the patents for their professional mixers). The Hobart mixer has rhe motor always at full power and has a variable transmission, the KitchenAids emulates "gears" by slowing down the motor (which means you have miserable torque in low gears because your nominally 300 Watts motor produces only a fraction of that). Beatiful machines though.
It's a monopoly.....
@@unavailable753exactly..... Everything is made to cost now.
What's that on his arm at 16:04?
I think it's some kind of an RSI armband.
21:26 Find the following objects: Sanding disc, foam cutter, Radio Shack sign, space suit, dodecahedron, dial gauge (3), mirror ball, dummy head, alligator leads, start/stop buttons, light panel, hazard sign, stool on wheels, solder drawer, too many power adaptors.
If we can't fix it, it ain't broke. And if it's not broke, we can fix that too.
Made plenty of bread with that model and its slightly larger brother. And when I didn't feel like bending over to get the mixer, well, I used the old Mark I mixer - my hands.
The Mark I mixer does come with a lifetime warranty. ;)
Nice, mine has the same problem. Thanks for showing me how to fix this.
We purchased an Amana RadarRange not long after we got married (and we just celebrated our 52nd anniversary).
It was still working fine in 2009 when we sold it a Garage Sale because it was so damn heavy. Now we regret parting with it.
They just don't build stuff like they used to, that's for sure.
Kudos to Adam for adding new life to a well-made "forever" product.
Like many others, it pains me greatly to send cheaply-made unrepairable products to a landfill.
Yet that seems to be today's idea of how to build stuff. I do not like it at all.
When I see the exceptions like this venerable KitchenAid Mixer being restored it makes my heart glad.
Thanks, Adam.
Oh, Adam. This was the time to replace the grease in the planetary. With heavy use, it is recommended to replace every year. Of course, that is a bit ridiculous, but every 20 years isn't unreasonable. That grease is thick, dark, and gummy in there. Loving this video as I just went through the exact same stuff, same frustrations, on mine. But I replaced the grease as well.
I've been down the same road with three KitchenAid mixers for family and friends. Awesomely simple yet effective machines.
Just don't ask me to replace the clutch on a top load clothes washer. Never doing that again.
Reading/watching this, and describing this mixer as "old" makes me feel old, since we got one of these as a wedding gift, and it's still in our kitchen being used regularly.
I can't wait to get my own KitchenAid mixer. I've wanted one for years.
My partner ran one of those almost every day for 15 years-mostly making bread dough. It was a reconditioned trade-in when she got it. Finally the gearing just wore out. The parts were close to half the cost of a new one, so off to the great appliance home in the sky. Her mother's is on its second life with a new family friend after more than thirty years. The heavier one we now have is likely to outlive us both. Love appliances that can be re-built.
In my family, a KitchenAid mixer is what you get for a wedding present, and not any sooner. My Mom finally caved when she realized I'd never marry, and got me a KitchenAid for Christmas - this exact color, too. It's nice to know it's easily repairable! (She still has the one she got from her wedding, so, nearly 40 years old and still running like a dream.)
i love watches these Adam One Day Repairs
Adam’s Repair Shop sounds like a workshop kids show. I’m imaging Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood with a LOT of tools
Distilled water works really well for cleaning electronics, as long as there's no residual charge in the electronics, and as long as you let it completely dry before giving it power.
Distilled water? When I worked at a board assembly house we loaded all the boards we made into a regular dishwasher hooked up to city water to wash the water soluble flux off of them. The water in that city was harder than a carp too. Lots of minerals in it.
@@1pcfredThat’s horrible! It doesn’t take much minerals to cause problems down the line.
With that said, even the hardest water in USA isn’t _that_ hard. “Hard” water in Europe is literally off-the-charts hard by US scales!
I now live in Switzerland, in a place with medium hard water (i.e. very hard by US standards) and I’m glad that at work (a university), we have both regular hot and cold tap water, but also a cold deionized water tap. Only for the most demanding analytical chemistry do they need to further soften and distill that. Super handy to be able to casually use deionized water for cleaning electronics or glassware.
@@tookitogo my buddy lived in that city and he ran a humidifier. In a day his TV screen would be caked with this white crust. So then he had to start getting into reverse osmosis water purification. That tap water was harder than a coffin nail.
In several years of watching Adam work in the Cave I think this is the most I've ever seen him use a manual screwdriver!
9:48 There's a weird blur box right at the tip of that blue glue bottle... I don't know what's up with it lately (or if it just started or I just started noticing it...)
It looks like it may be an encoding artifact to me. RUclips encodes every video they serve. They encode it multiple times too. So it is an ongoing process over the course of time. The whole deal is complicated. Resources are finite so they're prioritised and optimized. But that means not everything is instantly optimal.
He replied to another comment that the blur is on purpose, to obscure something.
Yay, a master maker fixing stuff video! I love this stuff.
What's being blurred in the digital calipers 1:57
He replied to another comment that the blur is on purpose, to obscure something.
@@tookitogo Found the comment, thanks
I love watching your process! and now I know that KitchenAids are worth what you pay for them! Thank you, Adam!
Were.
Enjoyed it!
You look like you just woke up Saturday . Like you literally rolled out bed and started filming lol
Love your videos!
He looks like he just had an electric shock.
I have a KitchenAide 6qt lift-bowl mixer that's over 12 years old now. One of the sacrificial gears failed on a large ball of pizza dough. It was messy, but I got the replacements parts(gear and food-grade grease) for like $20. It took about an hour(mostly degreasing), but it was good as new.
“Adam’s Repair Shop” - New Series - Yes Please!
Adam you are turning into Dean Doherty. Another of my favourite RUclipsrs.
Just dont send him Milwaukee tools :)
Harley Davidson needs to take a page out of the KitchanAid playbook. I've heard people say once a Harley is 10 years old, you can't get parts for it unless they're aftermarket parts. You'd think they'd continue to make parts for a 12 or even 20 year old motorcycle.