BOLTR: Cuisinart Mixer teardown and repair

Bored of Lame Tool Reviews? Let's have a look inside the Cuisinart Hand Mixer. This is a departure from the usual fare of workshop tools. Instead we'll look at how poorly kitchen gadgets are built. We'll also attempt to repair some broken bits of plastic. This delicious goulash will be served up with a heaping helping of technical details, heavily spiced with salty shop vernacular. (Some say it's an acquired taste.)
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Eratta: Mike (from mikeselectricstuff !!!! *insert we're not worthy clip here*) pointed out that it's not a resistive voltage divider, but likely some current sense resistors. The voltage divider must be capacitive, debatebly one notch less crusty than resistive.

[@BaronVonCatipeen]

These have quickly become my favorite pair of talking hands on youtube

[@BaronVonCatipeen]

No homo

[@dimitrijekrstic7567]

Mine too. Subscribed from the first video I watched

[@christopherbrooke2142]

After I heard the "Focus you fack" it was history

[@greenorphan951]

Yep yep, I found his vids a couple weeks back and I try to watch one or two of them a day. Great to listen to and I have learned a good bit. Also had a couple of good laughs.

[@russelljones1192]

i replaced two capacitors with my 13 yr old son BOOM fixed the sixty inch TV i would like to thank for the knowledgeable encouragement

[@allmorrisvideos]

Did you do it permanent or can your son get out and run around when you aren't watching TV?

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

So I have to tell you I repair (rebuild) drill battery packs (no lithium... yet) almost everyday as part of my job but rarely touch the insides of the drills themselves but I had someone leave me with a makita 12v impact to "recycle" and because of you I had the balls to fixer. I did. dirty contacts in the switch.

[@dirkshrubb]

+x9x9x9x9x9 same here dude, i fixed a corded makita drill from the 80s i got for free from my boss, haha

[@dr.feelgood2358]

"...might as well have a go at it..." words to live by. amazing how little it takes to fix something someone else considers trash.

[@MajorRocker74]

I'm just basically here to expand my vocabulary on all of the ways to use the word "chooch".

[@elindred]

Major Rocker 'chooch' is basically 'smurf', but more skookum.

[@theLuigiFan0007Productions]

elindred Perfect. XD

[@Cafferssss]

+elindred Wait, I missed something 'smurf'? :O

[@vljYWOK]

+Robert Nugent where i am from it means a ladies under bits

[@dth91]

i couldn't stand the way he talks at first but i ended up growing fond of it like a weird ass uncle you thought was a freak when you were a kid but then grew up to realize he was just stoned all the time lol

[@lilturk726]

"Fixing it until it's broke" Yep, going to have to steal that one my friend.

[@jonjohnson102]

If it anit broke, your not tryin

[@charper9890]

That’s why happened to my motorcycle carbs. Don’t screw with pilot screws my friends...

[@BenNBuilds]

It's easier than you might think to sputter at home. Incredibly useful as well, If you sputter copper or ITO (clear conductors) you can pattern a circuit on anything that fits in the chamber. If you can make a

[@builtrodewreckedit]

I was hoping you would modify a drill bit and see how many holes you could drill into armor plate with that mixer...

[@Darkstar.....]

Different channel. Demo ranch

[@gothfromtheblock3274]

There was a young girl named Sapphire Who succumbed to her lover's desire. She said, "It's a sin, but now that it's in, Could you shove it a few inches higher?" 😂

[@drwhat4574]

jeremy burrows I lost it when he said that.

[@hunteregesdal3368]

Dr What98 same I completely lost it!😂

[@reidcrutchfield]

i fucking love this XD

[@elijahaitaok8624]

jeremy burrows Miss Sapphire is giving me too much credit

[@brk932]

There was a young fellow named Bouch Who inveigled a girl to a couch. He said, "Pretty young miss, I will take you, I wiss, Horizontally, veritcally, crouch."

[@iandonaldpaul]

I like that you've explained things in pretty intuitive ways for people who found this through their cooking (or non-electrical/engineering anyway) KZbin browsing. Good stuff!

[@BrotherWitch]

I am the cook, I do all basic repair and maintenance for the cars and our home. And I LOVE knowing how each and every power tool I use works. Thanks for the vid! You're one of my favs! I also like blowing up a gingerbread house I made with a mortar shell and posting the video to KZbin.

[@rodneyletts9380]

Hi Chris back in the mid 60s around 50 years ago I worked for the Joseph Lucas Company in Australia. They outsourced many products to the automotive industry. They had developed a chrome vacuum deposition process onto plastic back then. Using high vacuum deposition was used in several other products like aluminium onto metal reflectors for headlamps but the metal deposition onto plastic was used for a few body trim parts if I remember correctly.

[@RinoaL]

0:17 i love it when people are so honest. hahaha

[@RinoaL]

***** hehehe :P

[@RinoaL]

***** oh btw if the plastic bits dissolve in acetone you can make acetone glue to melt the parts back in. i've done that for 3d prints that have broken on me. and also hydrogen peroxide clears up yellowed plastic really well

[@RinoaL]

***** yeah i am restoring a yellowed original Macintosh for a friend in return for getting that apple Lisa. i think i'll make a video about the macintosh. even the regular 3% hydrogen peroxide from grocery stores works well.

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

IIRC the acetone thing works on ABS. Maybe other types of plastic, but not all. Acetone vapor is also used as a technique to smooth out the ripples in 3d prints so that it doesn't look like pixeled ASCII art from the BBS days. Really ghetto example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nmPPnml8qsZ0jas There's a goldilocks amount of smoothing you want to do. Enough to round the edges so it doesn't look like Pacman but not so much that it starts looking like cat lady Jocelyn Wildenstein.

[@MattsAwesomeStuff]

"Jocelyn received $2.5 billion in the settlement and $100 million each year for 13 years after. [...] She's very pleased with the results." I'm as broke as your Cuisinart (and twice as cheap) but Kerriced I'd still rather be me than her.

[@mikeselectricstuff]

Most of the voltage drop to that chip is done with a capacitor, not those resistors, which are probably used for current sensing

[@MrLargonaut]

Just found this channel and have been lookin about. Your jargon is absolutely going to infect my mode of speech, i can feel it...

[@KevinSolway]

Probably the most literate handyman I've seen.

[@mikerichardson60]

Yeah I think the term handyman is selling Ave very short. The average hack doesn’t have the knowledge he has. There’s engineers who watch his videos to learn.

[@phillipcraggs6202]

i started watching your vids a few days ago. I got to say, I love listening to Canadians talk. And you sir, are a fun one to watch. Keep up the awesome work. If you can call it work, you have so much fun doing it.

[@rfldss89]

I was getting disappointed that you weren't gonna explained the chrome plastic. Glad you ended up conceding to your primordial desires.

[@cameronjenkins6748]

What this makes me wonder is what you'd say about a Kitchenaid mixer. They're overbuilt as heck in my opinion and every part for them is available for purchase, even down to tubs of grease for the gearbox.

[@Sparky95]

As someone who works with industrial equipment and bakes, I couldn't agree more. I have the Kitchenaid 6 quart pro stand mixer, and I once forgot to click the bowl all the way down, and it hit that dough hook and next thing I knew that stainless bowl was like a wrecked car. No doubt it could pull an arm off.

[@phuturephunk]

That's why they're expensive and they last forever and are serviceable. I ran a commercial teaching kitchen and we have 16 year old mixers that have gone through thousands of hours of instructional use that are still going strong.

[@joshm2610]

+phuturephunk we have one that is over 30 years old still runs

[@LifeSylesWithKyleAnd]

Couldn't agree more, the motors alone can pull more amps than the normal household could even supply. Not to mention that if it does break within a year you can just send it in. All parts are source-able, and easy to take apart.

[@Mathuews1]

I'm one such food tool lover. lol Ive been a Ham since 13 and computer nerd and former cable lineman until feel into the family restaurant and now im a full time chef. I actually found this channel because I was searching for stuff about Kitchen aid stand mixers! Love it all!

[@TheMartialArtsFan]

To remove those rubber screw covers for the 4 initial screws, you can try a wine corkscrew! If you care about keeping the rubber that is. If it fits, you can put them back in upside down to hide the holes made by the corkscrew.

[@CobaltArcher]

I was about to be a wee bit disappointed when you hinted at skipping the nerdgasm explaining how they get the reflexive finish, but then ya went for it!! Heck yeah!!

[@iamevildoing2]

I'll admit I have next to no knowledge of all this mechanical/electrical stuff, and for most of these videos I have absolutely no clue what you're saying. But for some reason, I'm bloody fascinated watching every one of these videos. I'd never would've thought would be interested in chromey bits on plastic, but damn now I am.

[@jonathanhendry9759]

My dad would have loved your videos, before the dementia took his brain starting around '05. He worked for Otis Elevator for about 40 years, doing field service on elevators and escalators. In the 70s he was also building computer things programmed with octal keypads, etching PCBs, and various other electronics.

[@clintdouble-u9564]

Super fascinating. Started watching to learn how to speak correctly, and kept watching because I use a version of most of what's fixed till it's broke, wood, metal and kitchen shtuff :) Thanks!

[@mather26]

I'm no scientologist or anything...but I now want to take the wife's kitchen tools apart and put them back together. She yelled at me because I did and asked me why I didn't do it to mine...she wasn't happy when I explained to her it was because I actually used mine...thankfully my couch is comfortable.

[@denniscorteziii8868]

OMFG!! man I damn near pissed myself ...twice within a 20 minute giggle spell with my two girls and our dog named chooch ,that has to be hands down the funniest comment i've ever heard in all my 47 years of hell on this earth !!! oh and the ball and chain who don't laugh at my jokes anymore (since cayenne pepper flew out of her blow dryer) she actually cracked a smirk ,my girls took a picture of that one ....thanks

[@QuaabQueb]

Your videos are very educational and informative, and absolutely hilarious, I near about pissed by self at 5:52,

[@beowulfplayz8573]

Omg lol I about did toooooooo

[@praisethesun69]

i clicky-clickied :D

[@VonGeggry]

Just want to say I enjoy the teardowns of the kitchen appliance as much as the shop appliance. I have to buy both and seeing the insides is a great indicator as to their level of quality

[@cuongwashere]

his vernacular is amazing. it's a cross between norm abrams, al borland, drunk irish guy, rick moranis, and stu pickles from Rugrats

[@robstirling3173]

All the old wood and plastic rulers had a bit before the scale started. I was told it was to allow for wear on the ends. Love the 'casual' presentation style. More power to your schmoozer!

[@blu_falcon6321]

Years ago we had a cheap-o mixer that quit working- it had a speed up/down button on top that had a bad connection. I took it apart and removed the membrane button and just dangled the wires out of the hole. You arced them together until you got the speed right, then unplugged the nightmare machine when you were done using it. Worked like that for years... lol

[@portabuddy]

Looks like a job for 10h of 3d design. $.39 of abs plastic a d a printer sir. Exactly what they are for. Good enough for the iss good enough for the pos mixer

[@anthonystrazhnikov2741]

What the heck is an I-Drill? Is it made by Apple?

[@red_freckle]

yeah they make dildos too, just came out with the I-Fuck 8 if I'm not mistaken.

[@theboysllc3174]

+Shill hahaha

[@gunfuego]

+Shill lol I thought that was what the drill was for......

[@kosfactor]

+Shill lol

[@ff7omega]

Nowhere near enough proprietary nonsense to be made by crapple

[@WildoTheRubberFist]

My Grandpa turned an old mixer from the 70s into a Drill press for us grand kids to use for making our own 'Erector Set' parts when I was 25 year younger.It Did well for drilling the flattened out soup can tins...

[@Fentanyl3]

Mr AVE, I feel the need to tell you, it actually is rather easy to electroplate plastic parts. It does require a few more chemicals and a couple more steps, but it is possible. I used to work for Tennessee Electropting, one of the largest plater vats in the world existed in that building before the UAW strikes helped shut the place down. The plater plated nothing but plastic parts for almost 60 years before it shut down. The plastic is washed really clean, and then it is etched with a peroxide mixture. After which another chemical is used to aid in the plating of three or four coats of copper. After the first few layers of copper are plated on then the nichrome was applied in the same fashion as a typical metal part. We plated ALL chrome grills that were installed on the Ford Focus when it hit the market. Those nice pretty chrome grills on the Ford Focus are regular old PCABS plated in chrome. Every ford truck on the road from 2001 to 2009 wore a nameplate badge that I myself was responsible for manufacturing. They were made from abs, plated and then pad printed for the lettering. I'm sorry I can't better explain the plating process is was mold 2 lead man, and the only time I actually stood on on top of the plated when when my parts had a defect that only showed up during or after plating.

[@goodcitizen477]

Just a quick suggestion, if you ever get the browning effect from the bromine in plastic, go and have a look for something called "RetroBright" It is a process using Hydrogen Peroxide to undo the browning effect. I have used it a few times and its pretty effective, even here in less than sunny ole' England! Cheers, love your videos.

[@StefanGotteswinter]

No duty cycle mentioned on that whirly thing? Here most of those kitchen machines have a duty cycle of only a few minutes - Its often only mentioned in the manual, the machine itself will go on until it burns...no timeout/thermal shutdown.

[@theoverengineer]

Stefan Gotteswinter Duty cycle in North America is typically associated with pulse-width modulation in synthesizers or welders, but the math is there, and you are right. They want the owner to make it fail and buy again? Owner`s manual, yeah, ... about that ... let me start writing a new one.

[@bbeauclair93]

As someone who works on UHV systems doing chemical vapor deposition, this is probably the best "man on the street" explanation of CVD and I'm going to probably steal it, so thanks.

[@anthonys6066]

I've had a similar issue with a completely different mechanical object and i heated up sewing pins and jammed them into the plastic which gave them enough spring to do the retention job. Somewhat similar to the horseshoe bit holding the crank on the old antique roll down car window.

[@IamDODGEhearmeROAR]

You have to be careful but I have had mostly good luck re-inserting screws into plastic by slowly turning them counter-clockwise with a very light pressure, you will feel the screw drop down slightly at a certain point, from there you can then safely screw it in without stripping the plastic out, it's not foolproof but it works about 95% of the time. I hope this helps you repair plastic crap in the future :P

[@jayherde0]

Allen Dodge I thought I was the only people that knew that trick!! What you are actually doing is .. tricking a 'single use' screw (once in, never out) into thinking you are still unscrewing it. As soon as it drops back into the thread, it forgets that it has been all unscrewed. So it thinks you are just 're-tightening' it. Some screws are just that stupid.

[@quillaja]

I wish someone made an immersion blender attachment for my drill.

[@profoundthoughts]

If you need a new hand mixer, try the Krups brand. My dad got one and it lasted a good while, and the mixer is very good quality.

[@spinyheghog]

That vapor metal process coating plastic has been around since 1930+- invented by fritz neumann and company. It was just for microphones as the diaphragms are gold coated. New high end microphones are Teflon diaphragm base with a gold coat. The patent ran out and now it is use it for more cosmetics rather then making super delicate parts.

[@absurdengineering]

william brown Mr. Feynman had a dab in that process too (not entirely successful but a decent step along the way).

[@laurencesim3664]

I love every word you use. You make me laugh so much. Also you are so bloody clever. So the mix of knowledge, fruity witticisms and just interesting engineering is just unique.

[@ThacMan]

The only channel I would ever even consider watching a video on a mixer.

[@w0mblemania]

Excellent video. Found the stuff on plastic chroming fascinating. And I didn't know Techtronics made so much stuff. Ryobi, AEG, Milwaulkee, Craftsman, RIGID, Hoover, Vax,. Jimminy Crickets! So much for market diversity.

[@TomHowbridge]

Techtronics don't make the stuff but they own the company's that do.

[@DarkRaptor99]

Tom Howbridge TTI has the rights to sell tools under the AEG, Ryobi, and Ridgid names. Craftsman contracts with TTI. The brands they own are Milwaukee, Homelite and the Vaccuum companies.

[@justinkleeberger5433]

DarkRaptor99 oh, hello DarkRaptor!

[@nrdesign1991]

w0mbles And even their brand name is a rip-off of Tektronix (They make fancy expensive high-quality measuring equipment)

[@ChristopherParsons1]

+w0mbles you need to look up the episode of modern marvels names chrome and you'll see how plastic is chrome plated

[@KirkOfBellevue]

a couple cylindrical neodymium magnets in the whole at top where you put the blue stuff.

[@stanimir4197]

quite clever, although magnets hate heat

[@absurdengineering]

Stanimir That’s quite relative. By the time these magnets would reach their Curie point, the case would be molten or melting.

[@marioandresruiz2294]

I like your 'interventions' haha. awesome channel. keep it up. I think it's similar to how it was made but way funnier and with no bs or false advertisement. greetings from Toronto, Canada.

[@buttholethebarbarian313]

Thank you for this video. My sister is a Baker. I been trying to convince her that the Kitchen-aid stuff is Gold-plated shit I've went through 4 Cuisinart hand mixers for making milkshakes, because the motor kept burning out. I been using my DeWalt cordless drill, and it hasn't failed me since.

[@ed11911]

As someone that knows virtually nothing about mechanics, I have learned quite a bit from you're vids; and you're damn hilarious. Thank you. Choocher.

[@shoejosiahsmnw]

These videos are so good, I can't stop watching, and I have learned so much

[@h.mushmann2351]

Is there an AvE dictionary?

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

+hmushmann2 Bottom-side top-wise: upside down. Chooch: To perform it's intended function. Can be substituted for any verb. Gland End: The free end of a shaft or other protruding item, especially with a functional component. HPHT: Hot Pink Hockey Tape. Pixies: Electrons. Shmoo: A viscous liquid as in a grease, heavy oil, adhesive or sealant that makes a mess. Sili-con-carne: Silicon sealant. Skookum: Strong, functional, impressive. Swedish nut lathe: An adjustable wrench. Trepan: To poke a hole in. Don't look up the history of that word.

[@h.mushmann2351]

+The Garden of Eatin Thanks for going the extra mile and following through on this! Didn't expect it that's for sure. Been slowly picking up on context, but some of them I couldn't figure out, thanks again!

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

Took me awhile, but I think I'm gaining fluency. Mr. AvE runs a fun channel, I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

[@akeean]

The spambots sure had their way with the avespeak site :-(

[@jakepierson6208]

Khron's Cave i got a 404 on that sight

[@logik100.0]

I would keep going and make a spring clip or sumting to hold it in. But what ever you do keep it up. Love the vids.

[@UrsusMagna]

I did pretty much the exact same thing once; broke a plastic thingemagig in a submersion blender so the damn mixer bit came loose out all the time. Some adhesive for plastics and a pair of tweezers and it worked fine again.

[@AFowkingPanda]

haha My moms had this same mixer.. pretty sure I did the same darn thing to it.. the only difference was, I smashed the thing to pieces on the kitchen floor after it crapped the bed. Thanks for another amazing video! :)

[@nozmoking1]

Well, the solution is obvious. Hack the ends off the beaters, leaving about an inch of the ends protrubering out of the mixer body and jb weld the beater ends into their respective orifices. Hogger out a couple of brass couplers with two thumbscrews each to schlep the beaters back onto the stubs in a moderately secure fashion and proceed to beaten ze eggsens. If you want to prevent the kitchen help from losing the couplers during the dishy-washy process, reduce the number of thumbscrews to one each and use a setscrew to permanently affix the coupler at its opposite end. I come from a long line of "spend a hundred times its worth to fix it" engineers. My old man bought a desk fan in 1938 that was still on his desk in 1997. Didn't work worth a crap but it looked really good. - cheers

[@AOGDC10]

Sputtering deposition of metal has been around as long as CDs, and Laser Discs. Definitely not 10 years old. Also, what about those plastic model kits I used to build and set on fire 40yrs ago? Those kits had chrome plated plastic. That probably predated commercial sputtering/flame spraying. Were they dipped in a copper solution or something like that? Thanks for the great vids AvE! I love it when you call tech support phone numbers.

[@mazdarx7887]

The wife got a single beater B&D mixer about 5 years ago. Still works like a charm. Actually she stole me brudders battery drill . Works good and he didn't even know it was gone till he seen her mixing pancakes with it

[@prodesign8189]

Actually we did metalizing back in the 70's. The plastic part would be base coated with a paint that looked like honey and then baked. After cooling they would be loaded into a vacuum metalizer that superheated little metal clips. The metal sticks when the vacuum is realesed and then the parts are topcoated with a clear coat. Baked once again and viola. We did some of the first headlight assemblies back when large glass head light bulbs were on their way out. I remember doing anything from aniversary Brut bottle caps to matchbox car parts to even gold, silver and platinum records. Gold was achieved by adding a red orange and yellow powdered dye into the clearcoat.

[@nrdesign1991]

My family has a 20 year old mixer that still works. It's made in a way that it doesn't need soft-start or any fancy pantsy stuff to prevent it from breaking. It's just made with the expense put into higher quality components instead of crappy electronic parts to compensate for shitty quality. For example all of its gears are metal.

[@bobbyc.2873]

I went to the local thrift store and picked up a made in the U.S.A General Electric 3 speed mixer for $5.00, and it works great! I think it was made in the '70's cause it's harvest gold. That and avocado green were big then.

[@mtnbikerfred]

I fooking love that craftsman bottle de-topper at the end

[@BasilLange]

Even the first 15 second got me nearly shitting my pants. You sir combine mad doctor, passionate scientist and an air of having seen it all. Grand stuff. Also forcing our brains to pick out what comes into our ears.

[@hyperbolegames4843]

It's been killing me trying to figure out why I find you SO entertaining. Really, I love your videos. And I figured it out. It's nostalgia! You remind me of a more entertaining, and certainly more intelligent version of the Red Green Show I grew up watching. Good stuff my man, And as a guy with 3 associates degrees in Culinary arts, Electrical Construction, and Computer Electronics, this channel is amazing! lol

[@Rogers_Ranger]

they can electroplate plastic, i worked in a shop doin it . its takes like 5 dips though, and nickel is involved cuz u r correct that chrome wont stick directly on the plastic

[@Bobsyouruncle222]

That Poem was Gold , please give us more 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@Jakob6174]

I don't see it used very often for repairs but PCL (PolyCaproLactone) might just have been perfect for this situation, whenever something plastic breaks or needs replacing it's the first thing I try. If you are unfamiliar with PCL, it's a non-toxic thermoplastic that is workable at 60°C and obviously completely re-usable. Thing is, people usually heat it with a kettle (or a cup of water in a microwave) which means the max temp it will get to is 100°C, besides it's a pain. However, if you add a susceptor to the PCL, you can now heat it in a microwave without any water (Warning this can get far hotter than 100°C). I have had success with 2% by weight of Graphite to 98% by weight of PCL, but other metals will likely work such as iron oxide powder.

[@DisheveledSuccess]

Always wondered how they chrome plated plastic. Hanks for the infos!!!

[@foobar3139]

“Given enough time and money, I can fix anything.” Hahaha

[@oliverallen5324]

Always go full nerdgasm. It is the path, for sure.

[@FORKinFISH]

Best and most entertaining on the interweb bar none!

[@GIJOE573]

I knew about the process used to coat plastics with metals and that made me feel special =D Thanks Cody's lab

[@heavydiesel]

I'm wondering how the motor can tell the difference between currents and raisins

[@midvvolf]

*currants

[@rookiexreviews]

Is the dam angry pixies 🧚‍♀️

[@RedDogForge]

3d scan the part, print or mill your own replacement part?

[@NevinWilliams71]

On the old, venerable Hamilton Beach mixers, the beaters were not held in place by any sort of mechanism in the worm gear sockets, but instead by an external bracket that would hold them in place. The beaters themselves didn't have a collar like those whisks, though. If you could fashion a swinging plate with two holes large enough for the whisk's shaft, but smaller than the collars, I suspect that that could hold the beaters place more than well enough to allow them to be lifted from a pot of gravy. Or, if the tool's yours now, turn it into a parts polisher, or a stain scrubber, with two appropriately sized brushes... that's my plans for the HB, anyhow. ;)

[@mugshotmarley]

*While holding bolt/stud* "Got a stud here. Well, we got TWO studs here...." Dude, LMAO.

[@SeanCleverly]

Was searching far and wide for the appropriate superlative for this one, have to go with brilliant. Cheers for the laugh and the upload.

[@boelwerkr]

I inherit my mixer from my grandmother. She got it 1951. It's from AEG and now working for 64 years. Old crap don't have to be bad crap. :-) My try to fix would have been to heat up some steel wire and melting it in the plastic sleeve of the batter holding bit to replace the retaining thingies at the end. No idea if that would actually work...

[@rlaxton666]

I bought virtually the same beater a while back thinking that it would be good quality and the worm gear eventually chewed out the crappy worm gear which as you say can't be purchased. The cheap Sanyo mixer that my wife bought 20 years ago is still going strong. As you have found, it appears to be impossible to buy a good hand mixer for any price. Such a shame to throw out a perfectly good tool because a few cents worth of nylon gear or bush.

[@RMunderscore01234]

I love watching your videos man, your general dialogue is so fucking witty, sharp -and best of all, informative.

[@astbrnrd]

Neodymium magnet in the bottom of the whole wont keep the beater in? I mean, I know there's a reason for the different size and shape of the actual stems (to keep the wobble to a minimum by their pre-determined shape offset) but if you were able to reinforce the sleeve with an internal "J" slit on the sides (insert and push over the hump to lock it in place) maybe with a small spring or magnet to keep it from being expelled out like in the video.... Just a thought

[@Ravaxr]

I had no idea that the same process to coat lenses and aluminize mirrors could be used to chrome plate plastic. Learn something new every day.

[@JohnDoe-gm5qr]

Some power tools have soft start also. I have seen a router that has it. It is supposed to be better for the bearings than a sudden start like some of them do.

[@jonammons5882]

For the record I am the rare intersection of cooking nerd and tool nerd that can get into each aspect of this video!

[@scarface3131983]

vacuum metalizing is what I worked on at my last injection molding shop. it actually uses argon and a shit ton of kill you real quick volts. it turns a sold aluminum or stainless steel plate thats around 1 inch thick and 8 inches wide by 36 long into vapor that coats the plastic part.

[@scarface3131983]

solid*

[@TimTarling]

+Tim T You're pretty much me!

[@scarface3131983]

How? The name or the sketchy choice of careers

[@TimTarling]

+Tim T Name

[@timbrown4481]

+Tim Tarling (Timminator101) :-O

[@natelobo93]

I had the pleasure of running sputtering and cathodic arc machines some cool stuff going on

[@wrenchmonkey3920]

I wanted a slower slow on my 5 spd kitchenaid hand mixer, which was an easy mod. speed controlled by SCR so swapped out the low speed resistor. My father has a prototype shell of a GE hand mixer from when he was making thick film resistors for their (closed) factory near crochester ny.

[@amorphuc]

Thanks for the encouraging and sensible approach and words. I'm taking that damn Vita-Mix blender apart to see if what it needs is more or less obvious. Nice jazz at the end btw

[@SDCustoms]

You should really get your hands on one of those fancy Kitchen Aid stand mixers and see if they're worth the $400 !

[@joshgall3661]

This man right here teaches better than most of my professors. I will pay you if you teach me anatomy and physiology.

[@FUKTxProductions]

lovin the outro track, got that groove on loop

[@TheCoffeehound]

Thanks for telling about vapor deposition to chrome plastic. My question is this: I remember, back in the 70's and 80's, building plastic models that had chrome plated plastic parts - things like wheels and bumpers on car models. Is it possible that this technology is a bit older than a mere decade? If not, how did they do it back then?

[@pyro8818ak47]

Glued on chrome foil

[@nerys71]

That is easy to fix. weld a washer onto the shaft of that loose beater arm so it almost touches the body when fully inserted. before you put it on put a second washer loose on. drill 2 holes. next to the edge of the washer. insert. screw in screw so they hold down the loose washer which pushes against the welded (jbweld even maybe) washer "holding" it into the machine. you might even be able to come up with a slicer swivel 3/4 washer so you can "pivot" it out of the way disengaging the "hold down" to allow easy removal of the beaters for cleaning. either way won't be too difficult to fix that bugger.

[@spiketube2k2]

Sorry so late to the party, just wanted today say that some of us technical types DO like to cook. I'm a 28 year aircraft mechanic who is also a pixie geek and a foodie. Just call me Unicorn. Anyway, just discovered your channel, love your videos. Keep it up. Thanks.

[@joshevers3585]

You can electro plate plastics. They paint them with a highly conductive paint (one that contains excessive amounts of copper etc) and then the part can be plated just like a metal surface.

[@NicholasAarons]

Awesome Video AvE. Keep up the great work. Nick.

[@Saber-2]

Couldn't you use your soldering iron to melt it back? like a plastic weld? or if its not the right kinda plastic maybe some JB weld for the tabs?

[@mseaton28]

"it just kinda broke" he says with a long pause in there.. LOL

[@azimpetra]

I love all the terms used. Liquid Counsel

[@tookitogo]

2001: I got a cuisinart blender. Just a few months in, the clutch (the gear that connects the motor base to the spinny part of the jar) shattered itself to bits. Warranty repair? Yes, by mailing it in... could they send me a clutch? Nope. 2009: I got a kitchenaid blender (at huge Europe markup I might add). 2014: clutch breaks, 10 minutes of googling has a new clutch with special spanner in the mail, because kitchenaid actually sells parts. (Tons of dealers sell them to end users, i didn’t even have to try the factory.) Fixed in 5 minutes once it came. And the kitchenaid chooches better than the cuisinart ever did, while making a fraction as much noise. Kitchenaid stoves and stuff may be just rebadged whirlpool, but their motorized appliances remain second to none, as far as consumer models go.

[@azz2]

as a chef who likes taking stuff to bits I found this real interesting, I'd love to see a real kitchen tool taken apart ( kitchenaid / hobart / robocoupe etc)