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Knew my stand mixer was dying, took 4 hours to diagnose the real issue
My KitchenAid started making this grinding noise last weekend. Spent 2 hours replacing the worm gear, still sounded like rocks in a blender. Turns out it was just a loose screw on the mixer arm that took 10 seconds to fix. Has anyone else spent a whole afternoon tracking down something that simple?
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daniel_wood5mo ago
Man, that is brutal. I totally feel your pain on this one. How many times have we all just ripped things apart for no reason? I once swapped out a perfectly good motherboard because of a loose fan cable. It's maddening when the simple fix hides from you for hours. The grinding must have been a real gut punch after doing all that worm gear work. At least now you know your mixer inside and out though, right?
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davis.ruby5mo ago
I've got to disagree, spending hours on something dumb teaches you way more than a quick fix ever will.
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mary_martin225mo ago
Ruby, I see your point about learning more from the long route, but that's kind of like saying you learn more about cars by changing a perfectly good alternator before realizing the battery was just loose. Knowing your mixer inside out is fine, but I'd rather have that knowledge come from a planned deep clean, not from chasing a ghost. All that worm gear work just gave me practice I didn't need while the real fix sat there waiting.
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