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Melissa capacity 230! (Repairing a broken mixer)

Cool name :) Let there be cake! This is a cake mixer, probably from the eighties, that belonged to my wife’s grandmother. It has been used to mix batter and cream for thousands of cakes, and it deserve better than to be landfilled.So what is wrong with it? It suddenly stopped, after making some VERY "interesting" noises. Probably from overheating, because if we let it cool down the motor starts again, for a short while, then stops again.It’s HAMMER… no, screwdriver time!

My favorite moment! (Repairing a broken mixer)

I opened it up, and found that the fan that blows heat away from the motor was a little hacked up. It seems like something has gotten in there and made quite a mess.Eighter that or there has been a gradual buildup of crap in there.I love taking things apart, and just looking around for a moment to see how it is made. Electronics still feels a little bit like magic to me.

Messed up fan blades. (Repairing a broken mixer)

The fan blades are really chopped up!I used a sharp knife to trim down the fan blades a little, trying to make them as smooth as possible.

Crud! (Repairing a broken mixer)

There seem to have been some "crud-buildup" inside the tightfitting fan housing. Scraped it as clean and smooth as I could.Put it all together again, cleaned up the outside of the mixer with soap and water and put it all back together again.Good as new, and ready for many years of cake making!As Marie Antoinette said it so apptly when the citizens complained that there was no bread to eat: "Let them eat cake".