My stand mixer seized up right in the middle of a triple batch of cookie dough yesterday

I was making dough for a church bake sale and about halfway through the butter and sugar creaming stage, the motor just stopped and started smelling like burnt electronics. Turns out the grease in the gears had turned into a sticky paste and locked everything up. Has anyone else had their KitchenAid die on them during a big batch and found a repair shop that actually fixes these things instead of saying to buy a new one?

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danielhenderson1mo ago

Look into whether the repair shop actually services the older bowl-lift models specifically. Most places will say they fix KitchenAids but they only work on the tilt-head ones. The bowl-lift models have a different gear assembly that takes a special grease and most shops won't touch them because the parts are harder to find. I learned this the hard way after driving my mixer to three different shops and getting the same runaround. The fourth place finally told me they could do it but it would cost almost as much as a new mixer because of the labor to take it apart and clean out all that old grease. Ended up finding a guy on Craigslist who does it out of his garage for half the price.

davis.noah1mo agoProlific Poster

man it's like everything works that way now. even car repair places, you call them and they're like "yeah we do brakes and oil changes" but you roll in with something from 2005 that needs actual diagnostic work and suddenly they're booked out for three weeks. the specialization thing has gotten crazy - nobody wants to learn how to fix the older stuff anymore because theres less money in it. i've noticed it with appliances too, my mom's old washing machine from the 90s probably outlasts everything made today but finding someone who even remembers how those work is like finding a unicorn lol