Kenwood Chef gear

[Bsmith]

Kenwood chef not working, took gearbox apart and found burst "drive" gear. Found replacement gear along with shaft on eBay for £18.99, don't feel like spending this much on old chef. Thinking about making an alloy one but it's a lot of faffing, any better ideas

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[brightspark]

Kenwood chef not working, took gearbox apart and found burst "drive" gear. Found replacement gear along with shaft on eBay for £18.99, don't feel like spending this much on old chef. Thinking about making an alloy one but it's a lot of faffing, any better ideas

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if the motors in good nick it will be worth getting . have u seen the price of them

 

[armalites]

This one looks the same

https://www.kenwoodchefrestore.co.u...ef-major-gears/kenwood-chef-pinion-drive-gear

£8.49

Complete gear and shaft

https://www.kenwoodchefrestore.co.u...major-gears/kenwood-chef-pinion-gear-assembly

£10.99

 

[Bsmith]

if the motors in good nick it will be worth getting . have u seen the price of them

Yeah, I do know what it cost and a good machine so like you say, worth the new part.

This one looks the same

Ordered, thanks very much, saved me over a tenner.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kenwood-...m=121258496997&_trksid=p2060778.c100290.m3507

 

[armalites]

I hate this kind of thing too, a £1(if that) part stopping something in it's tracks but it's worthless without it and once you've taken it apart if you don't fix it straight away it will end up in the bin. At least you know for £10 it's all done and dusted

 

[Bsmith]

I hate this kind of thing too, a £1(if that) part stopping something in it's tracks but it's worthless without it and once you've taken it apart if you don't fix it straight away it will end up in the bin. At least you know for £10 it's all done and dusted

Yeah exactly, but at the same time I was wondering if it's going to be like an old car and this is just the start of the problems. Time will tell I suppose.

 

[brightspark]

Yeah exactly, but at the same time I was wondering if it's going to be like an old car and this is just the start of the problems. Time will tell I suppose.

generally the only thing that goes is the carbon brushes make sure there ok and your good to go for years

 

[Bsmith]

generally the only thing that goes is the carbon brushes make sure there ok and your good to go for years

Ok thanks BS, I'll have a look at them while it's on the work table.

 

[bourbon]

I noticed, when adapting a Cuttlebug card die cutting machine. That there is always one, possibly two gears that are designed to fail. And, no surprise, they are the expensive ones to replace! All designed of course, to aim at the market who don't fix things, but throw them away with no investigation (not like us on here!)

 

[Bsmith]

I noticed, when adapting a Cuttlebug card die cutting machine. That there is always one, possibly two gears that are designed to fail. And, no surprise, they are the expensive ones to replace! All designed of course, to aim at the market who don't fix things, but throw them away with no investigation (not like us on here!)

I did wonder about this part being so readily available and other parts for the same machine are now obselete. Seems to be common problem this gear breaking.
As you say, like other forum members, I always have a look to see what's gone wrong with items before thinking bin.

 

[armalites]

We hadn't used one of our DVD player for ages as we'd been moving stuff around. Pulled it out of the cupboard because we wanted to watch a DVD yesterday. Plugged it in, completely dead. Thought I would have a quick peek inside, found a blown cap on the PSU. Eldest lad took a part at scrap PSU I got from work and we found the same value cap on the board, much taller but fit fine. We were up and running in less than an hour

I think with modern manufacturing the tolerances/quality are so good that often most failures on a product will be caused by the same thing. We rely on curious people to find these fixes. The thing that always amazes me is when it can be pinpointed to a dry solder joint and it's always the same one. Had that on a 300tdi Discovery window controller, two dry joints stopped the rear windows working, mine matched exactly all the how to guides.

 

[pedrobedro]

We have 3 Kenwoods now. My wife bought one and when it broke she had to get another straight away to use all the attachments we got with the first one. I found a new motor for the old one for £30 so it was repaired and kept as a spare. The speed controller went on the second one so the original was used and I bought a repair kit for £8 and mended the second one but meanwhile I found another one in a skip with the cable cut off. I cleaned it up and fitted a power cable and a resistor and it is the one we now use. We make bread and pasta and use it for juicing and blending, wouldn't like to be without and definitely would repair any of them again.

 

[pedrobedro]

Something my wife just mentioned, our machines are 900 series and the attachments all fit each machine but if you have a 700 series they are different.

 

[Cobbler]

We've got a Kenwood in the loft bought 45 years ago when we got married, still works well, but wife decided she would like a new more modern one. The new one does run a lot quiete to be fair. There are not many things that will go for that long without giving trouble

 

[wristpin]

I've still got my Mum's Chef circa 1950 - and the instruction book. In those days the Kenwood man would call, take it out to his van and strip it down and rebuild it with new brushes and grease etc.

 

[brightspark]

I've still got my Mum's Chef circa 1950 - and the instruction book. In those days the Kenwood man would call, take it out to his van and strip it down and rebuild it with new brushes and grease etc.

I used to service them regular at work. virtualy just the carbon brushes and belt replaced

 

[Bsmith]

Something my wife just mentioned, our machines are 900 series and the attachments all fit each machine but if you have a 700 series they are different.

Yes it's a 701, some parts won't fit off the 900s

 

[Bsmith]

New gear arrived today. It's got like teeth in the centre hole and the shaft has teeth to match and I imagine it will be a tight press fit, but I was thinking a bit of locktite would do no harm. When you fellas speak about locktiting something on a shaft etc, is it locktite stud lock or superglue you use?

 

[BarrieJ]

Sewing machines suffer similar gear problems, 1970s on virtually all domestic models are fitted with some form of plastic/nylon gears, the machine runs quieter than an all metal geared machine but after thirty odd years the plastic breaks in a fashion similar to the Kenwood above and if you can get a replacement it'll be the best part of £30. Other than that the machine's 'spares or repair'.
Similarly foot pedals that no longer regulate the machine speed usually means a failed capacitor (about 99p from Maplin's - when we had one) but for many, write off the machine.
If people can live without zig-zag the Singer 201 is the finest straight stitching sewing machine ever made and apart from said capacitor rarely fails.