Kenwood Chef A701A

[embee]

How do I take out the motor from my Kenwood Chef A701A? It has died on me after about 65 years and I don't want to get rid of it. There has been a burning smell for a while when I used it and I put this down to the brushes on the motor. However When I tried to use it today the motor started up but the mixing arm did not turn. Can anybody tell me what is wrong and how to put it right. Thanks in advance.

[diddlydo]

I would seriously recommend a new one!

[missprim]

65 yrs???!!! I think you might have a nasty shock when you see how much they cost to buy these days.

[bednobs]

i know exactly how you feel - i have a hand mixer that my parents were given for an engagement present, nearly 50 years ago that i would not want to part with because i'm sure nothing modern would be as good. However, i feel it would probably be prohibitively expensive to fix it

[EDDIE51]

We have one that used to me my Mother in laws , she had it for over 25 years then we inherited it when she passed away 15 years ago. Still going strong . You need a new one but they don't make them like that any more , so old no parts are available either.

[EDDIE51]

Actually I may be wrong about the spares look at this , just googled it
http://www.buyspares.co.uk/chef-food-mixers/kenwood-chef-spares/catalogue.pl?shop=kenwood&path=590704,71679

[missprim]

embee if you don't want to get rid of it, do you not have a shop you can take it to to see how much it would cost to repair.
I know eddie said you might not get parts now but there's always ebay, some-one might have parts on there.

[EDDIE51]

If the motor runs but it does not turn then it is likedly to be the drive belt which is still available for the A701A click on my link. No new moters available for the A701A though there are only 3 spare parts still available for that model.

[EDDIE51]

There are even brand new Kenwood Chefs on sale but £349 for the basic model !

[embee]

This may be a bit technical for some people but this is what we have done so far. The liquidiser had still been working but at some time when I tried to put the cover back on it wouldn't fix, so I balanced it on the top and put the mixer away. The next time I used the machine it was just the liquidiser again. All went well until the next time when I wanted to use the mixer bowl.

Thinking something else might be wrong we opened up the machine and had a look. The drive belt is perfectly OK. There was plenty of grease and dirt inside which we cleaned up. We still couldn't get the cover of the liquidiser mechanism to go on. Our conclusion was because the small knob on the point of it did not operate to push down the dog clutch inside. In looking once more at this we realised that this part did not push down the disc beneath it as it should. A slight adjustment to this put matters right. We switched on and with the cover in position the rotor over the bowl started turning. Hurray!!! Now we feel the only thing to do is renew the brushes on the motor as there had been a smell of burning for some time. I had a man out many years ago to do this and I know that you get to the motor from the bottom. I can still get brushes for this machine from several places, even though they'll cost me £10 eaqch plus £5 postage, so now my only problem is, how do I get the motor out to get to the brushes? We will still be trying and I might even find out before anybody else has the answer!
Please forgive me for going on at length like this. I do this just in case there are others with the same problem.
I know some people think this is going to a lot of trouble when I could buy another cheaper mixer but I was brought up to waste not, want not, and I don't want to get another as I don't do that much baking at my age (84).
Thank you all those people who have bothered to try to answer my question.

[pavgoust]

1. push button on side so unit opes up
2. press lock ring next to spring so you can remove spring and long pin(don't loose the lock ring)
3. open black cover that hides the wiring connection
4. Disconnect cable from board
5. remove the 4 screws around the motor cover(the black case)
6. Unscrew the 4 screws that hold the motor to the case(screws run through orange grommets)
7. Motor can then be pulled out.
8. MAKE SURE YOU REPLACE the orange grommets with new ones(get them from ebay) as they are at their end of life.
9. Fix the problem
10. Backtrack the process to put everything back