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My wife has a KitchenAid Professional 600 watt stand mixer.
I started giving her poor performance and making a clunking sound, so
I opened it up.

For such a beefy machine, the transmission housing is plastic! It's
all cracked to hell. And unfortunately, the worm gear is stripped.

I found the parts at Sears: $13 for the housing, but $30 for the gear.
I hate to spend $50 with shipping to get another plastic housing.
Anyone know of a cheaper source?


To put things into perspective, $50 is not bad to fix anything nowadays.
Forget it you need to have it serviced elsewhere - I'll bet its cheaper to
buy a new one as it was the case with my new weed whacker that was refused
under warranty.

My refrigerator broke and would have cost around $500 for a 10 minute
service charge to replace a $90 part would it not for the recall. A friend's
main circuit breaker went bad and cost him $800 to have it replaced - $40
for parts and under 15 minutes to replace. He already told the electrician
that the main was bad but was still charged $250 for diagnostics on top of
the $100 plus traveling cost. Service charges are getting crazy out here.