Recently bought a 'Silver Crest' electric carrot grater from Lidl. It says
in the instructions not to use continuously for more than two minutes at a
time and then allow time for it to cool off.

However if worked very heavily you can get a whiff of a burning smell from
the motor, even within the two minute time slot.

Is this burning smell indicative of something that is damaging the motor or
can this smell be safely ignored, provided one stays within the two minute
window ?

What is the margin for damaging overload likely to be here, since two
minutes can be quite a short time ?

john stone wrote:
Recently bought a 'Silver Crest' electric carrot grater from Lidl. It says
in the instructions not to use continuously for more than two
minutes at a time and then allow time for it to cool off.

However if worked very heavily you can get a whiff of a burning smell
from the motor, even within the two minute time slot.

Is this burning smell indicative of something that is damaging the
motor or can this smell be safely ignored, provided one stays within
the two minute window ?

What is the margin for damaging overload likely to be here, since two
minutes can be quite a short time ?

If it's new, the smell could be from dust / grease from manufacture burning
off normally.
Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would require an electric carrot
grater, unless you breed toothless rabbits?

On 20/12/2012 20:23, Phil L wrote:
john stone wrote:
Recently bought a 'Silver Crest' electric carrot grater from Lidl. It says
in the instructions not to use continuously for more than two
minutes at a time and then allow time for it to cool off.

However if worked very heavily you can get a whiff of a burning smell
from the motor, even within the two minute time slot.

Is this burning smell indicative of something that is damaging the
motor or can this smell be safely ignored, provided one stays within
the two minute window ?

What is the margin for damaging overload likely to be here, since two
minutes can be quite a short time ?

If it's new, the smell could be from dust / grease from manufacture burning
off normally.
Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would require an electric carrot
grater, unless you breed toothless rabbits?



Those electric carrots are horrible to grate manually.
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In article ,
Phil L wrote:

[Snip]

Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would require an electric carrot
grater,

for grating electric carrots - of course.

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In article ,
says...

john stone wrote:
Recently bought a 'Silver Crest' electric carrot grater from Lidl. It says
in the instructions not to use continuously for more than two
minutes at a time and then allow time for it to cool off.

However if worked very heavily you can get a whiff of a burning smell
from the motor, even within the two minute time slot.

Is this burning smell indicative of something that is damaging the
motor or can this smell be safely ignored, provided one stays within
the two minute window ?

What is the margin for damaging overload likely to be here, since two
minutes can be quite a short time ?

If it's new, the smell could be from dust / grease from manufacture burning
off normally.
Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would require an electric carrot
grater, unless you breed toothless rabbits?

Suppose it depends if you're grating a couple of carrots, or dozens of
the things.
The faf involved in dismantling, cleaning & storing the gadget makes it
silly for anything less than catering quantities.

--
Sam

On Thursday, December 20, 2012 9:52:26 PM UTC, Sam Plusnet wrote:
snip

Suppose it depends if you're grating a couple of carrots, or dozens of
the things.

The faf involved in dismantling, cleaning & storing the gadget makes it
silly for anything less than catering quantities.

I'd have thought something that could only be used in two minute bursts was not very good for catering quantities unless it has a prodigious throughput...

On 12/21/2012 9:23 AM, wrote:
On Thursday, December 20, 2012 9:52:26 PM UTC, Sam Plusnet wrote:
snip

Suppose it depends if you're grating a couple of carrots, or dozens of
the things.

The faf involved in dismantling, cleaning & storing the gadget makes it
silly for anything less than catering quantities.

I'd have thought something that could only be used in two minute bursts was not very good for catering quantities unless it has a prodigious throughput...

A shredding/grating attachment for the Kenwood mixer works well for
catering quantities.

In article ,
says...

On 12/21/2012 9:23 AM, wrote:
On Thursday, December 20, 2012 9:52:26 PM UTC, Sam Plusnet wrote:
snip

Suppose it depends if you're grating a couple of carrots, or dozens of
the things.

The faf involved in dismantling, cleaning & storing the gadget makes it
silly for anything less than catering quantities.

I'd have thought something that could only be used in two minute bursts was not very good for catering quantities unless it has a prodigious throughput...

A shredding/grating attachment for the Kenwood mixer works well for
catering quantities.

In a moment of enthusiasm my wife bought almost every Kenwood chef
attachment there is.
They all work very well & the mixer will last long enough to be handed
down to the great grandkids as a family heirloom - but it's still a pain
having to dismantle, clean, dry & then store all the bits.

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I wonder if they also work on Sprouts?

Brian

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"Phil L" wrote in message
...
john stone wrote:
Recently bought a 'Silver Crest' electric carrot grater from Lidl. It
says in the instructions not to use continuously for more than two
minutes at a time and then allow time for it to cool off.

However if worked very heavily you can get a whiff of a burning smell
from the motor, even within the two minute time slot.

Is this burning smell indicative of something that is damaging the
motor or can this smell be safely ignored, provided one stays within
the two minute window ?

What is the margin for damaging overload likely to be here, since two
minutes can be quite a short time ?

If it's new, the smell could be from dust / grease from manufacture
burning off normally.
Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would require an electric carrot
grater, unless you breed toothless rabbits?

On 20/12/2012 20:23, Phil L wrote:
john stone wrote:

Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would require an electric carrot
grater, unless you breed toothless rabbits?


Seems like the answer to a problem that didn't exist :-)


--
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On 21/12/12 08:39, The Medway Handyman wrote:
On 20/12/2012 20:23, Phil L wrote:
john stone wrote:

Personally, I can't fathom why anyone would require an electric carrot
grater, unless you breed toothless rabbits?


Seems like the answer to a problem that didn't exist :-)


You have missed the cultural revolution.

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rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

Well I have a bush shredder that smells, but it has a thermal cut out so it
cannot overheat. It trips and a likkle light apparently comes on till ts
cooled down.
I'm not sure what to make of these sort of appliences, but i suppose what
you smell is the windings getting hot and if its a brushed motor, probably
the sparking of the brushes.

Do you really have enough carrots to make such a device useful?

Brian

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"john stone" wrote in message
...
Recently bought a 'Silver Crest' electric carrot grater from Lidl. It
says in the instructions not to use continuously for more than two minutes
at a time and then allow time for it to cool off.

However if worked very heavily you can get a whiff of a burning smell from
the motor, even within the two minute time slot.

Is this burning smell indicative of something that is damaging the motor
or can this smell be safely ignored, provided one stays within the two
minute window ?

What is the margin for damaging overload likely to be here, since two
minutes can be quite a short time ?

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:41:45 -0000, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Do you really have enough carrots to make such a device useful?

More than four is enough to justify its existence.

On Dec 20, 8:11*pm, "john stone" wrote:
Recently bought a 'Silver Crest' electric carrot grater from Lidl. *It says
in the instructions not to use continuously for more than two minutes at a
time and then allow time for it to cool off.

However if worked very heavily you can get a whiff of a burning smell from
the motor, even within the two minute time slot.

Is this burning smell indicative of something that is damaging the motor or
can this smell be safely ignored, provided one stays within the two minute
window ?

What is the margin for damaging overload likely to be here, since two
minutes can be quite a short time ?

You may be smelling ozone (O3) which is generated by sparks from the
carbon brushes.
It usually goes away when the brushes bed in and sparking is reduced.

"harry" wrote in message
...
On Dec 20, 8:11 pm, "john stone" wrote:
Recently bought a 'Silver Crest' electric carrot grater from Lidl. It says
in the instructions not to use continuously for more than two minutes at a
time and then allow time for it to cool off.

However if worked very heavily you can get a whiff of a burning smell from
the motor, even within the two minute time slot.

Is this burning smell indicative of something that is damaging the motor
or
can this smell be safely ignored, provided one stays within the two minute
window ?

What is the margin for damaging overload likely to be here, since two
minutes can be quite a short time ?

You may be smelling ozone (O3) which is generated by sparks from the
carbon brushes.
It usually goes away when the brushes bed in and sparking is reduced.

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Thanks to all. Is that what they call * Egotism *, not being able to
conceive of someone needing to grate more carrots than they would eat
themselves.

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:24:50 -0000, "john stone"
wrote:

Thanks to all. Is that what they call * Egotism *, not being able to
conceive of someone needing to grate more carrots than they would eat
themselves.

It comes from those who have never grated a bag of carrots and skinned
their knuckles.

On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:58:30 -0800 (PST), harry wrote:

However if worked very heavily you can get a whiff of a burning smell
from the motor, even within the two minute time slot.

You may be smelling ozone (O3) which is generated by sparks from the
carbon brushes.

Ozone has a very distinctive odour that I don't think many people would
describe as "burning". There would have to be some serious arcing in the
brushes to produce enough ozone to be easily detectable by a distant nose
over the smell of freshly grated carrot...

I go for overheating in the windings and general hot smell from the
laquers etc. Seems to me that the machine is not big enough for the task
it is being asked to perform. Either that or the OP is overloading it by
forcing carrots into it to fast. Let it do the work, don't force the
motor to slow down much.

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Cheers
Dave.