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Help with Kenwood Chef overhaul
Grumpysally
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Can anyone help me?
Ive just aquired my MIL's old kenwood A701A which has been at the bottom of a wardrobe for about 20years.
Ive decided to have a go at cleaning out all the gunge and giving it the once over before deciding if it's worth paying to be serviced or if I should ebay it and put the money towards a brand new one. ( it needs a dough hook and liquidiser so by the time Ive finished buying all this and paying for service/ repair I could be half way to buying a new one)
The major hitch is that the slow speed outlet cover is well and truly stuck, which means I cant take off the top of the machine to check/ replace the drive belt. Ive taken off the cover and poked around removing lots of gunge and what looks to be part of a perished rubber seal, which I suspect may be responsible for it being so firmly stuck.
Ive squirted WD 40 round the mechanism as well (and thumped it from above:eek:)
All to no avail.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, A
Ive just aquired my MIL's old kenwood A701A which has been at the bottom of a wardrobe for about 20years.
Ive decided to have a go at cleaning out all the gunge and giving it the once over before deciding if it's worth paying to be serviced or if I should ebay it and put the money towards a brand new one. ( it needs a dough hook and liquidiser so by the time Ive finished buying all this and paying for service/ repair I could be half way to buying a new one)
The major hitch is that the slow speed outlet cover is well and truly stuck, which means I cant take off the top of the machine to check/ replace the drive belt. Ive taken off the cover and poked around removing lots of gunge and what looks to be part of a perished rubber seal, which I suspect may be responsible for it being so firmly stuck.
Ive squirted WD 40 round the mechanism as well (and thumped it from above:eek:)
All to no avail.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, A
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Wonderful machines!
I inherited the same one from my MIL some years ago. It was pretty tired and dry and the rubber seals had perished.
I used WD40 too and for me it did seem to work OK. Bought new seals and acouple of attachements off Ebay.
I am not good at inserting links but if you google the Kenwood chef A701A, you will get loads of information which if you sift through it may help you.
There are also a few threads on the MSE forums if you search for the Kenwood Chef (keep it vague, leave out the A701A part). I have just found a few threads about people having smoking and or dead Kenwood Chefs and how they sourced parts and fit them. Does not sound too complicated.
Hope you manage to sort it out.Thank you for this site :jNow OH and I are both retired, MSE is a Godsend0
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