Smoking Kenwood Chef! - its Dead!!!

jackieglasgow

Thanks Pink, I was in the middle of something and too lazy to look

valk_scot

The 901 does have a safety cut-off that pops when it overheats. You let it cool down again, sort out whatever problem caused the cut off and then reset the button. If you tilt the top right back (as you would when lifting the beaters out of the bowl) you'll find the green reset button in there on the dial side.

My 901 deals with bread dough if I use the dough hook. Up to 2lbs of flour at a time. I think the texture is important though...enough water to make a ball which the hook then pummels around rather than the mix being so wet the hook is trying to go through the dough.

jackieglasgow

That's really helpful Valk_scot, I didn't know that at all, but mine definitely didn't like bread dough towards the end of our relationship.

Magpie27

valk_scot wrote: »

The 901 does have a safety cut-off that pops when it overheats. You let it cool down again, sort out whatever problem caused the cut off and then reset the button. If you tilt the top right back (as you would when lifting the beaters out of the bowl) you'll find the green reset button in there on the dial side.

My 901 deals with bread dough if I use the dough hook. Up to 2lbs of flour at a time. I think the texture is important though...enough water to make a ball which the hook then pummels around rather than the mix being so wet the hook is trying to go through the dough.

That's really helpful thank you, I'll check the reset button tomorrow and try a cake mixture first. Thats interesting about the texture of the dough when I first started the dough it was a ball stuck to the dough hook and I thought this was wrong so I added more water this seems to be where it went wrong.

valk_scot

Magpie27 wrote: »

That's really helpful thank you, I'll check the reset button tomorrow and try a cake mixture first. Thats interesting about the texture of the dough when I first started the dough it was a ball stuck to the dough hook and I thought this was wrong so I added more water this seems to be where it went wrong.

You do want the dough to be in a ball for the hook to be able to knead it. You wouldn't try and knead a wet sticky mass by hand, would you? It's the same with a Chef dough hook. Soft ball round dough hook, which thenm gets pummeled around the bowl sides. Otherwise your hook will be trying to move through glue.

lapis_lazuli

Replaced big capacitor (which exploded) and small one plus TRIAC (to be sure) but it still only runs on one speed. Am calling in the professionals

Ader1

Does anybody on here know how to check and fix the Carbon brushes. My Kenwood A901 is working but smoking when I put in a load of dough. It makes a 'pop/click' noise when smoking. I've opened it up and I can see one of the capacitors is cracked 0.15uF. Should I also check the brushes and how to do this? Thanks.

Happy_David

Hi, you need to replace the components on the motor control board. Not just the blown one, as something else, caused the cap to blow. The brushes are nothing to do with a smoking mixer, under normal use, it takes many years of constant baking, to wear the brushes out.

Repair kits for the A700d, A701, A901, Excels and KM's are available here, reasonably priced too, with free postage

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/kenwood-kits2012
http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/kenwood-kits2013

babushkava

Hi all, my inherited, 40-something-year old 701 has a problem not yet mentioned on this thread, which is that of small drips of oil, coming down into the bowl when it is not in use. I did try using it to mix some cake ingredients and it seemed fine, but if some part of the motor is drying out, it needs sorting.

I don't have any DIY skills, so please don't suggest a kit. I would love to find a technical person who could stop the leak, so that I could use the Chef regularly. But all the electrical shops with a handyman, doing minor miracles in the workshop at the back, have now closed down.

Ader1

Sounds like somebody has put some oil on the moving mechanism above the bowl. I believe that if should be lubricated using food grade grease and not oil. It should stop at some point unless there's a well in there. The motor is situated in the thick part which you are able to open and close to raise the mixer head in order to take insert the bowl etc. Even if there was oil there, which there isn't, it would not make it's way to where the bowl is.

I asked a question a few months ago and I did replace the capacitors etc which wasn't very difficult to do although my mate helped me because he's the one with the soldering iron. It now seems to be working well.