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“I’ve always wanted a blue mixer…”

By Rich Siegel Posted on June 27, 2021 Posted in General, Maintenance, Restoration
“I’ve always wanted a blue mixer…”

It’s easy enough to buy a cobalt-blue KitchenAid mixer these days, but the color is really hard to find in older models. The KSM90 “Ultra Power” tilt-head was the first of the cobalt-blue machines; it was made as an “exclusive” …

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Hard Luck Cases

By Rich Siegel Posted on February 21, 2021 Posted in Repair Stories, Restoration, Vintage
Hard Luck Cases

“Rusty” was another Goodwill find, a Hobart-era K5SS (bowl-lift, solid state speed control, 5qt bowl). This classic needed almost as much work as I’ve ever put into a mixer. Most of the time spent was just on getting through the …

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We Can Do It!

By Rich Siegel Posted on February 8, 2021 Posted in Restoration, Vintage
We Can Do It!

This is about Rosie. She’s a 4C, one of the final iterations of the design before Hobart went to the now-familiar K4 silhouette and internal architecture. We got this one cheap on eBay, and it came with the glass “beehive” …

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