Hey beefriends! So I was making a pumpkin pie for US Thanksgiving the other day, and I used my rescued stand mixer for the first time. :)
In the universal apartment living language of "getting rid of this but it's still good if somebody else wants it," someone had left it beside the trash one day a while back, and I snagged it. I had always wanted a stand mixer, but they're so expensive!
I gave it a really deep cleaning as it was very greasy. You know that kind of grease that a stove fan gets, or the wall behind the stove, from all the smoke and splatters hitting it? It was like that. So I imagine it must have lived on somebody's counter right next to their stove.
I tried looking it up on ebay to find out more information about it, like, precisely how old it is, as it's avocado green which makes me think it's from the 70s or 60s, and I found two of the same kind for sale complete with all the accessories, but not the precise year listed (there were similar-but-slightly-different models also in avocado green that said they were from the 50s, so I'm thinking this is the 60s model). The two listed showed me that a) there is a bigger bowl that fits (but I already knew that, because the base has a "small bowl" and "large bowl" setting) and b) there are dough hooks that fit it, too. I don't have either of those things so I'll be keeping an eye out to see if just dough hooks get listed one day perhaps. Maybe someone will have a broken mixer but sell the parts - it could happen, as there was just the base turntable that the bowl sits on listed for parts, and I saw an old-already-sold listing for the beaters.
There are bowls from different models for sale, so I'm considering asking if one of them would be kind enough to give me a measurement of the bottom of their large bowls to see if it will still fit on my turntable part.
My question for you fixer-upper types, is do you have any suggestions about what to do for the switch here? I can still adjust the speed of the mixer by sticking in a small screwdriver to get it to slide back and forth:
...but I actually couldn't get it to go into the "off" position (to be fair, I didn't push it too hard when it didn't want to go, because I didn't want it to become stuck in the off position). Do you think it's possible to get something that would serve as the switch and install it?
The motor is in that top part, but I haven't tried opening up the housing at this point. It still works, so I just plugged in or unplugged to turn it on and off, lol.
If y'all have any advice, it would be appreciated! :)
The resulting pumpkin pie for yummy noms tax:
Have a great day and thanks for reading!