KitchenAid K45SS Classic Stand Mixer - Page 3 - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

That's a bit of a task to sort out. If you aren't up for a full strip down and clean up followed by new gears and repack with grease then contact Kitchen Aid for a local repairer. You will be up for a couple of gears and maybe even the top housing if the bush for the accessory drive gear is wrecked. If you need "how to" help then get back to me for step by step.

When you use an attachment the mixer will still stir. You need to remove the beater when using an attachment.

The only way to unstick it is with more energy. Get someone to hold the motor unit firmly and someone else turn the bowl anti clockwise. There is no magic if it's stuck, just more effort required.

Try the Service Manual: http://www.kitchenaidparts.eu/documents/pdf/service-manual/classic-svc-manual-new-email-version.pdf

The height of the beater to the bowl is adujsted by the screw found when you tilt the head back. Service Manual: http://www.kitchenaidparts.eu/documents/pdf/service-manual/classic-svc-manual-new-email-version.pdf

Only the rear bearing takes oil. The rest takes grease. See the Service Manual at: http://www.kitchenaidparts.eu/documents/pdf/service-manual/classic-svc-manual-new-email-version.pdf

It is in the front middle of the hinge area, visible with head raised. Clockwise to lower and anti clockwise to raise. Head height is set with flat paddle to just clear the bottom of the bowl when head is locked down.

Make sure you know which way you need to turn it to release it and then thump the handle in that direction with the heel of your hand. There is not really any other way that to "unscrew" it again.

The leaking grease has very little to do with it not going, remove the chrome drip ring (yes it's called a drip ring, it is used to catch most of the drips) and clean it out & wipe around the planetary. The oil is separating out of the food grade grease due to age or lack of use or both. Remove & check the carbon brushes under the side caps on the motor. They are keyed so will only work when installed the correct way. You may find the brushes worn out and in need of replacement. Observe which way they come out, one corner is ground off and that is the key. If that is not the problem then you will need to look under the back cover, sometimes there can be a broken or loose wire there.

I would normally say this can't happen but I've been wrong before. You will need to open up the motor head and see what is going on. The service manual can be downloaded from: http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/mendingshed/kitchenaidservicemanual.pdf

The motor is not a single part, you test the components and purchase only those that are faulty. You will need to dismantle the unit to test everything but you should be doing your checking with your eyes and a meter as you strip it down. You may locate the fault before it turns into a major repair.

It sounds like your motor is going bad. When an electric motor has some age, the motor brushes will wear out and fail to make contact inside the motor. The missing sound you are describing is probably a burnt spot on the armature where the brushes are not transferring electricity. If the unit is an expensive unit, you may be able to order replacement brushes for the motor, or even better.... a replacement motor

It will be a broken or missing pin through a gear or the planetary or something wrong with the fuse gear. It should be easy enough to find but you will need to split the gearbox cases to check.

It will be a broken or missing pin through a gear or the planetary or something wrong with the fuse gear. It should be easy enough to find but you will need to split the gearbox cases to check.

Good Morning, There is a spring inside your mixer attached to the speed control switch and speed control arm, the spring can sometimes get caught on the slide bar that is just below it inside the mixer. The other reason is that the speed control switch plate in the rear of the machine (that the spring attaches to) vibrates the three speed adjustment screws out or in and the spring will pull the speed switch (control arm that you use to control mixing speed when using the mixer) back to the stir position after you try to turn the mixer off. If it is a spring problem you will have to do a full tear down to get at the spring and either free it or replace it. If it is a problem with the adjustment screws on the speed plate, that can be handled at the rear of the machine and is twice as easy to get at but sometimes much more frustrating to adjust. There are "YouTube" videos on the internet that will walk you through the process of adjusting your speed control plate just Google "adjusting speed on kitchenaid mixer" I hope this helps. please let us know if it does and if you have other questions just post them here and we will "FixYa"

If nothing is sticking in the movement of the control plate at the back I would replace the little PCB at the back just above the control plate. Where I live it is called a phase board.

We also have a replacement cap!

Is the brushed band around the head missing or worn off? The model is on that band. If it worn or missing in order to correctly answer your question I need more information. Is your mixer a tilt head or a bowl lift variety? Did you look on the bottom of the base for a serial number? Some models had them there. Can you describe the ceramic piece a little better? Many models shard the same internal parts and it might not be too difficult to locate that part.

Some ...what you may consider silly stuff... 1 check the outlet that you are plugging your mixer into it may be bad. Not the wire but the plug in the wall may be bad, plug a hair dryer in on high if it runs for 60 seconds it ok. 2 check the plug of the mixer make sure it is not bent at the wall pins 3 open the rear of the mixer by removing the round cover at the rear of the mixer look for loose wires, sometimes the socket connectors on the speed switch break off. 4 there are three screws on the speed control switch that control the mixer, sometimes after time these screws can actually turn due to vibration and the mixer will just not start....so.....start with the top right screw and turn it counter clock wise a quarter turn and start the mixer if it starts even for a half a second then the problem is in the switch. and your only problem is the proper timing set by the three screws. 5 gears inside the mixer can strip and freeze the motor so nothing turns...put your ear next to the machine mid way and turn it on ...if you hear a hum from inside then it is a gear problem. 6 If your machine is older then 1978 then it may be the IR filter inside the mixer (hard to find ) 7 the carbon brushes that are located on the side of the mixer may have finally worn down (cheap fix) but there are four ways to put the new brushes into the machine and only one way works. You have to be careful with the beveled edge of the new brush and which way it fits back into the housing. 8 Now you are inside the mixer if everything else fails, the motor is the next step and it will require a full tear down, to repair, there are two parts the armature and the winding and each will take about thirty-five bucks to get and either or both will take about 2 hours to repair but if you go all the way down then you need a new gasket and gear grease clean and re-pack too. At this point you are performing an overhaul . let us know if this helps.

You need to adjust the head height. Raise the head and look into the hinge from the front of the machine. There is a single slotted screw there, anti clockwise to raise the beater from rubbing the bowl. Just enough to clear is all you need.