Belt replacement bread maker

Hi, guys! I had posted this problem a long time ago and tried to find a belt replacement but couldn't. One fellow online said he had used an o-ring and it worked, so I recently bought one and....BEHOLD! It works! And it cost me all of $1.49 at my local mom-and-pop hardware store. I got the biggest one I could find--it's probably about 8-9 inches in circumference. It didn't look like it could possibly work, but it stretches tremendously and you are able to fit it around the gear wheels in the bottom of the machine just fine. I've only used it once so far, and that was to make a soft pizza dough, so I don't know if it will have the power to knead a thicker, drier bread dough, but it definitely turns the kneading blade just fine. If you decide to try this, you'll need to find a small hardware store where they sell things like this by the part, rather than one of the mega-stores where you have to buy a gross of everything. I wish all the homemade bread lovers who hate to throw out a perfectly good appliance the best of luck with this solution!

--Molly from Little Rock

Hi, I have the same machine and the belt was in tiny rotten pieces...I wound a piece of yarn around the wheel and drive shaft (lie the machine on a kitchen counter, lid open and hanging down off of the counter, bottoms up, and remove the screws from the teardrop shaped brass colored safety cover, remove the cover and expose the wheel and drive shaft) pull the yarn tight and knot it. Then cut the yarn about an inch from the knot. Measure the yarn when pulled on a little. Mine measured 23.5"....I then googled bread machine belt 23.5" and up came one for an Oster Bread Machine (The one I was repairing was a Regal Kitchen Pro 6725) from totalvac.com located at 2 De Bush Ave Unit A8 Middleton, MA 01949
It was $7.95 for the belt, $6.95 S & H to a VA address, total cost $14.90 so I decided to give it a shot. When it got here, I removed the safety cover, held the machine up and shook as much of the old rotten rubber belt pieces out as I could, and replaced the belt by placing it over the sticky string on the drive shaft and teasing it over the wheel. It is an exact fit. Be sure the ribbed side of the belt is down against the wheel. Screw the cover back on and run it through a dough cycle so that the belt will get coated with the sticky stuff from the sticky string on the drive shaft. Until the belt is coated, it will turn the mixing blade, but it will slip. Hope this helps. Patti

Patti Wilson
PS Krusteaz bread mix, add a little extra water you don't want to strain this belt with real hard dry dough. Got a loaf baking right now.

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