KitchenAid Food Processor – Blade removal difficult?
I was given a rarely used KitchenAid Food Processor recently — looks new — works great. About 12 years old.
Problem: The main, large, blade removal is very difficult.
I’ve had to place it on the floor, and tug and wiggle to get this thing off.
Hardly any leverage in yanking this thing out.
This becomes a problem, as removal of bowl requires removal of blade first.
It is a plastic to plastic connection (plastic-like material)
The blade (plastic body/ steel blade), slides over the plastic shaft.
I’ve attempted WD40, and a silicone lubricant, after attempting to finely file shaft (not very agressively).
- Have you experienced this with your KitchenAid Food Processor ?
- How have you (or how should I) fix this ?
I got thru this holiday season without the KitchenAid Food Processor, however, I used it the other night to chop/blend a cinnamon/walnut/sugar mixture for a palmier cookie (puff pastry) filling. Of course, I had to lift the entire unit to dump the mixture out.
Great tool, but . . .
Thx!
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Find out where the deformity is. The blade can be replaced, the shaft cannot. If the shaft is deformed, I’d replace the entire unit. 12 years is a pretty good run for a food processor, unless it’s a commercial or top-end model. Buy from Williams Sonoma, because they lifetime warranty everything, no matter how it breaks, just keep your receipt.
There is a maxim that all mechanics know ; If it doesn’t go easy ,don’t force it.
Somebody forced the blade onto the shaft and possibly bent or mis-aligned something in the process.
If you look real carefully at the top of the blade assembly you will see a seam . The cylindrical plastic shaft is actually made in two pieces and that seam is where the cap piece snaps into the cylinder . Using a thin screwdriver remove the cap. You now have access to the drive shaft
and can determine what the actual problem is.
It is highly likely that the the projections sticking out of the drive shaft are mis-aligned with the grooves on the blade body .
You may also want to call Kitchen -Aid
good luck