Beauty. Good luck with the reassembly!
Cool!
My goodness, that is certainly green. The job looks well-done.
StG
Yes it is, and it’s not going to match a damn thing in my house, but that’s okay, I was just going for bright green. We’ll see how it looks once it’s all put back together and not sitting on a blue towel. I’m just hoping it doesn’t look to close to primary green. I was kind of surprised that the only bright green they had (the others were very dark) was such an odd shade.
Either way, I’m very happy with the quality of the work, and if I need something like this done again, I won’t hesitate to go back. In fact, I’ve already got some ideas (work stuff, not personal).
Here it is. All put back together. Took me probably 4 hours to get it reassembled, mostly because the parts took a month to come in and I’d since forgotten where everything went. Those pictures I took were really helpful. I wish I had taken more, but some of the things I wish I had taken pictures of, I didn’t realize I’d need to take pictures of. For example, I didn’t realize that it was going to make a difference which way the stator went back in, but if I put it in the wrong way, the wires wouldn’t reach where they needed to go. Luckily the second link in post 18 provided enough hints for me to get it back in properly.
Anyways, I ran into some other problems along the way but got them all ironed out along the way.
My main concern now is that as I was testing it I noticed a lot of sparking where the brushes touch the rotor and have no idea how normal that is. Also, this is an old mixer and doesn’t have a solid state speed control as I’m lead to believe the newer ones do, in the rear there are a set of contacts that looks something like thisQB2k~$(KGrHqUH-DEEslhswUOSBLR3wBzoeg~~_35.JPG) which is also sparking.
It’s also doing some other things that’s leading me to believe it’s binding up somewhere…of course this could also all be in my head as a few hours ago it was in a hundred pieces on my kitchen table. I’ll have to wait and see what happens when it’s actually being used and under a load.
Either way, it was still fun. It’s been a long time since I’ve taken something like this apart.
FTR, apparently the camera on my new phone sucks. I’ll have to see if I can get a better picture tomorrow when there’s some sunlight in the house. It’s much greener then that picture lets on. Also, in case anyone was curious, I replaced the trim band, the circular metal band above the bowl, the metal part the bowl screws into, the front accessory cover as well as the speed and lock knob. I figured as long as I was getting it powder coated I might as well get the trim replaced since it was either dirty to the point where I couldn’t clean it or starting to rust. Hell, even if it doesn’t work, it still looks nice…and no one else has one this color.
It looks much less fluorescent in that lat picture. Good jb! I don’t know anything about sparking.
StG
Kudos on attempting a clean reassembly, Joey. I hope it works out great for you- the paint job sure looks nice (more of a mint green in that last pic, to me). I’m fairly mechanically-inclined, but heavy-duty machines like KA mixers (I have one, white, BTW) intimidate me. Afraid I’ll miss something in the reassembly, or invert something, or just…something. What I’m really posting to ask, though, is -
What, exactly, is that giant ball of yarn type thing in your linked picture?
I won’t rest until I know. 
That would be my rubber band ball. It weighs 11 pounds and has somewhere between 10,000 and 12,000 rubber bands on it. I made it in college and have no idea why it’s been on my kitchen table for the last few weeks.
That is really cool looking.
I meant the mixer. But now going back and checking out the rubberband ball:
Those are really cool looking.
Awesome. Love the color; I’m a big fan of bright greens.
This story just played on NWCN.
Snohomish woman turns KitchenAid mixers into works of art
I like the Flying Tigers one. The Hollywood one is pretty nice, too.
I’d just like to congratulate Joey P on a job well done. It’s rare to find someone who can not only have the idea to do something, but see it through to the end as well. You should be proud of yourself, whether it matches the rest of your house or not!
Quasi
So in the end, what kind of paint and process did the shop use on your mixer? Did they sand blast it first? Up close does it look just as good as the original factory paint job? Any advice for someone who also wants to paint an older mixer? Do you think I could still do this at home instead of a shop? Thanks for any advice in advance, and congrats on your new mixer!! Job well done!
It was powder coated. It absolutely looks as good as if it came from the factory this color. No, there’s not a chance you could paint it like this at home. Mainly because it wasn’t painted, but also because it wasn’t painted the first time around either, it was powder coated at the KA factory originally.
But, it was a ton of work to take it apart and put it back together and unless you’re ridiculously handy I probably wouldn’t try it. They make so many different colors now, it’s probably easier to just buy one off the shelf in the color that you want.
:dubious: I don’t think we ever got final reassembled pics, did we?
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ETA: and now that I think about it, how did your rubberband ball hold up so well over time? Any old rubber bands I come across, even if they are not stretched, are brittle and break.
Cough Post 25 Cough
But, as I mentioned, the color looks really bad with my camera phone. It’s much closer to the color sample I provided in link in post 17.
First link in post #25.
No idea how I missed that… I imagine I saw it at the time.