Help! My kitchenaid bowl has become electrified and has given me quite a shock in more ways than one

It is 10 years old, is it worth attempting to have it repaired or should I buy a new one.

Good heavens posset - glad to hear you are ok!

Sounds like someone needs to take the casing off and see if perhaps a wire has chaffed through and shorted to the case.

I seem to recall you mentioning that hub is in engineering?

Could he have a look for you?

It might be the motor - but I would have thought a replacement was available even if it is.

This link might be useful posset:-

[link]

Thank you for your concern gastro I was just logging on to spare anyone the bother of posting as the prob is now resoved.

Husband did indeed strip the kitchenaid down and has not a clear idea of what the prob was, there was muttering of "brushes and carbon dust", but he said he was only guessing. WD40 saved the day and me £330. How strange don't you think? I was making some bread using in the kitchenaid, standing in bare feet as one does, when I got my shock. |I told hub that the bowl was live and he came and touched it saying "no its not", so I touched it again thinking I had created some static electricity and I was mistaken, and got another shock. He was wearing rubber flip-flops!! What was also strange was that the bowl was live even when the machine was not running.

Anyway, all back in good order and I gave my muscles a work out making the bread the old fashioned way.

Have a great Sunday gastro and thanks again for your help.

Hi posset

While an excessive build of carbon dust might have caused a bridge and produced a short to the case, for the case to remain live when the machine was switched off seems strange.

I had a look in a service manual, and there is mention of a 'radio interference condenser' causing problems with short-circuiting. The manual suggests removal and discarding. Condensers are sometimes capacitors by another name, and they can store and discharge electric current even when disconnected from the mains supply.

Did the short trip anything to cut off the power?

If not, I would suggest checking any RCD fitted, or to get one fitted - this kind of thing:-

[link]

Or better still, a mains RCD on the meter board.

All the best posset and take care!

Thanks again gastro.

It is a strange thing. I have no knowledge of matters electrical, but I do know that the power should have tripped and didn't. Usually it doesn't take a lot to make the power trip in my kitchen (a surplus of electrical gadgets and me multi tasking maybe ) .

All appears back to normal now and my husband said it is safe. When he first had a look at the machine, he said I would need a new one, which you can imagine did not go down too well in this economic climate. Taking it to bits was a kill or cure exercise. Fortunately it worked. But, if you hear in the news, of someone being killed in mysterious circumstances by a kitchenaid, tell my hub he should have got me a new one

Oh, and just in case, Cheerio gastro....its been nice knowing you. I'm making a cake today! Talk about living on the edge!

Hopefully it's not a Black Forest gateau posset - could be a bad omen!!

A mixer that cooks the mixture as well as mixing it, is a novel idea though but not if it cooks the cook as well

Blackened Chick(en)?

There's quite a few folk on this board that wanted to see the return of good food live - but not sure this is what they had in mind posset!!