How to adjust Kenwood Chef A701A minimum speed
ID: 28280
Description: If your mixer is running too fast on the...
Steps:
- Turn the power off at the wall socket and then invert the machine on a working surface allowing for flour and crumbs to fall out of the machine onto the surface.
- Insert a long thin flat ended screwdriver (Health & Safety warning - with an insulated handle) through one of the slots in the plastic casing covering the motor assembly and locate one of the two slotted screws which govern the centrifugal switch.
- You can identify these two screws by the fact that they have a spring underneath them to keep them in tension.
- Try a quarter turn clockwise each then turn the machine back over and try it on the slowest speed.
- Put your hand on the mixing attachment holder and let your fingers gently catch the protruding bit each time it comes around while watching a second hand on a clock.
- You are looking for about 60rpm and the movement at this minimum speed will be somewhat erratic.
- There will also be a burning smell from the resistor but don't worry about this. The burning smell comes from flour deposited over time on the resistor.
- If it still exceeds 60rpm on the slowest speed control setting then turn the machine over and turn the two screws in a bit more, but evenly on each side to keep the centrifugal switch bracket evenly balanced.
- Continue until about 60rpm is achieved and ignore the burning smell from the thin layer of flour on the resistor.