Our mixer is almost 25 years old, and I had purchased a bigger 5-Qt bowl for my wife as a gift. The bowl comes with a plastic base adapter, but over the years the grooves on the base plate had worn just enough that the new bowl did not \"lock.\" I replaced the plate and now it locks just fine.
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Kitchen Aid mixer base plate no longer held the bowl in place (after 30+yrs of use)
1. Unscrewed the three screws from base plate, aka cap-screw.
2. Removed base plate. Cleaned residue from edge of base plate with toothpick and sponge. It was a very tight fit, so loosened base plate by applying leverage to sides with screwdriver, then gripped the edge with pliers to lift out.
3. Screwed new base plate in p
... Read morelace, using original screws. Because it, too, was a tight fit but a slightly different design (the edge is rounded instead of sticking straight up), I tightened each screw a little at a time so it would fit properly in place.
I was thrilled to find this part and it was only $4.95. I unscrewed the 3 screws that held the old one in place and replaced it with the new part using the same 3 screws. Wa-la!! A brand new mixer! Thank you ereplacement parts!
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