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In article >,
writes:

>The plastic gear are there to protect the remainder of the transmission
>should
>the user try to mix something that is just too heavy for the mixer, usually a
>heavy dough. There are warnings on the manuals that state you should not try
>to mix more than a certain amount of dough. Mine says 6 cups of flour, I
>think. At the 63% hydration I use that is about 48 ounces of dough, enough
>for
>two loaves.
>
>I understand that this (a plastic gear in the power train) is a common design
>feature of most stand mixers, not just KA. It is like a fuse.

Idiot. Why engineer a machine to self-destruct rather than incorporating a
basic friction clutch... because the KA stand mixer is an extremely poorly
designed cheaply made piece of crap.

Mirriam Webster

[2]clutch

noun

: a coupling used to connect and disconnect a driving and a driven part of a
mechanism
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