20 Most Recent Hobart A200 Stand Mixer - Page 4 Questions & Answers

How old is the mixer? Could it have a brush style motor? Easy to tell. It will have a couple of removable panels on the motor rear cover. The brush mount plate may have moved out of position, which retimes the rotor and stator windings. With the power disconected and the rear main cover removed, look at the internal screws for prevoius marks where the position might have been.

The resource center web site does not list machines of that vintage. best bet is a motor rewind shop and shape larger brushes to fit.

Please submit more information of the actual problem. One issue could be that 1st and 2nd are the same speed, but third is faster.That is caused by having the two nuts in the bottom of the planetary too tight. This pinches the bushings in the second speed gear which drives by friction faster than the gears of 1st causing 1st to slip. Back off the acorn nut and thin lock nut perhaps a half to a full turn. Hold the lock nut and tighten the acorn nut to it. You can tes the setting by pushing up on he planetary. You should see about a 1/16" movement. If you only have one speed in all gears, either the internal gear selector is broken, or a key is sheared between a gear and shaft.

Ed, if you continue to do it yourself, the end result will be tossing good money out. Have a professional check the system and save the unit from permanent damage. Chipping parts of a gear off means a serious resistance force or action has occurred. One force is slowing down as the other is speeding up. Gear alignment can be moved off center, or a sudden application (sudden stop or start) can damage the least resistant parts. For example, when a hook turns within the mixing chamber and the resistance of the content is too great on the turning shaft and gears, which ever part is weakest will break. Complicated I guess.

Yes,but they are key's.I'm a hobart tech is the mixer apart?

most of the times it is because of build up between lift handle and pedestle case use wd-40 and even some heat from a torch to help loosen up stuck handle. also wd-40 the ways on the mixer ped. where the bowl yoke is

There are four possibilities to look at here. Assuming your mixer has a normal capacitor start motor (older a200's used a different style motor), possibilities are, in order of likelihood:

Motor start capacitor
Start switch (electronic or mechanical)
Burned wiring
Motor start winding

The start capacitor is located at the rear of the mixer. Remove the rear cover (4 screws) and pull the cover towards you. Disconnect one wire from the capacitor and test with any multimeter.

The start switch, if electronic, is able to be tested, but not very easily. Once you've eliminated the other possibilities, it's time to replace the (electronic) start switch. If the motor has a mechanical start switch, it's easy to test: Remove the two wires at the rear of the motor and test for continuity with the motor stationary. A multimeter should show near zero ohms for a good mechanical start switch.

Burned wiring should be easy to spot with some careful inspection around the motor, capacitor, and start switch.

Start winding: Look closely at the stator (stationary part of the motor). If some of the copper windings look significantly darker in color than the others, it's likely the start windings were overheated (the start windings are the thinner copper wires - if you look closely, approximately half of the wires are thinner than the other half). Look for a wiring diagram behind the power switch and determine which wires leading to the start switch and/or capacitor are for the start windings and test for continuity across the start winding. You should read a fairly small value such as 5 - 15 ohms. Values significantly outside this range could indicate a partially open or partially shorted start winding.

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If the motor runs and when under a load the planetary stops its not the motor.You either have a sheared key or broken gear in the transmission.

Jeff your almost there....it must be the shifter into third....it must not slide fully into third....check for wear marks on the worm gear....and try running it without the protective cover on to see how it changes from 1st, into 2nd, then third...that mechanisim if not engaging totally in third.

I don't know how long you've owned this mixer, but these motors do wear down over time. They don't last nearly as long as the ones made decades ago, the plain basic workhorse mixers with no frills.Have you tried mixing smaller amounts to see if that works better? Unfortunately with the high cost of servicing, you may find that repair will exceed more than half the value of the unit... leaving the purchase of a new one as your most economical choice.