jadelennox: Senora Sabasa Garcia, by Goya (Default)
jadelennox ([personal profile] jadelennox) wrote in [community profile] davis_square2023-12-28 03:36 pm

free to a good home: lateral file cabinet, kitchen-aid mixer

Edited to add: Someone has already claimed the kitchen-aid. Thanks!

  1. Good condition wooden two-drawer lateral file cabinet. It's in great shape; I just need space so I went on a scan-and-shred spree. Free to the first person who can pick it up in east Arlington.

  2. A Kitchen-Aid mixer (a 5-quart Artisan series cobalt blue KSM150PSBU), needs repairs. The deal with kitchen-aid small appliances is that kitchen-aid doesn't offer repair services for small appliances anymore (grr argh), and they're supposed to be user-serviceable. And they are! But not if you're a person with disabled hands. So I tried and failed to repair it, and gave up and replaced it, but I hate to waste a gorgeous kitchen-aid that should last decades. The repair options I know of are:

    • Maaaaybe you can get it repaired by Kitchen-Aid? Their website still has the info to get a shipping kit for repairs. When I tried it a couple of years ago I ended up in phone rerouting hell and so I don't know if that service really still exists. But feel free to try!

    • Do it yourself. Requires buying the right grease, and having fine motor control and hand strength. There's an iFixit guide and tons of youtube videos, I'm just not strong enough to do it.

    • Taking it out for repairs. The closest place I can find that does small appliance repairs is Fix Masters in West Roxbury, and I can't drive. But if you drive and are regularly down there, that one seems super easy.

So the Kitchen-Aid is free to the first person who can pick it up in east arlington and also is intending to repair the mixer.

Kitchenaid

[personal profile] kc_44 2023-12-29 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
I fixed one for a relative. I even have some grease left. I could pick it up tonight (if not too late) or on Tuesday. I work in Davis.