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Old November 12, 2018   #41
taboule
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Nice how-to pictorial Ted.

Talking about the kitchen aid, I have the bigger unit with all the attachments. Both my wife and I use it often. The first time I tried to use the tomato strainer, the auger wouldn't fit the unit housing (it would jam at the metal hub). I tried and tried, thinking I was assembling it wrong. Then I took out my calipers and measured, it turned out the shaft diameter was about 0.01" larger than the bore. Then I confirmed with a family member who had the same attachment.

Hard for me to understand how such an error would escape the maker's QA checks.

I mounted the auger on a lathe to turn the shaft down, then got sidetracked. Then went ahead and bought the dedicated strainer instead.
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