I have a stripped gear on a Braun hand mixer. I have replacement gears but can't figure out how to pull the existing gears off. It's the central one that is stripped.
>/diy/>where we google it you Whittle them away with a blade knife
>>2881305I would try a hair dryer or heat gun on the platic gears, get them toasty enough to expand a little, and yank.Or a tiny tiny 3-jaw puller?
>>2881305>I have replacement gearsI find this almost unbelievable.
>>2881305They’re either snap fit or melted onto knurled sections of the shaft. You could make a tiny crank puller but it’s probably easier to just destroy them with wire cutters. Anyway for the crank puller take a piece of flat stock, drill 3 holes in a line, evenly spaced. Put bolts through outer holes with nuts on both sides. Those bolts should have wide heads which act as ‘pullers’. Tap a thread in the central hole and turn a bolt in.
lever it out with a screwdriver
>>2881784Yeah, I was surprised they were available. So are tear-down instructions on iFixit.
>>2881305just pull them off
>>2881784Yeah, where the fuck is anyone getting replacement gears from on American products? American appliances are designed to fail and not have any replacement parts intentionally.
