Nothing lasts forever, including electrical appliances. Especially electrical appliances. Let's take a hand blender for example. The most common accident is a broken nozzle. Everything else works, but the attachments are broken and cannot be repaired or replaced.
In such a situation, the blender is almost always sent to the graveyard of home appliances. But don’t rush to bury your non-working chopper until you read this article to the end, from it you will learn what you can do with your own hands from an old blender.
Disassemble and understand
The design of the blender may be different, but you still have to disassemble it. Sometimes to do this you need to find a special plug, pry or press on it a little, and the plastic case, not restrained by anything else, breaks into two halves right in your hands.
Other models are held together with screws. Several rotational movements with a screwdriver in the places of the cross-shaped recesses remove the fastening elements, and the parts of the frame are undocked.
Now you need to understand what can be done to restore the life of the device.
Rich inner world
Before us is the mechanism of the device: motor, board, wires and everything else. A very common breakdown in many modern electrical appliances is the thermistor. He's a fuse.
If all the fault is in it, then from the blender you can make... a blender! Just replace the fuse with a new one (in accordance with its technical parameters), and your device will live a full life again.
From peaches
For any smoothie, it is recommended to choose yogurt without additives, otherwise it will “drown out” the taste of the other ingredients. Contains:
- 3 large peaches;
- 200 ml natural yogurt;
- liquid honey (sugar) to taste.
Grind the fruit pulp using a grater or through a sieve. Mix with yogurt, beat with a mixer, whisk, or by hand in a jar (shaker).
There are quite a few options for making peach smoothies. Thanks to the juicy and tender pulp of the main ingredient, almost all of them can be made without a blender. The same applies to zucchini smoothies.
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Details
What will be needed for the remodel? An adapter coupling, a chuck for it, a milling or engraving attachment, or any other - at your request.
All these devices are essentially a drill, that is, a compact rotary instrument with high speeds on the motor shaft. The electric motor of the device rotates the spindle to which the nozzle is attached. It can be cutting, grinding, drilling - there are a lot of options, the tool is universal and its final purpose is determined by the available equipment (attachments) and your imagination.
That is, by repairing your broken blender, you can get several tools in return.
Smoothie recipes for weight loss for Blender
This drink option is suitable for those who care about their figure and want to maintain an attractive shape or lose a little weight for the summer season.
A smoothie is a drink with different flavors, so you can add any ingredients to it.
Ingredients:
- low-fat kefir - 1 tbsp.;
- green apple (Simirenko variety is suitable) - 1 pc.;
- kiwi - 1 pc.
Method of preparation: pour kefir into a blender container, peel the kiwi, cut into half circles and immerse in kefir. Wash the apple and remove the seeds, cut it into several parts and put it in a blender. You can also add chopped fresh parsley to the mixture. Start the blender at first speed and gradually increase it. Preparation time is 5-10 minutes, depending on what consistency you want the drink to be.
New life
Let's consider the procedure.
- First, it is necessary to remove the old coupling - an adapter that connected the drive shaft to the nozzle of the then blender. The easiest way to do this is with pliers. You may have to saw off some elements of the body, now superfluous.
- Next, you need to measure the motor shaft (thickness) to know which coupling is suitable. When a suitable coupling is available, it must be placed on the shaft and securely secured using a hex key.
- It is likely that in order to take measurements and secure the coupling to the shaft, you will need to remove the engine from the housing - do not forget to return it to its place when this work is completed.
- At this stage, the repair itself, also known as remodeling, is completed. We connect the parts of the case together, insert the plug into the groove, tighten the screws, and put the device into operational condition.
DIY construction mixer
The repair process is very labor-intensive and sometimes you can’t keep track of everything. For example, you need to mix a concrete solution, everything has already been purchased and ready, when suddenly it turns out that the construction mixer is out of order or is not there at all. What to do in such a situation? Run to the store? But extra expenses cannot always be foreseen and there may simply not be funds for such a purchase. You can get out of this situation by making a concrete mixer yourself. For this mixer you will need:
- Drill.
- Hairpin 8, 40 cm long.
- Four metal plates.
- Nuts and washers.
So, the work begins with the hairpin. It needs to be sharpened in such a way that it is convenient to screw on the nut. On the other hand, you need to grind down the pin for the triangle. This is necessary in order to properly attach it to the drill.
Next we get to work on the plates. Using an 8 mm drill, you need to make one more hole from the edge on each. Now you can proceed to assembling the mixer. A nut, a washer, and then a plate are installed along the length of the stud. The distance should be at least three centimeters. The top and bottom plates need to be bent according to the principle of blades.
It should look something like this
The second end of the pin is attached to the drill, that's it, the construction mixer is ready. However, this type of homemade construction mixers will only handle small volumes of mortar.
Such a mixer will not cope with large volumes of work.
For mixing more liquid substances, for example, paint, this option is also suitable
For a large amount of mortar, you will need a concrete mixer, which you can also make yourself, but this will require much more time and materials, so it will be easier to borrow from friends or use rental services. Moreover, such a device brings more benefits when it is completely independent than when it requires constant supervision. In this case, it is better to choose the gravitational method of mixing the solution.
What are you?
You can attach the cartridge to the coupling now or at the previous stage - as is convenient for you. Much more important, what kind of attachment will this cartridge have? That is, what will the updated device be like?
The blender motor is noticeably weaker than the drive of a professional dremel or drill, but for household use, making crafts, and sanding soft surfaces, it is quite enough.
Decide for yourself what you want from this tool right now - for it to cut, polish, or mill? We decided - install the appropriate attachment in the chuck and work for your pleasure. Maybe you want it to be a hand fan? Then you will need to make a nozzle with blades, but that's a completely different story.
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Nozzle functionality
To increase the functionality of the units, special attachments are used. Some of them are included with the blender, others are sold separately. If necessary, any elements can be purchased in the store.
Nozzles:
- for submersible devices;
- for hospitals (installed in a bowl).
According to functions they are classified into groups:
- stirring;
- for whipping;
- cutting (grinding products).
Special attachments are available (perform only a specific action) and universal ones.
Attachments for immersion blenders
Nozzles of various designs are attached to the “leg”:
- main chopper (in the form of blade knives);
- attachments with a perforated crown (for preparing fruit, vegetable and meat purees);
- hook – reinforced design for kneading dough with a dense consistency, suitable only for devices with high power;
- whisks in the form of a circle or frames for mixing;
- vacuum attachment (included with trays).
Conventional whisk attachments allow you to whip light dough, creams, and protein mixtures into a fluffy foam. Vacuum nozzles are installed in containers with products, then air is pumped out from there. As a result, the shelf life of food increases significantly.
Attachments for stationary blenders
In such units, nozzles are installed in a bowl. The kit usually includes several different types of shredders (basic set), but there are models with an expanded set of additional elements.
Nozzles available:
- graters;
- for preparing dough of various consistencies;
- knives for chopping food
- slicing discs;
- for cutting into cubes;
- juicer;
- for crushing ice;
- for creating emulsions.
The cutting elements are mounted on a rod inside the container and driven by the device’s motor. The lid covering the container has a hole for adding ingredients without stopping the blender.
Knives of blade designs are designed for grinding. Made from stainless steel, due to their strength, they grind and crush products of varying degrees of hardness. Knives and grating devices are installed in special disc holders. Used for slicing, producing vegetable or fruit shavings, and noodles. Since the cutting elements are arranged in fragments, sometimes defects “slip through” - large pieces.
Attachments for obtaining cubes consist of a special mesh, through the cells of which the product is pressed, and knives. When extruding, the cutting elements cut off the extruded part, producing a cube.
Using a paddle attachment, ice cubes and crushed ice are obtained, and a cone with vertical holes and ribs is convenient for preparing freshly squeezed juice from lemons, oranges or tangerines.
All types of blenders have dough attachments. Kinds:
- paddle attachment – kneads light, low-viscosity dough;
- rotating hook - for thick dough.
The latest models of blenders include a spiral attachment designed to produce emulsions of uniform consistency. When using a whisk to mix two ingredients, air ingress makes it difficult to achieve uniformity. A vertically rotating spiral prevents such contact; the compounds are screwed into each other and distributed evenly.
