First PC project

[c2rower]

In November of 2008 I bought a 20 qt Hobart mixer for my wife’s Birthday for $1100 on CL. They go for $1200 to $1800 on Ebay depending on condition. It was built in 1969 and weighs 200 lbs. I brought it home and marveled at it and thought it would be neat to do a restoration with a PC finish. It’s built like an old Fod 8N tractor. So before she even used it I completely tore it down to bare castings. I went on CL and bought a 2 stage compressor and convection oven, then got a sandblast cabinet, IR temp sensor and the Caswell import gun.
Here is what it looked like when I brought it home:








And it sat that way till about a month ago. She went on strike and said she was not going to bake any bread till I put the damn thing back together. So I had to get my butt in gear. A lot of lurking on this forum gave me the confidence to get started.




The castings were very heavy; and I was very intimidated at this for a first project. Prepping the castings took a lot of work (stripping, filling and smoothing). That old cast iron is HARD. The convection oven helped heat things up more uniformly and the temp sensor was indespensible.

I replaced all the bearings and seals in the 3 speed transmission. I’d be embarrassed to say how many hours I have in the whole project.

[c2rower]

taken apart:

[c2rower]

[c2rower]

Had to make special handling tooling:

[c2rower]

It's not perfect but overall I am pleased with it. We had fresh baked bread tonight!

[c2rower]

I bought the compressor for $250 and spent $100 rebuilding it. I built an after cooler. The GE convection oven was $50. i built a little spray booth on top of it.

[ben2go]

I can't believe no one commented on this.

That is one sweet mixer.I had one when I managed a chain of pizza shacks.Actually it was only 4 carryout shacks.Ours was the same except ours was a 3 speed with a 30 gallon bowl,IIRC.It was over 5' tall.I think we ran 100lbs of pizza dough through it every night.Ahhh a miss spent youth.

Sweet deal on the compressor,and great job on the cooler.I'll have to steal that design when I get a large compressor.

[drizzle]

LOL I'm impressed for a newb! I like the attention to detail! c2rower, why did you make an after cooler?

[ben2go]

Help prevent moister build up in the air system.