What I found inside looked a lot like Green Goddess salad dressing. That's because they are similar, oil and water emulsion. After letting the gears drip for a while, we flipped the mixer and I wiped the gears down as much as possible, trying to remove as much of the emulsion as possible. Since there are lots of places for the liquid to hide, it was impossible to get it all out without a complete tear down or better equipment than we had on site. When we refilled it with oil, topping it off as much as possible, we rotated the gears some and observed that some of the emulsion was being mixed into the new oil by the gears. That made an interesting pattern and Evelyn took a couple of shots of it. The gears looked to all be in good shape, no apparent wear or excessive rust from the emulsion.
Evelyn said she's doing a painting from the crop - maybe she'll share a photo of the painting?
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JUDITH WILLIAMS wrote:
That's very interesting. I never even knew that I was supposed to add oil to anything. I had observed foam on top of the batch when done mixing and reasoned that it had to be coming from somewhere so when the group was here in Sept Spaceman was kind enough to pull the whole thing apart. We had to flip the mixer on its back to get at it Now, Spaceman will have to give the specifics of what he found in there. I just know that it was in pretty good shape for not having been maintained at all for 4 years. And Spaceman, could you please share that lovely pic of the gears with the oil on them? And the one you cropped so you can't tell what it is.
This is a good example of the kind of posts that are interesting, helpful, and on topic. Thanks Ron.
Sincerely, Judith
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