How to fix a Russell Hobbs Emma Bridgewater food mixer that won't switch on. 

Cheers Dean I volunteer in a Repair Café, where locals can bring in all sorts of things for repair, instead of just throwing it out. These types of videos are just Gold! Love the detective work, but how I hate those plastic clips! Thank you so much for all the work you do. All the best...

Thank you! This was our exact problem. The mixer just suddenly died whilst in use. I knew it was not the motor as it had only ever seen light use. I found your video and a quick check with the multimeter confirmed it was the KW11-3Z tact switch. I could not repair it but a couple on pound on Ebay bought replacements. It is now back up and running. I really feel that this tact switch is a case of planned obsolescence. The replacement tact switch I used has a more robust spring system inside rather than shoddy original one.

Is there anything this guy cant fix ? I don't think there is. Very Talented.

A good lesson on persistence and patience while relying on experience and skill!!

Thanks so much for this video! I'd started down the same path and exhausted the supply, first microswitch and was about to start disassembling the whole thing when I thought I'd Google first, and found this! I popped out the board and checked my switch, it was covered in grease and so I did the same as you, but the inside of my switch was slightly different and there was no way to bend up the contact far enough. I think the spring, which appears to be made from cutting and bending the contact arm, has lost its ability to spring, so I replaced the switch with a standard 5A one (the one in there was rated at 5A). Rather than unsolder the wires from the board, I snipped them from the switch I was removing, soldered and heatshrinked a couple of similar gauge wires onto the new switch, and used a couple of Wago connectors to join the new switch onto the existing wires. It worked a dream, and if I ever need to remove the switch and replace it again it'll be even quicker! Thanks so much again for a very helpful video!😊

Mate, I'm buggered if I know how you put it all back together again. Me, I would strip it then put it in the bin as I would have Lost my way. Good on you mate

Great video, thanks. I had the exact same fault and packed the microswitch out a bit as the plunger just wasnt doing it and it works. This was the second time, the first one was replaced under warranty and they didn't even want it back! I would not have had a clue without your video!

Moral of the story, check everything you can see before the things you can not. Great job either way, super informative. Keep up the great work.

It is fun to see you that knows how to open a drill with closed eyes to struggle with something you havent open before. I say it with love.

Get that man a cigar,admire you're patience

Worktop surface looks clean and nice

Dodged a bullet not finding any plastic welded, sonic welded bits. Actual physical screws Ooooo posh 😉.

This is so timely. After watching all your power took fixes my mother's 30+ year-old Kenwood Chef recently packed in with exactly the same issue and I wondered if you'd repaired something similar. My first through was it's the rotary potentiometer but I didn't have the courage to take it all apart. Having watched you disassemble this very similar mixer I think I'll give it a shot. Thanks Dean!

Dean your genius

Masterclass fix! Phenomenal mechanical and electronics skills.

This guy is the James Condon of power tools and appliances.

A man of patience and loads of common sense , brilliant.

Nice showing of your diagnostic strategy and troubleshooting skills. Goes to show that if one knowns basic principles, they can make the repair. Well done.

Customer gets charged one birthday cake and be nice to the on/off switch. Great explanation at the end, I was thinking bypass the micro switch.

This channel never gets boring. Ive never heard of this name brand ill have to look it up

Thank you so much I did repaired my mixer just following your steps 🙏🏻❤

I get a kick when he takes a unit apart and just tosses the parts on the work bench

For taking a lot of modern small appliances apart, a set of mechanics trim tools will pay for itself over and over. Makes taking clipped plastic cases apart easier and very little chance of damage to plastic cases as your unclipping them. The micro switches may be available from switch electronics, they normally stock a few types of mini micro switch and they're good to deal with.

Her indoors will be pleased.

Great diagnosis work as always Dean, very impressive persistence.

What a whole lot of work to get it apart. Thanks for sharing your learning curve.

Thanks! I love watching your tool repairs but this was a pleasure. Love seeing all things that can be repaired, being repaired. Well done.

Merry Xmas Dean thanks for all the top quality repairs mate - learned loads from your channel

A food mixer :D Mery Christmass Dean :)

Wow is there nothing dean cant repair how he knows were everything goes after he just puts them on bench in no order amazes me I would have bits left over 😂😂😂😂😂

Hope Emma Bridgewater wasn't the one on the production line who jammed that microswitch peg and put a half pint of grease on it! Nice job on the troubleshooting. Happy Christmas!

The little skill drill looks perfect, I got the wera 816ra for Christmas, nice little screwdriver. Nice fix on that machine mate

I love your vids. They gave me confidence to try to fix my dead dishwasher. Problem was a 41p AC converter chip. 8 quid shipping !!!! Cheeeeers.

Good man Dean.Great video.

I guessed it would be a switch problem, had the same problems with a coffee machine & an air fryer, these switches are of poor quality and are underrated for the load across the contacts. My 60 year old Kenwood chef mixer is still going strong, modern stuff is designed to fail just out of warranty.......

This shows the difference between a product that is meant to be thrown out vs repaired.

Happy New Year Dean, it is fantastic to learn from you. Every Day Is A School Day...

Merry Christmas! Love your videos!

Well.done. nothing beat you yet😅

It looks like it could have had pto's for accessories at the top, and the front, had a similar issue with a pressure washer switch , fortunately it was double pole and i just moved the wires to the unused poles, nice fix Dean 👍

Son chucked a brand new Lidl electric fan heater onto my bench this evening - he bought it today as his rooms baltic. However, no heat emerged. Nada. There was a tinge of desperation as he asked me to look at it. Like I said, it's baltic here. A refund/exchange wouldn't heat his room tonight, lol. Pulled it apart - I assume these get zero testing or quality control before they hit the shelves - thermistor was dead from factory. Heater had never heated & would never heat, right from new. Bypassed that, chucked it back at him & he now has heat - but it says a multitude about what the current state of play is - they're getting assembled, boxed & shipped, with no testing. Much the same appears to apply to car parts right now - factory duds abound.

So patience is the key, lol. wow what a mare that looks just to undo. lesson learned though to check everything you can before taking something apart. I'm so glad i found your channel as many a thing like this would end up in landfill (Not that I'm an eco warrior or anything). Thanks for the educational video m8.

Top man, most gratifying...

Happy Christmas mate 🎄

I really thought that circlip was gonna be much harder to reinstall but maybe you've got the technique mastered.

Impressive 🙌

When l saw those spots all over it,l figured it had Covid and karked it. But no,.. Dr Dean to the rescue. 😉

Consider getting a fibreglass pencil to clean those contacts without damaging the plate metal.

Thank you. This is probably the only video on this mixer. Guess what,, My daughter's had the same microswitch issue. unfotunately it isn' t still working. I suspect it's now the motor end. Do you know what the 3 wires going to the motor are? Are they some sort of speed control or sense rotation? Also is it a DC motor with brushes then?. Shame on Russell Hobbs for this rubbish. So many people having issues with this model. The Microswitches are KW11-3Z Roller Arc lever Snap Action- about £1 for 10 on ali express.

Trying to find replacement micro switches is sometimes more work than its worth, some sizes are impossible to find

That switch will fail again eventually and its best to replace them, they are only a couple of £ in UK. Had similar fault with a very expensive Kenwood(£350 machine, £2 for a replacement switch), its just on mine it was the other safety microswitch. By the way, get yourself a set of mini files, they are great addition to a workshop :)

Poxey looking thing 😆. I didn't see why the micro switch plunger was on it's side. Did you knock it over or did something in the mixer cause it,i wonder 🤔. Awesome fix. Love watching your vids. Thumbs up 👍.

Haha what a pain in the arse. Great fix tho brother! Something so simple.

how do we get in? a cheeky smile and some good drinks like always😂

Bets on life of the repaired micro switch? Thanke for your time and skills. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Good work how much did you charge for the job?

What type of grease do you use on impact/drill gearboxes? Is it #2 white lithium grease?

Nice fix, Dean and Merry Christmas !! I'm guessing that the top section with the broken Tab would have been for a Blender as an optional extra.

thats crazy. just a tiny bent contact shuts down the whole operation

Nice diag's but that switch is toast, it should toggle and click to prevent arching that's why it has that curved spring in the lever that is there to punch it up and down but having arched it no longer works only cure is a new switch.

Limited edition Russell Hobbs is a masterpiece of exceptional engineering. She’s a bueat. Nice one Dean.

That was a troubleshooting tour de force!

is that a new surface on you work bench?

This was originally a 6 & half hour video but I deleted the swear-words..😂..Dean ya have more patience than the NHS mate ..all the best t you & ya family f the New Year marra.. 👍

tab is screwed likely these were sold in two variants. one where it could run a liquidiser jug inserted into the top ( via a suitable pulley attachment to mate with the jug ), the other sold without this option, thus they screwed the tab and if you notice the jug attachment gear is missing form factory. @dean , you were working late !

I don't feel so bad about the Toro snowblower I fumbled with a little too longer than I should have. Only to find out the gasket I installed in the carburetor- folded over itself during installation. I swore up and down it wasn't the carburetor I just rebuilt.... checked everything else, only to circle back around and find I f#cked up.

Top job Dean brilliant, ignore the advice from the armchair fixers.

you would wonder how these were mass produced given the complex disassembly

Thanks a Lot for the Video! I’ve got the same problem on my WMF Maschine, which has the same components but in a Aluminium enclosure. I’ve just smack the potentiometer button a few times, then the Maschine starts working again. After resting, it won’t start. Smack - everything fine again. Freaking crappy design. First I thought it would be a faulty potientiometer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Tidy that new lino you've got on your workbench

The strange part for me is how can a Microswitch adjust the speed , i could'nt see any other wires i understand the circuitry will do the speed control, i also noticed some numbers on the chrome know and as you increased the speed increased .. thats got me baffled as the only thing i could see is the mirco switch

You reckon Wera tools are worth the money?

That's a weird concrete mixer

Jeez, dont you ever sleep? Merry Crimo BTW....

🤘😎🤘

This spotted white ghost will return and haunt you. You should have changed that micro switch for a new one!!!

HEY Deano, No good deed goes Unpunished.... mixers are ONLY THE BEGINNING... also , WHAT or who is a Russell Hobbs Emma? or a bridgewater?, ... the US and IRE.. 2 Great nations separated by a common language... LOL

Goddamn is this design fugly! The polka-dot, I mean. Just slapped together in 5 minutes. Limited effing edition...

That turned out to be more than a teeny weeny polka dot macheeny. Fiddly stuff. Well done!

What a nightmare. The kitchenaid was so much easier.

Rs components on line next day delivery they will have everything you will ever need

Wera fans died inside when he called the wera driver a wiha

And you did'nt even get your hands dirty. ha ha

Yes he can fix the ugly, wat they make spray paint for 😂

This have to be more expensive to repair than to buy a new one it's like 40 € new

What a janky piece of crap blender.

There should be laws against building suck garbage