Mate, can I just say THANK YOU! That was so helpful, especially the tip about placing a towel in the back to hold the axle in place. Thanks for taking the time.
Wow! Thanks Bob. My bottom screw stuck out just enough to tease me but couldn't get a good grip on it. I used a wash cloth to hold the fan at the bottom like you did and it did the trick. I thought it would snap but tried it as a last resort and now I'm in business. Thanks for the tip!
Thanks alot man, managed to get it off in minutes thanks to your vid. The plastic gear had actually broken off on mine leaving only the brass piece but a pair of vise grip locking pliers done the job. Can use use my nutribullet again :)
Using a rag to hold the fan whilst you turn the top gear is genius, I'd never of thought of that. Using a flat blade on the screw was hopeless for me, with the rag it came strait off :) Nice! Thank you!
Bob! Thankyou! You just saved me a load of money! I was doing it wrong using a vice grip and screw driver for my first attempt... but the towl technique was the key! Thankyou for your wisdom and problem curiosity! Blessings from the UK!
Same, thank you from Carol in the uk , very helpful the plastic just snapped of leaving me with the screw ? Hope this works. It's a much better way . 😌
Thank you. This gave me the confidence to try a repair but I needed two things: - a ‘gripper’ plyer for stripped screws to grab the pin a regular needle nose wasn’t doing it. - the fan wasn’t gripping so I had to file the end of a larger screwdriver to get a grip on the underside.
Thank you so much for this video! After spending a half hour trying to unscrew that damn base gear I was ready to give up. This took me 2 seconds and worked like a charm.
Thanks Bob for this video - the technique worked for the nutri-pro as well. Just a little tip if you've got this model - there are just two exposed screws in the base and one under the warning sticker
I tried the screw and I only managed to strip it. Then I tried holding the fan like the video and the fan would shift, I feared I was stripping it. As a last ditch effort I used a lighter and warmed up the fan in the center and used pliers to pull the fan off. Once the fan was off I could use pliers on the shaft of the screw and then at the top used vice grips and twist per the video's instructions and that worked. So I got what was left of the base gear off (same as in the video above). I replaced the base gear. The fan is no longer pristine, but I warmed it back up and slid it back over the screw head. Waited for the fan to cool and tested the Nutribullet. I tried everything else, but this worked for me.
Thanks man, that trick with the tea towel worked for me, was trying for over an hour with pliers and a screw driver, tried WD40 and turning, nothing, palms are raw! Watched this vid held the fan with a tea towel and voila!!!!
Mine was jammed on there. Using it twice a day for 4 years, I guess it really tightened up. I had to take the whole base off and put a thin vice grips on the shaft between the motor and fan. I used another vice grips clamped to the gearwheel and it came off. Thanks for the video, esp the reverse thread info.
Took me a while to do this. This video definitely help but I needed to us a Universal Socket Wrench. Tried everything else and nothing worked until this. It is screwed on so tightly and the Universal Socket Wrench once I had a firm grip did it in seconds.
Thanks for this. The towel worked a little differently for me. The plastic fan sort of stripped off the hub it was on. Which worked well because I could put some pliers over the bottom hub. Needed vice grips on the top hub - which all the plastic had shattered off of. I'd say if it breaks again, it will be 2 years or so and I'll be ready to get a Vitamix or something. I just don't understand why this part is plastic. It should be stainless steel or cast aluminum.
Hey, thanks much for the video, couldn't figure out for the life of me how to hold that prop still easily, towel saved my hand from being chewed up. THANKS.
Hi. I'm in the UK and have a Nutri Ninja BL480 Auto-iQ that I need to dismantle. It's not the same as yours but your technique is helping - I haven't finished yet. As an aside the background radio on your video was driving me nuts! A bit like the same on Pink Floyd's The Wall album. But hey, I think I can forgive you... Cheers
If you clamp a Vise-Grip onto the brass gear to hold it and then use a screwdriver to turn the screwhead in the middle of the fan CLOCKWISE (as you point out), the brass gear will unscrew. I guess it was too tight in this case... otherwise I don't know why the towel maneuver was needed (but good solution). At any rate, +1 for you.
I cannot understand, mine will not come off, this is so frustrating, I am turning clockwise and everything. I have tried countless time with so much strength to try and budge the cog, its starting to flake the brass off the cog teeth, im ready to give up. I don't get how everyone's is so simple mine is impossible to budge, please any tips!!!!
Where do i get a replacement part? I'm not even sure this is the problem, my machine just stopped working, I have kept it meticulously clean for past 6 years. March 2014-20.
I can't get the plastic thing off. Did everything according to the video. Went clockwise to unscrew it, it just spins, even though I'm holding the base of the motor with a towel. I don't think mine will come apart and now I've damaged it further with the plyers. 😰
I tried this, but when holding the fan (bottom) with the towel and turning the top gear with vice grips, it stripped out the fan so it just slipped on the gear. I guess I could take it all the way apart and grab the actual shaft below the gear, but at some point it's a lost cause I guess.
I was not able to remove the gear. My nutribullet gear is broken. I can only see the screw and the clear plastic is not there any longer. How do I remove that screw. It is actually harder than it looks.
I've tried everything..turned in upside down in boiling water enough to heat the screw..nothing. tried the screwdriver and pliers. Nope..Tried the tea towel, which is better than the screw driver but still won't budge..I've sprayed WD40 on it..nope..Tight as!
see, they don't want you to actually fix this. They want you to give up in frustration and blow 100 bucks on a new one. Fuck that. I am going to maybe get a BlendTec blender. Yeah, they are expensive, but they seem way more built to last.
Email me your website please to learn how to fix the RU-vid body property as well. Thanks and Happy Father's Day by next week tomorrow by the first day of summer solstice!
Very helpful, thank you for the information. I don't seem to get the name of your website to buy the replacement, could you please drop the name this comment section.? Bobsstuf.com website is another website.