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Whatever you do, don't buy one,,,,you need to buy two!
If you plan on using it more than once, you will need the second one when the first lets you down in the middle of a large project
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As the picture shows, I am the unhappy owner of three of them. I think I can lay claim to being an experienced user. So, why do I have three if I don't like them? Well since you asked let me tell you how it cam to be!
I bought the first one for a sidewalk project. Worked good. I was happy then. Then a neighbor wanted to use it. He returned it and claimed it didn't work when he went to use it. I assumed he used too small of an extension cord as I plugged it in and it seemed to work fine. Of course it was empty and I didn't think to load the drum with water for weight. Later on I started another section of sidewalk. There I was with a pallet of 60 lb bags of sakrite and a hired helper. I started to mix a bag and to my surprise the drum would stop with the motor reset popped. I knew I had a heavy extension cord so I assumed the neighbor had burned up the motor. So with the project started and a pallet of sakrite that I didn't feel like moving inside, I ran to Lowe's and bought another one. Got the project done and decided to see if I could fix the bad mixer.
I was amazed to find the worm gear worn to the point that you couldn't even tell it used to be a gear. I thought that was strange as it didn't have that much use. Maybe 120 bags. I believe there are about 60 bags on a pallet of 60 pounders. I religiously kept the vegetable oil cup full. Surely it should last longer than that. But I find from experience that 2 pallets is about all you get.
The mixer on the right is the original one I bought it 2005. It has had the worm gear replaced but now needs it again. The one on the left is the second one I bought. When I replaced the worm gear on the first mixer I had ordered two gears since the original didn't last long. As I remember they were almost $35 each. I think that was because the distributor constructioncomplete.com was gouging people for this part. I would think the manufacture would help us out and sell us this part at a decent price. I know this piece of plastic crap doses not cost them more than a dollar each. They know they have a problem because they changed the design but did nothing, absolutely nothing to help the poor suckers that bought the first models.
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The Type B has a nylon worm gear that doesn't last very long.
I found sites on the internet that claims the Type C has an iron gear.
The Type D uses an inline l5hp motor with a sealed gear system. It has thermal overload protection and an on/off switch. It is rated at 3 1/2 cu. ft. mixer.
After much online research for an electric concrete mixer for mixing up bags of Quikcrete for making raised bed garden borders I settled on the Red Lion brand. My researched showed they had some problems with their Type B & C models that used "drip oiling" in conjunction with a right angle drive.
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Too bad you didn't bother to call Red Lion and ask about the mixers. They would
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longer. Shame on you for downing a good product that you used incorrectly.
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