Augh! Knobs on my KA cooktop disintegrated again!

[mattl]

We've had this Kitchen Aid gas cooktop since about 1990. I like it, and I do have a problem with the igniters but...

Every year it seems with out fail the shafts on 2 or 3 of the control knobs will disintegrate. They sort of crumble. The knobs on the top are fine. Problem is each knob costs $10+, and I'd guess I've spent over $200 in knobs over the years. anyone else have this problem?

I'd love to be able to buy just the stem end and pop it into the upper portion of the knob but I've never come across them. The cooktop is Almond so I can't use generic knobs. With the cost of a few more knobs I could have replaced the cooktop, which is ridiculous.

Anyone have a source for cheap knobs or ones that will last?

 

[mattl]

Good Grief!!!!!

I just checked at Repair Clinic where I usually get them and they are now $17.25 plus shipping!!!

http://www.repairclinic.com/SSPartDetail.aspx?s=b121a13c251i3215&PartID=3215

 

[toggleswitch2]

Ok so what are you doing that your shaft and knob is getting damaged?

Chemicals?
Sunlight
Toxic air?



Can you get an aftermarket generic replacement?

 

[panthera]

Steve, Steve, Steve

I've already upset Robert once this week, now you made me spit my coffee all over the monitor...

At least, when they put me in that little wooden boot, lashed to the mast and set it on fire, I'll have the comfort of knowing you're tied up there with me.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Think *PLAIN VANILLA*

~I'll have the comfort of knowing you're tied up there with me.

May work for you. Doesn't do much for me. No reflection on you.

 

[pdub]

Matt

Try going to the KitchenAid website and join their forums. You can see if others have had this same problem and / or you can ask the experts there if KA has come up with a fix for this since this can't be only happening to you.

I had good luck with them in the past with a small appliance exchange. Try the link and browse the forums.

Patrick

http://www.kitchenaidconversations.com/

 

[panthera]

Toggles,

That's me - tho' I confess the best breakfasts in the world are to be found in the Greek Mountains.

Honey from bees who have been buzzing in those incredibly aromatic herbs.
Joghurt made from with 10% fat from ewe's milk.

Those incredible egg-tomato-olive oil novelettes with pepper and lemon zest.

Coffee which comes in three flavors: super-sweet, ultra-sweet and, "would you like some coffee in your sugar" sweet.

Nothing and I do mean nothing would ever entice me to live in Athens, not even the natural history museum could do it. But Greek breakfasts, o my paws and whiskers.

So anyway, I was even going to let <ou play Cassandra, and me Ulysses, but hey, if that's how you feel about it, I guess we'll just have to let it be.

Sniff.

 

[panthera]

um, make that

omelets.
Too much sun out today.

 

[alanlendaro]

Keven and Steve.....

I think I missed something, but I now want to smoke a cigarette.... and I never smoked in my life!

 

[panthera]

Alan,

You didn't miss anything, unless you never go to Greece.

The Mediterranean countries like to answer the Northern European claim to having better organized nations:

Well, yes - one must allow, you do have civilization.

We, however are culture.

It's true. You gotta go. Italy and Greece are absolutely must see-smell-hear-feel-tastes.

 

[alanlendaro]

i just didnt get the connection between...

being tied up on the boat and breakfast in the Greek Mountains.

Haven' been to Europe or Greece yet. Someday...

But I know what you mean about the food...

 

[panthera]

Alan,

I was just teasing Steve, who very well knows both who Cassandra is and Ulysses, and will well suppose why I decided not to be Cassandra, him being Mr. Plain Vanilla.

Which I am, too.

But, yeah - it still blows mind after 26 years here just how incredible Europe is and how much folks here just take it for granted.