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Carried away, never lol

Harvest Gold, Avocado and White Mixmasters. I have the chrome one as well, just not hte elusive turquoise one , yet. I did find one at an antique mall but wasn't going to spend something like $180 for it.

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Do You Have a Light?

What an orgasmic thread. I still love and use Sunbeam exclusively. I have a Sandalwood MM I bought with Aspargus picking money in 1968.  The gears are beginning to wear and I expect one day in the not too distant future it will require a transplant to continue as the daily driver.  I put new brushes in it last year.

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I need to organize better - a Sunbeam Department.  Such beautiful mixers, all.    The model 12 is my favorite mixer too.  After years of using my '92 KitchenAid, I fell in love with the 12 and ran off with him.  I drag the KA out for heavy tasks, but the Sunbeam is the daily driver, there's nothing like egg whites from the Sunbeam.  I found a very nice white 12 with white bowls a few weeks ago, then saw this last weekend.  The picture is more flattering than the machine was, but still...

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Austalian Design

All Sunbeam Mixmasters are made in Australia.  Whether the sleek Euro style Pete pictured or the smaller body/ normal Sunbeam all share the same motor, that is extremely powerful and whisper quiet.  The beaters on the new Sunbeams have no center post, the metal blades are thick and have no concave contouring of the blades.  I find them exceptional for batter and terrible at whipping because the beaters are like clubs.  The Heritage series, another Australian design has not faired well at all here in the US.  The motor that drives the bowl quits and then the bowl cannot be rotated, even by hand.  Sunbeam has a two year over the counter replacement gaurantee but no repairs on any Sunbeams in the past 5 - 8 years.  That said the Australian designed Mixmaster is an excellent value as long as you don't over load the mixer and burn out the fuse.

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The first electric skillet that is in this thread is exactly like the one that Kelly gifted to me when I was looking for a skillet that had a tilt leg.  That beauty works flawlessly, and I won't trade her for a million bucks.  Several years ago at an estate/tag sale I found a Sunbeam electric pencil sharpener.  It has a beige plastic body, and a pullout black plastic front that has the shavings tray attached to it.  It sits proudly on the left side of my computer monitor.

 

Quite some time ago I mentioned that I was looking for a skillet with a tilt leg, and a cover that could act as a splatter shield, well lo and behold a few days later a package arrived on my front stoop.
 
Gorgeous Stuff!

Somewhere I have a lovely turquoise Mixmaster, even used to have a pristine matching bowl, but an earthquake knocked it off a display shelf and that was the end of the bowl.  Sigh . . .
 
Here is Paul and Chris in there home & Mike and me during last year's summer trip.
This was Sunbeam day in the morning.
What a great time !
 
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Darren k
 
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