So what would you do?
 

Wife's old Cuisinart food processor finally isn't working right. 17 yrs-old and the buttons have finally given up buttoning (see picture).:(

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I don't really feel right giving this away to Goodwill or Salvation Army in this condition as it may be hazardous to someone's health.

How would you dispose of it?:confused:

All the attachments are good to go. I'd love to keep them as spares but, she doesn't have room to store them and neither do I. We already have the new one in place on the counter top. Interestingly, they went back to an old design of paddle levers to replace the buttons. Surprised the heck out of me when I opened the box this morning. I thought it would be a direct/same replacement model. It was a pleasant surprise. :D

Shytecan it. We had to get new blades due to a recall. Seems they would shatter and leave metal pieces in whatever you were chopping. Didn't happen to us but was a problem with earlier food processors.

Yeah, we got the new blades for this one.

What is it in me that just hates to toss 'good' stuff in the trash?
The mixing bowl etc are all like new.
Only thing wrong is the dang buttons. And they don't sell replacements for them, I looked.

If the buttons aren’t working it no longer should be considered “good stuff” if it can’t be repaired.


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Were your parents children of the Depression generation? Mine were. My dad taught me to never throw anything away. He never said anything, but my grandmother talked about the days they got by on one small meal a day. They hoarded every scrap of stuff they couldn't use until someone came by who could use it. It's still hard for me to get rid of stuff, but people around here are so awash with possessions that nobody wants my old stuff. I don't need it, but can't bring myself to send it to the dump. They have old stuff of their own.

Why? It hasn't stopped anyone else from giving junk to the Thrifts..People test before they buy. Ask me how I know.

You shoulda bought a Robo Coupe..Which at one time invented and owned Cuisinart..They are commercial Processors..

I have a coupl of the vintage Robo Coupe Cuisinarts made in the late 70's and early 80'S. They are sought after as a lot of people like them. They are made in France and not China.

Yes, they were.
Dad saved lots of stuff.
My brother and I were able to complete a lot of projects from his stuff alone.
It's funny, my brother, in getting his new place together, has been re-purposing a lot of stuff. When we were building the mezzanine in his shop, we'd always say 'That's how Dad would have done it.' Our Dad haunts both of us in how we do whatever we're doing. Especially if we're building something.

Just leave it by your curb....someone will be over soon to pick it up....... :D

I remember when mom washed and dried aluminum foil, she'd get several uses out of it.
And they'd never throw out the rubber band from the newspaper, that was wasteful.

One time the clothes dryer died and was beyond all repair attempts, so dad got an old dryer from the scrap yard for $2 and got it working, but the drum rollers on one side were shot and he didn't have replacements.
So he built a wooden stand so the dryer was angled, with one side higher than the other by about a foot!
That would use gravity to keep tension on the belt and keep it from slipping, mostly. But it always seemed to smell a little like burning rubber.

About 10 years ago I was at his house and he was repairing an old string of Christmas lights.
He got it working after about an hour and I mentioned that he could have driven to the store and bought $5 worth of lights faster than it took to fix those old ones.
He said "yep, but now I have working lights AND $5".

The other day i told my wife that the shower door in the master bath is only a year old and lots nicer than the one in the front bath, so when we redo the master shower I can take that door and replace the old one with it and save some money.
She said I sound like my dad, and I thought that was a nice compliment.

i'd toss it into my garbage.

I'll admit that it was hard, but I just did that.

hahha..i get it.

i have a pair of work boots i've walked to the garbage can twice..i keep kicking them back under my desk..

I really should start a thread on how my brother is re-doing his new place. I think you guys would get a kick out of it.

Email their customer support. Say it was awesome and can't believe this is going to send it to the garbage. You never know...

Do you make jerky or sausage? Anything that gets aced out of the kitchen goes to the garage or the grill to be repurposed to "outside duty".

Heck, I have an old cookie sheet sitting under the 911 as we speak.

Recycle, right?

They have private corporation drop off places that pay for bulk quantities of that kind of stuff here. They are happy to have you thrown it on their pile when you drive by.

After 17 yrs I think it's seen its life span. I'm willing to let it go now.

You would not believe the plethora of pans I have sitting out in the garage. Cookie sheets, old refer trays (they have nice sides on them to contain the oil), pie tins, it's out there.:D

Uh, not exactly, but it'll do.

take it apart

re-rig the motor to do something in the garage

mixing bowl, etc. become spares

buttons can go in trash or give them to some kids as toys

My garage is already full of 'spares' that my wife would love to have me toss out.

rent a storage unit

or just admit you need a 12 steps program for spring cleaning...

I think that is probably the answer.

Set it out on the curb. A guy down in FL might be driving by and will pick it up!

I don't want to give the neighbors ideas.

I have a box in the basement with tools and appliances that are wonky or outright broken. I keep thinking I'll come across a switch or other part and voila it's fixed. Yes my parents lived thru the Depression. As a kid if we left a fingers worth of milk in a glass we caught a lecture.

We were told the old Navy adage: Take all you want but eat all you take.

We don't have basements here in CA. If we did, I'm sure mine would be way too full of 'stuff' to be of much use to me.

Sell the accessories if they won't fit your new one. We have the same one, but in black, that has peeling buttons too though they still work. For now.

We have spent nearly $100 in the last year on a new bowl and that razor sharp chopper blade - you could have made me a deal!

Part of me wonders if the whole top face couldn't be replaced with an "on-off-pulse" toggle switch. Nobody uses the "dough" thingy, right? I wonder if that could be done without being a kludge.

And throwing stuff out sucks. Nothing should ever wear out, darnit!

you could also build a trebuchet and use it as a launch vehicle for the Cuisinart

that would "add value"

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If you replace, get a model without those membrane switches..

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I have one that I inherited with simple manual switches, that is at least 40 years old..

Already did that Tim. Ordered it from Macy's. Wife had some 'free money' from them and they gave us another $40 off it for some reason or other. I'm not sure why.

Baz, I scanned down the responses and didn't see you had already posted! You got me!

The "recycling" thing is funny with the SO.....

Her: "I found these great sheet pans at Home Goods. They were so cheap, I just couldn't pass them up!"

Me: "But we have sheet pans, different sizes. They look good to me."

Her: "But these are better. They have a "Copper Coating", regularly $235 each but i got them for $15. You can use the old ones for your barbecuing and grilling. Here, you can take them outside and put them with your other stuff."

2 WEEKS LATER.....

Me: "Hey Babe, just got back from Home Depot. They had a killer deal on Vise Grips! Such a great deal, I picked up 2 and had this old pair in the garage that you can use on the stove instead of me having to buy a new knob"

Her: (Look of disgust ).

Now that is funny!

My dad would have taken it apart and fixed the buttons. I would wish that I'd do that but just stick it in a corner somewhere for years.

My dad would have too. Heck, I would have if I could have found parts for it, but the only things I could find were the attachments. I think they knew they had a bad design there and decided rather than support it further they'd just let it go. Helps sell new ones, but, at least they went back to a more robust system. I'll give them credit there.

in my yoot, I would have scrounged around and found two more machines that were broken and then tried to piece together one good one from the mess.
And then I'd save all the left over parts. Just in case.

I don't do that no more, scaled way down and simplified. It's much better this way.

Disclaimer - I'm an engineer :) - so I take broken things apart and fix them.

We had a garage door remote that the most frequently pushed button stopped functioning. I took it apart - and found the rubber nipple for that button on the membrane was broken. I super-glued a small piece of plastic in it's place, reassembled the remote and it works fine now.

Sorry guys, I'm not gonna dumpster dive my own trash can and pull it out just to take it apart.
I'm not, really, I'm not gonna do it, no matter what you all say.