Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site tekgvs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!jerem From: jerem@tekgvs.UUCP (Jere Marrs) Newsgroups: net.cooks Subject: KitchenAid is in Danger. Message-ID: <1039@tekgvs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 00:59:52 EST Article-I.D.: tekgvs.1039 Posted: Fri Jan 18 00:59:52 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Jan-85 01:46:15 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 34 It was reported the other night on "The Nightly Business Report" that The Hobart Corporation of Troy, Ohio is selling its KitchenAid division to Whirlpool. Their trash compactor and dishwasher are being sold to yet another company but will be marketed by Whirlpool. One can only hope that Whirlpool will maintain the quality or, indeed, the same product line as Hobart, but that's improbable. I have bought parts for my ten-year-old KitchenAid coffee mill and rebuilt it. Other coffee mills a riveted together. The food preparers, the k-5A and the K45 are similarly quality in construction. My K45 is ten years old also and is flawless. Will we be able to get parts for them 5, 10 years from now? What about brushes for the motors? I hate to see quality companies disappear. Hobart will continue to manufacture their fine welders, but that won't help us in the kitchen. Buy your spare parts now. If you're in the Portland area, the parts warehouse is over in Milwaukie: Hobart Sales & Service 5759 SE International Way Milwaukie, Oregon (Just off Hwy. 224 at Harmony Rd.) (503)653-9950 Jere M. Marrs Tektronix, Inc. tektronix!tekgvs!jerem