Hand 2 Stand Mixer

It's the holidays, time to bake all your favorites. This is the only time of year we wish we had one of those $300 dollar stand mixers that makes easy work out of our heavy batter fruitcake. Having in hand our Hamilton Beach speed mixer, a bit FreeCAD design and a few prototypes produced an acceptable stand for the hand mixer. 

One of the advantages of this mixer stand is it easily collapses down to fit into a drawer for storage. No need to keep that big heavy white elephant on your counter because it does not fit in any of your cabinets. 

B.O.M.

your choice of filament
1 small self tapping screw
3 longish zip ties, length depends upon your mixer

The FreeCAD FCSd file has a spread sheet of the fundamental parameters for the model. You may have to adjust some of the part sizes to adapt to you own particular hand mixer. 

You should not glue any of the parts together, the stand is sturdy just inserting the pylon into the base. 

I had the two bowls from my defunct Oster Kitchen Center so I designed the bowl platter to hold them. You may have to adjust the size and placement of the grooves in the FreeCAD spreadsheet to fit your bowls. 

I added a “calibration” block to align the beaters to vertical. You must adjust the size of this block to suite your particular mixer, it's a measure print and pray deal. See explode2.