I'm definately going to pick up the next used one I find if it is cheap. (and if it "works" and all). I know how all the gears and guts of things are made out of plastic (or nylon as you said). It's the same way with Kitchen Aid mixers, and I have one that is just a couple years old. I'm scared it will die. Everything else I get tears up!
Linda: OMG! :!: the new Kitchen Aid Mixers have plastic gears in them now? Are you talkng about the big stand-up mixers? :? I have the 1974 Kitchen Aid, the first model of the current style Hobart Released. It is all metal gears inside. Here I was hoping for a new to me 6 quart sometime in the next 20 years... hmmm maybe not! :roll: Thanks for the heads up!
Paula