Man lives for science as well as bread

Another dark and dreary day here in Hampshire, very windy too. Not as bad as some places in the country though.

I went to set up the bread machine for tomorrow and it the kneading paddle wasn't moving as freely as it should. The machine is getting old and it's been used every day for years so it's seen quite a bit of abuse. I had ago at dismantling the assembly and cleaning out the baked crud that had worked it's way into the mechanism. Either it's now fixed or the various gaskets and washers are so perished that I need to either buy a while new pan or just replace the machine. Annoyingly a new pan costs 60% of the price of a whole new machine with extra features and a shiny new warranty...

This picture is a blip of the transfer assembly at the bottom of the pan that takes the motion from the motor in the machine and transfers into the bread via the kneading paddle. the observant will notice that the C-clip isn't very tight... Tomorrow we'll try it out on a dough only program to see if it's usable, before trying to run it hot.

The title is a quote from William James, who I've never heard of, but I do rather like it now I've found it.