Calling all Aldi cement mixer fans...

I suspect the chain is for holding something into position or stopping it going further than its normal setting?

One end connects to the frame of the mixer, the other to the ankle iron of the newly arrived Eastern European. Hurry up before the Chinese get him!

You'd think so, but I'll be damned if I can see where! It's only puny, too.

David

Throw some pics up of it in four different angle positions

Possibly attaches to a pin/peg to stop it getting lost. Does it have collapsible legs and a peg locking it in position.

Is it used for easing the drive belt on and off? If not, it must be a special free poking stick for poking people.

Possibly the other four go on the outside? I assume they are to prevent water leaking out.

Anywhere that'll shake loose.

It's always better to have too many parts rather than not enough..

sponix

This is for aligning the pulleys.

CRB

could be for locking the mixer drum in place while it mixes and taken out when the you empty the drum?

There could be even more after it's switched on :-)

Yup, I have seen some used like that - a bit like attaching the chuck key to the flex of the drill ;-)

LOL - it makes me glad I didn't buy one.. ;-)

Not everyone can put a flatpack together. ;-)

Buy another three mixers and you should have enough bits left over to build another one!

:-)

That's certainly the grade and length of chain you'd expect for that sort of job; but no, there's nothing like a locking pin anywhere. It's actually one of the machines's disadvantages which I can see immediately IMHO, which is that it doesn't collapse easily (ie you'd need spanners and it would be awkward) like those proper Bell jobs which sit on removable stands; ie, really it needs a trailer or van to transport it.

Where's Chris P. Bacon when you need him!? ISTR he bought one of these too?

Seems to have been made in Doncaster, and amazingly, a phone number is provided, so I'll give them a bell (no pun intended) tomorrow and hopefully find out!

David

Answers from the manufacturer below!:

The housing covering the motor is in two halves; one mounted to the mixer frame, the other (like a lid) is attached to the first half with three bolts. Cable feeding the motor (also attached to frame) is clipped to inside of the 'lid' to avoid it snagging the drive belt, also within the housing - however that means that if you ever need to undo the lid it will hang on the electrical cable if not restrained. So the chain connects the lid to the other half of the housing to take the weight of the lid if it's unscrewed.

"Ah yes, quite a few people have phoned about that." Mistake - shouldn't be in the pack!

"Erm... shouldn't be any loose ones of those...!" (used in the manufacture but not needed at the diy assembly stage).

Oh well - at least I was able to readily talk to someone who knew what they were talking about, which you might not expect for an el cheapo Aldi product.

David

You saved £70 compared to buying the same product from Tesco...

I'm glad you started this thread - I haven't put mine together yet!

I pray I'll never need a cement mixer again, so I can't say I inspected the offer at Aldi very closely. I do know that they usually sell very good quality stuff at lower prices than the traditional stores. I also know that a lot of people wish they wouldn't and act accordingly.

Didn't know you could speak Chinese, or was it a call to Meccano? :-)

Doncaster actually - via a direct dial, standard rate number which was provided for a customer-service type in the instructions. And as Donny was in fact the town of my birth I was able to make out what he was on about!

Seems like the mixer was actually manufactured there, in fact, rather than in the Far East - although maybe they just put Chinese-made components into cartons in Doncaster and call that 'manufacture', I don't know. Company's called Nutool.

David

"Ah yes, quite a few people have phoned about that." Mistake - shouldn't be in the pack!

Far be it for me to suggest that the manufacturer rep doesn't know what he is talking about, but..... The Aldi machine looks like a clone of the Machine Mart model I bought last year, and the Machine Mart instructions said to use this 300mm x

CRB