KitchenAid Mixer Pivot Shaft Tweak

The shaft that tilts the mixer head has started walking sideways out of its hole, which is not to be tolerated. Looking up inside the base column shows a locking screw that’s worked loose:

I took the thing apart and filed a flat on the shaft:

And then a dab of Loctite on the screw will prevent that from happening again:

It’s still piddling oil on the countertop. If you have one of these things, always store it with the head tilted upward. That makes the oil run down the column onto the counter, rather than through the planetary gears into the mixing bowl…