Salad Spinner Disassembly

The salad spinner cord broke.

You can see the problem…

There’s a plastic two eared nut on the underside of the top.

I had to drill out the plastic plugs that hid the screws.

And removed the screws.

Then more screws to get at the mechanism.

The gears. The small gear functions as a ratchet.

It slides in that slot. Notice all the fuzz from the frayed cord.

The spindle is removed.

The hub contains a flat spring.
The cord has a knot at the end and another knot to keep you from pulling the cord out too far.

The handle was the only part that I had to destructively disassemble. It was pressed together and seemingly glued.
I decided the easiest thing was to lash the two halves together. I might have a friend print up a replacement on his Makerbot or I may just live with it as is.

By the faint green blur around the periphery you can see that it functions. The replacement cord is the same that we use for our jewelry. It’s pretty tough and we have a ton of it laying around.