My cheap Waring slicer died last week; you could hear the gearbox turning but the blade wasn't spinning. After walking away for a bit to calm down, I returned and started to take it apart. I found the culprit: a metal worm gear was responsible for spinning a cheap plastic gear, and the metal gear had clearly worn down the cogs of the plastic gear. A quick Google search led me to a couple of places that sold replacement parts, and a little over a week later the part arrived. Here is a picture tutorial on how to replace that gear.
Hope this saves someone some trouble somewhere down the road! All told this takes about 5 minutes to fix. The hard part was waiting for the replacement gear to arrive.
Hope this saves someone some trouble somewhere down the road! All told this takes about 5 minutes to fix. The hard part was waiting for the replacement gear to arrive.