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Title: plastic clutch plate on motor melted
Review: Great blender when it works, but the plastic clutch plate on the motor shaft will melt if you blend for more than 30 seconds at a time. Mine gradually melted until it would no longer work -- a replacement part (SPB7-20TXN) costs about $8 including shipping (here on Amazon). I'll repair it and stick with if for now, but my next blender will have to have a metal clutch. Note that even the high rated Oster and Waring blenders that used to have metal parts now have a lot of plastic (even the same models #s that used to be great), so this is an industry wide cost cutting and lower quality enabling phenomenon. The glass pitcher on this blender is great in my opinion, although the gasket connection is difficult to clean. If anyone knows which blender is best, please let me know. Its not this one.
