Plastic "combs" and broken bolt

3 piece roller, fettuccine, spaghetti set. So the roller is wonderful. Part of me is wishing I just bought the roller by itself. Upon opening the box, the two other pasta cutters had metal rods and plastic combs rolling around in the box with them. It says nothing about these items in the manual. I was assuming they were part of the packaging, but they are likely necessary to the function of the cutters to release the dough maybe? I'll have to wait to find out if that will make it functional, however, because while trying to feed dough into the cutter, it made a loud clunk, that I later discovered was the snapping of the hex bolt that turns the blades inside the cutter. I thought about returning this item, but being that it took me and hour to scrape out all of the pasta dough from the crevasses of this thing, I don't want to deal with shipping it back and hoping they refund my money for a dirty machine. I found a replacement bolt and will fix the roller and see if using the combs will fix the problem. Really wishing kitchenaid had better instructions in the manual for this product. Side note: using a plastic toothpick and a smaller scrub brush/pipe cleaner that I have for cleaning straws came in VERY handy to clean the cutter. Also, don't even bother trying until the dough dries out, I waited overnight.

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