Help! Need stand mixer that can actually knead!

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Arthritis threatens me with an eternity of store-bought bread unless I can find a stand mixer that can knead dough.  I have 2 Kitchenaids that are only good at teaching dough to pirouette. 

When I worked for a famous pizza house I made literally hundreds of batches of dough using a 40qt(?)  Hobart that it could knead beautifully with no superivison at all.  So I recently bought a Hobart N50 that is actually older than I am.  The stock hook doesn't do much better tha it's Kitchenaid cousins so I ordered an ED hook which looks much more like the one I remember on the Hobarts of my youth.  

Has anyone tried this combination, (N50 with ED hook).   I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, workaround, spells or incantations!

 

David