I already posted a review, but it never showed up here, so I'm going to post a second review and ask a few questions of other reviewers as well.  

I rec'd this item as a birthday gift and was overjoyed!  I got about three batches of ice cream out of it and put it away for the winter.  It was stored in its box, which has been destroyed by blue fluid.  The grout under the box is stained blue and is really tough to get out.  

After reading through these reviews, I can see that the leaking is the big problem.  My question to other reviewers is where are you finding your leak?  I'm attaching a picture of the location of my leak, which is weird because I have literally no idea why this spot would leak as it's not used on my tilt-head mixer.