Fixed my coffeemaker
 

My electric drip coffeemaker had stopped functioning. It was producing steam and not much hot water. I figured this could only happen if it wasn't getting enough water. But the reservoir was full. After disassembly I discovered a vinyl hose connecting the reservoir with the heating element. Inside the vinyl hose were two little rubber valves which I assume are there to stop the hot water from going back into the reservoir, forcing it to expand up the outlet. Inside one of those rubber valves was a relatively large piece of unground cofffee bean, hindering the flow of water into the heating element.
Back to good coffee in the morning.

Nice work.:cool: A lesser man would have tossed it and bought a new one.:D

I like my French press. I can see everything that is going on in there and I'm actually capable of fixing anything that goes wrong with it.

Exactly... 99.99% would have chucked it. The MB ideology has really taken root with you.
Guess you thought it was a monovalve...

Just the idea of trying to properly clean a drip coffee maker . . .

A crisis narrowly averted. ;)

Well now, that didn't help the economy one bit. You didn't spend a penny.

OK........now fix mine:

Nothing, whatsoever, from the pump up to the basket...........

Sorry , my expertise is limited to the pumpless.

I did my fair share to keep $40 in the bank which can be loaned to some small businessman to make his payroll.

I'd have fixed mine.... :D

Though most coffee makers I've seen die was because the heating element finally failed....not much you can do about that.

Well the bank probably can't loan out your $40 because they're more than likely currently losing it on oil futures. Maybe you should go buy that second coffeemaker. Two working coffeemakers just might be a better investment.

I know a dealer you can take it to.
Doesn't matter what the problem: " well, um, probably 1500 to 2000 dollars, should be done by this afternoon...":mad:

do I get a loaner until mine is repaired?

My studio mic was DOA for over a year now...ever since it fell off a boom stand.

Took it apart this weekend and found a detached transducer wire from the soldered end. Resoldered and voila! Working again!

But noisy PC power supply fan hampered the euporia of testing the newly-repaired mic. So I pulled the power supply from one of my defunct PC cases and swapped fan motors. All quiet again!

Loving the revival of repaired gear for no $$$!!!

I think I saw here that unless you buy a French Press, or some other form of coffee maker, that it's not possible to buy an automatic drip coffee maker in the US anymore that is not made in China without spending some ridiculous amount that no one should ever spend for a coffee maker.
So whose economy are we talking about here?:drink:(tall black coffee)

Does anyone HERE have an old fashioned stove-top perking coffee pot? The kind with the little cylindrical basket on a post...you fill the pot about 5/8ths full of cold water, about 4 scoops of your favorite flavor caffeine in the basket, put the top on the basket, lid on the pot and, put the stove on HIGH and put the pot in the center of the element and watch the coffee boil up and out the top of the tube and dribble down and over the ground in the basket and back into the bottom of the pot and it goes through the same routine over and over and over for about 5-9 minutes...to FINALLY end up as a hot, steamy cup of grounds-in-the-bottom-of-the-cup cup of coffee?

The only difference between that and a camp fire pot of coffee is the heating element...white-hot camp-fire logs or the electric element on the stove top (or gas burner)...

Personally, I like the smells of the outdoors and hot coals...;)

They're like $9.99 these days for a new one.

Good fix, dude!

I use a percolator but it's an electric one. I think it makes better tasting coffee than a drip coffee maker and the grounds are minimal if you wet the basket prior to putting the coffee in. It's also essential to remove the basket before pouring any coffee.:D

Here's mine:
http://www.gogoods.com/product/FCP280?META=become-FCP280
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...ger/fcp280.jpg


I like the sound of a coffee percolator. It reminds me of Grandma's house, although she had a 15 cup percolator with a clear glass knob on top that you could see the coffee bubbling in.:cool:

I just fixed the $14 Burr Coffer Grinder I picked up at Goodwill. That thing was clogged, and was just plain nasty, so I gave it a good cleaning, and good as new now.

Those make terrible coffee! Although you want to pass boiling hot water through the ground beans to make proper coffee, you don't want to keep boiling it afterwards.

If you want a cool old school coffee maker that actually brews really good coffee, try a vacuum brewer:
http://www.sweetmarias.com/yama_images/yama_5_cup.jpg

I've got a stove top percolator and a stove top drip coffeemaker, both for camping.

I'd like to see how that thing works...but as for drinking the stuff...I only make it for the folks...I never developed the taste for it...too bitter...I could pour a cup of Joe into a 5-lbs. sack of sugar and I'd still spit it out...sorry, drinking the stuff wasn't/isn't/won't be my cup of tea...

Just the mechanics please... :rolleyes: :D

Tell me about it...my neighbor's Deere 5510 started clogging the big, spin-on fuel filter. More accurately, the inlet to the filter was getting plugged with some sort of weird debris. After pulling it back from his pasture a couple of times when it would starve for fuel, I started looking into what it would take to pull the fuel tank, clean it, etc...

In looking at the Deere parts breakdown I realized that his tractor didn't have a pre-filter..the little clear filter that all diesel MB have to trap the 'big' chunks of fuel crud. I took one from my parts bin, installed it and he's been tractoring happily ever after.

Cost? ~$2.50

I have a Cona brewer. Bought it a few years ago. :D

Got it from Sweetmarias.com

http://www.sweetmarias.com/cona.complete1.jpg

We use a Bunn coffee maker, has a tank that keep the water hot. pour in the cold water and coffee comes out right now :D

III ccccant wwait ffffor mmmmy cccoffeee iiiin tthe mmmorning, nneeed mmmmy fffix. :D

these Bunns cost over $100.00, but last for a long time. I now pick them up at Good Will or salvation Army for like $7. usually they get tossed because they start leaking.

The problem is in the top. remove the cover where water is poured in. remove the slotted nut where water drains into the tank. and clean the rubber washer and nut of calcium, and replace. all fixed.

I think the heating and cooling tends to loosen the nut.

Yeah as a kid, I remember the purculator pots with the glass bubbler on top, and the ones on the stove top. sure brings back memories. we wern`t so high tech back then. now every one is a coneseur:rolleyes:.

There is nothing like the 40 gallon pot we had on the ship back in my navy days. :D my finger still has a bend to it from my mug.:rolleyes:

Charlie

Ewwww. Coffee is gross. I'd much rather have that Dr. Pepper in the morning. I went to Boston once and their iced tea tasted like coffee. Gross.

I resemble that remark! :D

He said Coffee is GROSS!!!!! Everyone ... AFTER HIM!!!!
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...-angry-mob.jpg

Ditto -- I'll take tea, please. Now the SMELL of fresh coffee beans is a whole different story; love the scent!

I just got a milk steamer for Christmas. Mmm... steamed milk with a little vanilla syrup or just some honey. Good stuff, especially at night when I don't want the caffeine that comes with a lot of tea.

There is more than a teaspoon of sugar (actually the cheap corn based fructose) in every fluid ounce of those sodas. A 20 ounce bottle == 20 teaspoons of sugar. Yum.

Thanks for ruining my favorite drink. I'll just stick to Camels in the morning.:D They don't have any sugar.

That's how I quit drinking Dr. Pepper regularly! :D

Or a wealthier Man...Would say, time for a new one...........:P

I've been inspired. For breakfast this morning, I broke out the French press and brewed some loose Edelweiss tea that my wife and I picked up last year on our trip to Garmisch. Note to self: get back to the Teestadl am kurpark next trip to Garmisch and RESTOCK!