Coffee Maker: Pumping water with almost no moving parts

Here watching this again, after many years, because of the Technology Connections video on coffee makers and his reference to this video!

"I'm...repairing it". XD

Oh, that why the coffee maker has this bubbling sound. :>

Has anyone ever told you that you resemble Mark Hamill?  I feel like I'm learning from a Jedi engineer!

This is my 2nd Keurig coffee maker of this model. youtube.com/post/UgkxBrV-RbF5Nk0Rlt9i15aao-YMzqzTG… The first worked fine for more than 2 years, and I could still get a decent cup of coffee out of it if I fiddled with it when I decided to replace it. The problem I had with my first unit was this: When attempting to brew a cup of coffee, the unit would either keep brewing until the coffee was undrinkable or it would not run long enough and the coffee produced was way too strong. I cleaned the unit as best I could but it did not help. So in the end it was just too much trouble to get a good cup of coffee out of it, so I decided to replace it with a new one, which has been working great since I unpacked it.

We miss you Bill!

The principle is called "thermosiphon". At one time, it was even used in some automobiles, in lieu of a belt-driven water pump., to circulate the engine coolant.

We miss you, Bill.

Has colored tape, definitely an engineer.

This guy is like the teacher / dad i never had. If only all learning was done like this. Makes it way more interesting.

This is surprisingly smart and effective Not only is it cheaper, but it also lets us put in water to use later instead of near-instant action that the first Mr Coffee machines had (probably as well as other early coffee makers trying to usher in a new era of coffee making) It removed the rush of puttinng in the coffee, turning it on, puttting water in and making sure the carafe? is below the outlet within like the 15 seconds itd take for the coffee to soak up and let through Also i came here from technology connections.

Again sent from Technology Connections. Can’t wait for your return!

Unlike most of my teachers, you make me want to learn more, great job!

Just a general comment: These are really well done and your voice compliments the narration. From one engineer to another…very good job in your presentations, short, simple, some humor all keeping the attention of which for most on here, is rather short. Kudo's.

the 'busted' gaffe at the end was wonderful.

Great ending! :D

These videos remind me of an "are you a nerd?" quiz that went around the company a few years ago. One of the questions was "Have you ever bought something for the express purpose of taking it apart to see how it works?" Yes. :-)

Engineers. Smart enough to show you how ANYTHING works. But not enough to remember TO PLUG THE COFFEE MAKER IN. I joke I joke, you're awesome.

Tech Connections brought me back to the memory lane. Miss you, Bill.

I took apart a coffee maker as a kid and I remember the little ball falling out.