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Pulled a ~ 600 € DeLonghi coffee maker out of the dumpster and invested about 50 € in spare parts (water tank, grounds container, and a new magnet valve). Seems like I have a new coffee machine now 😁☕

(It would have gone even faster and without a puddle on the kitchen counter if I had put in the gaskets from the start. 🤦 Ah well.)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you do for a living and how do you know how to fix coffee makers?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@workerONE Officially, I'm a computer scientist 😉 But over the years, I've fiddled around with enough electronics and mechanical engineering as well that I'm overall pretty good at fixing stuff 🤷

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just remember, if she doesn't find you handsome at least she finds you handy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I thought it was twosome, threesome, foursome, and handsome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

@floe @coffee that’s totally fucking awesome

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way to go!! I didn't realize these were so fixable but not surprising. My old Gaggia was easy to find parts for and easy to work on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@agent_flounder Yes, big kudos to DeLonghi as well. They could just have glued everything together into one big epoxy block, but no, they chose to make it actually repairable (and even let you buy replacement parts). 👌

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Big W for DeLonghi there for sure. New respect unlocked :) it looks like it is well designed and laid out too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think they make too much money repairing complex coffee machines to make it difficult

Also unlike phones they don't need to make them small as possible and able to survive being carried all day, so don't have those reasons for making things tight and sealed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hot damn, nice one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wow great find and work in fixing it up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's amazing what a little curiosity can do. Most would consider the machine dead. A friend also had a similar coffee maker that stopped working and just decided to pop the cover off to see if there was anything obvious. A quick replacement of a deteriorated hose and they were back up and running when it otherwise would've ended up in the landfill.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty neat!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That’s fantastic! 👏