I have a Gevi Grind and Brew I picked up off the side of the road (along with an HP MFC) a few blocks from my house early last summer. It brewed just fine but the grinder never worked properly. The grounds were always very large, even a little too large for French press. I don't drink coffee too much anymore so I just bought Cafe Busto at the Family Dollar. It's the same quality as all the major name brands at half the price. I always said I would figure out what was wrong with the grinder and fix it some day. That day was today.
I ran out of ground coffee, and the roommate who just moved out left some instant that I finished drinking last night around 10PM. So I was up late, but I still woke up around sunrise as usual, before 8AM. And I was tired. I needed coffee.
I knew I wanted to fix the grinder before I went to sleep early this morning, so I cleared off the clutter on the filing cabinet next to my desk and the folding TV dinner tray table next to my chair to get ready to tackle this chore I have procrastinated on for over 9 months.
Tear down was fairly simple. If it wouldn't budge, look for something keeping it in place. This required finding screws not just holding parts down from its surface but also being screwed in from the other side of other parts, which required removing further parts to access the screw heads. Yes, it took patience and inspection, but it was fairly straight forward. And there weren't too many screws, so I didn't even need to use containers to keep the parts organized.
>Side note: my preferred method of keeping screws and similar parts organized is small paper cups. You just start with one cup for the first items removed, label it with a felt permanent marker, then place another cup inside it to keep the parts from dumping out if it is tipped over. Then for the next items removed do the same, then put that cup inside the first step. It becomes a LIFO (last in first out) stack which makes it easy to reverse the steps of disassembly to reassemble it.
Now for the grinder. I had to figure out exactly how this thing worked. Straight away I see the knob is connected to a gear assembly, with the gear interacting with the knob having a step up gear as well which interacted with a hollow gear within which the Burr mill is situated. (The entire reason I even lugged this thing home even though I was on my bicycle was because the grinder was obviously a Burr mill - something which I haven't had since the only female I have ever lived with took it with her when she moved out of state even though I bought it with my money when we moved into the last apartment we shared since she was unemployed at the time [also took my second N64 and both Chef's Love Shack and Mario Kart 64, also stole Futurama and Simpsons Hit & Run for PS2 and gave it to a guy that was trying to fuck her at the last wedding we attended together... anyway].)
I immediately noticed a large portion of hardened coffee grounds which cup the cup raised, which prevented it from grinding the beans to a size suitable for autodrip. I took out the Shark Lift-Around I purchased for about $3 from the local community thrift store and vacuumed the entire inside of the machine.
So how did the Burr mill function?
Was there some sort of gear assembly underneath this entire group that raised and lowered the top cup? I attempted to remove the screw keeping the lower cup in place, but I could barely get it to budge, and I wonder if I was just turned a screw that went completely through the component and was affixed on the other side with a nut kept in place with a lock nut or lock washer over a washer that allowed the screw to rotate without loosening.
Well, it doesn't matter, because just as I was about to give up and was contemplating drilling through the screw I noticed that the flanges on the top cup had worn down edges that looked like the fit into some groove.
Which they did. There were screw threads on the inside of the large hollow gear. This is how the cup was raised and lowered. After brainstorming several solutions I settled on inserting pieces of metal such as finishing screws into the cup - consisted of the metal grinder encased in a hard plastic - below the flanges to replace the protrusions which had been worn away, most likely by the knob being turned too far one way or the other, causing pressure.
I didn't have finishing screws around but I did happen to have a single paperclip made of a fairly strong metal which was almost exactly the same size of the groove of the threads in the hollow gear. I just heated it up over the stove top, pressed it into the plastic - which had to be done in 3 steps of making a divot where I wanted it placed, then heating it again to press it all the way through the plastic until it hit the metal inside, then heating it a third time to melt the plastic around the metal to hold it in place - and cut it far longer than I needed it to be so I could size it properly to install it. I decided on 2 of these posts underneath each flange for redundancy and stability, and in case I trimmed any of them too short to fit properly (which did happen, but I was able to adjust them through bending and heating during the final steps).
I did have difficulty assembling it because I was unsure how this was assembled in the first place. At first I tried trimming the posts even further than I had done initially. This turned out to be a minor mistake. The correct way to insert the cup into the threaded grooves was to remove the secondary gear since the integration with the gear on the knob prevented the large hollow gear from freely rotating. Removing the secondary gear allowed the large hollow gear to rotated freely in either direction. This allowed me to screw the cup's new flange protrusions I crafted into the screw threads. However the screw threads were slightly more narrow than the diameter of the posts. Since the hollow gear was made of plastic I simply slowly screwed the cup in to and out of the hollow gear until the screw threads widened enough that there was nearly no resistance when doing so. Then I screwed the cup in as far as it would go. And I noticed one more mistake.\
I made the oversight that the posts inserted under the flanges prevented the cup from being lowered to its proper lowest position. However the seating in which the flanges descended were plastic. So I just shaved those down a little. Almost done, I tested a few more times, made minor adjustments, and when I was satisfied I began reassembly.
This was frustrating. It was difficult to get everything into proper position, especially since many of the screws were recessed into deep holes. But through perseverance and swearing I was able to get it all back together. There was also one rubber tube used as a water seal which gave me some trouble since it was a tight fit and there were obstructions preventing me from comfortably getting my finger into the are where the tubing needed to be pressed in. Reassembly took almost as long as disassembly, even though I knew where everything went now, because of these issues. But I finally finished (after needing to look on the ground for screws I knocked off the surfaces I placed them because of my hubris during disassembly).
And, well, now I have an autodrip coffee bot with a Burr mill which measures various amounts of grounds based on a digital selection of amount of fluid dispensed and strength, all of which can be set to a digital timer. And all it took was just over 3 hours of work on a Saturday while watching a miniseries about Pazuzu Algarad on CourtTV.
It's almost amazing to me that most people are so mentally dull and lazy as to not just figurre out how things work and repair them so that they don't have to rely on constantly replacing items they already purchased when they don't know if they still exist and can be replaced or - as we have seen since the holocough scamdemic - increase in cost which wages stagnate or even decrease in addition to cost of living increasing because resources are both in more demand and more scarce since illegal invaders have flooded the nation and are taking everything while contributing nothing but crime and violence while the kikes and shabbosgoyim steal the value of our wages through unjust taxation.
Be inquisitive, curious, resourceful, and handy. Rely on yourself. It's much cheaper than being a slave to fiat currency and consumerism.
I just checked. This thing costs $150. I just "made" $50/hr. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMPSR9JB/
I ran out of ground coffee, and the roommate who just moved out left some instant that I finished drinking last night around 10PM. So I was up late, but I still woke up around sunrise as usual, before 8AM. And I was tired. I needed coffee.
I knew I wanted to fix the grinder before I went to sleep early this morning, so I cleared off the clutter on the filing cabinet next to my desk and the folding TV dinner tray table next to my chair to get ready to tackle this chore I have procrastinated on for over 9 months.
Tear down was fairly simple. If it wouldn't budge, look for something keeping it in place. This required finding screws not just holding parts down from its surface but also being screwed in from the other side of other parts, which required removing further parts to access the screw heads. Yes, it took patience and inspection, but it was fairly straight forward. And there weren't too many screws, so I didn't even need to use containers to keep the parts organized.
>Side note: my preferred method of keeping screws and similar parts organized is small paper cups. You just start with one cup for the first items removed, label it with a felt permanent marker, then place another cup inside it to keep the parts from dumping out if it is tipped over. Then for the next items removed do the same, then put that cup inside the first step. It becomes a LIFO (last in first out) stack which makes it easy to reverse the steps of disassembly to reassemble it.
Now for the grinder. I had to figure out exactly how this thing worked. Straight away I see the knob is connected to a gear assembly, with the gear interacting with the knob having a step up gear as well which interacted with a hollow gear within which the Burr mill is situated. (The entire reason I even lugged this thing home even though I was on my bicycle was because the grinder was obviously a Burr mill - something which I haven't had since the only female I have ever lived with took it with her when she moved out of state even though I bought it with my money when we moved into the last apartment we shared since she was unemployed at the time [also took my second N64 and both Chef's Love Shack and Mario Kart 64, also stole Futurama and Simpsons Hit & Run for PS2 and gave it to a guy that was trying to fuck her at the last wedding we attended together... anyway].)
I immediately noticed a large portion of hardened coffee grounds which cup the cup raised, which prevented it from grinding the beans to a size suitable for autodrip. I took out the Shark Lift-Around I purchased for about $3 from the local community thrift store and vacuumed the entire inside of the machine.
So how did the Burr mill function?
Was there some sort of gear assembly underneath this entire group that raised and lowered the top cup? I attempted to remove the screw keeping the lower cup in place, but I could barely get it to budge, and I wonder if I was just turned a screw that went completely through the component and was affixed on the other side with a nut kept in place with a lock nut or lock washer over a washer that allowed the screw to rotate without loosening.
Well, it doesn't matter, because just as I was about to give up and was contemplating drilling through the screw I noticed that the flanges on the top cup had worn down edges that looked like the fit into some groove.
Which they did. There were screw threads on the inside of the large hollow gear. This is how the cup was raised and lowered. After brainstorming several solutions I settled on inserting pieces of metal such as finishing screws into the cup - consisted of the metal grinder encased in a hard plastic - below the flanges to replace the protrusions which had been worn away, most likely by the knob being turned too far one way or the other, causing pressure.
I didn't have finishing screws around but I did happen to have a single paperclip made of a fairly strong metal which was almost exactly the same size of the groove of the threads in the hollow gear. I just heated it up over the stove top, pressed it into the plastic - which had to be done in 3 steps of making a divot where I wanted it placed, then heating it again to press it all the way through the plastic until it hit the metal inside, then heating it a third time to melt the plastic around the metal to hold it in place - and cut it far longer than I needed it to be so I could size it properly to install it. I decided on 2 of these posts underneath each flange for redundancy and stability, and in case I trimmed any of them too short to fit properly (which did happen, but I was able to adjust them through bending and heating during the final steps).
I did have difficulty assembling it because I was unsure how this was assembled in the first place. At first I tried trimming the posts even further than I had done initially. This turned out to be a minor mistake. The correct way to insert the cup into the threaded grooves was to remove the secondary gear since the integration with the gear on the knob prevented the large hollow gear from freely rotating. Removing the secondary gear allowed the large hollow gear to rotated freely in either direction. This allowed me to screw the cup's new flange protrusions I crafted into the screw threads. However the screw threads were slightly more narrow than the diameter of the posts. Since the hollow gear was made of plastic I simply slowly screwed the cup in to and out of the hollow gear until the screw threads widened enough that there was nearly no resistance when doing so. Then I screwed the cup in as far as it would go. And I noticed one more mistake.\
I made the oversight that the posts inserted under the flanges prevented the cup from being lowered to its proper lowest position. However the seating in which the flanges descended were plastic. So I just shaved those down a little. Almost done, I tested a few more times, made minor adjustments, and when I was satisfied I began reassembly.
This was frustrating. It was difficult to get everything into proper position, especially since many of the screws were recessed into deep holes. But through perseverance and swearing I was able to get it all back together. There was also one rubber tube used as a water seal which gave me some trouble since it was a tight fit and there were obstructions preventing me from comfortably getting my finger into the are where the tubing needed to be pressed in. Reassembly took almost as long as disassembly, even though I knew where everything went now, because of these issues. But I finally finished (after needing to look on the ground for screws I knocked off the surfaces I placed them because of my hubris during disassembly).
And, well, now I have an autodrip coffee bot with a Burr mill which measures various amounts of grounds based on a digital selection of amount of fluid dispensed and strength, all of which can be set to a digital timer. And all it took was just over 3 hours of work on a Saturday while watching a miniseries about Pazuzu Algarad on CourtTV.
It's almost amazing to me that most people are so mentally dull and lazy as to not just figurre out how things work and repair them so that they don't have to rely on constantly replacing items they already purchased when they don't know if they still exist and can be replaced or - as we have seen since the holocough scamdemic - increase in cost which wages stagnate or even decrease in addition to cost of living increasing because resources are both in more demand and more scarce since illegal invaders have flooded the nation and are taking everything while contributing nothing but crime and violence while the kikes and shabbosgoyim steal the value of our wages through unjust taxation.
Be inquisitive, curious, resourceful, and handy. Rely on yourself. It's much cheaper than being a slave to fiat currency and consumerism.
I just checked. This thing costs $150. I just "made" $50/hr. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BMPSR9JB/
If you have the space, which you should when doing disassembly, you should consider keeping a map. Spatially orient the screws removed to reflect the location they were removed from, and screws removed from different levels should go on separate spatial maps.
Had to work with a ton of small electronic equipment back when stuff was actually made out of metal and not plastic. This was the only way.