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Having learned my check was ready for pickup, I walked down the street & around the corner to the new building where all of the Rental Equipment, Administration & support staff got moved to (where I do my Loudspeaker Maintenance work). I stopped by our Shipping/Receiving Dept across the street from my shop to see if the replacement Keurig Filter basket assembly had arrived. It did. Excellent.
I got there, fetched my Director's Guild coffee cup and the bag of freshly ground Espresso beans and head over to the lunch room to install the replacement part of their Keurig B40 Single-Cup Coffee Maker.
I found the left-over disposable coffee grounds container still in the machine, and removed/tossed it into the trash. Then, I worked the damaged Filter Basket/needle assembly out of the machine, and installed the new one that I bought on ebay for $7. I tried the Keurig web site, but their solution to a broken needle in the basket assembly is to buy a brand new coffee maker. The American Way.
Put the new assembly in, then went to find where my reusable filter basket had been moved to. It had been sitting in the clear plastic package for all to use. The first time I left that $6 reusable coffee filter basket for others to use with their beverage grinds, someone installed it into the basket the way THEY wanted it to go in, and not only would the lid of the machine not close, but it bent the piercing needle in the basket over, disabling the machine. I managed to straighten it that first time. Days later, either the same bright person (or someone else) did the same thing and again, the machine was unable to make coffee, and now, the entire machine had been removed from the counter! I inquired, was told by one person it was broken and thrown away, but someone of higher intelligence led me to find it sitting on top of the refrigerator. So, I brought it back down, again straightened the bent-over needle without it breaking off, and was able to make coffee again.
That reusable filter basket has reliefs in both the front and rear of the plastic basket, along with a flat across the back of the container, which allows the piecing needle in the top half of the machine to miss bending that needle on the top of the lid, and the relief likewise prevents bending the needle in the bottom. So, this time, I put some gaffer's tape on the machines' lid that you raise to insert the coffee module, with instructions HOW to install the reusable basket, and a warning of the results for not following instructions.
So, the new part arrived, and my reusable basket is now gone, altogether! No doubt someone used it, and did the sensible thing when they were thru.....throw the part with the wet grinds into the trash. What could be simpler? So much for getting a fresh cup of coffee over there.
I got there, fetched my Director's Guild coffee cup and the bag of freshly ground Espresso beans and head over to the lunch room to install the replacement part of their Keurig B40 Single-Cup Coffee Maker.
I found the left-over disposable coffee grounds container still in the machine, and removed/tossed it into the trash. Then, I worked the damaged Filter Basket/needle assembly out of the machine, and installed the new one that I bought on ebay for $7. I tried the Keurig web site, but their solution to a broken needle in the basket assembly is to buy a brand new coffee maker. The American Way.
Put the new assembly in, then went to find where my reusable filter basket had been moved to. It had been sitting in the clear plastic package for all to use. The first time I left that $6 reusable coffee filter basket for others to use with their beverage grinds, someone installed it into the basket the way THEY wanted it to go in, and not only would the lid of the machine not close, but it bent the piercing needle in the basket over, disabling the machine. I managed to straighten it that first time. Days later, either the same bright person (or someone else) did the same thing and again, the machine was unable to make coffee, and now, the entire machine had been removed from the counter! I inquired, was told by one person it was broken and thrown away, but someone of higher intelligence led me to find it sitting on top of the refrigerator. So, I brought it back down, again straightened the bent-over needle without it breaking off, and was able to make coffee again.
That reusable filter basket has reliefs in both the front and rear of the plastic basket, along with a flat across the back of the container, which allows the piecing needle in the top half of the machine to miss bending that needle on the top of the lid, and the relief likewise prevents bending the needle in the bottom. So, this time, I put some gaffer's tape on the machines' lid that you raise to insert the coffee module, with instructions HOW to install the reusable basket, and a warning of the results for not following instructions.
So, the new part arrived, and my reusable basket is now gone, altogether! No doubt someone used it, and did the sensible thing when they were thru.....throw the part with the wet grinds into the trash. What could be simpler? So much for getting a fresh cup of coffee over there.
Since Jan 1 some counties in NY have outlawed the single use plastic bags entirely, and soon it looks like that will be a state wide law. Thank the Republic of Ireland for starting the trend - they got sick of seeing what folks were calling "Irish pennants," zillions of those bags flapping in the wind, stuck in tree and shrubbery branches. That was all about 15 years ago, and there was a hue & cry at first as you might expect. But people settled down, got a couple of reusable canvas bags each & now the countryside is looking a lot cleaner. It's important for a country that depends a lot on tourism, "we mustn't be looking shabby now boyo." We should praise the Irish for setting a good example. I'm surprised the ever-so-trendy-and-politically-correct Peoples Republic of California hasn't yet gotten up to speed on this.
Maybe that's why I drink so much, I don't mind it cold at all. Especially in the summer.
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