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Keurig Maintenance Tip

About every three months I have to "de-scale" my Keurig K-Cup pot when it starts dispensing a partial cup... even though I use R-O water.

Three months ago I went thru all the clean with vinegar and flush routines and it still dispensed partial cups.

Repeated all the recommended operations, still wouldn't work.

Pondering the way the reservoir was made with a check-valve at the bottom, I wondered if that was the problem.

Took it outside, applied the garden hose to the valve, from the bottom, made it "whistle" >:-}

Returned it to the pot... problem gone, worked fine.

Yesterday, partial cups :-(

Applied the garden hose, problem solved ;-)

Try it next time your Keurig pot acts up. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     | 
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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Do you have any idea of the kind of crud living in your average garden hose ?

One reviewer wrote: The biggest problem is that the pump looses its prime now and then. This ca uses the pump not to be able to inject a sufficient volume of water through the cup. I found the solution was to use a turkey baster filled with water and forcefully directed downwards through the filter at the bottom of the reservoir. This flushed out the air in the lines and gave a perfect cup.

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it's nothing as nasty as what's inside coffee machine.

You get a cup of "tea" if you run those single serving coffee machines without a coffee capsule.

There's all sorts of systems.

they're all equally filthy unless you actually clean them.

I got weird looks when I asked where the maintenance kit was for one machine here at work. It's actually pretty complete with a toothbrush, pipe cleaning brush, and fake coffee pods that trick the machine into doing a cleaning cycle by spraying steam and water all over the place.

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Cydrome Leader

There are some doctors who opine that the significant rise in allergies in children is OUR TOO CLEAN SOCIETY.

Children can't eat dirt or play in the street anymore, for fear of child molesters or Democrats accosting them. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Do those Fill it yourself K-cups work? I find the coffee selection awful. We have one of these machines at work. It's actually the second one, the first suffered from the partial cup problem.

Cheers

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Martin Riddle

AND they are hugely more expensive at the per cup or per pound level.

Besides, IF I can buy my own grind, then such a one cup device would be worth it.

I love Gavina Kona Blend.

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They work, but are extra steps, including cleaning :-(

Why do you say the selection is awful? I buy online directly from Keurig (who has the most variety, they bought out the competition :)...

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I'm primarily a Columbian La Vereda fan. The wife likes flavored things like Hazelnut, French Vanilla, Earl Gray Tea, etc.

On cold mornings, like now... 52°F, I might have a hot cocoa or hot apple cider (in K-cup form).

Now you know the solution ;-)

When I was at Zarlink (Rochester) last winter, they had a _huge_ Keurig machine directly plumbed to the water supply! ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson, CTO                            |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations, Inc.                         |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| Phoenix, Arizona  85048    Skype: Contacts Only  |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 
              
I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.
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Jim Thompson

John Ferrell W8CCW

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John Ferrell

The product is a piece of garbage, way too many sensors, lots of silicon ba ll check valves and pneumatic lines and fittings. In other words, lots of s ingle point failure mechanisms that bring the whole system down, and not a single slf-check or diagnostic to the whole thing. Then Keurig compounds th e problem by packaging the product like it's good for life, a major disasse mbly headache in other words. They claim their real money is in the K-cups and the machines are being sold at cost. Well if those prices indicate 'at cost' then they're being assembled by $60/hr labor and/or they're being scr ewed by their suppliers.

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