Machines designed to be thrown away.

[G. Keenan]

My coffee grinder broker today and it has wrecked my whole mojo. There's a threaded plastic cap that screws down onto the shaft that spins the blades, etc. In the course of normal use this came lose enough that the blades will no longer spin. I couldn't just tighten back up my hand because the shaft was spinning. Opening up the bottom of the grinder casing to get at the screw on the other end of the shaft/axle or whatever it's called was stupid. It required removing a piece of plastic that was obviously designed to click into place and never be removed. Hence I had to break it to get it out. There's the screw, right there, totally easy to get at, but I had to freakin' break the plastic covering it to get at it.

Soon I realize that the problem isn't that the cap was too loose. No, there's some sort of washer or spacer or something between it and the blades that has been broken apart in use. So the whole thing is [expletive] because that's gone. I'm not going to [expletive] send away for this tiny [expletive] part and wait a month. [expletive] that. I need my coffee now and I need it fresh ground because any other way is crap. So now I've got to buy a whole new grinder because this [expletive] 10 cent piece broke. I will not be buying this model again.

[wart57]

My coffee grinder broker today and it has wrecked my whole mojo. There's a threaded plastic cap that screws down onto the shaft that spins the blades, etc. In the course of normal use this came lose enough that the blades will no longer spin. I couldn't just tighten back up my hand because the shaft was spinning. Opening up the bottom of the grinder casing to get at the screw on the other end of the shaft/axle or whatever it's called was stupid. It required removing a piece of plastic that was obviously designed to click into place and never be removed. Hence I had to break it to get it out. There's the screw, right there, totally easy to get at, but I had to freakin' break the plastic covering it to get at it.

Soon I realize that the problem isn't that the cap was too loose. No, there's some sort of washer or spacer or something between it and the blades that has been broken apart in use. So the whole thing is [expletive] because that's gone. I'm not going to [expletive] send away for this tiny [expletive] part and wait a month. [expletive] that. I need my coffee now and I need it fresh ground because any other way is crap. So now I've got to buy a whole new grinder because this [expletive] 10 cent piece broke. I will not be buying this model again.

don't [expletive] with a man's coffee....

[omaha_red]

coffee is for the weak

[cardinalkarp]

coffee is for the weak

cigarettes too

[G. Keenan]

coffee is for the weak

Coffee was a gift from God back when he still gave a [expletive] about us.

[Molly]

I bought hubby a Cuisinart grinder a couple of years ago. It's still working fine.

[Freed Roger]

[omaha_red]

coffee is for the weak

cigarettes too

that's why i quit

[Molly]

[G. Keenan]

I bought hubby a Cuisinart grinder a couple of years ago. It's still working fine.

Good to know. I'll consider one of them. Mine was a Bodum. It betrayed me and I will never forgive.