hey I'm Kyle with iFixit and we're gonna
take some stuff apart today I am joined
by Kelsey Kelsey is over on our
education and tech writing team and you
take things apart
yeah and people that take things apart
yeah we work with students all over the
country to write repair guides and so I
work with students to help them just
assemble their devices and write guides
for the site okay so the first thing
that we do is try to figure out how to
take a breath first time yeah we have
something that we have been told is
challenging to take apart yeah and like
with all tear downs we're gonna start
looking for screws I noticed when we
open this guy up that there's two screws
on the inside here where the in the
k-cup
folder essentially okay and so we got
we've got two two Phillips screws we
don't really know where this is gonna
lead I don't know what's gonna fall
apart or come apart but we're just gonna
see what happens we've got a couple of
snap rings on the other side so maybe
that sure doesn't seem to want to come
let's eat a nice tuna like brute force
may be required now here we go
besides having to chase down those clips
if this were to I don't know crack break
or whatever at least this could come up
come up maybe we should flip it over and
start going from bottom up let's do it
there's gotta be some screws in here
five Phillips screws so hopefully if we
get this bottom panel off we'll be able
to secure it using bullets like they
want us to take it apart they're asking
us to do this
so now with the screws off the bottom
and wire felt like the ground is riveted
on here oh so what we could do I mean
maybe we could drill out the rivet and
then replace it with a bolt of line to
get back together because you see these
are just I bolt or we can cut this and
then you know fix the wires later yeah I
think we need to get up the nippers okay
yeah so cut the wires in the middle so
it easier to splice them back together
later yep so now that we're in we see
the this is the okay water goes from
here into there and then that's it so I
bet if we pull that off see that we'll
be able to bring the wire all right
where we at so actually didn't have to
cut tried raining it did the trick
nope nothing how can you possibly get
away with coffee and all this just to
drain because I feel like pulling on
these I could end up damaging just to
drain the water out I feel like now I
feel how the students in the program
feel when we send them devices send them
something and you're an engineer just
figure it out yeah so it looks at their
clip sounds like clips I think this is
gonna give us the handle the handle but
then we might be able to lift up to the
black
so this is the big water chamber inside
yeah have the wires coming in so this is
the heating element both undo it okay so
now we can see more tubes and it looks
like there's already like coffee and
stuff like stuck in here yeah yeah after
using it once once already
okay yeah so this is this is a
spring-loaded valve ii yeah yeah is that
way not that way all right so now this
guy started spewing some water outlets
there we go all right but we finally
figured out how to drain the effort
maybe it's not that time the rising
approaches just throwing antifreeze
through the cable and then if you had
the right that's I think that's gonna be
easier than so just stand there
stand there
it's not speeding it up you just gotta
stand that you suffer through it here we
go it looked like there was more room
here
Hey look at that alright Oh so but see
ma we shredded this there's only there's
like three clips this one there and then
these make out this clip so the key to
getting inside would be to get to know
where those three club two screws four
clips
can we let's get this apart yeah but my
theory is that there's a temperature
sensor in here that they wanted to keep
the electronics and so they're just
wrapping a bit of water up there so I
know what temperature yes because when
you close it and turn it on you could
hear it start and like start to heat and
then it says ready to Bruce right yeah
coffee klatch Wow okay so now this is
just dumb plastic at this point so this
is really interesting so we've got a PCB
and I mean this is a lot sparser than we
see on on most electronics or working
with here's here's the port where that
bungalow wires came in and you've got
these are the each of the different
sized cup brewing and then power switch
and here's the auto off switch so they
label on the board the same and then
here's your LEDs these scale LEDs are so
reasonable this is the most interesting
thing to me so you got vr-12 gain and VR
to offset and you see how these are
little set config screws and then
they've got to drop a glue on it so in
the factory there this is probably the
volume so make volume or something right
so they they run the first cup of water
through and they figure out exactly
because they got a calibrated each pump
and and so they're gonna run one through
measure it adjust this until the right
amount of water is coming out and then
this this one is probably one of these
is for the smallest size and ones for
the like this size well it's like oh
these screws off and let's get the cord
out cuz I want to see we've still got a
tube coming up to a PCB and that's not
something I normally see look at that
it's just a straight onto the board
that is crazy tube going straight
straight to this chip so what is an FP n
0 7 PG I wonder this is a well Owen
electronic sensing element it is a
in-line package
SMD PCB mount pressure sensor okay so
they have a gun motor and they're using
a motor to generate pressure and
basically this is detecting if there's
sufficient water in there okay or if
there's water at all
and if so the mother can create pressure
or a bit of a vacuum
the final thing I really want to see
inside is this is this heating chamber
and they've got a lot of screws on the
outside I'm kind of wishing that we
brought the screw gun to work today okay
go for it this is the great reveal
moment I feel like right here last
remaining mystery inside
let's get maybe these tubes off tubing
so that's your yellow down there okay so
then these are three temperature probes
we've got red white and black and each
of them is a different height in so
they've got temperatures at three
different heights inside the chain
and there's still there's more water in
your so you and after we thought we
dreamed it so you can't possibly get all
the water right even if you think it
fits the way apart even if you think
you're draining it by cutting tubes or
opening up you're really not so now that
we've gotten this far and we're bleeding
and we have 30 over 35 screws here do
you want to keep going I think we can
we're kind of done at this point I don't
think anybody knows when they're going
and buying you're at Walmart well what's
coffee machine should I get I get mr.
coffee that's the 30 bucks right you get
one of these and it's cool it's got the
fancy buttons like why not make my life
in the morning a little bit easier but
when it breaks and either when you
decide to repair it or when you decide
to throw it out it's it's turned into an
e-waste mess like do you really think
recyclers are going through and taking
this apart and what they should in order
to recover the material from this
there's rare earths in these Andes
mother's there's quite a lot of raw
material in here yeah so it's really
critical for my materials perspective
that we recycle this but no recycler
wants this and by the way this can't go
to a normal recycler you've got
electronics and circuit boards in here
this has to go down what drives your
safety but in the chances of it being
recycled properly are very low so you're
gonna end up with a lot of these things
in landfills which means you've got a
lot of very valuable material that's
just gonna go away I think bottom line
is never buy it you never bite you don't
do it it's not not worth it and it's not
like it's ready to take care of we've
taken the Burton espressos as well and
they're just as bad this category of
single-purpose pod based coffee machine
just a bad like just not good don't do
it stay away you start bleeding
you'll injure yourself don't do it well
I'm Kyle I'm Kelsey thanks for watching
with us and we're gonna go and treat our
wounds now