This isn’t an electronics show. But learning repairing skills no matter what it is, is an important part of savings money. The more you can do yourself, the more you can save by salvaging things you would otherwise throw away. Repairing things and possibly resell. Buying things that are broken and repairing it yourself. All of these are viable ways to make a bit of extra income and can be integrated into your life for increased cash flow. I do this all the time.
How’s it goin everybody this is pete the bush today’s episode it’s gonna be a little bit different because today i’m gonna be showing you how to fix something now knowing how to fix something is pretty important because whenever you buy electronics like these if it’s out of warranty and you cannot return it or anything being able to fix something really really saves
You on a lot of money i’m able to just take it apart and then fix it and then i go oh okay it’s not actually broken so i can actually keep it myself or i can take it and just sell it to somebody needless to say having this skill saves you all ton of money because if you’re not throwing this thing away and you just simply repair it sometimes it’s a very simple repair
Then you’re not spending more money on buying this thing brand new i have to say majority of the time whenever something is broken all i have to do is just take it out fidget with a little bit you know move some parts around maybe something got stuck or maybe the battery terminals are not good i just kind of replace the battery or like i take it apart a little bit
Move it around and suddenly it works again so today i have this keurig coffee machine and we all know keurig well i’m not gonna go buy the coffee pods because it’s like close to maybe 75 cents a pod i have some of these that i was given along with the coffee machine that i’m gonna use to test with this now the first thing you would do with anything broken is well
Check the battery terminals turn it on and off you see exactly what’s wrong with it first now sometimes it might be a computer chip problem and i’m not sure if i can actually fix this but what i can do is i can just kind of take this apart and kind of look inside see if there’s anything loose that’s the easiest thing to do and from there on i can you know try to
Debug it beyond that for people that do not know electronics do well you can still take things apart just make sure it’s not plugged in just take it apart you know see if there’s anything wrong internally or whatnot you know just take a brief look at it perhaps move things back to the way they were and perhaps you’ll be able to fix it so without talking some more
Let me try and fix this machine here i have no idea what’s wrong with it if i turn it on it says not ready add water okay fine i’ll add more okay i did not start abreu yet but it seems like maybe it’s just trying to get some water hot so that it’s ready to go i’m not sure that’s an interesting feature of this thing because if you have it plugged in it essentially
Means it’s always gonna have some reservoir of water that’s always hot now if it needs to keep water hot all the time we know that it’s gonna lose heat so then that means it has to reboil the water once in a while which means that it’s gonna have a standby power associated with this thing as long as you plug this thing in it’s gonna be drawing energy now if i press
The brew and it’s not brewing maybe it’s the button brew yep it’s not going at it now this could either mean the button or maybe it could mean the pump inside is broken because we know that you know motors generally they break easily so okay it is true that something is wrong here so i’m gonna go ahead and open this up and just check out what’s wrong inside because
Sometimes when i open it later on i find out oh i didn’t really have to open it in order to fix it so be a little bit hesitant before you open something to try and fix it not not like oh it’s broken oh i’m gonna automatically open it up and check it out okay i think i have to open this up after all so i’m gonna turn this thing off the best thing to do is i don’t
Even want to just turn off the power switch i always always unplug it and make sure i see the end of the plug before i go and try to open things up well one thing’s for sure they don’t make this very easily serviceable okay i know i’m tearing it up pretty badly but actually after i open it one time then i probably would know how to open other ones without damaging
It as badly okay so there are two screws over here that prevents this cover thing from going down in order to access these two screws of course you have to take off this little cover thing however this little cover thing is connected to this which i have not quite figured out how to remove just yet i think this is plastic actually but then it kind of looks like
Glass because there’s all these electrodes that’s sticking through it and i assume it’s very hot water that’s gonna be inside there this is the control panel some sort of power thing okay so i got everything all laid out nice and clean here there’s a switch here that senses the water level i’ve hijacked it i put a little magnet there so it thinks there’s water
There is water but i can’t get it right against there too to make that switch work so apparently i thought the green grounding wires were just for safety but then it really needed it to carry current so i have to put this wire back this is this red alligator clip right here – right here i added yet another wire from here to here cuz i cut that one too stupidly
Panel turns on this is not ready add water where did my magnet go i mean it here the water is boiling i don’t know if you can tell but it’s bubbling a little bit over here all this stuff here there’s these all these loops which i don’t quite understand i think the purpose of some of them is to take out the air bubbles be very careful with the ac this is the ac cord
Over here that’s 110 volts so don’t touch it but i have touched it slightly before with one hand and it’s not pleasant okay i see what’s happening here it’s pumping the water but water is not actually being pushed i think the pump is broken actually so now i’m going to load it with one of these new chai latte things okay load it press ready to brew no i don’t need
To press ready to brew i’m just going to use this and start pushing hot water through here well not the most ideal cuz a bunch of water over here got build up this chai tea latte thing it’s just maybe like a mixture because it has creamer or whatnot in it and it’s just pushing it through this little pod it’s just like a like a mix so i’m gonna give this a try i
Think it’s just gonna be like you know if you crack this open and put some hot water in it it’s gonna be the same thing you don’t really need to brew anything there’s no tea in it it’s sweet tastes like chai tea but the thing is the hot water runs through this device here this hot water boiler and this thing is made out of plastic there’s a whole bunch of silicone
Tube in it there’s a piece of plastic here so it touches a lot of plastic basically and i mean i’m sure it’s heat-resistant but it also makes me a little uncomfortable as well because it’s not glass so what is wrong with this thing okay this pump sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t see right now here’s an instance of where it’s not working when i turn it on
Eight volts before it was working it was pumping just fine now i won’t but i had it set to radiative brewing because i thought maybe there would be some switches in there that allows the water i don’t see any switches along the way as long as this thing is pumping hot water is gonna kill go out but i’ve gotten the electronics to say it’s brewing and now that i’m
Turning on it i see that it’s not pumping so that this is the indicator i really wanted so let me reverse it just just for fun okay i’m gonna make it go forward again okay so this is really great because this really proves that it’s this pump that’s not working so now i can go in there and take it apart and see what’s going on so this thing looks like it’s a thin
So this guy is being waterproofed if i go like this it will spin this guy over here there’s like a little bit of grommet over here this thing just spins on top of that freely it tries to it spins it because there’s a magnet over here seems to be turning just fine okay so i’m not quite able to fix this the pump actually does work it seems like there’s a blockage
Somewhere between the pump and i don’t know the bottom of this water heater thing or something there’s a blockage somewhere so even though the pump is appearing to work well it cannot push the water through sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t it might be this little check valve here it might be stuck in the checked state so then if it’s that then it means when
It’s stuck when it happens to be stuck then it cannot push water through it’s just a great learning experience just to fiddle with things just to see things work you can take it apart as deep down as you want to once i find out what’s wrong with this thing i’ll update on my facebook page or something and i’ll also update in the video description of what actually
Was wrong with this thing after i find out later i hope this video was interesting for you guys especially in the process of how to open all this stuff up you just need you know a screwdriver and you just start taking it apart i you don’t need to know how things work you just kind of fiddle with it just make sure that it’s not plugged in while you’re doing all this
So that’s it for the video today i think it’s slightly successful because i’m at least able to brew one cup of something even though this thing decided to never brew something again i still forced it to be able to brew something for me don’t forget to give me a like on this video comment down below let me know if this video kind of encourages you to take some of
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How to Repair Electronics and Save Money By BeatTheBush
