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Day: April 25, 2012

  • Brita Pitcher Lid: Second Hinge Pin Failure

    Although that fix continues to work, the second pin failed pretty much as expected:

    Brita pitcher lid - second broken pin
    Brita pitcher lid – second broken pin

    I glued the pin to rebuild the base, sheared the pin off, extracted the matching screw from the Tiny Vial of Teensy Screws, drilled a hole, and forced it in. This shot of the underside of the pitcher lid clearly shows that drilling the hole perpendicular to the edge doesn’t produce the proper alignment, but it works well enough:

    Brita pitcher lid - pin angle
    Brita pitcher lid – pin angle

    The “Smart Pitcher” LCD panel in the lid that counts down six weeks until filter replacement didn’t survive its most recent trip through the dishwasher, so we’re reduced to marking the calendar. How 20th century…