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This contraption is for sale in the Chattanooga area. It's being billed as a coffee maker, and although it seems to have all the parts for a vacuum brewer, I am wondering if it is, in fact, a piece of laboratory equipment.... any thoughts?

I just don't see how it makes for a practical coffee server...


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<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">I have a fair amount of experience with these.  Visually it looks like all the pieces are there but you'd almost have to have it in hand to really know.  Factors include how flexible is the rubber.  Is that spring any good.  One of the filter cloths looks newer but I have some for another pot that look like they would work fine.  It would depend on the diameter of that piece with the holes in it.</span>

 

<span style="font-family: georgia, palatino;">That thing might just work after a good cleaning.  It is missing a burner of some kind but that might be solved with some stereo and a burner.</span>
 
It looks strange... I've never seen anything like it. I wonder, do you need a coffee machine for the interior? I just don’t see any other benefit in it. Maybe of course I just don't understand anything about this)sorry
 
I wonder, do you need a coffee machine for the interior?

I just don’t see any other benefit in it.

 

We have a number of these and similar items. Let's see if this helps:

5 is a ceramic disk with a cotton coffee filter fitted over it (7 is a spare filter). Put 5 in 3, filter up. Pull the spring-loaded hook down and hook it on the bottom of 3. Put ground coffee in the top of 3.

Put the water in 2, then fit the 3/5 assembly into 2 with the red rubber gasket (6 is a spare gasket) making a good seal.

Place an alcohol burner under 2 and light it. The water will eventually boil and be forced up through the bottom of 3, through the filter and into the upper chamber of 3 where the coffee is. Allow the water to continue to bubble for the desired time- longer = stronger coffee. When that time is up, extinguish the flame.

As the air and residual water in 2 cools, it will suck the coffee down from the upper 3 chamber, through the filter and into 2.

Carefully remove the 3/5 assembly from 2 and place 3/5 in stand 4.

You can now grab 8 by the black handle and pour coffee from 2 into 9, the unseen coffee cup.

Though I did number 1 and 2 differently, they're basically the same thing 1/8 is a spare. Why I did that and left the stands as both 8 is a mystery! LOL! 2 can be removed from 8 once cool by loosening the knurled nut behind it, which will loosen the clamp on 8 that holds 2.

Hope this helps!

Chuck

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I want to thank everybody that chimed in on this.

You could have knocked me over with a feather. I would NEVER have imagined that this contraption was actually to serve coffee. It was certainly a vacuum immersion device, but I was sure it was from a chemical lab.

You really do learn something everyday...

Thanks,

Bill
 

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