mr_sparkle
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Hey gang! Just wanted to show you what I have sitting by my bedside to wake me up in the morning!
This is a Goblin 860 Teasmade, designed to wake you up with a fresh hot cup of tea every morning - and its GREAT!
I love it because to me its complete, typical English Enccentricity, to have an appliance by your bedside that has a mixture of Electricity, Water and Heat, and that wakes you up by boiling a ketter and transferrif scalding hot water under pressure into a teapot! LoL
Its handy tho cos it has a bed side lamb in it, which is one of the best reading lamps I have had!
Basically, each night you place water into the kettle on the left and tea into the teapot.
At the allotted time, the kettle begins to boil and since the lid is airtight, when boiling, the pressure of the steam forces the water into the teapot, where your tea brews.
Now remember this item was made about circa 1979, so no thermostats back then, instead, to stop the kettle boiling dry, it sits on an cool tilting platform, when full the platform tilts to close contacts and set the machine up ready for the morning. When empty the kettle sits high on the platform and when the alarm goes off instead of boiling, it sounds the buzzer!!!
THE BUZZER!!!! WOW is all I can say about that! - Instead of the nice gentle alarms now we take for granted, this thing has a solinoid in it, that come on when the alarm ticks round, so the alarm is something like the buzzer you hear when someone buzzes you into an apartment block! Sure gets me out of bed!!!!
Let me know what you think,
John
This is a Goblin 860 Teasmade, designed to wake you up with a fresh hot cup of tea every morning - and its GREAT!
I love it because to me its complete, typical English Enccentricity, to have an appliance by your bedside that has a mixture of Electricity, Water and Heat, and that wakes you up by boiling a ketter and transferrif scalding hot water under pressure into a teapot! LoL
Its handy tho cos it has a bed side lamb in it, which is one of the best reading lamps I have had!
Basically, each night you place water into the kettle on the left and tea into the teapot.
At the allotted time, the kettle begins to boil and since the lid is airtight, when boiling, the pressure of the steam forces the water into the teapot, where your tea brews.
Now remember this item was made about circa 1979, so no thermostats back then, instead, to stop the kettle boiling dry, it sits on an cool tilting platform, when full the platform tilts to close contacts and set the machine up ready for the morning. When empty the kettle sits high on the platform and when the alarm goes off instead of boiling, it sounds the buzzer!!!
THE BUZZER!!!! WOW is all I can say about that! - Instead of the nice gentle alarms now we take for granted, this thing has a solinoid in it, that come on when the alarm ticks round, so the alarm is something like the buzzer you hear when someone buzzes you into an apartment block! Sure gets me out of bed!!!!
Let me know what you think,
John