This is the second episode in a series where we rescue something from the wild.
This story begins with a Sunday night and an overflowing rubbish bin. I live in an apartment complex with a shared rubbish area.
I proceeded to throw out the rubbish, cans, plastic bottles, before opening up the glass bin to throw out my empty bottle of Pam’s extra virgin olive oil - and on the top, a hot pink Nutribullet portable blender, complete with bottle and built in power cable.
My assumption is that this wouldn’t work - but once you see something like this, it’s hard to look away - even just for the fact that there isn’t a single piece of glass on it.
Adding to the lore of this particular find is that we had purchased this exact same blender (in the same perfect colour scheme) just two weeks earlier. I raced home, filled with the fear I had sleepwalked to the rubbish area in the night - unaware of my own subciouscious resentment for the portable nutribullet (and apparently a well organised recycling system). But sure enough, mine was still on the counter.
I charged up the clone device, and as expected, I could only get it to show its red error light. I tried using the bottle and the cap with my working blender - both with successful results. This pointed to the issue being either in the motor, or in the attachment between the two.
Next, I tried very slowly connecting the motor piece to the top half of the blender, I noticed that, a few cm from locking on tightly, the light indicating whether it was ready to work lit up the successful blue colour.
This indicated that the electronic mechanism designed to confirm the blender was locked in place (for safety reasons) was not correctly aligned to the correct spot.
Next, I’d love to tell you how I fixed it. But this isn’t a blog written by an electronics expert. So this is as far as the story goes thus far.
After a good couple of hours of trying to disassemble and reassemble each of the rubber seals, I was unable to work out how to adjust the alignment. I’m looking forward to trying again.
Until then, I guess we have a spare bottle to use with our existing blender. And a reason to motivate me to visit the recycling bins in our complex more regularly.
Overall costs:
Nutribullet: $0
Total cost: $0
Estimated value: $0 (so far)