I bought a Hario Switch to replace my broken chemex and … I am not impressed by the design.
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I bought a Hario Switch to replace my broken chemex and … I am not impressed by the design.
The “switch” is just a cheap piece of frankly, ill fitting plastic. Its purpose is to raise a metal ball that’ll form a sorta seal if left to rest. Think like a ramune bottle.
It’s elegant, in that backyard redneck way. In practice though: both of these pieces are unmoored to the assembly and can easily fall out. The ball actually fell out before I realized what was up. The plastic has to be manhandled into place and easily comes out of alignment (I did it testing the “switch”).
I’ll live with it, but I already kinda regret this purchase …
#coffee -
I bought a Hario Switch to replace my broken chemex and … I am not impressed by the design.
The “switch” is just a cheap piece of frankly, ill fitting plastic. Its purpose is to raise a metal ball that’ll form a sorta seal if left to rest. Think like a ramune bottle.
It’s elegant, in that backyard redneck way. In practice though: both of these pieces are unmoored to the assembly and can easily fall out. The ball actually fell out before I realized what was up. The plastic has to be manhandled into place and easily comes out of alignment (I did it testing the “switch”).
I’ll live with it, but I already kinda regret this purchase …
#coffeePlaying with it some more…
Fun fact; it just came assembled totally wrong. The ball is not supposed to be free floating. It was just never put inside the gasket and was just knocking around the glass bowl in the packaging. After figuring that out, I pried open the gasket and pushed it back in.
The switch is still shit, BUT it was also inserted wrong. In its original position it wasn’t actually lifting the ball as it should and fell out easily. I fully removed it and re-seated it.
Now it actually functions as intended. The ball lives inside the neck, and the handle successful raises it. Still not my favorite design, but for a moment I thought it was completely broken. Points for being functional. Minus points for shitty factory QC.
