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Not in the carafe—we’ve all seen that tragedy. No, this was a single, hairline fracture running vertically down the side of the machine’s chassis . A clean, almost laser-straight line through the brushed plastic. No impact point. No dropped mug nearby. No thermal shock (the machine had been idle for 12 hours).
After consulting a materials engineer and a coffee tech, we landed on a single plausible, yet deeply weird explanation:
At exactly 3:17 AM, a scheduled kicked in. The pump ran. And for 8 seconds, the machine vibrated at the exact frequency needed to turn a sub-surface flaw into a full-thickness crack.