Dear coffee juice estimators, I’ve had this V60 02 dripper for 3,5 years and some hairline cracks have been building up all over the cone. At one point, a bigger horizontal crack appeared and a short time ago a bigger vertical one took off while pouring - I really heard and felt the plastic creaking. It has almost never seen the dishwasher, mainly only rinsing and hand washing.
I’ve used this V60 regularly, more often in the last year than the years prior, but I wanted to ask if someone experiences the same degradation with other colors of plastic? I have two AeroPress devices that are like new, one being older than this dripper…
It looks like a very poor material choice, but maybe it’s due to the crystal clear transparency.
Close up:
I believe Hario changed the plastic on these a few year back but even the current plastic, Acrylonitrile-styrene resin, is not super high heat resistant.
I’ll try to find out more about which polymer they use but I don’t think I’ll find much. I believe mine is the latest iteration but no way to be certain.