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Throw it away or sell it at a garage sale.
LOL, remind me not to buy anything at a garage sale in your neighborhood.......
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I doubt if the cleaning did it in.
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I have an inexpensive Mr Coffee. I’ve cleaned it a couple of times with vinegar and had no issues. Next time I will just throw it out and go by a new one. Less than $20
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My Keurig did the same thing... Trashed it and bought a new one... I will not fugg with a plastic piece of chit made in china too damm cheap ...Its hard to fix cheap junk when it can be replaced with a new one cheaper than parts for it....
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2 or 3 times a week I add a table spoon of apple cider vinegar to my coffee water. No taste, keeps me and my coffee maker clean.
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Try cleaning it with some CLR. Give it a couple of extra rinses afterwards with plain water. Yeah, DONT do this^^^. CLR is toxic as hell and you need to use some serious gloves to keep it off your skin. Fail to do so and it will soak through your skin to underlying tissues and kill it, requiring amputation. Seen the treatment at the hospital to save dude's fingers. Dude was lucky in that he only agonized for the 12 hours of treatment and retained his fingers. I suspect that if you get some on your insides, you won;t do so well, either. And the treatment used on fingers is impossible on your innards. Again, DO NOT USE CLR IN YOUR COFFEE MAKER. Last I checked, walmart has $10-$15 coffee makers. Or join the club and use a french press.
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I’ll second the earlier poster that it’s clogged by a piece of calcium. I’ve cleaned my Mr Coffee makers for decades with vinegar. My last Mr Coffee maker died last month that I bought in 2003. It was cleaned every couple of months with vinegar. After 17 years it wouldn’t come on one morning  I bought a Mr Coffee in 2001 and decided to clean it with vinegar a couple of years ago because the coffee pot was almost black. The coffee pot was still black after I cleaned it and it quit working a few days later. I bought a new Mr Coffee (without a timer) at the grocery store for $14 dollars and I will never clean it with vinegar.
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Mr Coffees are junk. Trash it and get a Bunn. I'm on my 5th one. Bunn makes good coffee, but the damned things always start leaking right after the warranty runs out. They won't sell replacement seals, and I can't match up anything at the hardware store to fix them.
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2 or 3 times a week I add a table spoon of apple cider vinegar to my coffee water. No taste, keeps me and my coffee maker clean. Do you have Corona? I can't imagine you couldn't taste vinegar in your coffee.
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$20 Black & Decker here
Vinegar every couple months
If they last 2 yrs....ya got your $20 outta it
T R U M P W O N !
U L T R A M A G A !
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Jeebus.....who cleans a coffee maker?
I surely don't. My wife does.............. 
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$20 Black & Decker here
Vinegar every couple months
If they last 2 yrs....ya got your $20 outta it
Same /same. OP's might have gotten jammed-up with scale coming loose. If I don't sluice with vinegar every couple months the mineral scale brings production to a halt.
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I'm surprised that nobody has suggested setting the offending coffeemaker downrange and sending a 6.5 Creedmoor bullet whizzing by so that the thunderous shock waves from heaven itself will shake loose the calcium and render it into nothingness.
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I'll bet anything that it was vinegar that had 10% ethanol added! (Either that or you were using FRAM coffee filters.)
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I use vinegar, but with mostly water.
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got a Mr Coffee ,coffee maker about 3-5 years old. Decided it was time to clean it with vinegar per the op . manual, you know run 3 cups of vinegar thru machine ,shut off let set half hour run last cup of it thru then run pot of water thru to ,rinse out remaining vinegar.It cleaned a little calcium or what ever out of it .That was monday ,Tuesday made one pot of coffee ,it work fine ,made second pot later ,it squirt a few squirts of coffee and the pump stopped ,hot plat still worked .It dead ,it just funny it worked fine till i cleaned it ,did the vinegar kill it? even thought they say to clean it with it ? it just funny it died the day after i cleaned it , Problem is obvious. You used aftermarket vinegar instead of OEM vinegar. 😃
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Likely what John said. 
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I'll bet anything that it was vinegar that had 10% ethanol added! (Either that or you were using FRAM coffee filters.)
Coffee machine had a bad ground.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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I use vinegar, but with mostly water. Vinegar is a weak acid and is already mostly water. Run a couple cups of straight vinegar through, turning machine off halfway through cycle. Wait 30 minutes. Then run two pots of water through to remove vinegar taste. Done.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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