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Black & Decker ODC460 Spacemaker 8 cup stainless thermal carafe spacemaker coffemaker Mounts under the cabinet, space saving design Programmable clock/timer lets up wake up to a hot, delicious cup of coffee
Sneak-A-Cup interrupt feature Removable brew basket and reservoir Pause and Serve Indicator Light Water Level Indicator Dimensions: 14"H x 13.5"W x 12.5"L
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Junk
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This is junk. I through mine in the trash . I should have trusted what other people were saying about this product. I have owned many many Black and Decker products over the years. I am done with Black and Decker!!!!
Rating: 
(1
out of 5) @ 2008-11-25
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Worst coffe pot I have ever owned! WAY overprices for quality!
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This is the second one we have had. For a $60 coffee maker I expect it to work with EXTREME ease. I would rather have the $10 one from the dollar store. It never turns on like it is supposed to, you have to mess with every thing to get it to turn on and then you have to make sure that the coffe pot or the tray doesn't pop out and spill coffee EVERYWHERE! DO NOT BUY THIS COFFEE MAKER. Like I said this is our second one, we returned the first one to Black N Decker for the same reasons listed above and I am done with this coffe maker!
Rating:
(1
out of 5) @ 2008-09-15
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major disappointment...not anything like its predecessor.
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This item was purchased to replace/supplement our last Black and Decker ODC Spacemaker Coffeemaker. We used it for several years and were very pleased with it. The only reason we were replacing it is because a plastic clip broke on the water holder and, with a wedding a few days away, we could not wait for a replacement part to arrive.
What did arrive was a major disappointment. The machine is now an 8 cup design instead of a 10 cup. The water holder did not work with our old machine as it had been slightly reshaped. Now,the water trough, still with a 10 cup capacity, has a small hole was placed in the back of the container so that you cannot overfill it. You can, however, pour water all over everything as you transport the trough from the sink to the coffeemaker. The receptacle for the pot was scaled down to accept the 8 cup carafe, so our original carafe, with a wonderful wide mouth large enough to fit your hand in to clean and its pause and serve feature on the handle, is useless. Somehow in the re-engineering of the design another "wonderful" feature occured... When you place the carafe in the receptacle, the coffee grounds tray above, is pushed out ever so slightly so that now the machine assumes you are in continual "pause and serve", un-be-knownst to you, of course, resulting in coffee flow all over the counter and beyond. To counteract this design flaw, we find ourselves taping the tray in place with the thoughtfully provided strapping tape. And I thought the tape was just there for shipping and handling!
What I can't figure out is why Black and Decker would take a thoughtful and well engineered design, and replace it with something that has so many obvious, critical flaws it should never have hit the market. Why rework something that doesn't need reworking?
Rating:
(1
out of 5) @ 2008-09-15
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Good design - bad design
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I like the unit for it's compact design and thermal caraf. But the reports of poor design and overflow are true! At first it seemed fine and I had no problems. Then after about a week the basket popped out slightly in mid cycle, closing the drip valve and I had a mess on my hands. I found that the spring that holds the valve closed is indeed too strong and when you put the pot in instead of overcoming the spring tension and opening the valve for brewing, it just pops the basket out and the valve closes - big mess! The basket needs some sort of heavy detent or snap to hold it in place so this does not happen. I have found that if you place the caraf at the front edge of the "well" it sits in, the problem is less likely to occur as there is less tension put on the spring. I brew coffee every day and for the past 3 weeks and it has overflowed twice. So it's not every day and if I'm careful about where I place the caraf and make sure the basket is in all the way, it works. But I still don't like to walk away and leave it unattended and will echo others to say it is poorly designed.
Rating: 
(3
out of 5) @ 2008-09-04
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Gotcha!
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I agree with some of the other reviewers, the "sneak a sip" feature is just plain broken. The spring has too much resistance and placing the thermos into its place pops out the coffee filter tray. Also even if you notice and push the coffee filter tray back into position, it pops out again during brew. My solution (borrowed from another reviewer) was to remove the plastic "sneak a sip" piece (the one with the spring) and now we brew in confidence (just don't remove the thermos until it is totally done :).
Because of this I think this product is broken and doesn't work as shipped.
Rating:
(1
out of 5) @ 2008-09-01
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