How do you make coffee in a Vintage Revere Ware 8 cup copper clad drip manual coffee maker?

Its very easy to make coffee in your Revere Ware pot if it has the "guts" in it that is.

The basket holds the coffee. Take the guts out and put water in to the line that marks the 8 cups of water mark. Load your basket with the coffee, 4 scoops would be fine. (You may want to use a coarse grind of coffee as the coffee ground for coffeemakers today are finer and would end up in your coffee cup!) Put the basket together on the stand and put back into the coffee pot and put the lid on the pot and then you put it on the stove and boil. It will get stronger the longer it perks so if you want stronger coffee let it perk longer. If you want a nice cup of coffee, I would only let it perk a couple of minutes. I use a coffee pot when we camp and that's how I gauge it over a campfire and how I do it at home on my stove. The longer it perks the stronger the coffee. And it tastes better than coffeemaker coffee too!

I got a vintage 8 cup Revere drip coffee maker off of eBay. I tried the above method and nothing happened except boiling water. I then boiled water in a tea kettle and added coffee grounds to the top part and placed what looks like a plunger in that. The 'plunger' has a few very small holes in it to allow the hot water to seep onto the grounds. The key to brewing coffee is not to boil it, but to allow near boiling water to pass through the grounds in a matter of a few minutes. This brings out the full flavour of the coffee without leaching the bitter acids from the grounds. My step-grandmother used to make what we called sheep camp coffee by bringing water to boil in an old granite pot and tossing in the coffee grounds and letting the coffee boil for a while and then she would add egg shells to settle the grounds. Needless to say, she was the only one who drank the coffee, the rest of us drank tea which she could not boil the piss out of it.

Initially, I thought the pot worked like a French press by adding the hot water to the top and then the coffee grounds and the pushing the hot water slowly through the grounds. However, the hot water poured into the the lower pot without brewing the coffee sufficiently. Then I tried it with the plunger in place and this impeded the flow of hot water to correctly brew the coffee.