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Just wanted to say how helpful this video was. Thank you so much. It's great being able to do repairs yourself and the know how of what bolts to buy was what you were able to answer for me. Glad to have the arms back on my chair.

Very creative. I enjoy your videos.

Hello, your movie was very handy. I had also need to exchange the glow plugs in my seat alhambra 7n. Unfortunately you were right that the 3rd glow plug from the left is different then the other ones and indeed it is much more expensive. In my case around 180 eur pcs. The part number of this different one is VW-AG 03L 905 061 g. My engine model is 2.0 tdi 184 HP. This 3rd glow plug cover was also much more difficilult to disconnect at least for me.

Enjoyed your video, I've made logs before but not with coffee grounds. If you decide to use cardboard instead of paper, after soaking add 2 zip ties to mixing attachment & cut diagonal to cut it up better.

Hello, "Rob The Frugalist" I was analyzing your channel and saw that in your channel have some problem, That's why your channnel is not much growing and not getting much engagement, If you can solve these problems, Your channel will grow like a storm. If you tell I can tell these problems. Where can I tell? Here or email?

I make my own coffee logs as well, I make 2 different sizes also, My "small" ones mold is a 28 oz baked bean can and the "big" ones are a 46 oz (1/3 of a gallon) Juice Can. My small ones burn will burn 3- 3 1/2 hours and my big ones will burn 6-7 hours. It doesn't cost me anything other than my time to make mine, I work next to a furniture builder and I they give me all the saw dust I want and my sister owns a coffee shop so I get all the used coffee grounds I want all I gotta do is stop bye and get it.

Great tutorial...I wonder what would cause one glow-plug to burn out more than the others?

For me, those batches are way too small. I’d get a cement mixer and do much bigger batches. 👍

The on and off buttons work fine on mine but the sensor doesn’t work. New batteries. Have spent an hour cleaning all the reachable bits but think tomorrow I’ll have to take it apart to investigate. My suspicion is these sensors are extremely sensitive to the hinge mechanism and maybe some gunk is knocking it off balance or something. The little light flashes red but there is just zero motor movement when you wave your hand over it!

Has anyone besides the author, gone to this much trouble to make a few fire logs?

Apparently if you let the initial mix compost for a couple of months, it goes all peaty and burns doe longer

The way he holds his camera, Was this guy an emo kid in the early 2000s?

Only 50 when other live species may be 100

seems like a heck of a lot of work just to have something that burns for barely 10 minutes

Outstanding video!! It worked perfectly! only $2 US at Ace Hardware. thank you. seems like I got you twice :) well worth the $10.

Thanks!

They aren't for spreading hot air. You're supposed to have a cast iron kettle in front of the fan filled with water. The kettle steams and the fan blows the humidity around so it doesn't just go straight up.

Nice work

I've found that generally when these solar lights go out, its because of the super cheap rechargeable cell and solar panel they use with them. I found some slightly upgraded solar chargers on amazon and replaced several of mine after they died. One of my lights would run a few hours after dark, now it's still on in the morning. I think a 2 pack was about $15.

Can you make charcoal from sawdust briquettes?

Thank you for taking the time to do this. This was a massive help and saved me a lot of time and money.

thanks very much for this! you made it look a LOT easier that it really was though

If you loosen both ends first then do the middle the boards are less likely to split. The blocks can usually be knocked off with a few taps from a lump hammer afterwards. There are much better ballet breakers available for around £30-£40 on that well known auction site. They usually look like they are homemade typically 100cm long, sometimes painted sometimes not and are welded together. Much tougher than the roughneck and vevor breakers. Even though they are often a bit shorter they are so much stronger they make it much easier to break up pallets although you will still come across the occasional pallet with extra wide boards or damaged timber that doesnt split cleanly.

Stay wire!🤣 Very relatable. But flux has come into my life, and it turns out solder listens to it, and not my exasperated shouts😤 I bought a solder gun at a garage sale, and it game with a little tub of paste flux. I don't even use the solder gun, but the flux is almost gone!

Nice one, mate! What annoys me about many of these devices is the lack of spare parts. I have a couple of solar lights on which both solar cells died, just out of warranty. Can't replace just the panels, supplier says to just chuck it and buy new, even though the batteries, circuitry and LEDs are perfectly fine. I had to buy some similar sized solar cells and do a hack to make them fit, but they work. Right to repair, hmmmm. I wish the companies that make and sell these could be held accountable for creating unnecessary e-waste. Good to see that there are like-minded people like you and I that will repair the thing instead of chucking it into the tip. Just a tip, use a plastic spudger or cheap guitar pick to prise the plastic parts, not a metal screwdriver. And get a magnetic tray for your screws so you don't lose them 🤣

This video saved me potentially hundreds of dollars and a week or two's time to ship my chair out and back for a warranty repair. With this, I was able to fix it myself in 20 minutes for less than $4. Thanks so much!

Hi Rob my name is Chantelle and i am from South Africa. I am involved in an NPO with the Chairlady being in the USA and travels often to SA we are considering doing the coffee logs through the NPO and i have a few questions regarding this and needing some advise etc. Please could i get contact details so i can either send you and email or whatsapp etc.

Hahaha funny guy

Great but paper includes bleach, ink, chemicals and what not. I'd rather make a briquette from 100% natural materials. I'd love to burn paper of course but I read a lot of studies saying it's not safe for our health and the environment

I thought that maybe it was a new way to store coffee for camping. 😀😃😄😁😆😅😂🤣

Rob, you just saved me a quoted £65 (-£4 for the bolt)! Incredible job with the video, so easy to follow and a real service to everyone with an Aeron chair. Just wanted to say thanks and enjoy a coffee/pint on me!

I like to express my gratitude and give a shout out for this excellent tutorial for the repair of the broken bolt on the arm rest assembly for my Aeron chair. I live in New Zealand and took the broken arm assembly into the local rep of Herman Miller and was told the ONLY solution was to buy an entirely new arm rest assembly for $210 and wait at least two months for it to arrive by container ship! After ordering the requisite bolt that was clearly specified in the video, I followed the step-by-step procedures and in 30 minutes had 'er done and working perfectly. Thanks VERY much!! Highly recommended tutorial!!

Very good video Robert, thank you for the video done and thank you for the really good description of what we do and explaining further to why this is so important to get a flue/ wood burning stove sweep. 10/10 video!.

Hi, did you change your grip on the ask from the felling axe to the X27? Right hand at bottom I mean.

What about paper makes it a binding agent?

just curious what your motivation is? - No cheap/free access to fire wood - using up waste resources? - good fire starter burns? If you could occasionally gather free firewood would you still do it?

Heat closer to the baffle moves air up the flue quicker, burns better

Great job on the video, fixed my chair for $2.75 ! BTW, the proper match for Machine Screw is M6 - 1.0mm x 70mm Pan Head Phillips which I picked up from Home Depot. This bolt is far superior and will never break like the cheap one used by Herman Miller :)

Just what I want Bernt Coffee smell !

What do you think about the paper being bleached and the ink as well?

Many thanks for the useful video - retired safety officer here with just a warning to you and viewers that when you were picking out the pieces of paper from the drill mixer attachment with your fingers it was still attached to the "live-power" drill. I know your hand wasn't on the trigger but if anything accidentally bumps or presses on that drill button whilst you are doing it you run the risk of broken or severely injured fingers. Always power drill off first - preferably remove the attachment completely to be sure.

I watched another similar channel and he let the pulp and coffee sit in the bucket for 2 months. He said that the end result was a much harder better burning brick/log. He said he had experimented extensively.

Thank you so much for this video! I successfully fixed my Aeron chair arm with a 1/4-28 x 2.5 inch bolt from my local hardware store. Bolt was $0.49. :) Thank you for helping me not have to buy a new chair!

Interested to see how this goes. I know comments help. Jamie

Thank you for your informative videos, they fit my desire to recycle everything and live frugally. It appears that coffee logs will smell nicer with no other significant advantage for heating. Here's the question..... in my humble home we drink as much Tea as Coffee, can i substitute tea leaves for Coffee Grounds? Will it just be an odour difference and really just adding an adding ingredient to the Briquettes with no real benefit? Cheers and thanks again, Steve

Im going to attempt to fix mine as part's dont exist with this make. I will advise if/when i fail miserably.

This is great. I've got all the pieces around here. Need so make a screen. Nicely done. I was going to make a press for doing bricks, but this will be less fabrication. I have plenty of other projects :)

For my paper Bricks I use cardboard boxes (ripped into roughly 15x15cm pieces) and let them sit in water for 2 days, then if you shred them with a paint/cement mixing tool you get a great pulp only the grey newspaper and other recycling paper works that good because the fibres are already shorter then new paper I think.

Good call mixing the paper pulp before adding the wood, but I think the fibre of the wood would be much easier to compress and bind if you soak it for 2 days or even longer. But your results are awsome so if it´s not necessary you can save the time... maybe next batch leave enough for 1 brick lying around for a few days and see the difference? I´m all out of sawdust so I can´t make more this year.

Hello, just discovered your ideal for coffee logs, another way to recycle used coffee grinds. Wondering if you combined different elements with-in the coffee logs which might increased burn time or intensity? ratio of charcol to coffee, paper, sawdust, particularly Fatwood or pine byproducts. I am going to try coffee grinds and wax in empty tuna cans vs cardboard and wax.