I’m still running one of these, bought it from my local Makita dealer when I was doing my apprenticeship. All it’s had is a couple of new leads, a set of brushes and removed the suppression capacitor.
Sounds like new unlike mine from parkside I've used it 4or5 times to sharpen my lawnmower blade and when I turn it off it sounds like the bearings are shot and after watching you Dean I'll have a go 💪👍👀
He did a video a few days ago talking about a cracking/popping noise on a grinder and took some grece out of the gears because it was too full and it fixed the problem
Great vid as always Dean. What you explained about the capacitor I didn't know. I bet loads of tools with dodgy capacitors like this have been thrown away as people thought there were serious safety problems. Simplicity of this old makita is what's cool about it.. Minimal maintainence and good for another 30 years... What grease is it your use?
Hoovers love to blow up filter caps too, as do plenty of other household items. Last one I had go was a Husqvana sewing machine from the 60s. Oddly enough the infamous golden Rifa cap was connected across the pedal, which means the machine started moving at full speed when the cap shorted. Words can't express how glad I was that my fingers were well away from the needle when that happened!
I remember this machine from the Makita brochure when I was a little boy...12-13 years old...now I'm 53...😄 I think it was some kind of special design🧐...Giugiaro-design I think🤔
Correct although you might've been older when you saw the brochure. Makita commisioned the Guigiaro brothers to design a domestic DIY line of tools circa 1992. That's why it's stylish and well put together, bit of a classic actually.
Not Everything was better in the old days, ok for small cut offs but any real grinding and that thing is self destructing quick fast in a hurry... theres good reason even cheap grinders has metal heads...
You can actually hear the electrical noise of a motor with an AM radio. Amplitude Modulation picks up all the noise it can, very different from FM radio. Thats why its basically impossible to listen to AM radio in an urban area during daytime too much noise congestion.
Love these OLD tool repairs
I’m still running one of these, bought it from my local Makita dealer when I was doing my apprenticeship.
All it’s had is a couple of new leads, a set of brushes and removed the suppression capacitor.
Such a nice simple and reliable tool
She sounds brand new.
Thanks as always Dean!!!!!
Sounds like new unlike mine from parkside I've used it 4or5 times to sharpen my lawnmower blade and when I turn it off it sounds like the bearings are shot and after watching you Dean I'll have a go 💪👍👀
He did a video a few days ago talking about a cracking/popping noise on a grinder and took some grece out of the gears because it was too full and it fixed the problem
Great vid as always Dean. What you explained about the capacitor I didn't know. I bet loads of tools with dodgy capacitors like this have been thrown away as people thought there were serious safety problems.
Simplicity of this old makita is what's cool about it.. Minimal maintainence and good for another 30 years...
What grease is it your use?
Hoovers love to blow up filter caps too, as do plenty of other household items. Last one I had go was a Husqvana sewing machine from the 60s. Oddly enough the infamous golden Rifa cap was connected across the pedal, which means the machine started moving at full speed when the cap shorted. Words can't express how glad I was that my fingers were well away from the needle when that happened!
Nice to see a bit of care of the aged :D
stellar!
I remember this machine from the Makita brochure when I was a little boy...12-13 years old...now I'm 53...😄
I think it was some kind of special design🧐...Giugiaro-design I think🤔
Correct although you might've been older when you saw the brochure. Makita commisioned the Guigiaro brothers to design a domestic DIY line of tools circa 1992. That's why it's stylish and well put together, bit of a classic actually.
A few years more or less...my memory isn't the best either😅...but I remember watching this and it "caught my eye".
Great work as always Dean 🦘
Thanks!.
Not Everything was better in the old days, ok for small cut offs but any real grinding and that thing is self destructing quick fast in a hurry... theres good reason even cheap grinders has metal heads...
It's a DIY tool and it's lasted without it getting too beaten up.
What kind of grease do you have in the syringe
I want one of those pullers, what is it please Dean?
You can actually hear the electrical noise of a motor with an AM radio. Amplitude Modulation picks up all the noise it can, very different from FM radio.
Thats why its basically impossible to listen to AM radio in an urban area during daytime too much noise congestion.
Cool
Did you buy all new parts?
A Makita grinder manufactured in Europe?
That's a new one for me.
China was still busy building a wall when that one was made 😂
Such a cheap cheerful machine, in today standards nobody it will buy something like this
old tools were just better
I've always wondered what he means when he says "brave age of machines", does he mean quality?
it means its old. Its a big age
I don’t think I’ve seen a grinder that cheaply made before, at least the spent some money on good bearings
You can hear the raw power of that machine its made when tools had the quality but a bit dangerous ofc.
Mechanical surgery. Removing unnecessary failed organs 🙂
A full plastic grinder? It looks like a toy 😂 Glad Makita left that idea in the past.