the intro to this vid is spot on. my grandfather taught me to learn everything i can, about everything there is, and to learn how to do every job at your workplace. that way you can always find work, because you have more skills, and experience with more positions. that attitude allowed me to become a self-employed carpenter and maintenance person in my 20's. now in my mid 50's, i can build, repair or destroy almost anything.
I'm rapidly approaching 69 and my grandad taught me something similar: " Learn something new every day!" I'm a graduate electronics engineer so I have the edge when it comes to "destroying" stuff! My best man is a mechanical engineer and he couldn't believe how little mechanical sympathy I had for cars! I told him, "I can design a power supply which you can short out out as many times as you like, melting a spanner with the arc if necessary and remove the short and back it comes good as new"! When mechanical engineers design their stuff to do the same, I'll be a happy bunny"! LOL
Yes, I am a devotee of the P A Inventor and his excellent revivals. I also have a local scrap yard where I find the odd useful item for resuscitation or reuse. And that is the priority : Reuse, Repair, Recycle !
I live in Thailand and often check the scrap yards here. There is nothing. The Thai's don't throw out anything if there is a moment of life left in it. I'm from the US where they throw out everything. Culture shock, but I guess the good kind.
@@DragonBuilds I don't think it's racist but I think throwing can be done by those who have a lot or too much. No it seems to me that the Thai population is in these conditions
I really like that you give german translations. I speak eanglish but am learning German and technical words are often hard for me to learn. I also like when you give a German history to the items.
Good job on the brazing work. The cast iron didn’t crack so obviously you got the pre and post preparation work correct. I love the repair-a-thons. That’s a lot of hours per video but you end up with a high quality production. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
BRILLIANT INTRODUCTION on this video! You echo my sentiments exactly. Indeed, after hearing your intro here, and watching so many of your videos already, you're the first person to whom I've ever considered adding patreon support. I'm cash-poor at the moment though, so that will have to wait until I have more funds. I will support how I can with video likes and links to your work here whenever possible. > "Will a world of clerks, advisors and consultants be able to pull itself up by its bootstraps? Where will the accountant of the accountant work, come winter time?" > I do a LOT of salvage to use parts / materials in many projects for myself and friends. I do much of the same things where I live (Oregon, USa), and would gladly buy you a beer if you're ever in the area. :) Please keep up the good work and frohe Weihnachten to you and yours!
You can actually hear the pronounciation by clicking to that little speaker icon next to the name on the wikipedia page. I can imagine it can be quite a mouthful for a foreigner. Cheers from Poland!
In Australia, if we visit scrap yards or rubbish tips we are called "Tip Rats" I am proud to be one. I like your accent, I love your small mistakes in pronunciation. You are a very clever man,, I wish we lived next to each other
I've been an unashamed tip rat since I was a youngster in the 80's. Never needed to buy a stereo in my entire life. People are so wasteful it is utterly baffling and disgusting.
I was a US soldier serving in Germany from 1990-96 Your flea markets are much like your scrap yard, All nice stuff, over here in the state rarely do you get steel drops or anything that functions! Your videos are great, my mother was German, she passed in 2017, it's always nice to hear a German accent, thanks for sharing your work! ;)
If it is... That is one Hell of a power hammer.. ( size wise)... Bigger then Any youtuber I have seen use ATM.. Man German Scrap is like gold In other Places.. mine even.,
Yes that's an anvil of an old power hammer, probably from a company called Béchê & Grohs. That thing should be at least 70 years old. Breaks my heart to see it lying in the dirt and being broken, that means another perfect engineered machine can't be used anymore....
These blowers are also often controlled with 0-10 volt control voltage.this is an general way to control parts when they are controlled from a buss like modbus .Pwm is also used very often and in the price range this part is in it could have both controle inputs on the board. Also the manufacturer is most often very nice and will give you a datasheet if you ask. We had 200 old fancoils of this company they were 20 years old. But they still had datasheets for us. Great company
I have one close to me and if i had more money .. i would have to repair anything, i go frequently. Too often the guy is all over with his pricing, picked up an older Coleman 120-240 30 apm generator and it worked. For 25 buck, some killer deals on casters, some were 175 each but I got 30 for 5 dollars each, electrical enclosures, never used with locking doors, load centers, good enought for the shop lighting, small air compressor. Tools, drill bits, nuts and bolts... crazy.. but I'm happy,
@@VeyronBD your right on the insurance co. Stuff. I've earned trust. I've picked thru and given them stuff back for them too use.. Their employees looked over...
I loved the comment "when tools from previous episodes come back to help us". It kind of imbues tools with a soul or personality which then makes us feel good about saving them from the scrap pile. I have several unhandy friends who, over the years have given me tools that used to belong to their fathers or grandfathers. Whenever these tools "come out to help me", I tell the friend who gave me the tool, "Your Grandad and I were working together in the shed today". It seems to make them happy. Well done on the videos, the format is great and as well as treating us to a bit of homespun philosophy at the start of each episode, I like that you don't feel you need to be in the shots and instead make the items the stars.
I very much appreciate you sharing the amount of time actually spent on a repair or project. Most presenters don't do that, but I think it adds context and understanding. Thank you!
You are quite the renaissance man! The range of your skills and knowledge is quite impressive, but your videos are presented in a way that anyone should be able to enjoy. Thank you.
Would like to point out that there's a means to make a seam like that much, much stronger. Using a grinding wheel that has a rounded profile (a 4 mm wide one suffices, and the round profile can be cut using a dressing diamond) score diagonal (to the seam) lines into the casting and steel before brazing them together. When the brazing job is done, and surface cleaned, it kinda looks like a stitched wound, and it's very strong. I've repaired a long type vise that had been cracked along the whole length of the sliding tube, because the tube itself was very thin, the repair would've been doubtful, but with the scores in place, the tube is still holding strong and i'm not being nice with that vise either. The old coot that taught me this trick said that you need to grind the excess braze flush with the surface, to evenly distribute forces without any stress points, but i've done it both ways and never noticed any problems.
Love these videos and the things that you come across in your junkyard! It reminds me of the junkyard in my hometown and reminds me of all my own scrapyard finds. Around 21:16 when you started talking about the duty cycle and programming the arduino is when I went from reminiscing to learning something new! I love the variety in your videos and each video I am still surprised with what you come up with! Great work and I look forward to your next video!
Cast iron is the black beast of every welder: look only at the preparation before and after brazing. Often I happened to bring people who soldered all day for trade to resold some cast iron object and I heard that it could not be welded, probably because it would have been very expensive or because it would have deformed, but in this case: the piece is large and the deformation does not take place but imagine how much it would cost in execution time.
I've got one of these Uhlig-kilns myself. They are very useful for tempering and hardening of smaller steel tools. For melting using a propane-oven is much cheaper and a fun project.
Hello TPAI, Glad your doing well. Very good commentary on the condition of the world. I'm a Journeyman Machinist and have done other various types of work, it's good to be well rounded. You can do a multitude of things, electronics, fabrication, repair. Good repair on the vice. Take care, all the best, C.
Great episode. I think you are correct in your view about global production and labor over-specialisation. Often you are saying molten (present tense) when melted (past tense) would be correct. To see scrap tools made useful again is satisfying to watch.
You look like a recycling god! I live in Latin America and here things are not wasted that way! It's much harder to find a scrapyard with useful things
i feel how your videos is affecting how i live, more and more of this. today and yesterday im stripping some copper cables i got for free. i look forward to when i get something together, strong enough to melt copper. its hard to find scrapyards in this way in sweden, most scrapm yards are just recyclable places and they are not happy if you take stuff or even look in the containers.... i want to reuse and repair things.. nice to see another video from you, stay at it with your awesome work. the brazing looks nice. cheers :)
I like what you do in these vids. It is especially nice that you have access to a scrapyard that you can rummage through. You're right on in the introduction to this video; knowing how to fix things and to work with your hands is good. Knowledge is power.
I like seeing these tools rescued, fixed, and put to use. Too many useful items are thrown out because it is "easier" just to buy something new. A repaired tool tells a story of both the tool's usefulness as well as the person's skills. Thank you for sharing. It inspires me to try to repair items I find that are broken, to re-purpose them if they can't be fixed, and to learn about the design and function of the objects.
I think I would be tempted to put that big blower on eBay. If they are that expensive and you manage to sell it for good money think of all the other stuff you could buy from the scrapyard!
@Captain MufDyven Could work, but its cast iron and tresses it gets under are not that good for weld repair. Simply put when you weld metal, the seam will be always be stiffer than surrounding metal, probably due said metal sucking up the heat and hence rapidly cooling it=hardening it. Welding such peace is no issue, if its just for looks and anvil to tap with hammer, but problem arises when you assert tens of tons of force with pneumatic power hammer. Cast material aint perfect to begin with and add there tresses created by welding it probably will snap again next from the seam... or it could hold who knows how internal crystalline structure is formed in metal. How ever what is known, if and when that snaps, anvil "feet" witch that is probably moves a bit, operator needs to be next to it and if you are unlucky and cant stop it in time and hammer hits anvil in angle, you have two hardened peaces of metal hitting each other with force of several tons at least.. most likely something will give in and those peaces turn into bullets. You dont want to get hit by one. Or least this is my understanding and hypothesis on subject. I think he mentioned what scrap yard that is in and go buy it and repair it. Sadly i dont have time, money or access. Just barely manages to get transportation for old tractor trailer i saved from scrapper.. Still dont know what to do with it on my farm, but it seems to be in relative good condition.
My scrapyard now puts bar ends by for me and will even run their X-ray spectrometer over them to give me an idea what the steel is. I find that very useful. As is building up a relationship with the scrapyard. I used a 3" diameter bar end to make flange washers for the 6" bench grinder I found in a scrapyard. I was very pleased with that. You could make quite a furnace with that blower.
Some content publishers can easily run 3:1 to 5:1 time ratios. Motion picture films normally exceed 200 minutes per 1 minute of used film. I remember reading the first Star Wars film was 1,600 minutes per 1 minute of onscreen footage.
You have a great command of the English language. I love vises and I appreciate the history. Wow, a pulse width modulation you programmed. That's pretty cool.
Your videos are very interesting and fun to watch, also very informative for someone with electronic knowledge. Looking forward to the next videos, hard work is much appreciated in making these videos.
I love your intros. I've been thinking a lot about these things lately, and I feel they are not spoken about often enough. It's nice to see that other people are thinking about them as well. Your videos are always so informative, and I believe more people should watch and learn how we can get the most from our limited resources.
I am lucky to have found your channel, so informative and educational! Thank you for sharing...world wide...in English! I am also picking up a greater understanding of German, so again thank you!
Great video. Been waiting for this to come out. That vise reminds me of the old Japanese gold agrandized cracked bowls. You should google a picture and you'll see what I'm talking about.
I enjoy your tool repair videos the most. Repair and reuse of the old vise is great . An excellent repair. You can tell how easily it works at the end. I also appreciate the manufacturing information and history you give on your discoveries. This adds context to the project. Best regards from the USA.
I loved your brazing job. Well done. I also think you are very smart with your electronics. Wish I was as well educated. Your videos are well worth waiting for. Please keep making them. I learn so much.
These videos are a ton of work and it shows. It’s universally excellent content - relaxing and educational to watch. I’ve been doing engineering for decades and I still learn new things just from those videos - I’m more of a “watchmaker” than a “blacksmith”.
Another great video! I always enjoy seeing what is available to you at the scrapyard. Where I live in the U.S., every scrapyard is a recycling center, so they won’t let you look around to reuse items. Other scrapyards are exclusively for automobiles. Thanks again for the excellent videos and work you put into them!
Same in the UK, you're just not able to browse and buy for scrap value here... all recycling or in the case of metal yards they're definitely not selling the scrap.
These repairathons have content spanning from straightfoward DIY to electrical enginerring. I particularly enjoyed the coding section. These repairathons have content spanning from straightfoward DIY to electrical enginerring. I particularly enjoyed the coding section. Excellent content.
It’s very true that the vast overwhelming majority of people today have absolutely zero skills in even doing basic skills. My niece has 2 children and she’s been out of work for 3 months and instead of cleaning her own house, pays a woman to come clean her house while she sits in her car in the driveway with her kids watching videos and playing games.
Thank you for another Iesson in innovation. It's a real pleasure to watch you restore and give new purpose to items which other people have considered to be junk. Regards from S Africa Clive
Great video as always, absolutely amazed at the quality of scrap you keep finding! Your vice brazing work is obviously improving, the bright gold brass against the blackened cast iron reminds me of Kintsugi. Any chance of sanding it back and getting a nice glamour shot of it?
I know this is an older video but I wanted to point out it's possible to generate PWM frequencies different than the stock ones on Arduino. Like this will set it up for a 25khz PWM frequency: // generate 25kHz PWM pulse rate on Pin 3 pinMode(PWMPin, OUTPUT); // OCR2B sets duty cycle // Set up Fast PWM on Pin 3 TCCR2A = 0x23; // COM2B1, WGM21, WGM20 // Set prescaler TCCR2B = 0x0A; // WGM21, Prescaler = /8 // Set TOP and initialize duty cycle to zero(0) OCR2A = 79; // TOP DO NOT CHANGE, SETS PWM PULSE RATE OCR2B = CurrentSpeed; // duty cycle for Pin 3 (0-79) generates 1 500nS pulse even when 0 It will affect other timings on the Arduino but you likely want the right PWM for the fan versus accurate timers for program code. :-) I use this to control a large PC fan to make a silent fan in my bedroom that is controlled from temperature sensors. PC fans use a 25khz PWM signal for speed control.
TPAI of course we want to see more of these "Repair-a-thon" videos. Sorry I can't contribute $$$ but I will let RUclips know I like them. ALWAYS A THUMBS UP for your videos!!!!!
1:08 Irony: I was a video creator who was never "current and experienced enough", the last few months I retrained as a software engineer and here I am now. Working as a developer. Remotely. My company thinks that they need a lot of of people to cover the demand, so they kept us. I am 30 now. Some people are always negative and say: "ugh it is too late with 30... "... But I got a job at a consultancy. And I fix iPhones and Thinkpads as a hobby. It goes both ways. It is good to recycle old stuff.
I'm a Canuck as well.. at the scrap metal yard near my place they have a 24 hr drop off pit in front, so far this month I've picked up 3 compressors and a radial arm saw, thrown out for such reasons as a plug that didn't work. I would hazard to guess that these items were left by the same people who say that '30 is too old'.. far too many of these idiots on this planet these days. People like that are much harder to repair than a compressor. Most 30 year olds are just figuring out what side of their hand their thumbs are on. If that's the age of maximum intelligence then humanity is doomed.
You can actually change the PWM frequency of the arduino by setting the timer divisor. If you are using an arduino with the 328p microcontroller running at 16MHz "TCCR1B = TCCR1B & 0b11111000 | 0x02;" would give you a frequency of about 3.9kHz on pins 9 and 10 and "TCCR2B = TCCR2B & 0b11111000 | 0x02;" would give you the same frequency on pins 3 and 11 (paste the line you want in the setup function and use analogWrite as you normally would).
Great job on the braze.... As far as the blower, there could have been a remodel somewhere in a building... Maybe that one was recently replaced, but for a variety of reasons, a decision is made to redo the whole thing... Contractors will bid the whole job, and the old stuff is just dumped, that's not their problem... they are being paid to put the new stuff in, wire it test it, get it working.... So something like that, which is perfectly fine, ends up in scrap.... Now, if you see the same crews of techs working in your area, buy them lunch, make friends with them, let them know that hey, if you find something interesting that's going in the dumpster, give me a call.... Probably find you some great stuff....
It's simple, repeat after me: BO - LE - SŁA - WIEC. Bolesławiec! :) They are harder, for example: Szczebrzeszyn :) Great video, as always! Cheers from Poland!
@@Nativemetalfreak We do not pronounce these sounds separately, but together as "sz". Try that Polish tongue-twister: ruclips.net/video/wi1UHZ8N138/видео.html
I've got an old broken vise that I'd love to restore, but I don't have access to brazing. It's a 10cm Soviet model from the 1960s, broken at the neck of the fixed jaw (across the spindle hole). I'd appreciate any advice, it's not a particularly rare or valuable model but has sentimental value for me.
I'm not sure what makes me more envious, your good fortune in having such a great scrapyard to rummage through near where you live, your "toolkit" and workshop, your welding and general skills (even though as an old engineer I consider myself pretty skilled also in many areas), or the fact that that you find and repair such "goodies" all the time. I suppose I shouldn't though as I have also had a decent share of great finds out of scrap - MULTIPLE drills: two Makita 12v battery drills in perfect working order that just needed a new battery each (they are the same so can be swapped) I bought two on eBay for less than a third of the price of proper Makita replacements. They are still going strong after more than three years of regular use! A much heavier and more powerful Bosch battery drill - same deal, but this now has two batteries of its own, a number of mains drills including an old Black & Decker that fits my old drill stand perfectly as it has the specific recess at the rear needed and my REALLY old one (35 years!!) had finally pretty much disintegrated - I kept the 1/2" chuck though! A light but still powerful DeWalt battery drill in immaculate condition for which I again bought a new battery on eBay and donated to my youngest son. A BRAND NEW Bosch hedge trimmer, the cable on which that someone had almost sliced through about 40cm from the cutter, apparently, from the small amount of hedge clippings still on it, on the very first use!! Work needed? Just cut the cable cleanly above and beyond the slice fitted (as I always do anyway) an orange rubber covered two pin connector pair so that the cable can easily be detached and extended whenever required! Result? A perfectly operational really good Bosch 45cm (ish) hedgecutter. Cost? the price of a 2 pin connector which I would have bought anyway. An old Bosch reciprocating saw! Similar story, had some corrosion and lots of "gunk" on it it. Stripped, cleaned, rebuilt and new saw blade - good as new! A BRAND NEW Bosch Hedge trimmer that merely had a loose connection internally!! And someone "SCRAPPED" it!!?? Go figure! Too many people have more money than sense! I LOVE watching your videos as you have the same philosophy as I do - repair it, modify it, re-use it, re-purpose it ... It's NOT junk as my wife keeps insisting it is! And even otherwise completely useless stuff with broken motors I have stripped out, the knackered (broken) bearings have been stripped and rebuilt with new ones - I LOVE eBay for bits! The latest is an 1800 Watt Universal motor from an Electrolux upright vacuum cleaner that is next on the list for turning into the drive for a shop vac. A "new" and better life for it than the scrap heap but still doing its old job! Viel Glück! Mach weiter die Videos ... BITTE! :-) Bis später, tschüss!
They probably did not need it anymore. It may have belonged to some old timer that passed away. Then someone came along and had to clean the property out. When that happens stuff gets trashed. Most folks don't want some dirty old broken down vise. That thing was pretty gnarly. Looks good cleaned up and repaired though.
One of your best videos so far :) That vise looked so rugged at first glance, but apparently even those "good old better-than-the-new-stuff tools" have had design flaws in them.
I'm so grateful for the 100 hours you spend on each repair-a-thon
the intro to this vid is spot on. my grandfather taught me to learn everything i can, about everything there is, and to learn how to do every job at your workplace. that way you can always find work, because you have more skills, and experience with more positions. that attitude allowed me to become a self-employed carpenter and maintenance person in my 20's. now in my mid 50's, i can build, repair or destroy almost anything.
I'm rapidly approaching 69 and my grandad taught me something similar: " Learn something new every day!" I'm a graduate electronics engineer so I have the edge when it comes to "destroying" stuff! My best man is a mechanical engineer and he couldn't believe how little mechanical sympathy I had for cars! I told him, "I can design a power supply which you can short out out as many times as you like, melting a spanner with the arc if necessary and remove the short and back it comes good as new"! When mechanical engineers design their stuff to do the same, I'll be a happy bunny"! LOL
Same story here in 43.
Yes, I am a devotee of the P A Inventor and his excellent revivals. I also have a local scrap yard where I find the odd useful item for resuscitation or reuse. And that is the priority : Reuse, Repair, Recycle !
Ach, these repair-a-thons are the best.
Yes!
Heikki, you don't happen to have a brother who studied and lived in Austria? Cheers t.
@@ttos3093 Nope
@@Happymacer so true!
it's great that you are not only giving discarded tools and machines a second chance but also keep their history and heritage alive!
I’m sick and tired of RUclips putting your videos in the closet to rot. These are amazing and you deserve much more recognition.
Can't show the plebs how to survive after theyre done fucking up the planet
I live in Thailand and often check the scrap yards here. There is nothing. The Thai's don't throw out anything if there is a moment of life left in it. I'm from the US where they throw out everything. Culture shock, but I guess the good kind.
We Chinese are like that too. Americans are so wasteful!
@Gaming Git hey that's racist! My crush is Thai 😍
Here in Brazil the scrap yard owners sell things almost for the price of new ones
Same in the US, at least where I am. The price of scrap steel is almost the same as new, unless you are selling it, then it is worth nothing.
@@DragonBuilds I don't think it's racist but I think throwing can be done by those who have a lot or too much.
No it seems to me that the Thai population is in these conditions
I really like that you give german translations. I speak eanglish but am learning German and technical words are often hard for me to learn. I also like when you give a German history to the items.
Good job on the brazing work. The cast iron didn’t crack so obviously you got the pre and post preparation work correct. I love the repair-a-thons.
That’s a lot of hours per video but you end up with a high quality production. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
That blower would make an excellent dust collector.
Absolutely! There’s one in the corner of my basement that is collecting lots of dust 😀
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BRILLIANT INTRODUCTION on this video! You echo my sentiments exactly.
Indeed, after hearing your intro here, and watching so many of your videos already, you're the first person to whom I've ever considered adding patreon support. I'm cash-poor at the moment though, so that will have to wait until I have more funds. I will support how I can with video likes and links to your work here whenever possible.
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"Will a world of clerks, advisors and consultants be able to pull itself up by its bootstraps?
Where will the accountant of the accountant work, come winter time?"
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I do a LOT of salvage to use parts / materials in many projects for myself and friends. I do much of the same things where I live (Oregon, USa), and would gladly buy you a beer if you're ever in the area. :)
Please keep up the good work and frohe Weihnachten to you and yours!
You can actually hear the pronounciation by clicking to that little speaker icon next to the name on the wikipedia page. I can imagine it can be quite a mouthful for a foreigner. Cheers from Poland!
hi, i heard that Polish citizens are taking over Warsaw on saturday, is it true?
@@porkyswelding No, they're going to be creating a new country, Russia invaded, again.
The vice repair is superb. No silly paint job, no silly polishing of the handle. It's now a real tool with real functionality. Excellent
In Australia, if we visit scrap yards or rubbish tips we are called "Tip Rats" I am proud to be one.
I like your accent, I love your small mistakes in pronunciation.
You are a very clever man,, I wish we lived next to each other
Yes, I need to visit mine in N'cle!
I've been an unashamed tip rat since I was a youngster in the 80's. Never needed to buy a stereo in my entire life. People are so wasteful it is utterly baffling and disgusting.
I was a US soldier serving in Germany from 1990-96 Your flea markets are much like your scrap yard, All nice stuff, over here in the state rarely do you get steel drops or anything that functions! Your videos are great, my mother was German, she passed in 2017, it's always nice to hear a German accent, thanks for sharing your work! ;)
That gigantic piece of metal around 2:29 looked like the knee and anvil of a power hammer
MrEppart yeah it looked like the anvil of a power hammer
2:19, I think you mean. Already past by 2:29
If it is... That is one Hell of a power hammer.. ( size wise)... Bigger then Any youtuber I have seen use ATM.. Man German Scrap is like gold In other Places.. mine even.,
Yes that's an anvil of an old power hammer, probably from a company called Béchê & Grohs. That thing should be at least 70 years old.
Breaks my heart to see it lying in the dirt and being broken, that means another perfect engineered machine can't be used anymore....
These blowers are also often controlled with 0-10 volt control voltage.this is an general way to control parts when they are controlled from a buss like modbus .Pwm is also used very often and in the price range this part is in it could have both controle inputs on the board. Also the manufacturer is most often very nice and will give you a datasheet if you ask. We had 200 old fancoils of this company they were 20 years old. But they still had datasheets for us. Great company
These always make me jealous of your scrapyards.
That's not a scrapyard. It is a veritable gold mine!
I have one close to me and if i had more money .. i would have to repair anything, i go frequently. Too often the guy is all over with his pricing, picked up an older Coleman 120-240 30 apm generator and it worked. For 25 buck, some killer deals on casters, some were 175 each but I got 30 for 5 dollars each, electrical enclosures, never used with locking doors, load centers, good enought for the shop lighting, small air compressor. Tools, drill bits, nuts and bolts... crazy.. but I'm happy,
Loads like it here but you sure as hell arent allowed in to pick through stuff, health and safety and insurance, all that crap.
@@VeyronBD your right on the insurance co. Stuff. I've earned trust. I've picked thru and given them stuff back for them too use.. Their employees looked over...
@Donald Powers Yeah you just have to get in lucky with decent people I suppose.
I loved the comment "when tools from previous episodes come back to help us". It kind of imbues tools with a soul or personality which then makes us feel good about saving them from the scrap pile. I have several unhandy friends who, over the years have given me tools that used to belong to their fathers or grandfathers. Whenever these tools "come out to help me", I tell the friend who gave me the tool, "Your Grandad and I were working together in the shed today". It seems to make them happy.
Well done on the videos, the format is great and as well as treating us to a bit of homespun philosophy at the start of each episode, I like that you don't feel you need to be in the shots and instead make the items the stars.
I very much appreciate you sharing the amount of time actually spent on a repair or project. Most presenters don't do that, but I think it adds context and understanding. Thank you!
Great socioeconomic commentary-spot on. Awesome video-thanks from Edmonton, Alberta.
I never thought of manually setting the PWM frequency like that! This is so simple, thank you you have helped me with my own project!
You are quite the renaissance man! The range of your skills and knowledge is quite impressive, but your videos are presented in a way that anyone should be able to enjoy. Thank you.
Would like to point out that there's a means to make a seam like that much, much stronger. Using a grinding wheel that has a rounded profile (a 4 mm wide one suffices, and the round profile can be cut using a dressing diamond) score diagonal (to the seam) lines into the casting and steel before brazing them together. When the brazing job is done, and surface cleaned, it kinda looks like a stitched wound, and it's very strong.
I've repaired a long type vise that had been cracked along the whole length of the sliding tube, because the tube itself was very thin, the repair would've been doubtful, but with the scores in place, the tube is still holding strong and i'm not being nice with that vise either.
The old coot that taught me this trick said that you need to grind the excess braze flush with the surface, to evenly distribute forces without any stress points, but i've done it both ways and never noticed any problems.
These videos are the best. Thank you from Albuquerque NM US, I learn a little, about the German language, as well as watch content that I enjoy.
Love these videos and the things that you come across in your junkyard! It reminds me of the junkyard in my hometown and reminds me of all my own scrapyard finds.
Around 21:16 when you started talking about the duty cycle and programming the arduino is when I went from reminiscing to learning something new!
I love the variety in your videos and each video I am still surprised with what you come up with!
Great work and I look forward to your next video!
I wish I had a mentor like you when I was little. Thanks for being patient, informative, and educational to all of us late comers.
Grussen aus Pennsylvania! Thank you for the detailed tutorial on brazing...I had no idea the prep time it takes! !
Cast iron is the black beast of every welder: look only at the preparation before and after brazing.
Often I happened to bring people who soldered all day for trade to resold some cast iron object and I heard that it could not be welded, probably because it would have been very expensive or because it would have deformed, but in this case: the piece is large and the deformation does not take place but imagine how much it would cost in execution time.
I've got one of these Uhlig-kilns myself. They are very useful for tempering and hardening of smaller steel tools. For melting using a propane-oven is much cheaper and a fun project.
really enjoying these videos , I love the research you always do on the old companies that make these things, keep up the good work !!
Hello TPAI, Glad your doing well. Very good commentary on the condition of the world. I'm a Journeyman Machinist and have done other various types of work, it's good to be well rounded. You can do a multitude of things, electronics, fabrication, repair. Good repair on the vice. Take care, all the best, C.
Great episode. I think you are correct in your view about global production and labor over-specialisation.
Often you are saying molten (present tense) when melted (past tense) would be correct.
To see scrap tools made useful again is satisfying to watch.
Or you could have correctly said is not molten instead of has not molten.
You look like a recycling god! I live in Latin America and here things are not wasted that way! It's much harder to find a scrapyard with useful things
Love it! It's incredible what you can find at the scrapyards or at the "Sperrmüll", I also love it to make something new out of scrap!
This is some of if not the best small shop repair content on YT.
i feel how your videos is affecting how i live, more and more of this. today and yesterday im stripping some copper cables i got for free. i look forward to when i get something together, strong enough to melt copper. its hard to find scrapyards in this way in sweden, most scrapm yards are just recyclable places and they are not happy if you take stuff or even look in the containers.... i want to reuse and repair things.. nice to see another video from you, stay at it with your awesome work. the brazing looks nice.
cheers :)
I like what you do in these vids. It is especially nice that you have access to a scrapyard that you can rummage through. You're right on in the introduction to this video; knowing how to fix things and to work with your hands is good. Knowledge is power.
I Love the Scrapyard adventures and it's amazing how similar the vise you found looks so much like a Gressel Vise, incredible work
I like seeing these tools rescued, fixed, and put to use. Too many useful items are thrown out because it is "easier" just to buy something new. A repaired tool tells a story of both the tool's usefulness as well as the person's skills. Thank you for sharing. It inspires me to try to repair items I find that are broken, to re-purpose them if they can't be fixed, and to learn about the design and function of the objects.
Wonderful repair jobs. I love to see old tools brought back to life.
I think I would be tempted to put that big blower on eBay. If they are that expensive and you manage to sell it for good money think of all the other stuff you could buy from the scrapyard!
22:24 Sacred the crap out of me! I literally jumped lol.
That was just Elon Musks son's first words
I thought something failed on me and started frantically looking around for smoke
@@GunGodYV the hell of a setup di you have
Almost 400K subscribers. That you earned! Great job.
2:19 that's a power hammer base...man, that's just sad to see broken up like that. That must've been quite the machine. :(
Looks like it had failed, huge crack in it
Cries in Alec Steele
@@texasflysuperstar it's probably too big for a British boy.
@Captain MufDyven Could work, but its cast iron and tresses it gets under are not that good for weld repair. Simply put when you weld metal, the seam will be always be stiffer than surrounding metal, probably due said metal sucking up the heat and hence rapidly cooling it=hardening it. Welding such peace is no issue, if its just for looks and anvil to tap with hammer, but problem arises when you assert tens of tons of force with pneumatic power hammer. Cast material aint perfect to begin with and add there tresses created by welding it probably will snap again next from the seam... or it could hold who knows how internal crystalline structure is formed in metal. How ever what is known, if and when that snaps, anvil "feet" witch that is probably moves a bit, operator needs to be next to it and if you are unlucky and cant stop it in time and hammer hits anvil in angle, you have two hardened peaces of metal hitting each other with force of several tons at least.. most likely something will give in and those peaces turn into bullets. You dont want to get hit by one.
Or least this is my understanding and hypothesis on subject. I think he mentioned what scrap yard that is in and go buy it and repair it. Sadly i dont have time, money or access. Just barely manages to get transportation for old tractor trailer i saved from scrapper.. Still dont know what to do with it on my farm, but it seems to be in relative good condition.
Ah yeah.thanks
Don't think ur hard work doesn't go unnoticed! Because we can tell the level of hard work that goes into these videos.. especially in English as well.
Good Job another inch of progress to saving the world from overwhelming waste
My scrapyard now puts bar ends by for me and will even run their X-ray spectrometer over them to give me an idea what the steel is. I find that very useful. As is building up a relationship with the scrapyard.
I used a 3" diameter bar end to make flange washers for the 6" bench grinder I found in a scrapyard. I was very pleased with that.
You could make quite a furnace with that blower.
Yes, more repair-a-thons...
I totally respect the quality of the work; I've always said, if you must bodge it, bodge it properly, and this vice repair is a perfect example.
I adore the fact that the best way to get a handle on the pot was to cut the handle off the pot. English man, what a language.
Splendid episode .... excellent repair on the vice and if I were a vice, I'd be proud to wear that bronze scar!
Wow 100 hours an episode? Thanks for all the great videos
Some content publishers can easily run 3:1 to 5:1 time ratios.
Motion picture films normally exceed 200 minutes per 1 minute of used film. I remember reading the first Star Wars film was 1,600 minutes per 1 minute of onscreen footage.
You have a great command of the English language. I love vises and I appreciate the history. Wow, a pulse width modulation you programmed. That's pretty cool.
Your videos are very interesting and fun to watch, also very informative for someone with electronic knowledge. Looking forward to the next videos, hard work is much appreciated in making these videos.
Can't stop watching these. ty from Detroit
You are getting a lot better with brazing. I know by the pattern of the brass. Good job fella.
I love your intros. I've been thinking a lot about these things lately, and I feel they are not spoken about often enough. It's nice to see that other people are thinking about them as well. Your videos are always so informative, and I believe more people should watch and learn how we can get the most from our limited resources.
I wish we had scrapyards like that in the uk!
Totally! My local scrap yard won't even let people come in to root around to buy anything. What's the world coming to?
I am lucky to have found your channel, so informative and educational! Thank you for sharing...world wide...in English! I am also picking up a greater understanding of German, so again thank you!
Great video. Been waiting for this to come out. That vise reminds me of the old Japanese gold agrandized cracked bowls. You should google a picture and you'll see what I'm talking about.
I enjoy your tool repair videos the most. Repair and reuse of the old vise is great . An excellent repair. You can tell how easily it works at the end. I also appreciate the manufacturing information and history you give on your discoveries. This adds context to the project. Best regards from the USA.
That big blower is the start of a larger smithing furnace, so you can become a proper ironthumper... :D
I loved your brazing job. Well done. I also think you are very smart with your electronics. Wish I was as well educated. Your videos are well worth waiting for. Please keep making them. I learn so much.
I also collect and rebuild used equipment in a small way love your channel thanks for sharing 👍🇦🇺👀
These videos are a ton of work and it shows. It’s universally excellent content - relaxing and educational to watch. I’ve been doing engineering for decades and I still learn new things just from those videos - I’m more of a “watchmaker” than a “blacksmith”.
Another great video! I always enjoy seeing what is available to you at the scrapyard. Where I live in the U.S., every scrapyard is a recycling center, so they won’t let you look around to reuse items. Other scrapyards are exclusively for automobiles. Thanks again for the excellent videos and work you put into them!
Same in the UK, you're just not able to browse and buy for scrap value here... all recycling or in the case of metal yards they're definitely not selling the scrap.
These repairathons have content spanning from straightfoward DIY to electrical enginerring. I particularly enjoyed the coding section. These repairathons have content spanning from straightfoward DIY to electrical enginerring. I particularly enjoyed the coding section. Excellent content.
It’s very true that the vast overwhelming majority of people today have absolutely zero skills in even doing basic skills. My niece has 2 children and she’s been out of work for 3 months and instead of cleaning her own house, pays a woman to come clean her house while she sits in her car in the driveway with her kids watching videos and playing games.
It sounds to me like your niece has deeper seated issues than most do.
sorry to say, but it sounds like your niece is american.
UnF'n believable. Sorry for your kin.
Pity..😢
Really??? Wow!! First: she could totally use that money now spent on the cleaner;Second: she would have someting to do!!
Thank you for another Iesson in innovation.
It's a real pleasure to watch you restore and give new purpose to items which other people have considered to be junk.
Regards from S Africa
Clive
You are a very talented builder, it always amazes me what people will throw away
I think the thing I like the best is the fact that with a very small repair, The object operates just fine. A little effort can go along way.
Nothing to add just commenting to support the channel.
Me too.
I have watched just about everyone of these Scrapyard videos now. Very educational and inspiring. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Oregon.
now I need an old vise to repair... its your fault! thanks for a good video as always mate!
love your work as always greetings from Syria with love
How are things in Syria now?
@@ChrisGilliamOffGrid Syria lucky is in its final liberation mode but sadly is in deep corruption mode too .. thanks for asking
Great video as always, absolutely amazed at the quality of scrap you keep finding!
Your vice brazing work is obviously improving, the bright gold brass against the blackened cast iron reminds me of Kintsugi. Any chance of sanding it back and getting a nice glamour shot of it?
I also thought of kintsugi and thought it would look great if the brazed join was 'finished' by lightly grinding off the excess.
I know this is an older video but I wanted to point out it's possible to generate PWM frequencies different than the stock ones on Arduino. Like this will set it up for a 25khz PWM frequency: // generate 25kHz PWM pulse rate on Pin 3
pinMode(PWMPin, OUTPUT); // OCR2B sets duty cycle
// Set up Fast PWM on Pin 3
TCCR2A = 0x23; // COM2B1, WGM21, WGM20
// Set prescaler
TCCR2B = 0x0A; // WGM21, Prescaler = /8
// Set TOP and initialize duty cycle to zero(0)
OCR2A = 79; // TOP DO NOT CHANGE, SETS PWM PULSE RATE
OCR2B = CurrentSpeed; // duty cycle for Pin 3 (0-79) generates 1 500nS pulse even when 0
It will affect other timings on the Arduino but you likely want the right PWM for the fan versus accurate timers for program code. :-) I use this to control a large PC fan to make a silent fan in my bedroom that is controlled from temperature sensors. PC fans use a 25khz PWM signal for speed control.
TPAI of course we want to see more of these "Repair-a-thon" videos. Sorry I can't contribute $$$ but I will let RUclips know I like them. ALWAYS A THUMBS UP for your videos!!!!!
Vice like that been in my family since I remember, my grandfather used it and I used it all the time. A genuine solid piece!
1:08 Irony: I was a video creator who was never "current and experienced enough", the last few months I retrained as a software engineer and here I am now. Working as a developer. Remotely. My company thinks that they need a lot of of people to cover the demand, so they kept us.
I am 30 now. Some people are always negative and say: "ugh it is too late with 30... "... But I got a job at a consultancy. And I fix iPhones and Thinkpads as a hobby. It goes both ways. It is good to recycle old stuff.
Nah, 30 isn't too old to switch jobs ;)
I'm a Canuck as well.. at the scrap metal yard near my place they have a 24 hr drop off pit in front, so far this month I've picked up 3 compressors and a radial arm saw, thrown out for such reasons as a plug that didn't work. I would hazard to guess that these items were left by the same people who say that '30 is too old'.. far too many of these idiots on this planet these days. People like that are much harder to repair than a compressor. Most 30 year olds are just figuring out what side of their hand their thumbs are on. If that's the age of maximum intelligence then humanity is doomed.
Love your repairathons and wish we in New Zealand had amazing waste dumps like you. Can't wait for your next repairathon.
I'm sure you do somewhere. Check out Marty T on YT.
I love your dumpster diving. Keep up the good work. Thanks for all the time and work you put in your videos
You can actually change the PWM frequency of the arduino by setting the timer divisor. If you are using an arduino with the 328p microcontroller running at 16MHz "TCCR1B = TCCR1B & 0b11111000 | 0x02;" would give you a frequency of about 3.9kHz on pins 9 and 10 and "TCCR2B = TCCR2B & 0b11111000 | 0x02;" would give you the same frequency on pins 3 and 11 (paste the line you want in the setup function and use analogWrite as you normally would).
the brazing is really well done!
Thank you for sharing your amazing story’s, i love your repair story and how you reuse other people scraps. God bless you and your family.
I wouldn't mind having an old DC hoist machine if just for the motor.
Small kilns like that work well for small heat treating jobs.
Great job on the braze....
As far as the blower, there could have been a remodel somewhere in a building... Maybe that one was recently replaced, but for a variety of reasons, a decision is made to redo the whole thing... Contractors will bid the whole job, and the old stuff is just dumped, that's not their problem... they are being paid to put the new stuff in, wire it test it, get it working.... So something like that, which is perfectly fine, ends up in scrap....
Now, if you see the same crews of techs working in your area, buy them lunch, make friends with them, let them know that hey, if you find something interesting that's going in the dumpster, give me a call.... Probably find you some great stuff....
These repair-a-thons are great!
Love the video. Your work is appreciated a great deal. Thanks.
First test for small kiln: small pizza.
I love your introduction monologues.
Those enameling kilns might make good heat treating ovens for smaller steel parts.
great work my friend.. continue the good content.. love how u do the research..
sweet gig we all get something you get tools we get entertainment . I enjoy your content - thank you
It's simple, repeat after me: BO - LE - SŁA - WIEC. Bolesławiec! :) They are harder, for example: Szczebrzeszyn :) Great video, as always! Cheers from Poland!
thats alot of z and c together
@@Nativemetalfreak We do not pronounce these sounds separately, but together as "sz". Try that Polish tongue-twister: ruclips.net/video/wi1UHZ8N138/видео.html
2:56 Gently caresses the rusty vice :D
I've got an old broken vise that I'd love to restore, but I don't have access to brazing. It's a 10cm Soviet model from the 1960s, broken at the neck of the fixed jaw (across the spindle hole). I'd appreciate any advice, it's not a particularly rare or valuable model but has sentimental value for me.
I'm not sure what makes me more envious, your good fortune in having such a great scrapyard to rummage through near where you live, your "toolkit" and workshop, your welding and general skills (even though as an old engineer I consider myself pretty skilled also in many areas), or the fact that that you find and repair such "goodies" all the time.
I suppose I shouldn't though as I have also had a decent share of great finds out of scrap - MULTIPLE drills: two Makita 12v battery drills in perfect working order that just needed a new battery each (they are the same so can be swapped) I bought two on eBay for less than a third of the price of proper Makita replacements. They are still going strong after more than three years of regular use!
A much heavier and more powerful Bosch battery drill - same deal, but this now has two batteries of its own, a number of mains drills including an old Black & Decker that fits my old drill stand perfectly as it has the specific recess at the rear needed and my REALLY old one (35 years!!) had finally pretty much disintegrated - I kept the 1/2" chuck though!
A light but still powerful DeWalt battery drill in immaculate condition for which I again bought a new battery on eBay and donated to my youngest son.
A BRAND NEW Bosch hedge trimmer, the cable on which that someone had almost sliced through about 40cm from the cutter, apparently, from the small amount of hedge clippings still on it, on the very first use!! Work needed? Just cut the cable cleanly above and beyond the slice fitted (as I always do anyway) an orange rubber covered two pin connector pair so that the cable can easily be detached and extended whenever required! Result? A perfectly operational really good Bosch 45cm (ish) hedgecutter. Cost? the price of a 2 pin connector which I would have bought anyway.
An old Bosch reciprocating saw! Similar story, had some corrosion and lots of "gunk" on it it. Stripped, cleaned, rebuilt and new saw blade - good as new! A BRAND NEW Bosch Hedge trimmer that merely had a loose connection internally!! And someone "SCRAPPED" it!!?? Go figure! Too many people have more money than sense!
I LOVE watching your videos as you have the same philosophy as I do - repair it, modify it, re-use it, re-purpose it ... It's NOT junk as my wife keeps insisting it is! And even otherwise completely useless stuff with broken motors I have stripped out, the knackered (broken) bearings have been stripped and rebuilt with new ones - I LOVE eBay for bits! The latest is an 1800 Watt Universal motor from an Electrolux upright vacuum cleaner that is next on the list for turning into the drive for a shop vac. A "new" and better life for it than the scrap heap but still doing its old job!
Viel Glück! Mach weiter die Videos ... BITTE! :-) Bis später, tschüss!
Me: Why did someone throw away that vise, instead of repairing it?
TPAI: ... It took over 100 hours ...
Me: Oh.
They probably did not need it anymore. It may have belonged to some old timer that passed away. Then someone came along and had to clean the property out. When that happens stuff gets trashed. Most folks don't want some dirty old broken down vise. That thing was pretty gnarly. Looks good cleaned up and repaired though.
I've seen 18th century wood work thrown in trash. People are idiots.
I really like your repair-a-thons. I wish I had a " supermarket" like yours to go shopping in. mostlly farm equipment around here.
Who else winced when he cut the handle off and ruined a perfectly good cast iron pot?
I certainly did,, and when it came out red hot , I closed my eyes
I winced when he called a wrench "pliers". lol.
@@rogerscottcathey look again
@@rogerscottcathey I did when he said "gotten" instead of become. But then I can't speak German.
@@rubix71 : Hunh. I don't see how they'd work if it is a pair. The jaws are open with handles closed?
One of your best videos so far :)
That vise looked so rugged at first glance, but apparently even those "good old better-than-the-new-stuff tools" have had design flaws in them.