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👍👌👏 Yes, yes, yes Sir, more please! Especially with this great Metabo tool kit please. By the way: I bet that the value of those items will increase because of your video. A ery well done video again and as always. Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health.
Dear@@matthewturner1399 Two years ago I found some of those on "Ebay Kleinanzeigen" (= a kind of Craigs List in Germany). Hope that this information is helpful. Best regards luck and health.
here in USA we had/have ShopSmith...…..www.shopsmith.com/ Shopsmith has its origins in the ShopSmith 10ER tool, a five-in-one woodworking tool for do-it-yourself consumers invented in the late 1940s by Hans Goldschmidt, an immigrant from Germany. Aug 5 2019 RLF Brands - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopsmith - relative had the full system in the early 80s, I should go back in time and kick his ass for never letting me use it
Great job I didn’t think anyone like my self was still alive in this strange world we live in.I’m 84 years old and still repairing anything I can find. Thanks for excellent videos
je suis la moitier moins vieux que vous monsieur mais jai beaucoup de matérier plus ager que moi que je conserve et dont jaime savoir historique que ce soit en agricole moto tp maison electroménéger ect tous ce que je peu réparer je le fait car de nos jour la qualiter laisse a désirer et on a pas tous les moyen pour du neuf
Recycling, rebuilding, refurbing and fixing shows that me care and that we want good quality everlasting tools. Example I bought on ebay old makita hr2510 sds hammer drill for around £25 and I was on job site and there was this flashy joiner with festool and hilti tool boxes all over his van. So we started talking about quality then and now (boy was younger about 7 years) alright so 30mm masonry drill bits in both makita and bigger hilti (hilti was around £500) Cameron got amazed that old 1998 makita went through concrete almost twice faster than hilti. But pride didn't let him to admit it. He said something like" well if it takes longer i get payed more as I charge per hour 🤣🤣🤣". Its a shame that less and less trades people do their job with pride, there's still plenty of amazing ones but it's like with quality tools, there will be handful left at some point.
The people who made these tools had a vision. It was a great one. It feels like we're past our golden years, going back to the time that birthed these products would be nice.
I hadn't ever seem this Metabo system before. It looks like a compact version of a similar idea which was popular in the US during the 1960s and 70s: The Shopsmith. These were popular for small home workshops like might be found in the basement of a home or taking up a bit of the garage. Thanks for all you inspiring videos. I have long loved fixing and restoring things ever since I was a child, and at almost 62 years of age I'm still doing it. I got far more pleasure out of fixing our 20 year old failed oven for which the parts were "no longer available". The marketplace said it was time to spend a few thousand $US to "upgrade". Nope. Replaced all the electrolytic capacitors in the control board to get that board working again. Remade the oddly shaped steel door hinge mechanism using a friend's plasma cutter and my bench grinder.
@@hippieengineeringworks2310 Never heard this in the Netherlands or Germany. Perhaps some people take over bad American habits, But I have never heard it here.
There are no 2x4s in Germany. Never have been. Even not a similar thing in millimetres or so. Houses are constructed a completely different way over here.
@@pitot1988 corded brushless drills would be quite a good idea if you can switch dc current the same way as ac. But unfortunately u have to rectify the ac before you can use it to make brushless ac motor speed controlled
@@MrJob91 The technology exists. It's called diodes. In all seriousness, the technology does exist and your only problem is that rectified mains AC is way higher voltage than power tool batteries. The parts that can do with rectified AC voltage what brushless drills are doing with battery voltage levels are more expensive, chunky and not as ubiquitous. Nevertheless they have been on the market for years and there's still rapid development ongoing. Have you seen the eg. high end vacuum cleaners bragging about brushless motors? Corded drills are tbh way less lucrative segment than power tools (and overpriced batteries).
This would be the perfect tool-kit for teenagers, or even home-owners who just need to do the occasional repair, or fabrication! My only options now are to buy all these tools individually and take up lots of space, or borrow them from friends / family. :S
Black & Decker makes a cordless drill with attachments: drill, sander, jig saw, oscillating tool, router, and impact driver attachments...their Matrix system....of course it comes in a crap plastic box instead of nice wood. Of course, I am old enough to remember wood boxes that could be reperposed, and thick paper shopping bags with handles.
@@AileTheAlien Definitely agreed there, as a kid I would've killed someone to get a kit like this, as I lived in an apartment with my parents. Definitely no room or money for the full version of that entire toolkit as separate tools. Even now as a handyman, this toolkit seems more suitable to carry than two toolboxes full of tools.
@@TheWolfsnack Yeah but those tools are crappy. Not enough power. The motor isn't 2 kilowatts, and the attachments don't last long like the independent tool. And yes, oh yes the old wood boxes for everything. So much furniture was made out of recycled shipping boxes where I lived.
What a fantastic kit from Metabo. I've never been a fan of this brand and have mostly stuck to Bosch but I am very impressed by the 'multi tool kit'. I knew you could get some attachments for drills in the 70's but had no idea it could be so versatile. I could get rid of most of my tools and just have this 'multi tool kit' and still do all my wood working without issues. What a great episode. Thank you for sharing this with the world. Keep up the fight to repair and reuse these old tools as some of them a better made and will last much longer than a lot of the new products currently on offer.
I am 71 and had a repair shop and have taken down a wide variety of machinery over the years. I had a few Metabo drills and angle grinders from the green range. Very sturdy tools. Your Metabo drill looks a lot like a Makita. There was a factory in Taiwan that made for Ryobi and Makita, but often other brands would buy in bulk there.
I would love to know why anyone would give this thumbs down. This is a perfect present for a couple in an apartment. A great way to introduce the kids to woodworking
Hey! Let the ads run to help this man. How refreshing to find a fix-it-don't-throw-it attitude in a younger person, an attitude that began to die when those who experienced the Great Depression, themselves faded away. Same with cars - Saturday mornings, in my youth, was devoted to oil change, grease, tappet set, plugs and points, often done on the roadside, but not necessary any more!
My father had a Metabo drill like the one in the advertising material for the multi tool. I believe it was bought in 1966. When he passed away a few years ago i found it in his basement, and despite quite a lot of usage over the years, it was still in perfect condition, and was passed on to a nephew who was moving out from home and needed a basic set of tools.
I live on a boat, and have been looking at "mini" style tools, this system is amazing. What I did find was Black & Decker Matrix drill system, has many attachments (circular saw, jigsaw, sander, etc.) Uses 20v Max batteries. Worked great on my boat. But I am going to seriously look into this Metabo system. You just earned a subscriber!🎉🎉
I just loved that, the wonderful early images were fascinating to see. Brilliant introduction. I wonder how many gardens got the lawn mower treatment...I guess not many.
I even bet the other tools were not used much. These sets were more like the wet dreams of DIY guys, but they were not very practical because of the terrible noise of the power drill and the continuous reattachment to the tool in need. People pretty quickly bought separate circular saws etc. if they needed to fo reaö work.
@@christiangeiselmann Really, that's right. I bought a real circular saw, a Skilsaw, for, what, $35 in the 1980's? There's no point in paying the same for an attachment.
Great video and piece of history. The North American market had some of these types of combo/multi tools. My father had a tool set built around a drill with saw/sander and other attachments, that he bought in the 1960s.
A few things: 1. Love your channel, 2. We have a similar but much more expensive device in the USA it is called a ShopSmith. It is also more suited to our large hobby shop type here. 3. The wobble saw blade is very much like something we have here in the USA called a "Dado" blade. Thanks again for wonderful content.
The wobble blade is a poor man’s dado blade. You could also modify a handheld circular saw to do that ... with only about a 50% possibility of removing one of your hands.
pauliewalnuts1949 It would have to be more expensive just due to the fact that it’s an apples to oranges comparison. I’m certain that there are many videos on RUclips featuring the Shop Smith. Check some out and see what I mean.
Wow, I liked and got a couple of chuckles out of this one. I still have my old Black and Decker, US-made, electric corded drill (very comparable to this Metabo) I bought in about 1973, which I have with a stand to use as a buffing machine or sander. But the thought of attaching a portable circular saw, or a table saw gives me the shivers. That Metabo circular saw attachment should come with a certificate good for an emergency hospital room visit.
I love this! I've been trying to do this (multi-tool) on my own but this is what I've been unconsciously looking for, for years! You have helped me in my journey good Sir!
first, this video and the general message of repair > mindless consumerism is fantastic. 5:38 just to say "prolong" means "make longer" or "extend" in terms of time specifically. "elongate" i think is the word you were looking for: it describes physical size :)
Great job! Seeing your video, I felt me this morning almost 70 years younger. I had in Paris as a 9 years old child exactly the same system: Multirex 306 by Peugeot frères.
Such a good thing to encourage post war families to be self sufficient. In my rural 2000 population California town, we all knew who had the torches, the lathes, forklifts, cranes, heavy lift jack, tractors, chains, etc. There were even 6 airplanes parked on a dirt strip on the road coming into town. People used to be so self sufficient.
This happened in Britain, too: lots of rebuilding work to be done, tradesmen were scarce and expensive when you could get them, and electric tools increasingly available and easy to use.
Hi, great job, I've been a big fan of Metabo tools since 1981 when I bought the first machine that still works - a jigsaw. A year later, I bought a drill "SB 800/6 automatic" (successor to the drill shown here in the video in the configuration of a milling machine) also still working today - both of these machines are still in the light green and yellow design. Originally, I had also planned an original set of tools, but in the then socialist Czechoslovakia, I couldn't find a way to get it, so I made it myself by modifying attachments from other available companies - it wasn't original, but I still use the stand/lathe today. Just for the sake of interest, how the German brand Metabo came to be - it is a combination of two words from the first manufactured piece of electrical tools - all-metal drills - METal BOhren = METABO Nice day 🙂 Tom
Quite to the opposite. These kits were actually sold as the wet dreams of DIY beginners (with enough cash at hands) but were rarely used for real work. As soon as you started to do real work you bought real tools, beginning with a circular saw, jigsaw, router...
@@christiangeiselmann Could be. Though, every amateur can build everything they're capable of with this set. If I stroll through Hofer/Aldi nowadays and their line of of tools for the amateur/DIY customer, then I realize: marketing is singing a different tune now and that song's called: "You need as much different power tools as you can possibly get. Only then you're dream will come true ... or not" :)
klcbsoft Yes, of course, principally it is a good idea to use one motor plus various attachments, resource-wise. On the other hand, selling tools that are not really used at all is also a waste of resources. - The worst is of course the Chinese tools made of self-annihilating plastics. I happen to have one such power drill. Unusable after 5 years not because of motor failure but because the plastic body disaggregates and becomes a sticky mess. Selling such crap should be a criminal offence.
I've got an old Metabo drill, but be around that 70's and 80's . Its sat in the hut for ages and never looked at it. Never used either. I will look it out.
This is really very neat. I've seen some similar things before, but nothing quite like this. My dad got a hold of this thing with a table, but could be used a drill press, miter saw, router, planer, joiner, and a few other features. It worked from a standard sized electric motor. He also has a small portable band saw that uses a standard drill as a power source.
Good score on that Metabo tool set. It appears from the comments that various tool manufacturers made this type of home workshop tool set. Bosch, Black & Decker and so forth. I will add another brand name: Wolf. These were made in England (by a now defunct company). I inherited a fairly complete set of tools/attachments all powered by a Wolf drill in a system similar to the Metabo and even have the original manuals, advertising poster for all the attachments and even the receipt for the purchase of the set dated 1958! I only have 1 problem...the original Wolf drill died many many years ago and my father threw it away. I'm hoping a 1980's vintage Black & Decker drill I found in the trash will fit and can restore this old toolset to a working life. Keep up the great videos!
In the 1960's we had a GE Portable Power Tool Kit Speed Control 3 Power Units Sander, Drill, Saber Saw ... It was a pain to change from one tool to the next. It was mainly left as a drill, but the sander and saber saw worked exceedingly well. Their version actually unscrewed from the drive unit with four screws, attaching to the sander then would be the motor assembly rather than going through the drill chuck. Not near all the accessories as Metabo. I did not realize that Metabo was a German tool company, I have always highly respected their tools and hope they continue to manufacture high quality tools in Germany. It is a problem that many of the US tool companies have been bought out by other junk manufactures so the name of the tool disappears as the quality goes out the window. They still keep the same nice color of the quality tool, but the gears become brittle cheap plastic (you would think they could at least use a higher grade of plastic).
My dad had some attachments for his Black & Decker drill. A sander and circular saw with worked verry poorly. He is verry happy with his powertools from Aldi and Lidl.
I was born in the post WWII tome (47) and went to what I later realised was a Technical High School, (I started technical drawing at age 11) from school I completed a five year technical apprenticeship, backed up by one day a week at Technical College, I was 21 years old when qualified as a Production Engineer. This sort of background is now rare as the UK now has about 2.5% of GDP from manufacturing. I think Germany and most of Europe is similar. Globalisation has moved 'engineering' around the world and away from Europe. I recall manufacturing locus moving to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, India, China, (forgive chronological order errors) There maybe a time when Europe once more will see more GDP from 'manufacturing' again?. Great vlog. Paul, Johannesburg
My father still has a Metabo drill from the 70s that we used to build a house and it's still used today. Only the brushes had to be changed once. I'd like to see a modern drill do this.
Amazing Metabo! In Italy only in the 70s did you begin to see some accessories to mount on the drill to transform it into other uses (then Black & Decker ruled) but I have never seen such complete packages as this small "carpentry workshop" Very nice!
my dad spoke of using the Metabo circular saw attachment on a commercial site to cut some doors and spoke very highly of the efficiency and ease at which it cut. some more videos please!!
Regarding combi tools: My parents bought their first and single mixer (for cooking) in the late 1960s, of "Vorwerk" company, and it came with a little chuck for drill bits, up to, say, 8 mm or so. My father used it for drilling holes in furniture, etc. The mixer was fantastically robust and survived all this till today. I am still using it. In the kitchen, that is. But I keep the chuck, too. - By the way, much better mixer than the underpowered stuff sold massively today.
My dad had something similar in the 60's. Used it to build a kitchen, Made by a company called Selecta power tools , they called it the selecta workstation as I remember it..
A suggestion for using a tablesaw in general, set the blade depth only as far as it needs to be in order to cut through the material. Have a little blade protruding above the material as possible. A friend of mine, woodworker for probably 40 years now, accidentally ran his hand over the blade once. Because he set the blade as low as he could, he merely left a red line on his hand and had some moderate bleeding and eventually scarring, might not have even fully cut through all of the skin along the length. He was able to get it treated at a normal doctor instead of having to go to the hospital. Had the blade been set higher he might have needed reconstructive surgery.
I hope they pay you for each and every time I watch your videos! Each time one is repeated, I watch because I always learn one more tid-bit that is forever helpful.
What a find! that has to be the bargain of the year, I hate the disposable product mentality we have these days, my dad has always repaired broken items and has passed this way of thinking on to myself
damn. we have these parts at my second hand shop. never have i guessed that these go together. they are all scattered around the place. i need to check it out
In America, we have a company in Ohio called Shopsmith. It is a 5 in one tool. I got one as a birthday present when I was 16. I am now 53 and it is still an essential part of my home shop. My father has something more like what you are talking about here. It is a drill that has attachments to make it a circular saw and drill press. I am not sure what other attachments were available though.
I remember my father buying some Black and Decker attachments for his B & D drill, - a hedge trimmer attachment, circular saw and an orbital sander. I only ever remember the hedge trimmer being used though- rather successfully as,it happens !!
Germany is not the only country that went through this workshop/woodshop in every house phase. I own a Shopsmith from 1960. It is a tablesaw, drill press, shaper/router, belt & disc sander, planer, joiner, bandsaw and finally a lathe using one motor that used plastic coupling to drive the tools.
There was such a product in the former GDR made also. It was called DBF - Allzweck-Kleinwerkzeugmaschine. With DBF standing for Drehen, Bohren, Fräsen = Lathing, drilling, milling. It had as much impressive functions as the METABO one.
We had a very similar system here in East Germany, made by Smalcalda under the name System 250/480, only there were even more add ons, like an angle grinder, and a compressor and pump. It's a great system, and I still use it fairly often.
I love your philosophy, setting, and narrative. Your videos are extremely interesting and entertaining to me, probably because I do the same thing, though without near as much electrical knowledge as you. Great work!
A reel mower would probably be a better choice. The ones without any power assist are pretty usable, adding a drill to help power through thick grass would be even better.
I've been in many California homes where they don't even have a scewdriver. I think they are into electrical work because I always see alligator clips.
Hahaha Damn Stoners are everywhere! Im a Californian, but i do love salvaging trashed and forgotten tools/ appliances or whatever i may find! Every room in my 3 bedroom home has at least 2 if not more recycled and reused furniture or Appliance/electronics.
This brings back memories, my Dad had the same exact set in his work-shop. Drill press and the sander I even used just being 10 years old helping him building a chair. The drill held up without any issues, much better quality back then. Thanks for sharing !
New to this channel. Interesting to see a whole kit like this. I've only stumbled across circular saw attachments, drill presses, and the odd sander. Would love to see that lawnmover in action!
Fantastic set up!!!! I remember Black and Decker had similar conversions in the '70's(yes...Black and Decker used to be a top-of-the line brand back in the day...not so more now..) At least I can remember my Dad using his powerdrill as a circular saw and some more applications. These conversions are outlawed today 🤣 if I'm not mistaken.Though I can't remember if the Black and Decker set was quite as comprehensive as this Metabo "Heimwerker set". On comparison that early Metabo drill even looks very similar to a B&D drill from the same era with the cast aluminium and such!
Watched this once again! It stays fascinating! I have some attachments for black&decker and bosch, but not a whole workshop. Hope to find some of the lathe parts for a project.
for the moste part we used the bosch and AEG versions here in norway. i had a circular saw i had set up as a table saw and a wood lathe and some other bits when i was 10-12 year old and i LOVED IT.
Never really thought to look for a product like this given how things are now, but i figured i wasnt the only one to have an idea for a drill like this. Top notch making these things sparkle again! Vielen Dank Herr!
Metabo(and almost everything else built in Germany) kicks ass! The German philosophy on life drives it and has driven it for centuries. Americans had it for the first 200 years...but it waned. In the 1980s. Thanks to the internet, and guys like you! ...it's making a comeback! I was lucky enough to have worked in Belgium and Germany, in the 1980s. The Germans are very serious, they keep things in order, and they don't abuse or wantonly destroy property.
you know modern day drill machines can't run long enough to use as a lathe. The motor heats up and the heat switch triggers off. This video is a real testiment to the quality of the Metabo drill.
Interesting video and really cool that you were able to get all those pieces to make your kits. It would be nearly impossible to do that where I live. The last time I went to a salvage yard they would not sell anything to the public. The last time I went by there they were out of business. The chisel you were using to rough the wood into a spindle looks to be a "pig sticker" mortise chisel. It's not used the way you used it, but I doubt you could hurt it too much using it the way you did. One safety note about using the lathe, you always want to get the tool rest as close to the work as possible.
The east german equivalent is also very versatile. I just keep the circular sanding attachment converted to velcro because it has a spring loaded flexible joint, which actually makes using it with a drill possible. The cheap attachments you get nowadays force you to hold the drill perfectly straight, which is not really possible at high speeds.
for the home shop, all of these variations are more than sufficient. you can have an entire wood shop of power tools hanging on your wall. can't beat that with a stick.
I totally agree with your statement on consumerism and the point about dumbing people down, I'm with you on the idea that we need to reverse this. I'm currently setting up my workshop and hope to be doing similar stuff in the near future, thanks for the inspiration :)
In the US a more substantial tool was the ShopSmith, if I remember right. It could be used as a table saw, drill press, lathe (?), and I am not sure what else. The motor was permanent in the headstock. It was a much larger tool.
Very cool. I look forward to future videos featuring the Metabo Multitool. I also love your scrapyard tool repair marathons. Thanks for the videos. I always enjoy them.
Fascinating video. My father had a similar but much smaller kit from B&D in the 60s as DIY took off. Thx for you hard work putting together such material and linking it well to the era of its origin.
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👍👌👏 Yes, yes, yes Sir, more please! Especially with this great Metabo tool kit please. By the way: I bet that the value of those items will increase because of your video. A ery well done video again and as always.
Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health.
May I ask what you searched in eBay in order to find this tool as I can only find there newer tools
Dear@@matthewturner1399
Two years ago I found some of those on "Ebay Kleinanzeigen" (= a kind of Craigs List in Germany). Hope that this information is helpful.
Best regards luck and health.
*That is crazy cool! Way ahead of it's time.* 😲🤔👍
here in USA we had/have ShopSmith...…..www.shopsmith.com/
Shopsmith has its origins in the ShopSmith 10ER tool, a five-in-one woodworking tool for do-it-yourself consumers invented in the late 1940s by Hans Goldschmidt, an immigrant from Germany. Aug 5 2019
RLF Brands - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopsmith
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relative had the full system in the early 80s, I should go back in time and kick his ass for never letting me use it
Great job I didn’t think anyone like my self was still alive in this strange world we live in.I’m 84 years old and still repairing anything I can find.
Thanks for excellent videos
wait, Sir are you the one in the old advertisement photo???
je suis la moitier moins vieux que vous monsieur mais jai beaucoup de matérier plus ager que moi que je conserve et dont jaime savoir historique que ce soit en agricole moto tp maison electroménéger ect tous ce que je peu réparer je le fait car de nos jour la qualiter laisse a désirer et on a pas tous les moyen pour du neuf
Love this scrapyard series and the whole mindset of recycling and renewing
Recycling, rebuilding, refurbing and fixing shows that me care and that we want good quality everlasting tools. Example I bought on ebay old makita hr2510 sds hammer drill for around £25 and I was on job site and there was this flashy joiner with festool and hilti tool boxes all over his van. So we started talking about quality then and now (boy was younger about 7 years) alright so 30mm masonry drill bits in both makita and bigger hilti (hilti was around £500) Cameron got amazed that old 1998 makita went through concrete almost twice faster than hilti. But pride didn't let him to admit it. He said something like" well if it takes longer i get payed more as I charge per hour 🤣🤣🤣". Its a shame that less and less trades people do their job with pride, there's still plenty of amazing ones but it's like with quality tools, there will be handful left at some point.
That was actually a really good idea, one tool that can adapt to cover all of the basic repairs life throws your way
The people who made these tools had a vision. It was a great one. It feels like we're past our golden years, going back to the time that birthed these products would be nice.
I hadn't ever seem this Metabo system before. It looks like a compact version of a similar idea which was popular in the US during the 1960s and 70s: The Shopsmith. These were popular for small home workshops like might be found in the basement of a home or taking up a bit of the garage. Thanks for all you inspiring videos. I have long loved fixing and restoring things ever since I was a child, and at almost 62 years of age I'm still doing it. I got far more pleasure out of fixing our 20 year old failed oven for which the parts were "no longer available". The marketplace said it was time to spend a few thousand $US to "upgrade". Nope. Replaced all the electrolytic capacitors in the control board to get that board working again. Remade the oddly shaped steel door hinge mechanism using a friend's plasma cutter and my bench grinder.
... Lawnmower? "Billy, could you mow the lawn today?", "I can't, dad needs the drill to cut some 2x4s." -- This exchange apparently makes sense.
No.. no it doesn't.. Europe does not use that type of lumber dimensions.
@@Diggnuts Really? In Finland & Sweden everyone talks about 2x4s even though they're officially 48x96mm or whatever.
@@hippieengineeringworks2310 Never heard this in the Netherlands or Germany. Perhaps some people take over bad American habits, But I have never heard it here.
@@Diggnuts It does in UK. People hit each other with 2 x 4's fairly regularly.
There are no 2x4s in Germany. Never have been. Even not a similar thing in millimetres or so. Houses are constructed a completely different way over here.
I would love to see this concept done with modern brushless motors.
are there corded brushless drills?
Then the companies can't make money... they are trying to sell use separate tools at high cost so we will have to keep buying from them
@@pitot1988 yes and no
@@pitot1988 corded brushless drills would be quite a good idea if you can switch dc current the same way as ac. But unfortunately u have to rectify the ac before you can use it to make brushless ac motor speed controlled
@@MrJob91 The technology exists. It's called diodes.
In all seriousness, the technology does exist and your only problem is that rectified mains AC is way higher voltage than power tool batteries. The parts that can do with rectified AC voltage what brushless drills are doing with battery voltage levels are more expensive, chunky and not as ubiquitous. Nevertheless they have been on the market for years and there's still rapid development ongoing. Have you seen the eg. high end vacuum cleaners bragging about brushless motors?
Corded drills are tbh way less lucrative segment than power tools (and overpriced batteries).
I still wish someone were manufacturing toolkits like this.
This would be the perfect tool-kit for teenagers, or even home-owners who just need to do the occasional repair, or fabrication! My only options now are to buy all these tools individually and take up lots of space, or borrow them from friends / family. :S
Black & Decker makes a cordless drill with attachments: drill, sander, jig saw, oscillating tool, router, and impact driver attachments...their Matrix system....of course it comes in a crap plastic box instead of nice wood. Of course, I am old enough to remember wood boxes that could be reperposed, and thick paper shopping bags with handles.
@@AileTheAlien Definitely agreed there, as a kid I would've killed someone to get a kit like this, as I lived in an apartment with my parents. Definitely no room or money for the full version of that entire toolkit as separate tools. Even now as a handyman, this toolkit seems more suitable to carry than two toolboxes full of tools.
@@TheWolfsnack Yeah but those tools are crappy. Not enough power. The motor isn't 2 kilowatts, and the attachments don't last long like the independent tool.
And yes, oh yes the old wood boxes for everything. So much furniture was made out of recycled shipping boxes where I lived.
Shopsmith© ?
What a fantastic kit from Metabo. I've never been a fan of this brand and have mostly stuck to Bosch but I am very impressed by the 'multi tool kit'. I knew you could get some attachments for drills in the 70's but had no idea it could be so versatile. I could get rid of most of my tools and just have this 'multi tool kit' and still do all my wood working without issues. What a great episode. Thank you for sharing this with the world. Keep up the fight to repair and reuse these old tools as some of them a better made and will last much longer than a lot of the new products currently on offer.
I am 71 and had a repair shop and have taken down a wide variety of machinery over the years. I had a few Metabo drills and angle grinders from the green range. Very sturdy tools. Your Metabo drill looks a lot like a Makita. There was a factory in Taiwan that made for Ryobi and Makita, but often other brands would buy in bulk there.
I would love to know why anyone would give this thumbs down. This is a perfect present for a couple in an apartment. A great way to introduce the kids to woodworking
Hey! Let the ads run to help this man. How refreshing to find a fix-it-don't-throw-it attitude in a younger person, an attitude that began to die when those who experienced the Great Depression, themselves faded away. Same with cars - Saturday mornings, in my youth, was devoted to oil change, grease, tappet set, plugs and points, often done on the roadside, but not necessary any more!
Americans love German craftsmanship!
Personally, anything I've ever had that was made in Germany, was made Rock Solid & made to last!!!👍
It is a European thing. People aren't as wasteful as we are on this side of the pond.
My father had a Metabo drill like the one in the advertising material for the multi tool. I believe it was bought in 1966. When he passed away a few years ago i found it in his basement, and despite quite a lot of usage over the years, it was still in perfect condition, and was passed on to a nephew who was moving out from home and needed a basic set of tools.
I live on a boat, and have been looking at "mini" style tools, this system is amazing. What I did find was Black & Decker Matrix drill system, has many attachments (circular saw, jigsaw, sander, etc.) Uses 20v Max batteries. Worked great on my boat. But I am going to seriously look into this Metabo system.
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I'm pleased you kept the box stickers, I feel the originals are important.
I just loved that, the wonderful early images were fascinating to see. Brilliant introduction.
I wonder how many gardens got the lawn mower treatment...I guess not many.
I even bet the other tools were not used much. These sets were more like the wet dreams of DIY guys, but they were not very practical because of the terrible noise of the power drill and the continuous reattachment to the tool in need. People pretty quickly bought separate circular saws etc. if they needed to fo reaö work.
@@christiangeiselmann Really, that's right. I bought a real circular saw, a Skilsaw, for, what, $35 in the 1980's? There's no point in paying the same for an attachment.
Great video and piece of history. The North American market had some of these types of combo/multi tools. My father had a tool set built around a drill with saw/sander and other attachments, that he bought in the 1960s.
Shopsmith, for one!
A few things: 1. Love your channel, 2. We have a similar but much more expensive device in the USA it is called a ShopSmith. It is also more suited to our large hobby shop type here. 3. The wobble saw blade is very much like something we have here in the USA called a "Dado" blade. Thanks again for wonderful content.
The wobble blade is a poor man’s dado blade.
You could also modify a handheld circular saw to do that ... with only about a 50% possibility of removing one of your hands.
How do you know it is more expensive? These Metabo sets cost a fortune at the time...
pauliewalnuts1949 It would have to be more expensive just due to the fact that it’s an apples to oranges comparison. I’m certain that there are many videos on RUclips featuring the Shop Smith. Check some out and see what I mean.
Wow, I liked and got a couple of chuckles out of this one. I still have my old Black and Decker, US-made, electric corded drill (very comparable to this Metabo) I bought in about 1973, which I have with a stand to use as a buffing machine or sander. But the thought of attaching a portable circular saw, or a table saw gives me the shivers. That Metabo circular saw attachment should come with a certificate good for an emergency hospital room visit.
What an incredible toolset! I would really like something today, such a shame things like this dont exist anymore...
Germany was really a paradise back in the 60s.
Great job restoring this Metabo set.
I love this! I've been trying to do this (multi-tool) on my own but this is what I've been unconsciously looking for, for years! You have helped me in my journey good Sir!
first, this video and the general message of repair > mindless consumerism is fantastic. 5:38 just to say "prolong" means "make longer" or "extend" in terms of time specifically. "elongate" i think is the word you were looking for: it describes physical size :)
Great job! Seeing your video, I felt me this morning almost 70 years younger. I had in Paris as a 9 years old child exactly the same system: Multirex 306 by Peugeot frères.
Such a good thing to encourage post war families to be self sufficient. In my rural 2000 population California town, we all knew who had the torches, the lathes, forklifts, cranes, heavy lift jack, tractors, chains, etc. There were even 6 airplanes parked on a dirt strip on the road coming into town. People used to be so self sufficient.
(1960's)
This happened in Britain, too: lots of rebuilding work to be done, tradesmen were scarce and expensive when you could get them, and electric tools increasingly available and easy to use.
Hi, great job, I've been a big fan of Metabo tools since 1981 when I bought the first machine that still works - a jigsaw. A year later, I bought a drill "SB 800/6 automatic" (successor to the drill shown here in the video in the configuration of a milling machine) also still working today - both of these machines are still in the light green and yellow design.
Originally, I had also planned an original set of tools, but in the then socialist Czechoslovakia, I couldn't find a way to get it, so I made it myself by modifying attachments from other available companies - it wasn't original, but I still use the stand/lathe today.
Just for the sake of interest, how the German brand Metabo came to be - it is a combination of two words from the first manufactured piece of electrical tools - all-metal drills - METal BOhren = METABO
Nice day 🙂 Tom
This set has got to be the fiercest nightmare of every marketing division of every toolmaking company in the world. Good show, thanks for sharing!
Quite to the opposite. These kits were actually sold as the wet dreams of DIY beginners (with enough cash at hands) but were rarely used for real work. As soon as you started to do real work you bought real tools, beginning with a circular saw, jigsaw, router...
@@christiangeiselmann Could be. Though, every amateur can build everything they're capable of with this set. If I stroll through Hofer/Aldi nowadays and their line of of tools for the amateur/DIY customer, then I realize: marketing is singing a different tune now and that song's called: "You need as much different power tools as you can possibly get. Only then you're dream will come true ... or not" :)
klcbsoft Yes, of course, principally it is a good idea to use one motor plus various attachments, resource-wise. On the other hand, selling tools that are not really used at all is also a waste of resources. - The worst is of course the Chinese tools made of self-annihilating plastics. I happen to have one such power drill. Unusable after 5 years not because of motor failure but because the plastic body disaggregates and becomes a sticky mess. Selling such crap should be a criminal offence.
I've got an old Metabo drill, but be around that 70's and 80's . Its sat in the hut for ages and never looked at it. Never used either. I will look it out.
This is really very neat. I've seen some similar things before, but nothing quite like this. My dad got a hold of this thing with a table, but could be used a drill press, miter saw, router, planer, joiner, and a few other features. It worked from a standard sized electric motor. He also has a small portable band saw that uses a standard drill as a power source.
Good score on that Metabo tool set. It appears from the comments that various tool manufacturers made this type of home workshop tool set. Bosch, Black & Decker and so forth. I will add another brand name: Wolf. These were made in England (by a now defunct company). I inherited a fairly complete set of tools/attachments all powered by a Wolf drill in a system similar to the Metabo and even have the original manuals, advertising poster for all the attachments and even the receipt for the purchase of the set dated 1958! I only have 1 problem...the original Wolf drill died many many years ago and my father threw it away. I'm hoping a 1980's vintage Black & Decker drill I found in the trash will fit and can restore this old toolset to a working life.
Keep up the great videos!
In the 1960's we had a GE Portable Power Tool Kit Speed Control 3 Power Units Sander, Drill, Saber Saw ... It was a pain to change from one tool to the next. It was mainly left as a drill, but the sander and saber saw worked exceedingly well. Their version actually unscrewed from the drive unit with four screws, attaching to the sander then would be the motor assembly rather than going through the drill chuck. Not near all the accessories as Metabo.
I did not realize that Metabo was a German tool company, I have always highly respected their tools and hope they continue to manufacture high quality tools in Germany. It is a problem that many of the US tool companies have been bought out by other junk manufactures so the name of the tool disappears as the quality goes out the window. They still keep the same nice color of the quality tool, but the gears become brittle cheap plastic (you would think they could at least use a higher grade of plastic).
That is a beautiful piece of workmanship
My dad had some attachments for his Black & Decker drill. A sander and circular saw with worked verry poorly. He is verry happy with his powertools from Aldi and Lidl.
Excelente idea y concepto digno de repetir y añadirle la modernidad ,con un motor bien potente...
Such a neat idea. This was a really good home tool.
I was born in the post WWII tome (47) and went to what I later realised was a Technical High School, (I started technical drawing at age 11) from school I completed a five year technical apprenticeship, backed up by one day a week at Technical College, I was 21 years old when qualified as a Production Engineer. This sort of background is now rare as the UK now has about 2.5% of GDP from manufacturing.
I think Germany and most of Europe is similar. Globalisation has moved 'engineering' around the world and away from Europe. I recall manufacturing locus moving to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, India, China, (forgive chronological order errors) There maybe a time when Europe once more will see more GDP from 'manufacturing' again?. Great vlog. Paul, Johannesburg
This is quite possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen.
My father still has a Metabo drill from the 70s that we used to build a house and it's still used today. Only the brushes had to be changed once. I'd like to see a modern drill do this.
Buy a Duss or a Fein and can do that easily. You are in control with what you decide to spend your money on...
@@m1k869 I have Makita.
Metabo is a very good brand after forty years, I still use their machines.
Amazing Metabo!
In Italy only in the 70s did you begin to see some accessories to mount on the drill to transform it into other uses (then Black & Decker ruled) but I have never seen such complete packages as this small "carpentry workshop"
Very nice!
my dad spoke of using the Metabo circular saw attachment on a commercial site to cut some doors and spoke very highly of the efficiency and ease at which it cut. some more videos please!!
Cutting easy is a feature of the blade, and blades csn be changed.
Good point. Loving this kind of video. Getting something working is a most satisfying experience.
Regarding combi tools: My parents bought their first and single mixer (for cooking) in the late 1960s, of "Vorwerk" company, and it came with a little chuck for drill bits, up to, say, 8 mm or so. My father used it for drilling holes in furniture, etc. The mixer was fantastically robust and survived all this till today. I am still using it. In the kitchen, that is. But I keep the chuck, too. - By the way, much better mixer than the underpowered stuff sold massively today.
My dad had something similar in the 60's. Used it to build a kitchen, Made by a company called Selecta power tools , they called it the selecta workstation as I remember it..
That is one of the coolest sets I have ever seen. I must have it now.
This is one of my most favorite to date. Now, I want one of these!
I love your little "opinion piece" about the dumming down!
Well said!
That is one hard-working drill!
A suggestion for using a tablesaw in general, set the blade depth only as far as it needs to be in order to cut through the material. Have a little blade protruding above the material as possible.
A friend of mine, woodworker for probably 40 years now, accidentally ran his hand over the blade once. Because he set the blade as low as he could, he merely left a red line on his hand and had some moderate bleeding and eventually scarring, might not have even fully cut through all of the skin along the length. He was able to get it treated at a normal doctor instead of having to go to the hospital. Had the blade been set higher he might have needed reconstructive surgery.
Impressive! That drill press debt limiter is way sturdier than anything on market i have seen and kit actually does decently well what it promises!
I hope they pay you for each and every time I watch your videos! Each time one is repeated, I watch because I always learn one more tid-bit that is forever helpful.
My granddad's Goodel-Pratt lathe was a multi-tool too. Lathe and table saw. Quite small and ran off leather belts. He made arrows with it.
What a find! that has to be the bargain of the year, I hate the disposable product mentality we have these days, my dad has always repaired broken items and has passed this way of thinking on to myself
damn. we have these parts at my second hand shop. never have i guessed that these go together. they are all scattered around the place. i need to check it out
In America, we have a company in Ohio called Shopsmith. It is a 5 in one tool. I got one as a birthday present when I was 16. I am now 53 and it is still an essential part of my home shop. My father has something more like what you are talking about here. It is a drill that has attachments to make it a circular saw and drill press. I am not sure what other attachments were available though.
I remember my father buying some Black and Decker attachments for his B & D drill, - a hedge trimmer attachment, circular saw and an orbital sander. I only ever remember the hedge trimmer being used though- rather successfully as,it happens !!
Germany is not the only country that went through this workshop/woodshop in every house phase. I own a Shopsmith from 1960. It is a tablesaw, drill press, shaper/router, belt & disc sander, planer, joiner, bandsaw and finally a lathe using one motor that used plastic coupling to drive the tools.
I love the fact that you put it up in your home. I have a wall of very old planes, tools and a wall of camera equipment. Makes for a good mancave!
There was such a product in the former GDR made also. It was called DBF - Allzweck-Kleinwerkzeugmaschine. With DBF standing for Drehen, Bohren, Fräsen = Lathing, drilling, milling.
It had as much impressive functions as the METABO one.
We had a very similar system here in East Germany, made by Smalcalda under the name System 250/480, only there were even more add ons, like an angle grinder, and a compressor and pump. It's a great system, and I still use it fairly often.
I love your philosophy, setting, and narrative. Your videos are extremely interesting and entertaining to me, probably because I do the same thing, though without near as much electrical knowledge as you. Great work!
VERY VERY Cool!! - The Lawnmower would be a huge score. I can't imagine a drill would hold up. Thanks!!
A reel mower would probably be a better choice. The ones without any power assist are pretty usable, adding a drill to help power through thick grass would be even better.
I've been in many California homes where they don't even have a scewdriver. I think they are into electrical work because I always see alligator clips.
Hahaha Damn Stoners are everywhere! Im a Californian, but i do love salvaging trashed and forgotten tools/ appliances or whatever i may find! Every room in my 3 bedroom home has at least 2 if not more recycled and reused furniture or Appliance/electronics.
Alligator clip?? ROFL!
This brings back memories, my Dad had the same exact set in his work-shop.
Drill press and the sander I even used just being 10 years old helping him building a chair.
The drill held up without any issues, much better quality back then.
Thanks for sharing !
Great video. A very similar kit to the Bosch Combi multitool set from the same period.
New to this channel. Interesting to see a whole kit like this. I've only stumbled across circular saw attachments, drill presses, and the odd sander. Would love to see that lawnmover in action!
Fantastic set up!!!! I remember Black and Decker had similar conversions in the '70's(yes...Black and Decker used to be a top-of-the line brand back in the day...not so more now..) At least I can remember my Dad using his powerdrill as a circular saw and some more applications. These conversions are outlawed today 🤣 if I'm not mistaken.Though I can't remember if the Black and Decker set was quite as comprehensive as this Metabo "Heimwerker set". On comparison that early Metabo drill even looks very similar to a B&D drill from the same era with the cast aluminium and such!
Watched this once again!
It stays fascinating!
I have some attachments for black&decker and bosch, but not a whole workshop.
Hope to find some of the lathe parts for a project.
You impress me more than anyone else on the internet
Gotta love both the pro-technical mindset behind these sets, as well as the engineering involved, great stuff!
for the moste part we used the bosch and AEG versions here in norway. i had a circular saw i had set up as a table saw and a wood lathe and some other bits when i was 10-12 year old and i LOVED IT.
My dad's been using a Metabo drill since jesus was a cowboy. Unbreakable and always tougher than the user :-)
Never really thought to look for a product like this given how things are now, but i figured i wasnt the only one to have an idea for a drill like this. Top notch making these things sparkle again! Vielen Dank Herr!
Metabo(and almost everything else built in Germany) kicks ass! The German philosophy on life drives it and has driven it for centuries. Americans had it for the first 200 years...but it waned. In the 1980s. Thanks to the internet, and guys like you! ...it's making a comeback! I was lucky enough to have worked in Belgium and Germany, in the 1980s. The Germans are very serious, they keep things in order, and they don't abuse or wantonly destroy property.
Of course we would like to see many more of the interesting videos. Thank you so much for taking the time to share these with us.
There's something poetic about tools being used to make the box that will carry them.
Almost like all those self-made welding carts that were made with the welder that is sitting on them.
The states had a similar set up. It was called a Shop Smith. A table saw, a drill press, a lathe and a mill. It was a lot bigger than you setup.
you know modern day drill machines can't run long enough to use as a lathe. The motor heats up and the heat switch triggers off. This video is a real testiment to the quality of the Metabo drill.
That's awesome I was trying to figure out how to turn my drill into a lathe, wish they had something like that in America.
I'm working on a 3D printable wood turning lathe
Interesting video and really cool that you were able to get all those pieces to make your kits. It would be nearly impossible to do that where I live. The last time I went to a salvage yard they would not sell anything to the public. The last time I went by there they were out of business.
The chisel you were using to rough the wood into a spindle looks to be a "pig sticker" mortise chisel. It's not used the way you used it, but I doubt you could hurt it too much using it the way you did.
One safety note about using the lathe, you always want to get the tool rest as close to the work as possible.
How many fingers were removed with this tool?
Ulmia Universa next! :) I have 2 in my workshop and absolutely love the quality and versatility.
Brilliant video. That is a great little tool set.
I wish I could find a multitool system here in the U.S., I'm fascinated by using a single power tool to do multiple tasks. Great video!
Great to see this tool kit brought back to life. Excellent build quality. Glad to see that you put the tools to use.
The east german equivalent is also very versatile. I just keep the circular sanding attachment converted to velcro because it has a spring loaded flexible joint, which actually makes using it with a drill possible. The cheap attachments you get nowadays force you to hold the drill perfectly straight, which is not really possible at high speeds.
In America there was (and surprisingly, still is) a similar product, the Shopsmith brand. It started in the early 1950s
Indeed
I would like to see more
The toolset you just demonstrated is quite awesome
That has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
for the home shop, all of these variations are more than sufficient. you can have an entire wood shop of power tools hanging on your wall. can't beat that with a stick.
I totally agree with your statement on consumerism and the point about dumbing people down, I'm with you on the idea that we need to reverse this. I'm currently setting up my workshop and hope to be doing similar stuff in the near future, thanks for the inspiration :)
Great job man! Nice restoration and informative commentary. What a clever and flexible system for the home DIY enthusiast; I wish they still made it.
I am totally fascinated by this system, and I agree with others that a modern brushless set-up would be very efficient. More please!
In the US a more substantial tool was the ShopSmith, if I remember right. It could be used as a table saw, drill press, lathe (?), and I am not sure what else. The motor was permanent in the headstock. It was a much larger tool.
That is one cool toolkit, man i would like one of those
Very cool. I look forward to future videos featuring the Metabo Multitool. I also love your scrapyard tool repair marathons. Thanks for the videos. I always enjoy them.
Fascinating video. My father had a similar but much smaller kit from B&D in the 60s as DIY took off. Thx for you hard work putting together such material and linking it well to the era of its origin.
Nice to see that tool kit get a new lease on life. I wonder how affordable it would have been for the average guy back then?