Great example of problem solving. That is really what repairing/restoring old stuff is all about. Soldering that pressurised joint was improvising at its best. If you disagree, ask yourself "what would i have done"...by doing that, you have already started the problem solving process. Respect, peace.
one of the best RUclips channels out here. truly a guy taking his beliefs and convictions and living them out. very inspirational philosophy and approach to life. keep up the great work!
I love that attitude.. Learn to repair, reuse. It doesn't matter how much or how little it's worth. If it's useable, it's doable. With a big enough hoard of bits, eventually, you can repair with little cost. The reality is, that you can only really rely on yourself! So teaching yourself to fix various devices and problems, is a very valuable skill and knowledge set to have. I began at a very young age. Before I was 5.
Watch out for filing cabinets 1:43 that are insulated from the time frame of the one you found (especially military stuff). The typical insulation used was asbestos blocks, sometimes a cement material containing asbestos was also used. I would love to find one marked like that, old school military G.I. equipment.
I love these videos!! I've been able to do a few succesful repairs myself lately, including the HVAC control out of a Ford car. quoted repair was over $800 and all it needed was a dollar worth of O-rings, and a front load washing machine, again a $20 bearing/seal kit solved a $400 repair bill.
@@scroungasworkshop4663 always push your limits or you'll never know what your limits are. Some say you should be failing at least half the time, or you're simply not challenging yourself enough. It's OK to try and fail. You should still take something away from the experience. Success often comes after a long string of failures.
As a self professed gearhead and a professional diesel mechanic, I very much appreciate your approach to fixing things with what you have or can make. We all learn unscrupulous ways to get repairs done and make things work. Cheers
Love the restoration work you have done. I am a big fan of Scrapyard items restoration. I do lot of such restoration often... Your work is very interesting... Thanks for sharing...
Very educational, entertaining, and amusing stuff. I love old rusty stuff, restoration and reuse of tools and machines. Thanks for sharing your work. I’m enjoying it! 👍😊
Love meeting a fellow Scrapper and seeing the cool they are making. I am a part of a gang of four Scrappers (Australia) and we visit a local scrapyard weekly and do the same as you. Over the years we have found and fixed or repurposed a lot of stuff. Like you, we cry at the stuff thrown away and wish we could take it all. Keep up the scrapping - Happy Scrapping
Why is it the more mouth we get about 'Saving The Planet' the worse the crap is sold in shops. It's not 'planned obsolescence' designed to fail after a set time it's bloody useless on day one. A medium priced vacuum cleaner with a rotary brush. The brush on it's lowest setting was about 15mm off the pile of the carpet, I could put my finger tips under it on a table. A quick modification with a Stanley knife to the tubular snail cam height adjustmant so the the brush just touched the carpet resulted in a wonderful display of green flame and smoke. Result, we are still using our 1960's Hoover Junior - now refurbished. I just subscribed to this channel - a man after my own heart.
I enjoyed your video. You remind me of what I did when I was your age. I was in Germany in the Army and the young Germans there could not use tools and went to the store to buy everything. I love the horn. You are very clever. I need a horn like that or an air raid siren. Times have sure changed in Germany and you are one of the very few that can actually work with your hands. Thanks for the nice video.
Great repair videos. You are one of the last surviving people who don't want to join the brain dead throw away society. Regards from Sydney, Australia.
All your videos are extremely awesome dude! I just sit here and watch one after another and feel very satisfied. Thank you so much for making Sunday night a little better.
Gusten Tag Herr Apporestorer. Your channel is fantastic. Your English is perfect and the technical part is clear and instructivo. I am a Hungarian ww2 refugee living in Argentine Patagonia and had the honour and pleasure to have spent some months in Hamburg as a visiting scentist at the Bfa (fisheries Institute) during the 1970 years befote retiring. Congrats for your interesting videos. Bis naher. Attila
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for many years of great videos. I really enjoy what you do and learned a bit from every one of them. The new scrapyard series is really interesting, it is quite a shame to see what other people through out. It would be interesting to see what you paid for every item and how much it costs you in total after repairing it. In my area (Bavaria) it is really hard to find a scrapyard that lets you go through the stuff like the one you visit. And even if they let you, the prices are insane ( like 15€ per kg).
Ah, dirt-daubers, they love nesting in every little cavity they can! I have an old Beetle engine-case that has every empty bolt-hole filled with dirt-nests! Just one more thing I'll have to clean when I get around to using it. Fun repairs! Ha, love how you used the alarm horn! XD
Awesome, I loved it. I think there are a lot of us like minded people all over the world that get some kind of weird enjoyment out of getting stuff that is ready for the scrap yard and fixing it. I have racks of “stock” and my wife complains that I have more steel and stuff than I can use in ten life times and that I should get rid of some. My standard reply is “OK which pieces”. That always stops her as she knows that I don’t know what I will need on my next project but we both know it will be the pieces I threw away. I have fixed that many “broken” power tools that were heading for land fill that just required a new power cord or brushes that now I tend to just give the cheaper ones away. The problem with cheap power tools is that they are made with cheap parts and they are not worth the cost of repairing so they go to land fill. It’s just such a waste. I also agree with you that we don’t know how much longer we will have cheap labor and materials. One day the world will no longer be able to afford to be a throw away society which has really only been around for about the last forty years and sooner or later this “fad” will no longer be acceptable or sustainable. I’m old enough to remember when there were no cheap tools and most things were built to last, not in terms of months or years but in lifetimes. I guess cheaper tools have there place but generally not in my workshop as I always try to buy quality and buy once. Bigger equipment that I can’t afford I buy second hand and tools that I don’t need often I hire. Here end my sermon. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
15:00 Speaking as someone who has a notoriously heavy hand with an angle grinder, I admire this expedient method of getting perfectly straight lines with one. I learned a thing today :) Thanks!
A man after my heart! I have repaired old cast a ways all my life. Mostly for economic reasons, but largely for the fun of it and the satisfaction of saving something. It is amazing what people here in the US throw away needing only the simplest repairs!
I am a bit disappointed that you didn't exchange the bearing on the vacuum cleaner. Knowing you for a couple of years now, I was convinced that you would go the hard way :-) My vacuum cleaner (different model, different company, but same basic construction) had the same fault just a few weeks ago and it was not too difficult to replace the bearing. Hardest part was to get the puller (German: Abzieher) claws under the bearing so I could then easily remove it. I used a clamp (German: Schlauchschelle) to prevent them from sliding off. I then learned that there is even a proper tool that you can buy -- but I didn't have one at hand. With a piece of pipe of the right diameter and the vice I could then press the new bearing (2€ or so) on the engine shaft. I love to only replace what is really broken :-) Keep up the good work! Love your videos!! And the fact that there are more people out there who want to repair rather than discard. Just like me ;-) BTW: Did you see that Laura (Kampf) was in USA cutting open a Tesla M3? Truckla! Hurts my heart to see a new car being butchered like this but the result is stunning! :-) ruclips.net/video/jKv_N0IDS2A/видео.html
I repaired a few motors I just use an angle grinder and cut the old bearings off, on with the new no problem a trick I learnt working in the motor trade on cars only way to get some bearings off without buying stupidly expensive tools to just do the one job
@@shaunnormancroft that's a great idea. Although, space is very tight and I don't know if a big angle grinder can get to the bearing without cutting into the motor windings (I guess you need to cut perpendicular to the bearing, so it doe not start turning). I will remember this and try it next time :-)
Was in Koln last summer, wonderful city. Thanks you for these awesome videos, it inspired me to fix a busted air compressor found roadside. All it needed was a starter capacitor, thanks keep the content coming 👍
Quentin Karamitsos I have one with the same problem in my garage. Where did you get a new cap? The manufacturer no longer stocks the right one for my machine... This is a great series BTW, Regards, Les
You know you are one of my heroes!!! I so love and look forward to your videos greatly!! And this video is so amazing!! I love the UFO/ Alien attack part, great job!! On the screwed up and "Down Side" to this though is here in New York State (I live upstate in New York about 6 hours northwest of New York City) there is not many "scrap yards" here that will allow you to randomly buy or even take home "junk", but for me Craig's List is about the only source my area has!! Sadly even the junk they sell on there isn't worth anything BEFORE you buy it though!!!
Just found out about your channel. My favorite thing to do with broken compressors, is just turn them into an Auxiliary tank for my system. I found a nice compressor for free, because the owner was frustrated by how small the tank was. I recently found an 11 gallon tank in the back of a salvaged vehicle, paid $5 usd for it and now I have a 16 Gallon, 110psi, system hard-lined into my workshop. It's great for most of what I do. I just wish it had a higher CFM so I can run larger air-tools.
I love your passion to work on stuff that can be reused, very entertaining . I'm from New York and now live in Dallas, Texas. My friend your English is spot on perfect!
The U.S. Property item likely came from one of the U.S. bases (Ramstein AB for example).. depending on the area, the base will use local companies and contractors (trash disposal for example) to service the base. Great videos! Thank you for making them!
I haven't found a good scrap yard, but the technical high school near me has a great metal-only dumpster I'll poke around in after my Monday night running club meetups. I've found some great stuff in there, including a slightly dented tool chest, a handful of machinist tools, and various sized metal rods that have come in handy.
Absolutely hilarious ending!!!! I added 30 feet of 1/2 copper tubing to my air compressor using the same method. After a short period the solder joint coming out of the compressor head melted loose and blew off. Not such a bad thing. I changed the fittings to ordinary mechanical/plumbing fittings and it has been just fine...for 30 years! That compressor has the heat reducing cooling pipe and a mechanical fitting at the compressor outlet...so it should be just fine...I guess. Later on, or if you upgrade to a larger compressor, consider what I did: adding 30 feet(~10 meters) to the output of the compressor. That is the point where the air is the hottest...and will conduct the most heat from the air. The purpose and point is that >90% of the cooler moisture vapor will coalesce into liquid and stay trapped in the tank. You will notice the improvement immediately! A second benefit is that the air is denser and certain air tools will operate better. Another improvement would be to add a shut off valve (a simple 90 degree "ball" valve will do) to the tank outlet. That way when you shut off the compressor it will not leak (....for months!). So if it's late at night or too early in the morning, you can access atleast one tank of air without firing up the compressor. That would irritate your neighbors! Another tip is to purchase or fabricate a high flowing air baffle/muffler for the air intake. That will reduce the decibels of the operating compressor tremendously!!!!!! Your ears and neighbors will rejoice! second tank from a scrapped compressor (say a 60 gallon one) with a operational check valve and plumbing will hold a huge amount of pressurized air....for greater quantity and water vapor collection. You could mount that tank ("receiver") to the ceiling or high upon the wall, so it doesn't occupy any valuable floor space! Finally, some air tools require great volumes of air or they will not operate to designed/advertised power (especially pneumatic 1/2-3/4" drive impact wrenches). So they require large diameter hoses and fittings! Just saying.
You ARE doing a valuable service. The young might just thank you in a dozen years or so. Keep it up. Even an old guy like me likes these videos. Spot on. Press on
8 bar is only slightly more than 2/3 the nominal pressure that soft-soldered copper water pipe is rated for domestic mains water supply, at 1,000 KPa or 10 bar. Presumably the standard pressure is at roughly half the ultimate burst pressure, so there should be plenty of safety margin for the use you're putting it to.
I love deals on tools. I had not thought about going to the scrap yard myself to look for treasure. Perhaps one day I will give it a try. I really enjoy watching these videos.
My late Dad repaired almost anything. We lived in Africa and many things were not readily available. I remember him replacing the household vacuum cleaner bearings every few years when they became noisy. He built a bearing puller just for that particular motor because there was very limited clearance between the end plate and the bearing. The biggest project I can remember was rebuilding the engine and transmission on our car. Great video, modern day folks are too quick to send something to the trash heap. One man's junk is another mann's
I like your motto about starting to repair stuff just to learn even if it means doing mistakes sometimes. If you ain't breaking it, you ain't making it.
I don’t know if you use that vacuum in your shop, but if so you’d probably appreciate building your own cyclone bucket for it. It will add years of life to that vac seeing as how dirt will not make it into it nearly as bad as using it as is. Anyway, I agree with your logic that we live in a disposable world. It’s amazing the scores I make from people that just don’t care to repair and instead will simply toss it in the garbage and buy a new one. I don’t look down on them, instead I smile as I drag whatever it is out of their trash knowing the money I’m saving😉 by not being afraid of tinkering myself... Thanks for sharing...
Wow, you speak wonderful English. I also love to find and fix weird old thing from our pass. To dig around in junk yards or scrap yards were lots of fun. Now a days they're extremely rare. Metal prices are so high that It brings out the scrapper. That take everything they can get there hands on. Even though, I still love to drive around and find things. I bring them back from the dead. People throw out there grabage in front of there home's. Just drive around on garbage day and look. Every now and then you find something super great for free. With a little elbow greese and part searching either on the internet or make them yourself. You can get something unexpected. Keep up hunting. You never no when you might strike gold. I just found something wonderful. 2 old change counters. One that counts change and bags the money from dollers to penny's. The other old counter, is an old hand crank counter that counts quarters to penny's. These 2 change counters will be fun to fix up and make new parts for. I can't wait. Thank you for sharing your video. It's great to see other people fixing broken things. Bringing them back from the dead. Thanks again.
Rather than soldering that tube, pneumatic air hose with adaptors would have probably been a better and simpler idea. And I think you need to look for a pressure washer to restore (assuming I haven't missed an episode where you've got one already). I think I've watched nearly every one now ! I really admire what you are doing, but sometimes I feel quite old when you talk about something from long ago and I think "I've got one of those in my shed, and I bought it new!" I'm seventy now, and I'm also still using tools and equipment that belonged to my Father, both grandfathers, a great-grandfather and one great-uncle ! Keep spreading the word!
I love the idea that you used an electric cargo bike. I'm in a huge densely packed city, also, and I bought one about a year ago. I just customized it with a big 2 inch thick foam cooler in back. Everywhere I go people want to know about it. 700 miles later it's one of my best purchases! I also just scored a double stroller with quality inflatable 12 inch tires. Making it into a trailer is probably going to be one of my next projects.
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. So it is basically a form of gambling. Still fun though. When it's not "yours" as in you didn't buy it new or have it for a while that allows for some pretty uninhibited messing around. Which is to say that you may be apt to do things you might not normally. Which can be a good thing. I remember getting a PC for a dollar and really banging it around figuring out what was wrong with it and that rough handling lead me to what the problem actually was with it. In about 30 seconds. I suspect pros had gone over that unit before I got it and they didn't figure it out.
Where I live, the scrapyards charge more than scrap prices if you look enthusiastic about an item when you try to purchase. “Antique” dealers and “artists” tend to drive the prices up as well. You just can’t find good junk anymore unless you search rubbish piles. Yes I am a hoarder and proud of it. You are well on your way as well.
Absolutely loved the repairing of the warning buzzer great buzzer alarm attack siren you did a great job with that actually you could have made the cone bigger or longer and it would have been more like an air raid siren? I love the things you do I like your German accent in English you're doing just great don't worry about the rest of us I love everything you're doing you have great knowledge on electrical components and their usage which I am as a mechanic and a little bit Rusty on the electrical terminology and usage because I never delved into electronics that deep? Great work keep it up God bless don't change a thing
Hello Gerolf, Nice repairs. I wish I had that scrap yard near me. I've been watching you on Dein bestes Stück even though it is "not available" in my country and I don't speak German. It looks like you guys have a good time. Thank you for the video! -mike
Greetings. like what you are doing with the scrap yard finds, I wish there we place like that close to where I live. all the solid waste goes into a big hole in the ground. good repair on the vacuum and the compressor. You got the siren repaired just in time. pesky aliens.
Love your videos. I would share with you to never trust used air tanks. They rust from the inside and can rupture like a bomb. I like your work ethic of reusing the tools and such. A rare thing in this era of throw away before repair
I am a shooter. When I go to the range I police up a couple of coffee cans of brass (empty shell casings) of different calibers. They make great gasket hole punches. As an American I use mostly imperial sized fasteners. A .45 caliber for 1/2" holes, .38 or .357 for 3/8", .22 or .30 caliber for 1/4". When they get dull or damaged you just throw them out or melt them down for brass stock.You just place them over your marked hole on your gasket paper which should be placed on a scrap piece of wood preferably on the end grain and just smack it with a small hammer. Voila, perfectly cut round hole!
Back before modern refrigerants and oils, refrigeration parts and pipes used to be soldered together, remember working on an old 1960's Frigidaire compressor where the service valves were screwed together and then soldered similar to what you did with the air compressor check valve.
Dirt dobbers are some destructive little bastards. They cost me a 25hp outboard....where they managed to get under the cover and build a nest on the flywheel. The engine inhaled the nest and scored the cylinder wall beyond repair. I now have stainless steel screen installed at the hidden air intake. If there is hole...the little bastards will find it and stop it up with mud. Very nice job with the tubing and fittings...neatly done, Great job man.
I mostly used a gear puller to replace bearings on vacuum motors. Most of them are just standard bearings. I paid about $2.50 each. To install them, I would use a piece of pipe slipped over the armature shaft, and a hammer to drive the bearing back on. Just make sure that the pipe drives the bearing on by the center race of the bearing. That vacuum motor was fairly reasonable.
Man, really great stuff here. That’s absolutely right about just starting and making mistakes a long the way. Learn and save. You did include it here, looking up the names on the name plates to help you find some parts, but I’m always interested in the tracking down of parts portion. Most people watching this channel probably have a thread pitch gauge, but some might not know etc. So just always curious about how you go about tracking and finding things. Sometimes part numbers can be a fun hunt.
It is very satisfying watching you repair and resurrect your junkyard finds. There is not much chance of finding quality German-made goods in Australian junkyards. Chinese goods made to a price yes but they are not built to last the test of time. Nonetheless, you have taught me many things about repairing items and that is appreciated.
It's a very good investment to get some bearing pullers and a press, so consider getting that. I repaired many automotive parts by installing a new bearing.
Love these videos, very inspiring. Couple of thoughts about cost efficiency, The bearing replacement for the vacum motor would surely be very easy and only cost 1 euro. And a trumpet for the buzzer could surely be better made from a salvaged cone rather than a custom made one that requires a lot of time, effort and electricity? A plastic cone would do the job as well as a metal one and plastic cones are everywhere.
Nice find the Siemens horn. Funny alien attack 😊 On the compressor repair video I have issue though. Im not familiar with soldering but repair compressor nevertheless. In instance like this I would go to hardware store and bay a two 90 degrees metal elbows for water piping, two male adapters. I would connect everything with teflon tape .
Damn, I had a Sebo. Best upright I ever had. The quality was unreal and you feel it the second you start using it. It had an automatic sensor that detected when you went from a rug to a hard floor and automatically lowered.
You don't usually notice this kind of thing, and it's kind of subtle, but that image fade at about 12:26 or so really illustrates how much the air tank has expanded between empty and full. That's pretty awesome. I've never seen that before.
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Hi just wondering how the gaskets in the compressor held up? I have a compressor that I can't find gaskets for and I think I will have to make some.
The alien attack sequence was pure gold.
the footage of the planes crashing is real footage, I've seen it before. People died :/
Any idea what movie it was from?
@@Deluge4000 Earth versus the flying saucers, pure classic
More like pure pyrite! ; )
@@Designandrew Have you heard of dark humor? It's an excellent way to get over tragedies.
Finding this channel was like tripping on a brick of gold. So many usefull amazing ideas, really gonna take a look at my old compressor now
That scrap yard! I could probably disappear for days in there.
yeah me too :)
My wife would be exceptionally unhappy if I went there.
Id have My Truck DRAGGING.. Nothing like This Near Me
My eyes lit up when I saw that place, feel like taking a trip to the local scrap yard :)
Oh yer i remember when i was little mum ad dad would take us to the dump to get rid of our junk and come home with more junk than we droped of lol
Great example of problem solving. That is really what repairing/restoring old stuff is all about. Soldering that pressurised joint was improvising at its best. If you disagree, ask yourself "what would i have done"...by doing that, you have already started the problem solving process. Respect, peace.
one of the best RUclips channels out here. truly a guy taking his beliefs and convictions and living them out. very inspirational philosophy and approach to life. keep up the great work!
I love that attitude.. Learn to repair, reuse. It doesn't matter how much or how little it's worth. If it's useable, it's doable. With a big enough hoard of bits, eventually, you can repair with little cost.
The reality is, that you can only really rely on yourself! So teaching yourself to fix various devices and problems, is a very valuable skill and knowledge set to have. I began at a very young age. Before I was 5.
Watch out for filing cabinets 1:43 that are insulated from the time frame of the one you found (especially military stuff). The typical insulation used was asbestos blocks, sometimes a cement material containing asbestos was also used. I would love to find one marked like that, old school military G.I. equipment.
I love these videos!! I've been able to do a few succesful repairs myself lately, including the HVAC control out of a Ford car. quoted repair was over $800 and all it needed was a dollar worth of O-rings, and a front load washing machine, again a $20 bearing/seal kit solved a $400 repair bill.
Do it yourself and save.
Paul Frederick, but remember the first rule of DYI....know your limits.
@@scroungasworkshop4663 always push your limits or you'll never know what your limits are. Some say you should be failing at least half the time, or you're simply not challenging yourself enough. It's OK to try and fail. You should still take something away from the experience. Success often comes after a long string of failures.
As a self professed gearhead and a professional diesel mechanic, I very much appreciate your approach to fixing things with what you have or can make. We all learn unscrupulous ways to get repairs done and make things work.
Cheers
I like your scrapyard find videos. It's great when u are able to put back life into old equipment.
Love the restoration work you have done. I am a big fan of Scrapyard items restoration. I do lot of such restoration often... Your work is very interesting... Thanks for sharing...
Very educational, entertaining, and amusing stuff. I love old rusty stuff, restoration and reuse of tools and machines. Thanks for sharing your work. I’m enjoying it! 👍😊
Love meeting a fellow Scrapper and seeing the cool they are making. I am a part of a gang of four Scrappers (Australia) and we visit a local scrapyard weekly and do the same as you. Over the years we have found and fixed or repurposed a lot of stuff. Like you, we cry at the stuff thrown away and wish we could take it all. Keep up the scrapping - Happy Scrapping
Why is it the more mouth we get about 'Saving The Planet' the worse the crap is sold in shops. It's not 'planned obsolescence' designed to fail after a set time it's bloody useless on day one. A medium priced vacuum cleaner with a rotary brush. The brush on it's lowest setting was about 15mm off the pile of the carpet, I could put my finger tips under it on a table. A quick modification with a Stanley knife to the tubular snail cam height adjustmant so the the brush just touched the carpet resulted in a wonderful display of green flame and smoke. Result, we are still using our 1960's Hoover Junior - now refurbished. I just subscribed to this channel - a man after my own heart.
I enjoyed your video. You remind me of what I did when I was your age. I was in Germany in the Army and the young Germans there could not use tools and went to the store to buy everything. I love the horn. You are very clever. I need a horn like that or an air raid siren.
Times have sure changed in Germany and you are one of the very few that can actually work with your hands. Thanks for the nice video.
Great repair videos. You are one of the last surviving people who don't want to join the brain dead throw away society. Regards from Sydney, Australia.
All your videos are extremely awesome dude! I just sit here and watch one after another and feel very satisfied. Thank you so much for making Sunday night a little better.
Gusten Tag Herr Apporestorer. Your channel is fantastic. Your English is perfect and the technical part is clear and instructivo. I am a Hungarian ww2 refugee living in Argentine Patagonia and had the honour and pleasure to have spent some months in Hamburg as a visiting scentist at the Bfa (fisheries Institute) during the 1970 years befote retiring. Congrats for your interesting videos. Bis naher. Attila
I live that your attitude towards fixing stuff is the same as mine, give it a go, what's the worst that can happen, if it's already broken.
Hey,
I just wanted to say thank you for many years of great videos.
I really enjoy what you do and learned a bit from every one of them.
The new scrapyard series is really interesting, it is quite a shame to see what other people through out.
It would be interesting to see what you paid for every item and how much it costs you in total after repairing it.
In my area (Bavaria) it is really hard to find a scrapyard that lets you go through the stuff like the one you visit.
And even if they let you, the prices are insane ( like 15€ per kg).
Well said!
Same problem Southern England. These things are worth more dead than alive...
Ah, dirt-daubers, they love nesting in every little cavity they can! I have an old Beetle engine-case that has every empty bolt-hole filled with dirt-nests! Just one more thing I'll have to clean when I get around to using it. Fun repairs! Ha, love how you used the alarm horn! XD
Awesome, I loved it. I think there are a lot of us like minded people all over the world that get some kind of weird enjoyment out of getting stuff that is ready for the scrap yard and fixing it. I have racks of “stock” and my wife complains that I have more steel and stuff than I can use in ten life times and that I should get rid of some. My standard reply is “OK which pieces”. That always stops her as she knows that I don’t know what I will need on my next project but we both know it will be the pieces I threw away. I have fixed that many “broken” power tools that were heading for land fill that just required a new power cord or brushes that now I tend to just give the cheaper ones away. The problem with cheap power tools is that they are made with cheap parts and they are not worth the cost of repairing so they go to land fill. It’s just such a waste.
I also agree with you that we don’t know how much longer we will have cheap labor and materials. One day the world will no longer be able to afford to be a throw away society which has really only been around for about the last forty years and sooner or later this “fad” will no longer be acceptable or sustainable. I’m old enough to remember when there were no cheap tools and most things were built to last, not in terms of months or years but in lifetimes. I guess cheaper tools have there place but generally not in my workshop as I always try to buy quality and buy once. Bigger equipment that I can’t afford I buy second hand and tools that I don’t need often I hire. Here end my sermon. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
I think everybody loves those scrapyard and repair videos. It's like the superpower of reuse great stuff for a low price. Please do some more!
15:00 Speaking as someone who has a notoriously heavy hand with an angle grinder, I admire this expedient method of getting perfectly straight lines with one. I learned a thing today :) Thanks!
Buddy, you have some GREAT junkyards over there! Fantastic job on the compressor and the vacuum was also a great find.
A man after my heart!
I have repaired old cast a ways all my life. Mostly for economic reasons, but largely for the fun of it and the satisfaction of saving something. It is amazing what people here in the US throw away needing only the simplest repairs!
Thank you. You inspire me to fix things up rather than discard them and buy anew. Also, watching you work makes me feel productive! 😀
I am a bit disappointed that you didn't exchange the bearing on the vacuum cleaner. Knowing you for a couple of years now, I was convinced that you would go the hard way :-)
My vacuum cleaner (different model, different company, but same basic construction) had the same fault just a few weeks ago and it was not too difficult to replace the bearing. Hardest part was to get the puller (German: Abzieher) claws under the bearing so I could then easily remove it. I used a clamp (German: Schlauchschelle) to prevent them from sliding off. I then learned that there is even a proper tool that you can buy -- but I didn't have one at hand. With a piece of pipe of the right diameter and the vice I could then press the new bearing (2€ or so) on the engine shaft.
I love to only replace what is really broken :-)
Keep up the good work! Love your videos!! And the fact that there are more people out there who want to repair rather than discard. Just like me ;-)
BTW: Did you see that Laura (Kampf) was in USA cutting open a Tesla M3? Truckla! Hurts my heart to see a new car being butchered like this but the result is stunning! :-) ruclips.net/video/jKv_N0IDS2A/видео.html
just smash the old bearing off :) no need for a puller
Jusb1066. But then you risk bending or damaging the shaft.
@@jusb1066 Smashing usually is a fast way to damage & destruction.
I repaired a few motors I just use an angle grinder and cut the old bearings off, on with the new no problem a trick I learnt working in the motor trade on cars only way to get some bearings off without buying stupidly expensive tools to just do the one job
@@shaunnormancroft that's a great idea. Although, space is very tight and I don't know if a big angle grinder can get to the bearing without cutting into the motor windings (I guess you need to cut perpendicular to the bearing, so it doe not start turning). I will remember this and try it next time :-)
I could watch scrap restore videos like this all day!
Was in Koln last summer, wonderful city. Thanks you for these awesome videos, it inspired me to fix a busted air compressor found roadside. All it needed was a starter capacitor, thanks keep the content coming 👍
Quentin Karamitsos I have one with the same problem in my garage. Where did you get a new cap? The manufacturer no longer stocks the right one for my machine...
This is a great series BTW,
Regards,
Les
Leslie Austin try to find a micro farad (uF) rating on the capacitor and match it that way, good luck
You know you are one of my heroes!!! I so love and look forward to your videos greatly!! And this video is so amazing!! I love the UFO/ Alien attack part, great job!! On the screwed up and "Down Side" to this though is here in New York State (I live upstate in New York about 6 hours northwest of New York City) there is not many "scrap yards" here that will allow you to randomly buy or even take home "junk", but for me Craig's List is about the only source my area has!! Sadly even the junk they sell on there isn't worth anything BEFORE you buy it though!!!
Just found out about your channel.
My favorite thing to do with broken compressors, is just turn them into an Auxiliary tank for my system. I found a nice compressor for free, because the owner was frustrated by how small the tank was. I recently found an 11 gallon tank in the back of a salvaged vehicle, paid $5 usd for it and now I have a 16 Gallon, 110psi, system hard-lined into my workshop. It's great for most of what I do. I just wish it had a higher CFM so I can run larger air-tools.
I love your passion to work on stuff that can be reused, very entertaining . I'm from New York and now live in Dallas, Texas. My friend your English is spot on perfect!
The U.S. Property item likely came from one of the U.S. bases (Ramstein AB for example).. depending on the area, the base will use local companies and contractors (trash disposal for example) to service the base. Great videos! Thank you for making them!
I haven't found a good scrap yard, but the technical high school near me has a great metal-only dumpster I'll poke around in after my Monday night running club meetups. I've found some great stuff in there, including a slightly dented tool chest, a handful of machinist tools, and various sized metal rods that have come in handy.
Absolutely hilarious ending!!!! I added 30 feet of 1/2 copper tubing to my air compressor using the same method. After a short period the solder joint coming out of the compressor head melted loose and blew off. Not such a bad thing. I changed the fittings to ordinary mechanical/plumbing fittings and it has been just fine...for 30 years! That compressor has the heat reducing cooling pipe and a mechanical fitting at the compressor outlet...so it should be just fine...I guess. Later on, or if you upgrade to a larger compressor, consider what I did: adding 30 feet(~10 meters) to the output of the compressor. That is the point where the air is the hottest...and will conduct the most heat from the air. The purpose and point is that >90% of the cooler moisture vapor will coalesce into liquid and stay trapped in the tank. You will notice the improvement immediately! A second benefit is that the air is denser and certain air tools will operate better. Another improvement would be to add a shut off valve (a simple 90 degree "ball" valve will do) to the tank outlet. That way when you shut off the compressor it will not leak (....for months!). So if it's late at night or too early in the morning, you can access atleast one tank of air without firing up the compressor. That would irritate your neighbors! Another tip is to purchase or fabricate a high flowing air baffle/muffler for the air intake. That will reduce the decibels of the operating compressor tremendously!!!!!! Your ears and neighbors will rejoice! second tank from a scrapped compressor (say a 60 gallon one) with a operational check valve and plumbing will hold a huge amount of pressurized air....for greater quantity and water vapor collection. You could mount that tank ("receiver") to the ceiling or high upon the wall, so it doesn't occupy any valuable floor space! Finally, some air tools require great volumes of air or they will not operate to designed/advertised power (especially pneumatic 1/2-3/4" drive impact wrenches). So they require large diameter hoses and fittings! Just saying.
You ARE doing a valuable service. The young might just thank you in a dozen years or so. Keep it up. Even an old guy like me likes these videos. Spot on. Press on
Another great video. I love the ones where you fix items from the dump. Thank you for all the effort you put into them. Please keep them coming.
I love that someone will show how to get a job done even if it isn't totally correct. You show the real world.
What a fantastic little video. I for one am loving the repurposing / scrapyard series of vids. Greetings from the UK
These latest videos are great! Simple low hanging fruit repairs and learning along the way with some great commentary and wit. Keep up the good work!
8 bar is only slightly more than 2/3 the nominal pressure that soft-soldered copper water pipe is rated for domestic mains water supply, at 1,000 KPa or 10 bar.
Presumably the standard pressure is at roughly half the ultimate burst pressure, so there should be plenty of safety margin for the use you're putting it to.
Just Awesome. Thanks for the Alarm Horn Segment. I'm still grinning.
I love deals on tools. I had not thought about going to the scrap yard myself to look for treasure. Perhaps one day I will give it a try. I really enjoy watching these videos.
My late Dad repaired almost anything. We lived in Africa and many things were not readily available. I remember him replacing the household vacuum cleaner bearings every few years when they became noisy. He built a bearing puller just for that particular motor because there was very limited clearance between the end plate and the bearing. The biggest project I can remember was rebuilding the engine and transmission on our car. Great video, modern day folks are too quick to send something to the trash heap. One man's junk is another mann's
Another man's treasure...
You are one of my heroes Post Apocalyptic Inventor, one of the real heroes of this world most treat as disposable.
Many have more money than sense or skill. Some just can't be bothered.
I like your motto about starting to repair stuff just to learn even if it means doing mistakes sometimes. If you ain't breaking it, you ain't making it.
I don’t know if you use that vacuum in your shop, but if so you’d probably appreciate building your own cyclone bucket for it. It will add years of life to that vac seeing as how dirt will not make it into it nearly as bad as using it as is. Anyway, I agree with your logic that we live in a disposable world. It’s amazing the scores I make from people that just don’t care to repair and instead will simply toss it in the garbage and buy a new one. I don’t look down on them, instead I smile as I drag whatever it is out of their trash knowing the money I’m saving😉 by not being afraid of tinkering myself... Thanks for sharing...
Wow, you speak wonderful English. I also love to find and fix weird old thing from our pass. To dig around in junk yards or scrap yards were lots of fun. Now a days they're extremely rare. Metal prices are so high that It brings out the scrapper. That take everything they can get there hands on. Even though, I still love to drive around and find things. I bring them back from the dead. People throw out there grabage in front of there home's. Just drive around on garbage day and look. Every now and then you find something super great for free. With a little elbow greese and part searching either on the internet or make them yourself. You can get something unexpected. Keep up hunting. You never no when you might strike gold. I just found something wonderful. 2 old change counters. One that counts change and bags the money from dollers to penny's. The other old counter, is an old hand crank counter that counts quarters to penny's. These 2 change counters will be fun to fix up and make new parts for. I can't wait. Thank you for sharing your video. It's great to see other people fixing broken things. Bringing them back from the dead. Thanks again.
Great work and greetings from Texas.I am sure you inspire others as you have done me.
Rather than soldering that tube, pneumatic air hose with adaptors would have probably been a better and simpler idea. And I think you need to look for a pressure washer to restore (assuming I haven't missed an episode where you've got one already). I think I've watched nearly every one now ! I really admire what you are doing, but sometimes I feel quite old when you talk about something from long ago and I think "I've got one of those in my shed, and I bought it new!" I'm seventy now, and I'm also still using tools and equipment that belonged to my Father, both grandfathers, a great-grandfather and one great-uncle ! Keep spreading the word!
I love the idea that you used an electric cargo bike. I'm in a huge densely packed city, also, and I bought one about a year ago. I just customized it with a big 2 inch thick foam cooler in back. Everywhere I go people want to know about it. 700 miles later it's one of my best purchases!
I also just scored a double stroller with quality inflatable 12 inch tires. Making it into a trailer is probably going to be one of my next projects.
Nicely done, good inspiration on how to improvise without spending loads of money. Thanks for sharing.
This was really satisfying to watch. Makes me want to fix thrown away tech aswell.
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. So it is basically a form of gambling. Still fun though. When it's not "yours" as in you didn't buy it new or have it for a while that allows for some pretty uninhibited messing around. Which is to say that you may be apt to do things you might not normally. Which can be a good thing. I remember getting a PC for a dollar and really banging it around figuring out what was wrong with it and that rough handling lead me to what the problem actually was with it. In about 30 seconds. I suspect pros had gone over that unit before I got it and they didn't figure it out.
Where I live, the scrapyards charge more than scrap prices if you look enthusiastic about an item when you try to purchase.
“Antique” dealers and “artists” tend to drive the prices up as well.
You just can’t find good junk anymore unless you search rubbish piles.
Yes I am a hoarder and proud of it. You are well on your way as well.
Thumbs up for the cargo bike! I use ours very regularly here in Amsterdam when I would otherwise use a car or van.
I'm surprised he hasn't made his own. Why rent when you can have one?
Absolutely loved the repairing of the warning buzzer great buzzer alarm attack siren you did a great job with that actually you could have made the cone bigger or longer and it would have been more like an air raid siren? I love the things you do I like your German accent in English you're doing just great don't worry about the rest of us I love everything you're doing you have great knowledge on electrical components and their usage which I am as a mechanic and a little bit Rusty on the electrical terminology and usage because I never delved into electronics that deep? Great work keep it up God bless don't change a thing
It's always a good day seeing the alert from your channel and I love the scrapyard visits!! great video
Hello Gerolf,
Nice repairs. I wish I had that scrap yard near me. I've been watching you on Dein bestes Stück even though it is "not available" in my country and I don't speak German. It looks like you guys have a good time. Thank you for the video!
-mike
A classic episode of TPAI - thumbs up!
Being and electronics geek I appreciate your showing how to fix devices outside my wheelhouse. The horn does make an excellent alien alarm.
I am from California. I was in Belgium and Germany for 7 months (US Army). I absolutely loved Germany and the German people!
I love this guy. I am a repair tech in a high end market. I am obsessed with the $100 repair when OEM part cost thousands.
Greetings. like what you are doing with the scrap yard finds, I wish there we place like that close to where I live. all the solid waste goes into a big hole in the ground. good repair on the vacuum and the compressor. You got the siren repaired just in time. pesky aliens.
Dude, I love your attitude. Live long and prosper.
love all your videos brother but these scrap yard repair videos are the best thank you
Love your videos. I would share with you to never trust used air tanks. They rust from the inside and can rupture like a bomb. I like your work ethic of reusing the tools and such. A rare thing in this era of throw away before repair
Great work on the compressor. I share your philosophy of repairing things!
I love these scrapyard finds. I hope in the future I will find cool stuff like this in the junkyard.
I have been a tinkerer of sorts all my life. I really enjoyed your video! Thank you!
I have always shared your interest in scrap yards and fixing all that I have obtained.
Awesome repairs - quick and right to the point. I like it.
Try a set of lawn mower wheels for that compressor. : )
even castors would be fine
I used sack truck wheels on mine, simply because my yard is rocky and plastic wheels kept sinking while moving it
or 3D print a replacement hub for the tire
@@jusb1066 why would you want to put beavers under a compressor? ;)
Any kind of wheels, really. This thing doesn’t need to be street-legal.
I am a shooter. When I go to the range I police up a couple of coffee cans of brass (empty shell casings) of different calibers. They make great gasket hole punches. As an American I use mostly imperial sized fasteners. A .45 caliber for 1/2" holes, .38 or .357 for 3/8", .22 or .30 caliber for 1/4". When they get dull or damaged you just throw them out or melt them down for brass stock.You just place them over your marked hole on your gasket paper which should be placed on a scrap piece of wood preferably on the end grain and just smack it with a small hammer. Voila, perfectly cut round hole!
Really enjoy your restoration videos
Man, what a haul! That is such an awesome addition to your control center!
Thanks for sharing so much of your skill and time, man.
Back before modern refrigerants and oils, refrigeration parts and pipes used to be soldered together, remember working on an old 1960's Frigidaire compressor where the service valves were screwed together and then soldered similar to what you did with the air compressor check valve.
I love it !
I like the way you think so much !
The cargo bike is so cool and practical!
Nice, I like that the retro sci-fi desk was part of the movie sequence for the alarm horn demo.
Dirt dobbers are some destructive little bastards. They cost me a 25hp outboard....where they managed to get under the cover and build a nest on the flywheel. The engine inhaled the nest and scored the cylinder wall beyond repair. I now have stainless steel screen installed at the hidden air intake. If there is hole...the little bastards will find it and stop it up with mud. Very nice job with the tubing and fittings...neatly done, Great job man.
Awesome video man! You inspire me to be resourceful with tools and repair things for educational/life skills purposes.
Liked the rebuild of the air compressor (got an old one to fix my son brought me). looks similar to the in size.
I love the compressor repair but the horn build was great. I hope you connect the horn as your door bell. Thanks for sharing that
I mostly used a gear puller to replace bearings on vacuum motors. Most of them are just standard bearings. I paid about $2.50 each. To install them, I would use a piece of pipe slipped over the armature shaft, and a hammer to drive the bearing back on. Just make sure that the pipe drives the bearing on by the center race of the bearing. That vacuum motor was fairly reasonable.
greetings from the UK we think alike and while there are things to repair we will never be bored
Great video. I love your philosophical approach to what you do. I couldn’t agree more.
That horn is so cool. What a great find!
Man, really great stuff here. That’s absolutely right about just starting and making mistakes a long the way. Learn and save. You did include it here, looking up the names on the name plates to help you find some parts, but I’m always interested in the tracking down of parts portion. Most people watching this channel probably have a thread pitch gauge, but some might not know etc. So just always curious about how you go about tracking and finding things. Sometimes part numbers can be a fun hunt.
It is very satisfying watching you repair and resurrect your junkyard finds. There is not much chance of finding quality German-made goods in Australian junkyards. Chinese goods made to a price yes but they are not built to last the test of time. Nonetheless, you have taught me many things about repairing items and that is appreciated.
Loved the ending 😀reminds me of my child hood, something that is still within me even though I am retired. Never stop dreaming .
that massive Robuschi blower looks like a fun project. The blower lobes alone would probably be worth a pretty penny at the right scrap yard.
It's a very good investment to get some bearing pullers and a press, so consider getting that. I repaired many automotive parts by installing a new bearing.
Love these videos, very inspiring.
Couple of thoughts about cost efficiency,
The bearing replacement for the vacum motor would surely be very easy and only cost 1 euro.
And a trumpet for the buzzer could surely be better made from a salvaged cone rather than a custom made one that requires a lot of time, effort and electricity? A plastic cone would do the job as well as a metal one and plastic cones are everywhere.
Love your imagination and resourcefulness is great.
Nice find the Siemens horn. Funny alien attack 😊 On the compressor repair video I have issue though. Im not familiar with soldering but repair compressor nevertheless. In instance like this I would go to hardware store and bay a two 90 degrees metal elbows for water piping, two male adapters. I would connect everything with teflon tape .
Damn, I had a Sebo. Best upright I ever had. The quality was unreal and you feel it the second you start using it. It had an automatic sensor that detected when you went from a rug to a hard floor and automatically lowered.
You don't usually notice this kind of thing, and it's kind of subtle, but that image fade at about 12:26 or so really illustrates how much the air tank has expanded between empty and full. That's pretty awesome. I've never seen that before.