Kind of describes the U.S.S.R.'s philosphy in general. Build it to last, no matter how shit it runs. I like the first part. The second... I can only understand if theres no other options that meet the first criteria, but there are. Just not in the Soviet Union where everyone had money, but nothing to buy.
Yes, but they/we "over engineered" in the past. We actually learned to engineer each part to last about the same amount of time and that time decided for the price we offer. They noticed in the past that a car junk yard had drive shafts that lasted forever, but certain other parts died too quick. So they learned to design everything for a certain amount of time/use. Not some of a thing last 100 years after the rest of it was replaced by new and the old in a trash landfill.
@@AnonymousAnarchist2 as cheap as possible while just barely meeting the quotas, not all that far off from modern capitalism, just instead of quotas it's investors and costumer satisfaction. fun fact, The USSR had a very impressive steel production, however it was pretty bad steel because the strict quotas didn't enable factories to upgrade there equipment much, as that runs the risk of lowered production during installation and re-organisation of the factory. So no matter how old the foundry is, if it still runs well enough to meet the quotas, it stays.
A lot of time when something runs like shit, it can be down to just poor maintenance or age. Lubricants dry out, parts get worn, or off balance, rubber that hardens and cracks. Things like this can be repaired with relative ease and make a world of difference. In some cases. All tools are not equal, of course.
@@kmurrpiggy360 You picked up on that too? If he'd drop the dope he could score a box cutter and be able to get on an airplane like any other American.
An interview with a Soviet engineer who defected to the United States: Int: What shocked you the most when you arrived in the USA? Eng: I was surprised by the sheer volume of propaganda here. Int: But surely, there’s significantly more propaganda in the USSR! Eng: Absolutely, but no one there takes it seriously.
2 different styles of propaganda. USSR: you get so much bullshit you don't know what is real anymore USA: you get so used to bullshit you stop thinking about what is or is not real.
An english speaking russian here. That drill looks home repaired, the round pin in the square keyway and the circlip are DIY, these came with proper square keys from factory. Also you can even see in the video - the bearings have grooves for rubber seals or metal dust shielding. These rubber or metal seals are really easy to bend when disassembling the bearing to put new grease in so whey most likely were trashed and tossed. A little maintenance and cleaning can really give a new life to these tools. Also in 1976 1 USD was about 75 kopecks, what would put what drill at roughly 65.3 bucks flat, that is without any other associated expences. Also also ask me anything about them tools if there is elaboration needed.
Yeah, and it looked like it may have been repainted too. that drill was maintained with love. here in America, we just get another one, need it or not.
For more context: ЦЕНА 49 руб Is a price - 49 Soviet Rubles. The average salary for the month after taxes in 1970 was 122 Rubles. In 1975 it was 145 rubles.
It's worth noting that this is not a tool for home use, it's a reinforced tool for industrial use. However, I am not sure that there were electric drills for home use in the USSR back then. Want a drill for home use? Buy a mechanical one, you can surely afford it.
@@shadow50011 source: I made that up source 2: it was revealed to me in a dream Borrow it from who? A "govt office" that sends people to do things for you? Lmao, there was no such thing
@@KeksimusMaximus There was, and now there are ones. But it works rather in cities, in a districts with apartment buildings. Each bulding is attached to appropriate municipal exploitation service. Man can call them to order an electrician (for example, to change a lamp bulb), or a plumber etc. Quality of such works is weak, but price is very low, and payment is included in utility bills.
Awesome video. As you pointed out yourself, I love how Russia’s style of making things that function like shit but function forever is consistent among their power tools too lol
@@docnele, We could use some no inflation. Our country has hidden inflation in loss of material quality or portion size along with price increase. That individual bag of Doritos keeps getting smaller. Our appliances get crappier. Then, only when they have reduced it to dollar store quality, the price increases.
For anyone wondering about Judith (the woman from what I presume is a printing test that was used as packing material): the text is German, and I presume she is German herself as well as the text mentions ARD, a German TV broadcaster. The text describes the book she wrote, containing 30 knitting projects (hats and scarves, among others) and an emphasis on how soft and cuddly they are. Very much not the point of the video, but just in case someone's interested.
Since you brought it up, Soviet watches are actually quite nice relative to the bargain-bin prices they sold for both when new and nowadays. I learned my stock and trade on them as a watchmaker. They can certainly be made accurate, but since the last time most of them were given any attention was at the factory, the fact that any still run at all no matter how poorly is a testament. My favorite Soviet beauties are the 1950s-80s Pobeda/ZiMs with the ZiM 2602 and the 1970s-80s Slavas with the Slava 2414 movement family. The 15-jewel ZiM 2602 was based on the French LIP R-26 from 1918 and built under license. However, the 2602 also holds the distinction of being the longest-produced Soviet watch caliber. It was made continuously from 1948 to the mid 2000s in the millions. Pobeda abandoned the 2602 sometime in the 1990s whereas ZIM produced it until their dissolution on June 30th, 2006. It represents the sheer power of Soviet industrialization and its capabilities, where a watch intended for as many people as possible still had such haute features as a glydocur balance and an actual Breguet hairspring all throughout its life span. It's an anachronism by modern standards, as it more closely resembles a pocketwatch movement than an actual wristwatch movement in construction, but its still totally servicable and stands as a testament to early Soviet watchmaking efforts. The Slava 2414 movement family from the Second Moscow Watch Factory, however, is a technical marvel. It has two mainspring barrels coupled together with an idler gear, which was designed to release energy from the mainsprings more evenly as they unwound to the balance wheel, which is abnormally large relative to the movement's size. This is also to increase accuracy as much as possible. Even better, it was an entirely Soviet design made from 1966 all the way until the SMWF's dissolution in 2011. Again, sheer industrial might and beautiful design was pursued here, even at the cost of crude finishing. Much more difficult to service than the 2602 I talked about earlier, but still absurdly accurate for the price. I'm talking within 5 sec/day deviation here when regulated to specs.
Thank you for the education. I spent a lot of long, lonely nights in college, sitting at my desk, tinkering with these Soviet watches- sometimes succeeding, and sometimes throwing them out in frustration.
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 Can relate, I got my start in college too with similar results. The movement you showed on camera was a ZiM 2608 from the mid-70s. Basically a center-seconds conversion of the old 2602. The USSR really extended the life of the Lip R26 design as far as it could possibly go. Not necessarily a bad thing, it being a good and solid platform even for its age. The designation of Soviet movements conformed to GOST standards, government standards to which every consumer product in the USSR had to adhere to. This would include your lovely hospital-blue drill. The 26 in 2608 stood for the diameter of the movement (26mm in this case) and the 08 indicated a movement with center seconds but no shock protection on the balance. This also means that it would be entirely possible for multiple different Soviet watch factories to produce movements of the same GOST code, despite being technically very different designs (as seen in the Raketa vs. Poljot vs. Vostok 2209s for instance.)
In the mid to late 90s the market was flooded with absolutely garbage "jewel motion" Russian watches that couldn't keep time for shit. They had jewels, but the gears were garbage
It's like Ladas... they seem like gawdawful little cars but the durn things are unkillable, even if they never heard of maintenance. Garage54 channel does all sorts of horrible experiments on junker Ladas and most survive it.
Tip from an ex-electronics tech, If you're going to 'finger' test to see if something is live or not, use the BACK of your hand. That way they can pick you up off the floor without that crispy smell. 😁😁 Also, when you drill through a piece of wood like that, you need to back out at least once or you'll burn and blunt your bit.
@@robertkalinic335 Yep. Muscles contract and can hold you on. The back of the hand will throw you OFF rather than hold you on. That's assuming you're silly enough to touch it in the first place.
This is a universal motor (DC or AC). The frequency will have a negligible effect (in the 50-60 Hz range). You can also run it off 120V, it will run slower or try DC, it will run smoother (on non-pulsating DC). The speed will be load-dependent as it is for this type of motors. The rated speed of 800 rpm is very probably given at a rated load of 340 W (or rather a mechanical load which corresponds to this electrical load). Unloaded speed is determined by current rise time in the rotor and bearings friction (and a few other factors).
@@RSB333This is a filter capacitor, not a running cap (it's too small for that), it even has a schematic on the package. Induction motors do not have windings on the rotor and therefore no brushes.
I just want to add that Solidol is a mineral oil thickened with a soap. The soap may be made from synthetic or natural fats. But soap is not "fat" - it's a soap (duh).
Bottom left information on Russian drill is price: 49 Rubles. There was no inflation in soviet union, and no speculation. Thats now you tell if something is made in soviet union: price is stamped or casted on the product.
There was an inflation in USSR. It was seemed for Soviet citizens that there's no inflation. And prices was printed on factory. But it just because there was no any trade of civil goods with other countries. No in no out. So there was no real currency exchange. And without trade with all othere world there was no choice what to buy. And more awfull that goods was limited. And price was high. Price of this drill is 49 rub. In 1970, average salary after taxes was 120 Rubles after taxes. And there were speculations. Because of limited offer buyers was forced to pay extra money to shopmen. But the official price was correct. Or in some cases make some favor. Also, there was Ration Stamps for getting goods, cars, or even food. It was a horrible time. I'm glad that USSR is gone.
@@andrewkravchenko2443 "Whoever does not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union has no heart; whoever wants to recreate it in its former form has no head.“ - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. I support it. And you are rather a pimply youngster who does not understand a lot.
Now, there wasn't OFFICIAL inflation and speculation in the communist countries, but there certainly was a black market where both such things existed. My parents growing up in Communist Romania, items could officially cost a certain amount, but be almost impossible to find because of shortages. However would find someone that would sell you the thing for a higher price under the table.
@@andrewkravchenko2443 It was the same situation in Romania. To get consistent access to things like food or goods, you had to "know" the correct people, or pay shopkeepers or distributors for a "special access". Factory workers stole goods from their workplace, and then traded with other workers for the goods they took. By the time the shipment actually reached a store for the public, much was gone.
I have a couple of Soviet era pneumatic rotary tools , much like a dremel, they are very sensitive to over pressure and the bushings or bearings are crap, maybe just worn out. They look to have been very high quality, definitely not a consumer grade tool. Luckily the soviets used npt threads for the air fittings.
Those are actually externally excited DC motors. But because the stator and the rotor are excited from the same source, the polarity doesn't matter. If it changes, it does on both sides of the magnetic "circuit", therefore it works from AC too. The direction of the rotation depends on the relative current direction between the rotor and stator. The caps are usually there for phase correction and some filtering of the commutator noise. One phase AC motors are usually induction types and don't have brushes.
Nice try, but no! These are "Universal Motors" .They can work on AC or DC. They are built like a Series DC motor, not externally excited. Technically we don't use the terms "rotor" or "stator". except in AC induction motors. What we have is wound "Armatures" and two pole field windings. A lot of people do call them "rotor" and "stators", but that really isn't accurate. A very long time ago we had DC motors first and it wasn't until AC induction motors were invented that the terms "rotor" and "stator", came into usage. The motors are distinctly different and the terminology should not be used interchangeably. In order to change the direction, the current is reversed going through the brushes and the armature in relation to the field windings. Universal Motors are configured as Series motors because they immediately produce a lot of torque. We use gearboxes to slow the output speed. The armatures spin very fast, where as in AC induction motor, the speed is dictated by the AC frequency. These only exist in a single phase format. Your description of operation isn't horrible, just the terminology isn't accurate. Although universal motors can work on AC, the motor design and construction are that of a DC motor and not an induction motor. Therefore the proper terminology is that of a DC motor. In almost all AC induction motors, we don't use brushes because no supply voltage is fed to the rotor. Current in the rotor "windings', (usually cast aluminum vs. copper wires), is induced from the current that runs through the stator windings. The stator windings are symmetrical vs, the individually wound poles of DC and universal motors. Starting torque is much less and quickly drops off with load. There is an exception in the AC induction family, called a "wound rotor motor". These are 3 phase AC induction motors which have copper winding in the rotor, which are connected to "slip rings" through brushes. (not a commutator like the DC and universal motors. The wound rotor motor has high starting torque and offer adjustable control of torque and speed. Typical application is a hoist winch motor on AC cranes. They are not very common and modern AC variable frequency drives can produce similar characteristic electronically using regular AC induction motors. You won't find these motors in any household appliances. As an Electrical engineer, I think that sadly the internet spreads a lot of inaccurate information. If someone does videos like this they should start with the disclaimer that they aren't educated engineers and that the video is foe entertainment purposes.
@@TheOriginalEviltech I understand the logic and the stator is stationary. But I'm an engineer and a real professor who teaches, so I lean toward using the proper terms. When I read misuse of such terms the alarm bells go off telling me the individual doesn't really know what he's talking about. If I read "the spinny part" and the "bolted down part" , I know that they aren't trying to sound like they know more than they do. I suppose we could all just make up our own terms for things, like little children often do. But when we are talking about a technical field of study, we should try to use the correct terminology. "Rotor" and "armature" are technical terms foe two distinctly different parts of two types of electric motors. The terms are not interchangeable or generic in nature
@@mattivirta That one must have been made for the common man! Not uncommon for the higher ups to have much better stuff. In communism some are more equal than others.
@@paulussturm6572 Capitalism never claims to be fair. There will always be people in more power than others, that will have nicer things. Even in a system where every-one is "equal".
@@SuperFranzs The fairness that communism claims is not in everyone having access to the same goods, being paid the same, or having equal social station. Despite the memes.
Several years ago, I was on prescribed and properly used opiate pain medication for a couple years before my spinal fusion surgery. In case anyone is wondering, no, post-surgery isn't perfect, but it is better than before - namely because I'm not needing to be medicated. Anyway, back to the main point... that shit does in fact result in some really weird purchases. I once left a Toys R Us with $1600 worth of Thomas the Train for my kids. And the online purchases? Jeeze. Don't get me started.
I don't know specifically what you were on, and I'm not for a moment questioning your bona fides regarding your use of it (honestly). This feels like as good a place as any, though, to point out that the withdrawals from Codeine are comparable to those from Heroin (I said 'comparable', not the same, and yes, I do have experience of both, before anyone comes on telling me 'Buddy, you don't know Jack~sh1+!') - so yeah, in the same ball~park as Heroin, but for relatively negligible pain~killing ability compared to your over~the~counter options×, and, for what it's worth, pretty negligible 'buzz' as well. My point being, if it's helping with 'your' pain (not _you_ specifically), great, but the sooner one can taper off that stuff, the better. And for those messing about with it in search of a high, Codeine is serious business - there really are better highs available for the same stakes! (Hopefully I don't need to add, that is not meant as encouragement!) ×'DF118' (No doubt it goes under something snappier sounding in the States) is probably a better - and worse - option in this respect, but if your croaker has you on that, s/he might be better off considering the non~opiate, Lyrica - horrendous withdrawals, horrendous side~effects, but actually decent potential to hit pain, or certain types of pain anyway. Yes, you can also get a bit of a 'dunt' off it, but again, especially for what you get, really, _really_ not worth it. PS - To the O/C, you have my serious respect for knocking the opiate pain meds on the head, it sounds like most of what I've said here is pretty much redundant with regard to yourself. Best of luck with your continued recovery. (And I don't mean to come across like I'm giving anyone who _does_ need those meds a hard time. I'd hardly be in a position to!) "Hey Kids! Come look! I've got you a surprise!" "But Dad - we don't like Thomas the Tank Engine - we're 12 and 14!" "Well, Daddy's out fourteen hundred _bucks!_ *So you damn well like him NOW, savvy?!"*
@@richiehoyt8487 hydrcodone, morphine, oxycontin for starters. Then ambien for sleep, and more. I feel for those who become addicted. I was able to quickly wean off and stop. Now, I absolutely dont want the stuff and refuse it when offered by doctors. I am constantly in pain, but the drugs dont fix it and in fact simply make you not care about the pain but also anything else.
Yurpian citizen, here... I've lit myself up on 230V on more than one occasion by mistake and while it's not pleasant, it's usually not fatal, barring any pre existing heart conditions, standing barefoot in a puddle of muddy water, and / or discharging straight across the heart.
In work I was standing in puddle of water and switching fuses. Third fuse instantly popping I was wondering something is wrong. Yeh well extension cord was cut and in same water puddle with me. :D
Basically then, what you're saying is that 230v is highly dangerous and surviving a 230v shock is a matter of luck and circumstances and it is to be avoided at all cost.
@@occamraiser I was electrocuted by 230V many times in my over a half century life. Including being a very curious toddler with scissors. lol Horror stories that 230V are many times more lethal than 120V seems overly exaggerated.
6:26 Never Solder Wires LIKE THAT When You Are Dealing With More Then 20 Volts, Ttwist Them Tigether And Only Then Solder, The SOlder Itself If The Copper Is Not Connected Will Work As resistor And Heat Up
Heat is the function of current and not voltage, though, but it's a good point. So your advice is for high current applications, regardless of voltage.
Actually lower voltage stuff typically deliver much more amperage Just compare the wires you see in a car and the ones inside your home 200w @ 220v is 0.9A 200w @ 12v is 16A Solder is fine for mains application, just look inside any power supply and you'd see them solder wires directly into the PCB
I've had the same drill for about 40 years, doing occasional home improvement work. It finally broke down around 2015. Btw, I honestly don't see how the Craftsman is better, apart from the smooth switch. Maybe it runs better, but just from seeing the internals, it's a tie, if not a win for the union for having proper bearings.
This looks remarkably like a 1/2" Thor electric drill I used to own. It was my grandfather's and it worked great for more than a decade after I got it. The motor finally shorted and I sold it cheap on eBay. Mine had a much bigger gear reduction set but it was also a larger drill. Not a whole lot of difference in construction from the Ruskie drill. Mine was all metal case, but was also older.
21:00 i always say that the one who invented the philips screw needs to be tried by the international court in hague while the torx inventor should get the nobel peace prize 😅
Funfact: you needed metric to go to the moon, as von Braun hated Imperial. So, the complete Saturn V was designed metric, then engineering drawings were calculated back from metric to imperial. Same for the Apollo Guidance computer...worked completely metric, but then did imperial conversion to the output displays.
The Russian drill led the way of plastic construction in Western drills. My dad's post war Black & Decker was all aluminum, while my 1969 B & D was half plastic. Also, the Russian drill was not exclusively Russian, as they benefitted from other Soviet Bloc countries tech. If it were purely Russian, it would be made of fine Russian Birch.
In fairness, the nylon plastic used in most good modern tools far outclasses bakelite. Steel is great and all, but is heavy and rusts. Nice and colourful, too. No, the crappy cost cutting happens on the inside. Metal trigger and switches would be nice though. It's the powder metal that really grinds my gears.
I worked for a place that on occasion handled Russian birch plywood used in small trench boxes to comply with OSHA standards. Outstanding quality plywood. I was impressed.
@@0hn0haha this soviet drill is basically a motor with a pistol grip bolted on and a drill transmission on the front. I wonder what other things used these motors
At 9:14 I noticed something... When you touch something to see if current if flowing through the case or housing;...you need to flip your hand over and use the top side of your fingers or back of your hand. Reason is that if it were shorted to ground...and the breaker hasn't caught it ...if you were to touch it with the inside of your hand;...the muscles in your hand could have a tendency to want to retract violently and cause you to grab onto whatever it is your testing. Does this make any sense?
Oof the AK might have looser tolerances in some mechanisms than our beloved AR but I think calling the AK crude is a bit too rough haha. Very cool video, it's cool to see the insides with your good explanations.
Also a thing that I noticed is that East Germany most times made actually good products that works forever, most products from russia also work forever but are most times worse than other products. There is also a channel called Chornobyl Family who shows many soviet products that where used in chernobyl. I still use a drill, hand mixer, bike, motorbike and even a calculator from East Germany that was built around 1984 and it still works great somehow with the original 40 year old batteries. The only sad thing is that like in every soviet state the products where almost never updated and where most times produced from the 60s to the late 80s without any changes.
Single phase motors run in the whichever direction is twisted. Three phase motors will start by being repelled by the rotary magnetic field (induced by the three phases 120 deg apart). One phase motor does not have rotary magnetic field but a pulsing field that will repell the rotor in whatever direction it started. So in order to start this single phase motor you have a capacitor to delay the current enough so it will have some angle to the magneting field starting the motor. The starting capacitor may be hooked to another winding to create the starting angle in oposite direction. Another way to start asynchon engine is with a rope. Give it a spin in the direction you want to spin. It will start without a capacitor. You can test this on many old powertools with this asynchron motor single phase by winding a rope on the shaft and pull hard and press the trigger. The starting capacitor is usually weak so turning the shaft from outside will overcome that starting capacitor.
The craftsman has a "universal motor" in it. These were super common in American appliances because even though they weren't so efficient, they could run on AC or DC. DC home circuits were only phased out due to the television, it was common at this time to have 110VDC in a home. You have two coils in a universal motor, one is around the rotor, and the other is built into the rotor. Both coils are connected to voltage when you hit the switch. If you switch the polarity of the rotor coil without switching the polarity of the coil that surrounds it, the motor switches direction. Universal motors are interesting, because in reality, they are DC motors. DC motors which have had the commutator angle changed, sacrificing efficiency, so that they can run on AC too.
In 1976, this Soviet drill was surprisingly affordable for the Russian proletariat, costing about 16% of a machinist’s salary (around 300 rubles), 40% of an engineer’s or doctor of medicine’s salary (130 to 150 rubles), 20% of a master’s (180 to 200 rubles), and just 10-14% of a PhD’s (350 to 500 rubles).
it is worth noting that cost structure was different. While in US before spending your salary on things you want you need to spend them on: loan debt, rent, life insurance, e.t.c., a lot of those things were way cheaper or even free in USSR(like healthcare or tertiary education)
@@leftybot7846 Well naive child even if you had money you are lucky to actually get drill in USSR because they were rarely in stock and you had to be on the waiting lists. Waiting lists had a call each month or so where you had to come or your name is crossed out. After 3 months of this you could have a chance of getting the drill. Dont even dream about good drill bit set in those times. Oh.. you need spare chuck key or brushes? how cute... No matter how bad west was , you got the money you have a drill and any accessory you want.
@@dukenukem8381 Thanks for your perspective. My initial comment was to provide context about the affordability of the drill based on salaries at the time. For those who used these tools for work, like machinists, the cost was reasonable. Additionally, tools were often provided by the government since it owned all the businesses.
@@GooglyMowgli And western companies dont provide tools? You realize that soviet union was a huge potemkin village and abundance of resources and opulence was easily offset by poor management. If you take a sober look at a soviet union it was a hyper capitalist corporate culture state, using internal currency not accepted anywhere else and state from which you could not escape from. Where you owned nothing and everything belongs to bosses with a strict corporate culture you have abide by or face punishment. Not so rosy and affordable now? Oh cold doctor is free wow! Ofcourse its free because they locked you in, tethered you to a lathe and made you follow ideological arbitrary rules you HAD to follow. They need you healthy-ish to work. Thats why overall soviet quality was poor nobody actually LOVED their occupation. Sure there was always exception like scientists and cosmonauts who had it good but thats like 0,1 of population. West is by no means heaven either but this "better live in hogwarts I never been to " about soviet union myths are just misguided. Its like medieval tales good to read , but i wouldn't actually want to live during medieval times.
@@dukenukem8381 how ironic: guy using term "soviet era occupation" about soviet time is calling me naive child. " even if you had money" because most of the people in USSR had no salary ... ? " you are lucky to actually get drill in USSR because they were rarely in stock and you had to be on the waiting lists. Waiting lists had a call each month or so where you had to come or your name is crossed out. After 3 months of this you could have a chance of getting the drill." Do you realize that you literally just replaced "food" and "cars" in copypasta and thought I wouldn't notice? Isn't that the definition of copium? I'm really not into refuting braindead points, especially when it's your word against mine. And mine is that we didn't have such a shortage back then. As a backup of my words you can search for different thematical topics, for example forum article " Профиль al13l Дрель родом из СССР " and by your logic only thing they could argue is how bad it was since no one could afford it. However, there are dozens of comments discussing their experience and not whining how they couldn't find it. Other thing is that you can find millions of cheap-ass offers on the secondary market right now, 30+ years after collapse of USSR. You could argue that just no one needs them in the era of capitalism, but by that logic soviet condenser microphone "19А-19" should also be ass cheap and not cost whole salary like they are right now. Because rare things cost much. Since your copypasta was aboud whole soviet economy, let me share an article on this topic: "Реальное ВВП СССР, России, США и других стран по годам" from pikabu. If short: share of industrial production of Russia in the mid 70's in the world was 20%. Again. 20% of industrial production in the midlle 70's was made in soviet russia. Of course by itself it can mean a lot of things, whole article proves my point that with soviet production capacity(I'm not even talking about military) there could not be country-level shortage you are talking about. It could be a local one, as situation wasn't solid everywhere. Even more ironic that after Gorbachev started to decommunize economy, and stand it on capitalist lines, new sellers and cooperators instead of patching old holes in soviet economy made a giant one by literally throwing away all goods. Search "СССР: Товарный дефицит (видеохроника 1989-91г.)" "No matter how bad west was , you got the money you have a drill and any accessory you want." I, indeed, have a drill. Moreover, more than one. A few of them from different times. One small issue: I live in Russia. And your fairy tales ain't gonna work on me or almost anyone who experienced living in USSR and knows when was "shortage" and when was real **shortage** . And it is reflected in sociological surveys. For example, one made in 2023 by FOM: 80 percent of Russians consider the Soviet era to be a good time, and 63 percent regret the collapse of the USSR, according to new data from the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). 5 percent of citizens disagree with the good assessments of the Soviet era, 15 found it difficult to answer. Among those younger, from 18 to 30 years old, 64 percent have a positive opinion about the USSR as an era, among Russians from 31 to 45 years old - 79 percent, from 46 to 60 years old - 88 percent, among those over 60 years old - 86 percent. 63 percent of respondents regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, 22 percent do not regret it, 15 found it difficult to answer. 16 percent of Russians, when mentioning the Soviet Union, remember their childhood and youth, 14 percent come to mind good memories and feelings, 11 associate the USSR with a calm, stable life, 8 experience regret, nostalgia and a desire to return to Soviet times, 7 remember a good life in abundance, 6 - unity and friendship of peoples, 5 - care for people, 4 - the kindness of people, political leaders of that time and communism, 3 - stagnation and deficit, another 3 - a large country with a strong economy. So yeah. Twice as many people associate the USSR with a good life in abundance than with stagnation and scarcity. You are not fooling anyone here.
15:02 That is a two piece conductor. No failure there. I love your sense of humor and you clearly know what you are doing. Contrary to me writing comments here....
You can jury rig a chuck key by inserting a rod into the chuck's hole and then using it as a fulcrum for a screwdriver that engages with the teeth of the chuck.
I love everything about this video! I was thinking of making the same type of video, but seeing as how I was so entertained by your take I may as well send you all the USSR tools I can get my hands on and then sit back, relax and watch the masterpiece video you come up with! Thank you for the entertainment! From your new (among many) subscriber!
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 I hope it is fine with you, I have shared this video on my channel. Since I watched it I have thought about it a couple of times thought the day and I just found it fascinating so I think more people should see it. I don't have a big subscriber count, but I still hope it helps you out on your way to 10 000 000+ views, because this video surely deserves it!
the grease iside of the gearbox is named "солидол" (solidol) which was a thickened solidified oils, mostly made of synthetic oils and soaps, there were many types of it in USSR for different applications. Some of them where made of animal fat and used even as a medicine for skin deseases.
You earned a new subscriber. I'm a Russian immigrant to America, and I appreciate how you recognized America used propaganda and it's not like the USSR was as bad as America wanted to show it. So commonly people will grab the simplest of things and say to me "Oh yeah, bet you didn't have these back in Russia" or make jokes and insults that are just entirely false, so I like that you didn't just come at it with a "American is automatically better because it's American" attitude. I appreciate you being fair and honest with both tools and also I love your humor. :)))))
I have a Wards PowrKraft from the same era. Used and abused and still works like the day it was new. That Tetris theme really brought it all together, lol.
If you were to DIY design a retro drill from these two, which features would you take from the two different designs and would you add anything that neither of them have that wouldn't stray to far from the retro theme? I think the handle on the back of the craftsman looks like a unique feature, I'm not too sure how it would feel though compared to the standard side mounted handle.
Very cool comparison! One reason the drill runs faster than the rated speed is because it's a series motor, which has very little speed regulation. The 800 RPM rating is the loaded speed where it is using its rated power and amps. Without load, the motor will run much faster. For the reversable drill, again because it's a series motor, it has characteristics like a DC motor. The switch reverses the polarity of the field coils versus the armature. The relative polarity of the two parts sets the rotation. Would work with an AC or a DC series motor the same.
If you have reflexes like a snake you can get away during the zero crossing moment. This guy has a lot of snake like traits too so I think he'll be OK.
Damn, I swear I could smell my Pops old drill when you first fired her up. that thing was PUNGENT. as a WW2 mechanic who ran an agricultural everything shop in a rural town where the nearest actual supplier was 200km away, Im pretty sure it did a LOT of work. pretty much the same topology Im quite sure. that one was made in Australia tho. I wonder where that ended up...
Ah the Soviet technology for the consumer (if there ever was one!)! There's this joke about quality control about Japanese vs Soviet cars. The Japanese in order to check the air tightness of a car's cabin left a cat overnight in the cabin and if the cat had suffocated in the morning, the car passed quality control. The Soviets conducted the same test but with a slightly different criterion: the cat had to be still in the car!
My father still use drill from that time and it works well (has not been repaired) and he doesn't want to by new one because after few years you should by new one again. And USSR is not only Russia but it also a lot of countries like Ukraine and Belarus ...
Question: the Craftsman was a home owner's tool, like Black & Decker, not Snap-On or Milwaukee. Was the Soviet drill a homeowner's tool, or an industrial model?
Is that a Velleman soldering station I see? If it is, I have been using the same one for years at this point. I love European 220v tools. In my shop I have a German (Schuko), and Australian/Chinese outlet over the bench, complete with DIN rail subpanel from Germany. Also feeds my 1930s air compressor with 3 phase 1940s 3hp motor, running off single phase 240v with a modern Lenze SMVector VFD in speed vectoring mode. I have 3 phase at the house (center tapped delta), but I really wanted speed vectoring so the output of air at high pressure would be higher. Because I have delta 3 phase, I have both line to line 240v and line to neutral 208v available , as well as 120v and 240v 3 phase. That Soviet drill is cool, I need to get myself one to add to the collection of 240v tools.
It is! Had it for years. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I have 240v 3 phase in my garage- quite rare in the US in a residential building. I use it for my old two post lift. I wish I had a VFD- I use an old fashioned rotary phase converter.
hi huston we have a problem. if orange to orange fine but russ is AC 240v and us 110v DC that would be pretty diffrent . so i guess next vid apples to apples ?
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"this drill is gonna run like shit longer than some modern drills will run period" that analogy applies for alot of other things
Kind of describes the U.S.S.R.'s philosphy in general.
Build it to last, no matter how shit it runs.
I like the first part. The second... I can only understand if theres no other options that meet the first criteria, but there are.
Just not in the Soviet Union where everyone had money, but nothing to buy.
Yes, but they/we "over engineered" in the past. We actually learned to engineer each part to last about the same amount of time and that time decided for the price we offer. They noticed in the past that a car junk yard had drive shafts that lasted forever, but certain other parts died too quick. So they learned to design everything for a certain amount of time/use. Not some of a thing last 100 years after the rest of it was replaced by new and the old in a trash landfill.
@@AnonymousAnarchist2 as cheap as possible while just barely meeting the quotas, not all that far off from modern capitalism, just instead of quotas it's investors and costumer satisfaction.
fun fact, The USSR had a very impressive steel production, however it was pretty bad steel because the strict quotas didn't enable factories to upgrade there equipment much, as that runs the risk of lowered production during installation and re-organisation of the factory.
So no matter how old the foundry is, if it still runs well enough to meet the quotas, it stays.
A lot of time when something runs like shit, it can be down to just poor maintenance or age. Lubricants dry out, parts get worn, or off balance, rubber that hardens and cracks. Things like this can be repaired with relative ease and make a world of difference. In some cases. All tools are not equal, of course.
@@ledocteur7701
Both of you are writing propaganda cliches.
A guy high on pain meds disassembling a Soviet electric drill, I love RUclips sometimes
yup i subbed
While opening the box with a broken glass 😂
Yeah but Boris does it, with the drill plugged in.
@@kmurrpiggy360 You picked up on that too? If he'd drop the dope he could score a box cutter and be able to get on an airplane like any other American.
Ditto, i have no idea why RUclips recommended me this clip, but i'm glad it did.
An interview with a Soviet engineer who defected to the United States:
Int: What shocked you the most when you arrived in the USA?
Eng: I was surprised by the sheer volume of propaganda here.
Int: But surely, there’s significantly more propaganda in the USSR!
Eng: Absolutely, but no one there takes it seriously.
2 different styles of propaganda.
USSR: you get so much bullshit you don't know what is real anymore
USA: you get so used to bullshit you stop thinking about what is or is not real.
An english speaking russian here.
That drill looks home repaired, the round pin in the square keyway and the circlip are DIY, these came with proper square keys from factory. Also you can even see in the video - the bearings have grooves for rubber seals or metal dust shielding. These rubber or metal seals are really easy to bend when disassembling the bearing to put new grease in so whey most likely were trashed and tossed. A little maintenance and cleaning can really give a new life to these tools.
Also in 1976 1 USD was about 75 kopecks, what would put what drill at roughly 65.3 bucks flat, that is without any other associated expences.
Also also ask me anything about them tools if there is elaboration needed.
Yeah, and it looked like it may have been repainted too. that drill was maintained with love. here in America, we just get another one, need it or not.
my polish grandpa had this drill too, same color even but with orange button and trigger
@@marks99999 The drill head was 100% cannibalized from another drill.
"There's a right tool for every job... and I don't have one either." lol
For more context:
ЦЕНА 49 руб
Is a price - 49 Soviet Rubles.
The average salary for the month after taxes in 1970 was 122 Rubles.
In 1975 it was 145 rubles.
But if have this 122 rubles you actualy cant buy this tool becase bild store not exsist.
It's worth noting that this is not a tool for home use, it's a reinforced tool for industrial use. However, I am not sure that there were electric drills for home use in the USSR back then. Want a drill for home use? Buy a mechanical one, you can surely afford it.
@@KeksimusMaximus In the USSR you'd just borrow it or ask the local gov office for repairs and they'd send dudes to do it
@@shadow50011 source: I made that up
source 2: it was revealed to me in a dream
Borrow it from who?
A "govt office" that sends people to do things for you? Lmao, there was no such thing
@@KeksimusMaximus
There was, and now there are ones. But it works rather in cities, in a districts with apartment buildings. Each bulding is attached to appropriate municipal exploitation service. Man can call them to order an electrician (for example, to change a lamp bulb), or a plumber etc. Quality of such works is weak, but price is very low, and payment is included in utility bills.
Awesome video. As you pointed out yourself, I love how Russia’s style of making things that function like shit but function forever is consistent among their power tools too lol
They weren't interested in the user experience, but you doing your job forever. Or until you die. Which comes first...
@@peterkiss1204 It also had eternally same price of 4 roubles as it was stamped on the drill itself-no inflation allowed ;)
@@docnele, We could use some no inflation. Our country has hidden inflation in loss of material quality or portion size along with price increase. That individual bag of Doritos keeps getting smaller. Our appliances get crappier. Then, only when they have reduced it to dollar store quality, the price increases.
That's also true when it comes to politicians, law and economics there.
@@jpvoodoo5522 Yep, methinks the Dollar Tree is ready to change its name to Dollar and a Half Tree. Same shitty stuff though...
For anyone wondering about Judith (the woman from what I presume is a printing test that was used as packing material): the text is German, and I presume she is German herself as well as the text mentions ARD, a German TV broadcaster. The text describes the book she wrote, containing 30 knitting projects (hats and scarves, among others) and an emphasis on how soft and cuddly they are. Very much not the point of the video, but just in case someone's interested.
Since you brought it up, Soviet watches are actually quite nice relative to the bargain-bin prices they sold for both when new and nowadays. I learned my stock and trade on them as a watchmaker. They can certainly be made accurate, but since the last time most of them were given any attention was at the factory, the fact that any still run at all no matter how poorly is a testament. My favorite Soviet beauties are the 1950s-80s Pobeda/ZiMs with the ZiM 2602 and the 1970s-80s Slavas with the Slava 2414 movement family.
The 15-jewel ZiM 2602 was based on the French LIP R-26 from 1918 and built under license. However, the 2602 also holds the distinction of being the longest-produced Soviet watch caliber. It was made continuously from 1948 to the mid 2000s in the millions. Pobeda abandoned the 2602 sometime in the 1990s whereas ZIM produced it until their dissolution on June 30th, 2006. It represents the sheer power of Soviet industrialization and its capabilities, where a watch intended for as many people as possible still had such haute features as a glydocur balance and an actual Breguet hairspring all throughout its life span. It's an anachronism by modern standards, as it more closely resembles a pocketwatch movement than an actual wristwatch movement in construction, but its still totally servicable and stands as a testament to early Soviet watchmaking efforts.
The Slava 2414 movement family from the Second Moscow Watch Factory, however, is a technical marvel. It has two mainspring barrels coupled together with an idler gear, which was designed to release energy from the mainsprings more evenly as they unwound to the balance wheel, which is abnormally large relative to the movement's size. This is also to increase accuracy as much as possible. Even better, it was an entirely Soviet design made from 1966 all the way until the SMWF's dissolution in 2011. Again, sheer industrial might and beautiful design was pursued here, even at the cost of crude finishing. Much more difficult to service than the 2602 I talked about earlier, but still absurdly accurate for the price. I'm talking within 5 sec/day deviation here when regulated to specs.
Thank you for the education. I spent a lot of long, lonely nights in college, sitting at my desk, tinkering with these Soviet watches- sometimes succeeding, and sometimes throwing them out in frustration.
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 Can relate, I got my start in college too with similar results. The movement you showed on camera was a ZiM 2608 from the mid-70s. Basically a center-seconds conversion of the old 2602. The USSR really extended the life of the Lip R26 design as far as it could possibly go. Not necessarily a bad thing, it being a good and solid platform even for its age.
The designation of Soviet movements conformed to GOST standards, government standards to which every consumer product in the USSR had to adhere to. This would include your lovely hospital-blue drill. The 26 in 2608 stood for the diameter of the movement (26mm in this case) and the 08 indicated a movement with center seconds but no shock protection on the balance. This also means that it would be entirely possible for multiple different Soviet watch factories to produce movements of the same GOST code, despite being technically very different designs (as seen in the Raketa vs. Poljot vs. Vostok 2209s for instance.)
Let's not forget the Zaria and the Slava Clock, Vostok
In the mid to late 90s the market was flooded with absolutely garbage "jewel motion" Russian watches that couldn't keep time for shit. They had jewels, but the gears were garbage
It's like Ladas... they seem like gawdawful little cars but the durn things are unkillable, even if they never heard of maintenance. Garage54 channel does all sorts of horrible experiments on junker Ladas and most survive it.
Tetris music for the reassembly... * chef's kiss *
Bro I just realized it almost sounds like polka music if you think too hard about it.
Tip from an ex-electronics tech, If you're going to 'finger' test to see if something is live or not, use the BACK of your hand.
That way they can pick you up off the floor without that crispy smell. 😁😁
Also, when you drill through a piece of wood like that, you need to back out at least once or you'll burn and blunt your bit.
You mean using the back of the hand so the hand wont stay in place when you get shocked?
Maybe the bit was Soviet too. It cut like crap, took forever, but still got the job done.
@@robertkalinic335 Yep. Muscles contract and can hold you on. The back of the hand will throw you OFF rather than hold you on.
That's assuming you're silly enough to touch it in the first place.
@@jimmycedillo1585 Maybe the bit was running too fast? what was it, 1800rpm vs designed 800?
@@victorzvyagintsev1325 He said in the video it was the dullest bit he owned.
This is a universal motor (DC or AC). The frequency will have a negligible effect (in the 50-60 Hz range). You can also run it off 120V, it will run slower or try DC, it will run smoother (on non-pulsating DC). The speed will be load-dependent as it is for this type of motors. The rated speed of 800 rpm is very probably given at a rated load of 340 W (or rather a mechanical load which corresponds to this electrical load). Unloaded speed is determined by current rise time in the rotor and bearings friction (and a few other factors).
It has a run capacitor, those are not used in a universal motor
@@RSB333This is a filter capacitor, not a running cap (it's too small for that), it even has a schematic on the package. Induction motors do not have windings on the rotor and therefore no brushes.
You beat me to it, and you explained it better than I would have as well :)
I just want to add that Solidol is a mineral oil thickened with a soap. The soap may be made from synthetic or natural fats. But soap is not "fat" - it's a soap (duh).
Sounds like the ingredients of products referred to as "grease" in the US.
soap, in fact, is a fat acids :)
@@felixyasnopolski8571 But it's not fat.
@@Fedorchik1536 Pedantry at its finest
@@felixyasnopolski8571 petrol is made from crude oil but you don't go around saying petrol is the same thing as crude oil lol!
The last line was saying "Tzena 49 Rub. Gost xxxxx" which means "Price 49 Roubles, Standard XXXXX"
Bottom left information on Russian drill is price: 49 Rubles. There was no inflation in soviet union, and no speculation. Thats now you tell if something is made in soviet union: price is stamped or casted on the product.
There was an inflation in USSR.
It was seemed for Soviet citizens that there's no inflation. And prices was printed on factory. But it just because there was no any trade of civil goods with other countries. No in no out. So there was no real
currency exchange. And without trade with all othere world there was no choice what to buy. And more awfull that goods was limited. And price was high. Price of this drill is 49 rub. In 1970, average salary after taxes was 120 Rubles after taxes.
And there were speculations. Because of limited offer buyers was forced to pay extra money to shopmen. But the official price was correct. Or in some cases make some favor. Also, there was Ration Stamps for getting goods, cars, or even food.
It was a horrible time. I'm glad that USSR is gone.
@@andrewkravchenko2443 "Whoever does not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union has no heart; whoever wants to recreate it in its former form has no head.“ - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. I support it. And you are rather a pimply youngster who does not understand a lot.
Now, there wasn't OFFICIAL inflation and speculation in the communist countries, but there certainly was a black market where both such things existed. My parents growing up in Communist Romania, items could officially cost a certain amount, but be almost impossible to find because of shortages. However would find someone that would sell you the thing for a higher price under the table.
@@andrewkravchenko2443 It was the same situation in Romania. To get consistent access to things like food or goods, you had to "know" the correct people, or pay shopkeepers or distributors for a "special access". Factory workers stole goods from their workplace, and then traded with other workers for the goods they took. By the time the shipment actually reached a store for the public, much was gone.
I love that you chose the Tetris theme music, considering it was a game made in the Soviet Union
Russian is made as cheaply as possible and yet to last as long as possible.
And to be owner fixable with nothing but a hammer.
@@astranger448 and a Sickle.
Exactly the opposite of American "Planned Obsolescence".
@@matthewq4b The sickle is used instead of a flathead screw driver, correct?
phillips as well, in a pinch
I very much appreciate that you call them slotted screw drivers and not flathead.
I have a couple of Soviet era pneumatic rotary tools , much like a dremel, they are very sensitive to over pressure and the bushings or bearings are crap, maybe just worn out. They look to have been very high quality, definitely not a consumer grade tool. Luckily the soviets used npt threads for the air fittings.
Those are actually externally excited DC motors. But because the stator and the rotor are excited from the same source, the polarity doesn't matter. If it changes, it does on both sides of the magnetic "circuit", therefore it works from AC too. The direction of the rotation depends on the relative current direction between the rotor and stator. The caps are usually there for phase correction and some filtering of the commutator noise.
One phase AC motors are usually induction types and don't have brushes.
Neat! Thanks for the info.
The stator and rotor are in series, the switch just reverses the polarity on the brushes relative to the stators
Nice try, but no!
These are "Universal Motors" .They can work on AC or DC. They are built like a Series DC motor, not externally excited. Technically we don't use the terms "rotor" or "stator". except in AC induction motors. What we have is wound "Armatures" and two pole field windings. A lot of people do call them "rotor" and "stators", but that really isn't accurate. A very long time ago we had DC motors first and it wasn't until AC induction motors were invented that the terms "rotor" and "stator", came into usage. The motors are distinctly different and the terminology should not be used interchangeably.
In order to change the direction, the current is reversed going through the brushes and the armature in relation to the field windings. Universal Motors are configured as Series motors because they immediately produce a lot of torque. We use gearboxes to slow the output speed. The armatures spin very fast, where as in AC induction motor, the speed is dictated by the AC frequency. These only exist in a single phase format.
Your description of operation isn't horrible, just the terminology isn't accurate. Although universal motors can work on AC, the motor design and construction are that of a DC motor and not an induction motor. Therefore the proper terminology is that of a DC motor.
In almost all AC induction motors, we don't use brushes because no supply voltage is fed to the rotor. Current in the rotor "windings', (usually cast aluminum vs. copper wires), is induced from the current that runs through the stator windings. The stator windings are symmetrical vs, the individually wound poles of DC and universal motors. Starting torque is much less and quickly drops off with load.
There is an exception in the AC induction family, called a "wound rotor motor". These are 3 phase AC induction motors which have copper winding in the rotor, which are connected to "slip rings" through brushes. (not a commutator like the DC and universal motors. The wound rotor motor has high starting torque and offer adjustable control of torque and speed. Typical application is a hoist winch motor on AC cranes. They are not very common and modern AC variable frequency drives can produce similar characteristic electronically using regular AC induction motors. You won't find these motors in any household appliances.
As an Electrical engineer, I think that sadly the internet spreads a lot of inaccurate information. If someone does videos like this they should start with the disclaimer that they aren't educated engineers and that the video is foe entertainment purposes.
@@professorg8383 It's all correct, but i call it roror because it rotates.
@@TheOriginalEviltech I understand the logic and the stator is stationary. But I'm an engineer and a real professor who teaches, so I lean toward using the proper terms. When I read misuse of such terms the alarm bells go off telling me the individual doesn't really know what he's talking about. If I read "the spinny part" and the "bolted down part" , I know that they aren't trying to sound like they know more than they do.
I suppose we could all just make up our own terms for things, like little children often do. But when we are talking about a technical field of study, we should try to use the correct terminology. "Rotor" and "armature" are technical terms foe two distinctly different parts of two types of electric motors. The terms are not interchangeable or generic in nature
Please make a sequel: FEUDALISM vs CAPITALISM: Who Made Better Potatoes?
Considering Europe ditched feudalism before we discovered potatoes (yes they're from the Americas), I'm not sure this is a fair comparison.
@@daanwilmer Potatoes 1570, Feudalism 1848 (for example Austro-Hungarian empire).
Sorry to say that: the russioan tool looks more modern than the amercan, which seems like a pre WWII make 😂
USSR watches are good quality. All depends on the movement type. The one you have is a very old one, made for Pobeda, circa 1956 - 1965
i has some Russian pocket watch and ALL have totally worst clock, newer not keep time right and stop many time lot. not good quality
@@mattivirta That one must have been made for the common man! Not uncommon for the higher ups to have much better stuff. In communism some are more equal than others.
@@SuperFranzsYeah, because in capitalism everyone has the exact same things Jeff Bezos does 😂
@@paulussturm6572 Capitalism never claims to be fair. There will always be people in more power than others, that will have nicer things. Even in a system where every-one is "equal".
@@SuperFranzs The fairness that communism claims is not in everyone having access to the same goods, being paid the same, or having equal social station. Despite the memes.
"Greek alphabet with a Slavic extension pack" - I'm Russian and this is the best description of the Cyrillic alphabet
Several years ago, I was on prescribed and properly used opiate pain medication for a couple years before my spinal fusion surgery.
In case anyone is wondering, no, post-surgery isn't perfect, but it is better than before - namely because I'm not needing to be medicated.
Anyway, back to the main point... that shit does in fact result in some really weird purchases. I once left a Toys R Us with $1600 worth of Thomas the Train for my kids. And the online purchases? Jeeze. Don't get me started.
I don't know specifically what you were on, and I'm not for a moment questioning your bona fides regarding your use of it (honestly). This feels like as good a place as any, though, to point out that the withdrawals from Codeine are comparable to those from Heroin (I said 'comparable', not the same, and yes, I do have experience of both, before anyone comes on telling me 'Buddy, you don't know Jack~sh1+!') - so yeah, in the same ball~park as Heroin, but for relatively negligible pain~killing ability compared to your over~the~counter options×, and, for what it's worth, pretty negligible 'buzz' as well. My point being, if it's helping with 'your' pain (not _you_ specifically), great, but the sooner one can taper off that stuff, the better. And for those messing about with it in search of a high, Codeine is serious business - there really are better highs available for the same stakes! (Hopefully I don't need to add, that is not meant as encouragement!)
×'DF118' (No doubt it goes under something snappier sounding in the States) is probably a better - and worse - option in this respect, but if your croaker has you on that, s/he might be better off considering the non~opiate, Lyrica - horrendous withdrawals, horrendous side~effects, but actually decent potential to hit pain, or certain types of pain anyway. Yes, you can also get a bit of a 'dunt' off it, but again, especially for what you get, really, _really_ not worth it.
PS - To the O/C, you have my serious respect for knocking the opiate pain meds on the head, it sounds like most of what I've said here is pretty much redundant with regard to yourself. Best of luck with your continued recovery. (And I don't mean to come across like I'm giving anyone who _does_ need those meds a hard time. I'd hardly be in a position to!)
"Hey Kids! Come look! I've got you a surprise!" "But Dad - we don't like Thomas the Tank Engine - we're 12 and 14!" "Well, Daddy's out fourteen hundred _bucks!_ *So you damn well like him NOW, savvy?!"*
@@richiehoyt8487 hydrcodone, morphine, oxycontin for starters. Then ambien for sleep, and more. I feel for those who become addicted. I was able to quickly wean off and stop. Now, I absolutely dont want the stuff and refuse it when offered by doctors. I am constantly in pain, but the drugs dont fix it and in fact simply make you not care about the pain but also anything else.
Yurpian citizen, here... I've lit myself up on 230V on more than one occasion by mistake and while it's not pleasant, it's usually not fatal, barring any pre existing heart conditions, standing barefoot in a puddle of muddy water, and / or discharging straight across the heart.
In work I was standing in puddle of water and switching fuses. Third fuse instantly popping I was wondering something is wrong. Yeh well extension cord was cut and in same water puddle with me. :D
Basically then, what you're saying is that 230v is highly dangerous and surviving a 230v shock is a matter of luck and circumstances and it is to be avoided at all cost.
@@occamraiser I was electrocuted by 230V many times in my over a half century life. Including being a very curious toddler with scissors. lol
Horror stories that 230V are many times more lethal than 120V seems overly exaggerated.
@@RustedCroaker Amen to that, I should have been dead a million times over but since I am commenting here....
It's not really the voltage that kills, but the frequency.
ET-1019A No. E393
Ø 9 mm 800 rpm operating mode S1 (continuous)
220 volts 340 watts 1.6 amps November 1976
Price 49 rubles State Standard No....
6:26 Never Solder Wires LIKE THAT When You Are Dealing With More Then 20 Volts, Ttwist Them Tigether And Only Then Solder, The SOlder Itself If The Copper Is Not Connected Will Work As resistor And Heat Up
Heat is the function of current and not voltage, though, but it's a good point. So your advice is for high current applications, regardless of voltage.
Actually lower voltage stuff typically deliver much more amperage
Just compare the wires you see in a car and the ones inside your home
200w @ 220v is 0.9A
200w @ 12v is 16A
Solder is fine for mains application, just look inside any power supply and you'd see them solder wires directly into the PCB
Okay, But Why Do You Type Like This?
I've had the same drill for about 40 years, doing occasional home improvement work. It finally broke down around 2015. Btw, I honestly don't see how the Craftsman is better, apart from the smooth switch. Maybe it runs better, but just from seeing the internals, it's a tie, if not a win for the union for having proper bearings.
And being a double insulated tool. And with a bit of maintenance, also the union can run just fine. It's just a drill in the end...
This looks remarkably like a 1/2" Thor electric drill I used to own. It was my grandfather's and it worked great for more than a decade after I got it. The motor finally shorted and I sold it cheap on eBay. Mine had a much bigger gear reduction set but it was also a larger drill. Not a whole lot of difference in construction from the Ruskie drill. Mine was all metal case, but was also older.
21:00 i always say that the one who invented the philips screw needs to be tried by the international court in hague while the torx inventor should get the nobel peace prize 😅
Funfact: you needed metric to go to the moon, as von Braun hated Imperial. So, the complete Saturn V was designed metric, then engineering drawings were calculated back from metric to imperial. Same for the Apollo Guidance computer...worked completely metric, but then did imperial conversion to the output displays.
The Russian drill led the way of plastic construction in Western drills. My dad's post war Black & Decker was all aluminum, while my 1969 B & D was half plastic. Also, the Russian drill was not exclusively Russian, as they benefitted from other Soviet Bloc countries tech. If it were purely Russian, it would be made of fine Russian Birch.
In fairness, the nylon plastic used in most good modern tools far outclasses bakelite. Steel is great and all, but is heavy and rusts. Nice and colourful, too. No, the crappy cost cutting happens on the inside. Metal trigger and switches would be nice though.
It's the powder metal that really grinds my gears.
okay but now I want a fine birch wood drill!
@@amishrobots Man, I can make you both birch and space alloy, you just pay for it.
I worked for a place that on occasion handled Russian birch plywood used in small trench boxes to comply with OSHA standards. Outstanding quality plywood. I was impressed.
It would be interesting to compare them both to a German drill of the same time period.
Dont worry. I did the same thing and bought two soviet camping stoves late at night. They work! Ones light fuel, ones heavier fuel.
You did need millimeters to go to the moon. You just had to convert them to imperial so the simpler folk, the astronauts, could understand.
you have to restore them :) and test them head to head :) I love metal tools!
The plaque says:
Product IE1019A Serial number E393
Radius 9mm
800 RPM
220V 340W 1.6A
Manufactured Nov.1976
Price 49 Rubles
State Standard 8524-73
In 1971, I worked for Penney's in the tool dept. We sold variable speed 3/8 drills way lighter and smaller than this for $25.
Smaller and lighter? You mean made more cheaply and out of inferior materials?
@@0hn0haha this soviet drill is basically a motor with a pistol grip bolted on and a drill transmission on the front. I wonder what other things used these motors
So $193.55 after inflation in todays money
Another comment pointed put the 49 on the drill was 49 rubles (most likely 1970)
Another comment said there was no inflation, though you will need need to adjust for post soviet inflation
Loved watching you take both apart, thanks for sharing
At 9:14 I noticed something...
When you touch something to see if current if flowing through the case or housing;...you need to flip your hand over and use the top side of your fingers or back of your hand.
Reason is that if it were shorted to ground...and the breaker hasn't caught it ...if you were to touch it with the inside of your hand;...the muscles in your hand could have a tendency to want to retract violently and cause you to grab onto whatever it is your testing.
Does this make any sense?
It does, thank you.
gotta love that double insulated electrical tape.
I laughed when he opened it up, saw that, and said "I'm starting to wonder if I worked on this one before."
I`m Finn. Only soviet electric thing what I used was "inside cup" water heater.
unlike the craftsman, you can still get parts for the russian drill.. they used a lot of off the shelf parts that are still in use/available today
Oof the AK might have looser tolerances in some mechanisms than our beloved AR but I think calling the AK crude is a bit too rough haha. Very cool video, it's cool to see the insides with your good explanations.
23:57 hearing the tetris theme I thought upon complete assembly the drill would blink a few times and disappear
That would’ve been funny- where were you when I was making this video??
Also a thing that I noticed is that East Germany most times made actually good products that works forever, most products from russia also work forever but are most times worse than other products. There is also a channel called Chornobyl Family who shows many soviet products that where used in chernobyl.
I still use a drill, hand mixer, bike, motorbike and even a calculator from East Germany that was built around 1984 and it still works great somehow with the original 40 year old batteries. The only sad thing is that like in every soviet state the products where almost never updated and where most times produced from the 60s to the late 80s without any changes.
Is there a story behind what looks to be a 1lb propane tank air blaster? I feel like it probably wouldn't have much usable volume.
Next video!
That's the cloud around cordless tools. Less run time. But think of the convenience!
Single phase motors run in the whichever direction is twisted. Three phase motors will start by being repelled by the rotary magnetic field (induced by the three phases 120 deg apart). One phase motor does not have rotary magnetic field but a pulsing field that will repell the rotor in whatever direction it started. So in order to start this single phase motor you have a capacitor to delay the current enough so it will have some angle to the magneting field starting the motor. The starting capacitor may be hooked to another winding to create the starting angle in oposite direction. Another way to start asynchon engine is with a rope. Give it a spin in the direction you want to spin. It will start without a capacitor.
You can test this on many old powertools with this asynchron motor single phase by winding a rope on the shaft and pull hard and press the trigger. The starting capacitor is usually weak so turning the shaft from outside will overcome that starting capacitor.
The craftsman has a "universal motor" in it. These were super common in American appliances because even though they weren't so efficient, they could run on AC or DC. DC home circuits were only phased out due to the television, it was common at this time to have 110VDC in a home.
You have two coils in a universal motor, one is around the rotor, and the other is built into the rotor.
Both coils are connected to voltage when you hit the switch. If you switch the polarity of the rotor coil without switching the polarity of the coil that surrounds it, the motor switches direction.
Universal motors are interesting, because in reality, they are DC motors. DC motors which have had the commutator angle changed, sacrificing efficiency, so that they can run on AC too.
ConEd stopped distributing DC in 2007.
In 1976, this Soviet drill was surprisingly affordable for the Russian proletariat, costing about 16% of a machinist’s salary (around 300 rubles), 40% of an engineer’s or doctor of medicine’s salary (130 to 150 rubles), 20% of a master’s (180 to 200 rubles), and just 10-14% of a PhD’s (350 to 500 rubles).
it is worth noting that cost structure was different. While in US before spending your salary on things you want you need to spend them on: loan debt, rent, life insurance, e.t.c., a lot of those things were way cheaper or even free in USSR(like healthcare or tertiary education)
@@leftybot7846 Well naive child even if you had money you are lucky to actually get drill in USSR because they were rarely in stock and you had to be on the waiting lists. Waiting lists had a call each month or so where you had to come or your name is crossed out. After 3 months of this you could have a chance of getting the drill. Dont even dream about good drill bit set in those times. Oh.. you need spare chuck key or brushes? how cute... No matter how bad west was , you got the money you have a drill and any accessory you want.
@@dukenukem8381 Thanks for your perspective. My initial comment was to provide context about the affordability of the drill based on salaries at the time. For those who used these tools for work, like machinists, the cost was reasonable. Additionally, tools were often provided by the government since it owned all the businesses.
@@GooglyMowgli And western companies dont provide tools? You realize that soviet union was a huge potemkin village and abundance of resources and opulence was easily offset by poor management. If you take a sober look at a soviet union it was a hyper capitalist corporate culture state, using internal currency not accepted anywhere else and state from which you could not escape from. Where you owned nothing and everything belongs to bosses with a strict corporate culture you have abide by or face punishment. Not so rosy and affordable now? Oh cold doctor is free wow! Ofcourse its free because they locked you in, tethered you to a lathe and made you follow ideological arbitrary rules you HAD to follow. They need you healthy-ish to work. Thats why overall soviet quality was poor nobody actually LOVED their occupation. Sure there was always exception like scientists and cosmonauts who had it good but thats like 0,1 of population. West is by no means heaven either but this "better live in hogwarts I never been to " about soviet union myths are just misguided. Its like medieval tales good to read , but i wouldn't actually want to live during medieval times.
@@dukenukem8381 how ironic: guy using term "soviet era occupation" about soviet time is calling me naive child.
" even if you had money"
because most of the people in USSR had no salary ... ?
" you are lucky to actually get drill in USSR because they were rarely in stock and you had to be on the waiting lists. Waiting lists had a call each month or so where you had to come or your name is crossed out. After 3 months of this you could have a chance of getting the drill."
Do you realize that you literally just replaced "food" and "cars" in copypasta and thought I wouldn't notice? Isn't that the definition of copium? I'm really not into refuting braindead points, especially when it's your word against mine. And mine is that we didn't have such a shortage back then. As a backup of my words you can search for different thematical topics, for example forum article "
Профиль al13l
Дрель родом из СССР
"
and by your logic only thing they could argue is how bad it was since no one could afford it. However, there are dozens of comments discussing their experience and not whining how they couldn't find it. Other thing is that you can find millions of cheap-ass offers on the secondary market right now, 30+ years after collapse of USSR. You could argue that just no one needs them in the era of capitalism, but by that logic soviet condenser microphone "19А-19" should also be ass cheap and not cost whole salary like they are right now. Because rare things cost much.
Since your copypasta was aboud whole soviet economy, let me share an article on this topic: "Реальное ВВП СССР, России, США и других стран по годам" from pikabu. If short: share of industrial production of Russia in the mid 70's in the world was 20%. Again. 20% of industrial production in the midlle 70's was made in soviet russia. Of course by itself it can mean a lot of things, whole article proves my point that with soviet production capacity(I'm not even talking about military) there could not be country-level shortage you are talking about. It could be a local one, as situation wasn't solid everywhere.
Even more ironic that after Gorbachev started to decommunize economy, and stand it on capitalist lines, new sellers and cooperators instead of patching old holes in soviet economy made a giant one by literally throwing away all goods. Search "СССР: Товарный дефицит (видеохроника 1989-91г.)"
"No matter how bad west was , you got the money you have a drill and any accessory you want."
I, indeed, have a drill. Moreover, more than one. A few of them from different times. One small issue: I live in Russia. And your fairy tales ain't gonna work on me or almost anyone who experienced living in USSR and knows when was "shortage" and when was real **shortage** . And it is reflected in sociological surveys. For example, one made in 2023 by FOM:
80 percent of Russians consider the Soviet era to be a good time, and 63 percent regret the collapse of the USSR, according to new data from the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM).
5 percent of citizens disagree with the good assessments of the Soviet era, 15 found it difficult to answer.
Among those younger, from 18 to 30 years old, 64 percent have a positive opinion about the USSR as an era, among Russians from 31 to 45 years old - 79 percent, from 46 to 60 years old - 88 percent, among those over 60 years old - 86 percent.
63 percent of respondents regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, 22 percent do not regret it, 15 found it difficult to answer.
16 percent of Russians, when mentioning the Soviet Union, remember their childhood and youth, 14 percent come to mind good memories and feelings, 11 associate the USSR with a calm, stable life, 8 experience regret, nostalgia and a desire to return to Soviet times, 7 remember a good life in abundance, 6 - unity and friendship of peoples, 5 - care for people, 4 - the kindness of people, political leaders of that time and communism, 3 - stagnation and deficit, another 3 - a large country with a strong economy.
So yeah. Twice as many people associate the USSR with a good life in abundance than with stagnation and scarcity. You are not fooling anyone here.
Sticky switch is option Comrade! Just found your channel. Love the humor and AVE feel... Keep up the great work!
The Internationale was a nice touch.
Что характерно, тест работоспособности, спустя пол-века, прошла лишь советская дрель
Он то знает что его работает, а эта только по почте приехала
All the broken ones of both origin got scrapped. These are survivors, only. Not statistical.
@@mandowarrior123 Survivorship bias.
15:02 That is a two piece conductor. No failure there. I love your sense of humor and you clearly know what you are doing. Contrary to me writing comments here....
You can jury rig a chuck key by inserting a rod into the chuck's hole and then using it as a fulcrum for a screwdriver that engages with the teeth of the chuck.
If I can't find a chuck key, I just use two pairs of Channellocks or a vise and one pair of Channellocks.
I love everything about this video! I was thinking of making the same type of video, but seeing as how I was so entertained by your take I may as well send you all the USSR tools I can get my hands on and then sit back, relax and watch the masterpiece video you come up with! Thank you for the entertainment! From your new (among many) subscriber!
You, sir, have a deal!
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 I hope it is fine with you, I have shared this video on my channel. Since I watched it I have thought about it a couple of times thought the day and I just found it fascinating so I think more people should see it. I don't have a big subscriber count, but I still hope it helps you out on your way to 10 000 000+ views, because this video surely deserves it!
the grease iside of the gearbox is named "солидол" (solidol) which was a thickened solidified oils, mostly made of synthetic oils and soaps, there were many types of it in USSR for different applications. Some of them where made of animal fat and used even as a medicine for skin deseases.
This is such a specific video topic, but really hits the spot
Correct title: “Guy on pain meds compares power tools”
Beautiful build and your disassembly was very genuine. US made refrigerators last only a fraction of the time as that beautifully made Soviet drill.
You earned a new subscriber. I'm a Russian immigrant to America, and I appreciate how you recognized America used propaganda and it's not like the USSR was as bad as America wanted to show it. So commonly people will grab the simplest of things and say to me "Oh yeah, bet you didn't have these back in Russia" or make jokes and insults that are just entirely false, so I like that you didn't just come at it with a "American is automatically better because it's American" attitude. I appreciate you being fair and honest with both tools and also I love your humor. :)))))
One thing to note, more people die from 120 then any other voltage rating. Doesn’t take hardly any current to kill you
first vid i´ve seen from you
and i love it
giving you a like because I actually LOL'd when the switch went flying..
I have a Wards PowrKraft from the same era. Used and abused and still works like the day it was new. That Tetris theme really brought it all together, lol.
If you were to DIY design a retro drill from these two, which features would you take from the two different designs and would you add anything that neither of them have that wouldn't stray to far from the retro theme?
I think the handle on the back of the craftsman looks like a unique feature, I'm not too sure how it would feel though compared to the standard side mounted handle.
Looks like it held up better than my Harbor Freight Chicago Hand Drill.
Hey man, you're pretty funny whilst being informative. I like that. +1 sub, keep it up.
subscribed the instant i saw you open the box with a broken bottle.
Do more of these please! Just subscribed!
Not us getting absolutely ecstatic when Lithuania is mentioned
Love your box opener.
It's weird how interesting is to look at history through the lens of tech/products....
I have an old USSR made #4 hand plane while the handle is not as comfortable as a stanley one it is a nicer plane to use
I despise slotted screws as well :)
so glad this came up in my recommended, not so glad it came up just before i was about to rest for work tomorrow...
Missed the opportunity to add ground on the drill body when changing cable
Did you post this on reddit at some point?
watching close up shots of a drill while listening to the hymnn of the soviet union is the most workers and soldiers deputies feeling ever.
I’ve had 2 or 3 electric shocks by our 240 Volts here in the U.K., I’am still here.
Queen singing "Who want to live forever?"
Soviet drill: Yes
my dad had that same craftsman drill. I still don't know why I never broke any bones with it.
Very cool comparison! One reason the drill runs faster than the rated speed is because it's a series motor, which has very little speed regulation. The 800 RPM rating is the loaded speed where it is using its rated power and amps. Without load, the motor will run much faster.
For the reversable drill, again because it's a series motor, it has characteristics like a DC motor. The switch reverses the polarity of the field coils versus the armature. The relative polarity of the two parts sets the rotation. Would work with an AC or a DC series motor the same.
Thanks for the info!
When you do a voltage test with your hand slap with the backs of your fingers so you don't clamp on
If you have reflexes like a snake you can get away during the zero crossing moment. This guy has a lot of snake like traits too so I think he'll be OK.
High voltage DC REALLY scares me. No zero crossing moment. You’re on there ‘til you’re medium well.
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067 pure DC is such a rarity though. A lot of it is pulsed or glitchy for whatever reasons.
Next time present it as a PSA, not enough people know this and win Darwin awards for grabbing stuff the wrong way.
U are my new favourite AK youtuber :D
Damn, I swear I could smell my Pops old drill when you first fired her up. that thing was PUNGENT. as a WW2 mechanic who ran an agricultural everything shop in a rural town where the nearest actual supplier was 200km away, Im pretty sure it did a LOT of work. pretty much the same topology Im quite sure. that one was made in Australia tho. I wonder where that ended up...
Ah the Soviet technology for the consumer (if there ever was one!)!
There's this joke about quality control about Japanese vs Soviet cars.
The Japanese in order to check the air tightness of a car's cabin left a cat overnight in the cabin and if the cat had suffocated in the morning, the car passed quality control.
The Soviets conducted the same test but with a slightly different criterion: the cat had to be still in the car!
My father still use drill from that time and it works well (has not been repaired) and he doesn't want to by new one because after few years you should by new one again.
And USSR is not only Russia but it also a lot of countries like Ukraine and Belarus ...
The 'na na a boo boo' comment is great and very nostalgic
1:24 Judith is from Germany. It is about a book or so to learn knitting.
Thank you for brightening my evening. This was very interesting and fun.
In my basement there are 2 drills manufactured in the Polish People's Republic.
Question: the Craftsman was a home owner's tool, like Black & Decker, not Snap-On or Milwaukee. Was the Soviet drill a homeowner's tool, or an industrial model?
Betcha that work done for unit cost would be an interesting metric ;)
Is that a Velleman soldering station I see? If it is, I have been using the same one for years at this point. I love European 220v tools. In my shop I have a German (Schuko), and Australian/Chinese outlet over the bench, complete with DIN rail subpanel from Germany. Also feeds my 1930s air compressor with 3 phase 1940s 3hp motor, running off single phase 240v with a modern Lenze SMVector VFD in speed vectoring mode. I have 3 phase at the house (center tapped delta), but I really wanted speed vectoring so the output of air at high pressure would be higher. Because I have delta 3 phase, I have both line to line 240v and line to neutral 208v available , as well as 120v and 240v 3 phase. That Soviet drill is cool, I need to get myself one to add to the collection of 240v tools.
It is! Had it for years. Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
I have 240v 3 phase in my garage- quite rare in the US in a residential building. I use it for my old two post lift. I wish I had a VFD- I use an old fashioned rotary phase converter.
@@thedoubtfultechnician8067my has 1000rot/min but its the same model
Hey you didn't trigger any demonetization or copyright notice when you played the USSR music? That seems odd. Not even one cossake?
"It'd be fine." *puts on his mother's dish washing gloves*
49 Soviet rubles is around 100 bucks today, so it was kinda cheap.
hi huston we have a problem. if orange to orange fine but russ is AC 240v and us 110v DC that would be pretty diffrent . so i guess next vid apples to apples ?
Dont US use AC wall pixies?
@@romualdaskuzborskis yes, he's just confused.