🛠️ How You Can Repair Your Things!
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Күн бұрын@MorleyKert and I fixed things for strangers in London, and you can do it too! (Contains ad for www.PCBWay.com 💷 )
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@MattGrayYES Жыл бұрын
Yes I'm wearing the same T-Shirt as I was in last week's @TechDif video. No i didn't do this on purpose, they were filmed over six months apart! Click on the description for links to Morley. As always, the description is jam-packed with links to stuff I talked about and the music used in the video!
@bjrn-oskarrnning2740 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like something someone who only has one t-shirt would say...
@streetster20 Жыл бұрын
♥the PPG t-shirt Matt!
@stevelknievel4183 Жыл бұрын
If its a good t-shirt you're allowed to wear it more than once.
@PlutocraticPrecariat Жыл бұрын
Cracking t-shirt, to be fair
@nanardeurlambda Жыл бұрын
... I was about to point out the tshirt, when I noticed your comment.
@ejcorcoran1 Жыл бұрын
2:05: "I don't' know what that is in metric, but it's 16mm." made me snort-laugh. I had to rewind a few times to make certain that's what Matt said.
@MattGrayYES Жыл бұрын
To clarify what I meant: "I don't know what 3/4 of an inch is in metric, but that measurement is 16mm". Two "that"s in one sentence does not good communication make.
@SergioEduP Жыл бұрын
@@MattGrayYESwords are hard sometimes
@OlliWilkman Жыл бұрын
It was even more confusing because even though my brain is almost fully metric, I understand "mil" as "thousandth of an inch" primarily.
@dfgaJK Жыл бұрын
@@OlliWilkman I said mil to someone non-technical once and they looked at me funny and said "mills?" "milliliters?" and I had to tell it to them in centimeters in the end 😆
@MorleyKert Жыл бұрын
Thanks for an awesome collaboration!
@andrerenault Жыл бұрын
One of my favourite parts about this video is how you made Matt crack up at the end in the same way Matt usually make others crack up
@dbackscott Жыл бұрын
I also wanted to mention that people without printers might want to check their local library. For example, the County Libraries in my area (Central Florida) offer reasonably priced 3D printing services for residents.
@ragnkja Жыл бұрын
Even if the library doesn’t offer 3D printing all the time, it may still offer it occasionally. The library where I work (in northern Norway) occasionally gets to borrow a couple of 3D printers from the county library for some weeks at a time.
@sinom Жыл бұрын
While I don't think the local library where I am has it there is a local FabLab anyone can go to to 3D print, CNC etc. things for reasonable prices. There's a bunch of them all around the world.
@johanneswerner1140 Жыл бұрын
We don't have that. Yet. Maybe I'll get involved with the local community centre. They have a repair cafe, but no 3d printer... (and this is the excuse for me to get one)
@IzzyIkigai 5 ай бұрын
I love that you included that one doesn't always need a 3D printer, I feel like some people with 3D printers do the "when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail" thing but with plastic and it's kinda sad to see people overengineer their puny plastic parts that will probably hold for a year tops because their print layers are alined to the wrong axis and that could've just been off the shelf parts from the hardware or craft store 🙈
@tinyfluffs Жыл бұрын
I would instead recommend a 0.4mm chamfer over a fillet. 3D printers struggle with rounded things, and you get better results with chamfers laying on the bed.
@bjrn-oskarrnning2740 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely! Fillets on top, chamfers on the bottom! You can even do a chamfer, then fillet the upper corner of the fillet for a more symmetrical look. Oh, and, they do rounded corners perfectly well, it's just the overhang the fillet makes that's difficult.
@hanni1631 Жыл бұрын
This is an important point! Interestingly most slicers will represent fillets as an array of sloping vectors to save on geometry complexity!
@Hackvlog Жыл бұрын
@@bjrn-oskarrnning2740 Yes! Chamfer with angle matching the best overhang the printer can print, then fillet the top edge. Surface quality is great and often the design will be just as good as when using a normal chamfer.
@Cossieuk Жыл бұрын
I love the idea of repairing rather than replacing. If only companies made it easier to repair tech.
@bjrn-oskarrnning2740 Жыл бұрын
But where's the profit in that? 🙄
@Cossieuk Жыл бұрын
@@bjrn-oskarrnning2740 Selling the replacement parts
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Жыл бұрын
@@Cossieuk And then designing your products to break in such a way that customers must buy the replacement parts
@Cossieuk Жыл бұрын
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Planned obsolescence is already a thing. So many items break just after the warranty runs out so nothing new there
@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын
I wonder how many companies still support repair? Planned obsolescence was already a thing in the 80s, but a decade later a friend wrote to a company asking for schematics for his hifi so he could repair it, and they sent them. Some companies supported repair, some didn't.
@Davvg Жыл бұрын
For me, the most satisfying about owning a 3d printer is being able to do little repairs like these. Some people break it down to “money saved” but I am with you guys, it’s more about stopping things from having to be thrown away.
@RyuakiraX Жыл бұрын
One really great piece of tech to know for repairing, is how to solder. It's really simple in operation and very cheap as well.
@PCBWay Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your support, Matt 🥂
@sebastianwlodarczyk Жыл бұрын
That's a really cool initiative! I'm a self-taught Fusion 360 user as well, I must start using the construction lines- it looks way more convenient compared to sketching everything with regular ones and cleaning sketches afterwards
@2xAA Жыл бұрын
This is great, Matt! I love fixing things, especially when using expensive old consoles and equipment for making music - I'm modding and repairing stuff very often :) Such a good idea to set up a repair shop 👌🏻
@RadimentriX 10 ай бұрын
yeah, that's the kind of content i can see Matt doing regularly. maker/diy/tech stuff
@BenWolkWeiss Жыл бұрын
Pro tip on measuring the distance between two holes or pins (of the same size) since it's hard to accurately measure from center to center if you try to put the jaws in the center of the holes or pins. Instead you measure the diameter of one of them and zero the caliper without moving it. Then measure the outside to outside and that distance will be the center to center distance of the holes or pins.
@tumbledryshoes Жыл бұрын
Oh that's clever, thanks!
@lukek.5773 Жыл бұрын
6:54, what you could have done is 3d print a bushing for the bolts the metal piece would have better durability. a 3d print is none archival, time can cause it to warp, and UV light can damage it over time, the last thing you want is the woman's bike falling apart while she is in the middle of town. it's a good engineering lesson to not rely on 3d printing. it's gotten far better than it used to be but it still has some pretty fixed limitations
@RedmarKerkhof Жыл бұрын
I would've hammered a treaded rod into a U shape and use that as a clamp.
@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын
@@RedmarKerkhof How would you protect the thread as you hammered? And what's the name for the rubber strip that you'd put inside to prevent it sliding? I remember now that you can buy U-shaped clamps in all sorts of sizes. I don't know why Matt went for the threaded eye.
@RedmarKerkhof Жыл бұрын
@@eekee6034 No need to, just make it longer than it needs to, hammer on the outer side and cut that bit off.
@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын
@@RedmarKerkhof Good point!
@daxdowney5230 Жыл бұрын
I just got done replacing my old laptops battery instead of just getting rid of the laptop. iFixit is a great source for electronics repairs, and I was able to order the battery + tool kit together and it's an incredible set of bits and spudgers and guitarpick thingies.
@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын
iFixit looks like just the sort of site I want. Thanks!
@Minihood31770 Жыл бұрын
When it comes to repairing things one of the best skills you can leanr is how to sow. I'm not good or fast, by any stretch, but I was able to repair a hole in some joggers that would have been destined for the bin otherwise.
@MattFowlerBTR Жыл бұрын
"Engineer-grade sewing" is definitely worth learning. Not necessarily beautiful or invisible-perfect repairs, but good enough. I picked up some needle-felting supplies and fixed holes in a couple of my husband's moth-eaten wool jumpers last year - the colour matching isn't perfect but far better than having holes. I also have a sewing awl for heavy-duty stuff with 1-inch nylon webbing - putting straps on bike pannier bags that didn't have them, stuff like that.
@KingKool2099 Жыл бұрын
I can't believe you got Geoffrey Trout back!
@ziginox Жыл бұрын
Matt, there's something to be said about kitbanging random things together. The hardest part can just be discovering the right words to describe what you're looking for! I was trying to find a clamp to hold my thermal camera recently, and wanted one similar to those vice-style clamps for mounting phones on tripods. It took about two or three weeks, but I eventually found it in the form of a "gimbal counterweight clamp." Works perfectly, but I still can't believe it took that long to find.
@dbackscott Жыл бұрын
Hey! I’m an engineer using calipers while watching this video (entirely by coincidence).
@domramsey Жыл бұрын
That was fun. You could probably make an entire KZfaq channel just fixing strangers' stuff for free. Whether they like it or not.
@Panticle Жыл бұрын
Guerilla Fixing, it's great fun! My husband has fixed chairs at the doctor's surgery, and a toilet door lock, among other things.
@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Жыл бұрын
@@Panticle That's funny, I always thought gorillas were more destructive.
@doc3255 Жыл бұрын
"I will fix your stuff and that's a threat" hahaha
@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like it's almost as much fun as guerilla gardening!
@garybarnes4169 Жыл бұрын
01:50 "If you don't know how big your things are, you don't know if they're going to fit together." Ooer, missus..
@tonykyle2655 Жыл бұрын
I actually subscribe to both channels. It is interesting to see the differences in the videos.
@mothcub Жыл бұрын
ok your powerpuff girls t-shirt is super cute :)
@NoobixCube Жыл бұрын
The number one thing to learn for folks with 3D printers is you don’t need to print your way out of every problem. Sometimes it’s just not practical, but when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
@CatsT.M Жыл бұрын
I do remember in robotics class one of the teachers saying the digital caliper is one of the most important tools. Also, this entire premise reminds me of South Korean KZfaqr Sanago, he both builds art projects and repairs things with a 3D pen instead of printer...so, he is the printer.
@eekee6034 Жыл бұрын
I've not heard of 3D pens before, but I've heard of people making shapes with a hot glue gun. A 3D pen sounds like a similar concept but better.
@JTEE3D Жыл бұрын
It was great to meet you and everyone else that showed up!
@Epinardscaramel Жыл бұрын
5:28 Wow that’s pretty useful!
@NearCry91 Жыл бұрын
If the trailer thing isn't strong enough, you can put a hose clamp around it.
@foxquirk Жыл бұрын
The fastener that connected the strap on my handbag to the bag decided to give up a few months ago and I just fixed it with heavy duty zip ties, still holding up.
@JimOHalloran Жыл бұрын
It looked like that metal trailer part that Matt wasn't sure about using had a flat face. So an an option might have been to get a hose saddle around 16mm in size, drill a couple of holes to match the saddle and bolted through the saddle to clamp the metal trailer part to the frame.
@WilliamWallace14051 Жыл бұрын
Or a U-bolt around the pipe, possibly with a split bushing to adapt one with the correct spacing to the pipe size he had to fit.
@littlehills739 10 ай бұрын
rubber garden hose for the bike part would have worked in c shape around the bar/tube
@Tudsamfa Жыл бұрын
Nice. I got my own 3d printer this year, since I found one for cheap. Though you do not need your own 3d printer most of the time, if you have a library or university in walking distance, chances are they will let you use one of theirs. I haven't printed "big" yet sadly, my repair work wasn't as robust as was needed. Though I had fun designing a 2-way mason jar lid.
@JohnDlugosz Жыл бұрын
I'm in a similar situation. They don't build things like they used to.. my refrigerator doesn't have any microchips in it. It works by having a thermostat open a damper into the freezer compartment, and turn on a fan. I can't get parts anymore, and a "repair man" just swaps parts. I want to find someone who can repair, rebuild, or retrofit this simple mechanism and keep an entire fridge out of the landfill.
@reaganharder1480 10 ай бұрын
If it's using a bi-metalic strip for the thermostat (i believe most analogue thermostats do), that'll probably be quite difficult to recreate those parts yourself, but with a little ingenuity and an Arduino I bet you could convert the system to run electronically instead of mechanically.
@floris3239 Жыл бұрын
2:05 Wonderful a Brit that uses metric for everything. How modern! 😆
@hullinstruments Жыл бұрын
As an ee and longtime fan... Absolutely thrilled to see this content on your channel!
@FiXato Жыл бұрын
I would also recommend looking up a video about fixing plastic parts with superglue and baking soda. :) Very useful for repairing broken off bits of plastic.
@Ondrix Жыл бұрын
Good video. Kind of a strange coincidence that you wore the same shirt you were wearing in your skateboarding video for The Technical Difficulties.
@pearceburns2787 Жыл бұрын
This might be a whole thing on its own but there are 2 barriers that I've identified in making and repairing. One is "permission" which is about using your own time and locations and the actions you take. The other is cost, which comes down to what money and resources you spend (potentially waste), and I think thats one that people can really feel in these times. Not to speak for others but when Simone Yertz made truckla, I spotted both of these. Simone is well past needing permission (immediately starts cutting at a Tesla with no problem) but the cost of buying truckla was notable (obviously overcomable for Simone but noted in the Truckla video when she buys it from the Tesla store).
@MaltandMake Жыл бұрын
Please tell Geoffrey, my friend Brian Butterfield has a detective agency and can help with his predicament. He also has a number of other businesses that can help, although he doesn't have a CAD business unfortunately.
@FishyCase Жыл бұрын
Ha 4:31 broke my brain a little.
@mojosbigsticks Жыл бұрын
2:59 - Is that Gary Brannan's...? Oh never mind!
@marcelfil Жыл бұрын
Matt is Robert Smith if he became an engineer
@stijncuijpers Жыл бұрын
I only seldom Fix things with my 3d design & printing skills, i do however (design to) affix things a lot :)
@gerhard_adler Жыл бұрын
Doing a great thing for the future 💪
@iamayushjain Жыл бұрын
Great sentences of our time 1:49 !!!!
@garybarnes4169 Жыл бұрын
Also my go-to solution is "If you can't fix it with a chainsaw or a welder, throw it away, and get a new one."
@RachelWolfe Жыл бұрын
awesome vibes in this video
@AndyCPugh Жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@Kloooosss Жыл бұрын
7:50 I was so not ready for that
@icefox13 Жыл бұрын
me neither...
@mysterybiscuits Жыл бұрын
Great video! Do you have any recommendations of 3D printing services? I've done quick searches with a couple of STL files, but I'm never sure if they're a reputable service or not.
@davidioanhedges Жыл бұрын
Reiterating don't bother 3D printing a custom part when the same already exists and can easily and cheaply be bought online, or at your local hardware store ... if it exists then it will most likely be better, and easier to replace ... ...but sometimes the part simply does not exist ..
@puddyt 9 ай бұрын
I'm an OT and about to try 3d printing to create a flat surface on the edge of a bath so someone can get in an out. Any tips?
@sijmenbommelvan2964 Жыл бұрын
for attaching the bike thing, have you considered just using a rope? (maybe with a bit of foam to prevent scratching/keep things in place.)
@ursulasandstrom355 Жыл бұрын
Nope, slack is dangerous - you don't want it slamming into you when you brake
@PilkScientist Жыл бұрын
@@ursulasandstrom355 Could use a rather tight rope. Or some bailing wire, in similar fashion.
@mytube001 Жыл бұрын
I've never 3D printed anything in my life, even though it should be right up my alley. My issue is that I don't trust the strength of the plastic. Perhaps it's better now than 12-13 years ago when I first held a few 3D-printed items, but those were very brittle. I could snap them with very little force, and that put me off the whole thing.
@bachaddict Жыл бұрын
It's way better now! There's a ton of different plastics available and new ways of printing to increase strength. Of course there's still limits but you can do a lot with it.
@crashkg Жыл бұрын
I like your video with Morley. I am curious why you don't design parametrically by labeling and entering in the dimensions. If you have to make changes it is loads faster to just change the parameters.
@MattFowlerBTR Жыл бұрын
If you're just doing a one-off design that's only destined for 3d-printing to scratch a specific itch, creating the parameters themselves is a bunch of initial setup - if you only need to go back once to make changes, you might not save as much time in changing as you spent in setting up Actual Parameters. They make total sense if you know you want your design to be flexible in the future to make size-variations on the same basic construction, but personally I don't bother because I prefer the "visual thinking" approach of going back to the relevant sketch without having to set up Parameters and then remember which one does what. It probably boils down to "hobby 'maker' doing one-off quick creations" versus a more professional engineering / product-design mindset.
@crashkg Жыл бұрын
@@MattFowlerBTR I'm a hobbyist but I have a whole bunch of parameters saved, like screw hole diameters, chamfers, thickness of the plastic, Wall thickness, Base thickness, etc... Then when I start a new project I copy and paste those parameters into a new project. And instead of entering in numbers for extrusion etc... I just type in "wall thickness", screw dia... Then when I have to inevitable tweak numbers I go into the parameter list and enter in the #. It effects everything in the model. So when you were changing the position of the screw holes, I would have changed screw hole distance to 5.4 instead of. 5 by just typing in one box rather than having to repeat move 3 more times. I try to limit repetitive tasks, because that is usually when I make mistakes and then I can't figure out why my drawing is not constrained, LOL.
@bachaddict Жыл бұрын
@@crashkg That repeating the move 3 times is also easily avoided without parameters by setting up the pins with symmetry!
@bugbuster11 Жыл бұрын
I have my doubts a 3-D printed plastic part will hold up as a bicycle trailer attachment bracket. It's a disaster waiting to happen.
@tekvax01 Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, Jeffrey, there you are... I hear your BBC News talky voice!
@gcs8 Жыл бұрын
Matt is talking about calipers and fitting things together and I am just over here dying at the things in my head he may have measured.
@alisdair42 Жыл бұрын
Was everything ok with the camera at the start of the video? rest of the footage looks fine but some weird wobbling right at the start made me feel a bit queezy
@RedmarKerkhof Жыл бұрын
Looks like youtyube automatic stabilization.
@stocktonjoans Жыл бұрын
My calipers were poorly, I tried to fix them. My are now dead :/
@cabe_bedlam Жыл бұрын
#FreeGeoffrey!
@pablorepetto7804 Жыл бұрын
"The one thing you don't need to fix or customize your own stuff is permission." We were so naive back in 2023...
@charlie-jay Жыл бұрын
John Deere disagrees....
@sea2side Жыл бұрын
RRR reduce reuse Repair !
@Epinardscaramel Жыл бұрын
2:03 ewwwww imperial units!
@XTremeCaffeine Жыл бұрын
C'mon Matt it's only Circular Array, it's not Rocket Surgery 🙄
@MattGrayYES Жыл бұрын
Just because someone doesn’t know something you know, there’s no reason to be a dick about it. The most difficult thing in fusion is knowing what you want to do, then working out how to describe it well enough to google it and actually get results. But doing that and then learning how to use it would take more time than drawing 4 circles. If I was doing more, or using fusion all the time then it would be worth the time.
@XTremeCaffeine Жыл бұрын
@@MattGrayYES you're right and I'm sorry 😔
@Sora_Halomon Жыл бұрын
This looks a lot easier than I ever imagined. Thanks for sharing! Hopefully I think back on this video when I need to fix something one day
@js0988 Жыл бұрын
I don't know what that is in metric but that's 16mm. Uhm.... In the metric system 16mm is 16mm, or 1.6cm, or 0.16 decimeter. Or 0.016 meters. Or 0.000016 kilometers. Or 1,6912e-18 light years. Or 5,18525e-19 of a parsec. Or 1.4002836e-36 parsecs of a Han Solo Kessel Run.
@wolfgangmcq Жыл бұрын
He didn't know what 3/4 inch was in metric, but the pipe he had just measured was 16mm. (Ambiguous referents!)
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