Isn't asbestos only dangerous if you break/scape ie release particles into the air? I guess you don't want it on the machine to be able to break, but many people grew up around asbestos and have lived into their 90s or more with few health problems.

Wasn't easier and better just to buy a new bearing for the hammer drill?

@@gabrielledesma9558 he trys to fix stuff that are reasonable to fix and reuse as much original parts as possible also fix them if its reasonable enuff

I keep thinking that steam engine would perfect setup in a grade school classroom as a teaching tool. Would've been cool to see one of those in my elementary growing up.

AKA buy his girlfriend a wedding ring.

I have a 25 year old Hilti brand 4 1/2" grinder that I've replaced the cord and the brushes on, and it still works great!

I noticed the new Festool and Milwaukee tools now have plug and twist cords. Surprisingly cutting the cord on a job site is a common accident. I have my dad's old Milwaukee sawzall from the 1990s, those had twist plug cords back then too.

I repair all i can do and never throw out anything useful ;-)

I "restored" (cleaned and repainted) and old grinder that came with my parents house when they bought it 30+ years ago. It's probably 35 or 40 years old. It's kind of shit, has no power at all and it stalls very easily but it's still nice to have it working and being able to use it. Better than buying a brand new cheap one.

I would love if scrap yards were around where I live. It would be awesome but someone didnt like it and now we cant

He must live near the best scrap yard in Germany. I rarely see anything beyond car parts and completely broken shit on scrap yards around me.

@@Animaniac-vd5st in sweden,u r not even allowed to enter the scrapyard at all,or to take stuff from the dropoff-area,so everything is scrapped...sadly

@@hedning003 Oh, you have to pay for the stuff you wanna take from the scrapyard here in Germany, and some yards don't want you roaming around at all.

@@Animaniac-vd5st i woud gladly pay for the stuff,but here u r not allowed to even take a bolt whit u

Once at the local dump/recycling station, i had a glimpce in the metall container. Which is allways full of mowers and other golden relics an almost complete 90's Kawasaki KX80... We aren't allowed to pick thing out of the containers here either, but some stations do actually salvage stuff and put them up for sale.

Automotive industry used them before robots took over.

@@Elfnetdesigns Body shops still use them, when replacing new panels, to make the repair as original as possible

I love it,education at your fingertips

You are a very young granny! ...And that would be if your grandson was six! Don't sit on your backside waiting for time to pass, get down to the scrapyard and grab a couple of motors etc. and make some stuff. Now that would impress the lad...Come on Granny get going.

I was watching by myself and thought "I wonder if that motor has a capacitor, of it does that's the first thing to check". I learned that here on TPAI. If we had the internet when we were of school age we would know so much information!!! I cringe when I see kids today playing computer games when all this knowledge is here for free!!!

@@martinda7446 Hahhahahaha Kudos!

Hahahh true

Yep, and I can smell the way a spot welder smells when it is working.

Love your name! The blast from the past brought many images and memories flooding back! :-)

I still remember the smell of our family blue double cabin VW ... and that was 50 years ago :-D

I got the same spot welder. It comes from a close down company several years ago. The only different is mine got a little switchbox with a timer, a current control and it runs on 400V. It is a very useful tool. And nearly "unkaputtbar" (undistructable). We got some good scrapyards here. But not all over the land. The one I got in my area is more for electronics/ electric /telecom and computer gear. I recently bought a 3kVA mains transformer 230 to 2100V . It could be fun to play with it.. It will spent its future in my power amplifier.

@@bacilluscereus1299 No brainer....

​@@bacilluscereus1299 Kinda yeah. If machine is broken its cheaper to get new one than face the consequences and insurance costs etc of potential fire of injury. Also for worker replacing unit is easier and takes less time than trouble solving. Similar apply to private people, but in there its more of question what ever they are too lazy to learn to repair and problem solve. Just saved not even that old compressor from scrap bin. Cheap brand, but it was all there. Motor would not spin, just made noise, so i replaced capacitor, nope it didnt even need that. Just turned motor by hand couple of rotations and tried turning it on.. worked with out issue after that, so owner could have saved couple hundred € by loosening two screws and turning it. Great many branch cutters or what ever those are called, what crush or cut branches into pulp arrive into scrapper. Most only need blades to be sharpened and holding peaces to be adjusted closer to blades. Such simple problems. Most ridiculous thing is that so many electric chainsaws end up into bin due owner being idiot. Cant even count how many has been brought due kickback protection switch being on... Just turn it off and works like a charm.

Also easier and cheaper not to train and retain repair technicians who can actually trouble shoot at a much lower level. Range of spares to be carried is less and less technical documentation to be produced and maintained.

Never stop! 👍

@@ericjensen9375 : I often say : a day when we haven't learned anything is a wasted day.

Its not even recycling, but repairing useful stuff to be reused. Specially older stuff while not efficient as new, are far easier to repair than modern machines.

@@Hellsong89 Agreed, I try to do that as much as I can, and what can't be saved I make sure it goes to recycle if possible. I do it alot with old electronics, and computers, and even have an AMD Athlon II era computer in use from 08 at work for a basic office PC running Manjaro Linux, and it will keep doing so till it can no longer serve its usefulness, or dies.

This is a political issue. As long as conservatives are at the helm, nothing will change.

@@mojoblues66 Give it a few years, we'll all be singing a different tune. At 72 years old, my two points of reference draw a line into a pretty scary place. I will still keep my optimism, and keep visiting my local scrap yards regularly. Kudos to all of you who do the same. You are forward thinkers.

Give PAI a little money to help him keep up his good work. He is inspiring in what he does. We need a grass roots campaign.

One can actualy still buy them, but they are quite expensive new. I recently bought a few 1970s steamplants of the simplier models i restored back to functional condition.

No, they're not exactly common, but nor are they rare. My brother had one back in the early/mid 2000's.

Was dangerous back then had a friend who had one which exploded in his face when I was young he got some pretty severe burns.

@@DaDunge Was that the very old model with a lever on the safety valve? if one manipulated or replaced the weight on the lever with a hevier weight the valve may got jammed and the softsolder on the flange won't hold up safly for more than at maximum 6 bar i think (mabe more since the construction is pretty strong), since the working pressure are only ment to be about 1,5 bar on those... They are supprisingly taugh, but the boiler tinplates are only i think 0,25 or so. It's not like the very old Märkling (Doll/Falk, etc) large steamplants wich had a different construction, but still they where less than 2,5 bar maximum working pressuren even on those giant macines. The newer ones from the late 60s and forward had a different construction on the safety valve with a spring instead of the lever, some rare models was re fitted with the new type of valve in paralell with the old one after the company recived information about those accidents with children manipulating the weight in order to get more power bu increasing the steampresssure wich resulted in rupture of the boiler, with the spring loaded valve that was no loger possible to do. (Modern replicas of the levered valve is only the wistle, the actual valve is the spring loaded type on the replacement parts)

@@sheep1ewe No idea, I didn't see the accident's only the bandages he wore after it.

lol

@Seegal Galguntijak - - - Exactly what I was thinking when TPAI said it! Too Funny.

Doctor who reference?

@@jonjohnson102 yep That is indeed a Doctor Who reference

@@jonjohnson102 The German way of pronouncing Dalex just called for it ;)

i have heard esbit is over 100 years old and was invented for military coocing and heat

My brother (he's in the army) tould me that too, however i think the modern civil wersion is a bit less powerful. Awsome to find another of my favorite KZfaqrs here by the way! Your analytic videos are realy awsome!

It was the same for UK forces, & popular with civilians as well. I have one for day-hiking. :)

Would that all models had them.

I'm pretty much in same figures and lucky i have recycling place right next door so i can go there and look for spare parts. Collecting carbon brushes seems to be pretty good idea, since most tools ether have owner being the fault or simple things like chipped brushes etc.

Some things are not meant to be reused. Tho a little bit of effort could've gone into a better decomissioning. I cut my 4 liter one into sheets and caps, then sent it packing.

@@aserta Properly welded and retempered, no problem.

@@charlesangell_bulmtl Only solves the decommissioning problem not the initial reason that it was decommissioned.

@@DaDunge exactly. If it had moisture corrode and pit the metal from the inside that is a big boom waiting to happen.

@@aserta you can still cut it in half and build a smoker out of it or a forge. Many things just need steal but no pressure. That thing could still have many years ahead of it.

@J0e T Correct. I'm getting tired of AvE breaking stuff but not fixing it. TPAI is my favorite of all.

Best three channels on KZfaq. Even counting mine, sadly.😔

The South African army issued us with esbits and an esbit stove during our national service. Took a while to get a dixie full of boiling water. Then we upped the ante and used a small lump of C4 explosive as fuel for our stoves. The little stoves didn't last long but hell, that wss the fastest way to boil water in the bush!

Same here. I have to admit tho, that steam engine never got much use. It was interesting to run it two to three times, but then it just sat in a sad corner and i was busy building things out of the meccano metal pieces again...

-ƸӜƷ- Totally agree. My Meccano set saw 100 times the use that my small steam engine had. I still believe that Meccano was one of the best toys ever.😀🇬🇧

About the only thing inaccurate in the model is the steam engine in a real shop would be in a separate room. (This helps control the spread of grime from a very grimy system, what with coal ash, grease, and coal dust.)

Another way main shafts had been powered was from a water wheel from fast moving rivers and waterfalls.

@@slshanklin And there was at least one mill in the UK, built before how to use a steam engine to drive the main shaft directly was worked out, that used a steam engine to pump water up to a high-level tank so it could drive a waterwheel-driven main shaft.

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Hello Trust Spirit : If you are in Bangladesh, I have a question for you. Yesterday, I was listening to radios from some countries of the world and I arrived at a radio station from your country. I was very surprised to hear an advertisement in French for an airline. Do you have any idea why some advertisements are not spoken in your national language ? Thank you in advance for your answer. You are right, technically, Germany is a very interesting country. I recommend you go see this : sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/

@@mecabrico bro I have no idea about this. But if I had said that, I would have benefited from any airline

@@trustspirit3676 Thank you.

I've listened to shortwave radio and some stations broadcast their show again in different languages. E.g: I heard slowly spoken German, or English with an odd accent but it was Radio Romania. Also I've heard a Korean station broadcasting out from a UK transmitter in Woofferton

@@dazednconfused31337 : You are right, in shortwave stations, there are sometimes programs intended to be listened to far away. I remember that before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were several countries in Eastern Europe that broadcast propaganda information in English, French and probably a few other languages. You could listen to Radio-Moscow, Radio-Warsaw, Radio-Prague, ... and even Radio-Tirana. It was very interesting :-)

Keep fixing things - you'll keep learning and getting better at it! Sometimes you can find the parts you need in other broken machines. Don't get discouraged - you've got the right mindset!

I spent a few years running maintenance for a factory. One of the things I learned. Spare parts of any kind are happily sitting on a shelf somewhere in a guys barn. He has a phone number and maybe an email address, his website is bare bones. His staff is his retired aunt or fishing buddy. His NOS parts cost 10% of what you pay anywhere else. How you find this guy is the trick.

He's Mr. House. Or rather, Herr Hause. :)

HAHAHA😂

If the bombs go off there is a significant chance neither he nor we will be in the new world, we'll be dead.

He's probably going to become a Reaver - Racing through space in his own home built rocket, enraged by the hubris and incompetence of men :-)

@@DaDunge nah we'll both conveniently take a vacation to vegas and be saved

Lol. No worries, I gave it the other one for ya, I was born with three thumbs, in a freak radioactive fallout waste land....

lol

dat reply

Those wilesco saws are actually pretty safe, the belt would slip and the saw would stop way before it cuts into your finger.

Not anymore

i was more cringy of hammering the bearing, he probably felt it for run smoothness before installing