The commercial for that wrapping machine is so weird. So, it's Japanese machine, the commercial is in Dutch but the text on the LCD and machine ("NÖDSTOPP and "Fläskkarré") is in Swedish! Those are some really cool finds though! Wish it was so easy to go into scrap yards in Sweden as it used to be. I remember going with my dad all the time as a kid. Should maybe move to Germany, you got the best scrap yards and flea markets!
Sorry for the one year reply but it's likely the ad was dubbed in multiple european countries and they just reused the same video. It's a specialty equipment so they wouldn't have filmed a different ad for every country it was sold in, just difference voice overs.
My heart drops every time I think about leaving some of those beautiful machines to rust away in the scrap yard. Obviously, one cannot save them all. How I wish we had something like that here!
I'm a little bit jealous. The quality of the items in German scrap yards is top of the line. I love the effort you put into preserving these things that were made so well and should have never been thrown away only to be replaced by cheaper modern designs.
I think we can all agree on the fact that that introduction was very nice... Gives a nice touch to the video. By far my favorite youtube channel, thank you for the great work!
My father had the same AEG drill in conjunction with several appliances such as the circular saw, but also a jigsaw, a sanding belt, a planer etc. This machine had served him for nearly twenty years of heavy duty in the building and finishing of our parental house. It broke down a few times, because of the all the work done with it, but in those days you could go to the shop and have it repaired. He felt really sad when the shop where they did the repairs closed. No one else would do it anymore. The DIY-shops are only interested in selling machines, not repairing. By the way, I love your channel.
I only have one complaint: The video was too short! :P I'm enjoying this video series a lot. Really cool to learn new stuff and to see tools you never knew even existed.
Oh, I loved the dramatic intro. Keep this series going! Going to the dump today I picked up several fully functioning items for my wood working shop; Clamps, chisel and axes. Just a little cleaning required.
Gerolf, you have been working hard for many years. I feel you are finally reaching a turning point in your channel and your general brand. I am so happy for you. This content is absolutely fantastic.
We need more people making videos like this. The future is never certain, and being able to recycle what would otherwise be scrap metal into something useful or practical or even just entertaining is crucial for moving towards a better cleaner future. I like the idea of doing a fundraiser so you could afford yourself a truck for the items "out of your weight class."
15:00 Quick tip, use a shoelace. They are not as tight as rope or a cord so they conform to the shape of the thread. If you do two or three turns around the thread with the shoelace and move it quickly, it will heat up and soften the old grease and soak it up better.
I completely agree, regarding the clamp and overbuilding of tools in general, "buy once, cry once." The cheapos have their place, such as starting out, or even a single women's closet. Very neat to see that multitool system, and I look forward to what you have to share in the future!
I love what you said about the quality of the C clamp. Thank you for expounding the philosophy of quality. Thank you so much. Some of us agree and appreciate you.
Hello Bruder TPAI. I am so Intrigued by your program and actually quite jealous of your skills. I am an ex Siemens employee (ich bin ein rentner ) and still fascinated by the electrical and electronic sciences. I know very little but it does not stop me from being interested. In all you find to use from the scrap yard. I visited Germany on two occasions and I love the country and it's people. I will continue to follow your experiences. Thank you.
The best thing about your videos is that you go to the scrapyard and show us whats worth it to you and why, there are many restore or build channels on youtube but very few that actually make economical sense without a channel, therefor making it useless for the average joe.
Lin Mal 1 second ago The rules for recycling are: 1.Re-use 2.Re-cycle 3.Replace - So, re-using/re-purposing is the first priority as it retains the energy and effort invested into the item in the first place. Great posts and good incentive for others to re-purpose the waste from our societies. And you end up with cool stuff!
Great video. I really loved the Dutch commercial, showing a Japanese wrapping machine, displaying Swedish product descriptions, and the whole thing presented by a German RU-vidr. :D
A quick way of cleaning dirty threads, is to get a long piece of rope or string, doubling it or tripling the string as necessary to fill the thread. Then spray the string with light oil, and make a couple of wraps on the thread just beside the nut. Screw the thread into the nut, and the string will clean all the loose debris out of the threads. This also works great for cleaning the screw advance on a lathe before doing any threading. I would love to have that 57 Chevy cab forward truck pictured at the beginning of the video. I already own a 55 Chev Cameo pickup, but you can't have too many old Chevy trucks. Interesting video, as usual.
Love the “junk” repair videos. Beauty vs junk is in the eye of the beholder. I wish there were more people like you who could see the value in what “modern” society sees as “junk”, suitable only for the scrapyard.
Make a giant bolt head or nut and mount it to the wall or a post, then put the wrench on the bolt head (or nut) and hang a sign for your channel from the extended handle. Great channel advert! I have really enjoyed these scrapyard find videos, liked!
I'm in love with old stuff,, a guy I know from America found an old abandoned diesel locomotive and he restored it I believe it's now functional as an emergency generator for an hospital
" I can't help myself" oh I have said those words so many times. The drill which Frankensteined itself into a power saw was pretty interesting, I'd like to see the other tools related to that. I almost skipped on this video glad I didn't. Keep broadcasting!!
You sir are a bloody genius! You make us hapless home mechanics feel very inferior. Plus I love how you give us the background info on the names of the companies like on that gigantic wrench!
Love these vids so much. I used to love tearing things down and rebuilding as a kid. As an adult I just don't have the room in my apartment for it anymore. So I now live my hobby thru you. keep you the great work!
Some great finds. I must say you have much more restraint than I do. Every time you go to the scrapyard I'm saying to myself "grab that! Grab that!" I would have taken that whole grocery wrapping machine and tried to make a 3D printer out of it. I hate to see tools in the piles. Like you, if I see them I save them.
This is great stuff mate, need to find the time again to go to the crap yard. Those industrial machines and appliances gives me the goose bumps every time I see them. And ideas trough my head... Oh man... Keep them coming...
The closest thing I have to a scrapyard where I can find and fix/re-purpose things are thrifts stores. I wish we had scrap yard like the one you have here in America. I love tinkering and fixing old tools/miscellaneous machines. I recently bought an old black and decker drill from a thrift store, the only thing that I could find wrong with it were that the brushes needed to be replaced. It’s a really nice old drill and has plenty of torque for what I use it for.
The saw that attaches to a drill is really useful, especially as a small table saw. . My brother wanted to make some dacron sails for his boat, but the sewing machine motor was not very strong, so he used a heavy drill as the motor, and it worked very well.
The Post Apocalyptic Inventor, thank you for the info on Gedore; as an 18yo electrical apprentice I bought a Gedore socket set (it cost a weeks wage back then) and I still have it!
I swear I owe you a case of beer. My washing machine recently broke and the only reason I took the thing apart was your videos. Sure Enough I was able to get it back working and saved hundreds of dollars
That C clamp is the "brick outhouse" of tools... Great series of videos.. Hope I someday find that kind of salvage yard. Michael in Colorado 24°F light snow.
Dark man! Then.... super-creative and awesome! You started low, went to curious and mysterious, and then thundered out the rest of the video with TONS of repurposed work that blew my mind. Way to go!
You really showed restraint at the scrapyard today. That giant C clamp is like gold. The giant wrench? Well if you ever need that size it'll be great. Could make a great wall hanging in the meantime.
I love watching you restore and repurpose stuff from the scrap yard! It inspires me to do similar stuff myself. I really want to build a silent air compressor; I already have an old AC compressor, I'm just waiting for a good tank to come my way. Keep up the good work!
The rules for recycling are: 1.Re-use 2.Re-cycle 3.Replace - So, re-using/re-purposing is the first priority as it retains the energy and effort invested into the item in the first place.
Great video....I go to the metal scrapeyards everyweek....sometimes you find great stuff...sometimes ..nothing at all....I mainly look for industrial tools Lathes,Milljng machines,etc...
Mr. Post Apocalyptic Inventor, you live in scrap yard heaven! In a poor country like South Africa, the stuff that you buy in scrapyards, are considered gold here in SA! It is unthinkable in South Africa, to buy and restore the scrap that you find. And like the viewer from Belgium, we are not allowed onto scrapyards, ... well scrap is gold!
Green light on going full steam ahead. I really enjoy these videos. Maybe will try something like this myself when I rent my first workshop in November.
04:57 : in the upper left corner of the scale, there is the Bizerba trademark. I wanted to tell you that it is an Italian company specialized in weighing and meat processing systems, founded in 1928 .... but wikipedia also gives me a Bizerba GMBH & co KG from Ettlingen (maybe a branch or a subsidiary) so I'm not sure anymore it is a totally Italian product. The large "screws" (05:49) are probably Archimedean screws: they run inside tubes to move from one end to the other, various grains in grain storage systems (silos). I like this kind of video: I'm always looking for something I know, almost like a treasure hunt. P.S. surely you have already understood that I am Italian!
Yes it is a branch, founded in 1866 in Ebingen, Germany. Oh wait, what?! Bizerba has subsidiaries in 40 countries, one of them being in Milan, 🇮🇹... I hope you are not disappointed. It still manufactures great products today.
@@BingKemp I'm not totally disappointed :-) seeing the name, I made the idea that it was an Italian company with branches in the world (wikipedia says founded in 1928) but it is necessary to see how the corporate structure has changed: if from an artisan factory it has become a company for shares, then it could have become a multinational (international) with virtually no nationality or absorbed by some other industrial group that has maintained the brand. in this last case, it would be one of the many Italian brands that go abroad, totally changing origin. By now my little Italian pride has become accustomed to these sad situations of the Italian economy, even if it leaps with joy every time I see a "made in Italy" on a product used by a foreigner: American, Russian, European or New Zealand who is , here on you tube. Ciao
@@zolatanaffa87 Bizerba is still family-owned and run after all these (150+) years. The current CEO who still carries the founder's family name is also the minister of economics in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. This is one of the so called "hidden champion" companies that still exist and thrive in the area around Stuttgart and produce unsurpassed quality. I do admit that I do drive a car that is manufactured in Stuttgart (for its quality :-) and my favorite tooling company Mafell is also located there...
@@BingKemp Stuttgart? Near Renningen and Leonberg ... I have friends there: Renningen is twinned with my town: Occhiobello :-) Car produced in Stuttgart ....? mmh ... three-pointed star? But perhaps there is also the factory, with the lion in the shield, of Signor Ferdinando; or even a small unknown brand, even better? I am not very experienced in renting factories in Germany ...
"So many tools these days are built to only handle the bare minimum", but they are still labeled as "heavy duty" in many cases. Marketing at its finest for those who fall for it. Harbor Freight comes to mind for those who buy things based solely on price. I will say that I heard someone say at one point, "buy the best quality tools you can afford", that may be Harbor Freight for some folks but there are plenty others who shop there due to just being cheap or not caring about quality in the least.
Love these vids, the intro is still always interesting, reminding me of shows in the early 80s. I believe the large screws are hollow stem drill augers for soil and groundwater sampling.
I'm Dutch too. Looks pretty Dutch. Machine at a canal in the winter, lol. Real good presentation, uhum. Maybe the demo inside is done in a different country. I found online that the machine was launched by digi in 1993. Looks pretty much like a commercial from that area indeed
Always look forward to your videos, I like your attitude! re-use and re-purpose everything we can, wish I had a scrapyard near me that allowed people to buy stuff like this.
For removing rust I submerge them in distilled white vinegar for a couple of days for some really awesome sweat free rust removal!! Seriously it works better and faster than reverse osmosis and distort cheap usually less than $2 a gallon!!!
Well I too collect and use antique tools . Since I teach wood shop at public school and from time to time I bring my antique tools to show the kids and even let them try a few out like one my antique Bit and braces
I agree with you on the beauty of both the wrench and the c-clamp. It seems to me that you could make that wrench useful by adapting a large ratchet driver to fit into it, without making any changes to the clamp, itself.
