Fantastic Scrapyard Finds! Repair-A-Thon! 

Somewhat bitter, but realistically wise and down to earth intro. We're being worked more and more and no one seems to notice or care.

Yes I like these videos and I will watch anything you do that involves fixing and or upgrading old things especially tools! Looking forward to a shop upgrade video but maybe put a constraint like you need to have acquired the tool 2nd or 3rd hand and can not have bought anything you use in the junkyard upgrades as a new product from a store. Getting something at a discount because it was open or had slight damage is fine though. you are working on three sides of the triangle, reusing old stuff, recycling the parts that are still functioning and because of that you are causing a reduction in production of new stuff.

Followed.

I just signed up and followed you on odyssey I always like your videos and agree we need to fix things more than we throw out.

Yes indeed, I’ve started to see videos on that platform. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that it is a haven for free speech/fantasist types though... I guess that they are more typically expecting to be kicked off their preferred homes. Keep up the great work.

+1000X on that comment!

Yes please. I have made many improvements to my tools including drill presses table, bench grinders extraction and a speed controller for my angle grinder.

That would be fun to watch! LLAP

I would like to see what you do to anything you have saved from being scrapped. I intend to make my Black & Decker power saw into a bench saw. I have a B & D router with table so I am going to something similar with it. I didn't say that I used to work for B & D for almost 30 years here in the UK 🇬🇧.

Yes yes yes!!! Upgrades to old machine are cool!!!

👍👌👏 Definitely! So let's dump dumb Trump at last! ;-) Best regards, luck and health.

Back when I was a kid you always fix what's broken! There was none of this "Through A Away" crap we have now day... :-( People came to your house to fix stuff. You didn't take it somewhere or mail it back to get it fixed... You saved it by having it fixed... Yes I'm old! LLAP

@@Chr.U.Cas1622 what does he have to do with this?

Dear @@BrucesWorldofStuff I do this all my life and already as a young kid. Repairing things is some kind of must and lust for me (I guess I have some repairing and helping genes in my string). Don't know if 57 is old but fortunately I'm looking at least 8 years younger (of course). ;-) Best regards, luck and health.

After decades of throw away economy big corps and many smaller business pushing back hard on repairability and REAL recycling, rampant consumerism "helps" a lot too... We'll need a lot of effort or something really big happen to change the tide.

Very clever pun. However now I can't stop singing the song in my head.

I think it should be "everything *worth* saving should be saved".

Yeah I must say my eyebrows went up when I saw that Stahlwille spanner. Current price (where I live) minimum € 25 and it wasn't even rusted or dirty - looked hardly used, for that matter.

I imagined him passed out like a hobo with a bunch of vices scattered around him instead of bottles and cigarette butts.

well... He is pretty vice guy ;-D

You could say that his Vice is vices..

Edelweiss

You have one more vice. Telling bad jokes!

The Post Apocalyptic Vice Colector

Every artist is entitled to their own vices.

Laughing my ass off

I guess we found Vice City

@@AL_O0 And TPAI is the Vice President

Same in Hungary! If you find one, it is damaged! A bigger used vice can cost easy 35.000 HUF, 100 EUR.

Same as Australia, You go to yards here and they (A) Don't let you walk about - Health and safety...(B) Its all Damaged junk as anything that is even kind of good.. They keep and re sell.

In South Africa, everything of value gets grabbed almost immediately - embarrassingly for the country, there are many people who eke out a living picking over trash and selling whatever they can

@@kenshamrock3337 U.K. is the same in most places.

Would love to have a rumage around a scrapyard. No chance in the UK. I used to climb over cars in car scrapyards in my yoof looking for parts, I don't think you can do that now.

and if it cracks in use then the results do not bear thinking about as the peripheral speed is about 90 MPH of 150KMPH in metric

Good to know!

I meant or 150 km/hour auto correct strikes again

@@davidmunro2077 Not a big deal! I was once hit by an angle grinder disc, the old fashion 3.2 mm thick. I almost lost my right eye and the impact caused an injury thru three layers of clothing. Now I use a face shield and earprotection. The disc guard is always mounted. I look a littlebit gay, but I need both of my eyes! How hard it can be if a 20 mm thick stone explodes!

@@SirDrakeNewcanon Not a bit gay more like a sensible person "you only get issued with 1 pair of eyes look after them" on a poster that I say in tech college in 1979.

Would say coil spring compressor too, possible for assembling coil-over shock units, of some kind

non-tested spring compressors are usually called jaw smashers, because that spring will come out and it will knock your jaw off, if it doesn't punch a hole through you

Compressing springs on struts with primary focus on extreme danger... Although, perhaps they'd lash down the strut body and tether the spring itself in some way. If they were wise.

@@vampiremuffinman7183 and have double reinforced metal because the more you compress the spring the more outrageous its power gets. People heavily underestimate engineered objects. They carry an entire car damnit! Imagine a car suddenly hitting you. That's a car spring.

Yep... home made strut compressor, which was immediately scrapped after shooting a spring across the garage.

Then he must build a protective shield asap to prevent such a thing

@@martinadini4142 ... using the grinder! 8)

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle oh come on lad

@@martinadini4142 You can get arrested for that!

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle you mean for Building a protective shield?

makes you wonder sometimes. I mean....it works but darn, i'd like some protection from that coming at me

@@baileyhatfield4273 Its quite safe I think given the surface area, compared to the standard compressors that are basically two bolts with a hook on each end. The holes in the end may also be for putting a long bolt into as a safety if the spring does somehow pop out.

It would work great all you need is a safety strap wrapped around it

I think the same.

It may also have had a water bucket in those clamps to catch the hot sparks.

Agreed. Toolpost grinder.

I prefer using "armorall" (a plastic/ vinyl preserver). Smear, let dry, then rub off gently to fill in those micro scratches. Works well on old helmet visors.

I lived walking distance from a scrap metal dealer who used to let people do this. He'd pick out anything that looked worth salvaging, so there would always be lengths of metal bar, box and angle, Loads of rusty hand tools, and literally tons of old machinery, all just waiting for new owners to take them home and restore them...... Unfortunately, He'd been passing up retirement for quite a while now, and finally decided to call it a day a few weeks ago. I grabbed a fair bit (Well, A fair bit for a small hobby home workshop anyway) of angle and bar stock before the gates finally closed for the last time, but the thought of eventually having to pay full market rates for NEW steel is actually quite frightening. :(

@@Reman1975 It's just confusing theres so much scrap out there just....sitting forever. Never to be used and just sit there and grow older. Not sure if anywhere lets you do what he does around here, would be cool though. I'm in need of a vice and some other tools, but damn i don't want to pay 60 to 100 bucks for a crappy vice at the local like tool ish store which are crap when i could get an old one, fix it paint it maybe grease it and have a better quality more heavy duty vice.

I've had better luck with small scrapyards than with bigger ones. Of the four ones I've been to, one didn't really let you on, one would've needed you to buy larger quatities (which is understandable), and two let me look through their stuff.

​@@baileyhatfield4273 lot's of metal still gets scrapped, but most tends to be in closed sites now as more yard owners get worried they might get sued if some idiot comes trotting in wearing T shirt, shorts and sandals, then gouge's themselves when falling off some rusty scrap they were clambering on. Because of this they tend to be out of bounds to the general public. The yards may look like a static tablo of discarded metal, but I bet if TPAI went back to that same yard in 7 days he'd be hard pressed to see much that was there before. Most larger scrap yards load the metal into open topped lorry trailers every day and drag them off to sell to recycling plants. I don't know where in the world you live, but for a cheap old vice, you'd probably be best to set up alerts on Facebook marketplace and wait. Look for things like "Vice", "Vise" ('cos some people can't spell. :D), "Bench clamp" (Because some VERY non practical people often end up getting tasked with selling off the contents of their dearly departed fathers or grandpa's garage workshop) and things like "Workbench" or "Garage bench" (Because some will have a vice attached, and people don't often remember to mention that in the listings title). If you don't need a bench, Pop off the vice you wanted, and cut up the rest for any usable metal sheets and sections. :D. Eventually you'll find some decent brand vice that probably looks like it's been on a sunken ship for 20 years, and if you're lucky they'll have pointed out that it's cheap because it's seized solid. That's great because it puts the dreamers off, and you know that with a few days swimming in whatever your favourite rust dissolving solution is, it'll free right up and be almost ready for paint. Several of the vices I've owned were got this way, and I've found some real gems. Worst case you'll end up with one that's beyond repair, so you take a load of pictures of the now rust free vice, list it on ebay explaining it has issues, and wait for someone to invariably buy it. It helps to learn a little about the main models of vices that big company's made back in the day though, just so you can tell if what you're looking at is worth the time and effort of saving. In badly lit listing photos, some cheap Chinese vices that have seen a couple months mild abuse can look a lot like 50 year old "Record" models in need of some care and attention. But a large number of the modern Chinese import ones are lightweight junk, with the thinnest wall thicknesses they can get away with, and cheap iron that'll crack if you so much as REST a hammer on the anvil (Ok, that thing about the anvil was an exaggeration, but it's not exaggerated by THAT much !!! :o) My current main vise is an old 6" Woden with quick release half nut. It was in an absolute state when I bought it, but it was complete, and one fact made it worth getting (For less than the peanuts the seller was already asking....... I haggled hard on that one because I realised that it could quite easily have been fit for nothing more than scrap)...... A lot of old Woden vices were made from cast steel rather than iron (You can tell these by it having the word "STEEL" proudly cast on one side). This means they're a lot easier to successfully weld if you need to repair damaged jaw mounts, or build up and grind some worn sections to take any sloppiness out of it's sliding surfaces. It was a fair bit of work getting it just right, but it's now worth about 15x what I paid for it, and I ended up with a REALLY nice quality vice that should pretty much outlive me ! :D I hope you eventually find a vice worth having mate.

Just go on a sunday and bring a piece of meat for the dog ;-)

some ak 47 restorations would be cool lol

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Find some old Lenin busts and clean them up, I'm sure Biden* would like them.

@Fred Garvin Well, that depends on whether the Republican voters agree to stop coronavirus. So far they don't.

Mark Andrey I wonder what you mean by that ? Biden likes polished statues of Lenin ?

My guess would be that it's a tool post grinder, made to be bolted to the saddle of a lathe.

Yes, I inherited a similar looking machine from my grandfather. It has a thin diamond edge blade for cutting quartz crystal into smaller pieces in preparation for further stone processing, grinding and shaping. It's in storage and was last used in the early 80's.

@@erikjgreen My first thought was something like a grinder to sharpen knives. the knive manufacturers here in town use grinders looking like that without a rest to grind and sharpen knives. On second thought, those usually are either belt grinders with the grinding happening on a large wheel of they have rather large (about 80 cm or lager) diameter stones. Oh and to prevent overheating those usually have a rather low speed. So a toolpost grinder makes way more sense. Don't those grinders usually also use some kind of sleeve for mounting that allows for balancing the grinding wheels?

It is, I have one in my workshop which I took from my school when I graduated. Works like a charm! very good build quality. Blue is the original color.

I think you're right, and the first one is a Peddinghaus Superior (earlier model).

Thats a badass sounding name for a vice

@@Unlovable So, you're a thief. .... I see

Me too

Very much so

Me to

He doesn't need you to hold his vice. He has a vice, to hold the vice, to hold the vice he's fixing ;)

My thoughts exactly

We’ve got one at work we stick in the vice it makes it much easier removing springs

Be glad you didn't live in the United States in the 80s, where they taught us things like our first president had wooden teeth. Yes, they taught that as history. But it NEVER happened. There a quite a few things we learned that actually never happened. We, too, were naive. We were only children. What else were we supposed to do? Question the history we had all been taught? Lol. We should've because much of what, we learned didn't happen. George Washington didn't chop down thr cherry tree. And he didn't say "I cannot tell a lie" and all that, other crap we learned. It was all wrong.

For example ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4Y7T45yt1A4.html

No, send it to me! And ill hang it over the toilet 😁

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