I like how transparent and honest you are about how feasible this is as a money-making operation - $110 profit for hours and hours of work. But if you have a monetized Yt channel where you can get more $$ for the video of doing it all...Well, probably still not much! In it for the satisfaction more than anything...I feel that!
Also if your own power tool breaks and you can fix it yourself following these videos. Sharing is caring and sharing valuable fixing information is golden.
@@Ryan_DeWitt its not about the profit, but how much joy and how much fun is it to repair and how exciting is it for the audience, I dont watch any of PS5 and Xbox videos, theres nothing new to see all the same things over and over again I rather see fix him cameras laptops power tools anything, even if its not fixable you learn so much more by doing it and watching it as a viewer)
This direction toward new repair items is SUPER INTERESTING! Love it! I knew it’d be fun watching you problem solve and completely fix items you don’t normally work on.
in order to fix stapler A that needs more pressure in its tank for a full send of the nail/staple you may not need a BIGGER air compressor, you may need a much smaller one :) a Shock Pump for a mountain bike suspension fork/rear shock/damper will probably do the job perfectly - it does not pump MUCH air but what air it does pump in is at high pressure, the cheapy one i have from the local big name bike store goes upto about 300psi & may be just what is needed to fine tune the air in them tanks
the com bars overheated and melted the brushes and the brush springs, causing your intermittent issue, its pretty common on the brushed milwaukee tools run that dewalt electronics group through an ultra sonic cleaner, i get a few hundred tools through my work center annually that the water department abuses and a majority of the time a good thorough cleaning fixes them.
So are the big box stores simply not checking their returns? Or is the pallet seller making some convenient swaps? I've returned a brand new Makita jigsaw to Home Depot in the past 2 years and customer service opened the sealed box to actually inspect the tool. Maybe she thought I was lying and resealed it because my return reason was that I didn't need it for the job I was doing.
Not sure about the US, but in EU they are definitely checking what are you returning. Especially when buying over the internet, cause you have 2 weeks return/cancel policy on anything sold remotely (no matter if it's a tool, phone plan or bank loan) - BUT, thing you are returning can't show excessive wear.
It really is a testament to the reliability of Dewalt tools. Considering how much worksite dust and drywall plaster was inside those, yet most of them still work.
anyone else would of tried to get the "not for sale" working by putting a board from one of the other staplers into it and soldiered everything onto it since it looked really good...i know you want to get something working in less time but i think if it has never been used, it would feel better to sell.....i love watching your videos though steve -_- keep up the good work
Those Milwaukee nailers do have a depth set so you might check that out. Even though I already love your channel I do love the addition of tool repair. Always been an advocate of repair over replace.
My better half is hoping this doesn't inspire me to buy another case of 'broken' tools. Some of these 'returns' are actually trade in deals. The store has a sale where you turn in an old tool for credit on a new tool. I traded in a Black&Decker set of tools that were not working anymore to get new batteries. It helps reduce e-waste sort of trash and they get the sale. So not a scam like that metal bar but they should have labeled it on the auction listing. Call it questionable perhaps?
NGL, I really enjoy watching your master skills on tech but seeing you going through powertools kinda feels like wasted talent. Your skills and super helpful tips I enjoy most when you work on other tech like electronics. Some of these stuff looks like going though a box of garbage and I dont like seeing you like that lol! But overall, super glad to see you are looking healthier Steve! 👊
Steve, on the DeWalt rotary hammer, on the switch the pins that slide on those tracks might need bending a bit to put more tension on the contact. Also, the switch/motor assembly you bought, the rotor gear is pretty used. Maybe test again the initial switch, then if it’s still not working, maybe compare the motor gears and swap them if the original one is in better shape
With the Milwaukee impact, you can just buy the motor assembly to replace it. I know as I've had to buy 2 of them as metal filings have gotten into mine and jammed it up.
Before our store shut down this is why we made sure everything was in the box first before accepting returns, so many people try those switcheroo shenanigans. 😕
I blame Harbor Freight/Amazon. Their loosey-goosey return policy where they take everything without question and other stores were forced to follow suit to remain competitive.
I was going to say do they not actually check returns? But honestly I don't think they do. I bought the wrong kind of drill. It was an impact driver. I didn't know what the hell an impact driver was. I still don't honestly. When I realized it wasn't what I needed I felt horrible because now it's open box. But when I returned it so I could get the right thing, I don't think they checked it. I was surprised.
@@Tronicsfix I think it's less that than it's just a numbers game. Most returns are just that, people returning an item and not someone scamming them. What minimal amount of scamming there is is worked into budgets and insured anyway. Not to mention they can just chuck it all on a pallet and sell it to 3rd party companies who sell return pallets to folks like you and recoup some of the loss. It's also the result of an arms race return policy among stores. Folks like Harbor Freight and Amazon will take back anything with almost no questions asked so everyone else had to follow suit to remain competitive.
Looking good my man!!! my thing is videogames but I have a coursing that loves tools that will love this content, keep it up!! great to see you this good again!
About 6 years ago I remember my dad giving me his old drill and it worked once then not again, as I was a newb at DIY and the tool was old and not an expensive one at first time, somehow me trying to drill into a door frame loosened up the contacts and my dad just got a metal clip and soldered the broken contacts on battery and then it worked.
What you do is you Ziploc all the pieces like on that rusty one and save it for parts like the shell and you might be able to fix the motor and I would stick the gearbox in some Evapo-rust to see if any parts are salvageable as everything can be used if you just take the time to put it in a ultrasonic heated cleaner tank Etc.
tools now have some sort of embedded hardware lock. if they are stolen from the store they will not work. The tools now get activated at the store after purchase - you might have received a tool that was stolen and not activated.
My guess is the person who used it smoked it. Over heated it on those contacts trying to make it drill something it wasn’t meant to do. I have seen the smoke in mine before 😊. And glad to know you are doing better. My son just finished his leukemia treatments. Praise the Lord. Keep making content.
Instead of moving the snap ring over, it might have been easier/faster to move the whole motor+mech over. Looks like it would have been two wire to solder and a plug.
hair! woo! bold move tho with the tools....nothing like working on electronics...i'll work on some appliances like microwaves but things that have lots of specialized parts I always regret taking on...
with dewalt tools the 20 volt max tools are really 18 volt with 20 volt start up peek power. they share many of the same motors with the older 18 volt generation stuff. the biggest difference is the updated looking clam shells and the batteries obviously. and the brushless stuff. but that's why you can get the adapters to use the new 20volt batteries with the old 18v tools. I still keep my old 18volt dewalt tools for backups with the adapters and my 18v angle grinder and recip saw stay in my truck because they work fine but I wont be too upset if they get stolen.
20v and 18v is exactly the same, just measured differently The nominal voltage of most rechargeable lithium ion cells is 3.6v, but 5 in series and you get 18v But, nominal is not max, in fact, they can be charged all the way up to 4.3v (but you really shouldn't), but most toolmaker will have them top out at 4.0-4.1v. So if you take 5 fully charged batteries in series, you get 20v Suddenly your old boring 18v tech is all new and fancy 20v tech! However if you use the batteries all the way down they will be at 3v each, and suddenly you just have pathetic 15v tech (until you charge it again) Marketing for the win!
Hey Steve, why didn't you just transfer the whole unit over on the Milwaukee stapler instead of pulling parts? That's sad stores don't check their returns. Bunch of thieves.
God I hate those flimsy little snap rings. They are all over ebike motors. Always a major pain in the butt. It's so easy to stretch them out yet they require a decent amount of pressure to open enough to slide on. It's this annoying balancing act of enough pressure to get it work but not so much as to deform the ring. Also, I'm guessing these companies are just so big and receive so many returns that as long as the computer flags the return as received, they just send out a replacement and toss the returns straight onto pallets for 3rd party companies to buy and sell back to folks hoping to get lucky.
That sucks! But you learnt a lot. You got some good wins but also scammed more than I thought you would with the fake returns. Else you could have been in really good money
and I stress in my stupid Eastern Europe country that i cut the box wrongly and they won't take it back, and in USA you can return 5 years old tools and run over box back
The best way I've found to open up those clamps on that style of motor is to clamp down on them with the side of a quality pair of needle nose and just twist them up enough to get under them.
30 tools/$900. A great deal, if you can make a power plug converter, for unlimited charging. With one of the batteries.....21:21....4 /4 tools, 2,,1,2,1,/16.=6/16 of the tools where inside. The milkaukee chunk of metal was just being uSed, As a rock. After ten years tools and the nerf are going to be rare items, With dji drones.
Selling them on FleaBay with shipping included ("free shipping") will cost $20 each. I would find it an entertaining hobby, but it is a dice roll to break even.
@@1djbecker thats true, but not. Butter fingers, almond joys and reeses, to sell.. Would of kept those tools really nice and forgot about losing half of them to scammers. Good tool box for building wood shelf, or entertainment centers
