I've been through several in California, including the Northridge. We had one not long after we moved to Maryland, so around 2005, 2006. It was a pretty good one. It damaged stuff that even today isn't right.
@@tetedur377there was one in Maryland in 2005ish? I thought the only notable one in recent history on the east coast was in 2010/2011? The ones that damaged the Washington monument…
Especially just to watch vids, and I figure maybe Sandro toned down his cussing just a very tiny bit, but I love it still. Makes the show feel real lol@@peepthezoobazz
Absolutely. l liked that too. I used to live in West Africa and it was amazing how long local mechanics would make things run. Locals used to say that cars died three times. First they died in Europe and then they were sent to Africa for a second life. They worked in the capital city and national highway until they died a second time, and were sent off to the rural areas. There they were revived for a third life - and by then you were riding in a bare metal shell with no interior, wooden benches, and hot wired ignition. And drivers drove those vans and cars on roads Americans wouldn't take without a lifted 4x4. When they finally died in the country, anything left that was usable was parted out to keep other rigs running.
Yes sir same thing with electronics and clothes from western countries they get sent to second and third world countries to be brought back to life. Us Americans live in a throw away society, and it's actually quite sad. It is indeed a privilege to just throw away your problems and let another poor country deal with it while you buy a new one 😔
When I was living in Egypt, my favorite place to go was deep in the old town. There was a "shop" that had an old school coal fired smelter, with the giant leather bellows. In that shop they cast all kinds of cast iron parts. One day it would be brake rotors for the Peugeot taxis you found everywhere. The next day it might be heads for drill presses. It inspired me to put together my own machine shop, and to this day I do as much as I can in house and build anything I can.
HELL yeah. I couldn't tell you what it is about fixing broken things rather than tossing them out that I love so much. I didn't have the same kind of experience that you did with a local place doing that kind of work. But like you, I got an old Bridgeport and a decent lathe, and try to fix anything I possibly can.
The main problem about doing that outside of places like Egypt is that you are solely liable if anything goes wrong with any custom pars or tools you make. So if that rotor explodes, takes out someone's leg and gives the driver whiplash, you're paying for all of that.
Both are ignorant fools who only have a channel because of rich clowns . Anyone who has any real experience working on things knows the difference between a "shock" and a hydraulic ram. They are jokes.
@@johnnyblue4799 I was highlighting where they seem to excel. Obviously they are both extremely knowledgeable. I wasn't implying anything negative between the lines.
That’s not true. Just because it sounds right it doesn’t mean that it is right! Those „repairs“ are fun to watch but I wouldn’t want that in my car. Also that woman has no idea how a battery really works
Mad respect to anyone who puts in the time and effort and brain power to actually repair something so it can still be used rather than trashing it and getting it replaced.
It all comes down do cost/benefit. Avg western man hour is too expensive to make it worth repairing things like batteries. Unfortunately this is just a reflex of how poor people still are in certain parts of the world
I've been a tire guy for over 20 years and I had a customer come back from a trip to Mexico with a sidewall of his tire 'rebuilt' like this. I give the tech who did this props, they stayed another 2 weeks in Mexico and drove around for a week back in the states and the repair held up. I replaced the tire but not because it failed, they just didn't want to chance it.
I really need a another series with Angelina and Sandro about car modification where Angelina teaches us the proper way and Sandro shows us the best way to impress the homies.
That battery rebuild is way cool, but I'd definitely be wearing a respirator, goggles, and gloves when handling all that lead, acid, and molten plastic.
Sandro: warming hearts. Yeah I used to that. They come in and they can't make it to the doctor so yeah we give them a jump start. Warm their heart right up.
The clip at 13:07 he was vulcanizing a tire. My Dad used to do 1000's of those a year and I have done 100's myself. That repair is actually stronger than the rest of the sidewall. It is still used today but more for Farm and mining equipment in the U.S.
I appreciate that nobody was shitting on these folks from other less industrially developed places, it's a refreshing change from what most car folks act like ❤
Less industrial? Bro, these people are the epitome of industrial, we are an import, throwaway, automated society. We lost the art skill that underdeveloped nations have.
@@TheRoadhammer379 didnt say less industrial, less industrially developed. they dont have access to any of the new machines or tool, or even steady supplies of materials. the industrial infastracture ismt there, but thats why theyre so good. theyve learned to adapt and think laterally, where as developed areas only know how to do it with the right part and right tool.
I got mad respect for these highly skilled self made mechanics that can craft things by their own hands & actually repair stuff that is broken instead of just bolting on new parts.
Yeah, being from Canada, I get how priveledged we are with the spending power of out money, and the easy access to parts. Knowing people from Benin, or Vietnam? They will find a way to make shit keep working. Even shit that is "factory sealed, 1 use only," they can find a way to take shit apart without causing catastrophic damage, and then just put it back together. I have nothing but respect for them, fucking smarter than I am.
Yup! Also Canadian, but my parents are from Poland. I've seen some people do stuff in barns in small villages there. Incredible work that you'd never get here.
Agree with all that you said, but would also add that "Factory sealed, 1 use only" or "lifetime" doesn't mean anything. They just want to sell you a new unit, and every year prices go up, it's a whole scam.. if they can put it together, you can take it apart.
I live 10 miles away from the only place where someone will rebuild your radiator. I'm there every year with some equipment radiator. He is a saint and expert!
@@ChristianStout A metal one when all other options are plastic ones. Plus some radiators can't be found. Took me four years to find a radiator for my truck.
@@ChristianStout That's just whole ass ignorant kind of question. Repair price vs replacement price/availability. There are a shit ton of people who live in places where parts aren't easy to get and/or are using equipment that's old and either replacements parts are stupid expensive or just plain impossible to get, at which point what, you buy a whole new piece of equipment just cause of a fu@$ed radiator? FML.
The combo of the homie doing this for life and then the a bit younger teacher is a great combo. Not only does each video with Angelina and Sandro feel good but they are informative. If feels like 2 friends shooting the shit about cars and then Angelina teaching us something.
These videos are getting better and better. They had me at the “getting intimate with that trans”. Keep these videoa coming. Sandro and Angelina side by side are the best.
I’m a lead-acid battery formation technician for what is formerly Exide and I approve of that battery rebuild except for the terrible soldering of the cells. The plates were ok but those burns on the cells were junk and that being a truck battery, those will fail later from vibration. But the good thing about lead-acid batteries is they can be rebuilt and are 99% recyclable.
I honestly love how insanely recyclable lead-acid batteries are. I used to deliver car parts and one of the most common types of core returns I'd have to take back were used car batteries. The chemistry is so simple and so easily reconditionable, but also so toxic and nightmarish to the environment, that there's literally no excuse for not returning old battery cores. You might as well get a few bucks back for the return.
@@calyodelphi124 I have noticed as time goes on most of the stuff that worked really well in the past was really toxic and/or harmful to the environment and we havent come up with better solutions to them lol. Like the other day i was looking for wood protection and the stuff that my grandad used to use was banned because it caused cancer, yet it really lasted lol compared to the water based nonsense available now that barely works
My Dad was a radiator man for decades! He could braise and solder anything to anything. Everything from heater cores to OTR truck radiators. He'd build custom radiators from bulk core materials and cut custom tanks for them. I'll always remember when plastic radiators started showing up, he hated that you really couldn't fix them very often, usually had to replace them.
The plastic parts of modern radiators are actually a huge improvement. Previously you'd have to have a mechanic who could braise and solder. Now pretty much any mechanic can fix these problems, and the parts are much cheaper.
at car show, a guy that had '49 cadillac with hole sin radiator from whatever happened over the years. He had to ship it halfway across America to some town outside Des Moines to have his radiator resoldered and pressure tested. Cost him as much as a new radiator but! he won judge points for genuine late 1940s Cadillac parts in the car.
"Honda, it runs no matter what" my Honda C100 with nearly split in two-missing half its balls wheel bearing, broken switches that still works, 27 years old components and wiring that's still somehow working, all leaking oil engine block, recently flooded engine from the air filter, carburetor, exhausts and even some in the combustion chamber (and it ironically runs better mpg after its flushed and cleaned), and running on whipped mix of oil+water for dozens of km while still running smoothly yeah. they're immortal man.
We have skills to that, not sure about you, we are not doing that because we want to live and enviroment around us clean. Also it's more expensive to do that than earn money and pay somone to do that correctly.
This only happens in places where labour is super cheap. Shops in North America charge $200 an hour and it takes 4 hours to repair a rad. You might as well get a brand new one with warranty at that point.
Again, as many of us have said. This is how this show should be presented every week. “Real Mechanic Stuff hosted by Angelina and Sandro” they’re amazing and should definitely run the show. Love it, love it, love it
The guy taking the motor out of the car with his hands was probably at a "U-pull it" during a Anything you can carry out sale! When I was a kid my dad was working on a Buick with a V-8 motor that he stripped down to the heads and block before he lifted it out of the engine bay with his bare hands cracking 2 ribs doing it! Then he comes in the house asking why none of us came out there to help him! Pretty impressive!
When I was younger I used to deadlift fully built Subaru engines and put on a stand to mess with new guys in the shop…. But I couldn’t have walked with one and I stopped when I hurt my back one day picking up an unmounted 14” tire. 😆
Miss A and Sandro!!! I love how their personalities play off each other. Sandro is goofy and cool and Miss A is knowledgeable and nerdy; chocolate and peanut butter, cereal and milk, salty and sweet, Abbott and Costello. Love them!!!
Angelina is SO good at explaining things!! I was really impressed by how she explained batteries and their components. learned about it in class but didn't absorb anything until I heard her explain it lol. thanks Angelina.
I remember when the Paris-Dakar Rally first had to avoid Africa, they drove Paris-Moscow-Beijing, and somewhere in Kazakhstan a random nomad helped one car by repairing a punctured fuel tank with some sort of tanned hide.
The Dakar rally legit drives from Paris to Dakar? I thought they just did like a 10 miles stage or whatever and then packed up the cars and flew them to the next one…
Two of the best on the web. Never disappoints. They call it like they see it but what I really appreciate is how they acknowledge good work when they see it. So many people could have just mocked the folks in some of those clips. They both clearly know their craft.
RE: the guy pulling the motor on his own, ive been in a few situations like that, one time in particualt I deadlifted a 125cc honda mototcycle because the effort in explaining to someone what should happen is greater than the deadlift and the other thing to factor is options, when you try to succeed where all forces are up against you youll pull off some supernatural stunts like that. hats off to that guy...
Never done that. But I once drove a Nissan Micra into a shop, and it had to be positioned perfectly to get the hoist arms underneath. I didn't get it perfectly centered, so a friend and I lifted the rear end and shifted it over to make it work. So, well done!
Absolutely adore these two as hosts, they both have lived such interesting lives and share their wisdom developed from such different experiences. Love it!
What a treat watching Angie and Sandro together. They should open a shop together Sandro would go buy old cars and Angelina would put them together. What a great tv show that would be. Isn't it?
The guy shifting the transmission with his finger. Shure knows how to use that finger. And that smile says it all that confidence. He knows where G ear spot is.
G-gear is for getting dirty and wet! G=gelände=low terrain gear, on German cars! :) had a 1988 vw transporter syncro 16 inch front and rear difflock, with G gear.
I'm a private contractor in the middle east and my Rubicon broke an axle in Shehn on the border of Yemen and Oman. A young fellow took off my rear axle and took it apart, used a rudimentary lathe and welded a new shaft together, repaired the cast housing and everything. The entire back end of my Jeep was removed. Total cost was about $300 and took 1 day. They only had hand tools.
Yay! My fav Duo!! Straight up things arnt made like they are use too because they are designed to fail! No money in something if people cant just fix it themselves. Sandro WOULD know how to repair batteries like that. Man is a legend! Angelina keep up the technical explanations! Its so helpful
My dad was stationed in and lived in the Philippines for several years back in the 90s. I remember him telling me once that you could take several photos of any car you wanted to certain people there who would then build that car up as an exact replica from like sheet metal or whatever. It wouldn’t have the bells and whistles inside, and it’d have a Volkswagen engine running it, but the exterior would look exactly the same.
the radiator repair, tire repair by sewing and diff repair, are from one country of Pakistan, where repairing is a custom rather than replacing. they even repair, broken rear differential lockers which is basically too hard, and even repair the burnt or totaled cars and buses.
This was great to watch, not just because it's Angelina and Sandro (always a brilliant duo!) But just cool to see people fix stuff that nobody in Canada or the USA would think to do. Where I live, we have some old Light Rail Train cars (Siemens U2 models) in our transit system that don't have parts made for them anymore. They part out any decommissioned cars as new ones arrive as far as I know, but sometimes they just have do major repairs like here, or even fabricate parts from scratch. I've never seen a video of that, so this is cool to see!
@@cenciende9401I mean 90% of Americans would absolutely look down on others for stuff like this… I’m in a poor part of the country and people act like I’m crazy for trying to repair anything! Last week I picked up a Dyson vacuum off the curb, one belt slipped off, it had a hairball clogging the suction and it had some dust inside it… it took 20 minutes to disassemble, 3 days shipping for the belt and another 20 minutes to reassemble it and it works like new… it’s a $400 piece but I still had 3 separate people act like I was crazy for taking the time and effort to fix it rather than taking up more landfill space with a perfectly functional machine… at this point it’s a status thing… “who would bother to repair something when you can just buy a shiny new thing? You must be poor!” seems to be the attitude
Remember one day in high school my truck started overheating and found a leak in the radiator. Later that night a friend and I wanted to go out and meet some girls, but the truck was overheating and napa was closed, so... dug into my dad's tools and found a propane torch and some solder and figured it out... Forgot all about that until now, drove that truck around at least another 5 years with that radiator still in it.
@@HondaCivic-lj4riThat reminds me of the time there was an earthquake in New Zealand during an interview with the Prime Minister, and she was pretty chill the whole time.
I was just volunteering on a tall ship recently, this reminds me of all the weird stuff we had to do to re-rig her spars and sails, because the infrastructure that was designed to do that kind of thing doesn't exist any more. Everything has to be improvised with modern power tools and parts of the ship's rigging. Replacement parts have to be sourced cross-country at great cost, and it's hard to get wood that's both ethical and has the right properties. Also, the last professional wooden-boat shipwrights are aging out, and there aren't many people who will be capable of replacing them. Pretty soon, the world's tall ships, both historical and replica, will be maintained and repaired entirely by improvised and makeshift means... fortunately, there will always be people who can make that work!
The radiator repair was a work of art! As for the battery repair so much lead poisoning! Jeez, earthquake too? We got our money's worth with this clip and I love these two together!
You're very unlikely to get lead poisoning just working with molten lead, unless you're heating it way more than you need to. Elemental (metallic) lead in solid and liquid form doesn't absorb into your body very easily--the dangers are mostly from organolead compounds or lead salts, or rarely lead vapor. As long as you wash your hands thoroughly so that you don't accidentally swallow it with your food, you're good. I've been soldering with lead for 10 years and just recently got a blood lead level test and it's totally normal.
