I love that attitude.. Learn to repair, reuse. It doesn't matter how much or how little it's worth. If it's useable, it's doable. With a big enough hoard of bits, eventually, you can repair with little cost. The reality is, that you can only really rely on yourself! So teaching yourself to fix various devices and problems, is a very valuable skill and knowledge set to have. I began at a very young age. Before I was 5.
Great example of problem solving. That is really what repairing/restoring old stuff is all about. Soldering that pressurised joint was improvising at its best. If you disagree, ask yourself "what would i have done"...by doing that, you have already started the problem solving process. Respect, peace.
I love these videos!! I've been able to do a few succesful repairs myself lately, including the HVAC control out of a Ford car. quoted repair was over $800 and all it needed was a dollar worth of O-rings, and a front load washing machine, again a $20 bearing/seal kit solved a $400 repair bill.
@@scroungasworkshop4663 always push your limits or you'll never know what your limits are. Some say you should be failing at least half the time, or you're simply not challenging yourself enough. It's OK to try and fail. You should still take something away from the experience. Success often comes after a long string of failures.
one of the best RU-vid channels out here. truly a guy taking his beliefs and convictions and living them out. very inspirational philosophy and approach to life. keep up the great work!
Very educational, entertaining, and amusing stuff. I love old rusty stuff, restoration and reuse of tools and machines. Thanks for sharing your work. I’m enjoying it! 👍😊
As a self professed gearhead and a professional diesel mechanic, I very much appreciate your approach to fixing things with what you have or can make. We all learn unscrupulous ways to get repairs done and make things work. Cheers
Love the restoration work you have done. I am a big fan of Scrapyard items restoration. I do lot of such restoration often... Your work is very interesting... Thanks for sharing...
Why is it the more mouth we get about 'Saving The Planet' the worse the crap is sold in shops. It's not 'planned obsolescence' designed to fail after a set time it's bloody useless on day one. A medium priced vacuum cleaner with a rotary brush. The brush on it's lowest setting was about 15mm off the pile of the carpet, I could put my finger tips under it on a table. A quick modification with a Stanley knife to the tubular snail cam height adjustmant so the the brush just touched the carpet resulted in a wonderful display of green flame and smoke. Result, we are still using our 1960's Hoover Junior - now refurbished. I just subscribed to this channel - a man after my own heart.
Ah, dirt-daubers, they love nesting in every little cavity they can! I have an old Beetle engine-case that has every empty bolt-hole filled with dirt-nests! Just one more thing I'll have to clean when I get around to using it. Fun repairs! Ha, love how you used the alarm horn! XD
I enjoyed your video. You remind me of what I did when I was your age. I was in Germany in the Army and the young Germans there could not use tools and went to the store to buy everything. I love the horn. You are very clever. I need a horn like that or an air raid siren. Times have sure changed in Germany and you are one of the very few that can actually work with your hands. Thanks for the nice video.
My late Dad repaired almost anything. We lived in Africa and many things were not readily available. I remember him replacing the household vacuum cleaner bearings every few years when they became noisy. He built a bearing puller just for that particular motor because there was very limited clearance between the end plate and the bearing. The biggest project I can remember was rebuilding the engine and transmission on our car. Great video, modern day folks are too quick to send something to the trash heap. One man's junk is another mann's
Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for many years of great videos. I really enjoy what you do and learned a bit from every one of them. The new scrapyard series is really interesting, it is quite a shame to see what other people through out. It would be interesting to see what you paid for every item and how much it costs you in total after repairing it. In my area (Bavaria) it is really hard to find a scrapyard that lets you go through the stuff like the one you visit. And even if they let you, the prices are insane ( like 15€ per kg).
I am a shooter. When I go to the range I police up a couple of coffee cans of brass (empty shell casings) of different calibers. They make great gasket hole punches. As an American I use mostly imperial sized fasteners. A .45 caliber for 1/2" holes, .38 or .357 for 3/8", .22 or .30 caliber for 1/4". When they get dull or damaged you just throw them out or melt them down for brass stock.You just place them over your marked hole on your gasket paper which should be placed on a scrap piece of wood preferably on the end grain and just smack it with a small hammer. Voila, perfectly cut round hole!
Watch out for filing cabinets 1:43 that are insulated from the time frame of the one you found (especially military stuff). The typical insulation used was asbestos blocks, sometimes a cement material containing asbestos was also used. I would love to find one marked like that, old school military G.I. equipment.
All your videos are extremely awesome dude! I just sit here and watch one after another and feel very satisfied. Thank you so much for making Sunday night a little better.
Awesome, I loved it. I think there are a lot of us like minded people all over the world that get some kind of weird enjoyment out of getting stuff that is ready for the scrap yard and fixing it. I have racks of “stock” and my wife complains that I have more steel and stuff than I can use in ten life times and that I should get rid of some. My standard reply is “OK which pieces”. That always stops her as she knows that I don’t know what I will need on my next project but we both know it will be the pieces I threw away. I have fixed that many “broken” power tools that were heading for land fill that just required a new power cord or brushes that now I tend to just give the cheaper ones away. The problem with cheap power tools is that they are made with cheap parts and they are not worth the cost of repairing so they go to land fill. It’s just such a waste. I also agree with you that we don’t know how much longer we will have cheap labor and materials. One day the world will no longer be able to afford to be a throw away society which has really only been around for about the last forty years and sooner or later this “fad” will no longer be acceptable or sustainable. I’m old enough to remember when there were no cheap tools and most things were built to last, not in terms of months or years but in lifetimes. I guess cheaper tools have there place but generally not in my workshop as I always try to buy quality and buy once. Bigger equipment that I can’t afford I buy second hand and tools that I don’t need often I hire. Here end my sermon. Cheers Stuart 🇦🇺
15:00 Speaking as someone who has a notoriously heavy hand with an angle grinder, I admire this expedient method of getting perfectly straight lines with one. I learned a thing today :) Thanks!
Where I live, the scrapyards charge more than scrap prices if you look enthusiastic about an item when you try to purchase. “Antique” dealers and “artists” tend to drive the prices up as well. You just can’t find good junk anymore unless you search rubbish piles. Yes I am a hoarder and proud of it. You are well on your way as well.
Love meeting a fellow Scrapper and seeing the cool they are making. I am a part of a gang of four Scrappers (Australia) and we visit a local scrapyard weekly and do the same as you. Over the years we have found and fixed or repurposed a lot of stuff. Like you, we cry at the stuff thrown away and wish we could take it all. Keep up the scrapping - Happy Scrapping
Great repair videos. You are one of the last surviving people who don't want to join the brain dead throw away society. Regards from Sydney, Australia.
Sebo 370! That's a nice model you salvaged. It's designed for deep carpet cleaning. Sebo is one of the best vacuum cleaner manufacturers in the industry. They are really well known in the commercial vacuum cleaner market.
8 bar is only slightly more than 2/3 the nominal pressure that soft-soldered copper water pipe is rated for domestic mains water supply, at 1,000 KPa or 10 bar. Presumably the standard pressure is at roughly half the ultimate burst pressure, so there should be plenty of safety margin for the use you're putting it to.
The U.S. Property item likely came from one of the U.S. bases (Ramstein AB for example).. depending on the area, the base will use local companies and contractors (trash disposal for example) to service the base. Great videos! Thank you for making them!
I don’t know if you use that vacuum in your shop, but if so you’d probably appreciate building your own cyclone bucket for it. It will add years of life to that vac seeing as how dirt will not make it into it nearly as bad as using it as is. Anyway, I agree with your logic that we live in a disposable world. It’s amazing the scores I make from people that just don’t care to repair and instead will simply toss it in the garbage and buy a new one. I don’t look down on them, instead I smile as I drag whatever it is out of their trash knowing the money I’m saving😉 by not being afraid of tinkering myself... Thanks for sharing...
Gusten Tag Herr Apporestorer. Your channel is fantastic. Your English is perfect and the technical part is clear and instructivo. I am a Hungarian ww2 refugee living in Argentine Patagonia and had the honour and pleasure to have spent some months in Hamburg as a visiting scentist at the Bfa (fisheries Institute) during the 1970 years befote retiring. Congrats for your interesting videos. Bis naher. Attila
Back before modern refrigerants and oils, refrigeration parts and pipes used to be soldered together, remember working on an old 1960's Frigidaire compressor where the service valves were screwed together and then soldered similar to what you did with the air compressor check valve.
Living on a farm one must quickly make on the spot repairs with the materials one has at hand. The older the machine, the more "Frankenstein monster" it's going to appear, especially if it's still in service. There's always the intention of making the correct repairs, but that dream is seldom realized.
Just found out about your channel. My favorite thing to do with broken compressors, is just turn them into an Auxiliary tank for my system. I found a nice compressor for free, because the owner was frustrated by how small the tank was. I recently found an 11 gallon tank in the back of a salvaged vehicle, paid $5 usd for it and now I have a 16 Gallon, 110psi, system hard-lined into my workshop. It's great for most of what I do. I just wish it had a higher CFM so I can run larger air-tools.
Was in Koln last summer, wonderful city. Thanks you for these awesome videos, it inspired me to fix a busted air compressor found roadside. All it needed was a starter capacitor, thanks keep the content coming 👍
Quentin Karamitsos I have one with the same problem in my garage. Where did you get a new cap? The manufacturer no longer stocks the right one for my machine... This is a great series BTW, Regards, Les
I am a bit disappointed that you didn't exchange the bearing on the vacuum cleaner. Knowing you for a couple of years now, I was convinced that you would go the hard way :-) My vacuum cleaner (different model, different company, but same basic construction) had the same fault just a few weeks ago and it was not too difficult to replace the bearing. Hardest part was to get the puller (German: Abzieher) claws under the bearing so I could then easily remove it. I used a clamp (German: Schlauchschelle) to prevent them from sliding off. I then learned that there is even a proper tool that you can buy -- but I didn't have one at hand. With a piece of pipe of the right diameter and the vice I could then press the new bearing (2€ or so) on the engine shaft. I love to only replace what is really broken :-) Keep up the good work! Love your videos!! And the fact that there are more people out there who want to repair rather than discard. Just like me ;-) BTW: Did you see that Laura (Kampf) was in USA cutting open a Tesla M3? Truckla! Hurts my heart to see a new car being butchered like this but the result is stunning! :-) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jKv_N0IDS2A.html
I repaired a few motors I just use an angle grinder and cut the old bearings off, on with the new no problem a trick I learnt working in the motor trade on cars only way to get some bearings off without buying stupidly expensive tools to just do the one job
@@shaunnormancroft that's a great idea. Although, space is very tight and I don't know if a big angle grinder can get to the bearing without cutting into the motor windings (I guess you need to cut perpendicular to the bearing, so it doe not start turning). I will remember this and try it next time :-)
A man after my heart! I have repaired old cast a ways all my life. Mostly for economic reasons, but largely for the fun of it and the satisfaction of saving something. It is amazing what people here in the US throw away needing only the simplest repairs!
Absolutely hilarious ending!!!! I added 30 feet of 1/2 copper tubing to my air compressor using the same method. After a short period the solder joint coming out of the compressor head melted loose and blew off. Not such a bad thing. I changed the fittings to ordinary mechanical/plumbing fittings and it has been just fine...for 30 years! That compressor has the heat reducing cooling pipe and a mechanical fitting at the compressor outlet...so it should be just fine...I guess. Later on, or if you upgrade to a larger compressor, consider what I did: adding 30 feet(~10 meters) to the output of the compressor. That is the point where the air is the hottest...and will conduct the most heat from the air. The purpose and point is that >90% of the cooler moisture vapor will coalesce into liquid and stay trapped in the tank. You will notice the improvement immediately! A second benefit is that the air is denser and certain air tools will operate better. Another improvement would be to add a shut off valve (a simple 90 degree "ball" valve will do) to the tank outlet. That way when you shut off the compressor it will not leak (....for months!). So if it's late at night or too early in the morning, you can access atleast one tank of air without firing up the compressor. That would irritate your neighbors! Another tip is to purchase or fabricate a high flowing air baffle/muffler for the air intake. That will reduce the decibels of the operating compressor tremendously!!!!!! Your ears and neighbors will rejoice! second tank from a scrapped compressor (say a 60 gallon one) with a operational check valve and plumbing will hold a huge amount of pressurized air....for greater quantity and water vapor collection. You could mount that tank ("receiver") to the ceiling or high upon the wall, so it doesn't occupy any valuable floor space! Finally, some air tools require great volumes of air or they will not operate to designed/advertised power (especially pneumatic 1/2-3/4" drive impact wrenches). So they require large diameter hoses and fittings! Just saying.
I haven't found a good scrap yard, but the technical high school near me has a great metal-only dumpster I'll poke around in after my Monday night running club meetups. I've found some great stuff in there, including a slightly dented tool chest, a handful of machinist tools, and various sized metal rods that have come in handy.
Reminds me of the time i found at the scrap, not one, not two, but three Phillips Triathlon vacuum cleaners, the newer, black model. You won't believe it, but they were thrown out because of the crappy seal design between the back and the motor unit. I picked them because the plastic looked in good condition and i already owned two (old and new) models. Free parts are always welcome, well, imagine my surprise when i figured that they were in perfect working order. Insane, absolutely insane.
Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. So it is basically a form of gambling. Still fun though. When it's not "yours" as in you didn't buy it new or have it for a while that allows for some pretty uninhibited messing around. Which is to say that you may be apt to do things you might not normally. Which can be a good thing. I remember getting a PC for a dollar and really banging it around figuring out what was wrong with it and that rough handling lead me to what the problem actually was with it. In about 30 seconds. I suspect pros had gone over that unit before I got it and they didn't figure it out.
Dirt dobbers are some destructive little bastards. They cost me a 25hp outboard....where they managed to get under the cover and build a nest on the flywheel. The engine inhaled the nest and scored the cylinder wall beyond repair. I now have stainless steel screen installed at the hidden air intake. If there is hole...the little bastards will find it and stop it up with mud. Very nice job with the tubing and fittings...neatly done, Great job man.
For a larger compressor I would agree with your brazing statement, however for small compressor like this one your solder solution is perfectly safe and reasonable.
I feel a great degree of independence & wellbeing knowing that there are very few mechanical devices in which I interact during my life that I cannot repair or modify, should the need arise. Then there is the wonderful feeling of satisfaction after successfully repairing a malfunctioning machine myself, as opposed to being dependent upon others. But, I have found very few things as rewarding and satisfying as taking a conglomerate of mechanical devices, especially mechanical devices that have been discarded, and adapting them together to perform a beneficial function that is completely alien from that in which they were originally designed. I know that in the event that an apocalyptic scenario envelopes me that, as long as I remain healthy, I am capable of repairing, fabricating, and inventing mechanical devices to make my life, and those people's lives around me, much easier and satisfying.
Wow, you speak wonderful English. I also love to find and fix weird old thing from our pass. To dig around in junk yards or scrap yards were lots of fun. Now a days they're extremely rare. Metal prices are so high that It brings out the scrapper. That take everything they can get there hands on. Even though, I still love to drive around and find things. I bring them back from the dead. People throw out there grabage in front of there home's. Just drive around on garbage day and look. Every now and then you find something super great for free. With a little elbow greese and part searching either on the internet or make them yourself. You can get something unexpected. Keep up hunting. You never no when you might strike gold. I just found something wonderful. 2 old change counters. One that counts change and bags the money from dollers to penny's. The other old counter, is an old hand crank counter that counts quarters to penny's. These 2 change counters will be fun to fix up and make new parts for. I can't wait. Thank you for sharing your video. It's great to see other people fixing broken things. Bringing them back from the dead. Thanks again.
I mostly used a gear puller to replace bearings on vacuum motors. Most of them are just standard bearings. I paid about $2.50 each. To install them, I would use a piece of pipe slipped over the armature shaft, and a hammer to drive the bearing back on. Just make sure that the pipe drives the bearing on by the center race of the bearing. That vacuum motor was fairly reasonable.
It is very satisfying watching you repair and resurrect your junkyard finds. There is not much chance of finding quality German-made goods in Australian junkyards. Chinese goods made to a price yes but they are not built to last the test of time. Nonetheless, you have taught me many things about repairing items and that is appreciated.
You know you are one of my heroes!!! I so love and look forward to your videos greatly!! And this video is so amazing!! I love the UFO/ Alien attack part, great job!! On the screwed up and "Down Side" to this though is here in New York State (I live upstate in New York about 6 hours northwest of New York City) there is not many "scrap yards" here that will allow you to randomly buy or even take home "junk", but for me Craig's List is about the only source my area has!! Sadly even the junk they sell on there isn't worth anything BEFORE you buy it though!!!
I like your motto about starting to repair stuff just to learn even if it means doing mistakes sometimes. If you ain't breaking it, you ain't making it.
That air compressor would be a great dust remover ("air blower") / cleaner for computer parts or dirty garage floors, when one doesn't feel like sweeping, etc.
It's a very good investment to get some bearing pullers and a press, so consider getting that. I repaired many automotive parts by installing a new bearing.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that US file cabinet ends up in a German scrap yard. We did rent quite a few installations during and after the Cold War so it’s only natural that whatever was left behind when the property owners clean out the buildings like Dexheim/Anderson Barracks where I was stationed, that all that stuff has to go somewhere… man I’d love to hit up some of those scrapyards... they would have to drag me out screaming and kicking LOL I just love rummaging through what other people consider garbage, wow the potential!
I love your passion to work on stuff that can be reused, very entertaining . I'm from New York and now live in Dallas, Texas. My friend your English is spot on perfect!
Hello Gerolf, Nice repairs. I wish I had that scrap yard near me. I've been watching you on Dein bestes Stück even though it is "not available" in my country and I don't speak German. It looks like you guys have a good time. Thank you for the video! -mike
I love the idea that you used an electric cargo bike. I'm in a huge densely packed city, also, and I bought one about a year ago. I just customized it with a big 2 inch thick foam cooler in back. Everywhere I go people want to know about it. 700 miles later it's one of my best purchases! I also just scored a double stroller with quality inflatable 12 inch tires. Making it into a trailer is probably going to be one of my next projects.
that one way valve tho. pretty certain if you went for another stroll at the scrapyard you'd find the right piece on another compressor that was thrown away. that's a very nice command center, bubbles would love playing space there :)
You ARE doing a valuable service. The young might just thank you in a dozen years or so. Keep it up. Even an old guy like me likes these videos. Spot on. Press on
Greetings. like what you are doing with the scrap yard finds, I wish there we place like that close to where I live. all the solid waste goes into a big hole in the ground. good repair on the vacuum and the compressor. You got the siren repaired just in time. pesky aliens.
