Where the Factories Shop - Chinese Industrial Markets! 

Thanks for all your concern regarding my health and the coronavirus. We filmed this in December, and I've been back in the US since Christmas. I've decided to stay on this side of the world until the epidemic dies down. In the meantime, I urge you to please be respectful of all the friends I have in China right now that may potentially be affected by this outbreak. This is obviously a scary thing, and the news isn't helping, but we're talking about real people, with real families, during Chinese New Year, with is the equivalent of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years all rolled into one big holiday. My thoughts and heart goes out to everyone in Shenzhen and across China!

It's like disneyland for engineers.

So many cool stickers to post in the bedroom like "Hot Service" and "Check Lubrication Frequently".

I love this place! I'd get lost for hours. It's like Aliexpress in real life.

This is like heaven. Where I come from, "hardware" stores only sell bathrooms, lamps and paint.

I'm glad this place is on the opposite side of the world, otherwise all my money would be spent there.

I traveled to China about 20 years ago during SARS pandemic and I remember how awesome Shanghai , Hong Kong, Shanxi etc was. Going to a multi level mall where young women with bows wrapped around themselves would greet you on each floor. I never felt in danger, the young kids would follow my red headed wife around saying hello and the people and food was great! Awesome vid for gear heads, Thanks Guys! Can’t wait to go back too!

11:45 The smile of the seller is so cute.

I'm continually amazed at the manufacturing prowess coming out of China. There seems to be something for every little thing you can think of. That's so crazy.

Jesus Christ this was cool. I hope you go back there. Sorry to comment so much but industrial salvage and supplying equipment is half of my business… I hardly meet another person who knows what “ industrial salvage” is..... so this was golden. Scotty you need to carry a “five hour power” or some form of caffeine 😂 you can’t leave us hanging like that

About 30 years ago we built from scratch an arcade machine with 3 x 6" (stroke) air rams (2" wide) and a cockpit cabinet on a large steel frame. We installed a flying arcade game into it. It had a yoke flight control that I connected to the air control solenoids via darlington pair transistors to drive them. It used basic TTL logic to control the "flight" and I tapped into the game circuit board to automatically power up the control board and lift the front ram as it took off. When the game was finished I used an "end game signal" on the game board to shut the control board back off. We installed a seat belt as it was much more vigorous for smaller kids (It flew someone as big as 150Kg). It used 1/8" valves for the air flow to the rams and required a 10CF compressor to keep the air up to it. We tried 1/4" valves during our R&D phase and it was so fast and violent that it made the 200Kg machine bounce down the factory floor while I was yelling "Switch the f...ing thing off" as I was throwing the control lever backwards and forwards with no control. It had a 20" CRT mounted in it. It worked commercially in an arcade centre for about 5 years. There is a good air project for you.

Kenneth was a really fun addition to this! Thanks for the video!

I love all thoses stores you make us discover, i constantly mention the kilometer long store that was themed with christmas light for 50 meters then halloween then another place was full wedding decorations and people are always amazed, keep on making us discovering this , Thank you !

Your vids really demystify the industrial plants in China. I really enjoy them. Glad you're away for the time being though, what with the whole corona virus spreading. Hopefully the virus weakens and passes soon without harming too many people.

This is not the video that I expected but I really love it, you should do more of this random tech video’s!

"I hope you enjoyed this adventure, I'm Scotty from Strange Parts" I always enjoy your adventures, Scotty

Scotty, I think you should make a pneumatic stamp. It would stamp your logo on the back of phones? Challenge would be to make it mobile, this means anyone meeting you could get your logo stamped on their phone, or, other personal items. 👍😎👍MDS 🇬🇧

12:21 “Non-Professionals Do Not Open” Me: “okay” and walks away with head down in defeat

This is my entire amazon/eBay search history in one market. amazing.

Great video as always. Putting the parts into Strange parts. Thanks for the insights into these markets. Keep it up!

If the apocalypse happens that store is going to be priceless, you could literally make anything from scratch by hobbling parts together, like a giant real life lego store.

You showed me paradise, now i added it to my wish list in near future will visit that place :)

Hey bud.. watching this you just reminded me.. i turned off my brave auto contribute.. because i wanted to stack some bat's. I just turned it back on to auto contribute.. and made sure that you were the only one in my auto contribute. Thanks for all the content.

This video answers so much for me. Best thing I've seen in ages. Thanks!

$5, and both parties were happy, the buyer got it cheap, and the seller got full single unit retail price for him.

I'm so glad you're pushing Brave! I've already tipped you a few times in BAT over the last few months :)

That market is geeky heaven! Thanks for filming and producing this :)

Awesome guests! Love seeing people nerd out over stuff like this

I wish we had places like these in the west. In denmark, almost everything for diy electronics has to be imported from china, the uk or germany, which makes shipping times really long sometimes...

I like a good hardware store and that seemed like one on steroids!

Best travel channel on The Net, Scotty. Love every episode.

You take your fortunate viewers on a fascinating journey to places they've never seen or thought of before. This is a very interesting, informative and entertaining video. Subscribed.

Dude, thanks for the sponsor that is actually useful!

I love these markets so god damn much, honestly the only reason why I want to come to china

I am always mesmerized by those Strange Parts videos even though my skills in building something are limited to screwing and unscrewing But I think that we monk are really stunned by this unknown world, this different culture and those tons of electronic stuff that can do such things sold in those huge markets we had no idea of.

As an Industrial Engineer, this video was gold xD

This is the VERY FIRST "advertisement" that I've purposefully clicked on after 25+ years on the internet. I'll give the Brave browser a shot, if for no other reason than to support your awesome channel, but also because I've been thinking of switching back to Firefox for privacy issues now that Google has gotten so big that it parted ways with its original "Don't be evil" motto. Thanks for your informative content

when he made the "oh wow thats cheap" face when he heard how cheap the andon was, the shopkeeper was probably thinking like "i shoulda said way more.."

This is first time I see your channel. It's amazing!

That's so awesome! This was a great video. Never seen anything like this before.

Oh I’m in love! This is the best shopping centre ever.

OMG, what amazing stores! If we had those here, I'd go broke trying to put together various stuff!

I wish we had markets like this in Canada, both for electronics and industrial equipment. I'd love to have a place I could go like that to just get everything I need (at a good price) for any project I have in mind. Though I've yet to start any projects cuz I'm broke, and parts add up quick.

I don't block or skip ads in your video. Because you deserve it. Keep it up!!!

I always wondered about the folks who built the production line machines and robots. The parts for the machines as well. It's like a segment of society that we know very little about. "The phantom society" now I know exists. Great vid guys.

I don’t have ad block but I’m gonna download brave just to support you. You thoroughly deserve it

thanks man, your the first person that got me something that they promoted... nice job

It's a very detailed introduction regarding SZ electro parts market, and then finally I have some clues why my customer are not going to buy spare parts from us. As a professional handler vendor, I think your videos already address some good points of automatic production.

Very nice of ASAP Yams to join you guys, green polo is a good look for him.

24:09 -Universal packing material Scotty: yes

Thank you for always sharing. Appreciate it!

Out of all YT sponsors, this would be the first one I'm actually interested in.

I just happened on this site. I'm a factory maintenance technician and love with this site!

Some amazing markets .... could easily spend weeks in there and still find new things. I now want a bunch of $5 andons .... thinking of lots of uses for them. Example: could put one outside my boss's office and make it flash green when they are in a good mood, red when they are in a bad mood, etc.

Man when i was 7-8ish my grandpa showed me how to solder and make circuits and really sparked my interest in engineering and tech. Wish i had such a marked around the town lol i cant imagine how ofthen i sacrificed some stuff because i missed some fitting parts.

I don't need any of this, but this was soooo interesting! Thanks for showing this!

These are always the highlight of my day. A lot of these videos don't pertain to my profession or even my hobbies, but it is so fascinating to see Shenzhen up close, personal and in detail. I love seeing your new videos and your enthusiasm for the markets, and I just love seeing the markets themselves. Let's start importing andons & tape, amirite? Thanks for the vids, Scotty.

21:12 funny how that little teasing song is internationally used.

"urge you to please be respectful" Thank you so much for reminding us.

Dear Scott take care please due to the coronavirus and know that it is always a pleasure to support your endeavors and get such great content from you!

Hi, I'm living in Xiamen (3 years) and just wanted to say, stay safe and protected from this virus Also I really like your videos keep up the great content 👍👍

I didn't know those things were called andons. Means "lantern" in Japanese.

I do love and respect that you admit that your a human trying to live like everyone else and you happen to earn you living making these videos, but also dont like being blown up with ads.

Peak Design. I’m only 30 seconds into the video and I’m hooked!

Those are the geek malls, love it!

My dad and his bro would love this place. They'd literally be spending their time in that shop and be making lot of stuff at home. Sad that we don't have access to such kind of market where we can find everything.

When this video came out I was in a random other job; Now I have 3 years experience working between IT and OT in a factory with loads of different production lines it has taken on a whole new meaning on rewatch

I miss Akihabara, have part interest in a factory in SZ. Miss parts shopping in SZ. We do not shop on the electronics mart, we work directly with the parts manufacturers that sell to the folks in SZ. Thanks for your videos. Do the pre strange parts... stay safe in these times.

if I enters this market, tell my family i found peace !

Oh man! I wish there were places like this in the US! I might have to make a trip to China just for this place, and the food!

every video that I watch made by you makes me want to go through the markets myself and buy every thing

I love watching these walk throughs vids. I would buy soooo much.

7:20 This is how Lego clones get single bricks to put into sets.

+ rep for brave. Its a great browser. I make like 10 bucks a month on the ads they serve me, and i feed that back to the creators!

Aw man, you even showed the lunch place. Damn, that really takes me back. I miss those places where you get a brick of rice, and then a whole bunch of whatevers to choose from.

Hey, good video. Looking forward to visiting those places when things cool down a bit. A bit of a hike out to Bao'an but looks well worthwhile! Best wishes to the folks back there riding out the current problems.

I’m happy just knowing a place like this exists!

I love your channel, I'm super glad you're still at it! It's so much more interesting to me to see stuff like this rather than some lame unboxing of a consumer product... Thanks!!

Just going to add on the vibration sorter. I'm working in what is essentially a pepperoni factory. Small time family owned so automation is pretty limited, but we've got a sort of vibrating trough after the slicers which leads into an upwards elevator which dumps sausage into a weigher/bagging machine. trough's whole point is to vibrate all the pepperoni slices so that it consistently fills the next conveyor and doesn't overload it (since it's open and sausage can and does fall off onto the floor if it gets piled up). It's not a perfect solution since we have someone stationed at it to make sure it's working and everything is coming out of the trough nicely, but it definitely makes their job into more of a quality control thing instead of QC and constantly flattening piles of meat.

great info, great delivery! SUBSCRIBED. !!

0:30 "A lot more industrial and mechanical and... awesome." 😆

Build something for breakfast out of these automatic building parts! Do a coffee, some toasts with butter and all on a dish! That would be cool! Use Node Red to build it!

Love these videos. Very informative. Thank you.

I was hoping for the LED section in the market ..... Thanks for the Great vids !

Cool tour! You can build an aluminum can crusher and call it "The Recyclotron" ))

Oh my god I want one of these in my town!!! Home depot aint cutting it

I can watch this stuff All Day Long!

You are the first person on the web i've been able to donate all of my brave rewards. Please take them all! I've earned a bit over 10 BAT, now you've earned 10 BAT!

A new destination added to my bucket list. What an awesome place, thank you for sharing. We all know most of our stuff comes from China but to see a place like this is just WOW. As a Brit there's a question I've been dying to ask for ages concerning the American pronunciation of "solder" every American I've ever heard leaves the 'L' out and pronounces it 'sodder' while we say sol-der. It intrigues me.

Just got Brave! Both on PC (and business PC) and Phone

I like your videos, because you show how daily life in the Chinese electronic parts market is like any other segment.

OMG! safety sticker heaven! i’d love to shop there 💖

Should’ve put the title to “Disneyland in China (For engineers)”.

Watched till the very end even though I don't have a strong background in any of this. 😂

very cool Video. Thanks for showing this part of the industry.

Stay safe, Scotty. Lotsa respect from Singapore

The circuit board tester jig was super neat to see, have heard of them before as an EE but never seen what one looks like! I typically design with ample test points and extra vias, but our facility has to test first article boards by hand once they come in because we are a small company

Great video. I absolutely love this kind of stuff. I could never go to a place like that with any real amount of cash in my pocket. I would end up building a ‎Willy Wonka device that has no real purpose but still super cool all the same.

Thanks for sharing this! I'm a tech nerd too working in the tech industry and would probably be there for hours and buy way too many things (probably don't need). I am now a subscriber and remember "Be careful with too much water"

You and your show are fantastic! Cheers!