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…
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 😔
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I worked in a radiator shop back in 1971, we built radiators for everything. Big firetruck where a center had to be removed for power takeoffs by 1985 came around radiators changer from copper and brass to aluminum and plastics, you still got the older radiators but they were going out of style. When I first started was going thru 50 lbs of soilder a week when I left about 20 lbs
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 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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!!!
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. 😆
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
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…
Absolutely adore these two as hosts, they both have lived such interesting lives and share their wisdom developed from such different experiences. Love it!
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.
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.
That lathe is pretty small. We have 4 of them in our machinist shop. And a few massive lathes that go out like 50ft. Pretty cool and tough stuff. Basic machining equipment like that just never breaks.
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?
Working metal on a lathe and welding while in sandals or flip flops is one of the most Indian/South Asian things I've ever seen. For some people, flip flops are an anytime footwear. As a native Floridian, I heartily approve.
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
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.
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!
A lot of these videos are filmed in places where they cannot get spare parts it's simply impossible to get a replacement for anything that needs to be fixed. These guys are able to rebuild and refix some of the most impossible things... Their amazing fabricators
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!
I used to deliver car parts and one of the really cool things I learned about car batteries is that they are the most recycled product by a large margin, with paper and aluminum coming in a distant second and third. If you buy a car battery "new" odds are its guts have been extracted from an old battery, reconditioned, and then stuffed into an entirely new casing to be sold as if it's new. Lead-acid batteries are THE recyclable rechargeable battery chemistry.
@@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
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.
8:10 dude lifting out the 1.5 That engine weighs about the same as a couple bags of dog food. If you can pick up a hay bale, you'll be able to pick up that engine. I used to scare guys when I'd snag something like a 390 bottom end with crank still in it and put it on a stand, but it's seriously not all that difficult. You'd be amazed at what your legs can do... Edit: That VW assembly was MUCH heavier, especially with the tranny still attached...
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.
Always love these videos! Not even close to being able to be a mechanic on my own car but I love this channel as well as Donut Media! Such fun videos for car people and people that just like cars! Thanks for all the fun videos!
Ok guys, we've found the winning formula for this channel. This is unofficially the Sandro and Angelina show and everyone else is a guest.
THIS!
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Totally agree
Legit
Yep, if these two probably weren’t under contract they could make a killing as an independent operation.
Petition for Angelina and Sandro auto repair vids and basic maintenance!
Lol you tryna get them to quit being actual mechanics and do YT fulltime?
@@dancoroian1it would pay better
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Isn't she an instructor at a tech school?
Nah she's annoying af. You know they make her explain stuff for credibility cause she's not even a mechanic
I loved how you didn't make fun of the jobs and recognized how necessary this kind of work is in places with hard access to parts
it adds to the age old saying if people work hard they have more humility, and mechanics do understand hard work and under privileged circumstances
That earthquake was a "tell us you're from the West Coast without telling us you're from the West Coast" moment 😂
I've been in an earthquake before. I was living in Banff, AB in 2021 when the Rocky Mountains got restless.
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…
And Angelina didn't flinch. That's an LA Girl. If it ain't 6 or over, it's just a rumble.
@@williampotter2098 I love she said "rude!" 😂
First: you have the ULTIMATE duo for this channel. I love Angelina and Sandro together. Two: leaving the earthquake in was gold!!
Yeah Sandro reminds me of a muppet ( in a good funny way , the way he bobbed and smiled ).
@@FunkyBuddha81 like Kermit The Frog? Would that make Angelina Ms. Piggy?🤪
@@DucatiPaso750 Easy bro. Sandro got a wife too y'know XD
It was her earthquake dance that made me laugh
15:51 this is the facial expression of Bugatti's engineers when they see that copy.
I liked that they really acknowledged that the people in the videos don’t have access to just buying new parts. That set the tone well.
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.
Dude is from Salvador, i think he understands and has seen some of this stuff
As a privileged inner city iphone bozo, I'm glad they explained this to me. I would never have known otherwise.
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 😔
@@cp.8492that is true sustainability my friend. Not a 60,000 dollar EV
We need to say thank you to Sandro and Angelina for taking their time to be on this channel.
No joke
I think they're compensated
Given the views, prolly doubles their income
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
I think Angelina is officially part of this channel now
Somebody please give Sandro a pair of Sandals man! 😂😂 He set his heart since the first clip.
Props for listening to the audience and continuing to bring these two back
Angelina and Sandro are literally the dynamic duo
Such a great mix of theoretical and practical knowledge. Angelina knows everything and Sandro has done everything. A great team.
You mean you can do everything, but not know everything you've done? hm...
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
@@alelitre I was just having fun with your sentence... that's all! :)
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 see Angelina or Sandro - I click
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He does it for the boys
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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.
And puts sandal while doing mechanic
Opposite of ev's.😮
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
There's alot of shitboxes out there also because of "repairs" like this too, let's not get it twisted.
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.
Section repair are done every day to some tires here , just never pass. car no profit and moonshot liability .
15:49 "Little Nikes on and everything, Are those made out of clay?" 😂 Bruh Sandro be killin me
"I Need Sandals" :D
Lmao fam I died 🤣
@@1kingcharm ong bro it's just the way he looked at the camera and slid it in real fast that fucked me up, he made to be on the camera fr he funny af
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.
thats what i was thinking. i was like "lots of batteries are rebuilt and thats legit but man no PPE is crazy"
If you are doing just one battery, that acid is not gonna be any problem.
There's thousands of those dirty people around to replace the one in the video.
Safety third......it'll be finnnnnnne 😂
which is why they don't do it in the West like that any more, not osha - approved
that bugatti clip at the end was genuinely impressive AF. dude was prolly the only car in the whole town and its a "bugatti". you gotta love it
I saw their vid. It was in Vietnam.
Sandro is so humble that it’s heartwarming. Dude lived a life. Thanks for keepin it real bro!
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.
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.
I second this shit
"Do it for the boys."
- Saint Sandros of Los Angeles
Top Gear style. One of them does it the proper way, the other does it the ghetto way... and see who wins...
This right here. Angelina does her homework. Sandro just full send
All about the boys man!
Angelina explains things in a way I can understand. I really appreciate her explanations
Seeing Sandro and Angelina appreciating the work of a craftsman is top tier wholesome content.
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 ❤
Amen. Nice to see the respect
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.
@@michag4337 creative spirit at it's liveliest
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.
It is so clear Angelina is an educator. She does a wonderful job explaining things.
JFC kiss it long & hard.
@@daakrolb pardon?
@@aarontimm You know even I don't know what I was referring to there.... ?
Well she actually is an instructor/teacher
@@syedsyclone6827yes lol
The 1st minute of this had me smiling like a fool, love to see the passion in these two when they see something cool.
Same with me. Although I'm deeply in love with Angelina . 🤣. Don't worry Angelina, you are much too young and much too smart for me.
Angie just said it doe...
" Save some for the rest of us " when talking about pulling tHOse
I really like just how well they actually explain how things work. They are genuine great educators.
Let’s keep this channel and hosts for long as possible!! Love this series and hosts!
They are the best
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.
Metal 🤘
Where are u living now !
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.
I worked in a radiator shop back in 1971, we built radiators for everything. Big firetruck where a center had to be removed for power takeoffs by 1985 came around radiators changer from copper and brass to aluminum and plastics, you still got the older radiators but they were going out of style. When I first started was going thru 50 lbs of soilder a week when I left about 20 lbs
A: I'm impressed
S: I need sandals
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.
12:13. Excuse me? ……Say that again…..
12:59 “Don’t be looking at me!”
LMAO!!!🤣😂
I love these two. Sandro is awesome and Angelina is THE BEST!
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!
There are a lot of supposed radiator repair places around me, but none will replace the fins apparently.
What sort of equipment radiator is worth repairing rather than replacing?
I used to work 5 minutes from an awesome radiator shop. Wirtgen road mill radiators can be $1200-$3000. Repairing was less than $500
@@ChristianStout A metal one when all other options are plastic ones. Plus some radiators can't be found. Took me four years to find a radiator for my truck.
@@ChristianStout That's just whole ass ignorant kind of question. Repair price vs replacement price/availability. There are a shit ton of people who live in places where parts aren't easy to get and/or are using equipment that's old and either replacements parts are stupid expensive or just plain impossible to get, at which point what, you buy a whole new piece of equipment just cause of a fu@$ed radiator? FML.
15:53 - Lmao I love the random call-back to the sandals here.
_Get that man some chanchalas!_
I'd buy Sandro sandals merch. Sandrals.
@@rjmariThat's gold, Jerry! Gold!
@@rjmari🤣🤣🤣
Sandro is pure full of experience. That’s the real mechanic
Iam so glad this channel exists. These two deserve youtube fame
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.
As a society we've lost a lot of skills on the whole.
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.
Don't worry, once society collapses people will figure out some stuff again.
Can you Canadians even qualify as a first world nation anymore 😂, your overlord Trudeau is destroying Canada
"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.
I love when there is an update on the Sandro and Angelina channel. They don't even need to introduce themselves anymore.
I thought his name was Miranda.
@@Okurka.that’s his shop name
@@410cey5 Miranda's Shop is the shop name; he also has the Miranda name tag on his shirt.
Absolutely love the radiator repair and battery rebuild. These guys have the skills to do what we no longer do.
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.
You want to be around melting lead all day? I wouldn't.
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.
Angelina and Sandro should become permanent cast members
Angelina and Sandro are naturals in front of the camera. Pure charisma.
Angelina and Sandro are my favorite duo and that earthquake reaction was gold.
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.
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.
Love it when pro's like Sandro and Angelina are respecting the skills on display. Pro's respect Pro's.
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.
also love how Sandro says "yeah, I've done that" to like half of the hacks
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
I love it when these two team up! Especially like how Angelina explains how things work. More please!
Well, her claim that electrons pile up on one side of a battery is nonsense, so there's that...
Such an awesome duo for the show! Make them permanent on the show! :) I wish all car mechanics were as honest as them!
Love this duo. Straight up reminds of school when the two chillest teachers would combine classes for a specific lesson.
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.
Excellent hosts. Could watch these two all day.
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!!!
I sincerely love both Angelina and Sandro, and their chemistry together makes their work with -Donut- Real Mechanic Stuff even better!
The real stars the technicians and mechanics shown doing the work! 👌
They're such a great combo. Channels usually never evolve this smoothly. Yall killing it STILL
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!
Yup I have a few friends that helped me with getting a motor
That guy better not make a habit of taking an engine block out that way. That's a herniated disc waiting to happen.
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. 😆
That dude’s arms look like fucking tree trunks. It’s crazy to think that you can build that type of muscle strength naturally
8:00 when the junkyard is doing an all you can carry for $25 day, but you need a new engine 😂
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
i don't know anything about this, but is it not crazy to do that with no mask/gloves/nothing?
The guy @17:06 pulling the motor out, then carrying it was a Superman flex! Hat`s off to him! Hey, it`s the Angelina and Sandro show! Awesome.😁
All I could think was "Lift with your knees, not with your back!"
This is such good content. I love how the hosts contextualize what we're seeing.
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…
@geterhero Yeah it was drive or ride the whole way, what a crazy, amazing era
14:27 😂😂 "She's looking at it from corporate" I died with that comment
Sandro and Angelina are so awesome together haha, love both of them
Absolutely adore these two as hosts, they both have lived such interesting lives and share their wisdom developed from such different experiences. Love it!
These two are the best, love Angelina and Sandro, they are superstars
I love these two. I want tours of their shops, tours of their cars, tattoos, car museum visits, a day at Disney, anything.
LOVE SANDRO AND ANGELINA
Love these two. This girl's knowledge 🫨👌🏻
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.
Angelina & Sandro ... the best combo ... like... ever!
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.
@@gtvgranberg that was not the type of G I was talking about.
@@armandomendoza3167Well at least he was well lubed.
@@locutusofborg very true 😂🤣
That lathe is pretty small. We have 4 of them in our machinist shop. And a few massive lathes that go out like 50ft.
Pretty cool and tough stuff. Basic machining equipment like that just never breaks.
Sandro and Angelina are such treasures!
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?
Working metal on a lathe and welding while in sandals or flip flops is one of the most Indian/South Asian things I've ever seen. For some people, flip flops are an anytime footwear. As a native Floridian, I heartily approve.
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
Literally my two favorite people on the internet. I laugh and learn every time with these two
Love this combo they compliment each other perfectly. Harmony and chaos you guess who's who.
Love these two. Individually they're great, but they just work so well together.
More please!
Seriously, just make it a bi-weekly upload of these 2!! Give the people what they want! Lol They are so awesome and absolutely EPIC together!
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.
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!
I mean have you seen his forearms? Dude probably does that shit 5 times a day
My back and knees hurt watching that. I bet his did too lol.
A herniated disc waiting to happen with that lift style.
"my dads gunna watch this clip and be like 'lets start doing that again'" and he goes NOPE. haha i feel that prim
A lot of these videos are filmed in places where they cannot get spare parts it's simply impossible to get a replacement for anything that needs to be fixed. These guys are able to rebuild and refix some of the most impossible things... Their amazing fabricators
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!
These two are so good together. Their personalities work great together!
I used to deliver car parts and one of the really cool things I learned about car batteries is that they are the most recycled product by a large margin, with paper and aluminum coming in a distant second and third. If you buy a car battery "new" odds are its guts have been extracted from an old battery, reconditioned, and then stuffed into an entirely new casing to be sold as if it's new. Lead-acid batteries are THE recyclable rechargeable battery chemistry.
I love that you can hear people giggling behind the camera at their jokes lmao
Thank you for not roasting and understanding the difficulties that some countries go through
I mean it's not like they could look down on them considering they themselves live in a broken (but rich) second world country
@@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
Good duo. Great video. Reusing, rebuilding seems like a better way of living. Less wasteful. Makes you appreciate and care for the stuff you have
you guys hit the jackpot finding these two and thank you for letting them actually fully host
It’s funny right? I watch for them and find the originals distracting.
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.
The lead was literally the least hazardous about that. That part was fine, the acid and plastic welding was the dangerous bit.
8:10 dude lifting out the 1.5
That engine weighs about the same as a couple bags of dog food. If you can pick up a hay bale, you'll be able to pick up that engine. I used to scare guys when I'd snag something like a 390 bottom end with crank still in it and put it on a stand, but it's seriously not all that difficult. You'd be amazed at what your legs can do...
Edit: That VW assembly was MUCH heavier, especially with the tranny still attached...
That's Nigerian fufu working 😂
The way they reacted to the earthquake reminds me of Clarkson with his "Oh no, anyway"
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.
When I was a teen working on cars we had a radiator shop in town that was always busy.
I took a couple to get fixed.
Always love these videos! Not even close to being able to be a mechanic on my own car but I love this channel as well as Donut Media! Such fun videos for car people and people that just like cars! Thanks for all the fun videos!