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 thought there was something wrong with my sound when the video first started bc the intro music was so low even at max on this laptop i could hardly hear it.
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.
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! :-) ua-cam.com/video/jKv_N0IDS2A/v-deo.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 :-)
Love the video. Ps your English is great! I’m a long time viewer and I just wanted to let you know your accent and vocabulary are excellent. Impressive. Keep up the good videos.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From mine experience with the compressor you working on, you forgot the most important check e.g. the tank inside for corrosion (water) or debris. Not enough draining from the tank tap causes roest makes this device a BOM!
Ok... love your videos. But... you share a bike factory... you are the post apocalyptic inventor. how come you have not built an electric cargo bike yet? (and i pressed like)
I still have access to a good scrapyard where I can scrounge around, unfortunately all they ever have is bulk stock steel and industrial scrap. Thats not a bad thing, my smoker and anvil were both scrapyard finds - but no vacuum cleaner rebuilds in my future.
I also love to dig around in scrap yards. I grew up in one. My grandfather own his own junk yard. He would let me dig and dig for anything that I fancy. He would show me how everything worked. It was alway deep inside of me to see how everything ticked. I love fixing anything and everything broken or not. I also love to make my own Idea's come to life, I was born with a natural curiosity that has gotten me into6 so much trouble throughout my life. I'm alway looking, studying, learning how to fix and make old, new things back from the scrap pits. One person's junk is another persons treasure. Keep hunting for your golden treasure😄
HOW in Germany can you find a scrap yard willing to sell you stuff.. ???? EVERY time I have tried, they tell me (very rudely) that the law says I cannot buy anything. especially electrical stuff from them.. Then they tell me (more rudely) to go away
Love your videos. I would share with you to never trust used air tanks. They rust from the inside and can rupture like a bomb. I like your work ethic of reusing the tools and such. A rare thing in this era of throw away before repair
A resealable section of 75mm/3" PVC pipe, filled with Silica Gel crystals (KITTY LITTER) makes for a cheap AIR DRYER installation. Reheat the SILICA GEL CRYSTALS TO RECHARGE IT.
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.
Thank you so much for your videos. I really enjoy watching the scrap repair videos. You are highly competent and inventive with your problem solving skills. Also thank you for the English narrative, you have great communication skills. Keep up the good work. By the way- the quality of scrap in Germany is vastly better than what one can find at an average UK scrap yard. I would be interested if any UK viewers know of some good sources in Southern England? Cheers ....
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
More please yes!!!! Would love to see you getting back into designing circuits from scratch and using scrap parts. Would especially love to see a metal detector series and going through iterations of balance up to pi detectors, especially pi with 2 or 3 concentric receiver coils which are super rare but can give very wide range but still pickup the smallest items. Something like your washing machine motors series. You can use stuff like coiled cat5 cable or tv tube degauss coils as the tx/rx coils and the circuitry can be completely analogue, digital sample and hold or fully microprocessor (arduino/esp32) contrlled so there is plenty scope for a several part miniseries. Love your channel - my loft/shed/garage/garden very much resembles your workshop and that scrapyard so i can relate very well.
Love these videos, very inspiring. Couple of thoughts about cost efficiency, The bearing replacement for the vacum motor would surely be very easy and only cost 1 euro. And a trumpet for the buzzer could surely be better made from a salvaged cone rather than a custom made one that requires a lot of time, effort and electricity? A plastic cone would do the job as well as a metal one and plastic cones are everywhere.
i love the alien attack scene with the Siemens alarm. and the command station you got on the video, An Oscar winner!!!! More videos please........ Cheers!!!!!
Great videos! ...... FLANGE = NOT flayn-je ( like RANGE - rayn-je ). ...... it is pronounced in UK English - flan-je ( like HINGE - hin-je ). ...... Your English is pretty good, easily understandable, and flows well.
Great fixes. We have a great brand of vacuum cleaners in the UK called Henry made by Pneumatic. They are bullet proof and there are so many parts for them cheap. I have fixed so many and put them back to work. Great stuff. Good fix for the air compressor as well. Very useful to be able to fix these cheap Chinese air compressors. Parts not always easily available but they are all fairly similar and not that difficult to repair if you have some know how.
Can I get an explanation by someone how the entire device costs 4000$ , but the motor itself, which is LITERALLY 100% OF THE FUNCTION OF THE FUCKING THING, is 40$? Like, what? You're paying for the "2 year warranty care plan" even though that's fucking required by law to be *free* for the first 2 years? You're paying for the servicing of ... changing a 40$ part? Really, I'd like someone to address this god damn elephant in the room. Or, no, go ahead, blue pill the fuck out of here. .-.
Are you surprised to find a battered old US PROPERTY filing cabinet in Germany (I'm assuming you live in the 'West')? Post WW2, America pretty much moved into your country - military goverment, interim administrations, US Army and a huge CIA presence, too. Old office equipment is almost always sold on, repurposed, 'borrowed'... The useful life of a steel file cabinet is measured in centuries. Great channel, BTW. One of my YT faves.
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!
Cool video. I wish there were junkyards like that around here. If there are, I haven't seen them. (Calgary, Canada FYI). And I love the desk. I've been thinking of building my own computer desk and that gives me ideas.
To explain the US Govt Filing cabinet. Most US Military bases (of which Germany had several for a long time) have a program to dispose of items no longer of use to the military (old, outdated, broken, etc). First, they determine if an object can be put back into the supply system, if not then it's turned over to DRMO (Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office) which is now called DLA. Can look up specifics on wiki if ya want. Regardless, typically each base has a sale where as these items no longer needed are available for purchase. At times they are open to the local public. Everything from beds to trash bins can be purchased. Undoubtedly some person had bought that file cabinet at a DRMO sale, used it, and decided they no longer wanted that 200kg metal monster around their office. Hence the scrap yard. I've heard now days, there are private businesses that pretty much get all the good stuff from DLA before individuals have a chance. Things like Trucks, Hummers, trailers and autos.
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!!!
LOL, My air compressor is a third party handed down hand-me down looking some what like a FrankenPressPumper thing. When I received it the Compressor and motor was functional. Any and All Control Valves, Pressure Gauges and what not came from anything but a Compressor. Eaaa, It's been working like that for 5 years now. Now I have a Compressor I always needed and was to Cheap to buy. Works way better then the Recycled Refrigeration Compressor / Pump tied to a Air Camel Spare Air Tank. That thing takes a half hour to pressurize but can provide 400 PSI.
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 🇦🇺
I work for SIEMENS Canada as an HVAC/R mechanic. The quality of Siemens equipment is very good. Any slight imperfections and it goes in the scrap bin. You know where I’m going with this...
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.
How coincidental! As soon as you powered that vacuum I recognised that sound as about a week ago our 1100 watt Electrolux vacuum suddenly started making the same noise and also the burning smell you mentioned! Same problem ... TOTALLY shot bearings. However I think BOTH have gone but only the rear one can be accessed easily so I think a replacement motor might be needed here too? 😕😕😕👎
Very dumb way to test the compressor tank. If it was damaged (that's super unlikely, but it's a matter of WHEN This will kill someone) - it would've exploded like a freakin' grenade. Always test with hydraulic fluid, at worst case, water (then dry the tank to avoid more rust), and crank it to much higher pressure than intended to be used. Hydraulics don't explode. Air, does. Violently.
I like way you put that about economically unjustified restorations. I'm reading tons of comments (usually coming from US :)) on how someone should buy something new instead of repairing old thing. And yeah, maybe sometimes that is true, but you can't compare feeling you get when repair something or build with your hands with one you have when just buy new thing. Anyway, good for you you living in Germany. Junk yards there are full of treasures. Here (Serbia) you can still find something, but is far less. I know people who probably finding stuff on German junkyards, do some small repair (sometimes just cleaning) and sell that in Serbia for nice amount.
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 would be EXTREMELY suspicious on the condition of that tank!!!! The ONLY way to really pressure test it is to fill it with water, and pressurize it to at least 2X what you are going to use it at, and let it sit for several minutes. STILL that is a BOMB waiting to explode!!! Better off drilling a hole in it and scrapping it!
you should look at the web site, ifixit.com!!!!! you would fit right in there!!! and the have what is called a "REPAIR MANIFESTO" were peeps like us reuse and repair and dont throw away and dont buy what you cant fix!!!! i will be looking at more of your vid. to get more inspiring ideas!!!! thanks for all you do!!! my god bless and good karma to all!!!!!
Looking back at the original motor, it seems that it may be fixable. Perhaps see if new bearings can be obtained. The most common fault on many domestic vacuum cleaners is simply blockages. I've seen so many dumped for an issue which a simple clean out will fix. My aging 1990 Miele works perfectly. Because I clean it out properly.
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 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!
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.
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Hi just wondering how the gaskets in the compressor held up? I have a compressor that I can't find gaskets for and I think I will have to make some.
The alien attack sequence was pure gold.
the footage of the planes crashing is real footage, I've seen it before. People died :/
Any idea what movie it was from?
@@Deluge4000 Earth versus the flying saucers, pure classic
More like pure pyrite! ; )
@@Designandrew Have you heard of dark humor? It's an excellent way to get over tragedies.
That scrap yard! I could probably disappear for days in there.
yeah me too :)
My wife would be exceptionally unhappy if I went there.
Id have My Truck DRAGGING.. Nothing like This Near Me
My eyes lit up when I saw that place, feel like taking a trip to the local scrap yard :)
Oh yer i remember when i was little mum ad dad would take us to the dump to get rid of our junk and come home with more junk than we droped of lol
Finding this channel was like tripping on a brick of gold. So many usefull amazing ideas, really gonna take a look at my old compressor now
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).
Well said!
Same problem Southern England. These things are worth more dead than alive...
@@Fatcatbaz Damn right. So much for wanting to save the Earth. The only people benefitting are those who own the scrapyards.
Try a set of lawn mower wheels for that compressor. : )
even castors would be fine
I used sack truck wheels on mine, simply because my yard is rocky and plastic wheels kept sinking while moving it
or 3D print a replacement hub for the tire
@@jusb1066 why would you want to put beavers under a compressor? ;)
Any kind of wheels, really. This thing doesn’t need to be street-legal.
i thought there was something wrong with my sound when the video first started bc the intro music was so low even at max on this laptop i could hardly hear it.
Yeah, same here.
Yea, i turned up my speakers and got a german dude yelling at me all the sudden..
@@Z-Ack Same!
@Jason Smith OMG...
Z Ack you should now know that’s the trick.
Dude. NEVER pass on a good vise!
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.
Thumbs up for the cargo bike! I use ours very regularly here in Amsterdam when I would otherwise use a car or van.
I'm surprised he hasn't made his own. Why rent when you can have one?
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! :-) ua-cam.com/video/jKv_N0IDS2A/v-deo.html
just smash the old bearing off :) no need for a puller
Jusb1066. But then you risk bending or damaging the shaft.
@@jusb1066 Smashing usually is a fast way to damage & destruction.
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 :-)
Love the video. Ps your English is great! I’m a long time viewer and I just wanted to let you know your accent and vocabulary are excellent. Impressive. Keep up the good videos.
So cool. I love your channel and your English is amazing. Keep up the good work! Vielen Dank!
Buddy, you have some GREAT junkyards over there! Fantastic job on the compressor and the vacuum was also a great find.
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.
This was really satisfying to watch. Makes me want to fix thrown away tech aswell.
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.
That compressor was pretty gnarly, good save just the same.
It had its issues but it cleaned up nice.
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.
Do it yourself and save.
Paul Frederick, but remember the first rule of DYI....know your limits.
@@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.
You are one of my heroes Post Apocalyptic Inventor, one of the real heroes of this world most treat as disposable.
Many have more money than sense or skill. Some just can't be bothered.
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.
From mine experience with the compressor you working on, you forgot the most important check e.g. the tank inside for corrosion (water) or debris.
Not enough draining from the tank tap causes roest makes this device a BOM!
Ok... love your videos. But... you share a bike factory... you are the post apocalyptic inventor. how come you have not built an electric cargo bike yet? (and i pressed like)
The Safety Fascist ended our days of Scrounging in the Scrap Yards. Hell they would stop you from getting out of your truck if they could.
Yup….only reason they let you get out of the truck is to unload so they don't have to do the work!
I still have access to a good scrapyard where I can scrounge around, unfortunately all they ever have is bulk stock steel and industrial scrap. Thats not a bad thing, my smoker and anvil were both scrapyard finds - but no vacuum cleaner rebuilds in my future.
No scrounging here anymore, due to Safety Politicians...sad, many items I have are from scrap yard.
Not in the us
@@thatyoutubeguy7583 Your lucky the don'g search you here in the U.S.
Love the scrap yard hunt type video's... 😎
I’ll second that.
I also love to dig around in scrap yards. I grew up in one. My grandfather own his own junk yard. He would let me dig and dig for anything that I fancy. He would show me how everything worked. It was alway deep inside of me to see how everything ticked. I love fixing anything and everything broken or not. I also love to make my own Idea's come to life, I was born with a natural curiosity that has gotten me into6 so much trouble throughout my life. I'm alway looking, studying, learning how to fix and make old, new things back from the scrap pits. One person's junk is another persons treasure. Keep hunting for your golden treasure😄
brooke robertson
Me too.
It's always a good day seeing the alert from your channel and I love the scrapyard visits!! great video
vice at 1:45 is very high quality and easily repaired and modified for your use or sale. go back for it!!
The Vacuum cleaner almost took my Mouse Cursor away :) QC
Whahahaha. Good one.
I want this guys job. it looks awesome. Scrapyards fulll of german-made junk? fricken candyland man. AND he translates to english for us westerners
More like Repair-A-Horn!!!
I'll go home..
Lazy, should have replaced the bearings
0:42 is that an air hammer?
"Unhealthy sounds"
Proceeds to be fucking possessed
Hot damn i am really glad you tube recommended you to me. This is my perfect channel
HOW in Germany can you find a scrap yard willing to sell you stuff.. ???? EVERY time I have tried, they tell me (very rudely) that the law says I cannot buy anything. especially electrical stuff from them.. Then they tell me (more rudely) to go away
thats the real question right here
is it me or do you say some words with a British accent ? 0.o loving the series btw
Though the Radar screen was X-com for a minute... Would have bee rad! But a great video none the less!
Love your videos. I would share with you to never trust used air tanks. They rust from the inside and can rupture like a bomb. I like your work ethic of reusing the tools and such. A rare thing in this era of throw away before repair
You would be amazed with the amount of crap just tossed in the US. Any StG44's in that yard.
Thank you. You inspire me to fix things up rather than discard them and buy anew. Also, watching you work makes me feel productive! 😀
Great ending!!
Did you build your own cargo bike? Would love to see a good instructional cargo bike build? Please?
i still felt a little sad for that vice...oh well, or youd have nothing but vices i guess
I have always shared your interest in scrap yards and fixing all that I have obtained.
Another great video. I love the ones where you fix items from the dump. Thank you for all the effort you put into them. Please keep them coming.
Thanks for sharing so much of your skill and time, man.
Great work on the compressor. I share your philosophy of repairing things!
Czech valve, must be cheap since they are your neighbor ;)
Wow! An actual video of someone replacing a vacuum cleaner motor!
A resealable section of 75mm/3" PVC pipe, filled with Silica Gel crystals (KITTY LITTER) makes for a cheap AIR DRYER installation.
Reheat the SILICA GEL CRYSTALS TO RECHARGE IT.
Superb - and I'm still laughing about your American accent joke!
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.
The us stuff came from us ocupation bases which are all over germany.
Thank you so much for your videos. I really enjoy watching the scrap repair videos. You are highly competent and inventive with your problem solving skills. Also thank you for the English narrative, you have great communication skills. Keep up the good work. By the way- the quality of scrap in Germany is vastly better than what one can find at an average UK scrap yard. I would be interested if any UK viewers know of some good sources in Southern England? Cheers ....
We really live in a throwaway society😔 so sad. But heyyyy one mans junk is another mans treasure
I could watch scrap restore videos like this all day!
The Ferm Crompressor is from a Dutch company. Correction: a Dutch importer. But most products are working really well :)
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
Leslie Austin try to find a micro farad (uF) rating on the capacitor and match it that way, good luck
More please yes!!!! Would love to see you getting back into designing circuits from scratch and using scrap parts. Would especially love to see a metal detector series and going through iterations of balance up to pi detectors, especially pi with 2 or 3 concentric receiver coils which are super rare but can give very wide range but still pickup the smallest items. Something like your washing machine motors series. You can use stuff like coiled cat5 cable or tv tube degauss coils as the tx/rx coils and the circuitry can be completely analogue, digital sample and hold or fully microprocessor (arduino/esp32) contrlled so there is plenty scope for a several part miniseries. Love your channel - my loft/shed/garage/garden very much resembles your workshop and that scrapyard so i can relate very well.
Love these videos, very inspiring.
Couple of thoughts about cost efficiency,
The bearing replacement for the vacum motor would surely be very easy and only cost 1 euro.
And a trumpet for the buzzer could surely be better made from a salvaged cone rather than a custom made one that requires a lot of time, effort and electricity? A plastic cone would do the job as well as a metal one and plastic cones are everywhere.
Scrapyard videos are the best, keep making those :)
that massive Robuschi blower looks like a fun project. The blower lobes alone would probably be worth a pretty penny at the right scrap yard.
If someone else threw it out, it means it can be repaired, if we throw stuff out, you know it cannot be repaired!!! :D
I think you should upload the retro short as a separate video too! Really nice work on that and the rest of it.
What a fantastic little video. I for one am loving the repurposing / scrapyard series of vids. Greetings from the UK
If you see saw blades, get them. That's good steel, and you never have enough good steel around the shop.
i love the alien attack scene with the Siemens alarm. and the command station you got on the video, An Oscar winner!!!! More videos please........ Cheers!!!!!
Demand for more!!! 😬
Great videos! ...... FLANGE = NOT flayn-je ( like RANGE - rayn-je ). ...... it is pronounced in UK English - flan-je ( like HINGE - hin-je ). ...... Your English is pretty good, easily understandable, and flows well.
As soon as I heard that SEBO start up I thought of motor bearings! Your videos are brilliant keep 'em up! :)
Me too, but never thought that they will be in THAT bad shape that you can move the shaft by hand - radially :)
Great fixes. We have a great brand of vacuum cleaners in the UK called Henry made by Pneumatic. They are bullet proof and there are so many parts for them cheap. I have fixed so many and put them back to work. Great stuff.
Good fix for the air compressor as well. Very useful to be able to fix these cheap Chinese air compressors. Parts not always easily available but they are all fairly similar and not that difficult to repair if you have some know how.
We have Henry here as well in The Netherlands. :)
I love fixing broken stuff. If only I was educated in electronic tech.
Can I get an explanation by someone how the entire device costs 4000$ , but the motor itself, which is LITERALLY 100% OF THE FUNCTION OF THE FUCKING THING, is 40$?
Like, what? You're paying for the "2 year warranty care plan" even though that's fucking required by law to be *free* for the first 2 years? You're paying for the servicing of ... changing a 40$ part?
Really, I'd like someone to address this god damn elephant in the room. Or, no, go ahead, blue pill the fuck out of here. .-.
Dude.. love your video.. junk to funk i say it.. one man's junk is another man project..
Should have fixed that other vise.
Are you surprised to find a battered old US PROPERTY filing cabinet in Germany (I'm assuming you live in the 'West')? Post WW2, America pretty much moved into your country - military goverment, interim administrations, US Army and a huge CIA presence, too. Old office equipment is almost always sold on, repurposed, 'borrowed'... The useful life of a steel file cabinet is measured in centuries. Great channel, BTW. One of my YT faves.
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!
Cool video. I wish there were junkyards like that around here. If there are, I haven't seen them. (Calgary, Canada FYI). And I love the desk. I've been thinking of building my own computer desk and that gives me ideas.
Great work and greetings from Texas.I am sure you inspire others as you have done me.
in the vacum cleaner repair: the bearing is probably damaged ... no! he probably disappeared! :-)
C U in the next video!
To explain the US Govt Filing cabinet. Most US Military bases (of which Germany had several for a long time) have a program to dispose of items no longer of use to the military (old, outdated, broken, etc). First, they determine if an object can be put back into the supply system, if not then it's turned over to DRMO (Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office) which is now called DLA. Can look up specifics on wiki if ya want. Regardless, typically each base has a sale where as these items no longer needed are available for purchase. At times they are open to the local public. Everything from beds to trash bins can be purchased. Undoubtedly some person had bought that file cabinet at a DRMO sale, used it, and decided they no longer wanted that 200kg metal monster around their office. Hence the scrap yard. I've heard now days, there are private businesses that pretty much get all the good stuff from DLA before individuals have a chance. Things like Trucks, Hummers, trailers and autos.
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!!!
LOL, My air compressor is a third party handed down hand-me down looking some what like a FrankenPressPumper thing. When I received it the Compressor and motor was functional. Any and All Control Valves, Pressure Gauges and what not came from anything but a Compressor. Eaaa, It's been working like that for 5 years now. Now I have a Compressor I always needed and was to Cheap to buy. Works way better then the Recycled Refrigeration Compressor / Pump tied to a Air Camel Spare Air Tank. That thing takes a half hour to pressurize but can provide 400 PSI.
These latest videos are great! Simple low hanging fruit repairs and learning along the way with some great commentary and wit. Keep up the good work!
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 🇦🇺
This is how I find most things, but not at a junk yard. I get things used and fix them or parts and build what I want.
I work for SIEMENS Canada as an HVAC/R mechanic. The quality of Siemens equipment is very good. Any slight imperfections and it goes in the scrap bin. You know where I’m going with this...
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.
How coincidental! As soon as you powered that vacuum I recognised that sound as about a week ago our 1100 watt Electrolux vacuum suddenly started making the same noise and also the burning smell you mentioned! Same problem ... TOTALLY shot bearings. However I think BOTH have gone but only the rear one can be accessed easily so I think a replacement motor might be needed here too? 😕😕😕👎
Very dumb way to test the compressor tank. If it was damaged (that's super unlikely, but it's a matter of WHEN This will kill someone) - it would've exploded like a freakin' grenade. Always test with hydraulic fluid, at worst case, water (then dry the tank to avoid more rust), and crank it to much higher pressure than intended to be used. Hydraulics don't explode. Air, does. Violently.
I like way you put that about economically unjustified restorations. I'm reading tons of comments (usually coming from US :)) on how someone should buy something new instead of repairing old thing. And yeah, maybe sometimes that is true, but you can't compare feeling you get when repair something or build with your hands with one you have when just buy new thing. Anyway, good for you you living in Germany. Junk yards there are full of treasures. Here (Serbia) you can still find something, but is far less. I know people who probably finding stuff on German junkyards, do some small repair (sometimes just cleaning) and sell that in Serbia for nice amount.
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 would be EXTREMELY suspicious on the condition of that tank!!!!
The ONLY way to really pressure test it is to fill it with water, and pressurize it to at least 2X what you are going to use it at, and let it sit for several minutes.
STILL that is a BOMB waiting to explode!!! Better off drilling a hole in it and scrapping it!
Hi. new subscriber here. Loved the video. the ending was AWESOME!!!! Keep up the great work.
you should look at the web site, ifixit.com!!!!! you would fit right in there!!! and the have what is called a "REPAIR MANIFESTO" were peeps like us reuse and repair and dont throw away and dont buy what you cant fix!!!! i will be looking at more of your vid. to get more inspiring ideas!!!! thanks for all you do!!! my god bless and good karma to all!!!!!
I love these scrapyard finds. I hope in the future I will find cool stuff like this in the junkyard.
Looking back at the original motor, it seems that it may be fixable. Perhaps see if new bearings can be obtained.
The most common fault on many domestic vacuum cleaners is simply blockages. I've seen so many dumped for an issue which a simple clean out will fix. My aging 1990 Miele works perfectly. Because I clean it out properly.
ALIENS ARE ATTACKING GERMANY!!! Quick, turn on The Scorpions alarm; they are needed now more than ever!!!
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 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!
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.