I got a Raleigh Chopper for a skip in 1990, it needed a gear cable which was a long brake cable, went to the local bike man 'Smithy' who had been fixing bikes since the forties. Asked if he had one so he didn't move he just reached up and took a brand new old stock cable from a nail on a beam. He charge me 75p which was the RRP in 1976 when he got them. Old Stock Rules. Cheers
That looks like the very definition of 'organised chaos' to me. But I bet it doesn't take long for you to find what you want. A man who knows his onions. 👏🏻
Wow, you have a lot of money tied up in stock and not getting a return on the 25 to 30 year old items must hurt the pocket. Thank you for the tour, most appreciated and oh yeah, I like your videos! 👍
What a nice shop. I'm new to your channel. I have been taking apart things since I was a kid. Your videos are a goldmine of what's inside and how and what can be fixed. Thank you for the tour.
As I know from trying to fix a few very simple problems on my own tools and equipment. It has been your personal skill at taking things apart and diagnosing faults that has impressed me most. It would be interesting to hear the story of how you got into this business originally. Clearly people in your area know about you and how effective your service is. I was living in Ireland from 1960-67 south of Dublin and often miss the place now. It's always great to hear your approach to problem solving, please keep doing it.
I would love to do a stock inventory in your shop, it would be like a treasure hunt ! I've done one at B&Q and it was amazing what we found in some dark, forgotten corners 😍😍. I wonder if you have ever done a old parts sell off before because as you said some stock will never be used and with how fast the tool manufacturers are bringing out the next new tool you have to bring in new spares so space is a premium. New sub here binge watching your excellent, interesting work
Agree - probably run off his feet fixing tools however if he ever gets an apprentice they could probably spend a couple of hours listing some of the old parts on Ebay. Would also learn more about parts and value of rare spares (or not) in between fixing at "Donegal Fixings Fixing Shop"
Thank you. Your love of Milwaukee is evident by the spares stocked. Very popular breed in Australia. Never quite saw the fascination. You may even have parts that would fit some of my old tools. And that's saying something.
You have the ultimate man cave for all of us that like to tinker and take things apart and since watchin your channel we can now put them back together again lol👍👍👍
Many thanks Dean - it's great to see how others organise their workshops AND it can give you some really good ideas for your own place form time to time - much appreciated.
Thanks for sharing the state of play there. I'm a clockmaker by trade. Ultrasonic cleaner would be worth having. The parts go in a tub of solvent with some water in the tank. Dump out in a sieve and blow through with an airline over the parts washer. It might say made in Italy but it's made by the same people as most of the other plastic. In horology it's the Swiss that stitch everyone up for parts. Happy days.
I have an older Ryobi HD1830 3 speed hammer drill. It's heavy, I use it sparingly as parts are hard to come by. If parts were readily available, I would use it a lot more often. It's primarily used for the hammer drill when encountering concrete that the newer drills can't get through easily; which is quite common.
You must carry thousands of pounds/euros of stock to do your job. I always say, if you have not got the tools you cannot do the job. Well done. I admire your competency
Nice one Dean, thanks for that. Imagine another 80 years of stuff behind that, you have the workshop where I started out. When we moved, 95% at least got binned or scrapped. About 10 tons of it: dated back to 1920, over four levels of a 1870’s building. Taught me to be a bit ruthless with my own wee business: I don’t keep any donor tools that aren’t current, and bare minimum of the most common current parts. But my rolls of H07RN-F match yours, exactly!
thats mad, i would have been in the bins looking trough all the old parts. But yea, keeping minimum parts is the only way to go now. if the main supliers dont keep the stock, why should we.
@@deandohertygreaser Yep, it’s a big capital cost to hold a decent stock, and really uncertain return. Does bugger up the workflow tho, having to put the tool aside until the parts turn up. 🤷🏻♂️
A very difficult thing to balance - I guess bearings, brushes are the bare minimum to have a stock of, as well as maybe switches, after that the benefits of holding big stock reduce the more the spares cost - vs the space to hold the stock of more expensive spares and tools while you wait for the parts to come in - if you have to turn away a customer as the wait time is too long for them, then you know that it might be worth always holding one of those spares. But there is such range of machines out there - its very hard to hold even one of each spare that might fall in to that category :D
Thanks Sean I still have a blue 3" ryobi belt sander from my apprentiship & its still going. I've only changed the brushes and cord. Love watching. And Donegal has always been somewhere you'd find me if I ran away from home!!
id say dropping stuff that doesn't get used by the trade now on ebay might well be the way to go - I fixed my grandads old drill, as it had sentimental value, its ancient but its nice to pass it on to my son as his first drill.
@@Abbadon2001 Agree - not a priority though as it is only him fixing tools - certainly a job for a teenager at the weekend to earn a bit listing excess stock and posting it. Just keep the listings going. You can specify 7 days to ship which could be enough to ensure it is only a weekend job for his future apprentice fixer.
looks like you need to have a big sort out, get rid of all the old 20-30 year old stock, get some good steel racking , and maximise your space, comfortable chair, heater, , tv and you be good to go ..hahah
Agree dead stock is just insulation - think a couple of hours listing on eBay some of the excess if he has an apprentice would probably help - keep the excess under control.
Where are you located at? I’m looking for some parts for a drill. I will have to get the model number and contact you back. It’s the switch the trigger. It’s electric one online. Couldn’t find it. Come across you. I think you might be able to help me with it.
Thanks for the tour. Given what you do and the number of items you're handling it seems pretty tidy! You obviously haven't fallen prey to the bean counter mentality that has done so much damage to British industry. Having materials on hand to do the job doesn't fit their ideal of business. 'Customer wants a fast turnaround? Sell them a new one!'
Great video... What is your opinions of the 36v 2 x 18v Makita platform.. im wondering about delving into a bit of it. Need to decide that or going 40v Makita with a hammer drill and circ saw in mind. Cheers loving your videos especially the newer 30 minute ones where it looks like there's hardly any editing
They are basicly the same machines only one takes 1 40v battery. The other takes 2 18v. Its the same power and performance. Iv not seen a single 40v battery or tool in for repair yet. But then, they aren't all that popular. The 18v platform is much more versatile amd cost effective
I've watched your videos for a long time and this video has been much anticipated, I have my own small tool repair business but I try and stick to the stuff with engines attached to them, but naturally you end up straying into the world of electrical machinery to, I have to commend you on your knowledge, you've been a godsend to myself with your videos. How do you know what to charge for the parts you have in inventory that have been there for so long? Also, love the long angled brush in the parts washer, need to get myself one for the paslodes. What fluid do you use in the parts washer?
Complete opposite, i see so many Milwaukee tools. and I'm contacted about even more. most Milwaukee tools cannot be or are not worth fixing. Milwaukee sell spare parts in such a way that they make repairing them not worth it.
@@cbsolo5628It’s all in their marketing. The best way to decide what tools to buy, is to watch repair videos of 20+ years of experienced “roll up your sleeve” experts like Dean. Take note of what comes in and which ones they hate to work on, lol.
i don't keep any stock in my shop, maybe few most common armatures, brushes and bearings. i used to have a lot of money in parts... dead capital. took me few years to get rid of most stock...a lot ended in garbage. now i have a clean shop, all parts are ordered as tools come in for diagnostics and repair..and all it takes is a day or two for a part to arrive, for most common machines. you can't have everything in stock anyway, and customers are willing to wait a few days.
very little. most bosch tools i get in are hammers in for a service. We are bosch and makita service agents also and i carry out the warrenty repairs for both. But very few makita tools come in for warrenty repair and even fewer bosch. They take up about maybe 10percent of the total repairs
If I had your shop I would have proper parts cabinets for all the parts, everything organized by brand, every part located in an inventory system so it’s easy to find. Thats just my opinion. I work in a Hilti repair center. It doesn’t even compare to your shop. Our shops are so nice we encourage new customers to come visit them because they are so well put together and beautiful to look at.
Yea it's easy to organise parts when you only have parts from 1 brand. And hilti only hold parts for 7 years, if even. There are parts in here for makita, Bosch, hitachi, dewalt, ryobi, evolution, eibenstock, hilti, metabo ECT. And some are going back 20-30 years.
I love fixing tools- or anything mechanical for that matter. But with tools, it usually semi dumb luck when I succeed. Is there a school (year long or so) that teaches someone to repair tools such as you do? I realize that a person can’t learn all that you know in a year, but probably enough to get started… Interesting trade you have.
This morning I spent nearly 20 minutes looking for the peanut jar in our kitchen… ask me for anything in my shop I’ll point to it with my eyes closed.
All i was hearing was „spare parts” 😂😂😂 beauty shop mate!!!
I got a Raleigh Chopper for a skip in 1990, it needed a gear cable which was a long brake cable, went to the local bike man 'Smithy' who had been fixing bikes since the forties.
Asked if he had one so he didn't move he just reached up and took a brand new old stock cable from a nail on a beam. He charge me 75p which was the RRP in 1976 when he got them. Old Stock Rules. Cheers
That looks like the very definition of 'organised chaos' to me.
But I bet it doesn't take long for you to find what you want. A man who knows his onions. 👏🏻
Wow, you have a lot of money tied up in stock and not getting a return on the 25 to 30 year old items must hurt the pocket.
Thank you for the tour, most appreciated and oh yeah, I like your videos! 👍
What a nice shop. I'm new to your channel. I have been taking apart things since I was a kid. Your videos are a goldmine of what's inside and how and what can be fixed. Thank you for the tour.
It’s going to be a million subs soon can tell priceless information great channel! Thanks for the content!
I appreciate that!
As I know from trying to fix a few very simple problems on my own tools and equipment. It has been your personal skill at taking things apart and diagnosing faults that has impressed me most. It would be interesting to hear the story of how you got into this business originally. Clearly people in your area know about you and how effective your service is. I was living in Ireland from 1960-67 south of Dublin and often miss the place now. It's always great to hear your approach to problem solving, please keep doing it.
I would love to do a stock inventory in your shop, it would be like a treasure hunt ! I've done one at B&Q and it was amazing what we found in some dark, forgotten corners 😍😍.
I wonder if you have ever done a old parts sell off before because as you said some stock will never be used and with how fast the tool manufacturers are bringing out the next new tool you have to bring in new spares so space is a premium.
New sub here binge watching your excellent, interesting work
Agree - probably run off his feet fixing tools however if he ever gets an apprentice they could probably spend a couple of hours listing some of the old parts on Ebay. Would also learn more about parts and value of rare spares (or not) in between fixing at "Donegal Fixings Fixing Shop"
Thank you for the tour , and sending you greetings from Saudi Arabia 🌹🌹
Nice shop. I'd really love to see your tools and what you use. But i kinda think we see most of your tools in your repair videos. Thank you Sir
Great vision keeping older parts, you become the only man who can fix stuff.
Thanks Dean.
I spend hours watching how easy you literally bring back to life any tool. Greeting for Mexico! 👏👏🤝
Wow, impressive. If you are like me, everything has it's place and I know exactly where it is supposed to be.
Wow you sitting on gold mine. Good mister. 👍
Amazing work shop!
Thank you. Your love of Milwaukee is evident by the spares stocked. Very popular breed in Australia. Never quite saw the fascination. You may even have parts that would fit some of my old tools. And that's saying something.
Nice, thank you.
You have the ultimate man cave for all of us that like to tinker and take things apart and since watchin your channel we can now put them back together again lol👍👍👍
Many thanks Dean - it's great to see how others organise their workshops AND it can give you some really good ideas for your own place form time to time - much appreciated.
Wow what a collection. You do a great job. You need to train someone to continue the legacy.
Thanks - very interesting tour, especially how you have it organised.
Awesome thanks 😊
Thanks for sharing the state of play there.
I'm a clockmaker by trade.
Ultrasonic cleaner would be worth having.
The parts go in a tub of solvent with some water in the tank.
Dump out in a sieve and blow through with an airline over the parts washer.
It might say made in Italy but it's made by the same people as most of the other plastic.
In horology it's the Swiss that stitch everyone up for parts.
Happy days.
Thanks for the tour. Enjoy your vid repairs, and the knowledge gain from the repairs.
One ofThe hardest job in fixing power tools is finding parts....
Spare parts are a mans best friends. :-)
Great workshop bro!👍👍👍
After watching a fair amount of your videos, I was wondering how you got stuff so fast now I know, that definitely satisfies my curiosity
I have an older Ryobi HD1830 3 speed hammer drill. It's heavy, I use it sparingly as parts are hard to come by. If parts were readily available, I would use it a lot more often. It's primarily used for the hammer drill when encountering concrete that the newer drills can't get through easily; which is quite common.
I'm assuming you're not a tradesman, time to upgrade to a SDS if your hammer drill isn't up to it or you fear breaking it.
Excellent amount and range of stock Dean 😊👍
Love the transformer idea
What a cool workshop!!!!
Fascinating videos, what type of cleaning fluid do you use in the parts washer?
You must carry thousands of pounds/euros of stock to do your job.
I always say, if you have not got the tools you cannot do the job.
Well done. I admire your competency
Congratulations on 20k plenty to see in your workshop those parts 😍
Thank you!
It's amazing what a human memory must be capable of to find a certain part...
But a little insight into your shop is cool I must say!!
Thank You aim from indonesia
I've kinda been waiting for a video like this very nicely organized
Very nice organizers.
Thank you 😊
Interesting tour Dean - thanks for that. Nearest I've been to your spot is over Portsalon/Fanad side. Lovely part of the world. Stunning really.
Love your videos
Nice one Dean, thanks for that. Imagine another 80 years of stuff behind that, you have the workshop where I started out. When we moved, 95% at least got binned or scrapped. About 10 tons of it: dated back to 1920, over four levels of a 1870’s building. Taught me to be a bit ruthless with my own wee business: I don’t keep any donor tools that aren’t current, and bare minimum of the most common current parts. But my rolls of H07RN-F match yours, exactly!
thats mad, i would have been in the bins looking trough all the old parts. But yea, keeping minimum parts is the only way to go now. if the main supliers dont keep the stock, why should we.
@@deandohertygreaser Yep, it’s a big capital cost to hold a decent stock, and really uncertain return. Does bugger up the workflow tho, having to put the tool aside until the parts turn up. 🤷🏻♂️
A very difficult thing to balance - I guess bearings, brushes are the bare minimum to have a stock of, as well as maybe switches, after that the benefits of holding big stock reduce the more the spares cost - vs the space to hold the stock of more expensive spares and tools while you wait for the parts to come in - if you have to turn away a customer as the wait time is too long for them, then you know that it might be worth always holding one of those spares. But there is such range of machines out there - its very hard to hold even one of each spare that might fall in to that category :D
Hi, good vid, where do you get the long thin screwdriver bits from that you use in your drills. Cheers
Interesting stock you have. Just in case parts. As others have said eBay would clear some space I bet.
Helo sir, im from indonesia, nice to follow your chanel!
Fantastic Dean, loving your videos ATM. Inspired me to fix up an older kango grinder I have !
Thanks Sean I still have a blue 3" ryobi belt sander from my apprentiship & its still going. I've only changed the brushes and cord. Love watching. And Donegal has always been somewhere you'd find me if I ran away from home!!
As someone else stated, some of your NOS supplies might be worth something to someone *now* for the 25+ year old gear. eBay or the like? Never know
id say dropping stuff that doesn't get used by the trade now on ebay might well be the way to go - I fixed my grandads old drill, as it had sentimental value, its ancient but its nice to pass it on to my son as his first drill.
@@Abbadon2001 Agree - not a priority though as it is only him fixing tools - certainly a job for a teenager at the weekend to earn a bit listing excess stock and posting it. Just keep the listings going. You can specify 7 days to ship which could be enough to ensure it is only a weekend job for his future apprentice fixer.
I m from India... I'm also running power tools business just love your work and keep motivating...
looks like you need to have a big sort out, get rid of all the old 20-30 year old stock, get some good steel racking , and maximise your space, comfortable chair, heater, , tv and you be good to go ..hahah
Agree dead stock is just insulation - think a couple of hours listing on eBay some of the excess if he has an apprentice would probably help - keep the excess under control.
Wheres the kettle for a brew?!! 😂
Where are you located at? I’m looking for some parts for a drill. I will have to get the model number and contact you back. It’s the switch the trigger. It’s electric one online. Couldn’t find it. Come across you. I think you might be able to help me with it.
I would love to see you repair some hilti
Use to, dontbkile to take it in now.
Thanks for the tour. Given what you do and the number of items you're handling it seems pretty tidy! You obviously haven't fallen prey to the bean counter mentality that has done so much damage to British industry. Having materials on hand to do the job doesn't fit their ideal of business. 'Customer wants a fast turnaround? Sell them a new one!'
Dear Dean,which brand is reliable and quality?
Bloody hell!! how much money is invested in that level of spares???
Sounds like either many use Mikita or Bosch, or they break very often…
Very good video . Just wondering if you know of any other repair shop’s in Manchester 🎉
Need to get a student to inventory it. All barcodes could be easily scanned with a mobile phone
No giant pickle jar full of random screws and washers ?
Awesomeness. But some extra spare parts is a necessity.😂
AHA at last I can see how you clean your parts.
Great video...
What is your opinions of the 36v 2 x 18v Makita platform.. im wondering about delving into a bit of it. Need to decide that or going 40v Makita with a hammer drill and circ saw in mind.
Cheers loving your videos especially the newer 30 minute ones where it looks like there's hardly any editing
They are basicly the same machines only one takes 1 40v battery. The other takes 2 18v. Its the same power and performance. Iv not seen a single 40v battery or tool in for repair yet. But then, they aren't all that popular.
The 18v platform is much more versatile amd cost effective
Great video! What cleaning fluid do you use in the parts washer?
Kerosene
I've watched your videos for a long time and this video has been much anticipated, I have my own small tool repair business but I try and stick to the stuff with engines attached to them, but naturally you end up straying into the world of electrical machinery to, I have to commend you on your knowledge, you've been a godsend to myself with your videos.
How do you know what to charge for the parts you have in inventory that have been there for so long? Also, love the long angled brush in the parts washer, need to get myself one for the paslodes. What fluid do you use in the parts washer?
Damm
And i thought my workshop wasa mess
Congrats on 20k
Thank you!!
@@deandohertygreaser ill definitely be sending you all of my tools so they can make it famous too
Do you have any spare parts 😜
Have you got .... of course you have.
Well don't know were you get your parts...I'm repairing properly 2 power tools a day and find it very hard to get spares .
Do you have a switch for Makita DTD141? I will buy from you if you have a spare
im sorry, I don't supply spares im afraid
Great stuff Dean. How did you learn your trade?
You have to save space
why do you keep so little milwauke parts on hand? is it because you get very little of them?
Complete opposite, i see so many Milwaukee tools. and I'm contacted about even more. most Milwaukee tools cannot be or are not worth fixing. Milwaukee sell spare parts in such a way that they make repairing them not worth it.
I was gonna ask the same question. I run milwaukee. No bloody good
And yet every YT video of car repairs here in America, they're using Milwaukee!
@@cbsolo5628It’s all in their marketing. The best way to decide what tools to buy, is to watch repair videos of 20+ years of experienced “roll up your sleeve” experts like Dean. Take note of what comes in and which ones they hate to work on, lol.
May, i studying to you, to repair my power tool, just like dewal, milwaukee, or makita impact wrench, im sorry may language is bad!
Don’t you work on Milwaukee at all?
I try not to take them in now.
Why is that
i don't keep any stock in my shop, maybe few most common armatures, brushes and bearings. i used to have a lot of money in parts... dead capital. took me few years to get rid of most stock...a lot ended in garbage. now i have a clean shop, all parts are ordered as tools come in for diagnostics and repair..and all it takes is a day or two for a part to arrive, for most common machines. you can't have everything in stock anyway, and customers are willing to wait a few days.
Damn, what % of the tools you service are bosch tools?
very little. most bosch tools i get in are hammers in for a service. We are bosch and makita service agents also and i carry out the warrenty repairs for both. But very few makita tools come in for warrenty repair and even fewer bosch. They take up about maybe 10percent of the total repairs
Do you sell parts online?
no sorry
An aladins cave
Man all those old parts, get yourself a 3d printer and build anything you want.
I would post all the old Stock on eBay. Just a waste of space really
20000? More like 65000
If I had your shop I would have proper parts cabinets for all the parts, everything organized by brand, every part located in an inventory system so it’s easy to find. Thats just my opinion. I work in a Hilti repair center. It doesn’t even compare to your shop. Our shops are so nice we encourage new customers to come visit them because they are so well put together and beautiful to look at.
Yea it's easy to organise parts when you only have parts from 1 brand. And hilti only hold parts for 7 years, if even. There are parts in here for makita, Bosch, hitachi, dewalt, ryobi, evolution, eibenstock, hilti, metabo ECT. And some are going back 20-30 years.
Though nobody asked for your myopic opinion.
I never heard Hilti are they better don’t breakdown so much
I love fixing tools- or anything mechanical for that matter. But with tools, it usually semi dumb luck when I succeed.
Is there a school (year long or so) that teaches someone to repair tools such as you do? I realize that a person can’t learn all that you know in a year, but probably enough to get started…
Interesting trade you have.