That military tool box you showed had a series of numbers: 5180-12-150-9851. The 5180 is the commodity code for "hand tool accessories." The 12 is the country code for Germany. The 150-9851 is unique to those types of tool boxes. So if a person in the German government wanted to order one of those tool boxes through official channels, that stock number would be the one to use. For the US, the 5180 would be the same. The 12 would be either 00 or 01 for the U.S. The 150-9851 would probably be for something different, but it would still be "Hand tool accessories." Thanks for the video, Johann Krupp
I love 80’s stereo stuff. With my solar batteries, plethora hardware and DVDs, cds, albums, cassettes, 8 tracks and VHS tapes I’ll be a post-apocalyptic Blockbuster Store for my survivors.
I like the dropbox. A good idea might be to somehow keep rainwater from getting in. for example the front flap might need a spring-loaded hinge that centers itself at just the perfect angle to shed water away from flowing in the box. Don't want mushy soggy wet boxes.
I would be careful, with that home made mailbox. because you may get a short sighted old man like me, thinking that the postal service put a new box in. ;-)
@22:41 "boring compromises (in design of equipment)" - well worded! Shortly and politely, yet so on-point. :) I like your eloquence, it has a really educative quality to it.
Your knowledge of electronics simply blows me away. Then your knowledge of so many things you do. Lol I consider myself a handyman….. but you have me beat hands down. Love your videos. Thanks for sharing
Gordon here. you have a way of doing things outside of the box and reviving the past . Sure is wonderful to see that. I also think of myself as handyman type . But as Kris Hoogstraat said you also beat me hands down also. It is hard to find any one person that can restore old things like you do here in Canada .Seems like we live in a throw away world . People look down there noses at me when I take something repair and then put in a place we take or leave it , A Garage sale without cost .Being able to to repair or restore items is a really good thing to do in the SHTF world when money is useless . In your case it it is a Post Apocalyptic way of doing things that others cant. Great video and keep up the super fine things of redoing the items .
The Thrift Store you visited had a really cool Personal Word Processor, a type of electronic typewriter with a floppy drive and small computer built in. Very cool machines to have around, to remember our history of innovation. I recommend picking it up if it is still there the next time you visit!
I'm not sure if German mailboxes function the same as USPS boxes, I'll explain them like they don't. Instead of opening from the bottom like the mailbox you've made they open from the top. the "door" to open them extends down into the box at an angle, so when you open the box all you see is the door all the way to the back of the box, think of it like a shallow bucket. The lower half of the door also acts as a counter-weight pulling the door closed after the package has been set on top of it. the package then falls into the lower area of the mailbox, where it is no longer reachable because opening the door blocks the lower area. Point of my story, if you want a simple low tech solution for mail security look into USPS mailboxes.
So sort of like book drop off boxes at some libraries, its very simple in function and once inserted packages cant be retrieved without opening the back.
Furniture polish is really effective at removing the gum left behind by stickers and tape. Rub it on, leave it for about a minute, and simply wipe it off. I have used this on metal, plastics, and even book covers.
I live in a rural area and have a fully enclosed porch that I don't lock, so I always use the apartment number line to say "leave it on the porch" It always works great
You, sir, are a master class in how people should offer merch. You've come up with something unique, targeted to a specific audience, and the object is not only cool, but repurposed. Bravo! I hope it sells very well for you. 👍
FYI, sometimes thrift stores throw out food processors, blenders and similar kitchen appliances because they don't include a safety lid, blades or other important parts, maybe you should ask if they have any "uselessly incomplete" items? while the machines might be very incomplete, they can still be disassembled into spare parts ALSO! I don't know if this is also the case in Germany, but in Denmark i haven't had any deliveries from UPS where the "postman" spoke Danish, so you should perhaps also write "Packages" on the package box
That Pioneer PD-S603 was probably the best bang for the buck hi-fi CD player back in the nineties. Due to the turntable construction It had extremely few disc read errors, compared to other players. Which of course translated into a very high resolution sound quality. I still got my PD-S605 in the attic. Great find.
The first video of yours I saw was a Pioneer tape deck repair, and then a Dieter Rams / Braun console refurbish and repair. Every single upload since then, nice to see more audio equipment. Thanks.
When I was servicing for a living, I hated having to replace belts on many of the tape decks. Most were a real pain to replace. Always remember to clean & lubricate the function switches when you have to tear one of those apart, especially the Record/Playback switch and all the pots.
I can repair small engines, have a small shop with Lathe, Mill and tools, a stockpile of raw material, i do make sand casting of Aluminum and aluminium bronze. I have two Ender -3 Printers and a Mars 2. Plus i make knifes as a hobby. I know there will be a time in the near future when i need everything i know, and i try to teach my daughter one thing: If something is allready broken, you can allways look inside....Maybe you can spot the problem and fix it. The worst thing that could happen is that you have to throw out more than one piece
The belts for opening and closing the tray of cd players are the most common things to fail. After that dirty laser lenzes clean them with pure alcohol if that doesn't help replace the lazer unit.
Another related issue is that belt pulleys are mostly plastic which can become brittle and crack. Most frequently it's the drive/motor pulley. This failure mode is indicated by intermittent failure to move the tray or a slower speed of movement because the motor shaft spins inside the cracked pulley.
Out here in Canada we have letterboxes that use an ingenious design to secure against simple theft. The door is like a 110 or 120 degree trough of sorts. It hinges from the bottom and when you pull the door open it will provide a rather large area where you can put a sizable package yet because of the trough design the opening into the container gets blocked. When you close the door then the simple angle of the trough will allow the package to slide out and into the bin. Think of those house trash bins with the triangular top that have a swinging section you can move aside to put your trash into the bin. Now take that swinging section, flip it around and put a hinge at the peak of the triangle shape. Now that would be secured to that opening. When you pull that open, the back side panel should be JUST larger so it can not only stop from just swinging right out of the opening but also to entirely block the opening when pulled open.
tool boxes like that in America are usually plastic and are tackle boxes for fishing, but I like the design more than what would be a standard tool box here
10:02 You could use cardboard at the bottom or use a cloth/fabric sheet riveted to the corners/sides to prevent damage to the packages. I would suggest to install a trap-door to prevent package thieves too.
You still have scrapyards where you can pull your own bits off cars? I happily remember tottering about 3 cars up (tricky, but less hassle and less dirty than working on the one at the bottom!). It doesn't happen here (UK) anymore - maybe for 20 years or more.
9:16 heh, funny. This is exactly what my dad and i did years ago, but with electric junction boxes. The space to the street was at a premium (a single, double span gate), yet at the same time he wanted each renter to have a large box to receive documents (offices and stuff). So the best solution was a huge box. We even had an anti-theft system where once the item got inside, a secondary flap would make it impossible to retrieve items fallen in past it.
I always want something like this for my house. So deliveries could be put in a door and be dropped inside the house out of the weather, and any porch pirate activities.
A friend who lives near Kassel used to be a postman and was saying that where people's post boxes are located on each property is very inconsistent in Germany. Some people just have a basket in their front hallway and the first front door isn't the main one that locks.
I like your mailbox. Seems like it needs a shroud over the front to help reduce water entry. I'm envisioning something like a 100mm depth piece across the top, and then the angled pieces down the side that would go down to about the bottom of the door. You might could also use some magnets to keep the door closed but remain easy to open by the delivery person. Possible a small rubber gasket that goes around the outside of the door would also help reduce water intrusion.
I agree with you. That’s the first I see the design to put a little metal canopy of the entrance on the mailbox that will somehow block any moistures going inside the metal box or a water stagnation is more evident in the future. We had one time a family of racoon came inside in USPS mailbox in our area. We have to call the animal control to remove them. It is a must in cold countries were snows and rain are common enemy of a metal mailbox.
@@Mr.Unacceptable Our postal system, as well as other couriers like DHL, have drop boxes with one way doors that open out by tipping the front down, revealing a pocket for the package to go in. When the door is closed back, the package drops into the box, then another could be loaded the same way.
Helpful hint: if you are faced with having to remove tape adhesive from surfaces that you would prefer not to mar in any way, look no further than your faithful friend WD40! Wet a rag or paper towel with it, and saturate the sticky stuff ( if it is dried out and crusty, you may have to let it sit a bit to rehydrate the stuff ), once it becomes mobile ( ie you can smear it around with your finger, rag, etc. ) give it a good wiping. Repeat as necessary. It will give you a nice clean surface that is shiny and free of crap! WD40 is also good for cleaning the covers of books ( if they are glossy. NOT GOOD FOR PAPER STYLE COVERS! Unless you like to have oily books ). Great videos, love your work!👍🤙
I am not much on electronics as I don’t really understand it that well, but, I like the idea of restoring almost anything to working order and especially like the mechanical restorations. I also like your sense of humor, and thank you for taking the time to video all the things you do.
You should of made the front door on the delivery box a tip door, like recycling bins where it like a bucket that pivots and drops the packet when you close it, right now anyone can just stick there hand in and fish out your post.
Re your postbox I have one in UK called a "Doormouse" like a bigish box very usefull, I love this channel so relaxing and satisfying to watch you repair all the stuff you find
I successfully repaired another YAMAHA CD-Player before (part of a Pianocraft CDX-E400 Unit). Key knowledge I found on the web was: opening mechanism has a belt drive. The belt loosens over time and starts slipping. On top, esp. with no CD inside the spindle seems to get stuck easily (magnet inside) which puts more load for the belt to drive. Belt was a little tricky to get to, but totally doable. For replacement I used a generic out of a "LIDL/Parkside Dichtungsring-Sortiment Box". Even if it works now it still might not hurt to replace the belt - to ensure working condition. I´m happy to forward you a small manual in German. Let me know if you´re interested! Keep up the good work - very inspring episode again!
I highly recommend putting some padding at the bottom of the Paketkasten for parcels to fall onto without being damaged. I hope no animals create their home inside it!
Removing old, dried masking tape is much easier if you warm it first with a hot air gun. Also, try wiping on a mild solvent (such as alcohol) and allowing it to sit for a few minutes before peeling. Sometimes that softens the dried up adhesive.
My in-laws have that Sanyo amp as part of a system. In the last 20 years all I have had to do was put contact cleaner on the volume control and remove/reinsert a ribbon cable between the amp and the tuner, to cure intermittent audio. Japanese kit of this era seemed to just work. And last!
Package Receiving Box: ...have a slightly oversize flap door overlapping edges of the hole, .hinged from the top outside, in order to keep weather out. Maybe a pneumatic strut , like on cars, to hold flap door open while package is placed inside.
You could add a light sensor in the bottom and a solenoid actuator trap door and an Arduino. Then any time a package is dropped in, the door drops the package inside and locks again.
Another great episode. Your diversity of topics is what keeps me coming back. My best guess about the CD player would be the odd weight distribution at the store was just enough to flex some of the components of the ejector mechanism to prevent it from working properly, but once the weight was removed, everything returned to position and was no longer binding.
@@richardbrobeck2384 Entirely plausible, but if the belt was bad at the store, wouldn't it have been equally bad at his shop? I'm not overly familiar with these mechanisms, so I suppose any viable explanation has to at least be considered.
@@klschofield71 Take the Pioneer laser disc I just repaired the loading belt was slipping causing it still to work at times same with My own Pioneer DVD player !
The tool box you found is really similar to the tool box that I was issued when I joined the U.S.Air Force in 1970. All the corners were rounded off & we called them "clam shell" boxes. It's interesting to see they were in use in Europe as well.
@@philtowle4683 it's interesting to see that similar ideas come out from unconnected sources at about the same time. I hadn't heard the cantilevered term but it is aptly named. Thanks I learned something new today.
The CD unit that had the issue with the loading mechanism could have just been stuck due to lack of use, then when you took it home the journey may have freed it up. I have experienced that myself. It works and that’s the main thing. Keep the great videos coming. Rob T Australia
Awesomeness! With the Yamaha CD player, the gears and track opening the disc slot can get a little sloppy, and if the carrier gets a little out of square it won’t fully engage and the unit will show an error. It’s usually just a matter of pressing on the front panel, wiggling the carrier into alignment, and it will resume operation.
Waiting new repairaton video, good to see that there are people who understand how important to give second life for broken tools. I think it's different way to make less garbage and care our planet.
Wow, love your channel. I always tinkered with junk when I was a kid and ended up working as an engineer, now I am still still playing but like you, nolonger a a "wage slave". I note you praised colleges in Pittsburgh. I also worked for Bombardier. Keep up the good work 😃
I wish we had junk yards like yours around here! (I've been in all of our local scrap yards - there's only a few - and we have nothing like the one you haunt)
Thought you might had a background in Waldorf territory. Loved your little joke there. Very much enjoy the channel, I'll be opening my own workshop in the new year but will be looking for old decent tools instead of brand new ones because of your videos. Cheers and greetings from the Netherlands
There might be a rubber drive belt, under the optical drive, which is used to open / close the drawer. If the belt is stretched, it may no longer have the grip to fully pull the drawer back into place and activate the microswitch which allows the 'Open' command to be sent to the drawer motor. If you subject the player to a few gentle bumps, the drawer contacts the microswitch and the drawer then opens. Even though this approach may provide a temporary fix, the drawer will always prove to be problematic, until the small belt is changed. Anyway, that's the first thing I would check, but it's important to mention not all optical drives use a drive belt to open/close the drawer. Ok, well thanks for your videos, as they are always brilliantly informative, and I also get learn interesting things from each of your presentations which I can then apply to small projects of my own.
You can make your mail box like clothes donation box. There is one simple design with rotating drawer on horizontal axis. Packet falls in when drawer is closed.
audio casette tape = the sound of pure nostalgy :-) i have a complete audio system from that yamaha natural sound series where this cd-player come from, runing at home since the middle of the 90s. it contains a tuner, a cd-player, tape deck and a big audio amp with a full equiped dolby pro logic speaker set. it runs perfect and without any problems since 25 years.
1:18 to TPAI: A challenge, take a device like this charger, and see if you can restore it. You are a master of electronics repair and of salvage. I want to see you do the "impossible".
I recently purchased two mid 80's Toshiba tape decks, just waiting for the belt kits to arrive from Spain, been five weeks so far. You are inspiring Gerolf. Vielen dank aus Australien
24:10 i remember when i had an old 90's computer cd drives, they had issues with the cd tray not opening. i found out it was due to dry/broken rubber drive belts inside. (they look similar to the belts you can find in old cassette tape like the one you just fixed, and they responsible to open and close the cd drive tray) some dvd drives and a few cd drives have an linear geared tray instead of rubber belt drive, but they not common.
My personal faves of your repairs are of the vices of many types and functions. I repair and collect but on miniature scale for jewelry the same vices.
Hmm, maybe add some padding to cushion the package drop chute. If you were making it like a regular drop chute, you'd have a handle that pulls down from the top revealing a drop tray that prevents people putting their arms inside. However, given your solution is so high and deep, I don't think that's necessary.
I'm an American. I grew up with a SNES as my first console. The controllers look exactly like the ones I had, excepting the colors. My controllers had purple and violet buttons, versus the internal rainbow colors.
I got a junk vhs player laying by the side of the road recently that the tape carriage wouldn't open. After lots of looking at it, it seems that the previous owner had something heavy sitting on top of the player, the sheet metal outer housing had bent down and bent part of the mechanism frame. I bent it back and it works fine.
Here in the USA we are not allowed to DIY a USPS parcel locker, we have to buy certified mail boxes or rent a PO box. As for UPS, DHL, and FedEx They might use a DIY parcel locker, just depends on the delivery person and how much they care about your stuff. many in my area literally leave parcels out by the road which in turn leads to package theft especially if it's an amazon box
I had that Pioneer CD player back in the 90's, the inverted disc platter was its main selling point. It sounded excellent, gave it to a friend when I upgraded at the time, he had it for years.
I like the mail box idea but Its a little too easy to steal packages from. Maybe adding a trapped door arrangement where packages fall through but cannot be retrieved. UK franked mail boxes have a door and a lever. Mail is placed in the top compartment and the lever pulled which tips the compartment back emptying the contence into the secure box below. You cannot reach the secure box unless you pull the lever which closes the top compartment. Simple but effective. ❤🖌🤓
Nicely done. :) Interesting episode with an educative, personal commentary. Thanks. The toolbox idea is very good! In modern times, also called a post-industrial era in economics, unique ideas for specific public is what's rising to the top to become a standard of economics. A kind of do-your-own-thing-and-get-paid-for-it philosophy. In your case - it's also salvaging the still good items that would otherwise be scrapped. I've seen an interview with an expert and researcher on the history of economics who said, that the model of "go to school, the you're be given a steady job" are slowly ending and after about 10-12 years of transitory time, the rise of individuals bringing up their own ideas will be the norm. This was around 2011. Seems like the future is now. Cheers! :)
As far as the Yamaha drive tray not opening, these machines work best when they are very level on the counter. The plastics inside the drive unit sometimes move slightly out of alignment and affect the gear that opens the tray. Also, voltage is important for these units to operate correctly and a slightly low voltage from a power outlet will affect performance and output. Sometimes workers in thrift stores plug in electronic items and do not know how to operate them and thus, label them as not functioning. Moving electronic units sometimes juggles mechanical parts in and out of position when items are of this age. That is to say that washers or spacers are not noticeably loose or out of alignment and then the mechanicals seem funky as if they work intermittently. Of course, there is always the possibility of gremlins I suppose.
Sweet thrift store! Wish I had a place like that around me! I refuse to buy anything new. Not only is it expensive but it never made sense to me when you could buy used. I dont even buy new clothes. Why when they're just going to get dirty and worn out, usually the next day in my case. If some thing breaks I do my best to fix it, not anywhere near as good as you when it comes to electronics but most things are usually very simple fixes. I've learned a few things watching your channel, I appreciate the time you take on your videos. Keep up the great work.
I love my TPAI tool box I have assembled some Sprinter and Mercedes S class tool kits to start my Sprinter conversion roadside tool kit even found a set of road flares out of a 70s Volvo wagon. I always enjoy watching you repair electronics. The Star Fox soundtrack took me back
Te remove tapes, labels, Scotch, or other things gluet like this, use 3M spray cleaner, 9472 / 0.2, lime, works like a charm... and smells nice to. Apreciate what you are doing, very nice work!
Entirely by coincidence, I was recently looking at the US Postal Service's recommendations for mail boxes. They have a new, large rural mail box design recommendation, suitable for many common sized packages. (It's based on the fixed-rate domestic shipping boxes the USPS sells, but that's not really a bad thing under the circumstances.)
We have a package box installed by DHL in cologne and that still works :) DHL can open the box with their scanner. This was originally with monthly rent until it was amortized. Since 2019, this is apparently no longer offered :-/
Realy wonderfull stuff that "ms polymer" I`ve been testing it on a broad scale of applications for more than 10 years now. Must say I`m impressed by the range of applications it has,especially on wet surfaces, also very usefull to repair cracked an torn rubber.
Hey TPAI. I really enjoy watching your videos. You remind me of my father who also has the habit of finding useful things from scrapyard and repairing them. You encouraged me to do some DIY stuff myself and BTW I would have totally bought one of your army toolboxes if I wasn't living in Iran.
Most likely the drive belt of the CD player. If you force ejected it, you may have moved it enough for it to work again. I would take it off, isopropanol it and re attach.
Another great video full of interesting content. Amazing to see you bring back 'Henry' from the dead. Incidentally those units are still, made in that form ,here in Chard, Somerset., England. Keep up the good work and make more like this one.
@7:59 As someone who delivers post in the UK, your postal box should stop people trying to take stuff out that's been delivered. It should also be weather proof against rain/snow etc.
Only in Germany (or perhaps Singapore) would that delivery box be OK. In every other country, it would be a magnet for every thief to open and remove delivered the packages. Painting it yellow makes it even more obvious, which is a bad thing.
If your WiFi reaches your new package delivery box, you could add a Ring doorbell video camera to the INSIDE of the box for security! Every movement inside the box would turn it on. But since the movement inside is also infrequent, the battery would last quite a while!
He could build a very simple ring. You need 2 cameras. One inside, one outside. Motion sensor on the inside and when motion is detected it will take photos or video for 30 seconds after the last motion with in the 30 second range. For example if motion is detected recording starts and it takes 3 seconds for the motion to stop and no more motion is detected then you have a recording of 33 seconds.
You're one of the few people on youtube that I've seen mention Rudolf Steiner in any context. Thanks for throwing him out there, more need to be aware of him honestly.
I got excited to see a new video when I saw your comment to Diesel Creek. I love the repair a thons. The tool boxes are very cool! I think they will go really fast!
All I can say on that issue is that casing stress can sometimes affect internal workings, especially gravity actuated locking mechanisms, which is what it LOOKS like that particular CD player had. in otherwords... it probably just got stuck due to external casing stress.
Whenever I have stuff such as the controllers to clean, I simply put them in the dishwasher, they come out like new. Obviously no electronics, just the plastic parts ;-)
I put a Troughline tuner in the dishwasher. It had spent decades being used by someone who smoked and it smelt awful. Dishwasher got it nice and clean, and it worked fine after spending a couple of days drying in the sun.
Perhaps a double action door inside of the package box would be the answer. When the front door is pushed open the interior double action door would swing up to block the main part of the box so the postman could push open the front door and place the package in a cubby hole (from his point of view) and when the front door swings down the blocking door swings open and drops the package into the main part of the box. Just a thought. Have a great day.
About Yamaha CD player. I keep seeing the same CD player mechanism in Phillips and Marantz. There are 2 plastic squares under the cd tray which in theory supposed to help the cd tray slide in and out but they start get in the way as cd tray flexes with age. Try removing them. They are held with one screw each.
Both your tool and storage-related repairathons are very engaging. A cool thing to be able to do would be to visit your workshop and get to work on some project, either from a scrapyard or with a guest-submitted items. A nice collab point as well, if it is something you consider. Keep up the awesome work!
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That military tool box you showed had a series of numbers: 5180-12-150-9851. The 5180 is the commodity code for "hand tool accessories." The 12 is the country code for Germany. The 150-9851 is unique to those types of tool boxes. So if a person in the German government wanted to order one of those tool boxes through official channels, that stock number would be the one to use. For the US, the 5180 would be the same. The 12 would be either 00 or 01 for the U.S. The 150-9851 would probably be for something different, but it would still be "Hand tool accessories." Thanks for the video, Johann Krupp
How many times have y’all soldered wires together only to realize that you forgot to put the heat shrink on first.
So frustrating!!!
That and forgetting to put a connector shroud on to a cable before soldering the plug.
Ouch.
That one hurts.
Because i know i´ll do it again sometime... -.-
More times than not, unfortunately.
Hell yeah, don’t you just hate that. Luckily I’ve only done it 238 times. 🤓
I love 80’s stereo stuff.
With my solar batteries, plethora hardware and DVDs, cds, albums, cassettes, 8 tracks and VHS tapes I’ll be a post-apocalyptic Blockbuster Store for my survivors.
Can I visit? 😀
@@roguedalek900
Thomas you can stay.
I like the dropbox. A good idea might be to somehow keep rainwater from getting in. for example the front flap might need a spring-loaded hinge that centers itself at just the perfect angle to shed water away from flowing in the box. Don't want mushy soggy wet boxes.
I would be careful, with that home made mailbox. because you may get a short sighted old man like me, thinking that the postal service put a new box in. ;-)
Hah... a cold November evening, a mug of tea, large slice of fruit cake, and a new TPAI video appears. Perfection.
@22:41 "boring compromises (in design of equipment)" - well worded! Shortly and politely, yet so on-point. :) I like your eloquence, it has a really educative quality to it.
Your knowledge of electronics simply blows me away. Then your knowledge of so many things you do. Lol I consider myself a handyman….. but you have me beat hands down. Love your videos. Thanks for sharing
Gordon here. you have a way of doing things outside of the box and reviving the past . Sure is wonderful to see that. I also think of myself as handyman type . But as Kris Hoogstraat said you also beat me hands down also. It is hard to find any one person that can restore old things like you do here in Canada .Seems like we live in a throw away world . People look down there noses at me when I take something repair and then put in a place we take or leave it , A Garage sale without cost .Being able to to repair or restore items is a really good thing to do in the SHTF world when money is useless . In your case it it is a Post Apocalyptic way of doing things that others cant. Great video and keep up the super fine things of redoing the items .
The Thrift Store you visited had a really cool Personal Word Processor, a type of electronic typewriter with a floppy drive and small computer built in. Very cool machines to have around, to remember our history of innovation. I recommend picking it up if it is still there the next time you visit!
I'm not sure if German mailboxes function the same as USPS boxes, I'll explain them like they don't. Instead of opening from the bottom like the mailbox you've made they open from the top. the "door" to open them extends down into the box at an angle, so when you open the box all you see is the door all the way to the back of the box, think of it like a shallow bucket. The lower half of the door also acts as a counter-weight pulling the door closed after the package has been set on top of it. the package then falls into the lower area of the mailbox, where it is no longer reachable because opening the door blocks the lower area. Point of my story, if you want a simple low tech solution for mail security look into USPS mailboxes.
So sort of like book drop off boxes at some libraries, its very simple in function and once inserted packages cant be retrieved without opening the back.
@@bahmad5811 exactly like that.
If you ever start an eBay store to sell your “found” and “repaired” tools I’d personally make an effort to buy all my tools from you 👍
Same except voltage differences and overseas shipping would be prohibitive
Europeans have the good electricity straight from the wall.
@@BudMasta we don't, thats the problem bud
Excellent idea!!!!
The store might be out of stock most of the time xD
Furniture polish is really effective at removing the gum left behind by stickers and tape. Rub it on, leave it for about a minute, and simply wipe it off.
I have used this on metal, plastics, and even book covers.
I live in a rural area and have a fully enclosed porch that I don't lock, so I always use the apartment number line to say "leave it on the porch"
It always works great
Marty in New Zealand would like a crack at that excavator
You, sir, are a master class in how people should offer merch. You've come up with something unique, targeted to a specific audience, and the object is not only cool, but repurposed. Bravo! I hope it sells very well for you. 👍
FYI, sometimes thrift stores throw out food processors, blenders and similar kitchen appliances because they don't include a safety lid, blades or other important parts, maybe you should ask if they have any "uselessly incomplete" items?
while the machines might be very incomplete, they can still be disassembled into spare parts
ALSO! I don't know if this is also the case in Germany, but in Denmark i haven't had any deliveries from UPS where the "postman" spoke Danish, so you should perhaps also write "Packages" on the package box
That Pioneer PD-S603 was probably the best bang for the buck hi-fi CD player back in the nineties. Due to the turntable construction It had extremely few disc read errors, compared to other players. Which of course translated into a very high resolution sound quality. I still got my PD-S605 in the attic. Great find.
Technics was a good option too, my two players still work great after 30 years...
The first video of yours I saw was a Pioneer tape deck repair, and then a Dieter Rams / Braun console refurbish and repair. Every single upload since then, nice to see more audio equipment. Thanks.
When I was servicing for a living, I hated having to replace belts on many of the tape decks. Most were a real pain to replace. Always remember to clean & lubricate the function switches when you have to tear one of those apart, especially the Record/Playback switch and all the pots.
I can repair small engines, have a small shop with Lathe, Mill and tools, a stockpile of raw material, i do make sand casting of Aluminum and aluminium bronze. I have two Ender -3 Printers and a Mars 2. Plus i make knifes as a hobby. I know there will be a time in the near future when i need everything i know, and i try to teach my daughter one thing: If something is allready broken, you can allways look inside....Maybe you can spot the problem and fix it. The worst thing that could happen is that you have to throw out more than one piece
The belts for opening and closing the tray of cd players are the most common things to fail. After that dirty laser lenzes clean them with pure alcohol if that doesn't help replace the lazer unit.
Another related issue is that belt pulleys are mostly plastic which can become brittle and crack. Most frequently it's the drive/motor pulley. This failure mode is indicated by intermittent failure to move the tray or a slower speed of movement because the motor shaft spins inside the cracked pulley.
@@SHX164 Also limit switches and ir sensors get dirty.
Out here in Canada we have letterboxes that use an ingenious design to
secure against simple theft. The door is like a 110 or 120 degree trough
of sorts. It hinges from the bottom and when you pull the door open it
will provide a rather large area where you can put a sizable package yet
because of the trough design the opening into the container gets
blocked. When you close the door then the simple angle of the trough
will allow the package to slide out and into the bin. Think of those
house trash bins with the triangular top that have a swinging section
you can move aside to put your trash into the bin.
Now take that swinging section, flip it around and put a hinge at the peak of the triangle shape. Now that would be secured to that opening. When you pull that open, the back side panel should be JUST larger so it can not only stop from just swinging right out of the opening but also to entirely block the opening when pulled open.
tool boxes like that in America are usually plastic and are tackle boxes for fishing, but I like the design more than what would be a standard tool box here
10:02 You could use cardboard at the bottom or use a cloth/fabric sheet riveted to the corners/sides to prevent damage to the packages. I would suggest to install a trap-door to prevent package thieves too.
Those tool boxes are great. Perfect for taking to the automotive "U-pull" junkyards here in the states.
You still have scrapyards where you can pull your own bits off cars? I happily remember tottering about 3 cars up (tricky, but less hassle and less dirty than working on the one at the bottom!). It doesn't happen here (UK) anymore - maybe for 20 years or more.
@@markavis7232 Yes. All over California and in other states too, but CA has 30 million cars
9:16 heh, funny. This is exactly what my dad and i did years ago, but with electric junction boxes. The space to the street was at a premium (a single, double span gate), yet at the same time he wanted each renter to have a large box to receive documents (offices and stuff). So the best solution was a huge box. We even had an anti-theft system where once the item got inside, a secondary flap would make it impossible to retrieve items fallen in past it.
I always want something like this for my house. So deliveries could be put in a door and be dropped inside the house out of the weather, and any porch pirate activities.
Thats what I thought, have an internal flap and maybe some cushion material on floor of box so your items don't break as the drop down, great job
A friend who lives near Kassel used to be a postman and was saying that where people's post boxes are located on each property is very inconsistent in Germany. Some people just have a basket in their front hallway and the first front door isn't the main one that locks.
I like your mailbox. Seems like it needs a shroud over the front to help reduce water entry. I'm envisioning something like a 100mm depth piece across the top, and then the angled pieces down the side that would go down to about the bottom of the door. You might could also use some magnets to keep the door closed but remain easy to open by the delivery person. Possible a small rubber gasket that goes around the outside of the door would also help reduce water intrusion.
I agree with you. That’s the first I see the design to put a little metal canopy of the entrance on the mailbox that will somehow block any moistures going inside the metal box or a water stagnation is more evident in the future. We had one time a family of racoon came inside in USPS mailbox in our area. We have to call the animal
control to remove them. It is a must in cold countries were snows and rain are common enemy of a metal mailbox.
I might also suggest a raised floor so the boxes do not sit in water if it does get in (and maybe some drain holes).
I see the need for a one way trap door inside so once stuff goes in people can't watch and then just open the front and reach in to take the items.
@@Mr.Unacceptable Our postal system, as well as other couriers like DHL, have drop boxes with one way doors that open out by tipping the front down, revealing a pocket for the package to go in. When the door is closed back, the package drops into the box, then another could be loaded the same way.
You have made a time machine, sending audio back to the 80's on that Toshiba cassette/receiver!
Good video bud, those tool boxes are awesome!
Makes me super happy you watch these videos aswell! You guys are both awesome!
Helpful hint: if you are faced with having to remove tape adhesive from surfaces that you would prefer not to mar in any way, look no further than your faithful friend WD40! Wet a rag or paper towel with it, and saturate the sticky stuff ( if it is dried out and crusty, you may have to let it sit a bit to rehydrate the stuff ), once it becomes mobile ( ie you can smear it around with your finger, rag, etc. ) give it a good wiping. Repeat as necessary. It will give you a nice clean surface that is shiny and free of crap! WD40 is also good for cleaning the covers of books ( if they are glossy. NOT GOOD FOR PAPER STYLE COVERS! Unless you like to have oily books ). Great videos, love your work!👍🤙
Great repairs and finds. Here's a tip when painting with rattle cans: always start and stop spraying off the object. This way paint comes on equally.
Please define “rattle can”.
@@bonusflaps1749 spray cans probably
I like repair and repurposing videos rather than throwing them as garbage or e-wastes. Thank you.
I am not much on electronics as I don’t really understand it that well, but, I like the idea of restoring almost anything to working order and especially like the mechanical restorations. I also like your sense of humor, and thank you for taking the time to video all the things you do.
You should of made the front door on the delivery box a tip door, like recycling bins where it like a bucket that pivots and drops the packet when you close it, right now anyone can just stick there hand in and fish out your post.
21:25 "Rewinding"
Now *THAT* brings back memories 😆
Re your postbox I have one in UK called a "Doormouse" like a bigish box very usefull,
I love this channel so relaxing and satisfying to watch you repair all the stuff you find
I successfully repaired another YAMAHA CD-Player before (part of a Pianocraft CDX-E400 Unit). Key knowledge I found on the web was: opening mechanism has a belt drive. The belt loosens over time and starts slipping. On top, esp. with no CD inside the spindle seems to get stuck easily (magnet inside) which puts more load for the belt to drive. Belt was a little tricky to get to, but totally doable. For replacement I used a generic out of a "LIDL/Parkside Dichtungsring-Sortiment Box". Even if it works now it still might not hurt to replace the belt - to ensure working condition. I´m happy to forward you a small manual in German. Let me know if you´re interested!
Keep up the good work - very inspring episode again!
I highly recommend putting some padding at the bottom of the Paketkasten for parcels to fall onto without being damaged. I hope no animals create their home inside it!
Removing old, dried masking tape is much easier if you warm it first with a hot air gun. Also, try wiping on a mild solvent (such as alcohol) and allowing it to sit for a few minutes before peeling. Sometimes that softens the dried up adhesive.
My in-laws have that Sanyo amp as part of a system. In the last 20 years all I have had to do was put contact cleaner on the volume control and remove/reinsert a ribbon cable between the amp and the tuner, to cure intermittent audio. Japanese kit of this era seemed to just work. And last!
Package Receiving Box: ...have a slightly oversize flap door overlapping edges of the hole, .hinged from the top outside, in order to keep weather out. Maybe a pneumatic strut , like on cars, to hold flap door open while package is placed inside.
You could add a light sensor in the bottom and a solenoid actuator trap door and an Arduino. Then any time a package is dropped in, the door drops the package inside and locks again.
Another great episode. Your diversity of topics is what keeps me coming back. My best guess about the CD player would be the odd weight distribution at the store was just enough to flex some of the components of the ejector mechanism to prevent it from working properly, but once the weight was removed, everything returned to position and was no longer binding.
more like the loading belt is getting bad I just repaired one because of that and have replacement belts coming to repair two more .
@@richardbrobeck2384 Entirely plausible, but if the belt was bad at the store, wouldn't it have been equally bad at his shop? I'm not overly familiar with these mechanisms, so I suppose any viable explanation has to at least be considered.
@@klschofield71 Take the Pioneer laser disc I just repaired the loading belt was slipping causing it still to work at times same with My own Pioneer DVD player !
@@richardbrobeck2384 Thank you, good info
11:27 you are absolutely right! I have the same problem! I have rather a storage unit than a workshop!
I found it's good to cover your shelves with old carpet to stop things getting scratched.
The tool box you found is really similar to the tool box that I was issued when I joined the U.S.Air Force in 1970. All the corners were rounded off & we called them "clam shell" boxes. It's interesting to see they were in use in Europe as well.
We call them cantilever in the uk
@@philtowle4683 it's interesting to see that similar ideas come out from unconnected sources at about the same time. I hadn't heard the cantilevered term but it is aptly named. Thanks I learned something new today.
The CD unit that had the issue with the loading mechanism could have just been stuck due to lack of use, then when you took it home the journey may have freed it up. I have experienced that myself. It works and that’s the main thing. Keep the great videos coming. Rob T Australia
Awesomeness! With the Yamaha CD player, the gears and track opening the disc slot can get a little sloppy, and if the carrier gets a little out of square it won’t fully engage and the unit will show an error. It’s usually just a matter of pressing on the front panel, wiggling the carrier into alignment, and it will resume operation.
I never ceased to be amazed at your industriousness and superabundant good sense. I always learn something too.
Waiting new repairaton video, good to see that there are people who understand how important to give second life for broken tools. I think it's different way to make less garbage and care our planet.
Wow, love your channel. I always tinkered with junk when I was a kid and ended up working as an engineer, now I am still still playing but like you, nolonger a a "wage slave". I note you praised colleges in Pittsburgh. I also worked for Bombardier. Keep up the good work 😃
I wish we had junk yards like yours around here! (I've been in all of our local scrap yards - there's only a few - and we have nothing like the one you haunt)
Thought you might had a background in Waldorf territory. Loved your little joke there. Very much enjoy the channel, I'll be opening my own workshop in the new year but will be looking for old decent tools instead of brand new ones because of your videos.
Cheers and greetings from the Netherlands
There might be a rubber drive belt, under the optical drive, which is used to open / close the drawer. If the belt is stretched, it may no longer have the grip to fully pull the drawer back into place and activate the microswitch which allows the 'Open' command to be sent to the drawer motor. If you subject the player to a few gentle bumps, the drawer contacts the microswitch and the drawer then opens. Even though this approach may provide a temporary fix, the drawer will always prove to be problematic, until the small belt is changed. Anyway, that's the first thing I would check, but it's important to mention not all optical drives use a drive belt to open/close the drawer. Ok, well thanks for your videos, as they are always brilliantly informative, and I also get learn interesting things from each of your presentations which I can then apply to small projects of my own.
You can make your mail box like clothes donation box. There is one simple design with rotating drawer on horizontal axis. Packet falls in when drawer is closed.
22:47 totally agree, it's because of board room mass appeal.
audio casette tape = the sound of pure nostalgy :-)
i have a complete audio system from that yamaha natural sound series where this cd-player come from, runing at home since the middle of the 90s. it contains a tuner, a cd-player, tape deck and a big audio amp with a full equiped dolby pro logic speaker set. it runs perfect and without any problems since 25 years.
I agree with you regarding boring aesthetics. I still have a large Sony System purchased in the early 90’s because it works and I like the look.
1:18 to TPAI: A challenge, take a device like this charger, and see if you can restore it. You are a master of electronics repair and of salvage. I want to see you do the "impossible".
@22:14 Now that is a style I used to love as a kid!!
I recently purchased two mid 80's Toshiba tape decks, just waiting for the belt kits to arrive from Spain, been five weeks so far. You are inspiring Gerolf. Vielen dank aus Australien
24:10 i remember when i had an old 90's computer cd drives, they had issues with the cd tray not opening.
i found out it was due to dry/broken rubber drive belts inside.
(they look similar to the belts you can find in old cassette tape like the one you just fixed, and they responsible to open and close the cd drive tray)
some dvd drives and a few cd drives have an linear geared tray instead of rubber belt drive, but they not common.
My personal faves of your repairs are of the vices of many types and functions. I repair and collect but on miniature scale for jewelry the same vices.
Hmm, maybe add some padding to cushion the package drop chute. If you were making it like a regular drop chute, you'd have a handle that pulls down from the top revealing a drop tray that prevents people putting their arms inside. However, given your solution is so high and deep, I don't think that's necessary.
Nice! I have a Pioneer PD-S505, bought nearly new (ex-demo) in 1997 - still in use today, never had any issues with it. Quality lasts.
Nothing makes me happier than seeing a new PAI video!
I'm an American. I grew up with a SNES as my first console. The controllers look exactly like the ones I had, excepting the colors. My controllers had purple and violet buttons, versus the internal rainbow colors.
I got a junk vhs player laying by the side of the road recently that the tape carriage wouldn't open. After lots of looking at it, it seems that the previous owner had something heavy sitting on top of the player, the sheet metal outer housing had bent down and bent part of the mechanism frame. I bent it back and it works fine.
Here in the USA we are not allowed to DIY a USPS parcel locker, we have to buy certified mail boxes or rent a PO box. As for UPS, DHL, and FedEx They might use a DIY parcel locker, just depends on the delivery person and how much they care about your stuff. many in my area literally leave parcels out by the road which in turn leads to package theft especially if it's an amazon box
I had that Pioneer CD player back in the 90's, the inverted disc platter was its main selling point. It sounded excellent, gave it to a friend when I upgraded at the time, he had it for years.
I like the mail box idea but Its a little too easy to steal packages from. Maybe adding a trapped door arrangement where packages fall through but cannot be retrieved. UK franked mail boxes have a door and a lever. Mail is placed in the top compartment and the lever pulled which tips the compartment back emptying the contence into the secure box below. You cannot reach the secure box unless you pull the lever which closes the top compartment. Simple but effective. ❤🖌🤓
Nicely done. :) Interesting episode with an educative, personal commentary. Thanks. The toolbox idea is very good! In modern times, also called a post-industrial era in economics, unique ideas for specific public is what's rising to the top to become a standard of economics. A kind of do-your-own-thing-and-get-paid-for-it philosophy. In your case - it's also salvaging the still good items that would otherwise be scrapped. I've seen an interview with an expert and researcher on the history of economics who said, that the model of "go to school, the you're be given a steady job" are slowly ending and after about 10-12 years of transitory time, the rise of individuals bringing up their own ideas will be the norm. This was around 2011. Seems like the future is now. Cheers! :)
The pioneer units always look the best to me!
As far as the Yamaha drive tray not opening, these machines work best when they are very level on the counter. The plastics inside the drive unit sometimes move slightly out of alignment and affect the gear that opens the tray. Also, voltage is important for these units to operate correctly and a slightly low voltage from a power outlet will affect performance and output. Sometimes workers in thrift stores plug in electronic items and do not know how to operate them and thus, label them as not functioning. Moving electronic units sometimes juggles mechanical parts in and out of position when items are of this age. That is to say that washers or spacers are not noticeably loose or out of alignment and then the mechanicals seem funky as if they work intermittently. Of course, there is always the possibility of gremlins I suppose.
On old drawer cs/dvd the silicone grease sometimes hardens ....it can soften with change of environment
Sweet thrift store! Wish I had a place like that around me! I refuse to buy anything new. Not only is it expensive but it never made sense to me when you could buy used. I dont even buy new clothes. Why when they're just going to get dirty and worn out, usually the next day in my case. If some thing breaks I do my best to fix it, not anywhere near as good as you when it comes to electronics but most things are usually very simple fixes. I've learned a few things watching your channel, I appreciate the time you take on your videos. Keep up the great work.
I love my TPAI tool box I have assembled some Sprinter and Mercedes S class tool kits to start my Sprinter conversion roadside tool kit even found a set of road flares out of a 70s Volvo wagon. I always enjoy watching you repair electronics. The Star Fox soundtrack took me back
Te remove tapes, labels, Scotch, or other things gluet like this, use 3M spray cleaner, 9472 / 0.2, lime, works like a charm... and smells nice to. Apreciate what you are doing, very nice work!
Entirely by coincidence, I was recently looking at the US Postal Service's recommendations for mail boxes. They have a new, large rural mail box design recommendation, suitable for many common sized packages. (It's based on the fixed-rate domestic shipping boxes the USPS sells, but that's not really a bad thing under the circumstances.)
We have a package box installed by DHL in cologne and that still works :)
DHL can open the box with their scanner.
This was originally with monthly rent until it was amortized.
Since 2019, this is apparently no longer offered :-/
Realy wonderfull stuff that "ms polymer"
I`ve been testing it on a broad scale of applications for more than 10 years now.
Must say I`m impressed by the range of applications it has,especially on wet surfaces, also very usefull to repair cracked an torn rubber.
Hey TPAI. I really enjoy watching your videos. You remind me of my father who also has the habit of finding useful things from scrapyard and repairing them. You encouraged me to do some DIY stuff myself and BTW I would have totally bought one of your army toolboxes if I wasn't living in Iran.
I love your videos and German accent. It gives me flashbacks to 1986-1988 Northern Germany while in the US army.
Most likely the drive belt of the CD player.
If you force ejected it, you may have moved it enough for it to work again.
I would take it off, isopropanol it and re attach.
Another great video full of interesting content.
Amazing to see you bring back 'Henry' from the dead. Incidentally those units are still, made in that form ,here in Chard, Somerset., England.
Keep up the good work and make more like this one.
My father has a late 70 Marantz, it works perfekt.
Old electronics was made to last.
2:16 on the left bottom is my box😍😍 i use it very often.
@7:59 As someone who delivers post in the UK, your postal box should stop people trying to take stuff out that's been delivered. It should also be weather proof against rain/snow etc.
I used to deliver for Australia Post and yeah, you saw what I saw
Only in Germany (or perhaps Singapore) would that delivery box be OK.
In every other country, it would be a magnet for every thief to open and remove delivered the packages. Painting it yellow makes it even more obvious, which is a bad thing.
I have that same Yamaha CD player, In fact I have the complete matching system to go with it. Keep up the great work!
If your WiFi reaches your new package delivery box, you could add a Ring doorbell video camera to the INSIDE of the box for security! Every movement inside the box would turn it on. But since the movement inside is also infrequent, the battery would last quite a while!
He could build a very simple ring. You need 2 cameras. One inside, one outside. Motion sensor on the inside and when motion is detected it will take photos or video for 30 seconds after the last motion with in the 30 second range. For example if motion is detected recording starts and it takes 3 seconds for the motion to stop and no more motion is detected then you have a recording of 33 seconds.
Those tool boxes are brilliant. My father has one and will soon be mine (not looking forward that) Virtually indestructible. Quality item.
You're one of the few people on youtube that I've seen mention Rudolf Steiner in any context.
Thanks for throwing him out there, more need to be aware of him honestly.
I got excited to see a new video when I saw your comment to Diesel Creek. I love the repair a thons. The tool boxes are very cool! I think they will go really fast!
All I can say on that issue is that casing stress can sometimes affect internal workings, especially gravity actuated locking mechanisms, which is what it LOOKS like that particular CD player had. in otherwords... it probably just got stuck due to external casing stress.
Whenever I have stuff such as the controllers to clean, I simply put them in the dishwasher, they come out like new.
Obviously no electronics, just the plastic parts ;-)
I put a Troughline tuner in the dishwasher. It had spent decades being used by someone who smoked and it smelt awful. Dishwasher got it nice and clean, and it worked fine after spending a couple of days drying in the sun.
Perhaps a double action door inside of the package box would be the answer. When the front door is pushed open the interior double action door would swing up to block the main part of the box so the postman could push open the front door and place the package in a cubby hole (from his point of view) and when the front door swings down the blocking door swings open and drops the package into the main part of the box. Just a thought. Have a great day.
About Yamaha CD player. I keep seeing the same CD player mechanism in Phillips and Marantz. There are 2 plastic squares under the cd tray which in theory supposed to help the cd tray slide in and out but they start get in the way as cd tray flexes with age. Try removing them. They are held with one screw each.
Both your tool and storage-related repairathons are very engaging. A cool thing to be able to do would be to visit your workshop and get to work on some project, either from a scrapyard or with a guest-submitted items. A nice collab point as well, if it is something you consider.
Keep up the awesome work!
When refurbishing old tape decks I always use IPA on the heads and run a demag wand over them,
They sound like new after that