Hey guys. I have to say "thank you" again to everyone who donated after the last video. As a reward for the donations I sent an envelope with some little goodies to everyone who wanted some. Out of a few hundred people, five or so addresses are still missing and there is an easy way to check if you're one of them: I tried to send an email to everyone who donated, so in case you haven't gotten one, please check your spam folder or check if your inbox is full ( yes that has happened with at least one of you). In case you haven't heard from me, feel free to just send me a quick email: inventordonations@gmail.com the same goes for basically anyone who lives inEurope (EU+UK) and hasen't gotten an envelope yet. Your stuff should have arrived by now. In that case, send an email. Don't answer here in the comments, because you don't want to post your personal address here. Cheers, Gerolf
I would like to publicly thank those who support you via Patreon so that we who are on fixed incomes and can't afford to do so can freeload on their generosity. That repurposing of the advertisements into a wall display is beautiful. I have no doubt that the advertisers who originally made them would have done something similar to display them in a booth at a trade show. Far better than relegating them to a landfill.
It might be nice to scan and make those photos available online? (High res photos. Or multiple lower res and one of us can use some super-resolution techniques to enhance the image stacks)... maybe. Or not.
I worked for Mohawk Data Sciences from 1979 to 1982 as a field engineer in the UK and repaired alll of the equipment in those pictures - what an amazing find.
You guys should reach out to your old bosses and try to track down the owners or their kids, they might like to have it as memorabilia, hehe perhaps even get yourself a sales commission out of it lol
I owned that model of Amplifier in about 1983. It was around 8 years old when I purchased it. It was a fantastic amp. I was really surprised to see one again!
Both countries have similar issues with forest management. Not that my country, the USA, has anything to brag about in that regard. If we want decent, usable, beautiful forests in the future, the time to do something about it is now.
Really good way to put it, I appreciate the channel for the same reasons. The deeper descriptions and sense of perspective do a lot to make something on the other side of the world feel familiar. The corn fields of central Texas couldn't be more different from a German forest but that intro still felt just like my own memories.
Hi from England. As a saw doctor I have sharpened s lot of the drills you have picked up. The last one you used is s plug cutter you need to slow your speed down to stop the burning and the resulting plug can be used to fill in holes. The other bits from that selection I used to regularly sharpen for people up until I left the industry a couple of years ago. Learn how to sharpen the properly and they can out live most of us.
You, young man are an inspiration - I hope young kids get onboard. Too late for me, but I have ordered a new shed with a ramp, just to shhow I'm not done yet!
I am another old-timer with a shed. Let's make a deal. As long as we can get to a bench, let's keep tinkering with something, just to stay sharp. As our young TPAI often makes art, we can make art about our memories, just to remind the next generations of what they missed out on, the old days!
Me being an oldtimer on this channel I think you have found the right balance with your "old-lectured-videos" which I like most, with the new people arriving because they like repair-a-thons. I always loved your mixture of art and technology, just like Oskar Sala did it. I hope you can put more of your own BG music
I always enjoy your efforts at resurrecting old electric motors and pumps from the scrapyard. I also enjoy your background narratives. Keep up the interesting projects.
I love that you always take time to give some short historical descriptions about the companies behind the stuff you find and also that you tell us how tool names are pronounced in German, helps me practice using my old school German :). I was watching the video using headphones and practiced saying "Schlagring" and "Langlochbohrer" several times, my wife who where sitting next to me wondered what the hell I was talking about :). Keep the Repair-A-Thon's coming, they are awesome 👍
I loved the pictures at the end! There is a certain charm to images like this, and the light installation was a really clever idea. The strobe flashing would probably give me an epileptic seizure, but the slow, random switching, and breathing effect is really nice. Great episode!
Awesome video! I couldn't believe the pump was made of brass! Someone didn't know what they had, I suspect. As an audiophile and someone studying to be an electrical engineer, I enjoyed seeing an old amp get some TLC. All around, this was a really fun video.
I really love your repairathons. Here in Sweden we have very strict laws around waste. As soon as someone has thrown something away the waste company owns it. So it is actually a crime to take things from a junkyard or even from the garbage collection in a apartment building. The junkyard doesn't sell waste either as they do in Germany. So it's a tragedy going to the junkyard and see perfectly fine objects in the bins but not having the ability to take it with me. Keep up the good work!
@8.30, a 1980s Pioneer amplifier. That thing blasted the Scorpions rock and songs of reunification. Probably played 99 Red Balloons during the Cold War. My small salute to music from Germany! Nice Video and Greetings from America, John
More likely played 99 Luftballons ;) th-cam.com/video/Fpu5a0Bl8eY/w-d-xo.html I remember this as my first cool music lesson in middle school, sigh! Also it definitely played some Kraftwerk for sure.
I like the way you used those old pictures. Really a nice touch that no one else would have bothered with. You could even sell it later and buy more repair items. Good job!
You should absolutely produce more repairathons in the future. I get lost in the electronics parts, but I still watch as if I understand everything. The lighted pictures are fantastic.
The light box is fantastic. I also appreciate 80's audio gear. Repairing gear from this decade is where my electronics career began back in the day. Nice work. Cheers.
6:05 That bit is for making plugs, not holes. Those pictures were a great find and that's an awesome job of preserving that piece of history. The orange hue of the lights goes well with the vintage look.
You are on the next level, that is some skill right there. Creates or fixes things from junk that would cost hundreds or thousands in the retail shops. This channel is easily in my top 3 channels on youtube. Keep on the good work my friend. T. Fan from Finland
6:19 that's an "Zapfenschneider" it's used to Produce "Querholzplättchen" for hiding Screw's or Nuts which was drilles out before with an Forstner Bit... or just create an Tenon.
19:30 of the video, PROCON PUMP!!!! Under the Faber castel box was a Standex Procon vane pump. A great pump for high pressure hot and cold , used in professional coffee machines and carbonators. Would be a great find!
Thanks to you l have repaired my 30 year old cordless Makita drill which l was told by many people that it was a piece of junk. Encouraged by that repair l fixed the on/off switch on my Krups coffee bean grinder. Hopefully there will be many more people encouraged by your content to repair and not just throw away.
That fat drill bit that makes the dowel like pieces is a "bung Cutter" it makes them to be glued into fastener holes on boats or furniture. Awesome find !
The hollow drill bit is for cutting cross-grain plugs, to conceal screws or plug old holes. Measure the plug diameter and team it up with a drill bit that makes that hole. The process is called plug and pellet joinery.
Thank you for a great video. It was really nice to see you bring those old photos back to life (actually back to light). It brought back to my youth when computers were in early development .
Sometimes the center shift on potentiometers can be removed and swapped around. The short leads on the pot with the ring terminals can be extended with short pieces of solid copper wire.
First time watcher and an instant subscriber. This is better than any reality show I have wasted hours watching. You are the Bob Ross of handy work. If only the world had more highly skilled people who are articulate with their words people like you, the world would have been in an even better place now. Thanks
I live about 30 min from Parsippany, NJ in Somerville. You'd be amazed how much industry used to be in NJ. Almost anything you could think of was produced in NJ at some point, especially industrial machinery. Unfortunately a lot of those factories now sit abandoned and in disrepair.
That is fascinating that the spruce is dying to the beetle. In the states we have the exact same problem affecting pines. Huge swaths of forest are lost every year, mostly where it was planted in monoculture, but in general is sweeping across the country. They do not touch the spruce or fir, but in every other way the pest looks identical as does the damage that it leaves.
I live 50 miles from Herkimer, NY, and my late wife and I would go up there frequently to visit the Heidelberg Bakery and Café for amazing German food.
I worked at Sihi Pumpen in Itzehoe during the school summer holidays 1986 in the shipping department. Feels like yesterday after seeing the pump. Greetings from Brisbane, Australia.
The side channel pump should be able to pull somewhat of a vacuum and prime itself it has to pull up less than 1-2 meters. Even dry this should work as it works similar to a regenerative blower. If it does not it may be just a multiple stage centrifugal pump. Side channel pumps often have smaller and wider plates in their stack, your pump only has one size which may suggest centrifugal. RPM is a good indicator too, a centrifugal is likely to run at 3000, a side channel more like 1500 and its kind of screaming when its pumping.
Pioneer made some great equipment in those days When I was still doing warranty work at my repair shop that was one of the companies I enjoyed repair their stuff.
A pot meter can often be restored with some vaseline spray. You might want to try that next time. Wish I knew that when I was younger trying to fix stuff.
Videos like this have me collecting junk, er fixable things, in my garage now. Just fixed a $400 industrial coffee maker for $15. Got it for free, people said "it wont work, it needs a $300 part." the service manual was online and also free, so I ran thru the checklist. timer board was bad. i found a new-old-stock part and it should work now.
@The Post Apocalyptic Inventor Hey man! Always see your videos but know felt that I needed to give a big shout out to you! I believe the biggest message from these scrapyard finds are always the intros... I really touches my heart and are awsome the way you look at things. Thanks a bunch for sharing your thoughts and words with us!
It's a sad story about that forest... For cleaning tools etc. you can use sodium hydroxide (lye) instead of washing powder. Will probably be cheaper. Nice collection of tools, they look way better after rust removal. Nice amp with discrete transistors in the output stage. When plugging an unknown electronic device in, use a light bulb as a current limiter in case the device is shorted. It's good (but not strictly necessary) to raise the supply voltage with a variac if you have one, rather than applying the full 230V. By the way, if you happen on some Polish electronic device, keep in mind that the potentiometer markings are different here: A is linear, B is logarithmic, C is reverse-logarithmic and M+N is for balance control. That pump can be used for putting out fires! The flow is just insane :D Cool collection of photos too, you made a lovely display for them. You've got a nice console too.
Absolutelly awesome. Every single video from you makes me smile and makes my day. If only people knew how many good objects, tools and valuable stuff is lost every day...
Wow I grew up 20 miles from Herkimer New York. My Fathers work place an insurance company used those machines my sister took an adding machine to college with her. Herkimer is better known for its diamonds which are quartz of very high clarity. My dad also brought home the entire evolution of the electric typewriter wish I still had one of them.
Those old drilling tools aren't just "still good for something", they're top quality tools that any hobby carpenter would love to own and use. Similar quality modern bits would set you back at least a couple hundred euros, so you'd better store them carefully for future woodworking projects.
Fantastic work sir, you have a new subscriber. I really like how you restore old thrown out "garbage" I am looking forward to seeing more of your channel. Keep up the great work sir 👍👍
I'm pretty sure the bit shown at 6:05 is whats known as a plug cutter, which cuts a round piece of wood to be glued into a hole ontop of a countersunk screw and then cut/sanded flush for a clean surface finish. It could also just be an older style hole saw but a way to find out would be to measure the diameter of the wooden plug it produces to see if it measures to an exact diameter of a drill that makes the hole it could fill
Actually, using BJTs was a great choice if you want to fade the backlighting like that. If they start to run warm, put a low-pass filter on the base to filter out PWM noise. Transistors handle the slope between the high-low transition much better than FETs.
Your light art is amazing... I did pretty much the same, by building a illuminated DJ stage this way..... By the way, the big drill bit from the begining of the video is to make wooden plugs with which you can plug defects in wood. (with glue) ..looks like a 25mm one...
Thank you sir for your excellent contributions. I particularly enjoy learning more about Germany - hearing your translations of names for things and about the manufacturers and their history. We certainly have one thing in common - scrapyards look the same here in the US. Please keep doing these Repair-A-Thons - they are wonderful. Thanks!
Citric acid, great for removing mill scale on black bar, a few days. Found a scrapyard XY table on a base with a round pillar collar, no pillar or whatever was attached. , flat bar slides with gibbs, all rusted up. , easily skimmed and shimmed. no dovetails. very nice and tight result. Inspired by TPAI. fireball tools cutting disc test, dont plough, Im looking at Lister D , maybe its my age. but running a pump or generator. the pump looks great.
Here in Oregon, USA, we have nothing but Douglas Fir monoculture planted as one would plant corn. Now, every summer, we must wait to see if we will burn completely away due to such an unnatural arrangement of trees.
nice work on the photo display - when you said you were going to add lighting I thought you would position LEDs behind the display monitors in the photos, giving off an errie CRT glow.
Brilliant finds as always been to a few scrapyards here in Ireland but mainly farming stuff to find in my area. Just a thanks for the stickers got them a while back and one on helmet currently second one going on an arcade I am currently building for my daughter along with a few other stickers I have managed to collect over the years.
Hey guys. I have to say "thank you" again to everyone who donated after the last video. As a reward for the donations I sent an envelope with some little goodies to everyone who wanted some. Out of a few hundred people, five or so addresses are still missing and there is an easy way to check if you're one of them: I tried to send an email to everyone who donated, so in case you haven't gotten one, please check your spam folder or check if your inbox is full ( yes that has happened with at least one of you). In case you haven't heard from me, feel free to just send me a quick email: inventordonations@gmail.com the same goes for basically anyone who lives inEurope (EU+UK) and hasen't gotten an envelope yet. Your stuff should have arrived by now. In that case, send an email. Don't answer here in the comments, because you don't want to post your personal address here. Cheers, Gerolf
I would like to publicly thank those who support you via Patreon so that we who are on fixed incomes and can't afford to do so can freeload on their generosity.
That repurposing of the advertisements into a wall display is beautiful. I have no doubt that the advertisers who originally made them would have done something similar to display them in a booth at a trade show. Far better than relegating them to a landfill.
#teamseas
It might be nice to scan and make those photos available online? (High res photos. Or multiple lower res and one of us can use some super-resolution techniques to enhance the image stacks)... maybe. Or not.
Your patch made it onto my favourite Working overall, thanks!
The scrap yards here in the U.S. are illegal to salvage from.
I worked for Mohawk Data Sciences from 1979 to 1982 as a field engineer in the UK and repaired alll of the equipment in those pictures - what an amazing find.
My father worked for Burroughs here in the US during the same time period, same job. Such a fascinating era of computing.
Wow that is amazing! I wondered if anyone in the audience would have a personal connection to this company. Thanks for the comment!
You guys should reach out to your old bosses and try to track down the owners or their kids, they might like to have it as memorabilia, hehe perhaps even get yourself a sales commission out of it lol
@@patprop74 is a sales commotion noisey 😉
@@scotttait2197 damm Auto correct. haha, thanks btw.
That photo display was absolutely fantastic, you're a very skilled and lucky man to be able to pull off such amazing work. Much respect form the Uk
Love the way you honoured those old pictures. We must acknowledge the past in order to move into the future.
I owned that model of Amplifier in about 1983. It was around 8 years old when I purchased it. It was a fantastic amp. I was really surprised to see one again!
love your little rants, gives us a German perspective on things, geographic, nature and what not... makes Germany seems closer to Canada ;-D.
No canada sucks and is gay
@@familyengineering5591 yup it doesn't have a glorious past like Germany either
@@royalblood2405 Just as well, considering how some of that past turned out.
Both countries have similar issues with forest management. Not that my country, the USA, has anything to brag about in that regard.
If we want decent, usable, beautiful forests in the future, the time to do something about it is now.
Really good way to put it, I appreciate the channel for the same reasons. The deeper descriptions and sense of perspective do a lot to make something on the other side of the world feel familiar. The corn fields of central Texas couldn't be more different from a German forest but that intro still felt just like my own memories.
Hi from England.
As a saw doctor I have sharpened s lot of the drills you have picked up. The last one you used is s plug cutter you need to slow your speed down to stop the burning and the resulting plug can be used to fill in holes. The other bits from that selection I used to regularly sharpen for people up until I left the industry a couple of years ago. Learn how to sharpen the properly and they can out live most of us.
WoodByWright has some goods videos on maintaining them
You, young man are an inspiration - I hope young kids get onboard. Too late for me, but I have ordered a new shed with a ramp, just to shhow I'm not done yet!
I am another old-timer with a shed. Let's make a deal. As long as we can get to a bench, let's keep tinkering with something, just to stay sharp. As our young TPAI often makes art, we can make art about our memories, just to remind the next generations of what they missed out on, the old days!
@@reynoldsVincent and, if you make enough art, maybe make some money off it.
Me being an oldtimer on this channel I think you have found the right balance with your "old-lectured-videos" which I like most, with the new people arriving because they like repair-a-thons.
I always loved your mixture of art and technology, just like Oskar Sala did it. I hope you can put more of your own BG music
I always enjoy your efforts at resurrecting old electric motors and pumps from the scrapyard. I also enjoy your background narratives. Keep up the interesting projects.
What a great episode. That pump was a tremendous score and I absolutely love the pictures. I'm that kind of age now!!
I love that you always take time to give some short historical descriptions about the companies behind the stuff you find and also that you tell us how tool names are pronounced in German, helps me practice using my old school German :). I was watching the video using headphones and practiced saying "Schlagring" and "Langlochbohrer" several times, my wife who where sitting next to me wondered what the hell I was talking about :).
Keep the Repair-A-Thon's coming, they are awesome 👍
Agreed studied German at school ... my current girlfriend is fluent
. Its great to practice 👍
I love hearing the stories and history. Really helps me learn more about parts of the world I've never been to!
I too listen with headphones - and also tried the pronunciations, . .but my wife thought I was having a seizure, . . hilarity ensued, . (N.W. U.K. )
So lucky to have these scrapyards to roam , our recycling centers returns everything to their base metals within days
I loved the pictures at the end! There is a certain charm to images like this, and the light installation was a really clever idea. The strobe flashing would probably give me an epileptic seizure, but the slow, random switching, and breathing effect is really nice. Great episode!
Awesome video! I couldn't believe the pump was made of brass! Someone didn't know what they had, I suspect. As an audiophile and someone studying to be an electrical engineer, I enjoyed seeing an old amp get some TLC. All around, this was a really fun video.
I really love your repairathons. Here in Sweden we have very strict laws around waste. As soon as someone has thrown something away the waste company owns it. So it is actually a crime to take things from a junkyard or even from the garbage collection in a apartment building. The junkyard doesn't sell waste either as they do in Germany. So it's a tragedy going to the junkyard and see perfectly fine objects in the bins but not having the ability to take it with me. Keep up the good work!
The lighted photo display looks very period appropriate for the era of the pictures.
Well Done.
@8.30, a 1980s Pioneer amplifier. That thing blasted the Scorpions rock and songs of reunification. Probably played 99 Red Balloons during the Cold War.
My small salute to music from Germany!
Nice Video and Greetings from America, John
More likely played 99 Luftballons ;) th-cam.com/video/Fpu5a0Bl8eY/w-d-xo.html
I remember this as my first cool music lesson in middle school, sigh!
Also it definitely played some Kraftwerk for sure.
I like the way you used those old pictures. Really a nice touch that no one else would have bothered with. You could even sell it later and buy more repair items. Good job!
You should absolutely produce more repairathons in the future. I get lost in the electronics parts, but I still watch as if I understand everything. The lighted pictures are fantastic.
Those old pics could not have found a better home. Respect!
Always one of my favourite days on TH-cam when you post something new. Especially the salvage videos but also like the exploration ones.
The light box is fantastic. I also appreciate 80's audio gear. Repairing gear from this decade is where my electronics career began back in the day. Nice work. Cheers.
6:05 That bit is for making plugs, not holes.
Those pictures were a great find and that's an awesome job of preserving that piece of history. The orange hue of the lights goes well with the vintage look.
You are on the next level, that is some skill right there. Creates or fixes things from junk that would cost hundreds or thousands in the retail shops. This channel is easily in my top 3 channels on youtube. Keep on the good work my friend. T. Fan from Finland
6:19 that's an "Zapfenschneider" it's used to Produce "Querholzplättchen" for hiding Screw's or Nuts which was drilles out before with an Forstner Bit... or just create an Tenon.
I just wanted to say, thanks to you I went to my local scrapyard yesterday. Got home with a pipe vise and a heavy duty sack cart! 😊Love your content!
Love the scrap yard repair-a-thons!!!
Wow - those back-lit photo panels look amazing. Great work!
19:30 of the video, PROCON PUMP!!!! Under the Faber castel box was a Standex Procon vane pump. A great pump for high pressure hot and cold , used in professional coffee machines and carbonators. Would be a great find!
Thanks to you l have repaired my 30 year old cordless Makita drill which l was told by many people that it was a piece of junk. Encouraged by that repair l fixed the on/off switch on my Krups coffee bean grinder. Hopefully there will be many more people encouraged by your content to repair and not just throw away.
That fat drill bit that makes the dowel like pieces is a "bung Cutter" it makes them to be glued into fastener holes on boats or furniture. Awesome find !
The hollow drill bit is for cutting cross-grain plugs, to conceal screws or plug old holes. Measure the plug diameter and team it up with a drill bit that makes that hole. The process is called plug and pellet joinery.
I think maybe that light box installation was your best 'restoration' yet.
The little light installation is brilliant! Well done!
Thank you for a great video. It was really nice to see you bring those old photos back to life (actually back to light). It brought back to my youth when computers were in early development .
I really enjoy your videos--a very unique approach to life for sure. Love that that you turn old stuff into something that is truly useful.
The same happened in northeastern America where I live. The beetle just devastated the pines. What a shame for these trees they are gone now.
Sometimes the center shift on potentiometers can be removed and swapped around. The short leads on the pot with the ring terminals can be extended with short pieces of solid copper wire.
First time watcher and an instant subscriber. This is better than any reality show I have wasted hours watching. You are the Bob Ross of handy work. If only the world had more highly skilled people who are articulate with their words people like you, the world would have been in an even better place now. Thanks
I live about 30 min from Parsippany, NJ in Somerville. You'd be amazed how much industry used to be in NJ. Almost anything you could think of was produced in NJ at some point, especially industrial machinery. Unfortunately a lot of those factories now sit abandoned and in disrepair.
That is fascinating that the spruce is dying to the beetle. In the states we have the exact same problem affecting pines. Huge swaths of forest are lost every year, mostly where it was planted in monoculture, but in general is sweeping across the country. They do not touch the spruce or fir, but in every other way the pest looks identical as does the damage that it leaves.
What a great light-board for the old photos, nice job!
I live 50 miles from Herkimer, NY, and my late wife and I would go up there frequently to visit the Heidelberg Bakery and Café for amazing German food.
LOVED the light-box vintage photos!
Herkimer, NY is 63 miles east of me (Syracuse, NY)! Thanks for sharing with us!
I worked at Sihi Pumpen in Itzehoe during the school summer holidays 1986 in the shipping department. Feels like yesterday after seeing the pump. Greetings from Brisbane, Australia.
I love what you did with those old photos, very artistic.
The side channel pump should be able to pull somewhat of a vacuum and prime itself it has to pull up less than 1-2 meters.
Even dry this should work as it works similar to a regenerative blower.
If it does not it may be just a multiple stage centrifugal pump.
Side channel pumps often have smaller and wider plates in their stack, your pump only has one size which may suggest centrifugal.
RPM is a good indicator too, a centrifugal is likely to run at 3000, a side channel more like 1500 and its kind of screaming when its pumping.
Finally a new episode! Been waiting for it!
That light installation is amazing
i think the picture board was fantastic and a great tribute to the PC Pioneers. I love all you do my friend. Best wishes from Aust.
Pioneer made some great equipment in those days When I was still doing warranty work at my repair shop that was one of the companies I enjoyed repair their stuff.
I live around an hour from Herkimer NY! Interesting that these found their way over to your neck of the woods! Sweet finds!
A pot meter can often be restored with some vaseline spray. You might want to try that next time. Wish I knew that when I was younger trying to fix stuff.
Videos like this have me collecting junk, er fixable things, in my garage now. Just fixed a $400 industrial coffee maker for $15. Got it for free, people said "it wont work, it needs a $300 part." the service manual was online and also free, so I ran thru the checklist. timer board was bad. i found a new-old-stock part and it should work now.
@The Post Apocalyptic Inventor
Hey man! Always see your videos but know felt that I needed to give a big shout out to you!
I believe the biggest message from these scrapyard finds are always the intros... I really touches my heart and are awsome the way you look at things.
Thanks a bunch for sharing your thoughts and words with us!
It's a sad story about that forest...
For cleaning tools etc. you can use sodium hydroxide (lye) instead of washing powder. Will probably be cheaper. Nice collection of tools, they look way better after rust removal.
Nice amp with discrete transistors in the output stage. When plugging an unknown electronic device in, use a light bulb as a current limiter in case the device is shorted. It's good (but not strictly necessary) to raise the supply voltage with a variac if you have one, rather than applying the full 230V.
By the way, if you happen on some Polish electronic device, keep in mind that the potentiometer markings are different here: A is linear, B is logarithmic, C is reverse-logarithmic and M+N is for balance control.
That pump can be used for putting out fires! The flow is just insane :D
Cool collection of photos too, you made a lovely display for them. You've got a nice console too.
Absolutelly awesome. Every single video from you makes me smile and makes my day. If only people knew how many good objects, tools and valuable stuff is lost every day...
i love your work... especially in the beginning when you are doing walk throughs in the scrap yard.
you did a great job on those pictures you found.
Light box is awesome. Full steam ahead on the repairathons! Please
Wow I grew up 20 miles from Herkimer New York. My Fathers work place an insurance company used those machines my sister took an adding machine to college with her. Herkimer is better known for its diamonds which are quartz of very high clarity. My dad also brought home the entire evolution of the electric typewriter wish I still had one of them.
Those old drilling tools aren't just "still good for something", they're top quality tools that any hobby carpenter would love to own and use. Similar quality modern bits would set you back at least a couple hundred euros, so you'd better store them carefully for future woodworking projects.
That photo display... SO classy 👌
Greetings from the Hudson Valley in NY USA. We're not far from Herkimer NY. So funny to find a random connection on your channel.
Fantastic work sir, you have a new subscriber.
I really like how you restore old thrown out "garbage"
I am looking forward to seeing more of your channel.
Keep up the great work sir 👍👍
Always a good day when I see this pop up in the notifications (:
once the music started i was waiting for Mike Myers to pop out in all black and say "Now the time on Sprockets where we dance"
The picture frame project was very nice. Well done!!!
Thanks for sharing, more useful items saved from the landfill or the scrap metal cauldron
I'm pretty sure the bit shown at 6:05 is whats known as a plug cutter, which cuts a round piece of wood to be glued into a hole ontop of a countersunk screw and then cut/sanded flush for a clean surface finish. It could also just be an older style hole saw but a way to find out would be to measure the diameter of the wooden plug it produces to see if it measures to an exact diameter of a drill that makes the hole it could fill
Thank you again for the patch and stickers. Live your videos. Learning every time I watch.
Actually, using BJTs was a great choice if you want to fade the backlighting like that. If they start to run warm, put a low-pass filter on the base to filter out PWM noise. Transistors handle the slope between the high-low transition much better than FETs.
The arduino probably had more computing power, than the computers in the pictures, lol. Great work!
Very nice work reusing those photos and giving them a new life! Greetings from Madrid ... video ist wumderbar !
I feel like painting the wooden boxes white and using cold-white LEDs would look even better! Would give it a nice retro-futuristic look.
A bit late but again a master piece.What is there that cannot bring back to life.Keep them coming.
Your light art is amazing... I did pretty much the same, by building a illuminated DJ stage this way..... By the way, the big drill bit from the begining of the video is to make wooden plugs with which you can plug defects in wood. (with glue) ..looks like a 25mm one...
Thank you so much! Your videos are some of the best content on TH-cam. I hope that you have fully recovered from your cold.
3:47 best dish brush ever ... I use the same ones - from ikea
Thanks for the bit on German Spruce. We have something similar in the States with a hardwood species called Ash. Makes great firewood though🤣
I really love the light up pictures looks great.
Thankyou very much for sending the stickers and patch!
Glad you kept the photos.
Thank you sir for your excellent contributions. I particularly enjoy learning more about Germany - hearing your translations of names for things and about the manufacturers and their history. We certainly have one thing in common - scrapyards look the same here in the US. Please keep doing these Repair-A-Thons - they are wonderful. Thanks!
I live quite close to Herkimer, theyre mostly known for their "diamonds" (exceptionally clear quartz) now.
I love the new light installation!
Nice video’s. I love seeing what you pull out of the junkyard and repair. From sunny southern Minnesota.
My father had the exact same amplifier. So it was definitely sold in Britain
I bet a technical college in NY like RIT or the equivalent in Germany would love those. Nice bit of history. Grew up near MDS myself
Citric acid, great for removing mill scale on black bar, a few days. Found a scrapyard XY table on a base with a round pillar collar, no pillar or whatever was attached. , flat bar slides with gibbs, all rusted up. , easily skimmed and shimmed. no dovetails. very nice and tight result. Inspired by TPAI. fireball tools cutting disc test, dont plough, Im looking at Lister D , maybe its my age. but running a pump or generator. the pump looks great.
Here in Oregon, USA, we have nothing but Douglas Fir monoculture planted as one would plant corn. Now, every summer, we must wait to see if we will burn completely away due to such an unnatural arrangement of trees.
Welcome back. Thanks for yet another great video. 👍 Looking forward to seeing more!
The repairs are some of my favorites!
The pictures are GREAT. Nice job Mister inventer
nice work on the photo display - when you said you were going to add lighting I thought you would position LEDs behind the display monitors in the photos, giving off an errie CRT glow.
Amazing work Sir! I'm sorry to hear about your spruce trees.
That pump was an awesome find! Very skookum
Brilliant Repair-A-Thon, love these videos, I could sit in the corner of you workshop and watch Joe 90 or Thunderbirds lol.
Brilliant finds as always been to a few scrapyards here in Ireland but mainly farming stuff to find in my area. Just a thanks for the stickers got them a while back and one on helmet currently second one going on an arcade I am currently building for my daughter along with a few other stickers I have managed to collect over the years.