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@premaji4520

Жыл бұрын

Suggestion : At the end of the video put a ebay auction for a interesting item and some normal rescued items with pictures (at Scrapyard pic & after restored pic) and link. It can become and interesting way to raise money for videos. Also please open a community website/chat online. So we can learn from each other and share our knowledge.

@Spanu96

Жыл бұрын

Keep it up, in times like this who knows for how long we will still have an internet connection. Russia against everyone, China against Taiwan, etc.

@TomsBackyardWorkshop

Жыл бұрын

That amplifier is pretty awesome. I think I might have some 4 channel pots in storage. What value do you need?

@Dirtyharry70585

Жыл бұрын

Wait until the monster solar cme, it will wipe the electrical grid in seconds

@TomsBackyardWorkshop

Жыл бұрын

@@Dirtyharry70585 unlikely event but if one does occure we wouldn't have to worry about our electronics because any clear with enough energy to do that would kill all life on the planet.

Honestly this is my favorite series on KZread and I never miss an episode for idk how many years now

@tnt123skeleton9

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Always a good day when a new repairathon

@Dr_V

Жыл бұрын

Same, but I also follow another great restorations channel called "my mechanics", it's well worth a look if you like this kind of stuff.

@sirpado

Жыл бұрын

Same

@frigglebiscuit7484

Жыл бұрын

same

@asabagerald6837

Жыл бұрын

Catoon

"Planned obsolescence", it is when manufacturers make their product perform well for a known period of time, that's to keep us buying replacement products for the rest of our lives.

You won't be too far away from Stamford, home of Colin Furze, when you're in England. That would be an awesome collaboration.

@thexstreetfr8648

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah 🤘

In Australia those screw drivers are high end and locked in our hardware store. You have to ask for them 😂

@lawrencebillson6224

Жыл бұрын

I swooned over those beautiful Weras, they only have maybe 5% of that lot in my local Bunnings.

@davidwillard7334

Жыл бұрын

Considering Australia' ! Already has Nothing ! Then it would be High End there !

@BTW...

Жыл бұрын

@@lawrencebillson6224 Don't shop there for hand tools. Buy from an electrical wholesaler... like an electrician.

@BTW...

Жыл бұрын

@@davidwillard7334 We have more than you know... which is nothing. Good chance fuel prices are lower if you are stuck in Europe.... or that Island theme park to the West of Europe.

That dental chair is a Siemens Sirona M1. After my graduation as a DMD, I had a mandatory 6 month apprenticeship, which I finished at the Military Medical Academy in Belgrade. The dental clinic there had many of those M1s which were installed when the hospital opened in 1984. They still work today, and judging by the words of the repairmen, they are quite easy to maintain and repair, should they stop working. I remember them being quite comfortable too, much more so than modern Chinese dental chairs. Yugoslavian, and later Serbian factory of dental equipment "Jugodent" used to make those same lamps under the Siemens licence for their Elektra 2000 chairs.

If you replace the filter caps on a vintage amp that has a large grill on the top and you don't it looking empty, a trick is to empty out the original caps and hide the new ones inside. They often have tabs to remove the bottom. Bend em up and pull the bottom out along with the innards, then cut the connections between the windings and the terminals. Solder on leads from the terminals to those on your replacements, mount the new caps on the bottom piece, and put it back inside the old can. Viola! Looks like a vintage amp again, complete with chunky filter caps!

Nice how you incorporated one of the most known items in a dental office into your own work space. The fact you gave the back story makes it even more beautiful.

8:49 i have a set of screwdrivers just for that. Made from the tips of a common Bosch set that i brazed to rods salvaged from defunct printers and toner ink cartridges. I have a metric ton of those rods, always good for project, quality steel.

I have built countless dental offices in my career, those Siemens E1 dental chairs were some of my earliest that I worked upon at the beginning of my work life.

@mrtoby2804

Жыл бұрын

Hello! Is there any way I can ask for an advice? E-mail maybe?

@frankcurley

Жыл бұрын

@@mrtoby2804 What advice are you seeking?

@sonorex

Жыл бұрын

I doubt this will be valuable information for my life in general but it assures me how precious it is to see that this series brings together people who can relate to the content one way or another. Thank you Frank

@stormtrooper88

Жыл бұрын

@@sonorex i agree. and 2nd that. its pretty great. thanks frank! have a good one sonorex!

You found a Luxman 309 integrated amplifier, 75 watt RMS per channel. What a great find. I wonder if the person who threw ii away knew its value.

Back in the early '90's at Technical collage I bought a long screwdriver for exactly the same purpose.....oh and they taught us how to fix electronics back then.

@HDXFH

Жыл бұрын

Good old days now we can’t even tell if we’re male or female, wtf has this world come to, sad really

Fader cleaner is what you want to clean pots. Normal Deoxit or contact cleaner may not work and can even make it worse. Worth a shot trying to restore the original pots.

Nothing beats a knob deep cleaning 😂

The front metal piece of the Luxman amp is a beauty. All sorts of switches designed to their job, everything in the right place, boldly engraved features, timeless font, not pretending anything.

1:00 I wish I had a scrapyard like that near me, I'd be down there every week looking for stuff. We do have scrapyards, but they take your stuff and give you money, but it all just gets melted down. No way to scavenge anything cool.

@wgroenewold

Жыл бұрын

Same here but every Saturday they are open for looking around in the soon-to-be-shredded piles. That's where you'll find the magic, you should ask yours too.

Adam Savage has a cool project to make a light source on a bendable arm but everytime he moves it, it makes a terrible creaking noise. The lamp in this vid is so sweet and smooth. Well done as always!

22:43 Hats off to anyone who can decipher whatever the hell is going on in there. The last time I've learned about circuits was in physics class in 5th grade so the only thing I can confidently say is "It seems to be running on some sort of electricity".

@carstenk2552

Жыл бұрын

You sure need some time to understand whats going on in these plans but if you got the basics, its doable. Especially if you got an old plan like this, where the function of each part of the circuit is named. Especially in radios and such you can do it by normally just by following the signal. But i guess it is easy for me to say that as I work in developing measuring equipment, even when its more in "testing and bug fixing" than designing the circuits.

@nobuckle40

Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣 That's about the extent of my electronics knowledge as well.

@lucasc5622

Жыл бұрын

To be fair that schematic is really dense. They must’ve had to squeeze it on one page

@stormtrooper88

Жыл бұрын

@@carstenk2552 i hear you there. love to find out which little bugger is causing the problem. but don't tell everyone we know the secerets... i need my job. =o) just tell them the magic smoke just came out of it. lol

lamp is really neat! but i think the box shouldnt be taking workspace and the lamp should be mounted higher, maybe add some higher 2x4 to the back of the workbench and attach the lamp to that?

Reed Richards, The Leader and Dr. Doom ain't got nothing on you! You are the man. I don't know how you find repair/replacement parts, but you got skills! Keep doing what you are doing.

I was hoping you would take that green toolbox in the beginning. I would love to find one of those!!

@davidledoux1736

Жыл бұрын

So was I! But Gerolf is probably very tired of looking at toolboxes after last year's effort to ship out so many for the holidays. 😆

That lamp has seen many a rotten tooth, and has burned itself into the memory of countless scared townsmen and townswomen 👀

"The more you overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain".

Loved to see that broken speaker sing back into life!

Another thing the items on this channel were built for were to last a lifetime and built to be serviced/repaired! This I way I love old things like tools and equipment, modern things are just consumerist trash that break quickly and aren't meant to be repaired, just thrown away and repurchased. Great video as always, thank you for uploading! 👍👍

Please know that these videos being me great joy and satisfaction - the ethic and outlook you put towards the videos and the simple but engaging script is just great. Hope you are well and am excited for your next video!

@charlesross9260

Жыл бұрын

Another great video. Thanks.

It's wonderful to see old stereo equipment being saved from the trash. I think that was my favorite part of this video. Thanks for feeding my inner geek.

I would have like to have seen you do something with whatever had those caterpillar tracks .

Dentist light is the highlight. Well done. Just a reminder, it might be too bright for you to look at objects illuminated by it for too long.

I love that old-style hi-fi construction. One of my buddies brought back a unit from overseas when he was in the military back in the 90s, and that thing was awesome! It was very heavy, and had incredible power.

My recent scrap yard acquisitions include a conduit offset bender, some unused fasteners, and some welding materials. I also bought 3 small hydraulic cylinders and associated hydraulic lines for building a dedicated snow plowing machine. It looks like I'll be using a Honda GX390 engine on it. I'm using a John Deere mower frame and seat pan, and some Jacobson steering parts.

Always love the scrapyard finds and fixes. Where possible, I use the older equipment, as it's so much better made and as you said less complicated, so less to go wrong.

@gutsngorrrr

Жыл бұрын

@Repair Wins I've been doing the same for a while, it's great to see the happy faces of people when you repair something. I also get brought the more complicated things or stuff that needs welding etc to my home, as they know I'll give anything a go at repairing.

grrrrr i wish there were more scrapyards everywhere. I'd make my entire life a living off fixing/modfying/reselling scrap!! Aaaaa

The world needs more people like you. 👍👍👍

Haha, "incredibly eighties and incredibly German". I had a good laugh.

I like that you didn´t just pick the best items, you repaired a MEDION grocery store house brand bluetooth party device.

It's really a shame to throw everything away. Luckily we have you.

I’m so glad you kept that lamp, it’s a beauty and has a fantastic story! I’m glad somebody cares so much for this historical tech. The fact that you repurpose these things to be useful in a different context is inspirational and entertaining 🙂

Loved the Luxman repair. Great amp. Perhaps an Alps BlueVelvet or similar vol pot.

Thanks for these repair tips, for more energy efficiency you can change the halogen lamp by a led with switching power supply.

@casemodder89

Жыл бұрын

not that easy because the reflector is a parabolic type that relys on the 360° beam pattern of a halogen filament in the focuspoint. with led you cant have 360° beam in a small spot AND provide enogh cooling.

I stare at that same lamp every time I get my teeth cleaned. The blueprint would be nice in a frame. Thanks for the video and Happy Weltschmertz!

Don't know if you can get it locally in Germany, but there's a product called Deoxit that basically fixes 99% of dirty crackling potentiometers.. Just spray it in, work the potentiometer around a few times, spray again to flush, then let the part dry and in the vast majority of cases, the pot works fine again. The only thing it can't fix is where the carbon has literally been worn off.. The stuff is very economical to use and I've had the same can for over 10 years and it has fixed many slide switches and noisy potentiometers...

@wgroenewold

Жыл бұрын

When you want to clean them I always use a shoe lace to easily spin them a few times.

@el_micha

Жыл бұрын

Yes you can get it here in Germany. Music Store and Thomann (big online sellers of musical instruments and audio gear) got in in stock. Caig DeOxit D5 or maybe the Fader F5 might be even better for the job. 25€/can is very steep - but as you said - it's very economical in use!

1:32 I would have taken those heat-exchangers!

The new screw driver seems a bit wasteful because you still have a spare 13cm even when fully engaged with the screw. Joking aside this is yet another fantastic video and after only 5 hours on youtube almost 20k views. You made it man you have a BIG FANBASE and we love your stuff.

Awesome fixes, I work for Siemens here in the US and I now notice Siemens does a lot of things.

I never find cool stuff at my scrap yard. It’s all sent to e-waste. The search continues! It’s a great hobby tho. Thank you from Texas U.S.A.

I would've taken the old caps housings and 3d print reductions to reuse them and hide new caps inside. I know that you don't see them normally but... I've done in on some of my amplifiers and it just looks and feels better :>

@el_micha

Жыл бұрын

That is a great idea!

Its really awesome that you are able to put that lamp to continued use.

@guerrillaj

Жыл бұрын

When he whips out that surgical lamp you know shits about to go down. Its crazy to think how many teeth were fixed over all those years from the light that one lamp provided.

That fluke meter must've been expensive when new! In '99 when I was in college, the fluke rep came by to show off the Fluke 98 multimeter. I couldn't afford one, but one or two other students fell into that trap!

Yay, new video!

@MB-mn2em

Жыл бұрын

Whooohoo 🙌🎉

That Grundig may have been a great thing to fix

I am reminded each time that I return to your channel, how unique and enjoyable your style and perspective are. Thank you.

Amazing job. I love your videos. I love fixing things ( I was a heavy truck bus mechanic for 45+ years before retiring 1-1/2 years ago) but my electronic skills are nowhere near your level. I have that same Fluke multimeter/ oscilloscope that you repaired in the video, I bought it cheap at an auction a few years ago and use it occasionally. Cheers from the Minnesota in the USA.

I had a bad pot on a 1980s Radio Shack scanner radio. I cleaned it over and over again. It was still failing. I finally opened it up and usually the wipers consist of 2 or 3 fingers touching the resistive trace. There was definitely a worn spot on the trace. It dawned on me to slightly bend the wipers over to a non worn part of the trace. It has worked fine now for a decade. That solved my problem. I love this series. I never miss it!!!!!

Hello from the UK, love your work. It's always nice to see beautiful hardware getting a second life. I hope you enjoy your time in the UK.

Little tip when repairing speakers use a playing card or thin material as a spacer so that the voice coil is centred properly in the magnet. Great content, Posh work 👌

@ppdan

Жыл бұрын

Luckily those cheap speakers have a huge gap.

@BTW...

Жыл бұрын

@@ppdan A wide gap for low efficiency. A wide gap to hold a lot of metal filings sucked in by the magnet that were not cleaned out. A wide gap that might provide clearance for the bent up voice coil, BUT that wide gap between pole faces is still probably around 0.5 to 0.75 mm each side of the coil. Yeah, cheap and junk.... better to just wire stereo inputs as mono, disconnect the wiring to voice coil on deadie and let it run as a passive radiator.

@ppdan

Жыл бұрын

@@BTW... I am pretty sure it's more than 0.75mm between poles. It's probably 0.5mm between coil and poles which is huge.

That lamp is amazing - wonderful that you brought it back to good use. Really like that blue tooth speaker - the lights are wild and the speaker drivers look pretty powerful. Really cool to see the restoration of the 1970's amp as well - very cool!

Beautiful Luxman! I got a PD370 turntable with a vacuum pump that's supposed to help with warped disks by sucking them and making them flat against the platter.

Worn or dirty contacts would have been my first suspicion on that old Fluke meter . I have fixed a lot of remote controls and other equipment with similar controls , just by cleaning with IPA and a cotton swab . I love that old lamp and how you repurposed it . Scrapyards are always interesting , full of endless possibilities for anyone with some tools and imagination .

@johnpossum556

Жыл бұрын

I repaired a digital products remote today using those same products. It had not worked for over a decade! (I tend to think a Q tip inside those buttons and a good scrubbing of the PCB with a #2 pencil's eraser would have made that Fluke work again w/o the new board purchase)

@adamchudomel6230

Жыл бұрын

I repair a lot of playstation controllers and moře often than not, the carbon from the flexible board completely flakes off and the whole board has to be replaced.

@dmitrymikheev7899

Жыл бұрын

@@adamchudomel6230 sometimes a graphite laqueer may help with a mask out of a piece of a plastic tape. I even saw one fixed (for some time) by a middle-schooler with pencil powder, IPA and rosin mixture to renew the joystick sensor. Necesity is a mother of ugly hacks :)

I really like what you did with the dental lamp. Very unique and useful.

Beautiful. A lot of complicated things works month and a lot of simple ones works years or decades.

That amplifier is a beauty after your magic!

So great to know there are still some smart people left in this world. Your skills will help rebuild the world WSHTF. Seriously your level of knowledge is very impressive. Thank you for sharing . Be safe on your trip.

When you repair a speaker, either reconing or reattaching a magnet, you have to center the voice coil. Best way to do this is to remove the dust cap and putting some paper shims in place. If the coil is not properly centered it can self-destruct.

I always love these scrapyard videos, but this one was particularly good. It was such a great variety of repairs. Have a good time in the UK!

@intensejerking

10 ай бұрын

mr bikes give me money.

I Bloody love this channel , the bit where you poke around the scrap yards always get me excited to see what crazy contraption your going to build. Always informative and insightful keep up the great work.

That hardware store looks awesome!

@T0tenkampf

Жыл бұрын

ywah, all the neat Wiha stuff!

Hello TPAI! Just wanted to say that paint thinner (especially cheap ones) works well for removing glue.

I had initially thought perhaps the Aldi BT boombox sounded unacceptably tinny (to me) but then when you used the proper audio amplifier I realized that this is an artifact of how the sound was recorded. Excellent job!

That little Grundig Radio in the beginning was full of golden goodies. Sure, the case was beyond its function of looking good, but that case had a new job protecting all the goodies within which it had still done in the impossible and ultimately terminal confines of the scrap yard where its internal irreplaceable resources will be lost forever. I could not have past that one up.

Nice job saving the fluke

i mean you cant deny how much work has been done ever so intricate and well spoken his way of referencing or how he goes about explain things as what and how it is to makes it easy to understand,iv missed this channel my whole life,for a hobbyist it has been real hard to even begin with anything regarding electronics cos its a problem to find accurate solutions when your search words capabilities is limited...iv never been as excited at this point!! what a cool guy!!

Keeping our good old stuff is a good way to fight inflation.

I love that silly light on the speaker LOL

Finding unusual stuff is what makes this exciting

The Only series i look forward to nowadays is the Scrapyard Restorations & repairs series. The joy and pleasure i get as i watch those old gold stuff get a new life and continue to live on. Also I haven't seen any other youtuber doing this type of series, i checked but sadly no. Hope this type of series becomes a trend so I can watch others youtubers do similar things but the genuine quality won't be close to this one and I know that. Suggestion : At the end of the video put a ebay auction for a interesting item and some normal rescued items with pictures (at Scrapyard pic & after restored pic) and link. It can become and interesting way to raise money for videos. Also please open a community website/chat online. So we can learn from each other and share our knowledge.

When I first saw the dental lamp on the articulating arm I could only think of one thing, "compliance."

Finding TPAI in a hardware store... A very rare sight

one among the best stuff on tube. nice to see that vintage beauty restored.

Fine toolbox at 0.53. I have a dentist’s lamp in my workshop too!

@RickRose

Жыл бұрын

I saw that toolbox as well!

Keep fighting the good fight sir! 👍👍

You might wanna try to get amplifier fixed with all it functionalities. Those vintage Luxman amps are worth a LOT depending on their condition. Well, even broken you can still get good money for it.

HOLY SHIT that wall of WERA made me feel things

You can get DeOxIt to clean them pots. You don't have to take them apart, just spray down the knob and it cleans them. It's made specifically for that.

I watched all of your old repair episodes and now I finally get to see a new release - I love this series and every new thing you repair I get more confidence to repair things myself. Please keep it up! Thank you!

It would be great to see you when you come to the UK but unfortunately I'm based in Leeds. You're channel has definitely been an inspiration to my own builds and salvage/repair efforts

To find a Fluke Scopemeter in a scrapyard, that's what I call being lucky 😂. I have 3 models of them and still wanted to buy one from the 90 series just for completing the set

The Metal Shreadder ! Would have done a Tremendous Job ! Here !

when in a pinch or strapped for cash, you can weld a cheap bit to the tip of a rod, nail or threaded rod to get a long screwdriver 😅

Your intelligence deserves respect, and, so I pay it to you.

You could have sold the Grundig radio for parts. There were many things inside still useful for restorers and collectors.

@philtowle4683

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes you have to pick a bit more carefully as you would end up taking everything. I tend to pick things I want myself or are pretty sure they are worth something.I have found that the things you think may be of value to others often aren't.

Afaik, our scrapyards here in the Philippines are gleaned dry of repairable and salvagable materials. No metals as they are reused for something else. No repairable electronics as there's always a waiting repairman there who would take the components home to make it work to make them his own. Only there left are wood and plastics as they are difficult to reuse or recycle.

@SamiMarjeta

Жыл бұрын

hi, usable scrap yard findings are the downside to developed and low income difference society. I have Ms.C in engineering and I make 32€/h minus 30% income tax. For repair guy I need to pay about 60-100€ per hour (car repair being at top end). I follow TPAI because it's fascinating and I learn to save money since practically it's impossible to find repair guy or it costs too much to make any economical sense.

best channel over here always nice to hear the first minute and your general thinking about the era we live in.

So true. We bought an expensive and complicated coffee maker. It lasted 8 months. Now we use the old one, easy and it always works. I enjoy your videos very much.

You got lucky on being able to glue that magnet back on that speaker. I am sure it dropped straight down when the speakers were straight up. when the magnet comes off when at a 90 degree angle it almost always destroys the fragile voice coil. I enjoyed your video.

Top video again. 👏👏👍 Enjoy your trip to the UK. As a teacher of computer science of 11-18 year olds and someone who studied engineering and used to teach Design & Tech can't get enough of these videos. Always recommend these to students.

The more complex items get the less long they last, new cars especially.

Wow, I purchased that exact Fluke model when I set up a lab when I first started work in 97. Had completely forgotten about it. Nice to see that the gear I brought may have lasted a while, if well taken care of.

Oh, you Krafty Kraut, you've done it again!

Sometimes you can actually tear down the potentiometers and replace the worn out PCBs inside with another ones from an new pots. This might help when dealing with weird parts like that four stacked pots.