Regarding the neon transformer here's one of many applications you may find handy. Few years ago I've bought a house from 80's a ground floor of which was previously rented to some really heavy smoker and although there were almost no furniture left it looked like the walls themselves absorbed a lot of the smell. Simple venting did close to nothing so I had an idea to use ozone. But ozone generators tend to be quite expensive especially the bigger ones and here we were talking about 80m2 and 200m3 of air volume. Probably I could rent one but I had a 500VA neon sign transformer, an old glass from Fiat Seicento front door and a garden wire mesh with 10mm spacing ling around. I hot-glued two pieces of mesh to opposite sides of the glass, connected one lead of the transformer to each side and now I had few hundred watts ozone generator. I simply placed it on few bricks and put a fan next to it. It produced so much ozone (and probably a fair amount of NOx) that I was actually a bit afraid to poison myself so I used a long extension cord to turn it on and off remotely from safe distance. I gave each room (roughly a quarter of full space each) two 15 minut sessions of ozonening with thorough venting in between and the smell was completely gone. And it cost me few cents in electricity and glue.

Your words at the start of the video struck a chord with me. Repairing some discarded items is true recycling. I am recovering from mental health issues, and your video's help me remember little bits and pieces of what I used to do. Thank you!

@BuyitFixit

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Totally agree. I hate throwing stuff away, a lot of the items I fix are only small components that usually fail and cost pennies to replace.

@pauljcampbell2997

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@@BuyitFixit I just subscribed to your channel. Thanks!

@BuyitFixit

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@@pauljcampbell2997 Thanks Paul!

@theninjascientist689

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is in order of importance, if people won't reduce what they throw away, reusing it is better than recycling

Your Repair-A-Thon series is one of my all-time favorites on KZread. Keep it up!

I didn’t know the jerry cans came from German design! Neat bit of history

@ToreDL87

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Was wondering when you'd show up! Yeah the Jerry can's were made by.. Jerry's :D

@manfredschmalbach9023

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I recently saw a documentary about the design perks of these cans and how they provided the Wehrmacht with superior fuel-transportation and refueling possibilities after 1939. I was surprised how much engineering was put in those, and how much of the engineering the copycats did fail to also copy.

@KeritechElectronics

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@@manfredschmalbach9023 that's the one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iquJzcSAeKmnmNY.html

@TheBlueAstro

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a simple coat of shellac(period correct but requires some maintenance) or epoxy preserves the originals. the thing i dont like are all the fakes you can purchace that produce more waste

@manfredschmalbach9023

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@@TheBlueAstro Usually the problem is rust where paint is damaged and bare metal contacts environment. The rest (cap and welds and handles) are literally bullet proof. I did weld-repair rusted-out corners and bottoms of cans though. Once they're really free of residues and fumes that works astonishingly well with WIG or MIG even. I'm not sure shellac is fuel proof tbh. I brush mine with 2K paint for rust protection.

In my area I have seen the beginnings of the "transitioning to local goods and production" thing, especially in food production and distribution. I think this will be a natural, organic thing to happen. As food prices have increased, more and more people have sought out ways to save money and have discovered that buying meat, vegetables, fruit, milk ect. directly from the source (cutting out the middle man profiteers) can save significant money. With the bonus of also discovering that quality is more often than not, vastly improved. What I like about your videos is that it gets me to think about ways to increase my knowledge and be less dependent on others for survival.

1:35 all that rebar! The Jerry can was a good find, as was the other stuff. I think you need a 30cfm/1000lpm compressor, with that you can build a sandblasting tent out of some 2x4's and tarp, and clean many square meters of metal without much mess (because it all gathers on the bottom tarp, for easy re-use). As for our industries, they're long gone. And now that they spent 60-70 years selling or shipping of all our industry to China because uninformed lobbyists and whackadoodles told them so (where it does the most damage to glaciers because the glaciers are there, and China doesn't abide by the same emission laws as us, despite our own ecosystem better able to handle the CO2 etc because it will be spread out etc, I could keep going) it will take a direct public uproar to bring even some of it (and jobs) back.

I've only listened to the intro so far and I have to remind myself that english is not your first language, the eloquence is outstanding.

1:28 "Locked on" to the metal box sitting on the rebar. Channeling my inner Post Apocalyptic Inventor lol 😆

I enjoy these not only for the projects but also for the history lessons.

I work in a scrap yard and watching your channel over the years has inspired me to keep an eye open for useful items I can repurpose in my off grid 20ft shipping container workshop where I fix and store my motorcycles. My recent finds include an old red "Jerry" fuel can which is useful for draining the fuel tank on my motorcycle when I remove the tank to work on it. A somewhat rusty 9 drawer Snap on top tool chest that I will wire wheel and repaint. A couple of large "silent" diesel generators: a 5.6 kVA with a faulty key switch, and a 6.8 kVA that doesn't run, a 1000VA UPS without batteries (2x12v 24v) I'll either use for "cleaning" the AC output from the generator for powering sensitive electronic items or possibly for a solar panel setup. An old table top bandsaw that needs a new blade and a working 72cm vinyl cutter plotter for making decals. Old finds include a 1 square meter welding workbench, a cheap flimsy 9 draw toolbox, a couple of bench grinders I plan to use to clean and polish aluminium parts, a small pillar drill, a couple of car batteries I use to light my workshop using LEDs and a 4.2 kW LPG heater I keep under my workbench to keep warm when I'm working there during winter. Once I fix and install one of the diesel generators I'll be able run mains operated power tools like my 130A mig welder, small air compressor, bench grinders, pillar drill, bandsaw and keep the car battery I use for lighting charged up. Until now I have had to charge the battery at home which is somewhat inconvenient but I have just been given a inexpensive 800W 2 stroke generator which I will use to charge my batteries until I make space for them and arrange a van or trailer to transport the diesel generators.

I love the Repair-A-Thons!

To light the work shop for free from a junk find is the best

Jerry cans are a fine example of German ingenuity in industrial design.

That kind of UPS is often used as a full time inverter, to manage dirty power from the grid.

FRIGGIN GENIUS!!! Why didn't I think of an UPS as an inverter for solar electrical power? ABSOLUTE GENIUS !!!

Wow that canister has more history than anyone would have thought

that 4 by 4 switch set up was smart

I like to 3d print one-shot "boot molds" for cables, for "quickies" I will inject hot glue to make them secure and to protect them from edges that might cause fraying. I also like to replace the insulated part of a repaired cable end or plug jacket with a 3d printed mold and injected silicon/hot glue depending on voltage or function.

I agree with the other comments how awesome it is that you combine a bit of history along with your explanations of how you build/restore equipment and occasionally bit of local scenery. Never a dull moment!

YES! Please keep these vids coming. I'm disabled and spend a great deal of time watching KZread content. I always look forward to your videos coming out. Thank you!

Safety glasses while drilling the bricks my man.

I could listen to the guy all day. He has a voice that expert narrators have on television documentaries. His conciseness, diction, and his knowledge just come shining through. And he has his finger on the pulse as to the way society is going.

Nice job on the cabinet. I just cleaned/painted an old military filing cabinet that my wife has had for over 30 years. It sits next to my big tool box in the garage and I painted it to match. No restoration, left the dents and holes, just a good sanding and painting.

Great to see you back German Brother! Greetings from Chattanooga, TN USA

@TPAI The youtube channel "Calum" did a really interesting video not too long ago on the Jerry Can, its called "Jerry Cans : The true secret weapon of WWII", that I think you might enjoy. It went over the Jerry cans development and how it became one of the most sought after pieces of equipment by both American and British during WWII as why it's the perfect storage container that's still in use to this day. Really enjoyed the video as always! 👍👍

Man, the ting you do is awesome. I love your German translation from English, your amazing pragmatism, wide knowledge and enthusiasm. Thank you from Australia. Bosch mob.

The Jerry cans were so significant and sought after b/c the amount of fuel waste the allies were experiencing due to faulty container designs was enormous. Allied designs were also harder to transport, stack, and were fragile. Even when the allied forces copied it, they failed to use the recessed welded seam so that meant that the copies often leaked, couldn't stand on the ends that well, and experienced damaged seams if dropped. Even today, if you buy a cheap copy in the US, it usually has a crimped together seam that isn't recessed so it is easily damaged.

If there was ever a morning when I needed a new video from you, this was it. Thank you for your fantastic material.

@typxxilps

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Morning?! Tea time is even over in the post apocalyptic inventors country: 4 pm

Last couple of days I have thinking that... "pff.. I really need a Post Apocalyptic Inventor video" and there you go..:) Thank you.

the good fellow is a genius in his own right. Shout out to all my good friends in Germany

Many decades ago I obtained a 15,000 volt neon transformer. I also built a Jacob's Ladder like yours, but about 1 meter tall, and from copper. Thanks for the video. Jon

Another great video, thanks for the content! A small suggestion: when you put cables through a hole in metal, you can use a simple rubber gromet to prevent the cable insulation from being cut. It is very inexpensive and looks nice and professional.

@brucepickess8097

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Just what I was thinking.

@JohnCena-iw2vk

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an even more professional way would be to use these screw-in strain reliefs that also act as rubber grommets.

@briangoldberg4439

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@@JohnCena-iw2vk yeah, i have used those for installations before, but they can get expensive. you can get a whole bag of rubber grommets of different sizes for very cheap

@aimlessweasel

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Or 3D print some simple plastic ones... just an open top hat shape that could be held in with hot glue would help me sleep better.

@robertwilldesign

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Flexible would be good if you can’t do connectors and want it to be ‘easy to move around’ as Gerolf mentions they need. LAPP (and probably others) make some decent flex glands that aren’t very expensive. If this were staying put in this installation, rubber grommets would be totally fine and so inexpensive.

If you do DIY convert some of those shelves into cabinets with locking doors, please make a video on it! I personally would love to see the process and I'm sure others would too!

8:55 The Greatest Transition from a British to a German accent in under 10 seconds In The World Ever!

I wish we had scrap yards like this in the UK I would be all over it!

@dougsaunders8109

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We have them in UK but no one lets you wonder and buy back anything

@algemeennut6683

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Maybe just find other ways to acquire such goods? It doesn't have to come from a scap yard to be a cool item for re-use. I'm sure there are thrift stores, second hand listings etc.

@BuyitFixit

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Yeah, scrapyards in the UK are very reluctant to let you have a wander about. They used to years ago, but "health and safety" you know.... I'm sure I did see someone a while back who was getting electrical stuff from a scrapyard search "UK scrap yard What can i find".

That old filing cabinet looks like many found in the archives of my office, used for storing photographs developed from film, film negatives, and microfiche. The ones found in my office are Kodak branded.

Can't say that I'm completely happy about your channel name slowly becoming a reality, but you've got to at least acknowledge the poetry of it.

I love your videos! Some of the best on YT. I also love your short lead in stories on mankind and society. Please keep us informed of your workshop adventures! You have amazing scrap yards there.

With the neon transformer you can build a static dust collector for a paint booth. We did it a few years ago, still works like a charm

Can’t believe you didn’t open any of the drawers on that cabinet for us!! 😊😁👍👍

22:23 ITS ALIVE, ALIVE!!!!!!. Great episode.

As a utility worker in the US that is used to the 60hz sound, 50hz is noticibly lower tone. Did not expect that, but was cool to observe at the end.

Love seeing new repair-a-thons when I sit down for breakfast!

The Jerry Cans are designed to float due to the extra hump on the top which gave them an air bubble to be able to float if they fell off a ship etc.. A feature not many people know about.

Just an FYI, passing the single wires through individual holes in the steel ammunitions box can create eddy currents in the enclosure and cause it to heat up. Probably won’t be an issue with the current you’re passing but thought I’d mention it

The Introduction is as always genius.

Things are not good here in America either. I think the supply chain issues are really going to come to a head this winter. I planted a garden this year and will stock my freezer with plenty of wild game this fall for the winter. I also am putting together the materials to install a solar setup to run the pumps and draft fan for my outdoor wood boiler so it would be totally of grid for heating this winter. I really enjoy your videos.

IN 1960 my father bought a 17 foot cabin cruiser boat with 60 horse power Mercury outboard motor. He carried extra gas in Gerry cans. He designed guns and vehicles. I designed power supplies.

One of the disadvantages of a UPS is that it has a rather high energy usage even when not being used compared to most solar inverters. It's good to recycle, but you'll be needing more panels to compensate for that self-consumption.

@OleBrinch

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I think this one is different. I use a APC Smart-UPS 2200VA as an inverter and its true that is has a quite high idle usage, but only the transformer gets hot at idle which means that the idle losses are in the transformer. His setup has no transformer. My 2200VA uses 50 watt idle and my 3000VA uses 65 watt idle.

@BuyitFixit

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I've just been "recycling" a solar inverter I got off a friend for free. It had a couple of different faults. I did a repair video on it, and a few other people seem to have the same issue.

It's interesting to see your systems using 4 x 6V batteries for the UPS. The ones I've worked on where I am use 4 x 12V with 2 in series and 2 in parallel to keep the 24V but have a larger AH output.

Just found your videos and I'm addicted. I've always wanted to study engineering in germany ; you guys are among the very best. Big up from 🇯🇲.

I believe the "climbing arc" shown at the end is called a Jacob's Ladder. Larger versions featured in many sci-fi and horror films of the thirties to sixties.

Glad you were wearing safety sandals!

we love it, from junk to something useful. thank you

That variable load was a pretty nice one! Now I only need to find 20 classic light bulbs XD

Note on the cannisters, they are of at least two types, one for fuel, usually painted or naked steel, and another for water - plastic coated from the inside, important not to mix them up There are also 10 liter versions available that are easier to keep in a car, and then there's also a version that fits into spare wheel empty center, which is neat

Power generation will see you through in your videos for sure. The trick will be having power to WATCH your channel. Fortunately for those who have been fore warned, They have been working on it for a good while now. Good job ! A junk made water wheel/turbine might be a good idea.

Love the scrap series! Even the cabinet is at least worth seeing the transformation… ready for the next one!

The cheapest 20 liters jerrycan is around 50 euros and most new ones are no way near the quality of that 1960s military model, so it's a great find and you should hold on to it. To protect wires passing through metal holes (15:45) you can use hot glue, it's faster than adding heat shrink tubes and will also bond them in place, you just have to be careful to keep the wire centered in the hole while applying the molten glue all around it.

So I'm a pretty prolific recycler. I live on a pair of very steep s curves that people like to drive fast on and I'm lucky enough to have a small private junkyard just a half mile down the road. At least twice a week, I have to recover items that have flung out of pickup trucks. I'm sure some people just dump items as well, I often come across washing machines and other appliances. I have four great big very heavy duty recycling bins from the last town I lived in that I keep outside of my shop. I've gotten in the habit both for these random appliances and my own scrap of disassembling and sorting for the junkyard. He has said many times that he would happily pay me over his normal rates because I'm always very careful to keep the different metals separated. I have read and washed a lot about W& recycling, it is clear that there is money in it when you get to volume. I've never actually sold any of my scrap, I always come home with good jynk I find so at this point it is pretty much a casual relationship. But more and more when I take things apart to reuse what can be used and separate the remainder, there are almost always circuit boards though somewhat small. The impression I have gotten is that this business doesn't make sense without processing thousands of pounds of e-waste. I'm not very concerned about profits, but I also don't want to get stuck with a whole bunch of garbage. I'm pretty sure my current junk yards does not deal in e-waste. So for those of us who don't care about the money, what small scale options are there to get rid of these things? And forgive me, I know very little about computers, does one have to worry about sensitive information still being in the devices? I have seen several box stores that offer a place to drop off old phones and such but I believe this focus is on recycling the batteries. If it's not a tremendous amount of effort, I would like to keep these pieces of circuit board out of the landfill. Can you direct me to any resources that might connect me with an e-waste dealer in the Northwest? Whether or not, thanks very much for your time and your videos, be well

to account for the smaller wire cross-section, you could run multiple wires between the connections in parallel, so it could handle a higher current, effectively doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling the wire gauge essentially. I did that to manage current from a homemade lithium battery pack to an electric bike motor.

I really appreciated this one, and wanted to help with a comment. Your opening was very appreciated, and I will enjoy sharing it with my friends, along with the episode; I'm not sure if they knew exactly what to make of the channel when I shared it in the past, though many of them are "makers" here in the U.S., and with this episode your opening is direct from you. Before you even mentioned the Prusa you used, I was reminded of the earliest days of reprap and its original ideals by your opening. I, too, share your opinion that it is helpful on many fronts for production to be available, and gatekeeping minimized. Helpful for the interrelated issues of e-waste, public health, environmental justice, poverty and self-sufficiency, and removing some of the false scarcity by safely using the very waste that planned obsolescence itself created , ironically. And by the way, I am very sure that you have the processing power to run Marlin 2.0, and the drivers to run steppers which I am sure you also have, along with some T-slot extruded aluminum. You may like the corexy designs, which are just a header file edit away. You are probably already aware, or already done with such a project now! Sorry to write a long comment on a video from the past, just wanted to leave a comment to help.

That's some crazy quality engineering with this inverter and the battery box. Very elegant, I love it! A thing of beauty and a joy for ever.

If you look up electrical bulkhead connectors you should be able to find them on eBay for Amazon. This will keep you from having a run wires straight out through a hole and you could also do it for waterproof boxes as it'll still maintain it being waterproof. Keep up the good work

My experience with old Jerry cans is put a little fuel in them first . The bottom of the cans rust more and they get pinholes in the rust .

Love these videos! I follow a similar philosophy and you really inspired me to start making my own videos! This past year so many of the new things we own have broken down. Switching to more robust equipment and choosing not to use too complicated electronics really seems to be a better way forward! Keep it up and greetings from Finland.

13:20 Good place to put the batteries where there is not much that can catch fire Big pile of pallet wood scraps right next to it! 😆👍🤣

Sunday morning, raining outside, coffee in hand, chores can wait until later because I'm watching you fix things - yay! .. what type of filament did you use for the 3D printing the battery boxes? - it has a nicer look than the plain stuff.

I always appreciate your insightful opening monologues, this is one of the best. 👍🏻

Solar is what interests me allot. This was a great video on using old parts to create a solar array. The MPPT is indeed cheap. I find so many items from China state on paper specifications that don't match the real world specs and are in fact much lower and pushing the parts to those specs as you noted can create a hazzard. That MPPT is found here in the States at a store called Harbor Freight. The MPPT is part of a system that you can buy in parts to only drive 100 watts of power. Harbor Freight has that package designed so as to not overload the MPPT.

Well done 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourself, be safe, and healthy 🇨🇦

Battery box cables, Gland nuts will protect output wires and provide strain relief as well!

When putting a cooling fan on an enclosure you want to have the fan blowing air OUT of the enclosure. Such that it draws air into the enclosure from another point. It's why the power supply fan on your computer blows air OUT of the back and draws air IN through the front of the case. It draws air through the case more efficiently. If you blow air INTO the enclosure with the fan it just creates turbulence and actually doesn't move the air through the case very well. Blowing air out of the case draws the air into and around the components you want to cool much more efficiently.

@brucepickess8097

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Yep, good comment.👍

@jamesconnors5653

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With filtered fan pressurizing cabinet, leaks in cabinet are not a cleanliness factor because cabinet always has a small positive pressure.

@Alacritous

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@@jamesconnors5653 Only if the volume out through the exit aperture is less than the volume in through the entry.

I always love watching your videos, some videos on youtube i may skip but all your videos i watch from beginning to the end, i love the way you pick up items from srap yard and bring them to wotking condition again keep up the good work

These days you can buy a 40 amp Renogy MPPT charge controller from Amazon for the same price as those fake units, the last one I bought was around 75 euros. For the bike trailer, the go to boost controller is the CTK-EV-300. Loads of people use them for solar bikes, as they are cheap and almost as effcient as a Gensun. Your dummy load board is a work of art.

I can't tell you how much you have helped guide me in trying to reclaim things that I know are useful, and encourage me to do these things, to invent new things that can largely be based on times when Craft was important.

One of my favourite video series.

It's funny. A few years ago, I liked your channel for the shop work.. the restorations were brilliant. Now, the overall premise of your channel is starting to make more and more sense, with pandemic and Ukraine.

Really enjoy your work and views on the world, danke sehr.

I haven't looked into it but I believe an "online" ups is be designed to run continuously. The load is constantly run on the inverter to protect from poor power etc instead of having a transfer switch.

I can honestly say I look forward to every repair upon that you have done as it gives me ideas on how to fix some of my own stuff.

that cabinet is better for food storage. stuff that doesn't expire/spoil but steel keeps rodents and insects away.

Ok, when you get up in the morning, do you say to yourself, "today I will make Montgomery Scott and Tony Stark feel shame." I am hooked on bike trailers. Please go rescue the other one. If it's in the budget. Thank you.

I love your work. I played around with making UPS' into inverters few years back. As you know they're very limited in their capacity and duty cycle.

one of our top KZread channel!

A trip to my local junk yard makes me sad too. I realize that the stuff there is better quality than stuff I buy at the store. Kids will only know plastic and tin as their home goods are made from and not good old solid metal or cast aluminum.

A perfect representation of current affairs coupled with the reason I originally subscribed some years back!

Good to see you tinkering again.😎🇺🇲

its cool that your 1965 jerry can has not changed much is design since the ones I am familiar with from the late war years

bigstackD would be salivating over that large transformer in the beginning...

Loving the idea of a UPS as a solar system/inverter. I am all for creating energy saving tech that only the rich can afford, and arguably need less, than those on a tight budget. 👍👍👍

@BuyitFixit

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I just got a solar inverter for free (broken), but I managed to repair it. So I've ordered some solar panels to go with it now as on a budget too. I've put the repair video up on my channel if its any use to you.

@MattBrownbill

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@@BuyitFixit, I will check that out, thanks. 👍

Thank you.. Can't have enough of these videos.

Very clever with the heat sinks mate, impressive out of the box thinking :)

You're a very resourceful man, and an inspiration for people who see the need live independent from incorporated government and big corporations. God bless you.

Dude you are so ahead of the curve. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

Da hast du ja wieder was schönes und kreatives gebastelt! Ich hätte da noch einen Vorschlag: Zur Durchführung der Leitungen durch die Munitionskiste könntest du auch Kabelverschraubungen statt Schrumpfschlauch nehmen. Wenn diese mit Dichtung montiert werden, ist die Durchführung recht gut Wasserdicht, die Adern scheuern sich nicht auf und es wird eine Zugentlastung erreicht. Ich bin gespannt auf die nächsten Repair-a-thons! PS: Ich mag die pilzförmigen Glühlampen! Die sehen mir aus wie Spezialglühlampen für Ampeln? Hab auch ein paar solche ;)

I love the doomsday stuff at the beginning.

A heater is the perfect load. It's basically a dead short

I discovered this channel a few days ago but I have been binging on your videos

Heavy cabinets are a dang good find