INCREDIBLE Vintage Electrical Tools

[@richt8297]

What you chucked in the garbage was a shunt for that test meter. It was used for checking amp draw in and out of a battery without blowing the meter.

[@whitesapphire5865]

Haven't seen a growler for a long time. I used one at work, a few times, for testing DC exciter generator armatures. One thing that was apparent, was that despite testing as faulty, most often the armature worked perfectly. We always took the test results with a pinch of salt! That's quite a good little haul that Slippers brought in. You guys need to show that fella some grass rat respect! 🌾🐀🌾🌾😁😂😚

[@johnready630]

I used some of those back in the day when men were men , tools were tools and we actually repaired and rebuilt stuff . Thanks for the blast from the past !!

[@americanstreet8704]

John Ready yes me to

[@grantw.whitwam9948]

Those were great tools, my neighbor had a meter just like the first one.

[@dajones1128]

That tossed in the trash items is an amp meter shunt to extend the range of the amp meter. Your test could read automotive starter current from the battery using that meter shunt with any amp meter.

[@brenwicks]

Unconscionable conduct! Knowingly taking advantage of a geriatric!

[@richardsledgecock2110]

Growlers really do growl when armature is shorted

[@feralcapitalist2527]

Great video taryl. That vintage equipment might not look as good as the new stuff but it sure lasts longer. There's your dinner!

[@REVNUMANEWBERN]

YEP, NOT the off shore throw away stuff that builds up the economy of our enemies

The armature tester or growler, just shows how cheap parts are today. Years ago things had to be repaired as they were expensive to replace. I can remember auto electricians testing armatures, re-cutting them on a lathe, replacing the bearings and rebuilding motors and generators. Today just replace it.

[@Wayoutthere]

That's why older cars are still around. The parts are of higher quality and where made to be fixed if broken. Nowadays it's all throwaway garbage. You'll lucky if a modern car lasts 8 years.

[@FishFind3000]

Wouter d.B. I have a 19 year old bmw with 250k miles. Some aren’t that bad.

[@REVNUMANEWBERN]

@@Wayoutthere Have a 2001 Ford Focus with over 200,000 miles & running strong

@Tobias Probably cannot buy any parts such as end plages , bearings, brushes etc.

[@markrainford1219]

Funny you should say that. Only last week did I skim an armature on a lathe. For an evolution cold cut saw though.

[@codybishop67]

great video i would love to see one on how to clean a carb with a ultra sonic cleaner

[@bradleyjames1340]

The probes on the armature tester are for "bar to bar" testing. You contact two different bars on the commutator all the way around one pair at a time. It's for testing resistance between the individual coils of the armature, which are very low. A standard ohm meter doesn't read differences in very low resistances finely enough to detect a short in an armature coil. The Hi-Pot meter is like an ohm meter but uses high voltage to stress the electrical insulation in electrical apparatus. You connect the hot lead to the coil(s) and the ground to the frame or shaft, depending on what it is.

[@bebo21072]

Slippers is still my hero!!!

[@williamvaughan1218]

That was a perfectly good current shunt just thrown in the trash!!

[@tomdale1313]

taryl"s mom cooked our supper again...Slippers is the real father of junior, more will be revealed

[@SHANEO1976]

slippers = awesome lol

[@spooncarvingwithtom]

Still havent figured out when they hate slippers so much? I need to watch the earlier episodes. Best part of the channel is these short clips. I want to be greeted by Taryl in costume when I enter their store!

[@markiobooker218]

Love these old instruments. These used to be cutting edge.

[@handyhippie6548]

what a tool haul! that growler is awesome. i been wanting one since tech school. i remember running a screw into a wire during a hipot test when i was working in a trailer factory in the 80's. never dropped a screwgun so fast in my life.

[@userfixit]

Slippers. YES Ronnie. WHOA !!!

[@JohnDoe-ls2ww]

Love the original Gone in 60 Seconds reference! Damn are we that old? 😂

[@waynegouin939]

All that stuff is worth saving, you never know whats coming in the door next. Old machines== Old test equipment.

[@mikeanthony3986]

You guys are good. Love the sound effects. Great videos.

[@jensenwilliam5434]

Thank you!!!

[@iraborton3941]

The old Toro electrical tester is a Megohmmeter (megger) for 120vac, it tests the resistance of the corded yard tool you plug into it. High resistance or infinity means it's not shorted, low restistance means cord or motor problems and will detect a dead short as well.

[@waynegouin939]

Yeah its a growler. WoW! Havent seen one in years! The bore guage micrometer is nice. Tach is cool, usefull on small engines. A good digital multimeter replaces all the other stuff. Still some cool old testing equipment. Wall hangers.

[@scottcopple2779]

That's cool stuff

[@mikesenginesandadventures]

I hope we get to meet Faryl someday. 😀

[@juliuslucia3665]

Used a growler to test generators. Fired it up and used a hacksaw blade to test for magnesium in the field

[@m.g.540]

A growler will test the armature and located the bad section, great for repairing unobtainable vintage DC motors, new motors just replaced with cheap Chinesesium parts

[@francesnieznay6623]

Thanks, I still use my growler,the merotronic coil tester I used on out board engine coils and condensers.Brings back nighmares.

[@jdhogyellowhelmetproductio358]

I remember some of that stuff when i worked in small engine shop ...great video !

[@ralphhall5001]

I have a manual for the first meter you took out of the box. I still have one of the meters. I use to work on small engines myself. I no longer work on them. The piece you put in the trash was a shunt used with this meter. If interested in a copy of the manual be happy to copy and send you a copy in pdf format this meter was sold by Briggs and Stratton.

[@dunmovin]

Cool video !

[@williambell9068]

Isn't the thing you threw in the garbage is a shunt for checking amperage and charging on a battery with one of those test tools?

[@PuchMaxi]

You are correct, it's a shunt current sense resistor. For checking the load on the battery etc.

[@williambell9068]

@m9 ovich I see it back on the bench at the point he gets off the phone with his brother so maybe it was just for effect throwing it away. I worked a lot with 3 ph ac powered dc motor drives in the 80's and they all had shunts to power amp gauge on the control panel.

[@jonmyers8046]

It most likely went with that analyzer the he pulled out at the beginning. I have an old Sears automotive analyzer like that and it has the same part used for measuring alternator output. He probably figured it out. Lol.

[@williambell9068]

@@jonmyers8046 When I was a teenager in the late 60's my neighbor had one of those sears ones. I had put new spark plug wires on when the suppression cores first came out. He used it to test them and showed me the bad ones where I hadn't gotten the ends on right and making it skip and miss.

[@mattyg941]

SHUT UP!

[@alanlake5220]

Hell yeah, had a Merc-o -Tronic when i did my small engine apprenticeship in 1976,

[@JeffsLittleEngineService]

ol skool stuff

[@MrLangDog]

I was shocked at how primitive the 1986 box looked.

[@1pcfred]

Someone sure liked their gadgets

[@cajuncoinhunter]

Our local trade school had one of those growlers in the mechanics dept. I knew the teachers there and used to bring starters there to check them...... They would work on cars and trucks for free labor, you supplied the parts....... You threw a good shunt away LOL.........

[@dandearman2871]

When you repair a motor and have to turn down the commutator and under-cut the slots you can check with the growler to make sure there are no shorts between the bars or there are no open or shorted turns. If you place an armature on the growler, plug in and turn on the growler and then lay a hack saw blade parallel on the polls of the armature the hacksaw blade will buzz or growl when the armature is rotated and you come crossed a problem area. You can also use the probes to measure the voltage between each pair of commutator bars as the armature is rotated on the growler. You can make the saw blade buzz if you make a short between a couple of the commutator bars.

[@petersack5074]

13:55 That, folks, is a 'growler'. Used for checking shorted windings, on electric motors, older style auto generators, starters, etc.

[@GizmosBushEscapes]

How cool. luv this channel

[@dajones1128]

Growler: Using a hacksaw blade....that you move around the armature laminates ....you test for bad laminate shorts. It will stick if armature is bad. Was used to find good cores armatures for rebuilding generators, motors, and etc.

[@MrCountrycuz]

Another name for the potential tester is a hotbox. You can use it on an electrical breaker box in a mobile home or new home to find breaks in the insulation of newly installed wiring.

[@mcarroll598]

All those tools made in the USA, back then... wow things have changed!

[@prevost8686]

And not for the better for the most part ...

[@scrotiemcbogerballs8286]

That rpm meter I seen one the rubber just came to a point and you just touched it on the shaft in the center

[@whitesapphire5865]

Mercer used to make a tacho which had a multitude of interchangeable drive end tips. One of which was as you describe.

[@jeffyhuey]

80!s. Damn I'm old too!

[@jonmyers8046]

What's great about old diagnostic tools is that they are still useful when working on older equipment or when repairing something that has parts unavailable or too expensive to just throw away. They also don't require an internet connection or updating. What's sad is that the newer stuff doesn't teach you some of the basic theory of how things work. If a part is bad just toss it and buy new. Who cares what went wrong? :(

[@bmt638]

Slippers is da bomb 🔥🔥🔥

[@randomschittz9461]

I looooove knobs.😳

[@kodibassInsideoutboards]

The Merc-o-tronics were used mostly in outboard shops, the unit if working + manual worth about 300.00

[@henryhorne3160]

i went to workat sears lawnmower shop in 1972. when they had real shops. used merc o tronic to check coils and condensers everyonce an awhile . mostly used it to charge up condenser an leave it on somebodys work bench. bang HAHA.by the way i quit 40yrs later.

[@Nudnik1]

Henry Horne merco tronic we used in marina on outboard s. Trying to find one still useful.

[@henryhorne3160]

@@Nudnik1 we had a outboard tank to

[@billblount5955]

If you lived near me I'd ask you about a sears garden tractor that. I don't know how to fix lol

[@Wolfiecolada]

My new come on line "you can order just the tip" throw in a little wink at the end...

[@summit3030]

you need to show your older brother on your videos. you guys are the best.

[@Tom.Connolly]

Hey Taryl I hate to contradict the master but, voltage doesn't go through anything ! In a load / circuit we say voltage goes across it. One would say the current that goes through the load / circuit, "now there's your dinner" As always , love the show looking forward to the finished Palimeno project.

[@Tom.Connolly]

@@johnc4352Thanks for the reply John , you are failing to understand a really basic electrical principle here Bud. If you don't want to listen to my explanation heres one from the manufacture link included "The purpose of a Hipot test is to check for excessive leakage current (not voltage!!!!) flow through a product's insulation. Under normal conditions, any electrical device will produce a minimal amount of leakage current due to the voltages and internal capacitance present within the product. Cited hipot.com/docs/whitepapers/Basic-Facts.pdf

[@Tom.Connolly]

@@johnc4352 Glad you got my point and understand that voltage travels through a load , rather it is only the electric potential difference or electromotive force across a load. What travels through the load is the current characterized as Ampère's force law (1820). Just seems strange that you jumped over my post in the first place if you understood the point I was making. Any how no harm done, best wishes.

[@pstowe8180]

love muffkin

[@alext8828]

Slippers sounds like Beavis. "Yeah, Yeah."

[@qzorn4440]

This reminds me of 1968 vo_tech radio & TV test equipment stuff, compared to engine and motor repair. Sweet video, thanks. :)

[@NebukedNezzer]

back in the late 50s I had to build my first dwell meter. I have a "High Pot" tester. we need these tools.

[@henryrobinson9837]

that piece you thru away was a shunt that went yo the engine analyzer, think they had a 75 ohm resistor out when opened,one other tool is called a megohmmeter these days,used a lot in HVAC motors to check for shorts. thank for the trip thru memory lane. i had a craftsman engine analyzer similar to that one

[@kenwinston2245]

We used a growler in our vac repair shop, but you're right about the new version 😃 it's a quick test to check if an armature's messed up before you take the time to install. By the way, i saw one of your kin, a Professor Dactyl, paleontologist of the Gotham City Museum of Natural History on a 1968 Batman episode 9.. season 3. Batgirl... er, Barbara Gordon seemed very taken with his charm ... 😀

[@timjmartin]

A growler!!!

[@tvsnake7841]

Taryl reminds me of my grandpa.

[@starcarrier1874]

Wow a special guest appearance by Wolverine...oh I mean Faryl. I know winter is too long when I actually consider driving down to the shop just to say hello and thank the guys for a laugh.

[@danman9017]

i remenber a growler tool.i use that alot when i was in starter and alt rebuilding in the 70-80

[@ml2trick]

Merc Tronic. Best Small engine tool made. Used it from '70s on in the Marine Business. Good tester.

[@chrischiampo7647]

Some Mighty Fine Dinner Indeed Taryl 🤤🤤🤤🤤 Fat Grass Rats LoL 😂😂😂

[@notajp]

I actually have a meter like that, but it has a digital readout and is by MAC tools. Carries all the connectors in the back too. And the shunt that he threw away goes with that meter. Mine has one of those too. I wonder if that interlock tester is for the older mowers that used the little can type interlock modules.

[@chrisbcritter6112]

Third! I was hoping Slippers would have an old Estes rocket launch controller.

[@theanvil5288]

I have one somewhere.

[@jonmyers8046]

I got one of those

[@VE1AXC]

I still use the Model 98 once in a while for testing coil, condensor, and timing old Tecumsehs, how many out there still do?

[@jerryking1434]

To time a Tecumseh engines....dont ya just replace the shear key and let it go...

[@VE1AXC]

@@jerryking1434 The older Tecumseh's with the point system, the one's with the movable stator (assembly that holds coil, points and condensor) adjust the point gap at .020", then depending on the model of the engine, set the piston at ex: for HM80 .090" BTDC with dial indicator ,(these specs would be found in the Tecumseh shop manual) then I would use resistance scale on the Mercotronic(or any multimeter) to detect point opening by moving stator, when points break open, tighten stator bolts. The ones with external electronic ignition, spark timing is fixed until the flywheel key is sheared.

[@REVNUMANEWBERN]

@@VE1AXC Sounds like YOU are the expert !!

[@ralphwatten2426]

Huh, Taryl has a brother. Oh brother! I love Sundays in da garotch.

[@ralphwatten2426]

Yeah Taryl you might be using that growler.

[@philliphall5198]

Hey I still use my grand Dads old growler and test light plus the other equipment that’s 80 years old

[@edregan897]

Man, seeing these old tools makes me think you raided my shop slippers..

[@cajuncoinhunter]

Road King has a tach like that ~!~!

[@independentthinker8930]

I had a merc tronic when I worked on outboards. Backn8n the day of Phelan, bending, fairbanks Morris mags

[@bro.weaver1282]

This video shows how we used to diagnose things deeper, today, a bad starter? replace it! With the abundance of aftermarket parts, there is hardly a need to diagnose something past the "defective" determination.

[@NebukedNezzer]

I have a "Growler" saved it from the dumpster and fixed it up.

[@doglegjake6788]

thanks for a great video !! after spending a lot of money on my ignorant ass changing carbs and figuring out it was a crankshaft seal that was the problem ?? now i do leak down test on crankcases and carburetors on every 2 stroke engine that comes in and i have found out that every 2 stroke engine i test that has been run on 40:1 has stuck rings i can only imagine what 50:1 does ?? i need to call al gore and see what he says about how to repair these engines lol

[@powderriver2424]

1986, remember it like it was yesterday tools actually made in the USA it wasn’t that long ago except it is going on 33 years. I’m old

[@MrOtie]

WOW I have a couple of those tachometers. I didn’t think they were worth that much.

[@MrOtie]

Tobias sure

[@MrOtie]

Make me an offer. I have 2 one is with the can and one is loose.

[@raymondgarafano8604]

That last piece might have been a shunt for an ammeter.

[@terribreneman5578]

I have a Blue Point (Snap On) armeture tester (Growler)in excellent condition I would sure sell for less than $250

[@jonathonmccunnm5415]

With the armature tester what do with it is put armature in it turn it on and turn it by hand in tester and the use a hacksaw blade on top of it while turning armature and if it sticks to armature it’s bad and if it doesn’t then it’s good . Basically all it does is magnetize the Armature

[@ronkpaws1]

I see that you took the battery shunt out of the garbage can and saved it. Never know when you might need one.

[@edradtke287]

the high pot tester checks insulation

[@michaelglynn2638]

Looks like Dr Tarylstein's equipment to me!!

[@CountryRock2k1]

Cool video. What model is that old Toro Wheel Horse lurking in the background?

[@ihus9950]

👍

[@NebukedNezzer]

my son bought a 5 dollar Kreske (pre k mart) electric lawn mower the lady who sold it said it cut very poorly. Blade was on upside down. flipped it over and oiled the motor he has a mower for life now.

[@georgewallacejr5644]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏼

[@4gauge10]

WOW!!.Tayrl/Junior,I didn't know those lawn mower blades your giving slippers are 24-K gold with a solid platinum cutting edge...HAHAHA!!.(Just kidding)

[@markforeman3101]

I would like have and know how to use it

[@adamdorris4081]

I've never use a battery stint either.

[@mickz8369]

I was worried that slipper had an explosive device in that box.

[@CHOPPER030279]

Saw that union sticker on the cabinet. Local 441 22years. Union yes.

[@pootthatbak2578]

Havent seen that much bakelite since 1974

[@RichieCat4223]

The handle on the bore gauge might be used to calibrate the sled/dial indicator for size of bore. www.ebay.com/itm/Ames-Micrometer-Gauges-PRINT-AD-1929-B-C-Ames-Co-gauge-/121845910600 That 120 volt power source can't be that old, it has a 3 wire plug on it. How to use an armature growler: kzbin.info/www/bejne/emrJk5eMnbKmndU

[@AC-qn4qv]

Faryl.... lmao

[@bobcostner2238]

Hi pot - volts x2 plus 1000 so a 110volt unit x2 is 220 plus 1000 =1220vac to ground. one lead on motor lead the other to ground. should not make contact when energized.

[@gunnerstanwick6663]

why did you not use some of that stuff

[@closertothetruth9209]

i like these old tools but i think i already have enough tools , ah who am i kidding im a tool junkie