Old days parts / tools finds - unboxing - refrigeration stuff from the past!

Please follow along while I go through some finds from recent antiquing trips and things sent by friends.

[@compu85]

And yes - I really enjoy seeing these old machines run as they should. Until I saw your videos I had no idea belt drive compressors were used in the home!

[@compu85]

I thought about "restuffing" the dryer right before you mentioned it. That would look super cool. Reminds me of people restoring vacuum tube electronics, who hide new capacitors inside the original cans.

[@Artemis22202]

More great finds! Thank you David!

[@65bug519]

That was a wonderful trip back to better times when people cared about what they made.Old test equipment is facinating, I got a very old anemometer and stobe light and they are lots of fun.

[@davida1hiwaaynet]

Thanks for your comment! Lots more care and love went into making things back in the older days. Now it is just money from the fruits of slave labor.

[@douro20]

I have a VIM bulb syringe from the 1930s in its original box. It's amazing the rubber hasn't perished after all these years. Chemical type driers are still being made- they are referred to as "high acid" driers and are used in the service of systems which have had burned out compressors. The media in such driers contains activated alumina.

[@davida1hiwaaynet]

Thanks for the comment! It is amazing that it hasn't perished. Must have been kept in a cool area and probably had some sort of preservative coating on the rubber to keep oxygen from attacking it.

[@fordmuscleluis9710]

Nice tool finds mainly the old parts from the good old days

[@emigdiocastillo9131]

😍😍😍 Beautiful

[@ElectromagneticVideos]

Very cool to see! Hope you keep some of the boxe even after using the contents. I have some vintage Stelco nails boxes on a shelf in my office - adds a real nice vintage look.

[@georgen.8027]

Those Muller driers are amazing

[@briandodd7184]

real neat!!

[@2packs4sure]

Very cool. Some old technician retired in 1958 and that was the old stuff that was still on his truck... The Automatic Products expansion valve info sheet was revised 7 17 47...

[@TinkertubesLab]

Your description around 18:00 is exactly why I love your videos. Keeping the knowledge about "the old times" alive is something that is very valuable for me, but I think also for our society. Sadly, mand "old timers", at least in my field (electronics, especially tubes) tend to be in a state of mind like.... "eh, why should I share, I read all four books from Heinrich von Barkhausen, these young people should do that as well, blablabla". - sure, we can. In fact, I have all these books. And I read them. But they are a pain in the butt to understand, and expect a knowledge and state of mind that isn't common anymore, so why not just share your knowledge and let other people learn from that? That is how knowledge gets lost, and we as a society lost already so many details of these old things, it really makes me sad. Therefore, please keep up showing us the things you love, telling us about your expertise, share your knowledge, it is highly appreciated!

[@davida1hiwaaynet]

Thank you for your comment. I'm happy that you and others appreciate my sharing.

[@TinkertubesLab]

@@davida1hiwaaynet Absolutely highly appreciated!

[@madmanmapper]

Something my grandfather always said: read the manual! He was an electrical engineer for Simpson. Far too polite to say the modern version RTFM. He had to deal directly with a lot of irate customers who didn't read the manual. Sadly, modern manuals are usually very uninformative.

[@johncantwell8216]

The ones that are written in China are truly awful!

[@mspysu79]

Very cool stuff, in the Sulfur Dioxide detector, likely what is smoking is a shored tantalum capacitor.

[@MrPhantomFury]

Saw the thumbnail & I immediately thought it's a vid from bandersentv about some old old tubes ahaha ! XD

[@georgen.8027]

They still make the H10 leak detector, considered by many technicians to be the best ever made.

[@douro20]

The calibration leak would have R11 in it. They still make them. To use it you would remove the screw on top. The thing will probably work with DCM.

[@kc5gym]

I think every old guy tech had one of those G.E. freon detectors, I know I did, but had all but forgotten about them. Mars still makes and/or stocks them, the 25303. They can shock the P**s out of a person. Did you ever have or use a propane bottle flame halide detector? Aside from the danger of burning everything down, they worked surprisingly well.

[@Berni0707]

The only thing you need to get is the Halide Torch Leak Detector.

[@KevinKinder-ey9gv]

Back when quality was a thing