Awesome Scrapyard Finds! Repair-A-Thon!

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Episode 1:
• Scrapyard Finds Repair...
Episode 2:
• New Scrapyard Finds! R...
Episode 3:
• More Scrapyard Finds! ...
Episode 4:
• Even More Scrapyard Fi...
Episode 5:
• Many More Scrapyard Fi...
Episode 6:
• Great Scrapyard Finds!...

[@ThePostApocalypticInventor]

This is Episode Nr.7 of a longer series of these videos. All other episodes are linked in the video description("show more")

[@jeeseajoneson4727]

thanks for having these come out more often

[@natalieisagirlnow]

the big screws look to be from an extruder of some kind, probably injection molder

[@axtschmied]

Wird es auch eine deutsche Version geben? In den letzten Monaten gab es keine deutschen Videos mehr, hast du das endgültig aufgegeben?

[@-flutterby7026]

salvage some solar panels if possible and also if possible could you construct a sterling engine out of salvaged scrap...

[@christopherj3367]

always amazed at whats thrown away. great video thanks for sharing.

[@barneyfromblueshift]

Like everyone else, these are always my favorite pieces of your content. Thanks, as always, for sharing your knowledge, space, and time with us.

[@trialen]

I'm starting to consider moving to Germany, just for the scrapyards.

[@psygn0sis]

After what Merkel did to the country... no way!

[@merlindelhaes9938]

@Higor Ghunter • 64 years ago I don't even know what to say...just...what the heck is wrong with you?

[@waitemc]

Yea I know . Im in

[@giovannifoulmouth7205]

@Higor Ghunter • 64 years ago As an immigrant living in Germany, I'd say your head needs a good purification.

[@escapegoat3472]

Some of the replies to this. What horrible comments.

[@garrieirons]

"Somethings gotta give, but it's probably not this clamp" Gold mate.

[@wildonemeister]

I only have one complaint: The video was too short! :P I'm enjoying this video series a lot. Really cool to learn new stuff and to see tools you never knew even existed.

[@alfiversen7023]

Oh, I loved the dramatic intro. Keep this series going! Going to the dump today I picked up several fully functioning items for my wood working shop; Clamps, chisel and axes. Just a little cleaning required.

[@candidomfito]

The best thing about your videos is that you go to the scrapyard and show us whats worth it to you and why, there are many restore or build channels on youtube but very few that actually make economical sense without a channel, therefor making it useless for the average joe.

[@mjrdainbramage]

Great video. I really loved the Dutch commercial, showing a Japanese wrapping machine, displaying Swedish product descriptions, and the whole thing presented by a German KZbinr. :D

[@DarkDiripti]

...in english, for a mostly american audiance

[@joep041188]

Colin furs made the screw tank you were dreaming of. Well worth the watch, the man is crazy!

[@Silent.Stacker]

Love the “junk” repair videos. Beauty vs junk is in the eye of the beholder. I wish there were more people like you who could see the value in what “modern” society sees as “junk”, suitable only for the scrapyard.

[@horacerumpole6912]

The 'screws' are augers for moving material in pipe.

[@christopherforster6555]

Lovely to see you repairing things and making used of them good work .

[@jjock3239]

A quick way of cleaning dirty threads, is to get a long piece of rope or string, doubling it or tripling the string as necessary to fill the thread. Then spray the string with light oil, and make a couple of wraps on the thread just beside the nut. Screw the thread into the nut, and the string will clean all the loose debris out of the threads. This also works great for cleaning the screw advance on a lathe before doing any threading. I would love to have that 57 Chevy cab forward truck pictured at the beginning of the video. I already own a 55 Chev Cameo pickup, but you can't have too many old Chevy trucks. Interesting video, as usual.

[@gabrielkennard137]

Does the intro make anyone else feel like they’re watching a physics documentary in high school?

[@Vault57]

Make a giant bolt head or nut and mount it to the wall or a post, then put the wrench on the bolt head (or nut) and hang a sign for your channel from the extended handle. Great channel advert! I have really enjoyed these scrapyard find videos, liked!

[@justintolentino661]

A comment for the algorithm. It’s so much fun watching you breathe new life into scrapyard finds!

[@GeekMustHave]

" I can't help myself" oh I have said those words so many times. The drill which Frankensteined itself into a power saw was pretty interesting, I'd like to see the other tools related to that. I almost skipped on this video glad I didn't. Keep broadcasting!!

[@godhasleftthebuilding3224]

the massive c-clamp goes well together with the the 75mm wrench

[@dizzolve]

I love the blend of science and art. how you let the universe take you to the next project. How fun is that

[@homeistheearth]

What people throw out amazes and depress me.. I like your videos that you give it a new life..

[@mrrobotobrains]

That C clamp was big enough to use as an English Wheel build!

[@TheKimmer1969]

"A thing of beauty….!" So true..!

[@SzDavidHUN]

.. is a joy forever.. Dave Jones intensifies :D

[@TheKimmer1969]

@@SzDavidHUN Well said, sir...;-)

[@Torsan1977]

Epic intro! Thanks for keeping this series going. Industrial history, restoration techniques, hacks and some dry german humour. That's a keeper! :)

[@MrPhil1969]

Some great finds. I must say you have much more restraint than I do. Every time you go to the scrapyard I'm saying to myself "grab that! Grab that!" I would have taken that whole grocery wrapping machine and tried to make a 3D printer out of it. I hate to see tools in the piles. Like you, if I see them I save them.

[@Holabirdsupercluster]

This series is just getting better and better

[@alecjahn]

I'd hate to pick the clamp as my favorite out of all those treasures, but I sure do love that clamp.

[@thunderstruck1078]

Wow this Saturday is amazing. I got new Andrew Camarata, Mr Pete, ABom and Post Apocalyptic Inventor's video.

[@zedrelax]

Andrew 🙏

[@kameljoe21]

I have not watched AC yet, I will later.. Going to check out the other ones, I may have seen them over the years!

[@gaunerchen1729]

Andrew

[@marcryvon]

You should add " Mustie1"on your list. A bit different but a mechanical genius, especially in old VW buses and Beetles. This man does magic !!

[@researchandbuild1751]

aww man nice find with those giant stepper motors

[@emmah6045]

The saw that attaches to a drill is really useful, especially as a small table saw. . My brother wanted to make some dacron sails for his boat, but the sewing machine motor was not very strong, so he used a heavy drill as the motor, and it worked very well.

[@markfriesen1435]

I am looking forward to your video on the drill powered tools. That AEG HK727 looks like such a cool item! Hand saw that is a little table saw too

[@zrrion6the6insect6]

These are some of my favourite videos of yours. It is nice seeing people making things useful again.

[@cronosoft]

I love your videos, thank you for making them. It's good to know that great items are saved and repaired so they can have a new life.

[@starboy80s]

Great video....I go to the metal scrapeyards everyweek....sometimes you find great stuff...sometimes ..nothing at all....I mainly look for industrial tools Lathes,Milljng machines,etc...

[@richardbrobeck2384]

Well I too collect and use antique tools . Since I teach wood shop at public school and from time to time I bring my antique tools to show the kids and even let them try a few out like one my antique Bit and braces

[@1pcfred]

You really showed restraint at the scrapyard today. That giant C clamp is like gold. The giant wrench? Well if you ever need that size it'll be great. Could make a great wall hanging in the meantime.

[@beakittelscherz5419]

I have one rule to go to the scrap yard "just 4 fun" when I actually don't need anything: Only 10 bucks with me. Otherwise I buy the whole shabang... I used to stick weld iron birds with one longer leg and stick them in my front yard 😁😁😁🐦sticky birds🐤🐥😎

[@MinTieS.]

These videos are fantastic! Please continue to make more. Cheers from New Zealand!

[@twotone3070]

The wrench is a thing of beauty and worth 50 Euros. Win win.

[@louisfaasen4511]

Mr. Post Apocalyptic Inventor, you live in scrap yard heaven! In a poor country like South Africa, the stuff that you buy in scrapyards, are considered gold here in SA! It is unthinkable in South Africa, to buy and restore the scrap that you find. And like the viewer from Belgium, we are not allowed onto scrapyards, ... well scrap is gold!

[@endutubecensorship]

Excellent video, I'm the same way in seeing value in what others have thrown away and are able to repair and re-use.

[@psiclops521]

Well yes, the fans don't have the front guards, but the motors shouldn't be wasted. There are a couple of small, useful motors there and the housings look pretty clean.

[@fynbo1007]

Love it, thank you for sharing your amazing story. God bless you and your family

[@tutituti7698]

This tipe of wideos is too interesting I started to repair things because of you

[@rambohenke2920]

The packing machine is labled "nödstopp" and the meat is displayed as "fläskkarre, benfri" which is in swedish

[@RickRose]

I love shopping scrapyards. We have only two in my area that allow "picking." I would have jumped on that c-clamp and that large spanner.

[@utjeisenkuhle1997]

There are a lot of shapers on ebay kleinanzeigen (craigs list), nobody wants them, when you have time you can find one around 300 Euros, the bigger the cheaper they are, small ones go for high prices. I just found a Burgmaster 1d turret drill in awesome conditions for 350, and yes in Germany, and I love it, great machine!

[@nicholaslynch7694]

Full steam ahead I love learning from you. And over the years have learned and used those skills alot thank you so much.

[@LunarHermit]

I love watching you restore and repurpose stuff from the scrap yard! It inspires me to do similar stuff myself. I really want to build a silent air compressor; I already have an old AC compressor, I'm just waiting for a good tank to come my way. Keep up the good work!

[@linmal2242]

The rules for recycling are: 1.Re-use 2.Re-cycle 3.Replace - So, re-using/re-purposing is the first priority as it retains the energy and effort invested into the item in the first place.

[@illyau]

Green light on going full steam ahead. I really enjoy these videos. Maybe will try something like this myself when I rent my first workshop in November.

[@HIEPPIEFUSARO]

That trash look really nice! Good job TPAI. I always learn a lot with yours videos.

[@stevekreitler9349]

I agree with you on the beauty of both the wrench and the c-clamp. It seems to me that you could make that wrench useful by adapting a large ratchet driver to fit into it, without making any changes to the clamp, itself.

[@leslieaustin151]

Always interesting and challenging. Thank you for stimulating a desire to recycle good stuff. Les in UK

[@Capturing-Memories]

I had the exact same thinking of a motorcraft when I saw those screws, wow.

[@DyrRozruba]

This C-clamp is probably stronger than some of hydraulic presses

[@stalkeraza9389]

This c-clamp loks literaly like, a arbor press upside down.

[@astrataway7077]

Those are some happy pneumatic actuators

[@freedom_aint_free]

Keep them flowing!

[@lemagreengreen]

Always look forward to your videos, I like your attitude! re-use and re-purpose everything we can, wish I had a scrapyard near me that allowed people to buy stuff like this.

[@nomadic_rider42]

A thing of beauty is a joy forever 😀

[@molpolkristine]

man i could do all my Christmas shopping at that scrap yard

[@nalinux]

This C-clap is a beast !

[@oldhamegg]

lol that reel to reel intro was awesome!

[@DogsBAwesome]

Germany giving up on their base generation by Nuclear will make it difficult for them to go fully renewable unless batteries become super cheep that they can over provision with storage.

[@trevormurphy7041]

I Musta use the wrapping machine for at least five or six years and I didn’t even know what that was my favourite machine to use in the meat department

[@jafinch78]

Nice finds as usual. The C clamp has me thinking using for other purposes with the lead screw basically. Somewhat like the inspired linear actuators that I've acquired two Mercedes Benz wiper motors and the larger jacks (210 583 01) all $10 ea. for what I planned to be used for the garden tractor front end loader electronic actuated/controlled model that's a Ford YT16 SVT custom I'm restoring and upgrading to make more heavy duty multifunction utility. There was a period I wanted to make an old buzz box as the grill and a dedicated generator engine welder yard tractor... thinking that will be another platform for that use though still with the intention to fit in the back of the pickup.

[@rocketscience4516]

Try using a magnet to remove metal chips. Worth a shot.

[@MixedGears]

With that 75 wrench you can always fix a train or a crane or a ship, good to have it at hand ;)

[@waitemc]

I got the whole set of wrenches over here across the pond not sure how i ended up with them. I transformed the 60mm wrench into a tomahawk hatchet. Good steel

[@pauloneill9965]

Respect cheers thanks from lreland love seeing old stuff been salvaged saved repurposed. Total agree that todays stuff is manufactured to last a certain time so were always consuming. Designed that certain parts fail need replacing. Very little is fixed by design that mechanism, engineers, are no longer fixing but selling you the newest latest product. Cheers thanks stay save Happy Halloween or devils nite.👍🇮🇪☘

[@chrishunt1042]

I love the intro. You should be a film director x

[@pinkponyofprey1965]

GReat video again! The C-clamp was built to only handle the bare maximum! :D

[@alfredneumann4692]

Never seen such scrapyards in Germany. I live in BadenWürttemberg.

[@matttradie1341]

Cotton twine or similar type string works well for cleaning threads such as lead screws on lathes, but you need to be careful on lead screws not to get tangled or u can lose a finger.

[@Hellsong89]

YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH CLAMPS!!! Also 30-40€ for wrench is not bad and usually you need two and tools are never a bad investment, people will always use them

[@policedog4030]

This is just to suggest bringing along a pocket radiation detector or at least a dosimeter when sorting through the scrapyards - as you are aware sometimes things can look perfectly good to the eye and pass the sniff test but still spewing neutrons or gamma/alpha or beta rays 24/7/365..there are junkyards in the East full of such equipment.

[@prasadvn524]

Highly impressive.great job.keep doing such videos

[@nerveseus7069]

Shiny as always But the intro was stunning The intro was super epic All those worrds and noises behind... Well done job man

[@bostedtap8399]

Great content, thank you for how to pronounce "Gedore", excellent tools. Yes 75 mm spanner is rather large. Thanks for sharing and best regards from the UK.

[@kameljoe21]

I have 3 70mm wrenches just like that and one 80mm wrench... They are German made as well!

[@gorillaau]

The wrench is a wall hanger.

[@pinball30]

In the USA you can no longer go into the scrap yards because of insurance restrictions.

[@mphilipsen3077]

The intro makes me think about a book written by Michael Moore.

[@marcryvon]

As a Canadian, I LOVE your gunt accent ! Ya !

[@lordmcted]

you might be able to make a swing press with that clamp

[@anaglog77]

I loved the intro - your videos have such a unique atmosphere to them

[@TVpedroGames]

Great Finds!

[@JDLarge]

Creepy recording but the truth is much stranger than fiction. I’m all about repurposing just about anything I’m able to get my hands on so I’m with ya brother. Sooner or later this “throw away” world thought process is going to catch up to us. ALWAYS reuse what you can in another way shape or form. I envy the scrapyards you’re allowed access into, stateside in Massachusetts they’ve pretty much shut us down from free range scouring on our own due to worry over injury. Only a few car scrapyards where you pull your own parts allow us access which is nice because I refuse to pay someone else to do work I can do. Ok, enjoy your day and thanks for sharing...

[@First112]

Always look forward to your videos. Many interesting solutions to various problems. I particularly like your explanation of the German names.

[@simont3686]

Well this wrench is obviously built to be a weapon.

[@green3488]

Nice. Good job, man!

[@Jajaho2]

Um Spindeln oder auch Feder zu reinigen kann ich Dochte wie sie beim Bund für's Waffen-Reinigen verwendet werden empfehlen.

[@FlorianHofmann]

Woha! I have the very same Telefunken Magnetofon standing right next to me!

[@iscariotproject]

wow so much knife making material just rusting away

[@evensgrey]

Good lord...how old is that circular saw attachment? That looks like a throwback to a time when electric motors were really expensive and it was worth the bother of a somewhat awkwardly designed tool to convert them that way. Nowadays, with the prevalence of powerful and fairly long-lasting battery-powered cordless tools, even things like chainsaw drill adapters (for when you need to drill in a place where you can't reasonably get electricity) no longer make sense in most cases.

[@AJB2K3]

That the saw from an AEG Track Saw.

[@aytonbob]

In the Uk we call those clamps G clamps.

[@DD-DD-DD]

Great video.

[@margran1]

Hello, you have a great channel. I love your philosophy of reusing old stuff. Keep up the good work. If you were looking for a motor to use to make an electric car at the scrapyard where you regularly visit what characteristics would you look for ( excluding forklift motors). Do you think it's even possible to find such a motor in old machinery? Let us say you want to use it to convert a small hatchback car.

[@JEYD220699]

Please DO move full steam ahead! Excellent series!

[@6Diego1Diego9]

I like when you tell us the German word for stuff. Interesting