Saturday, March 12, 2022

Village girl repairs ...

 


I have been getting a great deal of enjoyment from this young lady's Youtube channel.

People tell her about broken equipment. She collects it. She disassembles it. Cleans it. Replaces broken parts. Paints and reassembles it.

Earlier videos (like the second one) shows her solvent washing parts without wearing rubber gloves. Later videos show her wearing gloves, goggles and such. The second video also shows her using a hammer and the bell-housing of the diesel motor to CUT the gasket to shape. I had never seen that before.

One advantage this generation has is that they can take video or time-lapse images of the equipment as they disassemble it and that can be a valuable reference when reassembling.

Yes, I know some of you do not care for Youtube. I get that.

I rationalize it. I need cheerful, upbeat stories. This young lady provides them.

24 comments:

  1. I am SOOO IMPRESSED !!!!! Thanks for sharing this !!---ken

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  2. I've seen old school mechanics make a new gasket using a housing and a ball peen hammer a couple of times, but not in the last 30 years.

    She'd be a good person to have around in tough times. I've never seen someone actually re-wind the core of an electric motor. That's talent!

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    1. That's how I used to make gaskets as a kid, my (aircraft mechanic) dad taught me how. Still have paper and cork gasket stock as well as thin copper sheets in my garage.

      That skill will come in REAL handy...

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  3. I've made gaskets for water pumps using the same method of a small ball peen hammer, break-away razor knife and a sheet of gasket material. The company was too cheap to purchase cut gaskets so we had to make our own. I still prefer this method to ready-made gaskets -- their dimensions are far more accurate. Cut gaskets are usually slightly smaller than the machined surface/mounting holes. This vid brings back fond memories.

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  4. I've cut a few gaskets that way, too. Parts stores are 10-20 miles for cars, up to 40 miles for some farm equipment. Saves time sometimes.

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  5. That little girl has some SERIOUS skills. Nobody rewinds their own cores. NOBODY! She would impress my grandpa, and he was God's own blacksmith/metalworker.
    Dave

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  7. I'm not gonna lie.
    I am completely turned on by this girl.

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    1. Let's see:
      A young, healthy woman
      Who is CHEERFUL
      Who is industrious and productive
      Who isn't telling others what to do or being judgemental
      Who isn't taking a selfie every five minutes
      Who is neat and tidy but not obsessed with how she looks

      Women should be taking notes.

      Maybe some of us guys should be, too.

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  8. The guy from Salvage Workshop on Youtube does the gasket cutting with a hammer thing all the time. And he uses all sorts of interesting ways to move stuck bolts and nuts.

    Andrew Camarata on Youtube also uses old school ways of doing things. And when he announces he's getting a new piece of equipment, usually it's what other people consider knackered out, but he refurbs and gets it running real good.

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  9. ... not to mention reinstalling a piston in a cylinder without a ring compressor. THAT my friend is an exercise in frustration.

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  10. I am majorly impressed.
    I have been a mechanic for forty years now and that little lady has skills I still don't possess.
    Like rewinding a 220 volt motor from scratch.
    Good on her.

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  11. Thank you for sharing ERJ. To say I am impressed is an understatement - what she did appears to be sorcery to me.

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  12. There was a beautiful Chinese woman who put up videos of herself farming to support her grandmother. She had to go into hiding from her suitors after someone finally figured out who she was. This girl is going to have the same problem. Best wishes to her.

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  13. Here are some other channels that will amaze you what they can do with so little. Might find some skills that could come in handy
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64FbxoHfUWd5hykYk5_BvQ/videos
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa3rjIHi-3LjmfiEdw4GQgQ
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfbjp2jfYS9mxMR2hE1V1dQ
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSheRmd8DZOModOzHLpW8YA
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv7plJBblr9CAXeDcFJpySg/videos

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  14. Wow, I wonder if she is spoken for yet?
    Heltau

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  15. Guy repairing a broken crankshaft. No safety glasses or goggles and half the time he's smoking a cigarette.

    https://youtu.be/wUB7dUjFGIM

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  16. Learned to rewind motors in sophomore Vo-Ag. 1961.

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  17. She's good, and apparently IS learning better safety procedures!

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  18. Great. More Youtube channels to suck up my time. :-)

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  19. All credit to her but many of these channels have a front face and a whole team behind the scenes to do much of the work. Enjoy it for what it is.

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  20. Reading a micrometer is a lost art now days, and I've never run into a woman who could read one. The coil winder was cool as well. That gal is millwright material there.

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