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.
I am SOOO IMPRESSED !!!!! Thanks for sharing this !!---ken
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteShe'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!
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.
DeleteThat skill will come in REAL handy...
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.
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteThat 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.
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ReplyDeleteI'm not gonna lie.
ReplyDeleteI am completely turned on by this girl.
Let's see:
DeleteA 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteAndrew 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.
... not to mention reinstalling a piston in a cylinder without a ring compressor. THAT my friend is an exercise in frustration.
ReplyDeleteI am majorly impressed.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
Damn, she's good !!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing ERJ. To say I am impressed is an understatement - what she did appears to be sorcery to me.
ReplyDeleteThere 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.
ReplyDeleteHere are some other channels that will amaze you what they can do with so little. Might find some skills that could come in handy
ReplyDeletehttps://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
Wow, I wonder if she is spoken for yet?
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Guy repairing a broken crankshaft. No safety glasses or goggles and half the time he's smoking a cigarette.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/wUB7dUjFGIM
She's a keeper.
ReplyDeleteLearned to rewind motors in sophomore Vo-Ag. 1961.
ReplyDeleteShe's good, and apparently IS learning better safety procedures!
ReplyDeleteGreat. More Youtube channels to suck up my time. :-)
ReplyDeleteAll 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.
ReplyDeleteReading 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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