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[ThePostApocalypticInventor]

I screwed up the conversions at the end of the video. The pulley at 33:02 weighs 35kg (77lbs) and the hoist is 50kg (110 lbs). The reason for this is, that I actually lifted a number of objects that didn't make it into the final cut. When re-editing the video for the final version I combined kg and lbs numbers that belonged to different objects. Sorry about that

[Gastell]

6:46 - When life gives you lemons, make a barrel of citric acid for rust removal
That ratchet design is kinda genius not gonna lie, when the the worm gear is run in one direction - it's pushed into the ratchet disk, the other direction it's pulled up from it by the large gear

[steveharvey]

Your spoken introductions to your videos are always very poignant and resonate with the way I feel about the modern fashion for consumption over longevity. I regularly feel like I live in the wrong age! I regularly take in "broken" items from friends and pull useful things out of skips here in the UK. We have truly lost sight of paying enough to buy a quality product first and then be prepared to look after it and fix it when it breaks. The modern way of build cheap and throw away drives me crazy!! Keep up the great work with the videos 👍

[ThePostApocalypticInventor]

Some corrections: About KONE. Sorry to the Finish viewers out there. KONE is a Finish brand. KONE Deutschland is apparently just a subsidiary. The Motor was made in Germany. ALSO: The kg to lbs conversions at 33:02 and 33:44 are WRONG. I messed up the text on the screen while I re-edited the video. It's supposed to say '35kg / 77lbs' and '50kg / 110 lbs'

[Cruse]

24:30 Italy mentioned! Cheers from italy!

[twocvbloke]

Deindustrialisation is what lead us to where we are now, nations who once were powerhouses of manufacturing turned into nations of paper-pushers and investment bankers (and believe me, I wanted to mis-spell bankers with a W there!), leaving the people up the spout with regards to work and communities that were built around those industries...
(speaking from the North East of England, formerly home to mining, iron & steelworks, shipbuilding and chemicals)

[Stefano-]

Hi there, greetings from Genoa, Italy!
Since in our coffee machines are plenty of gears 😂😂 let me tell you another method to compute the gear module and avoid guessing the pitch diameter. Most gears designed on modules follow the rule of "modular proportion", where each tooth is 2, 25 module tall: the tip is 1 module above the pitch circle and the root is 1, 25 modules below it. This means that you can easily measure the tip circle diameter with a caliper or a tape measure, divide it by the number of teeth, subtract 2 and get the exact module of the teeth.
Thanks very much for the fantastic videos and the motivation that you spread on giving more lives to broken things that just need some love and repair. This mindset would reduce our impact on the environment as well as giving us back the skills that we have lost on craftsmanship.

[seanfyodorovich]

It's always a great Saturday morning when I see a new video from TPAI!

[Typhoontong]

Watching this, I am overwhelmed with emotion for the raw might and power that we were able to accomplish in an era where literacy was at a 1 in 5 people ratio, the internet did not exist, even hand calculators were non-existant and yet still we were able to churn out monstrous machines through the grit, geometry and log tables. I am simultaneously proud and feeling utter despair.

[Pete]

I first "marched" into Newcastle BHP Steelworks at 15 years old, apprenticing as a boilermaker in 1979, the week after I finished High School. There were at least 1500 guys walking in for the dayshift, it left an impression of being a cog in a machine. It turned out my intake was the second to last in the works and it was closed 10 years after i was done there. 5 years later there was barely a trace. Razed to the ground and sold for scrap.

[Dr_V]

My current felling/chopping axe was made in East Germany in the 1960s, found it at a flea market for 10 euros and restored it in my garage. It's a relatively light head, but beautifully shaped to bite deep with little effort and tempered just right to hold a sharp edge without chipping.

[Ttenkampf]

I have found a number of old American made hand drills. I don't know why I love them so much, they just seem like the kind of tool that a skilled tradesman would use.

[aab-elbd]

there is no reason that it stopped, it's just the ancient enemy destroying everything.

[freetolook]

I guess The Great Industrial Northeast in the US isn't the only area deindustrialzed.
In the early 1970's, I worked at the GE plant in Schenectady, NY. At the time there were 29, 000 people working three shifts.
Now, most of the buildings are gone. 6, 000± people work there, mostly white collar main office jobs with a few of the manufacturing buildings and jobs still there.

[arthurswart]

Always a pleasure to see you honour the skill the people that once built these tools had. We're neighbors, in the Netherlands German tools and equipment are still a badge of quality. One of my cousins uses the about a century old Kärger lathe our grandfather bought [using a bank loan that was not to be mentioned...] in the 1930's. A few bearings and a clamp have been replaced over the years, but that's it. That lathe will outlive us all. Grandpa cleaned it with nitric acid [saltpeter] and toluene and re-greased it once a year, I'm sure the current generation uses much safer compounds to get the job done.

[patjohnson]

Your videos on tool restoration and repurposing are very interesting and enjoyable. Thanks you for saving these good quality tools and making them useful again. You also have excellent knowledge and skills. Keep up the good work

[fabriziodini]

hello from Ancona, Italy. your videos are the sole reason i have started repairing stuff, you have been inspiring many people for many years, and i am one of them.
Thank you and merry christmas, till the next vijeo.

[lv_woodturner]

Well done on the winches. The DC gear motors are so smooth and quiet. A very good use to drive the winches.
I live near the old Bethlehem Steel works. The blast furnaces are still around, now a Smithsonian Heritage site. The site is now called Steel Stacks and has entertainment - cinema, concerts indoor and outdoor. A lot of people used to be employed at what was locally called just "The Steel". Sad that so much manufacturing has been moved overseas over the decades. Despite what some politicians promise, most of the manufacturing will never return to the US.

[michaeltiozzo]

It's nice to hear Italy in a video for once!

[markusschroer]

As a designer of mining equipment like hoisting engines (winches/winders etc.) and sheaves I was triggered by your intro. I have to thank you for your work, I enjoyed following your work and your projects for years. 7:08 7:08