Rage-Fixing a Broken Drill

I hate wasting, throwing away broken anything that can be fixed easily. Not only repairing will reduce waste and saves perfectly good resources, it saves you a ton of money! That is if the cost of repairing is not more than buying a new one, or maybe even sometimes?! I mean think about a functioning motor in a drill, the magnets, the gears!!! So much good stuff!! I stop rambling now.

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By: Mehdi Sadaghdar

[carllp]

Silly me, about to recycle my dead 12V lead-acid battery. I forgot I was in possession of a very handy percussive maintenance and diagnostic device!

[coryman]

3:22 "Let's take a 12 volt lead acid battery"
Oh, good, I wonder what clever engineering solution he'll think of using that battery to test the drill's reaction to-
Oh... That works too

[EngelStein]

8:01 the "150 dollars in my pocket!" With the glasses is such a dad moment

[williamdowling]

9:01

This is absolutely the correct facial expression for the moment youre finishing reassembly and you know you saved a bunch of dough.

So satisfying

[EddieTheH]

This isn't a lesson in drill repair, it's a lesson in reasoning and critical thinking.

[MagnumPI]

9:32 I can guarantee you that the designer thought exactly like you, and then came the purchaser / manager and said: "No, that's 5cent too expensive! Use thinner wires!"

[shku]

I hope one day I become confident enough about something the same way you're confident about drilling towards where your hand is.

[luisv]

9:02 That's me when I fix something expensive at no cost. especially when something I find in the street

[JoeStuffzAlt]

I love this. I love the idea of "it's broken. What's the worst that can happen? Break it even more by trying to fix it?"

[systematic]

Had my drill fail a few months ago. After taking it apart I found that 1 of the wires connected to the motor broke off at the terminal. Turns out what happened is there’s nothing physically holding the motor in place. So every time the motor ran the torque would cause the motor housing to rotate a bit eventually braking the 1 terminal connection. After a while I realized if I extended that wire about 1cm and rerouted it that would place tension on the motor in both directions. That prevented the motor from moving and the drill now works perfectly.

No electrical explosion in this vid. Is this Electro SILENCE? 😂

[munm]

8:40 Mehdi doing some mechanical engineering for a change

[battra]

I live how you saved the money AND saved the drill from the landfill. I wish companies were held to higher standards for making items more durable and repairable.

[AP]

@1:27 a few days ago I had a drill break with smoke and flames coming out of it. I tried to fix it with the result that i now have a tool which can reliably evaporate copper within milliseconds.

[progamerr]

8:11 be careful with that hot glue gun! The tip is made of metal and can short the wires, ask me how I know....

[psychorabbitt]

"Don't hold shit in your hand when you're trying to drill it."

Yeah - NO SHIT, MEHDI!

[TerminatorVasya]

3:26 I though he was going to drill the battery💀

[MoundN]

Man. the satisfying feeling of fixing something that is expensive without having to pay a single cent...

My girlfriend has one of those overpriced wireless gaming headphones and the powerswitch had a lose connection causing it to shut off every time you moved your head to hard.. just a simple disassembly of the headphone and the powerswitch and cleanup with rubbing alcohol and it works like new again. this feeling is so freaking good.

[mohitchauhan]

10:46 I guess somebody had a fight with their child 😂

[CircuitDen]

You've had that 12v battery for so long 🤣