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@michaelmoore7975
5 ай бұрын
My best redneck fix was when my fuel pump went out. Made it 35 miles back home by filling up my windshield washer reservoir with gas, ran a piece of windshield washer tubing to the carburetor and went down the road while pushing the windshield washer button on the dash, squirting gas down the carb throat. Got home but ruined the washer pump.
@thejollywrencher
5 ай бұрын
Very nice.
@davidjustice1848
5 ай бұрын
Redneck fuel injection system
@Cs13762
3 ай бұрын
now that is ingenuity.
@exstock
5 ай бұрын
The hardest part of keeping stuff clean is training yourself to stop working while you still have enough energy that you want to keep working on whatever project you’re working on!
@9an13l
5 ай бұрын
Haven't seen it put into words like that but yeah, i can absolutely relate! 😅
@marypasco2213
5 ай бұрын
Clean as you work.
@natmickan
5 ай бұрын
Thankyou for putting this into words; as someone neurodivergent w/ a few disabilities, this is literally life-changing information for me. I’d always been told ‘clean as you go’, but that doesn’t account for sudden inabilities to do stuff (which for me are unavoidable, meaning there’s always mess left at the end even when I clean as I go, and I feel bad for *seeming* to fail at ‘clean as you go’ when in reality I’m failing to recognise when I need to stop. Learning to *recognise and stop before I get that point* (as much as I can) is going to change my life. Thankyou internet stranger, you’ve just made someone’s decade 💚
@SocksAndPuppets
5 ай бұрын
For me, because my work space is small and around me, "first order retrievability" means being able to reach anything I need without getting up from my chair... but this also means I can put everything AWAY from my chair too - so... anything I'm done with has to go away before I get the next thing out. That way, I only ever have a couple things to put away when I'm done... It can be tough if your process needs a lot of tools all at once, but... you *can* train yourself to realize "I'm done with this thing now" and put it away before continuing on.
@exstock
5 ай бұрын
@@natmickan Excellent! I learned it by having multiple sclerosis, and not at all enjoying what happened when I pushed myself to exhaustion. Still took me FAR too long to start doing it consistently, sigh... 🤗
@photojunky7342
5 ай бұрын
You’ve GOT to look up the kid rebuilding an engine that started in his dorm room and the the school found out and he had to remove it. He’s now building it in the back of a small compact car. I will absolutely never complain about work space again
@andrewbieger5004
5 ай бұрын
Would love to see that one. Many years ago, there was a group of engineering students who took it upon themselves to disassemble and RE-ASSEMBLE (FULLY functioning) a VW Bug INSIDE the Dean's Office. This pre-dates the Internet and YT, so i am not sure if videos even exist. Possibly just an urban legend, but I believe it was legit, due to the source I got the story from. Another example of enterprising college students with TOO MUCH free time!
@CoreyWilson
5 ай бұрын
When I was in the Air Force, one of the guys in the dorms got caught, rebuilding a small block Chevy in his bedroom… needless to say they weren’t too happy about it
@benpierre2435
5 ай бұрын
post a link
@Drakith90
5 ай бұрын
@@andrewbieger5004 Back when my dad was in high school a common prank for end of the year was taking wagon wheels (He's old and from a rural area that only got in door plumbing when he was in his teens..) and shimmying up the flag pole to drop them down. Their record was 12. Never underestimate the effort some are willing to put into messing with authority.
@photojunky7342
5 ай бұрын
@@Drakith90 my dad high school prank from the 70s, that I didn’t believe until I finally saw photo proof, was him and some guys from the football team lifted the principals VW bug and put it on top of the football fields press box.
@mbarr691
5 ай бұрын
In response to the last question. A recent mantra I've come across is, "Don't put it down, put it away". Repeating this as I work helps motivate me to clean as I go.
@tested
5 ай бұрын
Love that.
@lenabanx6221
5 ай бұрын
I’ll take “phrases that I will now repeat to everyone I interact with in a workshop for the rest of my life” for 500 please! Lol
@mbarr691
5 ай бұрын
Another good phrase I just started saying is, "Will my later self thank my current self".
@NicoSleepyLeen
5 ай бұрын
I love how Adam can relate and share about everything "Recently this happened to me" And Adam is like "Oh i know that feeling, did you use this or this method to fix it?" Its just great connection
@jamesthecyclist597
5 ай бұрын
The fix for my MG was creating a makeshift bracket/spring out of copper. This was needed to hold a temp gauge that used to go to electric fans before they were removed. Cut a small piece, bent it a little past 90 degrees, and attached it underneath a pre existing hose clamp to hold that gauge in the radiator to maintain pressure.
@ljg6979
5 ай бұрын
As a previous MGB owner myself (also a ‘77 vintage), I was shocked that it wasn’t an electrical problem. The name “Lucas” has long been a favorite substitute swear word of mine.
@jamesthecyclist597
5 ай бұрын
@@ljg6979 I got lucky with my electronics, knock on wood. But yes of course, the English like warm beer because Lucas made refrigerators too 😂
@katemiller8113
5 ай бұрын
Savage the Sage…these are now the posts of yours I seek out. Love the joy you express, the self depreciating humor, the delightful memories, the admiration expressed for other makers…you make us feel like we’re hanging out in your shop. Love it. Thank you!
@killersquirel11
5 ай бұрын
Favorite redneck fix: fixed a friend's glasses (missing a hinge screw) with a staple (insert into hole, bend around on each side). Found out years later that he was still using those glasses with that fix lol.
@TwistedD85
5 ай бұрын
Nothing more permanent than a temporary fix.
@keithc904
5 ай бұрын
LOL, did the same thing a few weeks ago and did not get it fixed till last weeks.
@tested
5 ай бұрын
Oh, well done.
@ancient_apteryx
5 ай бұрын
To quote a former colleague: "It's only temporary if it doesn't work."
@SocksAndPuppets
5 ай бұрын
I spent over a decade looking for the right tabletop storage system for my art supplies, and I could never find one. This year I hired a boxmaker to build me my ideal solution, and I'm SO happy.
@DrVenture45
5 ай бұрын
Often, there are things that you say when giving advise that speaks highly of your wisdom beyond the scope of your technical expertise. I suppose it's as my father use to say, "Just when you think you know everything, there's always something more to learn". Respect.
@mleys3248
5 ай бұрын
"Your future self will be so grateful you did this now." This has been my mantra for the last 5 years. It has been absolutely crucial in motivating me in doing stuff I don't feel like doing, but know, will make my future self really happy I did. I have been a chaotic mess for the most part of my life. I am happy to report this is no longer the case. I will repeat this mantra out loud, until I completed the task. Partly for myself, to stop my brain from wandering off, but also for my teenage son to hear. A bit of educating, without teaching, in the hope that at one point he'll remember his mom doing this and implement it himself, because it is gold ! Nice Adam !
@stevofreako37
5 ай бұрын
I have ADHD and Autism and so I understand the struggle of not wanting to clean up after a project. The way I motivate myself to clean is I remind myself how good it will feel the next time I come in and my shop is clean and how miserable I’d feel if it wasn’t
@xiola
5 ай бұрын
My hobby is textiles/sewing, and 20+ years ago when I was living at home my mom gave me a little decorated tin can with a bow on it to put my thread scraps into while sewing. It's still on my desk and I still use it for thread scraps and kleenex and I might keep it forever :) my desk is 2 tables in an L-shape with a general/computer desk on one side and a sewing desk on the other; the scrap tin lives in the corner between the two.
@christinesoule9505
5 ай бұрын
I totally agree with the tabletop trash receptacle. I have on my sewing desk a small ceramic dish that I throw small bits of fabric and threads onto even though I have a larger trash can under the desk. It just keeps my work surface so much cleaner and having it right there means my work flow is not interrupted by constantly groping around for the big trash can. Thanks for the validation!
@OMGWTFBBQSHEEP
5 ай бұрын
Its the small things like that that helps a lot!
@osliverpool
5 ай бұрын
Yep, the best motivator for cleaning up at the end of a session is... too many days starting surrounded by yesterday's crap.
@UEtke745
5 ай бұрын
I love your suggestion of keeping a small trash bin right at your desk. I started keeping small boxes near each of my prominent work surfaces and assembly tables for trash and cut-offs/scraps. It is so much more convenient to have a receptacle within reach that allows you to maintain focus and momentum with your current task. Then just consolidate with the primary means of disposal at the end of the day.
@dannyhanley8927
5 ай бұрын
My best fix ever was an HT lead broke on a car grabbed a fresh wet twig stuck one end on the plug other on dizzy cap and drove 6 mile home was told no way that worked proved them wrong when they lifted the bonnet and seen it and started up the car running on all four cyls
@andrewbieger5004
5 ай бұрын
I don't rely on a table top 'trash receptacle' per se, but keep a small magnetized steel dish out for all the extra screws, etc. which ALWAYS come out of my pockets or get trapped within cases of other things.About once a week, I re-sort this hardware into their appropriate homes. If you don't deal with the accumulated items regularly, you end up with a HUUUGE pile and typically needless extra purchases of the very hardware that is lying in the bottom of that bucket or box. I recently did a complete reorg of my shop for all hardware, parts and materials (I am a Gen. Contractor with TONS of inventory), and I discovered (after emptying out a dozen big bins) that I had a stash of a couple thousand $ worth of plumbing & electrical parts, plus SCADS of fasteners. I actually employed a baby version of Jamie's old M5 clear bins and shelving to keep the needed supplies, while having a visual of items needing to be restocked.
@BabyMakR
5 ай бұрын
4:23 I had fortunately studied the Haynes manual for my '78 Torana (19 years old at the time) to make this exact fix one night in the middle of nowhere in Northern Queensland. Cannibalised the wipers and washer wires to make the electric fuel pump start working again. Only had to last 250KM to get home and lasted another 5 days after that till pay day to be able to buy parts to be able to fix it properly. Never underestimate the repair manuals and the knowledge on how to use them, and it is something I think modern schools have lost.
@MrBossmoss17
5 ай бұрын
I find that music helps me clean. Whether that be super loud rock or just a flow state to help get me up and moving. Music is the key for me.
@harrisonhughes696
5 ай бұрын
That pickup solenoid toggle-switch mod reminds me of a fix my grandpa did. For some reason the key ignition in his car stopped working so he converted it to a push-to-start using an old doorbell. Every time my mother tells this story she goes red in the face and bursts into laughter xD
@stevenbrown9185
5 ай бұрын
My favorite redneck fix remains when I made an irrigation system out of solo cups and duct tape (sorry Adam!) to catch a linear series of leaks in my dorm room ceiling. I hung it from the ceiling with rubber bands and thumb tacks.
@SoupieGuitar
5 ай бұрын
Thank you Adam, for the "future me" bit, that really clicked something like a new philosophy in my head 😌 also for the aside about thinking about past me, it's comforting to know other people do that too 😌😊
@jamfjord
5 ай бұрын
Those whole tidying up and desk storage bits are gold, but I can't overemphasize how much the desktop rubbish (trash?) bin has helped my flow too. Furthermore, as a fellow ADHDer, I use "project boxes", storable containers with all the bits I'm working on and using for a given build, plus a tools tray for whichever tools, brushes, adhesives etc needed for that project and loaded into the tray from my stash for the time I'm working on it. I always forget about storing long stuff vertically, though, and the shelf advice is golden as well.
@Kowzorz
5 ай бұрын
big fan of "clean as you go" mixed with "clean first in the day, not at the end". Morning dishes waiting for tea water to boil is great. plus it starts my day with an accomplishment.
@Stephen__White
5 ай бұрын
I LOATH cleaning, always have. I'm going on 28 now, and take a minor amount of pride that my room, my personal space is the cleanest room in the house I share with my family. It's still not clean, most people would call my space messy, but it's at a point where I know where everything is, there is clean clear floor, and nothing is on top of anything else. Except my clothes are on top of each other on a chair because I use my dresser space for storing things I don't want falling, and I have a cat that likes to get into things. So I need that closed space where she can't knock things down more than I need a closed space to keep my clothes. I honestly think I'll always hate cleaning, but that's mostly a product of the environment I grew up in. The house I grew up in was extremely messy, like crap was piled up in every room to roughly the height of a 12 year old's shin, and no one really put an effort into cleaning. My mother had given up after my very sexist "father" declared it was her job to clean up after the 4 of us kids, and convinced my older siblings that they didn't need to clean because of that. Then young me would try to clean, but found it unfair that my older siblings never cleaned.(Like for example rule for me was I had to clean my room to have friends over, my older siblings who at the youngest are 7 years older than me, didn't have to clean their rooms to have friends over) So even I mostly stopped cleaning my room, and stopped having friends over as well until my mother gave in and just let me have friends over like my older siblings anyway. So like it's not that I have my "fathers" view on cleaning, I just hate cleaning because not only did I grow up in basically trash, but also I had to clean to get to do things my older siblings didn't have to clean to do, and that really stuck with me. Though that comes down to how the human brain perceives time. For young me, the time I had to spend cleaning just to have friends over was a lot of my life and free time, because I only had 4 hours a day that I could really use on school days, because school got out at 2:30, I'd be home around 2:45, and my bed time was 7:00pm until I was like 14, when it became... wait for it... 7:30. Wow... At 16 it became 10:00pm, and 17, it was "as long as you sleep before school". But an hour was used by eating, using the washroom and homework with extra time used every few days to shower(when we actually had hot water for me to shower anyway, some times I went months without a shower because we had no hot water). So that left me 4 hours to unwind after school, where I generally had a bad time and needed time to unwind and relax, so spending my time cleaning was the worst way my young brain could use that time. These days, I just have that negative impression of cleaning, as well as always feeling like I could be better spending my time doing something else, or sometimes even cleaning something else. Like for instance instead of cleaning my desk, I'd use that energy to clean my cats litter box. Seeing as I have fairly bad depression, I don't have the most energy to go around so I do have to pick and choose, and I'd rather my cat have a clean litter box, than me have a clean desk that is just going to get cluttered again in a few weeks. Wow this turned into a novel. Imagine how people in my life must feel. I type the way I talk. When no one shuts me up I just talk forever once I actually get talking. I'll stop here though, and say anyone reading this, I hope you have a great day, and remember people care about you!
@miksstudio
5 ай бұрын
For my desks, I made small dumpsters out of chipboard, made several for people. Cool green Waste Management style dumpsters with lids proved great for the trash while working at the desk.
@richsackett3423
5 ай бұрын
I don't have a tabletop trash receptacle because my shop is equipped with both gravity and a broom.
@ergunburak
5 ай бұрын
He is talking about home/office desk.
@patricksanders858
5 ай бұрын
So instead of placing bits and scraps in a bin initially, you increase your work load at the end of the day as well as walking on messes. Cooking Professionally has taught me the importance of cleaning as you go.
@christinesoule9505
5 ай бұрын
I hope your feet don’t find the bits and bobs that have succumbed to gravity before the broom does!
@richsackett3423
5 ай бұрын
@@christinesoule9505 Also an enthusiastic user of shoes. We got everything here.
@cpbethlehem6548
5 ай бұрын
My red neck fix of the years. I was helping a friend with his race car. On the way back from a good night of Saturday night racing, his tow vehicle, chevy van, blew the water pump in the middle of nowhere on a dark night. No cellphone back then, we took the water pump off the race car and installed it in the chevy van.
@Scoots1994
5 ай бұрын
I loved SRL shows in, I think, the early 90s.
@davidbarnes7617
5 ай бұрын
Best one I've seen was in college, a friend of mine and I were driving from Tucson to Phoenix in his old VW Rabbit diesel. He blew a fan belt, and the car obviously overheated. We were sitting in the desert heat when a young couple stopped to help us. My friend asked if they had a pair of pantyhose handy, since they obviously didn't have a fan belt for his Rabbit. She looked suspicious, but gave him an old pair she found in her luggage. He cut the leg off and gave them back, then measured the rough size needed to cover the same size as the belt. There's a certain flexibility in the fabric, so he tied it slightly smaller than the belt was, stretched it over the pulleys, and it worked! We made it the 40 miles to Phoenix and an auto parts store and swapped in a regular fan belt in about 10 minutes.
@timr8657
5 ай бұрын
Hah your starter motor story reminded me of being an electrical nerd as a younger fella. I was the go to guy to install car audio systems etc. for all my mates. But the story that came to mind was that I had installed an anti-theft kill switch in my very desirable yellow Datsun 200B by wiring a switch in series with the ignition coil primary and mounting it in the glove box. So, one afternoon a mate and I are driving along, and of all places as we're just driving up a hill, he opens the glove box to take something out, probably a CD, he sees the switch, says "what's this?", and just goes and switches it. Haha who just sees a switch and flicks it gees... anyway I instantly felt the loss of power, barked something like "don't switch that, switch it back!" ... so he did, off we went again and I then proceeded to tell him the story of what that switch does and how it does it, probably, knowing me, how the ignition coil functions, step-up transformers, magnetic inductance blah blah...
@mrwoodandmrtin
5 ай бұрын
Tabletop storage for a small space. Get a secondhand auto mechanics tool storage trolly and put a big wood top on it. Put all the high use tools in the top draw.
@montanawhite5699
5 ай бұрын
9:44 I never thought I was a mantra man but I actually have one. “The more you do now the less you have to do later” I use this often while working in landscaping. So I use it much more in a short term sense, but it works. My favorite one, which I don’t use is “if you had time to do it twice you had time to do it right the first time”
@HRConsultant_Jeff
5 ай бұрын
that truck may have been a Datsun (did not change the name to Nissan until about 1982). just an FYI, I love Redneck fix stories. I have used a nylon for a fan belt, and had a small squareback with cracks in the frame, it went around corners in pieces almost. We did a lot of duct tape repair on that.
@JonasHamill
5 ай бұрын
As an AuDHDer, I'm able to keep my space clean using it as a way of winding down from doing the work. I get to a point where my attention just can't anymore and so I put things away. It's a new activity so the novelty of such can be easier than carrying on. Another way is using it as a procrastination. Like, say I have to do something, well if I tidy up it feels productive while also feeling like it's not the thing I'm meant to be doing and it's always easier to do the thing I'm not meant to be doing. BUT, it still *is* productive, as I find it's far easier to concentrate on what I need to do if things are all tidied. Otherwise the things around are all distractions to do something else, or just looking around thinking 'that shouldn't be there'. The most important thing is to make sure that things have a place to go. I can easily tidy away my tools because they go on that one shelf in that cupboard, the compressed air goes on that other shelf, mugs go in the dishwasher etc. If you have to think about it then it's a completely different task and so much more work.
@zachvellekamp1796
5 ай бұрын
Couldn’t find the wheel lock key for my Nissan Altima back when I still had it, welded a flat bar onto the nut and kicked it loose to change the flat out for the donut spare, drove it all the way to the tire shop with the flat bar still on, tire shop guys loved it.
@davidmarden4789
5 ай бұрын
Every time I hear Adam's doorbell I think of Wing's (Paul McCartney) song 'Let Em In' which brings back fond memories of my childhood, thanks.❤
@BlueLightSpecial2023
5 ай бұрын
Well, this is both an observation about my own ability to be distracted and a compliment to Adam's power of concentration. At 1:57 in this video (and then a second time a bit later), someone walking thru the room is reflected in a small mirror over Adam's left shoulder. I could not sit and do to-camera pieces with people walking about behind the camera. I would constantly be having those "squirrel" moments. Kudos Adam! 🙂
@christopherdean1326
5 ай бұрын
I too am a "completist" and I spend far too much time and energy (and money) acquiring tools I could usually do without, but I have them for the one in fifty times when they make the job a little easier than it would be otherwise. As far as cleanliness goes, I do tend to leave my workshop (a lock up unit ten minutes from my house) in a mess at the end of the day, because of two reasons. One, I actually find it easier to start tidying up when I fresh in the morning, Two, when I was growing up, and learning to work with my hands from dearly missed father, we usually had to work in the kitchen, so we always had to stop what we were doing and tidy up, so mum could cook dinner. Because of that, the luxury of just being able to stop work, lock the door, and walk away is a great luxury.
@ponderosabones7803
5 ай бұрын
I'm about to move into a studio apartment, this is very timely advice, thank you sir
@GeorgeMacon
5 ай бұрын
Mentioning roll-starting the truck reminds me of a story: my dad was teaching me to drive a stick in a newer truck, and he explained how to roll start, and I couldn’t make it work. So we swapped so he could show me, and he couldn’t do it, either. We later figured out that the computer in the truck was programmed to prevent roll starts as an anti-theft measure.
@Bargle5
5 ай бұрын
While my trash bin isn't on my model making bench top, I did recently raise it to level with the bench. Made it much better to use. When I built the bench, I made sure to put a piece across the back edge to keep stuff from falling off. Really helped.
@StrixyN
5 ай бұрын
I like to rinse out and reuse plastic peanut butter jars for small parts for projects. One jar can hold pretty much everything for one guitar. I have an old mayo jar that holds all the nuts and bolts for a 6 layer seedling shelf that only comes out in the spring, but otherwise flat-packs in the shed.
@BlueOceanBelow
5 ай бұрын
Surprised, but perhaps not surprised, to hear Survival Research Labs mentioned!
@survivalresearchlabs
5 ай бұрын
Well, of course.
@JayCommando92
5 ай бұрын
A small fab and machine shop I used to work at had the opposite philosophy to cleaning. At the end of your day don't clean just go home. Clean in the morning. The first 30 minutes of the day just clean. No one wants to stop and clean and stay late if they can't get it done by the time they should be leaving. Cleaning in the morning gave you time for the mornings coffee to kick in while you pushed a broom, think about the stuff you want to accomplish/the tasks for the day while you are cleaning up the parts you were working on and organized your workspace. The only times we would break from that is when a client would be showing up in the morning. It was nice to work till the bell and just leave.
@timberrecycling
5 ай бұрын
LOVE the table top mini trash idea. as soon as you introduced the idea, immediately made sense, but i appreciated the pantomime of throwing out the small piece of whatever
@marksieber8140
5 ай бұрын
Cubbyhole desks are great table top storage systems. I worked in an office where my coworkers were puzzled that I chose to keep an ancient solid wooden desk because it had a cubbyhole system over buying a new, fancy desk for which I had the budget.
@DillonDaVillain222
5 ай бұрын
Even in my 20s are still love everything you do especially the tool vodeos since I'm a mechanic lol
@SomeGuysGarage
5 ай бұрын
Not cleaning up at the end of the day is not acceptable, it is 100% part of my process, no matter what, that everything gets cleaned up. Now, with my garage, I have to park in there each night...so that REALLY motivates me to clean it up, I can't leave my vehicle outside. With other spaces, having ingrained the habit of cleaning up my garage, it just feels natural to clean other spaces up too, it's ingrained in me, but I've also been doing this for nearly 20 years.
@queenannsrevenge100
5 ай бұрын
RE: cleaning the spaces you work in - it’s part of what Stephen Covey called “sharpening the saw” - whether it’s prepping your work space for tomorrow, or restocking supplies before they’re needed, or training for a future task, or even just sticking to planned breaks - replenish your resources while you are not in a rush, and you will constantly reap rewards for it later.
@NHT2
5 ай бұрын
The most redneck fix I've ever done also involved a car. The fuel rail on my aveo had popped off, two clips were missing. It was squirting fuel everywhere! I had the original owners license plate and a roll of duct tape. Bent the license plate until it was a rectangle, wrapped it in duct tape, shoved it in between the fuel rail and upper manifold. Stopped the squirting and I think I ran on that field repair for months before I got the proper clips.
@nightpain69420
5 ай бұрын
Survival Research Labs mentioned! I use their videos as backing video for my goth/industrial dj sets. There is literally nothing better for that.
@survivalresearchlabs
5 ай бұрын
If interested, see my link posted in Comments above - my mini-doc of our 2018 gallery events in NYC, featuring the Pitching Machine. - SB, Survival Research Labs
@nightpain69420
5 ай бұрын
@@survivalresearchlabs oh hell yeah!
@AZACKAL
5 ай бұрын
I did a pretty red neck fix Saturday after some one hit my car and ra. Off. The structural part of the engine bay that the fender is bolted to was folded around my tire. I took a floor jack and wedged it between the tire and the bent metal and used the jack to straiten it out while keeping the jack straight and level with my knee 😆
@XCaliKev
5 ай бұрын
🤠👍 Your redneck story reminds of one. Many years ago I had a truck and the fuel pump broke. Called my father in law who owned a mechanic shop in Pasadena. He sent one of his mechanics to help me. He put a container on top of the roll bar poked a hole in the bottom, inserted some tubing and ran it into the carburetor and I would pinch the tube to stop giving it gas. Made it to the shop. Crazy
@BRIANSPOTSWOOD
5 ай бұрын
OMG! I had a Ford Taurus with a bad starter solenoid. I ran wires to it from inside the cabin, and connected them to a light switch for the toggle, and a doorbell button to complete the circuit thus creating my own push start ignition in the late 1990's. 😅
@thoughtengine
5 ай бұрын
Have you seen the Walpiri Media Association series Bush Mechanics? Bits of mulga wood stuck into broken leaf springs, manual fuel pump, cross member replaced with a bit of driftwood wired on, and lead melted out of an old battery used to repair a radiator crack.
@galactuskev
5 ай бұрын
In highschool my best friend and I were canoeing in an aluminum canoe. We noticed during our time outdoors a river popped out and water was pouring into the canoe. We took a plastic fishing grub and threaded it through and used a lighter melt it at both ends. It held for the entire trip and a couple trips after.
@rwbishop
5 ай бұрын
Once stranded 20 miles out in the boonies, tied a battery cable back on the battery of an 'acquaintances' junk pickup. We had zero tools... looked around & found a skanky piece of plastic monofilament line. Tied it on with a constrictor knot pulled taut with a couple of marlinspike hitches; with sticks used as 'marlinspikes'. It got us home... later heard he drove it some months like that. A good 'vocabulary' of knots is a valuable asset to both obtain & maintain.
@Chrispy9393
5 ай бұрын
When I go into my shop the next day and it's clean, it's such a nice refreshing nice thing
@restorer19
5 ай бұрын
I have, on multiple occasions, disassembled USB powerbanks, rewired the internal cells in series, and used them to recharge a car battery enough to allow it to start. In the dark.
@rong1924
5 ай бұрын
The most redneck thing I heard someone say was “I,mo take the axles off my house and build me a trailer”
@lonnieo4676
5 ай бұрын
when i was a kid, we got stuck way out in the woods cause the fuel pump quit working, it was an old chevy truck, my dad took the windshield wiper hoses and stuck them both into the carburetor, filled the reservoir with gasoline, and used it to start it, until the fuel pump started working again, thank God... cause usually when old chevy p/u fuel pumps go out, they're out...
@Allofthemonkeys
5 ай бұрын
Roll start! Takes me back to my own 70's datsun pickup
@keithc904
5 ай бұрын
Sadly to many youg people only drive autos now, and just call for help rather then risk a fix to get home and learn how to fix the issue.
@Meccanico208
5 ай бұрын
Thank you for mentioning Survival Research Laboratories
@survivalresearchlabs
5 ай бұрын
If you're interested, please check out the link I posted above in the Comments, four days ago. It's my mini-doc of the gallery events we did in NYC in 2018, and features the Pitching Machine. - SB, Survival Research Labs
@Meccanico208
5 ай бұрын
@@survivalresearchlabs subscribed to your channel, thank you for responding
@AMD1
5 ай бұрын
My tabletop storage for my desk is drill bit orginizer drawers with most of the dividers removed. It is really just a little toolbox with everything that i need
@JasonKrasavage
5 ай бұрын
The part you are describing is the bendix, the solenoid is what powers the bendix to extend and spin.
@alexduke5402
5 ай бұрын
I have 2 things that may help someone. Going off his trash can idea, I put a 5gal bucket beside the lathe. It's a great way to get rid of unusable parts or chips. It helps be want to keep my lathe clean because I want to see how fast i can fill it. I just bought a Bridgeport mill. I'm still working out the vfd for it. I've also been collecting the parts to make a flood cooling system for the lathe scavenged from the old bandsaw. I've set the mill at the end of the lathe so I can T off the cooling system and run it on both machines to save money on cooling and tooling.
@Scoots1994
5 ай бұрын
1973 Opel Manta stopped running in the middle of the night around 1979 or 1980. It would try to start, sputter, pop, and stop. Went about diagnosing the distributor and carburetor and couldn't find anything wrong. We were getting spark and fuel. Eventually we found the inside of the distributor cap had feint black traces in it and we deduced that the spark was arcing to other plugs occasionally and messing up the timing. We applied nail polish to the inside of the cap and were able to drive 2 and a half hours home to San Jose. I think I didn't replace the cap for about a month of regular use.
@cursedvoid
5 ай бұрын
Organizing your space with a 3d printer is super easy now that people like Zach freedman have made purpose built open source storage systems ex. Gridfinity.
@DaveAmphlett1
5 ай бұрын
This
@mre9593
2 ай бұрын
my favorite car repair (I'm not a mechanic) was when I noticed the cool turbo sound on my Chrysler Laser XE stopped, and the car seemed to be sluggish. so I popped open the hood, and looked for what might be wrong (mainly what looks different) I noticed a broken wire piece that seemed to be going nowhere so I got a coat hanger cut it to size and replaced the broken part. the turbo immediately started up.
@anthonyga
5 ай бұрын
Redneck fix 101: I drove about 45 mins to/from college. It was 1983 I’m driving a ‘74 AMC Gremlin and was feeling good, full tank of gas and it was Friday. Then noticed I had almost no gas when I arrived at school. My carburetor basically fell off! The hold down bolts were missing and it was just flopping around on top of the engine block! I went to class and thought how am I going to fix it out here in nowhere?! Bookstore to the rescue! The carburetor was now secure in place by the use of some apoxy glue! It lasted long enough for me to get home and repair it over the weekend!
@CarboniteDreamer
5 ай бұрын
Improvisational Engineering is always fun.
@timstackii
5 ай бұрын
My best redneck fix ... I got a broken VCR working again with a tiny piece of cardboard and a metal frog.
@writerpatrick
5 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the Beta machine I kept running with elastic bands to replace a belt.
@davidadkins3853
5 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@billbucktube
5 ай бұрын
This sounds simplistic but it is how our brains work; decide to clean at the end of the day. When we shower or brush our teeth we don’t have an internal argument about it. We have decided to brush or shower since we have made it part of our routine. Decide to do it and when we fail to do it, remind ourselves that we decided to do it and without any condemnation proceed to clean up. Before long it will be part of our routine.
@aikumaDK
5 ай бұрын
I always clean up after myself, because I remember all too well the feeling of "ugh" when I see the mess I left behind the last time and it's never a great way to start the day
@jamesupton143
5 ай бұрын
I had a coworker who nneded a turn signal handle so his truck would pass inspection. We took the steering wheel apart and saw what the handle mounted onto the switch. I grabbed a large nail, ppoinded the pointed end flat, and then drilled holes to fit the switch. Worked perfectly.
@kingoftadpoles
9 күн бұрын
I'm an ex greenkeeper. 'Redneck' bodge fixes are almost an every day necessity. Bungees, cable ties... Switching grease nipples from one place to another because one had fallen out...
@devilapproved
5 ай бұрын
Survival research! Excellent!!!! Blast from the past, dead rabbits!
@cerneysmallengines
5 ай бұрын
im kinda known as the king of the cob among some friends, pretty good about cobbing together something to work. for instance, i made a fuel pump for my generator by adding a little air compressor to an old evinrude tank that would pressurize the tank and cause the gas to come up. i used a little air bleed to adjust the pressure. it worked til it didnt. i repaired the exhaust on a car by taking a soup can, cutting it lengthwise and wrapping the exhaust with hose clamps, not even exhaust clamps, hose clamps. when youre broke, you have to get creative
@AshGCG
5 ай бұрын
I'm swapping out my wooden 4 x 6 shed, that can only be used for storing my tools, to a 4 x 10 metal shed (which will take up just under a quarter of my garden) that I am hoping will be big enough to allow me to both store materials and equipment and have permanent tool station set-ups. Will be nice to be able to just "step in" to the shed rather than have to open the door, excavate, and then begin an attempt at entry. I truly need lessons on keeping small spaces tidy.
@MorrisonManor
5 ай бұрын
The one that got me the "McGuyver" moniker was jump starting a '68 Camaro with a '65 Mustang using a beer can.
@spasticmuse4262
5 ай бұрын
5:51 This may be the ONLY reason I could possibly miss being a smoker, because when I was a smoker there'd always be an astray/minor garbage bin at the ready. It's upgrade in my shop is to a steel coffee can that doesn't get emptied near as often(or as often as it should!)
@garychaiken808
5 ай бұрын
Great job. Thank you 😊
@yobgodababua1862
5 ай бұрын
I absolutely need to find room at/near my desk for a mini wastebasket! Currently I get up and walk across the house far too often when the bits of thread/wire/paper/trimmings/gluing applicators start getting in the way.
@zachmoyer1849
5 ай бұрын
love the new angle gives a whole different vibe almost feels like a library idk lol
@eapa37
5 ай бұрын
My shift linkage pin broke on an 86 Golf while driving it. I used to have a paperclip clipped onto my hat at the time. I was able to use the paperclip in place of the pin to get through all the gears and get home. I actually drove it that way for a few days till I was able to get a pin.
@0LDFASHI0NED-D
5 ай бұрын
On small table top shop stuff… think 3D, you sit at the main tabletop but if you stand you can have a whole other secondary shelf.As an example, a spray both and airbrush stuff all setup and ready for a quick spray. stay realist and keep only to the most used items around your main surface and make modular tool kit that complement it that can be store on shelf over. Also if you have a corner to set-up you can use this at your advantage to specialize every side for specific purpose. You have to think about what are your need for the type of built that will be done in that space. And keep the other tools and consumable that will mostly be use out side, on the floor or kitchen table or once in a few moon in clear bins under or over. Lastly.. your computer desk is not a workshop!
@loucatozzi7656
5 ай бұрын
Red neck fixes, back in the 80's I had a beater of a car that I was working on the dashboard wiring of. On a weekend trip out of town it would not start - period. Completely dead. Turns out that I had somehow loosened or bumped a wire in my working that was the ground for the entire deshboard or at least for the electrical circuitry in the dash. The fix was a bit of zipcord running from the battery terminal, out the hood, in the drivers door window, and wrapped around the cigarette lighter body to provide ground for the dash.
@grogvaughan5649
5 ай бұрын
I sent Mark bail $$ a couple times. Lol!! Needed a funny memory today
@d.d.d.a.a.a.n.n.n
5 ай бұрын
Instead of a tabletop trash bin, I keep one right below my desk, next to my knee, and it's absolutely essential to have it within easy reach. I just don't have enough tabletop room to keep one on the surface
@jessechappell2
5 ай бұрын
Enjoy the video and your insight. You should pin this video, so it's easy to reference as needed. I would like to see a follow-up video showcasing some of those cheap solution systems you allude to earlier. Like if you built storage solutions or space, saving things for different size Ikea living spaces that someone could work in a dorm room, a really small apartment or your office as an example.
@natas3503
5 ай бұрын
Don't do today what you can put off until tomorrow. It's been my lifelong mantra, usually to my own detriment. Still practice it, though.
@better.better
5 ай бұрын
the ABC method="Always Be Cleaning" AKA "Clean As You Go"... fits in with the storage concept of everything having its home. at my job I have to transport a lot of different equipment around, the job would give me a laptop bag, 2 sizes of equipment bags, and a printer bag. I would end up with this big long train of bags stacked and daisy chained together through their straps and carry handles, or sometimes having to make multiple trips from the parking lot, through a mall, or very large store which is a pain in the ass. one day at inventory I saw a DeWalt the modular storage & carrier system... it has a custom heavy duty carrier that can be used as a movers dolly. it has these arms that swing out and you can slide tool boxes on to it, and you can also get them to attach to a wall of the building or the inside of a van. this means you can set up different boxes for different tasks, keep it on the wall of your shop, load them onto the carrier to take out to the van, store them on the walls of the van, then load the carrier to take it into the workspace... or what I do: just take the tool boxes and put them in the van and put the carrier in separately, or if I'm strapped for space, I pack the carrier vertically, and transport the tool boxes mounted on it. with this I don't need to use any of the work provided bags, and I can use the whole carrier with the boxes on it as a portable workstation. I zip tied a power strip (the switch lights to indicate energized) vertically, wrap my 12ft heavy duty leadcord around the handle for transport, my laptop goes on the shallow box, mounted way up near the handle, which I use to store small items, like stapler, tape, mouse, other small desktop items. my larger, heavier, work equipment goes in the deeper box mounted at the bottom, this includes handheld computers, tablets, chargers filled with spare batteries for the hand helds, and the laptop gets stored on top for transport. if I have a large enough crew then sometimes I have to put the handhelds for the chargers in their own bag but for a small crew this is plenty. I can fit enough equipment for a 12-person crew without having to take a second bag, for transport the printer and a spare ream of paper fits stacked between the large and the small box, because of the wheels on the printer bag when I put the small box on its mount it also kind of "locks in" the printer. my Wi-Fi access point and the power transformer for the laptop is stored in a little bag which straps to the back of the carrier. these stay plugged into the power strip all the time. when I get where I'm setting up, I just plug in the lead, plug in the laptop, and off we go! once the crew has their handhelds, I can close the lid of the large box and plug the printer in on top of it. it takes me a very short period of time to get set up, where before I had this I would need to be at least an hour ahead of the crew to get set up, because it would take at least 30 minutes just to get everything schlepped in and another 20 out of the bags and plugged in. now I just roll in to where I'm going to get power and I only have to plug in one lead-cord. anything I need I don't have to dig through bags, it all has its place, as long as nobody else has been digging through it trying to find something. handheld needs new fingers straps? I've got some in there. tape dispenser ran out of tape? I've got some in there. a screw coming loose on the handheld? my small screwdriver set is right there. oh yes and I also use a tool belt, with a combination of electricians and framing pouches on it. I don't need a hammer loop and very rarely need a tape measure. but the large pouch is great for carrying a tablet and the electrician's badge is great for small tools, tape dispenser, wallet, sharpies, and my employee badge essentially almost everything I need for the day ends up on the tool belt if it doesn't stay there permanently, anything that I don't need to carry around for the day, or that needs to stay at the workstation stays in the small tool box. for example the stapler typically comes out when I start printing final reports. I might use the tiny screwdrivers once or twice in a year, but if I need them I have them. sometimes we get a new manager and they go on a spree of cleaning, throw out all kinds of useful stuff that they're not even aware of the use until we need it and don't have it 🙄 we had like 20 pill counting trays. went to do a pharmacy inventory, there were six of us, but the pharmacy only had two trays. if they hadn't been thrown out I could have brought some. we had a couple of spare keyboards and we could plug those into our handhelds for typing, well we could have but they got thrown out! do you know how hard it is to try and type long sentences on a tiny touchscreen keyboard with a stylus? however they don't go into my boxes, so there's things I have in there that survived various cleaning sessions.
@That1GuyBill
5 ай бұрын
My warehouse manager used to say that I had a degree in Appalachian engineering
@keithc904
5 ай бұрын
Worst / risky fix was removing my rear break caliper as I had spun out on a wet road and my rear right tire had hit the curb hard enough to rip the rubber off the rim and slamming the rim and brake assembly in to earth bending the brake disc slightly, I needed my high lift jack to get it all out of the dirt and discovered the damage when putting the spare tire on, so I removed the caliper, cable tied it out of the way with a block of wood in to hold it apart and drove home, before fixing it all a week or three later, it was a Nissan Pathfinder 1993.
@waynedeering9642
5 ай бұрын
No back on a shelf? Where's the fun in that? Having the one vital thing roll off behind, crawl around finding it and learning new swear words is half the fun! :P
@tested
5 ай бұрын
Ha!
@geraldstiling3735
5 ай бұрын
Back in the Eighties I had a Bond Bug.🚀.It had the same chassis as Luke Skywalker's land speeder. It was a three wheeler..turned over and jammed the starter cog in the crown wheel..Had to unbolt🔩 the starter motor and put it back in again.All this with rush hour traffic whistling by😮
@christopherdean1326
5 ай бұрын
Years ago, I heard about a friend of a friend, whose engine blew up (not literally) while he was out on the road. He got a lift to a scrapyard, bought an engine, got it taken back to his car, swapped the engine at the side of the road, then drove home!
@Zombie_Problem
5 ай бұрын
I watched Mark Pauline on VHS in New Zealand; wore the tape out with repeated viewings.
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