How Much Money Did I Make Fixing Broken Tools?

hey guy I've discovered a big secret you're useless I'm useless we're all absolutely useless this is what a regular day looks like for us normies [Music] and why do we all do this well probably because none of us actually understand how anything works or care like take a good hard stare at the device in front of you right now really really look at it what is it who made it [Music] what does it made all and unless you're the small Chinese kid that made the device you probably have no idea how it works or how to fix it it's all a big mystery you know if everything around me broke at once I would literally be held hostage in a room full of puzzles [Music] also by the chance you are a Chinese factory kid watching this video right now I would say your break times probably over and you should get back to work and next time make sure you don't bring your phone into the workplace alright but in all honesty even that kid doesn't understand how it works or how to fix these devices as he doesn't even have an education as he couldn't afford to go to school loser in this constant cycle of us buying crappy products breaking them and not knowing how to fix them results in millions of tons of fixable useable things being thrown away every year and then millions of people being tortured because they have to dig through our toxic poo for a living so today I'm gonna try and restore some things and become a little bit more useful now I could just fix some products and keep them for myself but that's boring and I don't make any money from that so instead I'm gonna copy the format of all these viral videos like how much money can I be an uber driver doing things make from selling my mum's breast milk and then rip off some people by selling the fixed products as retro or antique on Facebook marketplace for more than they're worth alright now to do this I need to get some things to fix and my council used to have a pretty cool process of garbage removal similar to medieval times where twice a year everyone would collect all the filth in their house drag it to the front of the street and chuck it in a pile where it would wait until two smelly men on a horse-drawn wagon would come around scoop it up and go bury it in the ground for our future generations to find and this process was actually great for people like me that enjoyed digging through other people's trash to find cool things like Rusty's syringes that can poke me but sadly communal garbage days are a thing of the past and now everyone has to individually call up the council and order trash removal dates meaning it's much harder to find trash and do recycling so because I can't rely on that method anymore I'm gonna head on down to a place where we now dump all the old useless things to wither and die when we no longer have a place for them in have you ever been to a scrapyard no I never happened I feel a beat weed going in because I can feel I feel like they kind of judge me a bit like they know I'm not you're not a sprat boy I'm not boarded to scrap like that and like he's the second mate you tell Thank You my wife they can they can really tell I don't know how it's probably the ski James how you go all the way down the bottom I forgot parking the wrong place they're just gonna take my car see this is why they were so many bush fires they took all the fire hoses anything catch your eye yeah well I'll buy you whatever you want yeah you pick was that a drill wait you can have anything you want look I'll give you my credit card you are okay I'll give you my credit card ten minutes you got ten minutes to buy whatever you wanted the scrap yard go go you can have it oh wait mate yep grabbing one I'll grab another one you could get bored that I gotta call my wife anything anything you want tell her her life's gonna change he says your life's gonna change Margaret oh I found something you'll love the season four of cracker cracker you know cracker I don't know yeah well then that's not for you what i season five okay yeah yeah that's better and I love scrap yards there's so much stuff to look at all stacked up on top of each other they could fall over and kill you at any moment and for some reason after hours and hours of being through trash the only thing we could think about was murder I obsessed with killing me thirty seconds each to find the best weapon to kill someone with and then we have to and then have to fight I don't know then we fight all right 30 seconds go I've done my grid I guess you win that cuz I don't say I didn't do yes it's true parts right you do these and first you distract them by doing this cool thing where the thing and then BAM this will really be a mr. beast video if we open this it's filled with cash oh well alright so this is everything I've collected for the grand total of $20 ramsett hammer drill $300 Bosch 1812 $300 new shears $50 adjustable wrench $150 new dawn vise $200 and this big boy which is pretty badly damaged but I took it because new it's worth a crazy $1100 and I have no idea who buys a food mixer for $1,000 like surely you could use something else like a drill yeah so in total all of this is worth $2,000 new and I got it for $20 but I need to fix them and sell them first to get that money and I'm gonna start with plugging in the two drills with the hope that they will just work and I won't have to do anything which is not the case so I'm gonna start opening it all up now because the child probably constructed this tool I thought it was only appropriate that a child helped me take it apart um can I have the screwdriver no come on what that's not words I don't know what that means I need the screwdriver I need the screwdriver give me this please please please thank you yeah you can have that you can go have fun go have fun go you can go okay there you go go have fun and after opening it up I immediately realized I had no idea what any of these things inside are and got super intimidated so I decided to do the easier job of D rusting first which is as simple as carefully taking all the metal tools apart without losing anything and then using every single bottle of vinegar in the house to create a rust bath which they will bathe in overnight so let's go back to the drill and the components are just as confusing as before but after opening it it wasn't as dirty as I thought and that's good because I think I've already spotted a problem as unless this is one of those wireless wires I've heard about then this connection is probably meant to be plugged in here which is hopefully all I have to do to fix it but just to be safe I'm gonna take the rest apart and I'm also gonna take a couple of photos so I can put it back in the same way and these other screws are pretty seized up so I decided I was gonna spray wd-40 in every hole I could see to lubricate them [Music] and I'm almost in but to open up the main body of the drill I had to get past this little snap ring which is definitely one of the funnest parts of all of this it literally took me over an hour of stabbing myself with different screwdrivers to get this guy off [Music] then I got too excited and pulled the rest off without paying any attention to how it was originally arranged and after dealing with two more snap rings I finally got it open and I'm so glad I persisted as the inside was everything I dreamed of a nice big delicious pile of grease and this is my first time seeing any of this and I have no idea what any of these components are or how they work or what I meant to do to fix them but I'm gonna take a guess and say that they're not meant to be brown so I'm gonna start with giving it all a scrub down and I love cleaning off grease it's so easy or you know you just soak the paths in warm water and soap then you borrow our family members toothbrush and then you give it all a good old scrub then make sure you don't wash your hands so when you walk around touching stuff in the house you leave grease marks everywhere and this is actually extremely useful as it allows you to easily retrace your steps if you ever lose yourself hey going going then once you're done make sure you do the considerate thing and return your family members toothbrush to where you found it and leave your sparkling clean parts to dry overnight and then in the morning it hit me I had no idea how to put this thing back together and my photos didn't really help either as I only took one picture of the drills insights and the rest or if this cute little baby so I did the only thing I could which was working backwards through everything I did with this thing back in here screwed in get the snap rings back on clean this thing break a cup stab myself with a screwdriver ball back in here aggressively to hand the last snap ring back on and somehow I got it all back together which means it's loop time and I don't know why I felt it appropriate to apply lube with a metal straw I almost forgot a couple of times and nearly had a set but it seems to work okay now I almost had the other half of the body back together but while I was cleaning the commutator which is this thing here that makes contact with these graphite brushes I noticed that there was something strange about the brushes so I took them out and I'm pretty sure they shouldn't look like this they're super chipped short and damaged and if I had to guess how this happened I would probably say the previous owner Mackay Emmet mkhaya probably got a little hungry while doing some DIY and had a little nibble and you know what I can't blame you mate they are delicious so I ordered some new brushes online for a whopping twenty dollars the price of all the tools together and while they're flying over here in a plane let's go back to the rusty tools these tools have been soaking for a day now so hopefully all the rust just floats away and you know I have a theory about people that get enjoyment out of watching other people clean things like rusty tools and that is then you probably have a lot of crap you're meant to be cleaning yourself but instead of doing that you're kind virtually doing it by watching other people and getting false satisfaction until suddenly you snap out of it and you look down and you're surrounded in filth wearing a packet of chips as shoes and I can't blame you like why wouldn't you want to watch this expert who decides to stick his hands in vinegar and steel wool after cutting them multiple times earlier and then almost break his wrist with a wire drill moving on I just gave them some more of the blue Lube sharpen them and fix their bent bits and here we have it three very shiny tools and look at that difference I think I have a boner okay now on to the last drill and I left this for last because I thought it looked like it was in better condition than the other so I wanted to practice fixing the crap one first as I wouldn't care if I broke it so I did the same thing as before and took it apart and it seems as though this one is going to be much easier to fix than the first one as one of the brushes which is kind of caught and not making contact with the commutator so I just pushed it back down and gave it a little tickle then ate some grease gave it a bath clean the commutator forgot how to put it back together lubed it up anyway and put it back together and I always get such a nice rush of satisfaction after finally fixing something you know I feel useful with the purpose in my life for like 30 minutes and this is what all you lucky religious folk must feel like 24/7 [Applause] then for a finishing shine I clean the drill with my drill and then I claim that drill with another drill while it was cleaning my drill and now the most important part testing if they work drill check vise check spanner check she is check and the last drill check okay now that everything's in order and working I grabbed all of it to take some saucy photos of a facebook marketplace and gum tree now if you don't know what country is it's an online marketplace similar to Craigslist where you can find everything from a bagpipe player to free ducks or find Chris who is looking for nudie models to work with him on a casual basis so I cast on my exclusive antique items here on face book marketplace and waited for the buyers to come swimming over and have a little nibble and you may have noticed that I didn't end up attempting to fix the giant expensive food blender and that's because when I bought it from the scrapyard I let the amazing price tag cloud my judgment and quickly purchased it but it turns out I am missing quite a few parts mainly this long thing which is worth $700 new so it just doesn't make sense for me to buy it so sadly I won't be able to fix it and benoit is just gonna have to find something else to blend with all right looks like I got my first bite and it's from a sim who is highly rated and once tough offer leave $40 and I try to haggle for 60 by reasoning that it's very shiny but he never responds and he's playing hard to get really breaks me and I give in and I accept the $40 but it's too late and he never comes back then til it's also messages me about the Vice but is concerned about the metal thing sticking out of the top and then he strangely asks for the size of my jaw while they're open so I measure them and give it to him but then he never comes back then Paul has a little nibble at the drill but wants a handle I don't have one so I lie and I tell him I found one in my house when actually I was too embarrassed to tell him that I pedaled down to the store just for him to buy one but even after that he ignores me and he buys a different one then Dominic comes in and has a sniff at the vise and like tille its body shames it and I was starting to feel very insecure about it and considered cutting the little metal bit off when legendary Alex sweeps in and offers me a crispy $20 for it now I can't actually be bothered to cut off the metal so I accept Alex's 20 just as long as it's actually crispy to which he responds crispier Dennis sunny spring morning and like that I made my first sale and nice crispy 20 which means I'm breaking even on buying all the tools and after that the sales really started to come in James came in and offered me a big hundo for the drill and no one seems interested in the shares which makes sense as I don't think many 19th century sheep ranchers still use Facebook but people are going crazy for the antique vise which I'm starting to think I sold too cheap then Yannick offered me 50 for the wrench and like that I was rich so here's the grand total twenty dollars spent on tools at the scrapyard 20 dollars spent on carbon brushes for a total of 40 dollars spent and I made a hundred and seventy dollars in sales minus the $40 which means I'm a hundred and thirty dollars up after three days work which ain't very much but if you add in the $250 I made modeling for Chris that brings me up to a total of three hundred and eighty dollars profit so is it worth your while fixing old tools well on one hand it's good because you're recycling and saving stuff from landfill but on the other hand I realize if you do stop buying new stuff than that cute Chinese kid from before will suddenly become unemployed so I reckon the better option if you need some quick cash is to just give in and sell your body to Chris thank you so much for watching if you liked that make sure to subscribe and check out some of my other stuff [Music]

Channel: I did a thing

Views: 6,202,299

Keywords: science, restoration, diy, I did a thing, William Osman, education

Id: XNhPfMYmOSQ

Length: 17min 41sec (1061 seconds)

Published: Wed May 27 2020

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What? Those are bris scissors!