Things You Can Make With A Washing Machine And Other Salvaged Components : 020

I've made everything from toys to power tools using salvaged components and today I thought I'd show you the process for taking apart a washing machine sort of in high speed and then I'll show you some of the machines and other things that I've made both from washing machines as well as other salvaged components so let's jump right in I've taken apart enough of these to know to do this in advance but you can see there are hooks here which are suspending the tub and there's another one and if you go ahead and loosen those now that'll slack the tub up in there and I'll make it easier to get the motor out [Music] there's our start capacitor now oftentimes it will be suspended up near the console it should be somewhere down here and sometimes it's right next to the motor I think we're ready to take this guy back inside I'm going to remove this part here pull all this off and we're down to the components I'm interested in keeping which of these employees it's spring-loaded mechanism here it's big pulley we will also take a look inside of this gearbox here [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm going to show you some of the components I've decided to keep this first one is an induction motor it's a pretty good size is three-quarter horsepower at 1,700 rpm it's already got a pulley on the front which is pressed it onto the shaft this guy is a water pump and it's got a motor attached to it I am not entirely sure what this is except that it appears to be part of the mechanism that lets the machine know that the door is open or the lids open and you can see that momentary switch I find a bunch of these and microwaves they usually are three of them in there anyway we've got a couple pulleys and I'm built a little bit bent out of shape it's been sitting still for a while probably I've already wired this guy up we're going to plug it in first time to clamp it down and let's see if the motor works what you're looking at here is my shop made late and right now it has a permanent magnet DC motor on here and I'm using this because it gives me more control over the speed but initially I had a series of wooden pulleys that I made myself and I had this motor which is pretty much identical to the one we established today here so if I can find a picture of that I'll put it up on the screen right about now but I'm showing you this because most of these components are salvaged this one is a threaded rod these bearings come from a exercise machine these pulleys come from other machines that I've salvaged as well as this belt which is pretty much the same as this belt that we found today this is just the prototype version and I will be making a new lathe this guy will be torn down and I will go to a brand new version from scratch and videotape the whole process I almost forgot I also made a combination belt this sander and that was also run by a washing machine motor initially I had a vacuum motor in it and that was fine except I the problem with a vacuum motor or a universal motor is that when you put it under load it slows down and so I wanted a consistent speed and power and you're going to get that with the induction motor and so I took that vacuum motor out and put this motor in but there's a whole video about that so you'll see that right here in the little car that pops out one day I was over here cutting a piece of wood and actually I think it was this guy this is a part of a clock that I'm working on which is right here but I was cutting this piece and it was struggling and I said okay you know it's time for new blade and that that is actually the very first thing you should check but with that being said as I was thinking about ordering this blade I really wanted to finish this piece and I said you what if I upgrade the horse star and so I did and what you're looking at here is a washing machine motor very similar to the one we just took out today three-quarter horsepower and so that is four times the power of what was in that gun so anyway I'll put this in here and man it just started cutting like you wouldn't believe by increasing the power now of course you can reach a point where you're starting to burn the wood if you'll blade a so dull and your motor still pushing and at that point you just need a new blade but it was really just a fun experiment and it turned out to be great I was I'm really satisfied with the results I made a whole video about this and you can click on that link right there these gears came on oh there's a gearbox which is on the inside the washing machine and my plan is to cut this out and build like a little desk toy and because I wanted to do that this is another potential use and that made me want to show you some of the other toys that up me this guy used to sit on my desk at work and basically there's a switch on the side and just spin it's a planetary here as you can see I love looking at gears and that one's being powered by a microwave motor so this is the motor that spins the plate in the microwave it's a synchronous motor and as soon as I took that out and saw that if then it spins at a fixed speed of six rpms let's say hey it'll be a neat mechanism four o'clock but then it actually ended up in this and this is another one that I made this is a hypo cycle egg here and so I will put these on my desk at work and people will come up and just spin them and play with them and there was a lot of fun I've made a couple of other ones like this guy as you can see the gears are Square by people really loved it and so they will walk over to my desk and just play with it and the last thing I want to tell you about is my clock now there's no washing machine components in this clock but there are quite a few salvaged components and let's go to the theme of this video so let me tell you about it right here I've got my hour and minute hand and a Geneva will which is driving the hour hand relative to the minute hand many of these gears are made from sample pieces of hardwood flooring and I was looking at some hardwood flooring and of course I collected a bunch of samples and then I thought you know I could make some gears out of these and they'd have a nice finish on it already the top layer is really thick and so that's where the idea sort of started and it turned into what you're looking at today the motor in the back I don't want to open it up now but if I can find a good picture I'll put it right here on the side the motor is the window lift motor from my van the cable snapped but the motor still worked so I said you know I think I can find some use for this motor and it was only a couple days later I said man I wonder how fast that motor spins maybe I'll drop my clock with it and actually redesign the clock and change the planetary gear in the back to allow for a higher speed motor and this is the result that you're looking at many of these shafts inside or from printers printers have a lot of rollers in them here are some examples here and I just won't I haven't quite finished breaking the plastic off yet but before you throw that old broken printer away or decide to upgrade your printer there are quite a few steel shafts in there that might be useful well hopefully you found some interesting ideas here whether it be something really nice something you're putting in your shop or other improvements before you throw that machine away perhaps there is something in there that might be useful if you have other ideas you've come up with I'd love to hear it post it in the comment section let me know what kind of things you're making who knows maybe it'll inspire me to make something and that's why I do this I love sharing ideas and seeing what others have come up with so I look forward to reading your comments and thoughts [Music]

Channel: Jeremy Fielding

Views: 1,483,329

Rating: 4.9081745 out of 5

Keywords: salvaging a washing machine, washing machine motor, DIY power tools, reusing printer parts, recycling washing machine parts, DIY projects, Wood Lathe, wooden gears

Id: T3dOpzU_p1E

Length: 11min 51sec (711 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 10 2017

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