oh it's new equipment day here at the cave always fun days when we get to explore some new equipment
um like you i watch a large amount of youtube videos i think that is a thing that i can say
that you and i have in common whoever you are watching this video right now
you probably watch a fair number of youtube videos of makers and such um i love watching model
builders i love watching guitar repair people like woodford guitars i love this old tony uh
obviously click spring um i really love those channels and i watch a lot of them
of tool repair uh of tool repair and restoration i actually have a plan to
resuscitate this wilson vice and uh and refinish it at some point and it's inspired by those videos
of watching people take apart wilton vices and repaint them and make them all all gorgeous uh
i will say i will say i'm starting to suspect that some of these channels pre-rust
their items i'm not casting aspersions on anyone specific i'm just saying as a person who regularly
sifts through bins and finds rusty old crap some of the stuff i've seen out there looks suspicious
to me that's all i'm gonna say but a key aspect of all of these channels of the resuscitation is
a parts washer so i have i did some amazon reviews uh searching and some online
forum discussions and i light it upon the tauren big red jacks parts washer and
i've got some oil eater degreaser oh did i hold up the wrong side i've got some
oil eater degreaser here oh oh and and and i've got some dirty old parts to clean up so
it seems like that's what we're gonna do today we're gonna unbox my uh parts washer
we're gonna fire it up load it up test it out all right i am i am not going to do
of course in my head i hear abe gentlemen ultimately welcome to the shop um yeah i'm
just going to use a simple matte knife not uh some overdone cutting tool although i appreciate the
way abe opens his boxes it's not my method i also have purchased this extra parts washing brush with
uh it said it had these um extra good bristles yeah you know late at night you're searching
for the thing you want to get oh yeah there we go
there are a lot of different sizes um obviously they make them very big i tried to choose
a size that was going to fit most of the things i did in here all right
fascinating little chunk
so we've got a uh yeah
flip this and there's the pump sure
yeah and it looks like it's a little could be a little tighter um right
it's a very very simple machine sorry there is there is a pump there is an output
there is a colander you know it doesn't look like a colder but it is
that's it um so actually how does this work if i was going to attach
this i guess i could just do it like that yeah
yeah oh well we'll try that
but first i'm gonna change the camera angle so you can see and i'm gonna put on some gloves
because the oil eater degreaser i don't think it's awesome for my skin my sensitive skin
oh okay there's the switch oh it's a nice waterproof swedge
all right um in general whenever you have a submersible pump it's not a good idea to
turn it on while it's not submerged very frequently submersible pumps utilize the
fluid that they are pumping to keep cool and you can burn them out by running them dry
why adam do you happen to express that from hard earned experience yes
all right
uh hose clamp i lost my hose clamp
okay if you're not using nut drivers for your hose clamps you're just
you're losing parts of your life you don't need to lose
seriously
i don't think heinemann owns a set of nut drivers he just always did these with a with a screwdriver
okay so i'm gonna put this on and i'm going to tighten it down and i have
the factory spec spray nozzle
with this parts brush which i vastly
prefer
all right i'm happy with that let's plug this back in
and turn it on once this is done
yep doesn't seem to be leaking or spraying from anywhere specific our machine is not leaking
let's try that cleaning again shall we you saw the before here comes after
oh i will say it's a much higher flow now that i've done this so i may want to actually restrict
some of that flow but it doesn't seem to be splashing everywhere which is good um
it certainly seems like the nozzle they had in there was inhibiting the flow
so this is like some kind of pain
so
i don't know from for my money i'm a little disappointed i think my
third show-and-tell was not nearly as pretty of a difference as the first two
but there you go uh i said that i was gonna build a cart for this and i will
except for the fact that i'm out of plywood i'm out of any kind of structural plywood i've used
up the last of the half inch the three quarter inch to one inch and i need to order some more
and get it in here because i'm kind of helpless without plywood um but this new parts washer
i'm thrilled thank you guys for joining me for this cool tip uh yeah until next time
i will see you stay safe gotta turn off the camera with my face
but before you go before you go i made a couple more modifications after the end of this video
i've been using this thing a ton and i'm so happy with it um here are the modifications i made i
i when you put a liquid-filled thing on top of a rolling stand that liquid can slosh and that's
what happened to me so i used some self-stick neoprene and i made a gasket around the perimeter
of this and then i made a little cam lock for it to seal it so that when i move this around
it does not splash um if you'll remember at the beginning of this video i had liquid leaking out
from behind the hinge here onto my workbench and i thought that the case was leaking but it was not
however i don't like overflow happening while i'm using a device like this
so i also added in a little bracket back here of aluminum that holds on to this piece
of rubber and that keeps the liquid from escaping out through that hinge while i'm using it
the last thing i did was i added a flanged pipe over here to be able to stage my brush when i am
not using it and that keeps it out of the way so i can examine the parts that are in the part washer
and i have found it incredibly useful these are modifications i would recommend
to anybody for their parts washer uh it just makes it a lot easier to utilize
okay that's the official end of the video thank you guys i will see you next time
uh do you like i have trouble getting your gloves off well reader you can try this new method
a little bit of compressed air
all your gloves come off easily be careful around your skin
with compressed air you don't want subdermal injection of air um these things look safe
and you are but they can be dangerous in some unique ways so be careful thanks