Odd Tinkering

I will restore this Coca-Cola 6 pack. It's very rusty and it's missing the handle It's likely made during WWII because, usually these are made of aluminum but during the war aluminum was used for planes etc. and materials for these were changed to steel.

In this episode I restore a popular 3rd party arcade controller for the SNES. It's calles Super Advance and it was made by Asciiware. The all the buttons and switches are not working and the console has yellowed a little.

I will restore this vintage air compressor. It is a made for painting with an air brush. The compressor is a bit rusty, has been damaged at some point probably by a fall and the bottom plate has cracked. It also came with an old motor for it which was not working well. It will be a useful tool in the future.

I will restore this PlayStation 2 which won't start. PS2 is the best selling gaming console ever made, only the GameBoy (all models included) has sold more units.

I found this cast iron skillet from a dumpster and decided to restore it. It's very rusty and it's missing a handle so I need to make a new handle. Funnily enough it was the same dumpster I found the previous cast iron pan too.

In this episode I will restore this Invader console made by Gakken. It's not working and the screen is broken and it needs a full restoration.

I will restore this rusty mechanical elephant bank made by Hubley. The mechanism is not working and it's missing a spring.

Subscriber of mine asked me if I'd like to restore Nintendo DS Lite handheld received as part of a gaming console lot he bought. Naturally I said yes and he sent it to me. He was very kind to add some spare parts for me too so I can try to make some sort of FrankenNintendo. And just because some of you are probably curious the 3rd main board I didn't show much on the video had a power issue and there was lots of white glue on top of the chip responsible for powert management. The glue is hard to remove but likely that chip was somehow damaged, becasue everything else seemed fine. I might try to remove the glue and replace teh chip some day.

In this video I'll restore a trech art lighter shaped like a book from World War I. The lighter was handmade by someone during the war. It was not designed to have the wick and cotton replaced because it was soldered shut. I desoldered the triangle pieces of copper to remove the "hinge" and then I desoldered the bottom of teh fuel tank to remove the cotton and old wick.

I will restore and upgrade this broken and yellowed PlayStation. The coinsole doesn't read discs which is very common and easily fixable issue with these old consoles. I also found something a spider nest from the inside. During the dissasembly I found the remains a of a spider and a spidernest. It's very common I find bugs inside these old devices, I'm, not sure why, maybe they're dark and warm places?

I will restore this Arcade Joystick for my PlayStation that I restored and upgraded recently. The controller is quite yellow ans the joystick sometimes gets stuck. The controller was made by Asciiware in the 90's. And it has extra switches to simulate automatically pressing buttons.

I in this episode I will restore a Japanese kitchen knife with a lot of rust. Rust has eaten a lot of the steel away. Also the handle was not in good shape and the wood had split. I started by removing the handle. I used block of wood to hammer it off the knife.

In this video I restore a 1950's Big Beam flashlight. The Flashlight is rusty and the paint is partially gone. Thgere are also some dents.

I will be restoring this Atari 2600 console. There are issues with the image. This model is knows as "light sixer" it's not the very first version of the console but still has the wood panel in front.

I will restore this antique Ice Cream Maker made by Frost King and make ice cream with it. The machine is very rusty and the wood parts need some restoring.

I bought this Nintendo Wii as part of a bigger lot 10 Wii's for $50 to restore and repair them. It's however not working. It turns on but nothing shows up on the screen and the disc drive makes a horrible noise.