Drill repair on steroids

[Deleted member 174758]

Coming on the back of a query about Black & Decker drill, I chanced across this rebuild of a (fairly modern) but knackered Makita drill. The amazing thing is the way the guy rewinds the motor himself. Never seen that before in a home refurb video

 

[big-all]

that amount off effort is approaching sad
but the saddest thing was i watched it to the end

do you think he is a dewalt fan??

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Yeah! You'd have thought he'd give it a "proper" Makita alternative colour, like white, or pink, or black, or lime green, or even metallic candy apple blue - but deWalt yellow? Those Makitas aren't bad drills, though, so maybe worth the effort

 

[big-all]

he even removed the raised makita on the casing

 

[Deleted member 174758]

The "Makita" in raised lettering is on the other side of the casing, B-A, the right hand side is where the rating plate goes. I'm still wonderingh what onearth happened to the drill to get it into that state, though

 

[big-all]

ahh ok rating plate off course

it looks like its been under a leaking rusted tin, although you would expect the inside to be more gummed up rather than just the slots ??

 

[conny]

The guy obviously has winding experience, (probably an ex-winder), because of the equipment he has. The frames, (heads), he wound the coils on are typical concentric coil formers. You don't just pick them up anywhere unless you know what they are and what they are used for. Also he seemed to just rip the old coils out but in fact you need to know how many turns and what guage wire to use. Didn't show this in the video but get it wrong and you could be playing with fire, (literally!), when you try to run it. I was a bit disappointed to see he didn't use any washing powder in the hot water. Well known in the trade for removing grease, oil and especially carbon deposits.

 

[big-all]

indeed you get the windings wrong you get the wrong voltage wrong repulsion very inefficient performance

 

[cdbe]

I haven't watched it, as I'm sleeping ok at the moment, but why is it that Americans (I'm assuming American) seem to be so much better at fixing things than us? They have that phrase "tear down", where they seem to pull everything to bits just to see how they work. And considering they are supposed to be a disposable society, they seem to do an awful lot of repairing and extending the life of things than others. I believe it's not uncommon to make a single "truck" last a lifetime.