Rusty Jammed Rebar Cutter Restoration

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In this video i'm restoring a hopeless case of a super rusty rebar cutter. • People from all over the world send me pictures of their items they'd like to have restored by me in a video. Mostly the items do not look bad enough, not enough rust or not broken enough for an interesting video. However this rebar cutter caught my attention from the first look at it. Marco from Italy was so nice to ship it to me to Switzerland, he gave me this shear for free means he doesn't want to have it back. Thank you very much for that. Right when I saw the pictures I knew this would probably be a very challenging restoration because of all that rust. I assumed that it would be all seized up and a nightmare to disassemble and I was right. This cutter only has four bolts and is built together by only five parts, but I was busy with the disassembling for three days. It was very difficult to get the two big bolts out, specially the smaller one. It needed 12 tons on the hydraulic press and I needed to drill one bolt hollow. I made a lot of parts new on this project, I've only kept three parts original: the body and the two moving parts. As the handle was missing, I made a new one which required quite a few steps of machining, welding and grinding but the end result turned out very nice. As I almost made the whole thing new I decided to give this tool a modern touch with the choice of colour, that's why I went with orange. • I hope you like my work and the video. • Huge thank you to all of my Patreon and PayPal supporters and specially to: • Matthew Holcomb • Afreeflyingsoul • Andreas Prüm • Adel AlSaffar • Alan Hanson • Amanda Taylor, Esq • Andreswara Hermawan • Andrew Phillips • audi4444player • Courtney Maleport • Dan Williams • Gregory • Hunter R. • Jonas Richartz • LVE • Mellissa Marcus • Nick Cannon • Paul Ambry • Paul Mampilly • Trevor Kam • TRG Restoration • Vince Valenti • Zachary Grimes • • Timestamps: • 00:00 preview • 00:33 disassembling • 04:07 showing all the parts • 04:21 cleaning the parts with the parts washer • 04:33 sandblasting • 05:24 showing the sandblasted parts • 05:31 restoring the body • 07:01 restoring the movable jaw • 07:37 restoring the movable gear part • 08:14 making the small nut on the lathe • 08:59 making the big nut • 09:12 making the small bolt on the lathe • 10:21 making the big bolt • 10:35 making two washers for the bolts on the lathe • 11:11 making two new M8 bolts and washers on the lathe • 12:10 start of making the missing handle • 12:15 preparing the tube on the lathe • 12:54 making the domed cap on the lathe • 13:20 welding the domed cap on the tube • 13:29 cleaning up the welds of the domed cap on the lathe • 13:46 making the connection piece to the tool on the lathe • 14:57 milling the sides flat and welding up the plates • 16:19 welding the connection piece on the tube and turn it clean on the lathe • 16:50 making two threads in the connection piece • 17:14 sandblasting the handle • 17:28 bluing all the parts • 18:08 painting the handle and the body • 18:43 making two new cutting bits • 19:20 hardening and tempering the cutting bits • 20:03 showing all the parts before reassembling • 20:17 reassembling • 21:52 showing the finished restoration • 22:43 final test • • Time and costs of this restoration: • I was working on this project for 3.5 weeks • $60 painting (primer and orange coat) • $50 dinner for my friend for the hardening :-) • • My camera: • Panasonic HC-V180 • • If you have any questions about the process, machines i'm using or other stuff, just ask me in the comments. I read them all and i try to reply as soon as possible. • Sorry for my bad english, it's not my language. I try my best to improve my technical english. • Subscribe for more of my content. I'm uploading videos about mechanical stuff, as new creations and buildings and also restorations. • Thank you for watching :-) • my mechanics T-Shirts: • https://teespring.com/stores/my-mecha... • My Patreon Page: • / mymechanics

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