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Narrated: Alien-head Planer [Restoration] (Patreon)

Published:
2026-11-13 20:44:28
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2026-11-13 20:44:53
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Did it kill me?

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Narrated: Alien-head Planer [Restoration]

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Greg Bell

Man the Alien franchise reboots

John willis

Have you published a list of some of the sought-after tools that are “on your list”, so we can help you find them? The only reason I asked you about the noodle cutter was the brass rollers caught my eye and made me think of you 😊 - if there was a list, then we would know what to keep an eye out for when perusing the scrapyards and auction sites 😊

Wasted Audio

Hmm, the YT embed just says "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" and I can't actually watch the video :(

Greg Bell

Curses, I have "The Microphone Does Whatever it Wants" stuck in my head

Clifton Ballad

The solders/alloys for repairing die cast/pot metal suck. I hate all things in the soldering realm (low temp like tin/antimony/lead realm) because they hate me back. A Lot. I have a tentative truce with silver solders... and phosphor copper is pretty cool, but thats about it. The zinc based stuff is in a category below Sn/Sb/Pb type solders... To be fair, I have had them work before, but the process was a nightmare and failure rates are still high. In even more fairness I just googled the alloy I used to use and found the same company has many options and some of them might actually be better... Idk im not going to try any of it anytime soon. Aladdin 3 in 1 was the alloy I used, some of their other offerings had lower melting temps and better sounding chemistries...

Roy van Kooten

In the EU I was able to easily buy a bottle of Dichloromethane (DCM). It is the chemical what made the old paintstippers work so well, peeling off paint in minutes. Its now banned because of heath and environmental hazards. I bought it for some really stubborn paint, it worked great but that stuff is even more volatile than acetone so you need a thickening agent to make a paste, like the old paintstippers. May be worth to look into that if you have a project that really needs so heavy duty stripping. Mind your safety though, it isnt banned for nothing. Anyways, as always, I really enjoyed you video. Greetings from the Netherlands :)

Aaron Rodgers

Check you aren't on a VPN, that fixed that issue for me

Steve Z

Wow, another wonderful restoration! Got to say that I found that craftsman badge disturbingly pristine compared to the rest of the parts. Don't know if I'll sleep tonight.

Goose Gosselin

Is there a link to the song you were singing? Are you available to sing at bar mitzvahs? Take my money! Good to know guys back then were running Princess Auto quality tools to. Deceptively complex restoration, nickle plating, slick new tags laser etched and stainless, possibly adamantium, machining. So well done.

Wasted Audio

I never am. Was able to copy the link and open in a new tab though!

Samuel J Calloway

Eric. As always I felt a sense of peace and tranquility after viewing this video. Please keep them coming!

Geoff Riley

Top notch restoration. Congrats on getting the laser! :)

Matty Christine

would looove to see a lathe resto video!! or series

Marc McKenzie

Eric, recently my health has been better and I’ve been able to return to the shop. About the same time I discovered the fitZall podcast which keeps me company. Really enjoy that. Great restoration - in the day, Craftsman sure made some fun home DIY tools in the day.

Marc McKenzie

If you play it backwards, it says “Diresta owes me money” over and over…

Last Born

I really feel the Detroit Blue in the quality of that planer ...it all went down hill when Craftsman Red adorned everything ... still hurt by the broken promise of a lifetime ... hmmm

Brooks Moses

For what it's worth, "Marty's Matchbox Makeovers" (on YouTube) has occasionally used a low-temperature-solder product called "Muggy Weld" for repairing damaged pot-metal castings in Matchbox cars. It looks a lot more annoying than soldering brass, but it works, and the results once cleaned up look perfectly acceptable. The good thing about him showing it in YouTube videos, of course, is that you can see a bit of what it's actually like to work with. (Also, the Muggy Weld does contain cadmium, so you'll want to be even more careful with it than you are with lead paint, and it's not cheap.)

Brooks Moses

Also, as for the pot metal not wanting to exist: At least that piece wasn't infested with "Zinc Pest". That's the stuff that really doesn't want to exist. (For those who don't know: Zinc pest is the result of certain impurities in the original alloy. These impurities slowly migrate to the crystal grain boundaries in the alloy over a few decades, both swelling the boundaries and weakening them, with the result that the metal first warps out of usability and then crumbles like an ancient oatmeal cookie. There is no cure for this; it cannot be repaired. It cannot be stopped. It just happens, and is going to keep happening, and the only option is to measure the piece before it gets too far out of shape and make an entirely new replacement.)