The Tools of Socialist East-Germany! Repair-A-Thon!
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At 2:06 I say 'separated into occupation zones', not ' separated in two occupation zones'. Sorry if I didn't pronounce that clear enough. It was four zones in total and three of them were later transformed into what was known as West-Germany. I didn't mention that, becaus this video is not about West Germany, but about the Soviet zone and later the GDR.
Thank you for another amazing video sir! I so appreciate your work.
I watched this video recently which I think explains how a native English speaker would distinguish "into" and "in two", I hope you enjoy it :)
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were it meant to say "separated in two occupation zones" one would have said "separated into two occupation zones" so I heard you loud and clear. You could also say "it was separated in two." and that would be grammatically (but not historically) correct.
That was a pretty good video intro @TPAI !! I must say that when I was stationed in Germany, it was still
the DDR and GDR, thus it was still part of the "Cold War Era" and it wasn't until I returned to the States
until February of 1989 that I would come to realize that soon such changes were about to take place.
So yeah, does this video does bring back so memories! I also had a blue scissor style hinged toolbox
that I bought while i was there! The only problem now though is that someone stole it from me and boy
was I ever pissed! I just want you to know that I always enjoy your work and videos any way I can get it!
I followed your Channel now quite a while and your videos never stops to amaze me. The beautiful balanced way that you mix history with electronics, tips and tricks, experimental problem solving, remains nothing but amazing and awe inspiring to witness. The masterful way you convey your insights, craftsmanship and your obvious respect for the hardworking men and women who led us here, is honourable to watch. I often feel ashamed that my somewhat dire financial situation limits the way I'm able to support creative people like you. But understand that I choose my words carefully, optimistically wanting them to have a positive impact.
I hope you give yourself time to reflect, especially after a good day of work, and truly enjoy, the sometimes silent reward, inspiring strangers is. Thanks for your videos !! Enjoy your weekend.
Been following along with your adventures for several years now young man (I'm old enough to be your father) and I will make two points: 1) I respect your ambition and execution. 2) Your English is quite good and I have little if any difficulty understanding what you are saying (you also speak American pretty good as well 😉)
When I was a boy, we lived in West Germany and visited our relatives in East Germany. I remember "shopping tools in the GDR" from that time. Let's say you need a 14mm wrench and you go to a tool shop. Maybe, likely, they didn't have a 14mm wrench. But maybe they had a 13mm / 18mm wrench or some strange combination like that. And what did you do? You bought it! Because maybe you need such wrench in the future sometime and maybe then they have only 14mm wrenches. That was real life over there at that time. And it was not just one shop. You could visit 5 different shops in towns many kilometers away from each other and you were just not able to find that 14mm wrench anywhere. So whoever had that toolbox at that time was probably very proud to have collected all those different wrenches over time.
In the past, a 13 mm wrench was simply widened to 14 mm on the grinding machine. It was that simple.
Huh, sounds exactly like parts shopping in today's third world.10 different shops, none of them have that one tool you need!
I've always wondered why so many tool say "made in Germany " in english?
@@hanksmith4065 It's been kind of a standard to use English for that purpose for a very very long time, when it was intended for export. People generally knew what "made in" meant even if they didn't otherwise understand English.
Chances are, you still can use tools made in E.Germany 40 years ago while your brand new Bosch tool will barely live till warranty period expires
I'm in Estonia, which was also part of the Soviet Union. I really like your videos and I hope that one day I am as successful on CZcams as you are. God bless you.
I had a friend\work colleague from Estonia in New Zealand! The world is a small place aye. I'm a big fan of Arvo Pärt!
Sa pole ainuke siin kanalil😀
Põnev!
@@T.leinus Ei ole tõesti
Слава СССР !
As a child growing up in Australia in the 50s, I was fascinated by my father's and grandfather's workshops, and the tools and equipment therein. I inherited it all when they passed away, and am still using it over seventy years later (some of the tools are well over a century old). I have an eclectic mix of British, American and European objects, from wooden planes to a 60 year old arc welder, which are all still in constant use; and it's great to see someone who values and maintains the old technology that was generally designed to last! I really enjoy your repair-a-thons - I hope you keep them coming!
My father came from your era and on that side of the family they migrated from Prussia around the 1900's, my grandfather though you wouldn't have trusted to fix very much! Dad however was a mechanic from the mid-late 60's and his fairly extensive toolboxes and power tools mostly came from Australian manufacturers. Most of those companies got sold off to the Americans and Taiwan back in the 80's so they don't really exist like they used to and there's a couple of the really old Black & Decker drills from that period which still work fine if you don't mind snapping a wrist.
My WIA Miniarc welder is an Australian brand as well which still works ok, its not exactly a subtle or complicated machine so its probably why it lasted so long.
All the hand tools though are sort of what you expect, well used but have the kinds of tolerances, material and manufacturing which is extremely good and would probably be worth a lot of money, not that I'd ever sell them.
Greetings from Sydney! 😊 It's really impressive that you not only have high-quality tools, but also ones that hold sentimental value for your family. 🙌 It's a shame that tools like those aren't made anymore. 😔ls like those aren't made anymore.
I was born in Canada. I lived in Germany for 10 years. My parents come from Berlin. Is a child I visited East Germany very often. I had family on the other side. However believe it or not a lot of East German products were sold in Canada. Usually under a pseudonym a different name. Most of the tools were sold in Canada at Eaton's that no longer exists. They went bankrupt in the 90s. they sold many things from East Germany. Dishes and fabrics and certain other items. Of course they had a different name. Even a different logo. But you would still find the gdr on some of the stampings of their tools and mixers. Yes they even sold kitchen supply items to Canada. Many of these products where put together in Canada. Sounds weird but you can have a product. Put together in your country and it's no longer made in East Germany it's now made in Canada. For instance if you packaged all your items into one box. When the box would be dismantled. And the items would all be put together in a simple carton with the item in the box it is now made in Canada. It's just like the Polish people buying cars in Germany dismantling them and then putting them back together again when they reach Poland. They used to do this to save on tax money. you also mention Western Products. East German products were Western Products. 90% of their products were sold to the West. Most Germans don't know this who lived in West Germany. Just like China now sells the world East Germany sold everything to the world.
Yep, neighbour grew up in East Germany. He said that even if you had the cash to buy the products they were just were not in the stores. Empty shelves everywhere. It took his family a year to find enough wallpaper to redo the lounge. of course they were all different patterns. 😅 Communism is wild.
Nazi
That's right, GDR goods were sold in our Neckermann catalogue. The GDR was more capitalistic than expected.
Nazi Ukraine
This video is why I love this channel. It’s so much more than a build /restoration channel. It’s an amazing history channel that dives into the social sciences all in a beautifully edited and filmed short movie.
Thank you TPAI!!! Let’s go Saturday morning!!!!!!
Couldn't have put it better myself. Not only do I get my repair fix I get a history lesson, and often one that I would otherwise never know living in Canada.
I can't believe videos like this are free! This guy is so amazing. Every video is a 10/10.
they aren't
shame those stars don't get from the platform owner enough appreciation.
Stay safe duderino
U could contribute to his Patreon fund.
Or even kick in a single donation through PayPal, now and then. You pay for other entertainment, donate to this channel. His entertainment is better than Most!
Ya'll Take Care and be safe, John
Nice episode. Brings back memories from my childhood when DDR tools were considered the best compared to our eastern block ones. Last October I found a working VEB Robotron drafting table working in our companies sheet metal workshop, and some other older German (east and west) equipment.
This man is amazing along his videos. He always bring the good parts of the pasts without opening the wounds.
Just don't mention the war.
@@jo300hn You can mention the war; just not who really engineered it all, from behind the curtain.
@@jo300hn "I mentioned the war once, but I think I got away with it"
That tool box was probably some ones hard earned pride and joy at one time. I'm a retired aircraft mechanic with quite a collection of tools myself, mainly structural repair and sheet metal fabrication tools. I love this. 🙂
Hope you can get hold of a lawnmower attachment to the drill. What an awesome and hilarious attachment. I saw that attachment at the DDR museum in Berlin and have been wondering how well it functions
I like these GDR tools and machines, they have more quality and better design than the el-cheapos we get these days. Back in the 1970's we lived in the Emirates and sometimes GDR products would turn up in the shops, maybe imported by a business or a ship crew bringing them. I also remember seeing that 'VEB' on those products manufactured in the east.
It stood for Volks Eigener Betrieb, -Peoples Own Business (my translation)
I worked for Black and Decker from late 70s to early 0s and it didn't matter which tool they were all had high heat grease inserted. Hope you do find this helpful. We used to manufacture over 14 million units a year, now unfortunately the factory has been demolished and only a returns / guarantee repair unit is left in our area.
8:21 "Klucze nasadowe" Thats polish made socket set from Lubań in southwest of Poland. From logo itself must be ancient. In Poland auction sites you still can find old WMW and other old german tools for sale. They do often cost quite the money and need some love to fix them. From drills to industrial machines.
What strikes me is the quality of those old power tools. Even some name brands from today seem to avoid aluminum parts wherever they can.
I’m American but i used to work for a company located in Chemnitz. I had the opportunity to go to the industrial museum there showing how industrious and smart some of their solutions for materials shortages.
what i love about this channel is not only do we get to see him fix old tools and repair electronics we get a really informative german lesson and I'm completely here for it.
8:16 what a beauty; all parts still in place. I have a Gedore socket set I purchased age 18 in 1975 but it needs the TPAI treatment. Another interesting video, have fun in Mexico and thanks.
Fascinating, Thanks. I've seen similar tools from time to time in the toolboxes of local Engineer colleagues of mine over the last 23 years. I grew up in North Wales but moved to Dresden (which is why your mention of Radebeul pricked my ears up). I started life (after school) as a Toolmaker in Llandudno North Wales. In 1999, I moved to Taiwan in the Semicon field and finally accepted a Job offer in the Semi-Con Industry in Dresden working from the local field office of the worlds leading Dutch Semi-Con wafer exposure machines. I actually lived in a Motel apartment in Radebeul for the first 3 months here (while I sorted an apartment and got my furniture and possessions shipped here). It is a very small world though, since my Great Grandmother was actually born in Dresden (Pirna) and my first trip to Dresden was a spur of the moment thing after a German Friend from Hamburg invited me to his aunt's in Berlin (after the wall fell). Having seen the wall being chipped away by people with hammer's and chisels (and catching many many painted bits (which got handed out as souvenirs to my Family & Friends that Christmas / New Year). My Friend asked if there was anywhere I wanted to go, I replied instantly, "Yes, Dresden!". He recognised and remembered my family history that I had told him, so we got an (old DDR Train to Dresden, spent some hours taking photos and walking about, taking in some of my heritage. I left with a slightly heavy heart; never realising that I would get the chance to come and live here (and yes, I have found my Gt Grandmother's Birth records) and my second Daughter was born here in the same City as her Gt. Gt. Grandmother.
Dresden is an amazing city. I’m an American but worked in Chemnitz, and i would drive to Dresden to attend their big “American” car show. One of the most surreal experiences I’ve ever had. Lol. But it’s incredible knowing how flattened Dresden was, that it was completely rebuilt.
I’ve been waiting for an episode. Thank you for all the hard work you put into them!
What a great way to start my Saturday. Hope all is well. Thank you
Always educational and a joy to watch. Enjoy your trip!
So many lessons in one video. Love what you're doing . Thanks John
This was absolutely fascinating, thank you so much for all the time and effort that you put into making the video.
ive been watching alot of your videos lately some more than once ,ive been finding some great stuff on the roadside fixing and restoring to ,thanks for giving me the drive and passion for my hobbie ,
I always enjoy learning about East/West German history through your videos.
Thank you for the interesting video - always a pleasure to watch you bring new life to old tools.
I always learn something new watching your videos much love to you and safe travels
I can't wait to view this production. Thank you TPAI.
Such great content and the storytelling is awesome! Thanks for sharing!
thx for sharing, really nice to see the restoration program :)
Hey, really great to see you covering tools from our side of the country, because they are very good imo.
On the topic of companies: WMW which stands for Werkzeugmaschinen und Werkzeuge, was the Kombinat that all metal tool production was done under. From little clamp on vises for the home craftsman, to machine tools of all sizes, to entire rolling mills, and die presses. WMW encompased several other Kombinate, which focused on different fields (one made lathes, one made mills, one made files, one made wrenches and other simple forgings, etc.) Smalcalda was one of them, they made hand tools and simple powertools.
My entire machine shop (large engine lathe, universal mill, a multipurpose machine called a DBF Gerät, similar to the Hommel UWG series, as well as die grinders, hand drills etc.) is all made in GDR, and they are all great machines.
If you want to know more about WMW and stuff like that, feel free to ask
Hello, would like to know if they would also be available to consumers of the post with information? But I'm not sure if a "WERKÖ SWU 200" belonged to WMW.
@@raikbusse7697 Yes, the SWU 200 was a universal tool grinder, produced in various plants, under the Brandname "Werkö" (Werkzeugfabrik Königssee) which in itself was a subsidiary of WMW.
I love the music at the beginning and end of the video! You put so much attention to detail into your videos, a pleasure to watch. What a wonderful tools and still going strong after some.... here it is again .... some attention! The history lessons behind those tools is also really nice. Thanks for the message of appreciation to older (quality made) tools and history.
i recently restored a VEB Textima Knitting Machine. Works as new again 🙂 There is still a company left which takes care of the last remaining electric models and still offers spare parts.
I'm from Poland and we were using Smalcalda drills. They were considered better than our own from the factory called CELMA.
Another great video as always. Thanks so much for your efforts. Happy journeys!
Keep them coming! Always enjoy the mix of history lesson and practical repair information. Also, the way your videos follow your own curiosity and desire to learn keeps them interesting. Definitely a winning formula, imo. Safe travels!
Gerolf, Quality video as usual! Wanted to say thanks as I just received a belated Christmas present from my better half (Nicci) and to my surprise it was one of your tool boxes! It will be put to good use! Thanks again :)
Hey Nicci, yo happy to hear it got there safely and in time. Please send my best regards to him! Cheers, Gerolf
All of your videos I automatically like as soon as I start them...
A very good video love the history information and great old footage your editing skills are getting so much better. Love the old tools and restoration methods.
Love that old tools, that are made to last for a long time and easy to repair. The military Trabant at 6:57 looks so steampunk :)
Excellent episode. History of the products being included I find just adds to my love of old tools.
Excellent video as usual - Thanks
If anyone's interested in old DDR consumer goods, as well as the professional broadcast electronics, AND the people behind them - go visit the Industriesalon Schöneweide in Berlin, in the former factory that first made radio tubes and later made Samsung CRTs.
The people who volunteered there (at least who were there 5 years ago) have awesome stories to tell and take great pride in the products they once made.
Another great video. Love them all. Keep up the great work!!
I love your wonderful explanations of the tool manufacturers and the history lessons. Thanks TPAI! Great stuff.
Fantastic video as usual! In add to the interesting work you already do, you are an historian as well! Many thanks and a warm hello from Middle America
Enjoy your trip to Mexico. It's always a pleasure to watch your videos and hear you talking about history and technology!
gerolf, thank you for the great video, loved the music and content of course.
hope you have a nice trip!
Amazing videos as usuall, I enjoyed the "flashback" music from the early eighties....thank you for that memories
20 - 30 years ago if someone told me one day I would sit captivated watching someone refurbish/repurpose German tools, I would have thought they were insane! This is an awesome channel! Thanks for all your videos!
I always find your videos to be instructive and encouraging. Safe passage in Mexico!
Thank you for sharing your passions. Love them.
So very happy to see your channel doing well and growing again.
I live in Germany, and I find it ashame how dismissed many of the good products of East Germany was just considered shit or poor quality which is not always true. Particularly tile works where brilliant quality, and amazing depth and variety of colour. And a lot of hand tools are brilliant, and have neat and practical features
Another fascinating video, thank you.
Always very interesting thanks for sharing your vast knowledge
Love your videos!! I learn so much from you. Thanks 😁
As a slovenian I am suprised that you havent encountered more UNIOR tools and ISKRA tools.
He is from West Germany and stuff from former east Germany is hard to come by.
@@uwejacobs6587 UNIOR and ISKRA are Slovenian companies. :) And while UNIOR is still a brand with high international reputation, ISKRA is merely a shadow of its former self these days.
congrats on 500k subscribers. I love the pacing of your videos.
Your videos are always great
Wow the old generator with skis its really cool! Looking forward to seeing that series! Love your new introduction and conclusion video it's great!
Fantastic video. thank you dude.
I have found two exactly similar tool cases loaded with Smalcalda branded tools in my grandfather's shop. They must have been exported to west germany for a while because he lived in Baden Wurttemberg his whole life. Fun fact, I brought one of his Smalcalda hammer over to Canada and I use it everyday in my shop, very handy.
Nice to find an old generator and have it work so well. You did a great job in the restoration.
And let us not forget the biggest engineering triumph of the GDR; the Trabant.........
(and by triumph, I am of course using a tone of sarcasm in my head typing that... :P )
When a German calls a name a word monstrosity, that is saying something.
EP grease commonly known as HTB (High Temperature Bearing) grease ie common grease. Go to the parts store and just buy any old grease that you can use in wheel bearings which is the most common and cheapest grease. Probably doesn't matter in a drill used once a week really as long as there's a bit of fat in there LOL.
BTW, I lust for that mower attachment for the drill I must admit.
Actually the EP designation stands for "Extreme Pressure" for heavy surface tension, metal to metal or
heavy load bearing and the grease's ability to resist higher temperature as well!
@@craigtegeler4677 Yeah I know I'm a mechanic. EP is on every grease tub in every workshop I've ever worked in.
@@ThePaulv12 Gotcha! Thanks Paul!
Brilliant and great start and ending film x
Great work. I like the video at the end. Cheers.
Thanks for the history lesson along with the normal restoration tips!
Pretty cool video and tools! I like the use of stock footage and the strichtarn uniforms.
i got a smalcalda system 450 at home that i inherited from my grandpa. i got the brush cutting, belt sander and even the tablesaw accessories for it.
i also got an HBM 250 with the convertible table mount system for it. its a mini lathe, grinding wheel, drill press, circular saw and even has a flexible axle to be used as a dremel like tool!
these are great tools and near indestructible took me quite a while to find all parts when we cleared out my grandparents home and then some to figure out what goes with what and get it back in working condition...
sadly i am missing some minor parts here and there but i still got the stuff i had functional
I have a set of small electricians tools that are stamped "West Germany". i have no information about them at all except that my great grandpa got them at some point. the set includes a very tiny pipe wrench that seems too small to actually be used for anything (its maybe 5 inches long end to end)
thanks for helping make sense of that filter capacitor!
I was flying for a Canadian Airline in 1989, and we were on a two day layover in Amsterdam. Myself, and my old airforce buddies, were glued to the TV for they whole time watching the demonstration at the Berlin Wall, and then watching them begin to tear it down. It was a surreal experience, and we really didn't believe that was how the Eastern bloc was going to end.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this tool episode. You didn't speak to the quality of the tools, and I would have been interested in learning that.
I have a couple of 35mm cameras that were made in Dresden, a couple of Exactas, and a practika, the workmanship and the Jena lenses were excellent quality, and I always wondered about the quality of the other machine tools. Thanks for the informal history lesson..
I really like your you tube blog , and I have a great admiration for Germany so keep up the great work and thanks!
It never ceases to amaze me what people will throw away Great video brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and hello from Detroit Michigan USA
Thank you, always interesting.
Thanks for the great content
Thank you so much for the great toolbox and wrench! I've started using it for all my tools now and it works so much better than the old toolbox I had. They really don't make them like they used to.
Hope you overcharged a bit; I hope I contributed a bit to your finances too 🙂
Thanks for this, Mr P A Inventor! Fascinating glimpse to the past. I have the Prazi Hobbymat milling machine from GDR, about 1980. This desk-top mill is quite popular around the world with hobby machinists and small facilities like university labs. Apparently it was made and sold for export at a very reasonable price with the objective of being a 'class act' and advertisement for the superior East German industry. And well . . . it's actually quite good!
Thanks for this video. It was very interesting to hear the history behind the tools. They do seem to be robustly made. Enjoy your trip in Mexico. Hopefully people will contact you and you will show you all the interesting places to see. All the best, Mart in England.
Another excellent video, many thanks
Excellent video! Thanks for your time and effort. In one moment I was thinking you are on good way to rebuild DDR with their own tools =) .
A great video! Very informative :)
Thank you! It was a foray into the history of tools.
I absolutely loved this video! The history of port war Germany is a subject I know little about. Thank you for starting me on a new learning binge!
Great video! Greetings from Australia.
Just posting a comment to work those algorithms. I watch your videos all of the time and I appreciate you teaching us how to recycle electronics and other tech.
Nice! i thought to myself yesterday i hadnt seen an upload for a little while :D
A fascinating overview of the eastern German tool factories.
I served in one of the Baltic sea units in former eastern Germany not that long ago. Some of the tools still said they were made in east Germany. So they apparently had to be quite durable.
Vielen Dank für die Mühe, die Du Dir gemacht hast!
Greetings from Mexico City, I just discovered your channel and I'm glad you are visiting the country.
Always enjoy your content and history lesson! Such as erroneously believing that Yugoslavia was a Warsaw Pact member. Hope you are well and am excited to see the generator rebuild.
I recognize some of the tools from my childhood era here in Sweden, including the power tools, so some of them were exported for sure.
Great saves! It's so great how you revive the discarded. Love the sparks in the motor @19:04! haha
Another great informative video, enjoy your trip..
Gerolf, I just got a pair of pliers that had the clear red handles like in your video, but they were also a wire cutters as well, and say Germany on them.
Nice to listen to the explanation about filters. Thanks
This mwm logo, i have seen it before on my tools. Im looking tomorow. Thanks for that!