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Try getting the ladder rack down and bending back the frame, it should work given the fact that there's a relatively small bend. As for the metal buckling on the van, that might not be an impact bend, that might be because the rack was pulled and the metal just warped. Not the actual rack hitting the van. If it was the actual rack that hit the van then it should have a deep scratch in the paint which i didn't see in the video..
Finally an EDC that someone might actually find useful. Not the typical tech youtubers version which is 'i carry a macbook, ipad, battery pack, headphones, VR headset, gaming chair and bluetooth speaker for all the rad parties i might find myself at'
Excellent work and I fully concur.
This is deferend than the american EDC..😁
Please do another vid where you wave your van keys over the Thames !!! 🤣 Had me scared for a moment there...
I SHIT YOU NOT! My sister threw her car keys into a skip at the local tip as she was cack-handedly throwing something away - keys in hand! She had some of lads there jump in to try and find them to no avail, then had to call her husband at work to go and fetch the spare key! o_0
Next time you get a crack in your rear reflector just buy some reflector tape & pop it on. You normally get 3x rolls in the pack (1 x red, 1 x orange, 1 x clear). Saves you changing the reflector every time.
Once you put it on you can't tell it's been repaired.
Personally I'd have a go at taking the ladder rack off the van and strip it down.
Its twisted and may right itself by taking it apart and putting it back together.
Sortimo may supply just the broken parts...
Reverse the van into said tree and damage will reversed? Lol
The van rack: opposing force. Get two pieces of scaff pipe and put them on either side of the handle that was hit. You and the new help push the rear one up while pulling the front one down using the added leverage of the bars. It should at least pull the dent out of the roof and if you're lucky it may even fix the sliding rack. It's cheap and worth a go before you start chucking more money at it.
Exactly what I thought about bending it back with a scaffold pipe
It looks like it's twisted, Got nothing to loose
As a retired Spark l love seeing these vids, and thinking how I would do it.
Regarding the Tools you carry I noted the water pump pliers. They looked like the standard ones, I recommend the Self adjusting ones as they've saved me a lot of grief in the past.
I had my tools stolen a year before I retired and it still to this day, hurts and probably hastened the departure.
Totally agree with you with vehicle damage drives me insane !!!!
Love the vids pal i am carpenter by trade, much love for the Efficiency of how you work ...
On the cracked lights letting in water, my landy ones have always let in water even with new seals.. so I just drilled a drainage hole and called it good.
Yeah your right about the van, that really does piss me off when they get damaged, I had a guy work for me, went through more tyres than Lewis Hamilton, very annoying.
Fired?
2019: Thomas nagging about London traffic. 2020: Thomas admiring about London traffic.
Great Chanel and great vids. You do right to look after your vans - my Dad always taught me to do the same re maintenance, cleaning and respecting your vehicles. If the van is off the road, your not earning.
Taking it better than I would! I would slide bolts into the fastener slot’s on the side that’s leaning out and use the bolts to fasten a lever of sorts. Tie a strap to it and anchor the strap to a tree or anything solid. Put the van in reverse and back up putting the opposite force on the rack. Obviously how much is a judgment call and those fastener slots are aluminum so try to incorporate the lever putting force (up in the back down on the front) on the bar with the wood in it also. Using the faster slots will keep the lever from moving on you. It’s important to put most of the force on the bar in twisting motion (up in the back down in the front). The van would barely have to move, to bend it back but some force will be required. You could also use what we in the states call a winch or a come along. Good luck!
Hello Thomas, Sweden here again.
I am not an electrician but I do like my tools as I do lots of fixing friends cars, boats, snowmobiles and you name it. I came to think about it when I saw your cutters, I also do scrapping and get across lots of wire and cables so I got me a good sidecutter. Got it off ebay from England, think it's a kinecrome x2 strength. I rather like it as it saves wear and tear on the hands.
Nice video Tom. Had the same conversation the other week about Vans being damaged it’s infuriating especially when it’s a new van. I’m glad it’s not just me 😂
My life, tool bag gets overloaded, buy smaller bag, doesn’t have enough tools, get a bigger bag, gets to heavy, repeat process constantly for twenty years.
Buy two bags. Small one for quick jobs where you know what you need and big one for the larger jobs. Used to lug a big fucker around now I use the small one 90% of the time. Get a veto pro pack backpack and the small veto mb2 bag. Expensive but trust me. Worth every fuckin penny
Cj C I’ve ended up with more bags than the girls from sex and the city, but veto my next go to
Agree, my boss annoyed, i bought probably 5-6 bags last 2 years or so, but it is probably the most important and used item in the car so...
Thomas nagy has his apocalypse hair cut 😂😂 looking good... Stay safe👍
What ladder rack have you got. I do alot of metal work and would like to help you sort the problem out.
Hi like your videos!👍🏻 I am a Dessel Mecanic buy trade. So if you haven’t tried this yet. Use a long bit of pip or bar over that ladder rack. And pull down on it to try and reverse the original impact. Just go slow so you don’t rip it of. It might bend it back enough for you to use it again. Hop this helps.
Tom has learnt two new words: salty and rate. 😂
Not always using 'salty' correctly either lol
@@gman6055 He's 'knocking on the front door' of understanding that one
Cheapskate leaking rear light repairs, etc:
Eopxy the crack if no white light is escaping.
Drill a drain hole at the bottom.
Save the new one for the MoT.
Save the old one for spares or for when the new one is even more damaged.
Put a sticker over the damaged trim.
Swap the roof racks on the vans at night and blame someone else.
Have a swear box to pay for the next repair.
Feel for you with that ladder rack, that is a vast force it's amazing it ever pinged back after that or that the alloy extrusion didn't just split. If it were me, I think I'd try putting a sash-clamp on it blocked out with some bespoke blocks I'd make from mdf or similar, but I don't rate the amount of torque you're going to be able to apply very awkward. Another approach is to dismount it from the van completely, have it in your living room and methodically disassemble it as far as you can, possibly cutting off the alloy extrusion where it's sticking and then try to order just the extrusion (possibly find this out before trying) from the company, replacing twisted or broken parts. But I mean, at the end of the day, you're just left kind of reeling with questions about how the f*** something like that would happen in the first place with that dent there!?
I think you are right take it off the van and see where the resistance or major friction is taking place and maybe take a small sanding tool to it and see if you can free it off dermal type maybe
Good video. Like your bag nice and organized. Been to London many times before and wow never seen the streets like that. Being a journeyman electrician here in Texas. I can relate to some of the things you talk about. I just might post a video of my electrical bag sometime.
Tom. Roof rack damage, if I was you I would utilise the two slots that run along the rack bar on the outside. You can pop a bolt into the end of this slot so thread faces out. Then you will be able to bolt on a lever,in your case a piece of slotted galv Chanel maybe(something rigid). This will giver you a good lever to help pull that one bent side of the rack Chanel back into shapeish. Also you can loosen your new bending lever and slide along the rack to bend back in several places as needed.👍
Your chaps will never treat your equipment with the same respect that you do. Been on both sides of that fence.
The chicken stick. ... got one in a cheap kit, used it for its intended purpose as a one more shot verification that there is no electricity. after a while I found out something, you can easily determine if an outlet is wired properly with one. since then it is now indispensable. I can plug my three light tester in and it tells me the outlet is wired reasonably properly, but it has one flaw reversed polarity. this is where the non-contact voltage tester comes in and can verify that the polarity is the correct way around without running a wire to a known good grounding source. After I do those two things I can do with voltage check and it's safe to plug my equipment in.
Now all we need is a van tour 😂
Luke Harrop hes already done it... i think lol
Looking at the wood up the ladder rack handle and the dent on the roof panel, the unknown 'collision' with the tree was harder than you think, suprised you didn't notice the van lurch at that point. Like other suggestions, you need two bits of scaffolding tube, one on each lh/rh handle and a mate to twist one whislt you both twist the other anti clock together. Twisting one only will distort the 1 handle not correct the frame twist. (I'm ex body shop manager, plenty of experience of cars with roof racks and car park barriers colliding)
I feel your pain about vehicle damage, Tom. My local beat is Kent country backroads, often single-file lanes, and you _cannot_ avoid being run into badly-trimmed hedgerows at least once a day by some tosser in a beemer who won't give way. So the nearside of my vehicle's all scratched to shit to the point I just wash it, no point waxing anymore.
Don't give way to Beamers or Mercs they will swerve at the last moment I assure you.
Check the roof mount for damag if it has that much force put on it check the roof mount on the van not bent as well it could affect you putting a new one on
A quick fix which sounds crude and it is, I'm my line of work we deal with very heavy equipment and will when needs be just wrap a strap round something and tie it to a fixed object (tree) and reverse very slowly, it won't look like new but it's extremely quick to do, you'll need 2 people. Make sure you use a proper ratchet strap usually 5 ton or above, it's rough but works
As stated remove ladder rack and straighten it off the vehicle. As for dent if it's not badly creased try pouring boiling water on to it, it may pop out, difficult to see how severe it is, don't think it was caused by contact with racking though, suspect just torsional stress from impact. Thanks for your content. Stay safe.
Digging the social distance haircut my man. 🤣 Keep up the good work
With the rear light cluster just put some clear sealant into the crack to seal it and the racking as mentioned in other posts, it has buckled the roof plate when it got struck. You can take the rack off and straighten the rail but you may need to get the roof straightened to get it back on correctly or the bracket will not sit flat against the roof.
Hammer and a good few swings should sort the ladder rack issue 👍. Always works
I would try lever arm principle on ladder rack. Use a long scaffold pole, very securely clamped to the frame and bend it back slowly. Might work. Stay safe👍
For damage to the van roof look up "dentless repair" on CZcams; you will be astonished what they can remove. For the rack unbolt it and check it's square on the van roof and check the cross runner for square.
This fella is the dogs...czcams.com/video/x3yuWB9IQ4k/video.html
Yes. This is the guy I had in mind, a miracle worker.
Get a clamp on the frame and squeeze it. Give the rail a firm tap of a mallet while it's squeezed and it will help to keep it in position. It looks like extruded aluminium. There is probably a carrier bearing that is fouling on the frame where is it strained. If you can access under the dent in the roof from outside, try and get hold of a porta power and use it to push the dent outwards. It's all very fixable. I'm a metal fabricatior and wouldn't see any problems in getting it sorted.
Great video. With the rack I would get a scaffold bar on the left side and gently pull it straight it doesn’t look too badly damaged all things considered. Good luck
Looks like the actual roof skin is buckled down under the rack mounting bracket. It could be straightened by gentle heat but you would need to remove all plastics etc.
i use the ck armour slice to do small cored swa.... lots of them... very handy
Someone’s been forced to cut their own hair 😂😂
IR Vision Prints - don’t laugh! I’m coming up on the same decision. I go to a good friend of mine who’s a classically trained barber with his own shop - every three week old man routine sort of fiasco.... I’m going on a month so far. Gonna start getting uncomfortably shaggy before long.
scalped! 😂
@@geoffupton It had to be done!
thomas nagy was worth it tho 😊
@@thomasnagy razors supplied by its 😂😂👍
had my own business on wheels for years and nearly every week i had to do maintenance in the evening or nighttime to save money and the wheels had to run even before they stand still. diy or die its the only way to survive but its hard when you work 24/7 :-)
my EDC is smaller :P though thats for indoor quadcopter flying so I don't need much in tools, just a two organiser cell things worth of drone, batteries, charger, a few adapters, the fpv goggles, spare props, spare motors and a weee little screw driver set, though I am in the market for a nice bag that'll carry those two org cells and my RC TX bag for the radio for the eventual day we're allowed out of our guilded cages
Great Video Tom thanks
For SWA cable a small pipe cutter does the job for the sheathing just have to be careful 😄
The dent may well pull out or push out. The slide for the ladder rack should not be too much of a problem, if you put a cramp on it you would pull the other side in as much as you pull the bent side up, what you need is an F key which is a bar with two prongs on one end so that it looks like the letter F you put the prongs over the aluminium section padded with a bit of rubber and pull the section back into position. A good fabrication shop should easily be able to do it. You might even be able to use a large crescent wrench for the job. The back light surround would polish up,there are specialist people out there who come to the vehicle to remove scratches and small dents and touch up the paint work.
I got a plastic cover for the wing mirrors and over the back lights panels
It is clear and it does help with a lot of the small scrapes I got them on ali express
Vans getting damaged after you spend so much money on them and kitting them out...... will always be a bitter pill to swallow and never get any easier lol
That's a tough one... I had 3 full-time and one part time employees and their vans are a wreck. Two quit an I got them back. Muddy, broken parts, cracked windshield, etc. Sometimes I wonder is the money vs headache ratio worth it.
Jeff Weingartner no excuse for abusing a van (yes I know accidents happen) , but wilful damages and neglect there is no excuses for, I worked in the surface mining industry and managed to keep my van inside clean and tidy, never dented it although the outside was usually dirty with the muck etc, 30 mins with a pressure washer cured that
@@jeffweingartner7979 Make the drivers responsible for the vans , keeping them clean and tidy and make them contribute towards the cost of repairs unless it can be proved that it is someone else's fault.
I work on a firm where I am the only one who supplies their own van...guess what, my van is looked after and had no damage all the company vans have scrapes, dents and are an utter state...if it’s not theirs people generally don’t seem to look after them
Yeah but the offset to the bitter pill is the sweet one with the money said van and employee earns you/your company. 😉
Easy to say when it's not mine thought.
Get a ratchet strap around it to the front rail and pull it together there didn't seem to be a scratch in the paint so that may pop out when you pull the rack out. If not get a pdr kit off eBay and pull it out using slide hammer and glue.
To fix your roof ladder try a rachet strap form the higher end of the handle and other end to the wheel go slow and see if you bring it/ twist back to level
Hi,tom huge fan,after watching all your videos ive decided to get full out bosch kit,ive seen most of your bosch kit in the videos,but i was wondering if you could make a video of your bosch stuff and just go through it ?thx.
The rack slide will need to come off and put in a jig and given its alloy it will be a complete pain to get right,
Really hard to suggest a fix to the ladder rack without looking closely. However, I will have a shot in the dark.
Can you put a large G clamp over the top, warm up the bent side with a gas gun and apply force by winding in the G clamp.
I may be way off due to not being able to look closely.
The egg head has grown on me! Looking good
When you are a self employed bricklayer and now theres no work for us
However, there are plenty of jobs for sparks, plumbers, chippies.
I've definitely picked up the wrong trade back in a day. Always fighting with British weather, too cold cant lay, too bloody hot have to finish earlier. Pissing down cant lay, lockdown cant lay.
Theres a hospital being built in Newport , all night shifts £380 per shift for sparks plumbers and nail bangers
If anyone wants
That's no good. Down here in Australia builders are still working.
I'm in boat with you mate! Sparky, but I just moved into new house 150miles from where I was. Had some mates with work waiting for me that's all cancelled, and no other client base here so nobody to call me, and everyone got stuff cancelled so all those sites people puts jobs up on are rammed with people after them! Trying to work on the house, but getting hold of materials like timber/plasterboard/insulation/paint/cement etc is a nightmare.
Was thinking might be good chance to get some roofers and bricky's over to work on garage, but I can't afford to get it done now that income's gone, so that's another job for your lot gone. Which'll be another job for someone else gone because bricky isn't making money from me to pay for it, etc... Gov should be helping us out a bit but I'm not counting any money from them till it's in the bank!
Those £380 a shift adverts you've seen on Facebook are fake.
@@mattthompson8657 there's a temporary hospital being built. My mate is on it
@@ScottWayneJackson builders are working but us bricklayers not. All sites shut down.
As I said sparks and plumbers can carry on if it's an emergency call out
You have joined the homemade haircut crew, had to get a number 2 myself. Hair trimmers totally sold out anywhere.
At the risk of further mutilating your unit on top of the van, you could insert long (maybe a metre), strong/solid rods into both of those handles and "twist" in a general anticlockwise direction. Have two people doing this, as you will need quite a bit of force. Or use hollow steel pipes to slip over the rods.
Tom bison parts Sheffield they do rear lights pretty much everything dirt cheap tell them Jake from JW tyres Sheffield has sent you online shop !!!
an idea to help bend the rail back into place, go to your previous video, 7 mins 24 seconds, the brackets holding up the trays to the ceiling, get a 1 or 2 metre section of that and then bolt it to the rail channel seen at 14:20 of this video(where your thumb is, use roof bracket as lever and it should bend it back, you may need to do this a few times across the length of the bent rail to differing degrees but it might work
no ones said it yet, so im going to say it.
Reverse it into a tree 😂
If it was reversed into a tree, wouldnt the tree remains be on the other side of the handle? more like the van was driven into a parked tree
@@bluechang08 They mean to fix it....it was hit in the front....so now reverse into a tree to bend it back.
I seem to get at least a new cover if not a whole new wingmirror on the passenger side every year! Country lanes that does it for me though, get some mad bastards coming the other way so just have to gamble mirror in the hedge sometimes and hope there's not a trunk/thick branch right there. Next van definitely needs a button to fold mirrors in!
TOM LOCKDOWN NAGY!
plumberparts HOLD TIGHT!
d34nr2k8 hols right BRO! Love a bit of Nagy tingz
Oi oi James! How's George!
Now PB is going to get jelly you're here.
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Find a car park with a height barrier at just the right height. Reverse the van towards it very carefully and slowly. Might work.
Try some steel wall supports... sit it on the ground with the plate underneath the part out of shape and wind it up slowly.
Try and twist the roof rack bars back again, trick would be to use some tube like scaffolding over the handlebars for extra leverage
Someone's been to the COVID Barbers :D
yeah man ;-)
I'm not bothering to DIY cut. Couple of months and I'll look like a Bee Gee
No need to worry what you look like tom , no bugger about 😉
Tom for the trim peice get one off a crashed van and have it resprayed to colour of your van be cheaper maybe then going to dealer
Great vid, Thx Thom! Recently acquired SACS SWA tool from CEF Highbury...brilliant tool terminating SWA!
Might be a idea to introduce some sort of vehicle damage scheme so the drivers take more care of your investments. Accidents happen so it might encourage your staff to admit to damage
Thanks Tom
That lift key won't work in any lift made since the mid-80s. What you have there is a Drop-Key, typically used in the States and on old lifts. But Modern lifts pretty much worldwide now (bar North America) use the Delta Key (or "Triangle Key"), and have done since the 80s. You'll find that more and more lifts use Triangle Key now as new lifts are installed and more older lifts are modernized and have new locks fitted. A lot of other old lifts take different keys too (such as the V-Key used on Otis lifts from the 60s and 70s, or the U-Key used on Express lifts from that era).
A video on customising the van..... ply, racking etc.
Thanks for the upload, Tom. Hair suits you mate. Work van/s should be your pride and joy, shame others have to drive um
Try about 4ft of solid pipe on each handle of the ladder rack then get a mate to pull the front down while you push the back one up. Might have enough leverage to pivot it back straight enough to use 👍🏻
Be interested to get a tour of the van with the types of racking and how you layed out the inside im liking the integration on it
This was great I've been wondering what that toolbag was, thanks Tom!
My work vehicle needs front and rear bumper and right side has a nice big scrape I also work in a city,people park right on my bumper, but I would also have replaced that light just because of the water, other than that you cant help things in a city
Get a ratchet strap on the side of the ladder rack the hit the tree and attach it under the van ratchet O
It up see if it pulls it back to where it need to be.
People get the armour slice wrong because they tend to overtighten it and that makes it drag the armour wires rather than cutting
Damage to cars and vans is a part of life... doesn't stop it from being fucking annoying! Dad used to be a favourite customer at the local bodyshop. With the whole lockdown business, getting repairs done is a bit of a bitch for anything that can't be done at home.
A good quality tool bag is worth it, I paid £180 for my veto Pro pac tech XL, had it about 7 years now, no rips or damage, makes the CK one look like a toy bag.
How you finding the S R 5 racking? I like the fact that it's more compact and lighter than the standard one.
My CK bag fell apart after half a year, got a Veto Pro Pac after that and it's still like new 3 years later.
@@mrfrenzy. and the CK ones are not cheap for what they are, everyone thought I was mad paying £180, but they soon changed their mind now their ones are falling apart. Mines at least 7 years old and nothing wrong at all.
I have the same gripe about the Wera torque screwdriver. They really shot themselves in the foot with that because their competitor (Wiha) goes to 5nm
Next time you should give veto pro pac tool bags a go mine is over 5yrs old and still going strong outlasted a velocity bag I had just an opinion
or it may be a case of the part that you pull out is doing the damage and what you need then is 1 or 2 metre sections of something that will slot over the two handles(where the piece of wood is) and then with the help of someone (one person at the end of each bar) twist a bit and check to see if that helps with pulling it out, rinse and repeat as necessary
1. Crack in rear light cluster = Gorilla Tape Crystal Clear. I can't believe you bought a new lens just for a crack
2. Damage to light cluster surround = sand it, fill it with some plastic filler, then spray it with a rattle can of colour match paint/top coat. Or, depending on how deep the damage is, try buffing it out with some T-Cut and a buffer.
3. Ladder rack = take it off the van, disassemble and straighten out and reinstall. Or, try hitting it with a rubber mallet in place
Hi Tom, great to randomly meet you the other day mate...Regarding the rear trim, how about just gloss black wrapping both sides?
All the best, Postie Jay
Detailed van tour next please Thomas 👍 Also, I have the Velocity bag its awesome
Might sound really stupid but u can try putting a metal pole through the handle and hammering it up if it's hollow I suppose it's worth a try if it saves 900
Bit of no more nails on the ladder rack 👍🏻👍🏻
hi I would use steps and get a scaffolding pipe and apply some force worth a go good luck
Hi Thomas if any of my lads damage my vans i have it in the contract they pay for it to be repaired . I had 1 lad last month reverse straight into one of the other vans and tried to blame it on the lad that was stationary . He smashed both bumpers cracked them but not too bad but both back lenses smashed i paid for the lenses out of his wages . My idea is why should i work all the hours and paid for a van that they think is a bumper car whilst they take great care of there own vehicles . If they didn't have any responsibility for them they would just think nothing of damaging them it would put us all out of business paying for the repairs. I would seriously get it in your employment contract asap.
Scaffold bar over handle and lever downwards get someone on the other side with another bar twist it back.
Might be a way you can disassemble it we bend it back and then reassemble it back maybe a couple of hours work something that can be done I am just thinking of the top of my head now looking at it to me it seems like a job that I might be able to do I have come across something like this before but not what you got with out having a better look I can not fully say it could be a quick job or a long one but I can not be fully Sure Tom
Good luck getting it done wish I could have a better look to really know the best way to fix it
Common feature in the smaller streets of London ......old trees listing into the roads, raising sections of footpaths.
Many of these trees leaning out into the road in West London. I drive a Vito and catch many a branch with my roof bars.
I surmise that your van was being parked and whilst straightening the vehicle, the roof bar caught the trunk of a tree. At that speed (1-2mph) you would not feel the impact to the roof bar, just a slight resistance that may have been put down to ‘wheel on kerb’....just saying...
Like the idea of 2 x scaffold bars though.
Beware low flying trees !!
WC1 - what an appropriate postcode for the giant toilet that is London.
Can you do a van tour.
@Thomas Nagy,
Who in this day and age still uses a hacksaw, when you have things like cordless grinders?
The plastic part your looking to replace may have a part number on the back of it if you remove it fully. Some brands do that with plastic trim