COMMUNISM vs CAPITALISM: Who Made Better Power Tools?

painkillers these evil little pills besides their intended purpose they also tell you that everything is going to be okay man just relax feel just lie down in that comfy bed man stare at the phone screen for a few hours do some online shopping I shouldn't be making purchasing decisions late at night while sober let alone. High rating mistakes on eBay are

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anyway fresh from the former Soviet Union. I bought a new drill. $30 for the drill, pretty cheap, plus $50 to ship it here from Lithuania and then through. customs and at the front door of this capitalist Pork bill I don't know what part of Europe you are from Judith, but you have a lovely smile.

The

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cord is nice and flexible. Good for those cold Moscow winters. The clean switch smells a little sticky. like stale cigarettes and ozone, I loved the Cerlic alphabet, it's basically a Greek alphabet with a Slavic expansion pack and like Greek, it's completely unintelligible to real Americans like me who politely refuse to learn a second language. Soviet things have such a style that 5- He drew what he thinks a drill should look like and they took that drawing to the factory Serge, here is your simple build for me. We do this without changes for half a century.

I used to buy a lot of cheap mechanical vintage Soviet wristwatches on eBay. seller in Ukraine, you know, before Putin put the boot there, beautiful pieces, but they all worked like I hope it's okay if you're bored look for the USSR watch on eBay, you won't be disappointed, this symbol means beware of snakes on pyramid hats this I think is the serial number this is the chuck size 9mm or 38 on this side of the wall this means 800 RPM which of course is at 50 htz so we'll see what we get 220 volts 340 watts 1.6 amps this is the manufacturer Bosch Tool Company no, wait, it says Bor Tool Company had to make at least one corny pun.

It's in my contract. I doubt all my preconceptions. Notions about the quality of life in the USSR be accurate after all the propaganda existed on our side too, but you. I have to feel bad for the poor guy responsible for stamping the year 1973 on these nameplates day after day this is the double insulation symbol I knew it was a universal symbol but I didn't know it was Universal it's cool See, double insulation is Pretty important for metal body

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, it just means that there is a secondary insulation system inside the tool, so if any angry electrons escape from the body of the tool, they don't ignite it in the US, the standards for double insulation are determined by the National Electrical Code and in Soviet Russia, let's say I'm going to check the insulation before plugging it in and touching it, so, Siberian tiger in the room, it didn't ship with any

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adapter, of course, Europe He doesn't have our penchant for political lobbyists and as a result there are no 120 tinfoil hats in Europe.

Time, the gauge of wire you need is determined by amps, not volts or watts. Watts are power and power is what determines your ability to work and whether there is something that both Russians and Americans do. too much work and meth, so if you double your volts you can get the same amount of usable power with half the amps and therefore you can use half the copper when you were setting up your power grid. Copper suppliers pushed for 110, presumably because it's safer, realistically they sold twice as much copper. I mean, G in my head. I'd rather stick my finger in an American outlet than a European one because you know 120 always hurts, but it usually only kills you if you're standing on it at the top of a tall ladder when it bites you, so I guess it's safer anyway , there is no chance that the country that still uses keys with fractions is going to revamp the entire electrical standard already established just to conform to what a bunch of German frogs and Red Coats were doing, here we are today in 2024 with 120 starting to wondering if I've worked on this before, it sure looks like me, yes I know it's a 50 amp socket, yes I know the drill is rated at 1.6 amps, no I don't.

I don't need a fuse, this line wire I'm using is 13 gauge. It's my fuse. Turns out 13 gauge wire is too thin to clamp inside a 50 amp outlet, so yeah Jesus take the wheel, we have 240 of course, but it's not exactly the same flavor, we use 2 legs of 120 volts and 60 HZ 180° out of phase so that the R 240 forgives your nerves. The frame rate is 24 because my reach is older than me from the ground to the side. 120 volt sine wave from ground to ground. 120 volt lateral sine wave 180° out of phase from the first one side to the other, however a double amplitude sine wave in layman's terms 120 on one side and negative 120 on the other for a total of 240 in Russia I believe.

I've never been there, it's 230 50 HZ on one side and Z volts neutral on the other, so basically the same voltage difference, dad, dad, this should work. Famous last words, then there's the pesky problem of frequency. I doubt there is any Sputnik-style electronic system here. so nothing sensible just a calorie burning motor and a chunky mechanical switch, extra chunky in theory, it should take 60 Freedom Hertz like a champ can spin a little faster and will probably get a little warm with heavy use but it will be good. the sticky switch is cold so it is rated for 800 RPM running at 50 HZ at 220.

I have it running at 60 HZ at 242 volts. It's a brushed motor, so I don't know if the frequency makes a difference or not. I'm sure the extra 22 volts will add some RPM, so taking all bets, I'm betting 1000 RPM 1800. I think my laser attack is reading the tape twice or something. It should be half. I have more tachometers than testicles. Let's try to contact the technician. The same. What the hell do I do? I have no idea who installed the nitrous in this thing, but it works 100% faster and now I know why it smells like ozone. Those poor, sweet communist brushes, let's see if you know what drills.

Fortunately, it came with a Chuck key, of course not. In the most boring part it seemed appropriate to me. I'm going to put Old Rasputin here against an authentic pine tree from the American South in the heart of

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. The Alabama Timber Forest. This thing is going to break my wrists. Longer power cord next time I'll have to figure it out. sticky trigger someone else wants to see you naked got baking a lightweight handle aside M4 by7 screws in case you're dying to know the switch is extremely sloppy just a pit I wouldn't call it a pin it's a vaguely round piece of steel there is my switch Adhesive is great as I have never seen a switch like that.

I haven't taken apart old 220 volt

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either, so maybe this is too common and I'm just ignorant, but I love how simple and symmetrical it is, oops, got it. B I might have to check the tape on this one, I got it, this is the plastic backing plate, look how chewed it is, that's why the switch gets stuck. I'm not going to tell a bunch of dead Russian engineers how to design a tool, but maybe. this piece should have been

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from sheet metal, wait, sheet metal would short out the switch, oh blame the painkillers for the business end.

I hate slotted screws, the only thing worse than Phillips baby H, it's all plastic inside, amazing, I guess it's Why didn't it electrocute me? The switch is very used but is totally useful. What's underneath. Boot and run the limit. Wait. Fool me once. What a shame. Fool me twice. We worry a lot. 250b, that's 250 volts. I'm not used to seeing capacitors rated this close to the design voltage. of the tool there is usually a bit of buffer. I'm running it at 242, this one says 220b. Look, I don't buy used tools from eBay hoping they don't explode. mkf translates to microfarads and if you don't know what cccp means.

Blame your history teacher, the brushes were sold out and replaced, you can tell because they use too small a screwdriver and chewed up the caps. There is a right tool for every job and I don't have one either, not sure if it's a two piece. driver or if the solder joint failed, oh it's tight, I'm nervous, it's going to break, yes it's a brush, lift the jaw off the floor, look at the gearbox below, it has a painted cast aluminum housing and I'm sure this is lead free paint, luckily two of the screws were missing so that will save me some time, that's the smell, it's not cigarettes or ozone, it's cosmoline, did some research, it's actually called solid, It all seems to be a medium viscosity oil thickened with vegetables. and animal fats, so it's crude oil and crisco.

I'm assuming it's supposed to be a C clip, it's not a C clip, it's a retainer to hold this pin. They were using a round pin as a key in a square cut slot. A little rough around the edges, but it looks like work to get strong AK-47 vibes out of this thing, it sure smells like a little cosmoline bushing in here, oh wait no, that's a ball bearing with no planetary gears, just a drive gear and a double reduction, another unshielded bearing or anything, but it's okay, it's worked for so long. I don't know what those markings mean, there is no roof on the surface of the case to keep oil in or dirt out, but again it has worked with these long and very strong AK-47 vibes.

Wait, if I take out that armor, it's time to ruin the brushes, yeah?

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take them out Pretty dirty but hey, it's 50 years old this wasn't a toolbox Queen someone used the snot of this thing in the service of the country was that Germany, if you've ever shot an AK 47, this thing spins like an AK shoots so Crude and sloppy you can't believe it works so well, this drill will run longer than some modern drills, period, another ball bearing without an ounce of protective roof or lubrication, in fact, it doesn't make much noise. Vibration and hardness engineers in the former Soviet Union.

I suspect there are a lot of sketches in general, but it's over half a century old, so it's either silly because it's a question or it's Jane because it's old. I'm pretty sure the answer is yes, but let's see what. my grandfather Yankee Doodle Dandy was using to see if we were much

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since 1969, the year we went to the moon, there are supposedly no offshore metric parts on this Craftsman, we didn't need millimeters to win World War II or leave . to the moon and we're sure we don't need it to build our wrist-breaking electric drill.

This represents the beginning of our capitalist society going bankrupt. not like DC motors where you simply change the polarity and the motor rotates backwards. AC motors rotate in the direction they were designed to rotate, even if you swap the wires around some AC motors I've seen that use a reversible gearbox or sophisticated motor driver circuit. to make the opposite happen, but this just has a simple double throw switch that sends power to a simple separate winding, the switch is much smoother, very strong, almost no slope return action, has rivets, fantastic western technology, It is a slide switch, not a plunger switch.

The locking mechanism inspires a lot more confidence and I hate to point this out but it's all made of metal, much beefier brushes but that's not the flex you think it is because this is a 110 volt tool so you need half as much of the voltage, twice the current. twice the brush makes sense I hate the lid screws I think they could be worse than the slotted ones maybe G this grease stinks I think I prefer the cosmoline but it seems to leave a much more even coating on all the parts here so it should have a lower melting temperature than animal fat the same style of gear reduction as the rusky driller the greeks invented planetary gear sets 2000 years ago i wonder what happened to it it's that a bearing looks shielded no that's a bushing.

I mean, a good bearing is probably better than a bushing. but a good bushing is better than a poor quality bearing, which is what the Soviet drill has. Everything fits much better. More shells. I don't think there are any bearings in this drill stamped metal fan, don't put your fingers in there. I'm going to get the brushes out before she breaks them, be careful, she's learning, the bike ring seems to be hanging on the brush holders, they're just pressed in and I'm wondering if I can get them out or push them in, she's coming, wow. It is small.

I expected it to be double the size, not half. It is balanced, but has no epoxy. It may be something modern. I may be being unfair here, honestly he doesn't look much better than the Russian one. Wait, it's the Russian. balanced, no, that's part of its charm, another bushing at the rear end and not much else toget excited. I don't think it's presumptuous of me to say that the Craftsman blows the Soviet out of the water or maybe it is, but I'm an American. but it amuses me how simple it is and how well it works with so much dirt.

I feel like you could drop this in a sandbox and clean it with salt water and it would still break your American female wrists. Russia. You beat us to space and killed more Nazis, but we made better power tools than you and boo boo, stick your head out and do it, America, yeah, now I have to put all this crap back together, thanks for watching, comrades.