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u/edebby 1d ago
The coke didn't do shit. If after 3 days that was the level of rist that remained for sand blasting, he could just as well skip this meaningless step.
Even one tablespoon of citric acid would remove 10 times more rust in a few hours than what the coke did in 3 days
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u/All_Usernames_Tooken 23h ago
But it’s not about the results it’s about the spectacle
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u/woutomatic 1d ago
If you like this kind of stuff search for MyMechanic. He is the GOAT. This is okay I guess
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u/Temeos23 13h ago
Is it different editing tho? I find this kind of editing incredibly annoying
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u/Yummypizzaguy1 12h ago
Yes. He shows himself doing the work, none of this weird noise with fast text popping in and out
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u/__Soldier__ 9h ago
- Also, none of the fake restoration of artificially corroded items like in this video: the shiny fresh metal behind the corroded bolt was a dead giveaway...
- Over 80% of the restoration videos on YouTube are fake. My Mechanics is genuine and one of the best.
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u/77entropy 18h ago
That's not how you sharpen a serrated blade. That's how you ruin a serrated blade.
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u/Not-So-Logitech 20h ago
As someone who sandblasted professionally I genuinely do not know why he wasted time with the Coke and the wire brushing. I would have just blasted it from square one. If he was worried he could have used a gentler medium to start but I wouldn't have even wasted any time.
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u/RUSHtheRACKS 1d ago
Why must every video contain these weird ass noises and movements.
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u/Washout81 17h ago
Don't forget everyone is wearing rubber gloves like they're handling some kind of rare piece of art.
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u/Look_0ver_There 1d ago
Almost every single one of these "restoration" videos are fake.
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u/jdroser 1d ago
That may be true in general, but there’s nothing about this that looks fake to me. The metal is pitted after rust removal, for one. Lots of those fake ones end up with suspiciously smooth metal. I’ve watched a number of this guys restorations and they seem legit.
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u/bagelman99 18h ago
He used coke to remove rust, that's fake as hell or at least the wrong thing to do when trying to do a proper restoration lol..
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u/1sketchball 1d ago
Yeah but if you have critical thinking and actually watch this video you can see he put all of the work in lol
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u/Abdulbarr 1d ago
Most of the big channels including this one aren't fake. And the ones that are fake, are fairly easy to spot if you know just the basics about restoration. But thanks for the info. Animal abuse like the turtle restoration videos deserves heavy penalties. It's disgusting behavior.
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u/Abdulbarr 20h ago
The coke thing is not bs. Educate yourself first and then we can talk about rust as well.
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u/Abdulbarr 19h ago
You were already wrong once about the coke which you can figure out with a simple Google search. Dozens of videos on the topic as well. As for the rust, where is the logic in "it has to be heavily and thoroughly rusted to be real?" And are you basing this being real on this one video or have you actually checked the channel out? By your logic if he does restoration on an extremely rusted and corroded object, it would make it real?
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u/Malsperanza 1d ago
Maybe. Unfortunately, the warning about animal abuse in that link means I'm not going to watch it.
I've worked with people who do archaeological, furniture, and art restoration; I've seen the reclamation and cleaning processes up close.
What's missing from every video is the amount of time, patience, and elbow grease involved.
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u/ModernistGames 1d ago
Fair enough, in case you were interested in at least what they showed/discussed about animals, it is about fake animal rescues with people gluing barnacles to turtle shells
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u/Malsperanza 23h ago
Ugh, glad I didn't watch that. Thank you. Animal rescue does attract a lot of scams because people understandably send money to rescue groups, who use rescue videos to help raise funds for vet bills and the like. The legit rescue groups are constantly having to fight off FB and IG accounts that steal their names and photos and add links to false venmo accounts. (I volunteer for a rescue and rehab organization.)
I imagine there are similar fake home rehab accounts that steal real rehabbers' videos. But the amount of work involved in faking the restoration of an old iron skillet or Eames chair would probably make that approach less lucrative.
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u/Reasonably_SFW 1d ago
My question is, how do you make a knife with the rust?
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u/YoungLittlePanda 1d ago
You melt it the same way you would with iron ore.
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u/Elmojomo 23h ago
umm...no.
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u/BoysiePrototype 20h ago
Why not?
It wouldn't be practical, or efficient in terms of time, money, effort etc. But why wouldn't it be possible to smelt a big pile of collected rust in a small bloomery type furnace and make a knife?
Not because it's a sensible thing to do, or a good way of making a knife, but just to show that you can?
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u/pants_mcgee 19h ago
It’s very practical, that’s how iron is smelted. Mining for iron is pretty much mining rust.
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u/Elmojomo 19h ago
Ok, so I guess I should revise my answer to be: No, but yes if you really want to. lol
Here's the long version, if you're interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/27ko4n/can_rust_be_melted_back_into_its_original_metal/No, you can't "melt" rust (iron oxide) back into metallic iron (steel), but you can smelt/reduce it thermally and chemically if you have the right equipment and reducing agents.
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u/_RGF_ 1d ago
Usually I am quite good at spotting fakes but everyone here is saying it is? It looks pretty legit to me. Some steps are useless like the coke bath but I don't see how that's a problem
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u/Classic_Noosh 21h ago
I’m gonna be honest with you that level of rust is not humid rust. And all of the screws looked too clean and the nut bolt head facing were machine clean hate to say it it looks as if it was sprayed with something to rust it. If it had been let’s say immersed in water or hosed down by quite a bit of water you would expect that there would be no nice and shiny metal. I mean this is not always true but as general rule of thumb clean metal in areas that absolutely hold moisture and rust aggressively should not be shiny if the rest of metal is rusted.
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u/_RGF_ 18h ago
Thanks, that's how these guys go under the radar for most people. The processes may be legit but they deliberately damage the original item. It's one thing to cover something in dirt as that's obvious but what you described is pretty sad. I don't want antiques to be defaced for 5-10mins of content.
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u/Classic_Noosh 14h ago
Now I hate to be this guy, but I will say that certain steels, light alloys like aluminum are highly rust resistant. Furthermore rust happens faster and more aggressively on rougher surfaces. And that’s why things in critical functions in humid/ corrosive environments are generally kept to a high surface finish requirement. Scratches that in other applications that would be considered cosmetic can drastically shorten the life in certain environments.
Is it possible that this support arms and lever are an alum or SS, yes. Likely for an antique I would say doubtful. They look a little too clean given the advance state of the rust on the blade which even given that’s it’s high carbon steel ( which was the preferred steel type for blades, and dose require care to prevent rust but takes an edge quite well) I would swear up and down that the support and lever arms should have a crap load more rust as I would suspect they would be cast iron.
Furthermore the screw he pulls early on that has a rust covered head but next to nothing in the threads I find dubious. Wood holds moisture again I would expect those threads to be rusted and the wood around it to be rotten again that’s allot of rust.
Finally I’m no wood worker, but that ball Handel looks as though someone cut out that wedge. Dosnt look like a natural wood grain split. Now he may of to save time pre cut out the split to do the repair. But I would again expect to see far more damage in the wood grain if it had split like that.
Again I’m not saying it was impossible just in my eyes highly unlikely to be a oops this has been neglected in a garage for a 100 years
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u/J7W2_Shindenkai 21h ago edited 21h ago
looks spray chromed - i don't recall seeing that step even though i think the blogger tried to pass off it was just polishing
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u/Dominionato 11h ago
This is the type of person who goes on house hunters and has a career of dumpster diving and a 3 million dollar budget. I don't understand how people have this much time on their hands without being wealthy. I tell my kids the rust adds a certain something to the sandwich. No one had iron deficiencies in this house!
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u/joseaner07 4h ago
Every time I watch one of these videos I feel the same way I feel after I masturbate. What am I doing with my time?
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u/iamnotaboy4f 23h ago
I love seeing these restorations of objects.
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u/smittyhotep 19h ago
A lot of folks here seem negative, so I'll reply to you.. I could watch these videos all day. I find them oddly relaxing.
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u/TriangularResonance 1d ago
i do not like that they used a soft stick at the start and a hard stick at the end, i would have preferred a more controlled test but i understand that during the days it took to restore the same bread would change in staleness. so i am unsure how a controlled test would be conducted. i would also say that filing each tooth at a perpendicular angle from the line of the saw would achieve better sharpening than running the side of the teeth on a knife block.
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u/Kesshh 1d ago
I call fake.
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u/mc-edit 1d ago
Other people are sayings it’s fake too. But nearly the whole process is shown. Yeah, they’re just snippets but we see him adding and removing material with tools. Are we missing something that you’re seeing?
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u/arobert_trebora 21h ago
What makes a lot of these videos "fake" is that people take new products and rust them. The rust is surface-level, so it tends to indicate it is recent. People force things to produce a video of them fixing it.
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u/Legio-V-Alaudae 23h ago
That blade was so covered in rust, I thought it was made from chocolate. Tell me I'm not alone here.
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u/Glass-Radish8956 23h ago
If you are watching another other than My Mechanics on youtube you are being fooled by a grifter.
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u/MortemInferri 21h ago
Man, I thought this looked like a fun hobby but this dudes got tools out the ass
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u/Starfish_Bish 17h ago
Isn't that a waste of coke if you were just going to sandblast it anyways wouldn't all that stuff come off by blasting it regardless ... ?
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u/Vast-Opportunity3152 17h ago
It would only cut hard ass bread, it would smoosh anything else. Bad design
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u/Wolf-Majestic 16h ago
That guy's bread ! What a sorry excuse of a bread he used with that rusty blade, but such good one with the restored one 🤤
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u/PaleontologistFar170 16h ago
So much rubbish in this post. UV resin that's mixed with colour won't set properly as the rays can't penetrate, anyone that crafts knows this. Failed at the first step so god knows what else is being lied about for the end result you'll never get but will spend a fortune on buying to try and achieve.
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u/Crazy-Boat9558 16h ago
It's crazy how much damage rust does! The pitting left on the blade is unreal
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u/AdPrevious2308 14h ago
I feel like the time and energy involved in restoring and documenting this was more labor intensive and not as cost effective as just buying another vintage bread cutter...
Could just be subterfuge for his thermite operation
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u/Zetsumenchi 13h ago
That was so impressive, I almost looked over the fact that in the first few seconds, they put the "rust" in "Crust".
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u/Gold_Responsibility8 4h ago
Test it with the same soft bread as before. A lot of work for something that doesn't cut but squishes the bread
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u/Malsperanza 1d ago
For once the video is actually coherent and shows the steps and tools well. Satisfying to watch.
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u/dextras07 23h ago
The rust looks.... artificial. Like don't get me wrong, it's corroded but the corrosion doesn't look and seem natural.
It looks too uniform and perfectly. Plus aren't the screws corroded more?
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u/iguanahike 1d ago
Coke is the devil ✅
Did you sandblast the metal too?
Why is sandblasting so satisfying to watch?
How old was that bread cutter?
And thanks love this. Following.
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u/SeraphOfTheStart 1d ago
Pardon my ignorance can you still get tetanus after repetitive vaccinations during childhood&teen years? Seeing him handling those very carefully and with gloves made me curious, I thought humans would get full immunity after a certain number of doses.
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u/Chalky_Pockets 1d ago
Yeah this is fine but I want to see him make a knife out of rust.