The Post Apocalyptic Inventor

The Post Apocalyptic Inventor is a workshop channel focused on repair, restoration and home-made power. Its long-running Repair-A-Thon series sees broken machines rescued from scrapyards and fixed.

Videos follow the full process of diagnosing a fault, taking a machine apart, finding or making replacement parts and testing it. Subjects include generators, motors, power tools and old workshop machinery. Other projects explore generating electricity from water or heat. The style is relaxed and practical, with plenty of explanation. The Repair-A-Thon episodes often cover several machines in one video, each with its own fault to track down. Restoration projects, such as an old metal lathe, show how machine tools are built and maintained. Safety is taken seriously in the workshop, though the work involves mains electricity and heavy machinery.

Some highlights include:

A set of old military generators are taken apart, diagnosed and repaired.

The build and field test of a small home-made hydroelectric generator.

Experiments using Peltier modules to turn heat from a wood stove into electricity.

The channel has over 530,000 subscribers.

This channel shows the fault-finding and practical skills that maintenance, electrical and mechanical engineers rely on. The power generation projects link to renewable energy and electrical engineering. It suits students who enjoy taking things apart and might consider an engineering apprenticeship. It also shows the value of reuse and repair, an important theme in sustainable engineering.