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by nabilhat 683 days ago
Taking this approach to a certain extreme, there's this video about making a bellhousing adapter to mate a Smart ForTwo EV motor to a vintage Jeep transmission. Raw materials include snowmobile clutch parts, scrap engine parts, and the housing from a dead old Skil saw. After all, once machine tools get involved, everything looks like a billet for something else, and casting is a far more accessible means of metalworking.

Much of the channel is about dragging decrepit artifacts of industry out of scrapyards or the reclaiming jaws of Nature and quite effectively repurposing or reusing the sound bits, which is something I personally find to be creative and satisfying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz3OKeD4_hU