 Hey everyone Shabear 1000 here. Merry Christmas Feliz Navidad. It's that time of year again Today we're going to be fixing this 12 volt cooler. I've got here. I just cleaned it up Washed it all out and everything. This is what we got to do. We got to put We got to put an end on this so we're gonna fix this we'll explain something to you about this cooler here in just a second Now this was her dad's cooler and You know, of course when he passed away we got it. So we've had it a couple years I've used it a couple times when I first tried it out. I tried it out in the garage and I Left a bottle of water in there overnight and it froze and But I got a look at this today We've used it a couple times camping and I always thought it was weird that there wasn't a Plug in it for ice, you know after ice melts and I thought because normally Just a regular cooler will have that in case you don't want to use the power And then I got to looking at it today and I thought Well, that's a strange place for the Coleman mark. Usually they're right across here So I pulled the lead off to clean it out real good And I got the looking in here. What are these for? Well, this is a daggone refrigerator Cool, but anyway We're gonna put an end on it and we're gonna try to We're gonna see if this this still works Because I know it was out in the water for a while. It was outside Because we just thought it was a regular cooler except for you know Just uh Like a heat sink So I thought, you know, it's not a big deal and it had water in it and one time I had ice in it and it melted and It was full of water. So I don't know if the motor's still even any good or not or if it works Like I said, and another thing was there's really no handles. I thought it's peculiar I never did never dawned on me. That's a little refrigerator. So let's get it in the house Let's try to put Put that end on here. I have an extra end and then we'll get a plugged into something And we'll let it run for a while. I'll put a temperature thing inside there. We'll let it run for a while See if it still works. Okay guys, so I'm probably gonna have to solder these wires so I got my old soldering iron here and Some cutting implements wire strippers here These things are super old I did that set my soldering gun on it one day or my soldering iron or something Anyway, okay like first There's a way you can tell Well, actually you can tell this thing's been kind of chewed up by an animal because it sat outside for a while See those are chew marks probably a squirrel We don't see many mice around here because we do have snakes. How you can tell which one is Positive and which one's negative This one is positive. Well, you see the red on it, but if that wasn't on there, how can you tell? Well? On one side, there's a ribbed side. I don't know if you can see them ribs on there or not See the ribs There's lines on the other side you either have some writing see the writing There's numbers and stuff on there or a white line or a white dotted line. That'll be your power So anyway, let's open this up Hopefully this will this one will work. If not, I have another one. This is just a car charging adapter that I Don't use I've never used it. I don't use these things because I had a a Our light one time Had one of these and I plugged it into the car and it Got hot and melted my or light so Anyway, so we took a screw out. There's a little light here. I'm not gonna worry about that light See what's inside of here. I was gonna say there should be a fuse There is a fuse in these so guys if you have one of these something like this It's not working sometimes not all the time, but a lot of times there'll be an end on here You can screw off and check that fuse But you also have to wonder If it's a blown fuse what caused it right what caused it to blow This comes apart so I Don't know if this screws on or just pops on Okay, that just that one just pops on now. It should be able to take it apart. There we go There's the light so we've got Negative side is this And positive side will be the center So what I'm probably going to do I may leave the light on there. I'm just going to unsolder it from here and unsolder it from there But in the meantime, let's go ahead Let's get this two mark out of here I have checked the rest of the cord and it seems to be fine So let's cut that that part out of it that spot out make them about the same size I may have to put a bigger fuse in there I'm not sure off to look to see what that is the fuse is good, but I may have to put a bigger fuse in it I'll probably do that anyway But so let's go ahead and trim these wires back. Okay. I see it and I'm not going to go real far because I'm just pretty much Just going to solder that onto there So I need to get don't lose that spring either. So what I need to do is I have to get my soldering iron hot and Also, I'm gonna figure out how this goes So anyway, let me get my soldering iron plugged in let it get warmed up and I'll tin it and We'll go ahead and I'll keep this in though the end of this is still good then I'll go ahead and Get that soldered off of there So let me get this plugged in go pick a piece of rubber up off the floor And I'll be right back with you guys stick around Okay, guys, so I'm gonna zoom you in a little bit, but again the lightings Not that great here. So First thing I'm going to do so I'm going to unsolder this I'm not going to leave the light in there I don't need that light. So when I plug it in If the motor kicks on it's working if it don't it's not because there's no switch on that thing. So All right now I want to solder to that bottom piece there That's for a second. I say I know I say this every time but One of these days I'm going to get me a soldering station. I'm going to try to tin these wires I've already put Flux on them Just got some old paste there. It seems to work. Okay because these soldering irons they They heat up and then cool down heat up and then cool down so they can't overheat But it takes them so long especially these older ones I've got a brand new actual soldering gun in there that monkey bought for me for christmas one year I have never used it still in the plastic. We'll get it out sometime and check it out. I think it's a weller I'm not sure but When I was hinting around I needed a soldering station. She just thought I meant a soldering gun So They look okay. All right now. This is going to go See this goes like this So I'm going to want to solder that It's going to come up through I don't want to solder this one Sorry guys positive wire onto there You get some helping hands too What that is guys, it's not a joke. It's actually They got little clamps and stuff. Um, I could probably make a set Because I got some of those little clamps those alligator clips or whatever Um, I could probably make a set of them Let's see if I can Make sure I get the right one because I did that once if you guys remember I put the wrong wire on I forget what that was on. I know you guys can't see too much Sometimes if you do that it gets it hot again for a second Plus I'm using metal here, but I I really have no choice To hold this thing. I think it's over a little bit too far. Maybe not Let's just go ahead and fix it now. There we go. There's where I want it. Sorry guys I Made a thing to where I could put my camera right over Right over in front of me but It's kind of this camera here is kind of too heavy for it Because when I build it I build it for old blue And old blue is a light camera Okay, so there's that Now We're going to unsolder this piece Like I said, I'll save this end. I can you know always using Well, I can save that light too because I know the light works Because I did plug it in to check it Okay, let me get this tinned up right here on the corner flux on there Now we're going to put this wire on here Well, let me see. I need to figure out a way To hold this up in the air That's not going to work To try to keep it away from that metal because that metal will take my heat away So hopefully this will work all right I mean I could always put You know those gator clips on the end of here if I wanted and just put it onto a regular battery You know just clip it onto your battery in your car or truck, but our battery And the suv Is underneath the floorboard Now there is a place out under in the engine compartment that That you can use for if you have to You know you get a jump starter you're giving someone a jump start But I don't like using that so I think But the reason but this it has a power source in the back too Like not a cigarette lighter, but you know the power source. It looks like a cigarette lighter Come on It um It's got one of those in the back You know that you can plug in your charger your phone charger or whatever And being that the cooler is always out back there Wherever we're going to be That would be That's why I want to use this Hate the soldering gun. Well soldering iron. It's not a gun That's not even Getting hot enough to melt solder Let's see here A new tip would probably help but they still don't work that great brand new out of the box Hi, let me get this hot warmed up first All right guys, so I thought I turned you on but apparently I didn't hit the button hard enough So there's that so let's go ahead Well, let me unplug this And I'm going to move this out of the way Because if not, I will burn myself or burn something else up. Hang on. Okay, I'm back All right, so let's go ahead Get these in here where they're supposed to be like that This I can't see nothing. I'm sure you guys can't either. Remember if that went like that Like this, but I'm going to put it like that I'm getting somewhere Just gotta make sure them Nothing's touching here Okay, it doesn't look like it Well, no once we plug it into something Twisting on me there we go All right now Let's put our screw back in here One side Well, usually one side's around one side's octagon or whatever, but this side is either or Jeez things fight me all the way Get out of there This is crazy Well, that's strange Put it in there with my fingers. Let's try this way Good Man That was a pain This back on there Put our spring down inside there Make sure it's springy Fish Now we're going to go outside Those tree lights kicked. There's all the outside lights kicking on too Okay, so let's go outside and plug it in. I've got a battery um outside That I hooked up just in case monkey wasn't back in time and I should probably try it with that anyway So I'm not you know blowing fuses in the truck. So let's go outside. Okay guys, so I used this when I was trying out my uh FM transmitter. So let's plug this in I can't tell if the fan's turning on. Hang on. Let me check this out All right guys, I just had a dirty connection there, but I know you can't see it, but maybe in here She's running. Okay. Now. Let me go get my thermometer Oh, yeah, I can feel that And we'll which was this open and we'll put it in here and we'll see how cold it gets Okay, so There's the temperature We've got our probe here That's about what the temperature is inside the garage Because I just took it out of the garage. So let's open this up I won't put our probe inside there All right now it is Time is it 6 16 All right, let's come back In an hour That's staying right about 65.3 So let's come back in an hour And see if that has worked See if that drop that number drops. Okay guys, we're 6 30 so it's been 14 minutes 38.3 38.4 So it's dropping 38.2 And so yeah, once you get some stuff in there You leave that thing plugged in On your way to the campground and why you're setting up and stuff This thing will be fine There's 38 degrees 37 37.9 All right, let's give it another say 10 more minutes and we'll see what it's at Let's see what it's at Okay guys, it's been about 10 minutes Covering about 23 degrees and I remember when you had that full of stuff. It's not going to freeze Um, but like I said, I had I did have a tube of water in there just a bottle of water 16 ounce bottle of water One time overnight. It was over 24 hours. It did freeze. It didn't freeze solid, but it froze into some ice So if you got that full of pop beer or whatever food It's not going to freeze it at that because it's going to take more to cool it off But yeah, there you go Yeah, we fixed it It's working Awesome Cool Yeah, I don't think it'll get much colder than that It might if I let it sit all night long without anything in it, but I know for a fact though that once that's full, you know, it's going to take more to cool everything off so You know, you put your popper beer in there If it's already cold, it's just going to stay cold. It's not going to freeze like a six pack of pop overnight It's not going to freeze your food, but it will keep it cool. So there we go. All right guys. Thanks for watching. I appreciate it I'm going to say she bear the myth the man legend. I'm gone for now Uh, monkey's mom didn't get out of the hospital yesterday but um Because she put in like an appeal or whatever and But they denied it. So they're going to make her come home tomorrow Or she might go into rehab. So All right guys. Anyway, there we go Thanks for watching. I appreciate it. Happy holidays everyone 21.7 now Um, we'll see you guys in the next one. Bye. Bye guys. Take care. Stay safe. Have a good one