I like to make stuff. Sometimes that involves glue. Sometimes that involves sparks. Often it involves other things that would make my channel name far more complicated and less memorable.
Very nice hammer. I’m a jeweler and have made several smaller using brass pipe fittings. I usually fill them with lead shot. Thank you for posting this.
I'm glad you like it! It can be difficult to (bring myself to) make ugly stuff when I have such great equipment and it's so enjoyable to make it beautiful. But yes, that also makes it difficult to put it to use.
I mean...lots. The gray lathe has variable speed (Reeves drive, like a Continuously Variable Transmission). The green lathe has 6 belt positions. Different speeds for different materials and processes. I've found that very few people watch new channels with slow content, such as explaining numbers like that. (See my video on aluminum trim molding for an example. It has been dead to recommendations for almost 2 years.) When few people watch for very long, RU-vid stops showing the video to ANYONE. Have to do some like this where I cut rapidly and don't do much in the way of explanations that would bore mass market viewers to get some movement behind the channel before I can get into stuff like that with an established audience. I would much rather do a long video where I explain all of it, but at this stage RU-vid would just punish me for that.
Yeah, it's hard to see but there's a decent mist going throughout the bore. Kept the part much cooler than no coolant, and far less mess than flood coolant. Eventually I'll build a shield to go over the chuck so I can do flood coolant without spraying my whole shop as it flies off of the chuck.
I'm glad you liked it! The fence is actually quite accurate, but that blade was more dull than I realized. I just finished the cuts since I was turning everything down on the lathe anyway. Believe me, there was no mistaking the smell when I was done with those cuts!
Great question, Ron! I was using a relatively low power hot plate ($18 on Amazon) for this. 1000 watts or so, and it was plenty. In the past I've used a propane camping stove. This was much easier!
@@glueandsparks It really does look like an excellently functional mallet my soft face is my goto hammer for the machine shop or really anywhere I’m not trying to destroy something or drive nails
@@glueandsparks Noooo. It needs to be used. First ding or scratch will be the hardest, but it will get easier from there. I made a beautiful workbench from old reclaimed hardwood. Achieved a perfect surface finish with hardware and it ended up living in the lounge room for about 6 months. A very fancy side table. First main damage was when I buggered up and ran a circ saw into the edge. I'm no longer precious about it after that stuff up. :)
@Glue and Sparks Great Video, and Great Job on the Stripper. I am sure your Nephew appreciated it very much. I worked in the Wireless Telecom Industry for 25 years, so I have stripped m ore than my fair share of Copper. Lol I would've loved to have had this back in the day. Most of our stuff was pretty good sized though, like from 1/0 all the way up to 750MCM. Keep up the good work. I just subscribed to your channel.
😂 Texas doesn't deserve you. It's called Dykem, or just metal marking fluid or layout fluid. Just high contrast coating that scratches off easily so you can see the marks you make. Terrible as paint because the adhesion is so poor. Great for marking layout lines, or for getting everywhere and making yourself look like a Smurf (though high spot blue is far more effective at that since it doesn't really dry up).
Mystery steel. I buy from a liquidator who scans with a PMI/XRF gun but they only label tool and stainless steels by alloy. Everything else just gets labeled "CS" for carbon steel. Covers everything from 1018 to 1095 to cast iron. It's frustrating, but it's very cheap. I'm sure you didn't want to know that much, I'm just venting. :)
