On this episode of Make It Kustom, I upgrade the English wheel and build a adjustable table to help wheeling large panels alone. Shop merch here: ⬇️⬇️ www.japhandsku... #makeitkustom #japhandskustoms #kustom
Great upgrades and vid - also love how them wheels turned out. Maybe a lil suggestion from my side since I am just great in finding sharp corners by accident - cut them corners of the palstic plate or they will break skin faster than expected, Murphy will make sure of it. Regards Smarty
Some very practical upgrades to the wheel. Looking forward to seeing you use it on the Zephyr panels I would suggest UHMW (Ultra High Molecular Weight) polyethylene for the slippery surface on the table. It has a low coefficient of friction and is much cheaper than Teflon or Delrin. It is soft enough to not scuff your work but wears well. You can find it through all the supply houses like MSC, McMaster Carr and Grainger.
I’ve got a local plastics place that stocks all this stuff and sheets and all quantities. This particular piece I had picked up for free somewhere so I don’t know what it is but it’s a slippery plastic LOL I would definitely use uHMW if I had to buy it
@@MakeItKustom Well, hell yeah! Free "almost as good", beats, "I had to go buy it" all day long. Lol One other thing though. If you ever buy Teflon for a project, and you are going to glue it to something, you have to get the stuff that's etched on one side or tge glue won't hold. It is the slippery'est plastic after all. Makes you wonder how they get it to stick to pans, huh. Love your work man.
Thanks for making another outstanding video. I recently purchased my first English Wheel and will use your ideas. Your treasures for making things you have in your shop. My treasures for making things I get from the County Landfill! Poor boys have poor ways.
Great video as always! Love everything you build. I do have one tip for machining the wheels: next time doing something like that, run your dial indicator on the center bore of the part first to make sure it's spinning true on the lathe, then run the indicator on the outside diameter. If you see it's out of round the same amount in the same place, your part could still be concentric to itself, just sitting a little off in the chuck. From there you could adjust the part in the chuck with shims to center it up or just party on if the job doesn't require that amount of precision. Either way, awesome job and thanks for the videos!
Accessorize, Accessorize, Accessorize. Vin my 7 year old says thats beautiful & he gives you one thousand thumbs up. Oh and that your channel is amazing! Thanks for all you do, Rock on Brother.
The wheel upgrades turned out great. I really enjoy your various jobs and fabrication. I am just going through a bit of a health issue at the moment that has slowed me down so when you can’t do, watch do is my theory. Awesome 👍 BC 🇨🇦
There is always helpful stuff in your videos. I love the work on the cars, but videos modifying tools is way up there too. Keep up the great work Karl!
Morning Karl, I always look forward to your instructional videos, I have to get me a C & C Plasma table!!...glad to see you use a full face shield when cutting or grinding, I was wearing regular safety glasses one day & had a spark(piece of hot metal) go up underneath my safety glasses & embed in my retna, had to have eye surgery to remove the metal, thank God it was painless, just very inconvenient, I now have a full face shield identical to yours. Be safe!!! God Bless!!!
Engineering observation/tip: Nice selection of tubing, as it's close fit will allow a collar type retainer. When using a single point to support the table, the primary retention is a small area on the opposing side of the pipe. Too much pressure can easily warp the wall, causing future adjustment problems. The Zaxis tightening screw should be ASKEW to the tubes' axis of travel. ie if it were extended, would never share a point in 3d space. An example would be the cinch for a bicycle seat post adjustment. Hope the sentiment was clear.
Your only missing some white to carry the red, white and blue theme of all American built... damn proud of your work!! You continue to amaze me young man. The red flame, the blue wheels, now some white glitter adjustable wheel for the height and locking mechanisms... your the master, I only suggest so take it away!!!
Now that you have 'fixed' your wheeling machine, I feel that it is incumbent on me to remind you about the bead roller build that your promised to do many moths ago. Nice design. Rule of thumb is to make things bi/multi-directional and adjustable when you can. You may have invented another theme park ride with the "Fabricator's (magical) wheelie machine ride"...HDPE that's used on hockey rink boards would make a good plastic for that as well. Very slippery.
Lol 😆 maybe you should do your own video of the bead roller then. This man keeps cranking out quality videos and you feel incumbent that you need to remind him that it was many "moths" ago 😆. Also uhmw works just as well self lubricating properties cheaper and easier to source.
@@ogt92fromthe1step9 He does. Karl is an amazing guy. UHMW, good to know, thanks. If you could read the communications between Karl and myself, you will find that the vast majority are 'tongue in cheek" and I tend to joke a lot.
I just ran across this. To polish the wheel and anvils, charge a buffing wheel on an angle grinder and hold it at a 45 degree angle to the wheel/anvils. Just let the wheel spin as you buff. The wheel speed can be controlled by the buffer wheel approach angle. The closer you get to 90 degrees, the slower the wheel goes and the faster it buffs.You can get a mirror finish this way. Give it a try. This is a one person job.
Ad always you knocked it out if the park. That's such an awesome addition to your English wheel. Very well done. I love how you come up with a build the add-ons, now stop slacking and try it out,lol Great job
Another incredible tutorial/explanation of the process involved in fabrication and modifying the tools necessary to get the job done. And you made the mods look like art! Go Jap Hands! Keep moving forward!
I like that "solo table" I was thinking of rigging up some kind of overhead suspension system using cables or cord so I could wheel larger panels by myself but I like your idea better.. Will definitely be watching to see how you get along with it. Nice craftsmanship by the way!😊
Cut the sheet in half and make like the English wheel has arms, you can move them apart as needed and top to swivel to be parallel to wheel or on angles
I wish I lived close to you. I'd come work for for free. To me knowledge is the best pay. Plus with my disability pay getting raised I'm good to go now. Love the work you do and I wish I could open a shop or had a friend or family member that did but no my family is lame and I only have one friend that lives within 8 hours of me so that sucks. The worse part is ha e most if the skills needed do this work. I need to learn more about panel making but I've been a welder since I was 13, I worked in a custom fab shop for 5 years and worked in a production shop for 4 while I was in the Army.
If you use the top wheel to drive the bottom for polishing you might consider using the rubber band to reduce the chance of embedding grit in the wheels.
Awesome! I'm finally about to build my English Wheel and will add on the casters and locking handle for now. Well done video! You have gotten really good at this!
Nice, finally someone uploads close to my timezone 🤣 (5am here) Your skills are great bro, I'm not even into cars (🏍) but I find the fabrication and problem solving fascinating! Keep it up! 🤙
And thanks for the great books. Saw them here and ordered 4 of them from Amazon Australia. Just received them today and couldn’t be happier. So much better than having random notepads floating around the workshop!
I really like your design of the English Wheel support table! And the precision tune up you gave to the wheels will definitely improve the quality of the work. .004 doesn't seem like much, but every little bit helps keep the panels smooth.
cass nawrocki metal shaping on youtube used a english wheel that turned vertical to keep the panel standing up, also a fan to blow panel horizontal when working alone
The wheel is looking great! Wonder if that out-of-round was from the manufacturer, or from a long time of wheeling basically in the same spot on it. Or maybe both? A quick tip for things like that height adjust on the table: Put a thin plastic slug or disk before the set-screw. It will make adjustment much smoother and will keep the screw from chewing up the shaft. Sometimes it even holds stronger than metal-on-metal.
Very nice upgrade. Hopefully you get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Weld On. Fab On. Keep Making. God Bless.
Another great video ❤, but really want to see you build another bead roller , I love the way yours looks and works, great job on the English wheel, thank you for your knowledge.
Nice improvements. I'll think of you next time the steel casters on my English Wheel are squeaking their way across the shop. When you had your upper wheel chucked up, you could have relieved the center. Starting and stopping all that extra mass takes a lot of energy.
Dude you blow my mind almost every video. Your work is amazing. Not sure if you saw it, was a dude looked just like you selling a van on facebook that was identical to yours lol.
Another great informational video. Love watching you work. My first thought on your table was I feel like it should be hinged on the end closest to the wheels - not in the center. You arc will always start at the point where the metal leaves the wheels so I thought you would need to continue the arc from that point to support the workpiece. I think this would also save you the time in setting up the height to match your arc and avoid the possibility of catching the edge of your workpiece on the leading edge of your table. Just my 2 cents. I hope it works out for you and you do a follow up video with another Zephyr panel. Oh, and I can’t wait for more videos on the Caddy and the mini car!
ERW tubing stands for "Electric Resistance Welded." DOM is actually ERW which is cold drawn over a mandrel to remove the inside seam and give to tube better characteristics in the actual metallurgy by elongating the grain structure of the material itself. A longer grain structure will flex and bend far longer that a short grain without work hardening and it is more resilient to permanent deformation. Seamless tubing is made by piercing a red hot billet of steel and then drawing it to size while hot. Seamless is far more expensive and has little to recommend it over DOM as far as performance characteristics are involved. Could you also supply the website for today lets build books for purchase.
Alien Tape is a great way to fasten something temporary. It holds (?140lb?) And releases with water if needed. As long as it's dry it works quite effectively.
Nice Upgrade Karl. Looking good, should help with the fabrication and make things a little easier for you and hopefully helps produce good products...cheers.
Great fab, I love it! That plastic table, the metal arms beneath it could be slightly curved down, to give it a convex shape, would be easier to not catch a corner while sliding your metal work over it. Maybe? ;-)
If you have hardened wheels, I would be very cautious to take that amount of material off. Thanks for sharing your take on polishing the wheels. I like how you show things and not sure how it going to turn out. That is a great deal of metalshaping. Try try try
A piece of electrical wire and a ring terminal, screw that to your drill press. Slide a piece of hose over the handle of your chuck key trapping the end of the wire : you'll never loose your chuck key again ... or use it for something else. I do that for chuck keys, allen wrenches and every tool needed to adjust my machines, even the wrench needed to change the gas cylinder on my welders : never look for a tool to operate your machine ever again. For my e-wheel, I just use a roller stand as a third hand.
nice upgrade Karl, its a bugger when you need an extra set of hands and have to struggle or wait for help, i see Jordan has arrived.....i guess the grill he carted all the way over there will get some attention soon. Great work keep it up Cheers
Really like the English wheel workpiece support. One thing on the Zephyr caught my eye at 20:30 into the project. The angle of the headight eyebrows looks wonky AF. Stand in line with the front fender from the side an scope out the headlight angle in relation to the road surface. Yikes! Slick rust removal process for the shaping wheels! 👍 😃
Great idea on the table! i've been thinking about how to make an extender for my bead roller table. my initial thought is to weld some tube underneath that will allow it to be retractable and then when it is extended just put a piece of wood or something on it to make it level, just not sure about the added weight and strain that would put on the table itself. as always, great video!
great idea might copy the table, the amount of times I've pinched my palm fat or fingers in my wheel trying to support booth ends haha, been checking each day for the new channel monthly subscription pretty keen on throwing some support your way when do you think it'll be active
Thank you so much we just haven’t made our video for the new members yet so we have not launched. It’s coming soon I appreciate your anticipation! Thank you
ERW = Electric Resistance Welded tube. This type of tube starts as a flat sheet and is roll formed into shape and welded in the roll forming machine. It has a raised section where it is welded.
Karl check out Cass's Chanel Cass Nawrocki Shaping Metal. He has some interesting solo fixes for his wheel. And check out his work while there. Quite a talent. Thanks for all you do. You are a very solid teacher and talent. Charlie
Hey where are my rollers on my table top to help material glide better. Food for thought. As if you actually need more lol. Lovely job. Would hate to put a price on some of your thoughts.
