Building A Round Bar Bender From Scrap Metal 

This was a realy nice departure from the norm

One of the best machining videos on youtube, the camera work is perfect! thank you

I always enjoy every video that you make Steve. I realise that you can't be making videos all of the time, but those that you have made have been great to watch and learn from. Keep up the good work, mate and take good care of yourself and your lovely family. They grow up so quickly, my son is now 18 and my niece is now 7, and it all happens so fast! Mark from Melbourne Australia

Nicely done!

Nice video, keep up the down-to-earth approach. Great to be in work that you really enjoy.

Nice to hear about your journey too 😊 beautiful video, and lovely music!

I so enjoy your skill skill as an artisan and as a video maker. Your creativity and your humor are great. I am waiting for the right little rocket stove that can be shipped here to the USA

Lovely selection of Jazz for background music. Thanks Steve. Wishing you and your family a blessed week, gentle seasonally appropriate weather and restful evenings with your family and friends. Peace brother

I enjoyed the lo-fi aspect of this video... cheers!

Very exciting every time you post something! Love to see your work!

Kurtis from cutting edge engineering in Queensland is another good channel to add to your list if he hasnt already come up in your yt recommendations, he does a lot of repair and shop made tool videos

Precisely forms up the face of the jaw with thousandth accuracy, then takes an angle grinder to the back of it. Of course. I might scribe some guide lines on the bender at 45° and 90° so you don't have to keep getting your square out to check the bends.

mate, that was a joy to watch

I'd mislabelled you for years Though you were a boiler maker, you certainly lay down a nice bead. Double threat then, FnT mixed with other useful skills I envy your youth, hope ya crack it big mate 👍

I wish we could repeatedly like

With all your experience in the food service industry, I guess that would make you a "Food-mill Wright"... I spent the last 15 years before the plague servicing, repairing, and up-grading Carbonated Water machines,,, my job was a gas... ;)

Excelente. Muy buena herramienta.

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Problem Fixing 19:00 I was fascinated by your discourse on "sollution based problem solving". Over a 40+ year career as an architect, I have found not many other collugues who are this way mentally inclined or have developed methodologies for identification and remediation of problems. I have beeen thrown onto many design and documentation projects just prior to issue of construction drawing, to "fix them", freuqently being told, "It's a complex project" or that it was FUBARed. Frequently I would be told by the associate or director what they "knew" the problem to be. One of my sayings re my term "Damage Control" is "I prefer things to be consistently wrong rather than irratically right". Menaing if it is "consistently wrong", typically it is an "easy" fix, whereas "irratically right" typically requires a lot more effort, time and ingenuity to resolve. I'd initally look at the documents, then at the CAD files (invariablly in a total mess), sometimes hand-sketching details to assist in visuallisation, sometimes doing a "crical path" diagram to identify milestones /choke points. Invariably, I'd start by resolving the "easy wins" first, so that by the time I got to the stubborn "hard" problems, they'd either be simplified by the other fixes or were completely different from what others had lead me to believe. Ironically, after I'd "fixed" the design and construction documents, I'd all to often be accused by management of "you cost us our profit on this job"; meanwhile those that were actually responsible for the SNAFU and profit loss, were working on their next project with the same lack of ability and care. I got to the point (even though I got satisfaction from problem solving) were I dreaded being given projects " to fix", because in nearly all case after 1 or 2 such projects, I'd be "let go", frequenlty with "you cost us our profit on XYZ" as one of their justifications. Gratitude is in short supply when you are being scape-goated.

Shades of Phil Vandalay mate bit of overkill for a bar bender, great job though Cheers

Nice bender and a very enjoyable video. Cheers. Nice score on the shaper. I'd love to use and or have one, one day. Such handy machines. How the heck did you find the shaper that far away? I constantly wish market place would let me do a country wide search.

Mmm, so satisfying. I'm a food packing machine operator now, I miss the workshop. However, my continued solving of machine problems made the factory run so well... Anyway, I run the rotory packer mainly, and since its finally debuggd of all the chinese boobytraps, it runs real sweet. Also, all my "value added" mods have improved efficiency significantly. You have been an inspiration to me, especially when I first came to NZ from SA, and during the lockdowns when I learned myself to tig (food grade stainless, not dairy). My former ch eng, a toolmaker, now has a job I wanted doing structured data cabling. Ironic. Meanwhile I'm torn to going back to systems integration again...

Wonderful build... :)

Nicely done! I like the light feel of this old Tony.