Thanks, Tony! I truly appreciate your watching and commenting. I know you're a very busy guy, and time spent online is time away from getting stuff done!
Well T.O.T. it is you... I mean the term "EASY" does kinda get lost on men like yourself 😏 (you know...perfectionist)😆 No seriously I love your Chanel too Tony I wouldn't want it any other way
Am I a metal worker? No! Am I going to be one? Nope! Did I just watch the whole video from start to finish being amazed of the amount of craftsmanship portrayed by a true artist? YES SIR!
But as shown you can see what needs to be done to make a simple bracket to fix your lawn mower, or a thousand other things. some guys learn foundry, or set up something in their humble home shops. Being able to use simple tools to patch, cobble and create can save the day when something breaks. some times a simple fix can be had with what can be had at the time. Cars break down, and other things need fixing and you cant always wait to get some out out to fix it right away. The fruit is ripe and the ladder step is broken, if you can make a bracket so you can pick the fruit at the peak of ripeness. delay and the fresh fruit rots on the tree. Be ready, learn some skills.
Great information, at just the right time. I'm making a dust shoot for a 20" Powermatic bandsaw. The part looks very similar to what you made in this video.
I had to do a lot of this in stainless steel years ago. I was about 18 or 19 when I learned to do it. The gentleman that taught me was a master layout engineer in stainless steel. He was about 52 years old. Now I'm 66 years old and still remember how blessed I was to have old guys willing to teach their trade before they retired. These guys are encyclopedias of knowledge. Now I have their knowledge and nearly 50 years accumulation of my own, and try to pass it down every chance I can to those that are interested. We learn something new everyday, until the time comes to close our eyes once and for all.
@@RonCovell "Mentors" plural. My doctor is credited with introducing me to your RU-vid site. He restores old British motorcycles and was watching your videos to help him make a gas tank from scratch for his Rickman. He's also in his mid-60s. Like I said in my original post. We never stop learning. Best wishes and stay healthy.
With states closing school shops, kids go out in the world needing to fix things and make stuff. Thanks to people like you passing on the techniques of the masters, you are filling in the blanks to generations coming up. Thanks for a great inspiration tin wizard! If it wasn't for masters like you and many others like you willing to share, things would go unfixed and unbuilt and there would be a lot less cool things built.
@@RonCovell Standing by for that one. I'm about to start building a mower discharge chute for my bagger. The bagger went to a different make/model mower.
Like piecing together a complex puzzle, this kind of fabrication is the highest form of the craft. Glad you are willing to share. This is better than any book or classroom in my experience!
Ron, I LOVE this. I have also never even considered the fact that have a left and right hand set of tin snips can be so helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Wow - I don't know how that happened! I did edit the subtitles in English, but I don't know who did the translation. Maybe RU-vid does this automatically?
@@RonCovell In this moment I look how traslate my videos to english. I don´t know this, but is intersting for me. I can look the subtitles in spanish in your video. I´m very happy for this. I learning english for make a new channel in english, but if I can push subtitles, better.
Ron, on most videos, you can pick from a large number of languages, by clicking on Settings in the lower right corner of the video, then on Subtitles/CC, then on Auto-translate, then scroll down to the language of choice. Of course, Google's auto-translate isn't all that good. Great video, as always!
Thank you SO much for telling me that! Countless people have asked for translation into other languages, and I didn't know that RU-vid has that feature built-in!
@@RonCovell You're very welcome, Ron! Some channels don't turn that feature on, but I've watched foreign language videos with it on, and it's not that great for certain languages, but you get the idea of what they are saying. Here's another little tip that's unrelated and you didn't ask for, (lol!) you can use the comma (,) and period (.) keys when a video is paused, to scroll forward and backward, one frame at a time. Very handy! Thanks for the fantastic content, I've learned TONS from you!
Did a 5 year Apprenticeship over 60 years ago.and to make those developments we had to use the mean circumference on the round sections, also triangulation to develop said pieces..what a difference your technique makes .so damned easy..go to the top of the class Ron Covell..great stuff...ps am now 78
Thanks for your comment. That's actually a very nice compliment! As I'm sure you noticed, I do as much as I can to speed up the action - making it easier to watch.
You made it 2 thickneses oversize to allow for error in bending and then had to cut off exactly 2 thickneses to make it fit perfectly. Nobody could have achieved this. It's fantastic. You make everything so clear and have a voice that is so easy on the ear.
Ron, this may sound silly, but this simultaneously pleases so many sides of who I am that I'm totally just geeking out over here. I appreciate this from the perspective of an engineer, a math geek, a fabricator, and an artist (sculptor) all at the same time. Its simultaneously art, science, and total mastery of the tools and material. I've designed hundreds of sheet metal parts and still the simplicity of this process and the way it brings something I've always just understood in a certain way and displays it visually in another boggles my mind. Thank you.
The red and green shears are mirror images of each other. One cuts better on top of the metal, and one cuts better below. They also are each suited to turning better in one direction than the other.
You got it! I actually don't like using the 'left' and 'right' designation, since it depends on whether the handles are above or below the metal, and whether you are cutting toward or away from yourself.
@@RonCovell I was taught that in industrial arts class 30 years ago and although I still remember it I can't say I learned it successfully because I've never been able to work out how the chirality of the snips could have any effect. I can't be alone in this because everybody I know uses the yellow ones for everything, I haven't seen a red or a green sense shop class.
@@brocktechnology Most people cut metal like barbarians: no finesse. If it bends or curls they just hammer it back flat afterwards. I'm sure for many jobs that's perfectly acceptable. Perhaps not so much if you're going for the best optical/aesthetic result.
I came to your videos from Trev’s Blog here I the UK and I can see why he would recommend visiting your site. I’ve been watching for a few months now and just want to say how much I enjoy them. Thank you.
Despite watching part one, it just clicked with me too. Sadly, I originally thought the model making and pattern tracing by rolling it was a nuisance step until I just realized it gives you the complex geometry and bend lines without all the math. I'm not usually this slow. But I don't really make a lot of things from sheet metal. That might change now.
I gotta say I had a Master craftsmen teaching me in my apprenticeship who worked with sheet metal since he was an apprentice. I learned a lot from him but here you go and teach me even more
I attended one of your workshops back in the UK about 12-15 years ago I think, when you made a front fender from scratch. It was a great class then and looks like you are still going strong Ron. I have used some of the tips you shared in working on my 1956 F100 resto mod. Keep up the great work
I just learned more about fabrication in a few minutes than what i had learned in twenty years ! A set of your DVD’s is at the top of my 2021 must have list ! I hope the supplier here in Australia has the full set in stock !
Glad you like my videos. Yes, Graffiti Publications has all my DVDs in stock in Castlemaine, Victoria, and they ship promptly. If you want the whole set, you might consider the streaming version: covell.cinevee.com/buy-them-all
thanks for doing this series Ron. also thanks for showing how to do these complex parts withought needing fancy and expensive tools. your channel is what youtube should be all about. good and honest educational vids done with a true desire to pass on the knowledge.
I love it when a traditional process is efficient and accurate. I could see the someone spending hours on CAD trying to model this process for production. Sometimes the K.I.S.S. process is the best. Thank you sir!
Je regarde vos vidéos avec beaucoup d’admiration et j’en apprends de plus en plus sur la ou les manières à faire pas à pas. Vous êtes pour moi un génie, merci infiniment pour votre partage de savoir faire.
If i can toss in my 2 cents.. I really enjoy watching welding.. When RU-vidrs stop doing things in videos "because i have done it a million times and no one wants to see it" it makes me sad that they would think that. We tune in/subscribed for a reason. We like what you are doing.
WOW! Ron- always thinking outside the box! : ) - "your next video on more complex transitions"... may melt my brain!! Thank you for sharing your skill and talent!!!
@@RonCovell I highly recommend it! If you haven’t messed with Fusion 360 or similar it’s really fun to model things in 3D. I imagine you’d excel at it just seeing your work with sheet metal
I still have a few of your DVDs from years and years ago, and just stumbled across your channel today! Great to see you're still sharing your skills, I still love to see a handmade piece over something machine made. Handmade pieces just have character that machine made pieces will never have.
Hi Ron, just wanted to say I've been a long time watcher of Tony's videos and found out about you from the collaboration. Love what your doing, thank you very much for the videos! Truly incredible craftsmanship.
Great video and very informative. Nothing beats having a master craftsman teaching you in your own home how to do these things. And being taught by one of the best makes it all the more worth the while. I've always enjoyed your metalworking videos. Thanks for sharing. Dan
I loved your first "rollation" clip, and this one was just as good. Thankyou. I have done these jobs now and then using geometric drawing, but, I have to dig out the books to remember how its done? No more!
Ron Covell you were a big part of sheet metal fabrication in the street rod class at wyotech. We watched so many of your videos in class you may as well have been the instructor. One that always stuck with me was the video you put out on hardwire rolled edges👌🏻 I was supplied to see your still putting out videos.
I love that even though you have the tools to make bends etc, you instead choose to show all of us simpler methods that most of us have access to, and it is so very much appreciated that you show all of us all the tricks and knowledge that your experience has brought you. Definitely a master craftsman
Im not considering myself as a maker or anything like that, but i had tools in my hand countless times and Im amazed by the craftsmanship in your videos. You make it look so easy and self-explanatory and the parts look beautiful.
Just did the rolling technique in the studio for a pretty complex form. Thank you for sharing this information. I had a intuition there had to be something like this and your videos confirmed my hunch. Nice to see these two-part videos. 👍
It took me a minute to figure out why you rolled the pattern the way you did. It was intuitive in the round video. If anyone is confused, watch that one.
My mind is still bending on how that even works, your techniques are simple yet flawless Ron, I’m so glad that other fella put me onto your channel, very nicely done!!
Hello Ron, nice work with the sheet metal. I remember when I first started out in the fab shop a old man named Clifford showed me this technique right from the start. You brought back some real nice memories of metalworking and camaraderie at work. Look forward to see more great videos from you Sir Ron. Peace
Fantastic! And perfect timing also. I am building a custom dashboard for my old van. I am changing the heat ducts to the windshield. I need to make just such a shape and was planning on at least one poor result. Can’t wait to try this out. Thanks for sharing design techniques before the age of computers.
Just amazing to watch, I would have never believed that it would work on this shape. Thanks so much Ron for showing us this great technique. Looking forward to your next video.
I used to make similar transitions, larger size with steel for a grain plant. We'd typically bolt the flanges onto the machines where we needed them (inlet and outlet), and then tack in skeleton structure to hold them in position and then put sheet steel on them at the workbench. Granted, this rollation method would be somewhat more difficult considering the sizes we dealt with, but the technique is much more refined. Thanks for sharing Ron!
Ron... I am so glad you are showing this... Sooo many people just don't realize what all this process can accomplish And how easy it truly can be (Ain't that right This old Tony.)
@@RonCovell so glad I can contribute By the way I have been such a huge fan of yours since I first seen your video library in Eastwood catalog like 25 or 30 years ago Needless to say... im a bit starstruck
Really cool. I’m a tinner learned from Dad a lot of math and layout with a rule but really enjoy the roll method as you can preview your fitting prior to construction.
Great Way of making shapes. Amazing. It feels like an old school method of making fittings without a college degree in math. Thank You for the stress less patterns. Also the welding setup tips.
Ron thanks so much! I don't have any kind of metal shaping equipment other than an a basic body hammer and your videos have provided me a way to shape and bend metal that would otherwise be unavailable to me. THANK YOU!! Keep up the great work!
@@RonCovell I'm of the opinion YOU can do anything with just a ball peen hammer and a few c clamps. I on the other hand am quite late to the party and very basic even with exceptional tools, ha. Thanks again brother for sharing your knowledge it really has opened up so many options for me.
hi ron i used to install machinery in mills and food factories in the uk and used this tecnique to connect various machine inlet and outlets with chutes,we would clamp plates the exact size of the inlet and outlets,then tie your plates together by welding round bar to them,then roll out as per your tehnique,some chutes could be 3m+ long,but it catered for outlets not parallel or in the same plane on 2 machines,a forgotten art now,we used to call it jet developing,also good for square to rounds with round at a angle,cheers
Great video. The subliminal message I drew was to use the correc t Aviation snips for the job. This is so much better and practical than the drawing board.I have long delighted in your presentation style from early DVD how to's I purchased from your shop. So much knowledge shared. Thanks Ron.
Ron, you always astonish me how straight forward and effortless you make all of this look. These techniques are amazing and encouraging, thank you for sharing!
That's really great , I used to design some simple sheet metal and there are cad modules that gives out the flat out result , but understanding how it is made makes it more relatable ... Thanks again
Thanks for another great video Ron. All of your these are exemplars for how instructional videos should be done. Clear statement of the problem; careful step-by-step demonstration of the steps in the solution; appropriate levels of detail where needed with any "gotcha" or teachable moments highlighted. Your calm manner and the spotless work environment are an important part as well. Happy to add your channel to the small number that I support throgh Patreon.
You definitely kick start my brain with your last two videos. Glad to see even the pro uses what you got to bend metal. These are the most helpful videos I've seen in a long time. Thanks Ron!!! Keep them coming.
great video Ron, not only am i amazed at your instruction but also that you reoly to everyone in the comments. i think it would be good to show guys a development of a cone and off set as this seems to catch a lot of people out. i do love a good development every now and then. or maybe even a lobsterback tight radius form from sheet. they turn out pretty cool looking.
