Small hex kellybar adapter has some issues. check out the video to see how this got resolved. Customer brought in this in with a sheared pin and wedged in the wrong position.
I have watched my share of lackluster welding videos. This is one of the best videos I have seen in a long time, No bragging ,or swearing, just quiet competence . Quite refreshing
AvE is fine when he sticks to subjects that he has actual knowledge about as opposed to what he Gaargle's whilst he guzzles because when he over imbibes in the "Cups of Knowledge" he either sets his soap box atop a barn sized pile of bovine and equine manure climbs and proceeds to preach with the zeal and ferocity of a holly rolling snake handling preacher or tries to become the illegitimate love child of Mushroom farmer, who had a devil's three way with Lenny Bruce and Tim the Tool-Man.
@@gullreefclub sounds like someone also doesn't like AvE's opinions. Spend a decade in the field you'll learn more than any engineer who works for said industry
Naw, sorry, you forgot some steps. 1. Use a wrench. 2. Spray with WD-40. 2. Spray with PB Blaster and go get a tall drink to wait awhile. 2. Use a bigger pipe wrench. 3. Use a big cheater pipe. 4. Hit with hammer. 5. Hit with sledge hammer. 6. Get the torch out.
What is better than watching trial and error? The person willing to put themselves out there, knowing they will hear all kinds of slack for their methods but still doing it because they are confident enough to not care. And not just this video but all your videos. Bravo Sir!
Wasn't expecting the round bar, but works for the job! Always learn a little bit from each of your videos. I'm not a welder by trade, but out of high school I was taught how to stick weld in about 10 mins. by the mechanic I was apprenticing for at a local Ford dealer. He put me to work building angle iron storage racks for the parts department. 58 years later I still can repair and build almost anything I need! I should have went to school and learned the trade! The mechanic I was apprenticing for would take on any job so I learned a lot in a short time before Uncle Sam called and changed my life instantly.
When you welded that short arm onto that bit... I was like “he’s never gonna get it out that way”. Yeah... you proved me wrong in a hurry. You never cease to amaze me. You’re a talented individual and I hope more and more people get the opportunity to learn from you. Thanks for sharing all this amazing stuff with us. 🙏
the heat is definitely a cool trick, looking at the initial hitting though, so much energy is lost in the bounce of the vice, you want to support the outer hex right at the end you're trying to free, as well as locking it from rotating using the square at the other end, if you wanted to give it the best chance, flat on the floor, make up a cheater bar to lay flat on the floor out from the square drive then with something actually supporting under the square box you welded on, when you hit it it'll be a far more instantaneous impact and as much of the force as possible will be rotating rather than bouncing
Actually sadly he cut off the long weighted shaft. Could have put the housing into the large vise as he had done dropped a long shaft end down to the ground/floor with a block of wood between the floor and the shaft to stop the bouncing. Then using those welding skills used put a collar on the shaft the same as he had done. Myself I would have used a pipe-wrench for the rotation without welding on shaft first. The heat was the answer especially when you could see the bin hole and knew which way to rotated shaft. Expect the shaft length would have still be the same and the housing free of the shaft.
It’s always amazing to me how much heat helps when applied in the right spot. You wouldn’t think metal would expand with how hard it is, but yet it does and it expands just enough to get something unstuck or to get a bolt out/nut off. I love your videos and your amazingly precise torch work! Keep up the good work!!
Ended up being an easy fix, not always the case. You used sound logic, began with the basics and it worked very nicely. They sent it to the right place. Experience and great knowledge of materials paid off for you and the customer. Very well done! Nick, North West Farmer
Thank you again and again for sharing your expertise and professionalism with us. Your quiet, secure determination to get the job done is very stimulating and an example for us all.
A lost art. You sir, are the epitome of true craftmanship in metalworks. What a joy to watch. On a lighter note, you must have hands of " steel" with all the metal shavings. Bless you.
I have zero experience in anything you do. I have been around long enough to know that if someone makes their work look as easy as you make it look, it's not easy at all. Love watching what is clearly high level skill!👊
I encountered a similar problem. I do jack and bore drain pipes under highways and roads for the states DOT, replacing failed ones. We can do from 16", up to 72". The augers have hex on either end, male on one, female on the other. The machine has a female end. A crew was over halfway through a bore, 200+feet, hit something hard. Instead of pulling the augers and seeing what it was, they decided to bore faster and push harder, snapped a 4inch hex inside the female end of the machine. I heated, beat on, tried everything. Limited access as it's inside the push drum and didn't have the Tim to disassemble. I ended up welding a 3 inch nut onto the broken piece, and made a wrench to fit, about 3 feet long. With the help of a deere 250 excavator, finally twisted it out.
Heating an OD (tube, pipe, nut, bushing, ect), increases the ID just enough to help break loose tricky extractions..It's a great go-to technique! Nice work!
I'm glad I clicked to watch your video. I took metal shop throughout Jr. and Sr. high school. I loved it tremendously. Nice video, nice music and I am still fascinated by horizontal steel band saws, they just flow through steel effortlessly...
I always like to learn new things/tricks and you come threw time after time. I often tell the new guys on the jobs dont think you know it all, you may find out youve been wrong. Even after 30yrs, I find new things that work better. Thanks on the lesson ,I look forward to seeing whats next. Hood down lights on.
Man you make Welding look so easy. Is like you see the problem and instantly work out the solution in your head and bam its fixed. Love your videos keep making them and posting them.
What beutifull music. I can't stand music in yt vids, but this one is nice. Not in your face, not way too loud. Just relaxing, appropriate music. Very nice sir.
Man when I saw that thumbnail first thing that popped into my mind is that's gotta be one of those "why in the world did I accept this job?" moments but it turned out being really simple. The fact that it was undersized and not just a tight fit that gauled sideways helped but still. Took you probably 30-45 min and that's it. Props bud
I am an artist by trade and a teacher by profession. But I really wish I had spent more time learning how to work with metal. Milling, torch cutting and welding are so incredibly useful. I think that will be my next educational journey, learning metal working.
Ellis makes excellent saws. I have one and stumbled across an easy way to set the back gauge when cutting 45’s on both ends: Rotate saw into 90 degrees, measure from blade and Set back gauge to OD or long pt to long point, then rotate to 45 (with material clamp on right) cut end of stock to 45 then rotate stock and slide down to stop and cut. I don’t know why Ellis does not tell you this but it saves a lot of time.
After watching the last two videos on that bucket modification, I started practicing tips from here at work. Amazing how a little preheat can result in such a clean torch cut.
Beautiful work as usual. Nice to have a repair where you can stand up on the job, work around on the repair inside out of the weather and not having to crawl around in the caliche gravel.
So enjoyable watching these types of repairs. It gives us plenty to learn and consider when approaching similar work on our own. Love seeing the Ellis bandsaw and Wilton vice in action. Your shop is provisioned generously with awesome tools and materials. Once again, thanks for showing what professionalism is. I liked your analysis where you saw the beat marks, and used that to formulate an alternative approach. Brilliant attention to these important details, and thank you for sharing your keen insights.
You make it look so easy. Even though you didn't show the setup, I got it. I would have thought that the extraction wouldn't have been so easy but glad that it was. Great job!!
Nice job! Bit of thinking goes a long way. I like these videos , I am a maintenance welder at a plant . We mostly weld pipe and don’t get a whole lot of stuff like this where you actually have to use your brain to figure stuff out. The odd time we do jobs like you but few and far between.
When this happens to our auger machines we reverse the direction on the machine and then cut out the broken pin on both sides of the box and then slip the hex out , this happens to us because of to much torque which boils down to human error.
Those Ellis bandsaws are one of the best things ever invented for a fab and repair shop! You can spend a lot more on another brand of bandsaw, and not have half the machine that Ellis is!
Absolutely, we bought one back around 86 or so... And it was still like new in 01 when we sold... Brought more than we paid for it at auction after I demonstrated how it worked...
