It just looks like it is in reverse due to the frame rate vs the actual rotation of the bit. Think how wagon wheels appeared to be running backwards in the old westerns.
No it's forward.. It's just looking like it's in the reverse position if you don't think so try it and record it and just use a large bit and watch your video it'll show the same motion. LoL 😅 for real..
Nope, thought the same thing first, but the drills and seemingly the rest of this guys tools are just that dull. Don't take advice from a guy who doesn't know how to sharpen his tools.
🤣😂😆Fun video but pointless. I guess he has everything at his disposal but the turner. I wonder if Amazon doesn't deliver where he lives ? Cheaper to buy one. I guess he has another grinder too, you know, for grinding 🤦♂️🤷♂️
SCREW THAT! I am a tradesman wood machinist who has had his share of chomped fingers over the years. This is an accident waiting to happen at worst, outright power tool abuse at best. I could easily see someone trying this with a grinder that is not speed variable and the entire rig disintegrating in their face at 13000 rpm
I’m a controls electrician and it amazes me how people LOVE multi tools for jobs that require precision work and skills. Multi tools are for handymen not season professionals. Oh FYI, I carry my Leatherman everywhere i go, so I’m NOT bashing multi tools at all. I love my Leatherman , but I know when NOT to use it.🤘👍🤙
On behalf of my best friend David that was recently killed in Australia due to an angle grinding accident, I urge people to think twice before modifying an angle grinder. David was using his angle grinder with the correct size blade and it had a guard fitted. Yet the machine jammed and a small piece of the disc broke off and hit him in the leg and cut through his femoral artery. He died alone at home before help arrived. Family and friends are still suffering from his loss. Please don't make angle grinders any more dangerous than they already are.
@@tarheelcountry1868 I can't believe how many wonderful people there are out there. It's overwhelming. Thank you kind Sir. David was a very shy and modest guy and he would be embarrassed to see how many people in this world actually care so much, in his name. Thank you Tar Heel Country and thanks to everyone else that left such lovely comments.
I'm real sorry to hear that. My friend nearly died from a cutoff wheel coming apart and hitting him in the neck, and damn near bled out before paramedics arrived. I had a router bit blow, and catch me just above the collar bone 27 years ago. I still have the scar, and numbness. The point is, even when tools are used properly, accidents, or failures can happen. My main angle grinder runs at 13.000 rpm., and has one he'll of a kick when started. Most non-variable speed grinders run between 11.000, to my 13.000 rpm's which is one hell of a lot more than a lathe, and most variable speed ones are rather cheap consumer grade, and would be very hard to guage accurately for a proper rotating speed to approximate a real lathe. Imagine realistically how many "uses" you'd get out of this "lathe" with all that unbalanced mass loaded against the arbor, and the only workpiece retention is a bolt through a scrap of wood screwed together on the other end. It's going to fail in a bad way. Someone is going to get smoked in the face at the least. Always treat power tools with respect, and please... NEVER modify a power tool outside it's intended purpose. This should be considered entertainment only.
Title should be.. nobody will tell you this angle grinder hack because it's a stupid idea in the first place, as useful as a bucket of ice in Antarctica
Notice he uses a small piece of wood, pretty well-balanced. Try that with a bigger one that's a little off balance (like him). At angle grinder speeds, you might end up wearing that for a bonnet or a hearing aid!
This video didnt earn him $20,000 buddy sorry to tell you thats a bald face lie.. Ppl dont get 20k for youtube videos dude.. Mayve $1200 or so if it had 500,000 views...
@@TheSolidSnakeOil that really made me burst into laughter. My wife just came down the stairs and asked me, to laugh a bit more silent to not wake up the kids :D.
Used to be a Manager of a Harbor Freight Tools store and sold cheap $20 side grinders, had a customer that wanted to modify it with one of our 4" table saw blades to make a tool to cut baseboards to put down tile or hardwood floors. We sold a tool for this. Had adjustable depth, and reach but it was about $60. The side grinders had a 5/8" arbor, and the 4" wheel had a 1/2" hole. The side grinder ran at 20,000 RPM, the table saw blade with Carbide teeth had a Max RPM of 6500. He wanted to Redhill the table saw blade up to 5/8". I told him that it would have to be completely concentric or else it would be off center and wobble like an Egg. He planned on using a Reostat speed controller to slow the grinder down, so I told him that most grinders really didn't run like that, and would bog down and shut off if they didn't get enough power. About 2 weeks later he came in. His right hand was bandaged up, and he told Me that he should have listened. He tried His idea, had to run it without the Speed Control, it started to vibrate so bad He dropped it, that blade broke into several pieces, one about took his thumb off, and parts of the carbide tips fragmented like shrapnel into his forearm before he could get clear. He bought to Side mounted Cut off saw to cut his baseboards. I did give him his Money back on the grinder as it was undamaged.
this is why tools that rotate at high speeds always have soo many warnings on them! there's always one guy that thinks he a innovator and ends up losing a hand. But at least this guy admitted he was wrong and learned to not do that again.
reminds me of the scene in the movie hot rod where bill hater is grinding and a piece flies into his brow, I once used a grinder to grind through a hydraulic cylinder, that didn't go well, out of all the tools in your shop the grinder is the most likely to injure you.
@@victorleskiv any tool is dangerous if used incorrectly or for the wrong job, that's why its crucial to be educated about the tool and to only use it for what's its intended for and safely
I had a lot of old pipes and rebar to cut up and from what I read ru-vid.comUgkxPDBfLu68o58Aw85O_J-zIFfjJARBhp-3 this would be the tool for the job. Since I had never used one, I watched a couple of youtube videos and I'm so glad I did. Some really good safety tips, which I followed, and this tool did a splendid job. One good thing to know is the weight of the tool puts just about the right amount of pressure on the metal I was cutting, so I didn't have to use a lot of pressure, which is more likely to jam the tool. It made fast work of my job.
Awesome video, thank you! I did it in my garage and it works perfectly. Now I`m missing one eye and four fingers, but hey: passion takes sacrifices! Please upload more, keep these great videos coming! Genius!
Well I can at least give you a tip. When watching videos like this click the settings and change the playback speed to 1.5x so it doesnt waste AS MUCH of your time
This has inspired me! I'm going to do the same thing with an old 250cc two stroke dirt bike I have. I'm going to make it into a lathe. I'm just going to hook stuff to where the sprocket goes. Just imagine I'll be able to turn trees that are 18 to 25 in thick. Watch for the video in upcoming series I'm going to call death of a diy-er.
My dad knew a guy that turned a rear axle and 4 speed manual transmission into a metal lathe. It actually worked fairly decent. He could control his speed and even pitch threads.
Bro! And you have inspired me to grab some wood and turn my car into a lathe. With voice control!! "Son, daddy wants you to step on the gas", "Son, Son too much gas!"
i put a centre bolt in a length of wood & a second with a sharp tip and drag it round , without any power tools , perfect circle every time any size , i can carve a wagon wheel outta a barn door with little effort
Bruh also. People can diy lathes and it be safe. I had the honor or working with a badass artist who did. He shipped solid wood stools to japan that weight 50-60 lbs fat! Whole thing done on lathe
Had a guy borrow my grinder with the blade guard on properly. He took off the guard, and returned the grinder to me with the tip of his finger cut off and bleeding profusely on my grinder. Had a hell of a time getting that blood off and reattaching the guard before I took him to the ER.
Use a two speed mains powered drill. Angle grinder runs way too fast for this. Most lathes don't go above 2000rpm. Pretty sure most angle grinders at at least 5x that.
The reason NOBODY will tell you about this is , LIABILITY............ Nobody wants to be sued because you did this and ended up in the emergency department of your local hospital.
I mean I guess the world we live in now you have to tell people, hey if you dont use this as directed you will be hurt or cause damage...But then again how do you think all the inventions we have now were made?...by those kids that used stuff how it wasnt.... LOL
If I wanted 6” long table legs I think I’d just go buy them at the home improvement store. But put those studs on a battery powered side grinder and it would make a formidable weapon at the Renaissance festival
If you sharpen your drill bits properly, they will product shavings instead of dust - and cut much easier & faster. A cheap set of wood turning gouges will cut MUCH better than scraping across a flat chisel. The flat chisel isn’t much better than a screwdriver. A face shield might save you an eye when you’re learning. I have some good size dents in my workshop ceiling from shattered or ejected turning blanks.
@@manikandanganesh977 The reason nobody tells you about the angle grinder hack is because it's so dangerous, anyone who does it is likely to lose fingers.
@@manikandanganesh977 Angle grinders are used primarily to remove unwanted METAL after welding and/or brasing... Now whaddaya think it's gonna do to a human hand if someone ain't payin' attention??
This is dangerous, all that work for a diy lathe?? . Bottom line is tool company's invest money and time to develop something for a certain use. When dickheads like here make something so sketchy it begs belief,,
@@TF856 they do actually make milling rigs for chainsaws... brilliant invention but yeah somewhat dangerous, who wants to haul a saw mill everywhere? Safety first but only when it is convenient.
Admittedly I guessed what you were making , but very ingenious. As a young schoolboy I was dragged off the wood lathe so other members of the wood work class could have a go , fruit bowls and candle sticks , made for my grandmother’s . A funny story in my adult life was being bitten by an ultra long lathe for turning rams for hydraulic cranes , my boss managed to remove half of my left thumb with it . He swung it on to my hand while it was suspended from an overhead crane , I was lucky as it hit my shoulder first should of taken my arm off . Excellent machine though …
I watch videos like this, with a combination of apprehension, anxiety and morbid curiosity. Wondering aloud just what kind of batsh!t crazy idea is coming to fruition before my very eyes. As I watch this video I find myself wondering aloud, what the hell, could it be? What sort of maiming device has he come up with now? Is it meant to simply to amputate fingers? Act as a blunt force trauma machine? Perhaps simultaneously disembowel and eviscerate? Maybe he has gone all in on the trifecta with this one and it is ALL of the above...
This is the best advertisement for the development of a common maker space in your area. He has saved hundreds of dollars with this rig that he might only need to use once. A communal tool shop is the best answer. For the small membership fee you have access to the right equipment and a community willing to advise and help.
On top of what others have said about this, using a bench chisel as a turning tool is an accident waiting to happen as well. The tang from a bench chisel is far weaker and one good catch it will snap and you will have a piece of metal jutting out the back of your hand the way you are holding it.
I saw almost the same thing on Amazon for $2,432.00. I bought it, but thanks for all your work and dedication. Really, tho, that's a lot of work and planning that you put into that hack and I appreciated it for that reason. I "liked". Good luck with your channel.
If I wanted a lathe , Harbor freight tools has a really nice bench top lathe and is much more safe than this setup which is very dangerous because of the high speed of an angle grinder , Even with the speed turned down , You have to start at a very low speed because your stock is gonna be out of balance and running it that fast can launch that piece of wood and you have no idea where it's gonna go and possibly hit you right in the face or forehead Back in high school , One guy was turning a baseball bat on the lathe and he turned up the speed to finish sand it , He didn't realize that the wood was off balance and it shot out of the lathe and hit him on the bridge of his nose , He was very lucky to be alive and had to have reconstructive surgery on his face and plastic surgery , For safety's sake Buy yourself a lathe instead of trying to make one because if that piece of wood comes flying out of there and hits you in the head can kill you , A lathe will cost much less than ending up in the hospital
But the person in your example used a proper lathe and still got hurt, so why not just build one like in video? If you're gonna get hurt might as well save some money.
I would like to make a Man's lathe with a 9 inch industrial grinder. That will have plenty of torque. I am just a bit worried when I start the up. If I don't get everything running even and true it may chase me round the shed.
The vibrations will ruin the gearbox pretty soon though. On lathes you have the spindle connected to the motor through a belt. So that vibrations caused by excentricity of the rotating piece you're working on don't get transferred onto the motor shaft (bearings) and rather dissipate along the elastic belt. The RPM are too high as well. And I wouldn't want to be around when that piece of wood rotating at 25k snaps off the spindle...
True indeed , If that piece of wood comes flying out of there and hits you in the face or the forehead , Can kill you , True indeed about the gearbox and the bearings , An actual lathe has much heftier bearings to withstand vibration from out of balance and vibration caused by tooling the piece of wood , Back in high school , one guy was turning a baseball bat on the lathe and when he went to finish sanding it , He turned the speed up too high and the wood was out of balance , It shot right out of there and struck him on the bridge of his nose He was very lucky to be alive and ended up in the hospital and needed reconstructive surgery and plastic surgery , For safety's sake , Use an angle grinder for it's intended purpose only
@@catlady8324 True too , Whatever lathe you buy will cost much than ending up in the hospital , I myself use my angle grinder for it's intended purpose only , Using power tools to do things they're not designed for is an accident waiting to happen
Oh dear, blunt drill bit was irritating, so easy to fix but then it got worse. Blunt chisel used as a scraper, scary bit of wobble in the system as pressure is applied, what could possible go wrong. I hope no one copies this idea. The rules of natural selection unfortunately sometimes apply. Fast moving appliances need to be precise and treated with respect.
Right, you’ll only try once to take off more metal than the cutter can manage! Emergency stop button saves my day..... here though, when cak and fan collide, somebody is gonna have a real bad day.
This guy solved world peace on his break from doing this. And then I myself took a piece of titanium yesterday and widdled a pirate ship out of it with just my thoughts inside of a glass bottle.
Great job 👍👏👏 I likey invention man it's amazing how you come up with things and introduce them to the public... PERFECT I SAY..!.. Hey just a question haven't you made a homemade lumber saw from a long to lumber.?? If so can you share it with us (me) .?????
One thing that they taught me when I was in my carpentry apprenticeship.... Every tool in your tool box will at one time in its life, be used as a hammer.....Except chisels. Those are screw drivers! 😅
Actually look closely. He used a metal bushing as an insert to hold it in place. I imagine he had problems with the wood flying off. Good prototype. Not ready for prime time.
This dude got an A+ in high school shop class. He definitely is creative in building his lathe but in the end its really way to much work for the result.
All fun and games until the grinder throws the wood at you at high speed.. accident waiting to happen. (I tried turning wood by attaching it directly to a 7000 rpm 1hp motor when I was little, sort of learned the hard way how dangerous that could be.)
I feel like this could work, if absolutely needed, maybe in an apocalypse situation, but maybe the blood when it fails, will draw zombies... Kinda up in the air. But will be added to my prepping arsenal.
That contraption took forever to make, and you've ended up with a dodgy lathe you'd never trust, an angle grinder you can't use any more, and wasted many hours of your life, as well as hundreds of hours of us viewers, decent bits and pieces of various materials gone down the pan, light and power..................this seems a good idea - can you make something to warm up the ocean a bit?
By the time you made that Jig & Set up & produced pc of Wood, I went to Lowes & got a Wooden Dowl put it in a drill & made the same thing in shorter time
There's a reason that nearly every angle grinder I've seen you have continuously have to squeeze the switch on the handle, what did you hold it on with a zip tie
Yeah it's a safety mechanism because they're f****** dangerous. Angle grinder is without a doubt the most dangerous tool that exists. It's more dangerous than a skill saw it's more dangerous than a table saw and a chainsaw. The only thing that is near similar to it would be if you were using the end of the bar of a chainsaw to make cuts. For some reason nobody teaches quadrants. Oh in the chainsaw attachment that was created for angle grinders and marketed to the layman every day DIYer is downright criminal in my opinion. Numerous people have been killed from that device and ankle grinders in general. Because at the end of the day they do not understand quadrants
May not be the safest or reliable, but the man shows genuine ingenuity. Props for the imagination it takes to create a tool like this. The world needs more brains and less violence.
Angle grinders offer speed but not too much torque due to the smaller surface contact made by the blade. This idea requires more torque due to the increased surface friction. If the stock is very dense more pressure is required at the cutting edge thus more friction is created and will slow it down...so more tourqe is required to overcome it. That is why lathes require motors with greater power.
A few notes... Add a guard to keep wood shavings out of the grinder. Otherwise it won't last very long. Put the disc guard back on the grinder when using it for grinding. It might have kept your finger safer. And when using drill bits, make sure the drill is set to rotate in the proper direction. Sharp bits also help...
You can use a lot of tools for off-label projects!!! It amazes me how many people don't realize you can use a drill press as a router or a router table with jigs!!! I have a very old drill press owners manual that shows you how to use your drill press as a router or router table !!!! I have seen several videos showing how to use a drill press to tap threads into metal!!! Also how to use a drill press as a wood lathe! Even use your drill press as a horizontal table saw with fences!!! For a lot more woodworking jigs and tricks see Izzy swan on RU-vid!!!
Damn, sharpen your chisel if that’s what your using. Also, make your tool table adjustable from zero where it’s now to adjust upward 15% to 29%. If you do this maybe you can. make chips instead of sawdust. Suggestion: use real gouges. Other than this you did a great job on making your lathe with a grinder.
Nice ingenuity. However, I think I’m gonna make a giant band saw powered by the 454 Chevrolet sitting in my garage. Seriously though, that was king of neat.
