Making a replacement broom stick out of hardwood. First making a 7/8" (22 mm)dowel, then a thread on the end. Hand filed the thread, that took 15 minutes, less time than figuring out how to set up a machine to do it.
I think it only works because the thread pitch is fairly coarse. Because of the angle, I would expect the spacing to be slightly off from the measured lines... but hey... whatever works...
@@timseguine2 the angles are probably good enough on most common threads. line_perpendicular_spacing = along_shaft_spacing * sin(angle). At 10 degrees, that works out to almost exactly what Matthias measured, 0.203*cos(10deg)=0.2
@@chaklee435 Yeah I had trouble finding the correct angle, but before my comment the napkin math seemed to suggest it should only be a few thou at most.
Could they break the laws of physics and the nature of reality itself? You leave for five minutes and come back to your kids tearing a rift in the fabric of spacetime...
@@jewishmafia9801 Yeah I gave them a time out for that one. But their future selves showed up and took them on a yearlong adventure through multiple galaxies, returning them right before the 5 minute timeout expired.
My Pop showed me how to cut wooden threads using the corner of the grinding wheel and just turning the handle by hand. Takes about four minutes and works fine. Great video thumbs up.
Replacing the handle with oak reminds me of a story I heard in a group home. A staff member told me that the kids liked to punch holes in the walls, and they punched a hole straight through the hollow-core door to the staff room. He replaced that door with a solid oak door, and a kid promptly broke his fist on it. That apparently took care of the hole-punching problem.
Similar story at work. This idiot would go into the bathroom and punch a hole in the wall. They'd repair it and he'd do it again. The solution worked, but was fairly graphic as you can imagine. A board with a few nails protruding through the other side and one punch later revealed who the idiot was doing this. Once he went to the hospital he was able to return for his exit interview.
@@WoodUCreate I would imagine his first stop after the hospital was the police station where he filed a report about the extremely illegal boobytrap that severely injured him.
Perfect timing! Just yesterday evening my neighbors asked me to fix one of their kid's toys. This morning as I am grabbing some tools to figure out the problem on my own a refresh on my YT reveals a newly posted solution. Worked like a charm, fixed it in a matter of 30 min. Thanks a bunch!
For Matt a Broomhandle is a work of art. When I was a kid like 60 years ago my dad was a machinist . When the broom handle broke I just take the corner of the bench grinder and put threads on it. Good enough for a broom or a paint roller.
That works too, if the wheel is coarse enough, I guess. Hadn't thought of using that. But then again, the file gives more control. Didn't take that long.
@@matthiaswandel I recognize that "good enough" is tough for you. The corner of the grinder is good enough. May take a couple of tries for the first one.
Years ago I went on a Florida vacation with my wife’s family and my wives son from a previous marriage. My stepson would spend hours outside trying to catch the lizards that are everywhere down there, he finally asked his grandfather if he would help. He told the boy “They’re easy to catch, you just sprinkle some salt on their tails and grab them”. Awhile later I looked outside and there’s this little eight year old boy outside with a salt slacker trying to sneak up on a lizard! Your story reminded me of that moment 32 years ago, thanks for the chuckle.
That was pretty neat. I liked the thread layout. I have 2 threads in a lot of my tools. College ruled and wide ruled. I've never had to match threads to an existing piece. Seeing how you did it was helpful. Cheers hombre.
It was neat to see how you approached and solved the problem. I'm certain that I could have met with failure after spending much more time on it. Thank you for sharing!
Hey Matthias, in case you didn't think about it... you may want to saturate the new threads with thin CA glue. it will likely extend the life of the handle a bit...
Not sure that'll work now that the beeswax is on it. Maybe if he heated the end for long enough, it would dry out enough for the CA glue to penetrate again.
RU-vid stopped recommending me your videos, for over 2 months now, even though I'm subscribed. I watch every video of yours for years and youtube does this.
I was wondering what nifty thread cutting tool you were going to use to make those threads. It never occurred to me that a file could be used to cut threads. Slick demonstration.
Especially with Mathias background and wisdom with gears and machine making. But that just goes to show that sometimes the rough-it-out method is fast and works well.
I made a broom handle to fit a shop broom about 5 years ago the same way. I started with a discarded broom, mop or shovel handle that had the wrong threads. I use it almost every day. Doing it by hand this way I was able to make it fit very tightly so that the broom doesn't rotate around the handle when using.
Love your videos Matthias but this is the one time I would just go to a shop and buy another broom. But a great demonstration on how to make threads manualy.
I thought maybe you'd take the threads off of the old broom, glue it to the new handle, screw it into the brush and clamp it down, then unscrew it while cutting the new threads on the table saw. Of course, when the thread runs out it can become a bit of a problem. Dangerous thoughts aside, nice method of laying the threads out with the paper.
I was curious of what you would do! I had a broomstick failed thread a while back and decided to cut a new thread, using a router. After many failed attempts, I bought a new broomstick 🙂
thank you so much for this video I have an old horse hair broom from my grandfather and the threads have worn out. I will use this technique to fix the threads.
I was about to say that this repair would be much simpler using a 3D printer. But with all that equiptment in place and your expertise and ingenuity, 3D printing would have been a waste of time!
Absolutely genius. If i wasnt going to just buy a new brush I would have just made the diameter slightly smaller than the thread on the bottom section for a push fit and screwed up through from the bottom of the bristles
Smart but if trying to turn the brush, within a few uses, it would rotate so two screws would make sense with a small pilot hole so as to not split the hard wood.
I used to know an old guy that had a jig for doing this with a v groove bit on his router table. It would clamp the handle kinda like a lathe and rotate it while feeding it the proper amount. Had to eyeball your depth though. It collected a lot of dust but it was neat the few time I saw it get used.
As another "old guy" with a bunch of metal and wood lathes, yes a router jig makes sense. Ideally just find the closest inch or metri thread on a thread cutting metal lathe and hope you can find the pitch (about 5 tpi. ? )
Appears you're having fun! 😅 My self i reglue the handle and roll some wire around the broken "leg" ends up looking like a spring, strong enough to last the life of the broom, unless some bruja flights off with it! i would also let the bees do the waxing...
The idea of doing threads by hands is really cool! But, I think i'ma lazy guy. My idea: Just drill the hole a bit bigger, insert the broomstick and put a pin lock to hold it in place. Probably save two hours. But theads are really nice
That was brilliant! I have to remember that next time I want to cut some course threads. Now I just need to know how to cut the inside threads of the receiver.
