without a doubt... one of my favorite t shirts..... and talk about comfortable.... OMG. the people in my neighborhood must think I'm opening up a good fab rats shop... always working in something with my shirt on... lol
I guess im asking the wrong place but does anybody know of a way to get back into an instagram account? I was dumb forgot my login password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me.
Pushing those handcarts across the plains was an amazing demonstration of endurance and dedication to their faith. I found this quote from one story that explains the iron axle:"The carts were pulled from Iowa City, Iowa, a distance of 1,300 miles, or from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska which was 1,030 miles. Each cart carried 400 to 500 pounds of foodstuffs, bedding, clothing, and cooking utensils, and needed two able-bodied people to pull it. Five people were assigned to each cart. Adults could take only 17 pounds of baggage, and children were allowed 10 pounds each. Families with small children traveled in covered or family carts which had stronger axles made of iron."
This one was different and I loved it. Using the old lathe to do vintage work! Nice. I Can't believe the axel and wheel were in the burn pile. Glad they were salvaged.
Paul makes it look easier to do all that work than it is. One of the best fabricators I’ve seen with the best looking finished products I’ve seen. Now Michelle knows why Paul spends so much time in the shop after smelling that starting fluid. Keep up the great content it’s nice to see 5he variety of things Paul works on.
Well never expected seeing a wagon build in your shop, but can't say that again 😏😉 Watch out, Dar is becoming a celebrity, popping up on other channels 😉 Nice job 👍👍
Love watching your stuff, Paul! A craftsman doesn't always have the best plans to start with, but always finds a way to get it done! Good stuff as always! 👍👍
Papa Dar, I thought he was a superhero and today this was confirmed! Today, we see him on the most popular UA-cam channels, swoosh Matt’s off road then back to his home base! So glad that you all are community service based helping people who by the end of the project are friends! What a nice way you provide start the week!
The way you took something old and something newer and brought them together was amazing, the skills you demonstrate everyday have a lot of us viewers jealous, not to mention the tools to do it with. Please keep up the great content... Nice to meet the creator of the the wooden Fab rat, Mr Jack Gunn!
@@thomasriggle6371 I will be there this summer. Going to Yellowstone and the Little Bighorn Battlefield on my RV trip. I plan to also see as much of the Oregon Trail I can on my way down to Rawlins. Then on to Fort Bridger. I have been past these places a few times but never had the time to stop and visit. I'm retired now and I have the time. Also bringing my Jeep with me.
@@milt6208 I live 100 miles east of Casper. I try to get over to Independence Rock every year. I remember the first time I was to independents I was totally blown away by the hundreds of Pioneer signatures carved into the granite rock. Very very interesting. Makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck thinking about the idea I'm standing there looking at something as personal as a signature captured in a snapshot in time that happened 170 plus years ago. Martin's Cove Independence Rock and Hell's Gate all within a 5 mile area. Drop dead gorgeous area.
that's a great job Paul. I've done a few replica wagon axels with trailer axels and hubs with long studs through the wagon wheel hub but i like your deal better..
Love the idea the handcart guy had to restore this relic. Too often, these old items from history get trashed, when it doesn’t take too much to save them. I salvaged a complete full sized wooden ox-cart 20 years ago, but despite my efforts, it’s sadly way to rotten to hold itself in one piece. Even still, I’ve kept all the hand-forged metal parts and I’ve managed to keep 3 out of the 4 wheels for yard ornaments. Some of the more interesting pieces will clean up and become wall ornaments in our wooden house, they’ll fit right in. Good on you Paul for helping this guy... 🇷🇴🇬🇧👍🏻
A safety recommendation would be to add a handle to the file, if the end catches on the chuck jaws it will stab right through your hand, just cut up a broom handle and drill a hole in one end to use as the file handle. Also if your able to slow your spindle speed right down slow for filling the file should cut better
My wife is a descendant of a Martin Handcart Company survivor, for which Martin's Cove is named. Horrific yet inspiring story. There are several books and movies on the subject.
So enjoy your channel, to watch all the different fabrications. Paul is so good at solving problems..! Cant wait for the next video...!! Thank for sharing ...!!
Luv the Fab shop humor. Ole Betsy & General Lee. And THAT'S what you use that GIANT wrench for!! 👍😄 Another great shop video, Paul & Michelle. Come git yer wagon!!
Love your work and vids as usual but please for the love of all that is fixable, build a housing shield for all the rotating lath parts and pieces,cause some day when Paul is putting in an 18hr day, he will get careless and end up being grease for the lath GEARS!
Lathe feed that works........ I have used a variable speed electric drill, a 3/4" P6 threaded rod with coupling nuts thru a piece of tube mounted to the carriage of the lathe. I see you have a Bridgeport so make the one end of the 3/4" threaded shaft a hex to put in the chuck of your electric drill. Your speed will be controlled by the variable speed feature of the electric drill and the two coupling nuts can be used as a means of eliminating backlash. I bought an inexpensive 1/2" chuck corded electric drill from harbor freight as it was low RPM and had a lot of torque. mount limit switches to control carriage travel distance. you might also want an adjustable hard stop to finish a shoulder when machining a length. You may want to use a set screw or three to lock the coupler nuts inside a tube as a means of adjusting backlash. Don't forget that well adjusted gibs also help accuracy.
Quite interesting. I actually know the history of those hand carts in the migration to Utah. I was actually taught that in a United Methodist Sunday School. I know shocking right? Love seeing all the family in the shop. Keep up the good work!
Our first modern-day prophet owes much to the Methodists. It was a Methodist preacher Joseph Smith was listening to when he heard James1:5 quoted: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." This inspired Joseph to go ask God himself. Through the First Vision which followed, our religious organization was established. Sounds like you had a great school.
love the channel's nice to know there's other lds members that enjoy off-road and demo derby/automotive sports of any kind. and just plain hard honest work keep up the great work
Totally awesome! Notice the smile on the customer's face when you showed the axel !Priceless . Like the fab skills! Enjoy the Chanel! Thank you for sharing!
Yaaaa Paul, that is where one see a real and true MECHANIC !!! Bravo for this small job, but BUT but get yourself a nice reconditioned lathe so you can cut threads all sizes and all shapes even round thread. I remember having to machine the inside of a big flywheel and then machine the white metal bearing melted inside the hub.;;;; I made a mounting at the end of the lathe, mounted a h.D. drill on the apron holding the cutting tool the lathe was for the advancing movement..... A full day just to center the flywheel .....! Better be correct because turning at 1.500 rpm it will not wobble for long and really becoming a FLYING WHEEL !!! Warm regards to everyone there in the F....cold !!!
Just re-watching old videos and I still can not believe @FabRats has not made a "It's like I knew what I was doing" by now of some sort of merch cuz I'd def buy
You know you can use your lathe to cut threads, right? I mean, even if you don't cut threads automatically - which might be a bit dodgy if that old lathe has a lot of backlash - it's easy enough to fit a die into/onto the lathe's tailstock (make a die-holder if you need to) and then you can cut threads by clamping the workpiece in the chuck, turning it manually with the chuck key, and then turning the handle of the tailstock to advance the die. I'm thinking a socket sized to fit the die, attached to an extension bar, and then clamp the extension bar into the lathe's tailstock. Sure, once you've cut more than about an inch of thread you'll hit the back of the socket but by then the thread will definitely be square and you can continue by holding the die with a spanner. Apologies if I'm telling you how to suck eggs but it's handy to use the tailstock of a lathe to hold taps or dies to ensure threads are cut squarely.
I literally stopped what I was doing to watch the new Fab Rats video, my wife wasnt happy, but then again that's nothing new. Keep up the good work guys
@@evilbrat5376 I need to go to church or something, because my mental image of what he was doing when he stopped didn't have anything to do with chores or helping around the house.
Paul, I like servo motors and controllers for variable speed I did a quick search on amaz0n and saw this - Genuine Consew CSM1000 Servo Sewing Machine Motor 3/4HP . I am sure you can mount this unit to your lathe feed. I love watching things get fixed! Thank you, Kenny
I had an old shop teacher that taught us that when you want to run a die straight onto a piece part to make threads, chuck the piece part you are threading in the lathe, put the die in the wrench, run the tail stock up close to the piece part and lock it down. Turn the lathe chuck by hand and use the tail stock screw to advance the die. The die wrench will be held by the lathe bed and held straight by the tail stock. Make a nice straight thread.
Great Day, A Fab Rats video and FedEx delivered the new seat for my '40 Ford....On a Sunday no less. Paul it is cool when people bring you stuff like this, treasures from the past, and you get to work on them. An antique lathe and then a modern MIG welder used on extremely old metal to make it all work again. Can't get much better than that.
@@southstreetbarbecue7875 Isn't it just. I bet not a single person who follows Fab Rats, MORR and Casey's channels watches anything on the Trending list. I love EngelsCoachShop. The content is so interesting, but he also puts so much work into his production values like the stop motion (which must take a ton of time).
@@TrevorDennis100 I find a lot of channels with good content just by scrolling the comment sections of FabRats and channels like his. And even though I have no intention of ever building a wagon Engels is just entertaining and well-done. It's a pleasure to watch people who have a passion for what they're doing.
I have many buggy shops around me in a Amish and mennonite communities who would have got that job. I am impressed with your ability to make all this work. More of machine shop work than mechanic shop, I would have had the Amish wheel shop make two wheels for cart. You did a amazing job, I am impressed.
dear UA-cam, I'm sorry but fabrats is my go-to channel. i am watching everything i can find that even mentions fab rats, Paul, Michelle and the camera guy are the best you guys are just the best
I want a Fab Rats shirt that has "Like I knew what I was doing" Printed on the back. Better than "I made a call" shirt. When you do something you do it right, thanks for another great video.
Now that we can travel from Chicago to Salt Lake City in 2 hours by plane, can we even begin to imagine that march pulling all you own with your family, not in a big Conestoga Wagon but a handcart while walking through pure wilderness, relying on yourself and your faith to get you through. We don't praise our forebears enough. They weren't perfect, nor would they have claimed to be, but they were worthy of being revered for the good they did to make our lives so much better. We stand on the accomplishments of all those who strived, suffered and sacrificed to build a better life.
Paul in my day and I'm closer to 70 than I am to 60, we called that a micrometer which you referred to as a caliper which it actually is the electronic micrometer. The old mechanical micrometers had a dial guage that was in points of an inch. We could also get them in metric. In Minnesota my grandfather a master blacksmith/master Machinist was contracted by a man known as Joseph Galion my grandfather to build his first prototype of the mechanically operated 40 ft Road grader that was drawn by a team of four horses.(Galion also built the first engine driven road graders that we have today) My grandfather eventually migrated the family to Whitefish, Montana where my father's oldest brother Quentin Bengtson, did his apprenticeship. During the Great depression; the building of Hoover dam he was the only Master machinist in the United States that was trusted to install the bearings and the water turbine generators in Hoover dam. Also install the turbines in the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington and several other dams in the western portion of the United States. during World War II he invented 300 different mass production machines the patents of being taking out on by the Federal Government because he worked in the Seattle Shipyards building ships the first of those inventions was a machine to stamp washers out of sheets of steel using a hydraulic punch. And methodology that is still used in the making of washers today. It was his inventions towards the end of World War II allowed the building of a ship 400 plus foot long called a Liberty ship in 24 hours. I seen a lot of lathes in my lifetime but yours is one of the most interesting I have ever seen 😁
Paul, This Old Tony has a cool trick for turning the compound slide on his lathe using a T-bar in a cordless drill. It would be a stretch adapting the idea to the main carriage feed, but if anyone could do it, you can. Possibly by turning the end of the lead screw (if your lathe has one). I was totally convinced that you'd never manage to thread those axel ends, for instance, but by heck you made it work. Call me impressed.
Never too old to learn...I always put a bevel on a shaft to get a good starting thread, not once did it occur to me to use starting fluid, so much faster!
I've started threads with an impact too. If it works, why not. Great work Paul! I love building different things too. So many times I which I hade a lathe
A piece of round bar stock in your tailstock drill arbor and you can chase a die like that right on the lathe using pressure from the tailstock feed to start the die straight and square. Same as if you were hand tapping with a tap handle and a live center in the tailstock. Also I don't know if it maybe just didn't make the video but zipping a chamfer on there with a file or on the pedestal grinder before you chased the die on would have helped start the die also.
I have to admit... between you and Matt, I just have to let my subscription feed tell me who to watch first 🤣 who ever shows up first when I scroll down, I watch...I try to be as fair as I can 🤣🤣🤣
You could always clamp the shaft in the tool post or the tail stock and put in the die in the chuck. Put it at like 50 rpm and push the shaft into the die and just be prepared to stop the machine and it should “auto thread” the part. It’s not osha approved but it will work for this application. Great video!!!
Now you're in my neck of the woods..I do a lot of fabricating..But my main business is.. I'm a blacksmith..Just got done redoing all the metal work on a 1890 horse drawn Sleigh.. Never did a hand cart...but now I know how...thanks..
Sweet! I was given a old axle many years ago that the seals were leather instead of rubber definitely someone's trail fix but it held grease. I built a BBQ trailer around that axle and put modern day seals in it not leather LOL
The wheel on the rear axle of the white lifted F150 appeared to be out of position. The upper part of the wheel leans towards the bed. But great work 👏👍
Glad I wasn't the only one that saw that and wondered. I'm guessing it was just the ground being uneven. If it was really bent out that bad it would be noticeable when they drove it.
I must say Paul, your extremely talented. Love the channel and the content, please keep them coming. All the best to you and your family this year in 2021. Cheers from Oshawa Ontario Canada.
Great videos! I just watched all your fabricating on the 2 jeeps and this cart wheel. I read most of the comments here, and agree with most of the safety comments. I am 73 yrs old and have seen or heard of many accidents, and of course ignored some good advice and been involved in a few myself. Was shocked by 8,700 volts and later by 20,000 volts, among other things. My coworker went to the eye doctor with a drill shard sticking out of his eye. My son's friend was changing his wife's tire beside the interstate recently and put his hand on top of the tire as the jack failed --- she had to put the jack back under the car as he gave instructions, while his hand was trapped. Don't want you to get hurt. Watch bcbloc02 video "Worst day in the shop" !! He is precision machinist also.
So true. But like he said his lathe isn't dialed in yet it's all wibbly wobbly. He found it in a junkyard and is slowly bringing it back to life. So he's just cutting to the chase and getting it done quick. As he said, they're not going to be walking hundreds of miles across the plains with it. 😉😅😂
If I was a bettin man, I'd venture to guess that hand cart either came from or is going to Cove Fort (or both). But I ain't a bettin man so... My favorite place in UT is the hills behind (east of) the museum. As soon as that axle came in and it was explained it was for a hand cart, It brought back memories of the museum and hunting back east of there. Note: Watch a few videos of lathe mishaps (many of which result in a horrible death) and you will see why people wig out over what seems to be a no big deal thing. Incidentally, i was showing my son something on my lathe and ended up leaving the key in (just after telling him not to do it). Sure enough when I started the thing it whipped the key over my shoulder about 4 inched away from my head, passed over my sons head and hit a storage tub about 35 feet away, line drive, breaking a sizeable hole in the tub. Think about that... the key from the 12 o'clock position in the chuck to 35' away almost flat. That thing can definitely kill you. It's like any tool that can mess you up. Respect it or it will learn you to... the hard way. Love what y'all do.
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without a doubt... one of my favorite t shirts..... and talk about comfortable.... OMG. the people in my neighborhood must think I'm opening up a good fab rats shop... always working in something with my shirt on... lol
Maybe an idea for a shirt. "Like i knew what i was doing " . And "let it cool" with you awsome logo
Please take your coat off when working around the lathe.
I guess im asking the wrong place but does anybody know of a way to get back into an instagram account?
I was dumb forgot my login password. I would appreciate any tips you can offer me.
@Willie London instablaster =)
It is so sad the heritage that gets discarded because it no longer “fits”. Kudos to the guy for rescuing the parts.
Like I've said before, this is the best "fab channel" on UA-cam!!!
100%
because they actually show the work instead of fancy time lapse, music banging, and jump cuts straight to the finished product lol
Thank you!!
@@FabRats oh no no, thank you!!
Not only the best fab channel but at the top of my list of all channels.
Pushing those handcarts across the plains was an amazing demonstration of endurance and dedication to their faith. I found this quote from one story that explains the iron axle:"The carts were pulled from Iowa City, Iowa, a distance of 1,300 miles, or from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska which was 1,030 miles. Each cart carried 400 to 500 pounds of foodstuffs, bedding, clothing, and cooking utensils, and needed two able-bodied people to pull it. Five people were assigned to each cart. Adults could take only 17 pounds of baggage, and children were allowed 10 pounds each. Families with small children traveled in covered or family carts which had stronger axles made of iron."
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Thanks for letting us meet the man that built the Fab Rat shop shrine - meeting in person was awesome Fab Rats is truly a great channel
The "Utah history edition" of Fab Rats. Keep 'em coming
This one was different and I loved it. Using the old lathe to do vintage work! Nice. I Can't believe the axel and wheel were in the burn pile. Glad they were salvaged.
I was waiting for you to say "lets put some ORI struts on the wagon 😆
The best part of watching you guys and Matts offroad recovery is seeing all you guys and gals have fun. You folks make me smile. Thank you.
Paul makes it look easier to do all that work than it is. One of the best fabricators I’ve seen with the best looking finished products I’ve seen. Now Michelle knows why Paul spends so much time in the shop after smelling that starting fluid. Keep up the great content it’s nice to see 5he variety of things Paul works on.
Well never expected seeing a wagon build in your shop, but can't say that again 😏😉
Watch out, Dar is becoming a celebrity, popping up on other channels 😉
Nice job 👍👍
The cross pollination of various UA-cam celebrities is great to see. I can't wait till Keith Rutger needs a rock Crawler.
Love watching your stuff, Paul! A craftsman doesn't always have the best plans to start with, but always finds a way to get it done! Good stuff as always! 👍👍
Papa Dar, I thought he was a superhero and today this was confirmed! Today, we see him on the most popular UA-cam channels, swoosh Matt’s off road then back to his home base! So glad that you all are community service based helping people who by the end of the project are friends! What a nice way you provide start the week!
The way you took something old and something newer and brought them together was amazing, the skills you demonstrate everyday have a lot of us viewers jealous, not to mention the tools to do it with. Please keep up the great content...
Nice to meet the creator of the the wooden Fab rat, Mr Jack Gunn!
That thing with numbers on it is a "centimeter measurer"....🤣😂🤣😂
Technically she wasn't wrong
I have always called it a micrometer.
In Utah everybody knows about the handcart brigades. A lot of us in Nevada too! Awesome pioneer story.
I'm Czech myself, but even I know about the handcarts! I'd be proud if that was part of my culture.
Martin's Cove is here in Wyoming less than 5 miles down the road from Independence Rock. Unless there's more than one that is.
@@thomasriggle6371 I will be there this summer. Going to Yellowstone and the Little Bighorn Battlefield on my RV trip. I plan to also see as much of the Oregon Trail I can on my way down to Rawlins. Then on to Fort Bridger. I have been past these places a few times but never had the time to stop and visit. I'm retired now and I have the time. Also bringing my Jeep with me.
@@guygrotke7476 the Czech culture and history is also awesome.
@@milt6208 I live 100 miles east of Casper. I try to get over to Independence Rock every year. I remember the first time I was to independents I was totally blown away by the hundreds of Pioneer signatures carved into the granite rock. Very very interesting. Makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck thinking about the idea I'm standing there looking at something as personal as a signature captured in a snapshot in time that happened 170 plus years ago. Martin's Cove Independence Rock and Hell's Gate all within a 5 mile area. Drop dead gorgeous area.
Michelle, I love the view from the wall behind the lathe looking out!
that's a great job Paul. I've done a few replica wagon axels with trailer axels and hubs with long studs through the wagon wheel hub but i like your deal better..
Love the idea the handcart guy had to restore this relic. Too often, these old items from history get trashed, when it doesn’t take too much to save them. I salvaged a complete full sized wooden ox-cart 20 years ago, but despite my efforts, it’s sadly way to rotten to hold itself in one piece. Even still, I’ve kept all the hand-forged metal parts and I’ve managed to keep 3 out of the 4 wheels for yard ornaments.
Some of the more interesting pieces will clean up and become wall ornaments in our wooden house, they’ll fit right in.
Good on you Paul for helping this guy... 🇷🇴🇬🇧👍🏻
Nice to see history being fixed for others to see and use.
A safety recommendation would be to add a handle to the file, if the end catches on the chuck jaws it will stab right through your hand, just cut up a broom handle and drill a hole in one end to use as the file handle. Also if your able to slow your spindle speed right down slow for filling the file should cut better
My wife is a descendant of a Martin Handcart Company survivor, for which Martin's Cove is named. Horrific yet inspiring story. There are several books and movies on the subject.
Poppa Dar put the impact gun in the keep hoping that you would use it on his Jeep. Lol
Always cool to watch all the different fabrications you do while having fun doing it.
So enjoy your channel, to watch all the different fabrications. Paul is so good at solving problems..! Cant wait for the next video...!! Thank for sharing ...!!
Paul, I shouldn't be amazed by you. You did it again, fabbing stuff a hundred years old, you are the man.
Luv the Fab shop humor. Ole Betsy & General Lee. And THAT'S what you use that GIANT wrench for!! 👍😄
Another great shop video, Paul & Michelle. Come git yer wagon!!
Thanks for posting! Love watching you figure out how to solve problems.👍👍👍👍👍🤓
Love your work and vids as usual but please for the love of all that is fixable, build a housing shield for all the rotating lath parts and pieces,cause some day when Paul is putting in an 18hr day, he will get careless and end up being grease for the lath GEARS!
7:09. Better to be a little too light than too lose. LOL! Truer words were never spoken.
Lathe feed that works........ I have used a variable speed electric drill, a 3/4" P6 threaded rod with coupling nuts thru a piece of tube mounted to the carriage of the lathe. I see you have a Bridgeport so make the one end of the 3/4" threaded shaft a hex to put in the chuck of your electric drill. Your speed will be controlled by the variable speed feature of the electric drill and the two coupling nuts can be used as a means of eliminating backlash. I bought an inexpensive 1/2" chuck corded electric drill from harbor freight as it was low RPM and had a lot of torque. mount limit switches to control carriage travel distance. you might also want an adjustable hard stop to finish a shoulder when machining a length. You may want to use a set screw or three to lock the coupler nuts inside a tube as a means of adjusting backlash. Don't forget that well adjusted gibs also help accuracy.
Quite interesting. I actually know the history of those hand carts in the migration to Utah. I was actually taught that in a United Methodist Sunday School. I know shocking right?
Love seeing all the family in the shop. Keep up the good work!
Our first modern-day prophet owes much to the Methodists. It was a Methodist preacher Joseph Smith was listening to when he heard James1:5 quoted: "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." This inspired Joseph to go ask God himself. Through the First Vision which followed, our religious organization was established. Sounds like you had a great school.
love the channel's nice to know there's other lds members that enjoy off-road and demo derby/automotive sports of any kind. and just plain hard honest work keep up the great work
There's a few of us out there. Plus just a lot of good people too.
It's great to see people like you helping others out. You can now add that to your resume.
Totally awesome! Notice the smile on the customer's face when you showed the axel !Priceless . Like the fab skills! Enjoy the Chanel! Thank you for sharing!
Yaaaa Paul, that is where one see a real and true MECHANIC !!! Bravo for this small job, but BUT but get yourself a nice reconditioned lathe so you can cut threads all sizes and all shapes even round thread. I remember having to machine the inside of a big flywheel and then machine the white metal bearing melted inside the hub.;;;; I made a mounting at the end of the lathe, mounted a h.D. drill on the apron holding the cutting tool the lathe was for the advancing movement..... A full day just to center the flywheel .....! Better be correct because turning at 1.500 rpm it will not wobble for long and really becoming a FLYING WHEEL !!! Warm regards to everyone there in the F....cold !!!
That lathe is AWSOME!! Nothing like working equipment by hand!!
Just re-watching old videos and I still can not believe @FabRats has not made a "It's like I knew what I was doing" by now of some sort of merch cuz I'd def buy
Wagon wheel for the General Lee, Keep it under 60.. 😂 Paul is quite the comedian lol.. ✌🏻Always love to watch these videos!
That's so cool to be able to work on something that old thanks for the laughter too
Those ends are replaceable, watch Engels coach shop. Good job fabricating it.
I am reminded of the song "Kodachrome" "when I think back to all the crap I learned in HS. You did well with all.
Paul you can fix just about anything.You have the coolest personality and you are the easiest going person. Thanks for sharing.☺️☺️☺️👍👍👍👍
I look forward yo watching your channel Sunday morning and hearing your wife behind the camera know time to do a little woodworking
You know you can use your lathe to cut threads, right?
I mean, even if you don't cut threads automatically - which might be a bit dodgy if that old lathe has a lot of backlash - it's easy enough to fit a die into/onto the lathe's tailstock (make a die-holder if you need to) and then you can cut threads by clamping the workpiece in the chuck, turning it manually with the chuck key, and then turning the handle of the tailstock to advance the die.
I'm thinking a socket sized to fit the die, attached to an extension bar, and then clamp the extension bar into the lathe's tailstock.
Sure, once you've cut more than about an inch of thread you'll hit the back of the socket but by then the thread will definitely be square and you can continue by holding the die with a spanner.
Apologies if I'm telling you how to suck eggs but it's handy to use the tailstock of a lathe to hold taps or dies to ensure threads are cut squarely.
I literally stopped what I was doing to watch the new Fab Rats video, my wife wasnt happy, but then again that's nothing new. Keep up the good work guys
Mental image of that statement of wife Not Happy when stopped - - LOL!
@@evilbrat5376 I need to go to church or something, because my mental image of what he was doing when he stopped didn't have anything to do with chores or helping around the house.
@@southstreetbarbecue7875 🤣 man, Ive been married for 18 yrs, that stopped a long time ago 😅
@@hustlinghard8081 My 17 year anniversary is this Friday. I hear you brother!
@@southstreetbarbecue7875 congrats, its awesome to find your love of your life. I kid about my wife but wouldn't trade her for anything.
Paul, I like servo motors and controllers for variable speed I did a quick search on amaz0n and saw this - Genuine Consew CSM1000 Servo Sewing Machine Motor 3/4HP . I am sure you can mount this unit to your lathe feed. I love watching things get fixed!
Thank you, Kenny
I had an old shop teacher that taught us that when you want to run a die straight onto a piece part to make threads, chuck the piece part you are threading in the lathe, put the die in the wrench, run the tail stock up close to the piece part and lock it down. Turn the lathe chuck by hand and use the tail stock screw to advance the die. The die wrench will be held by the lathe bed and held straight by the tail stock. Make a nice straight thread.
Great Day, A Fab Rats video and FedEx delivered the new seat for my '40 Ford....On a Sunday no less. Paul it is cool when people bring you stuff like this, treasures from the past, and you get to work on them. An antique lathe and then a modern MIG welder used on extremely old metal to make it all work again. Can't get much better than that.
For a minute I thought I was watching EngelsCoachShop, then I realized I was still on Paul's channel!
It's funny how many of us seem to have the same channels in our subscription list.
@@southstreetbarbecue7875 agreed
@@southstreetbarbecue7875 Isn't it just. I bet not a single person who follows Fab Rats, MORR and Casey's channels watches anything on the Trending list. I love EngelsCoachShop. The content is so interesting, but he also puts so much work into his production values like the stop motion (which must take a ton of time).
@@TrevorDennis100 I find a lot of channels with good content just by scrolling the comment sections of FabRats and channels like his.
And even though I have no intention of ever building a wagon Engels is just entertaining and well-done. It's a pleasure to watch people who have a passion for what they're doing.
I was instantly awestruck when Dave was building those wheels for the 20 mule borax team... I've never missed an episode ever since.
Awesome when Jack pulled up for the oil change! A true fan of the channel.
Been to my Sunday morning services "morr" with guest appearance by papa dar then over to fabrats been a good way to start my day
I’ll take your kids for the tax deductions. Can I store them at your place? 😂
Thanks you two, that was great to watch.
I kept expecting an appearance by Matt as soon as those welds were done 😉🤫
Yeah, we haven't seen Matt burn himself lately...
I bought my 11 yr old grandson one of the t shirts for Christmas. He loves it.
Awesome!! Glad he loves it!!
I have many buggy shops around me in a Amish and mennonite communities who would have got that job. I am impressed with your ability to make all this work. More of machine shop work than mechanic shop, I would have had the Amish wheel shop make two wheels for cart. You did a amazing job, I am impressed.
dear UA-cam, I'm sorry but fabrats is my go-to channel. i am watching everything i can find that even mentions fab rats, Paul, Michelle and the camera guy are the best you guys are just the best
I do like the variety of work FabRats is doing. Great work 👏
I want a Fab Rats shirt that has "Like I knew what I was doing" Printed on the back. Better than "I made a call" shirt. When you do something you do it right, thanks for another great video.
Never stand on the left side of a file when filing on a lathe.
Love the odd ball builds! That's mostly what I do is stuff no one else wants to do!
Awesome job. I'm watching you guys, because of Winder towing. You are a awesome group.
Sniff it up, you'll be happy in a minute! 🤣😂
Now that we can travel from Chicago to Salt Lake City in 2 hours by plane, can we even begin to imagine that march pulling all you own with your family, not in a big Conestoga Wagon but a handcart while walking through pure wilderness, relying on yourself and your faith to get you through. We don't praise our forebears enough. They weren't perfect, nor would they have claimed to be, but they were worthy of being revered for the good they did to make our lives so much better. We stand on the accomplishments of all those who strived, suffered and sacrificed to build a better life.
Paul in my day and I'm closer to 70 than I am to 60, we called that a micrometer which you referred to as a caliper which it actually is the electronic micrometer. The old mechanical micrometers had a dial guage that was in points of an inch. We could also get them in metric.
In Minnesota my grandfather a master blacksmith/master Machinist was contracted by a man known as Joseph Galion my grandfather to build his first prototype of the mechanically operated 40 ft Road grader that was drawn by a team of four horses.(Galion also built the first engine driven road graders that we have today)
My grandfather eventually migrated the family to Whitefish, Montana where my father's oldest brother Quentin Bengtson, did his apprenticeship. During the Great depression; the building of Hoover dam he was the only Master machinist in the United States that was trusted to install the bearings and the water turbine generators in Hoover dam. Also install the turbines in the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington and several other dams in the western portion of the United States. during World War II he invented 300 different mass production machines the patents of being taking out on by the Federal Government because he worked in the Seattle Shipyards building ships the first of those inventions was a machine to stamp washers out of sheets of steel using a hydraulic punch. And methodology that is still used in the making of washers today. It was his inventions towards the end of World War II allowed the building of a ship 400 plus foot long called a Liberty ship in 24 hours.
I seen a lot of lathes in my lifetime but yours is one of the most interesting I have ever seen 😁
Your grandpa sounded like an amazing man!!👌 Thanks for sharing!
Great video looks like Paul can work on almost anything. Enjoy all your videos.
Paul, This Old Tony has a cool trick for turning the compound slide on his lathe using a T-bar in a cordless drill. It would be a stretch adapting the idea to the main carriage feed, but if anyone could do it, you can. Possibly by turning the end of the lead screw (if your lathe has one). I was totally convinced that you'd never manage to thread those axel ends, for instance, but by heck you made it work. Call me impressed.
Never too old to learn...I always put a bevel on a shaft to get a good starting thread, not once did it occur to me to use starting fluid, so much faster!
I know Paul is glad to have his lathe and does quite well with it. It would be interesting to see him him with a newer more capable one.
I've started threads with an impact too. If it works, why not. Great work Paul!
I love building different things too. So many times I which I hade a lathe
You have some great fabrication skills. I'm envious.
A piece of round bar stock in your tailstock drill arbor and you can chase a die like that right on the lathe using pressure from the tailstock feed to start the die straight and square. Same as if you were hand tapping with a tap handle and a live center in the tailstock.
Also I don't know if it maybe just didn't make the video but zipping a chamfer on there with a file or on the pedestal grinder before you chased the die on would have helped start the die also.
That was pretty cool. I like seeing how you merge the old with the new. Watch that Winder guy, he's gonna steal Pappa Dar!!!
I have to admit... between you and Matt, I just have to let my subscription feed tell me who to watch first 🤣 who ever shows up first when I scroll down, I watch...I try to be as fair as I can 🤣🤣🤣
It's cool to see the respect you get from the older generation. Hard work and true talent speaks to all
You could always clamp the shaft in the tool post or the tail stock and put in the die in the chuck. Put it at like 50 rpm and push the shaft into the die and just be prepared to stop the machine and it should “auto thread” the part. It’s not osha approved but it will work for this application. Great video!!!
Now you're in my neck of the woods..I do a lot of fabricating..But my main business is.. I'm a blacksmith..Just got done redoing all the metal work on a 1890 horse drawn Sleigh.. Never did a hand cart...but now I know how...thanks..
Sweet! I was given a old axle many years ago that the seals were leather instead of rubber definitely someone's trail fix but it held grease. I built a BBQ trailer around that axle and put modern day seals in it not leather LOL
Leather was the proper material for back in the day... still is for axles not converted over to roller bearings.
@@roberttailspin6330 it had roller bearings already tho.
And some had just wooden axles with bear grease for lubricant, but everyone still complained they squeaked horribly.
Another very interesting video. Thanks for sharing.
Doing something different now and then is what keeps you sharp. Great job 👍.
The wheel on the rear axle of the white lifted F150 appeared to be out of position. The upper part of the wheel leans towards the bed. But great work 👏👍
Glad I wasn't the only one that saw that and wondered. I'm guessing it was just the ground being uneven. If it was really bent out that bad it would be noticeable when they drove it.
I must say Paul, your extremely talented. Love the channel and the content, please keep them coming. All the best to you and your family this year in 2021. Cheers from Oshawa Ontario Canada.
Thanks for watching!!
Great videos! I just watched all your fabricating on the 2 jeeps and this cart wheel. I read most of the comments here, and agree with most of the safety comments. I am 73 yrs old and have seen or heard of many accidents, and of course ignored some good advice and been involved in a few myself. Was shocked by 8,700 volts and later by 20,000 volts, among other things. My coworker went to the eye doctor with a drill shard sticking out of his eye. My son's friend was changing his wife's tire beside the interstate recently and put his hand on top of the tire as the jack failed --- she had to put the jack back under the car as he gave instructions, while his hand was trapped. Don't want you to get hurt. Watch bcbloc02 video "Worst day in the shop" !! He is precision machinist also.
Good day on the UA-cam. Covair build, fab rats video, hemi swap finished on jk gear and gadgets.
Always something different, thanks guys.
When it came to the starter fluid, he said sniff it and you'll ve happy in a minute 😅😂.
Jack Gunn emoji signature why not? Sounds perfect. 24 July more likely ha ha love it.
That was some good Sunday watching. I appreciate your skills and intuitiveness. Thank you for taking the time to share.
just speaks volumes how talented and creative you are Paul!! What a cool project that had to be. Is the shop light ok?
Putting a chamfer on the end of the spindle will aid in starting the threading die.
Not when you use starting fluid
So true. But like he said his lathe isn't dialed in yet it's all wibbly wobbly. He found it in a junkyard and is slowly bringing it back to life. So he's just cutting to the chase and getting it done quick. As he said, they're not going to be walking hundreds of miles across the plains with it. 😉😅😂
If I was a bettin man, I'd venture to guess that hand cart either came from or is going to Cove Fort (or both). But I ain't a bettin man so...
My favorite place in UT is the hills behind (east of) the museum. As soon as that axle came in and it was explained it was for a hand cart, It brought back memories of the museum and hunting back east of there.
Note:
Watch a few videos of lathe mishaps (many of which result in a horrible death) and you will see why people wig out over what seems to be a no big deal thing. Incidentally, i was showing my son something on my lathe and ended up leaving the key in (just after telling him not to do it). Sure enough when I started the thing it whipped the key over my shoulder about 4 inched away from my head, passed over my sons head and hit a storage tub about 35 feet away, line drive, breaking a sizeable hole in the tub. Think about that... the key from the 12 o'clock position in the chuck to 35' away almost flat. That thing can definitely kill you.
It's like any tool that can mess you up. Respect it or it will learn you to... the hard way.
Love what y'all do.
I found a complete set of dies to 2 " bolt thread that works in ridged ratcheting handle for $30 bucks what a deal
That lathe is paying for itself! Another great video thanks.
Papa Dar 👊
You all are great. I love watching Fab Rats, and Matt's video. Gives me ideas to work on love it.
you should take on more random projects like this, not necessarily car specific but still entertaining to see things get fabbed up👌
Awesome work sir, love doing stuff like this. I have done lots of fab work on my 1903 Lodge & Shipley lathe.
That's cool Paul, great job!!!
Wow. The camera you use is awesome. Go pro or what ever, the quality is outstanding. I really enjoy watching your channel. Keep it up....
Love story like this ....tks too teacher Paul hé would of bien soo good . ....big fan ✌
Paul makes anyone go out and fab something up with the tools and material you have on hand😉