@@practicalplinking6133I happen to toot both horns. Inherited a six meter long sailboat from the mother of my girlfriend. Thank god it is a polyester one and I have enough space in my own building for it. I guess that qualifies me as a "boat owner" but not a "boat guy"....
I told mine to start walking. Should save me a little fuel. If @Thisoldtony had only uploaded a 30 or 40 min video, the kids could have had enough time to make it the full mile and a 1/2.😐😂
Maybe when that one breaks he’ll do the sensible thing and make a perfectly machined peg that fits inside the two broken pieces and epoxy them together 😁
Same. But I'd probably overlook something super obvious by focusing on the non important details, screw up and give up, and buy the thing anyways... I wish that didn't happen to me constantly.
We enjoy the company too, Tony! Thank you. At this point, after the years of living "on the Internet", one acquires a sense for places where you allow yourself to let your soul roam free, unattended and unconstrained. Just receiving joy. Your videos are such places. It's like with moving house or traveling. You find yourself in a new, strange, alien place. The first night there comes along. You are laying down, staring into the darkness, with the blanket held under your chin. Slightly worried look on your face, even if there is no one to see it. All around you are the new unfamiliar smells, shadows, sounds and you are... not exactly afraid but not feeling safe and comfortable either. Maybe in a week or so it'll be ok, but for now, you feel vulnerable and raw and exposed and lonely. At such time it really helps to have an anchor to a safe place. A tiny talisman. A pebble from your old garden. Your kid's drawing. Your comfy childhood book. Or This Old Tony's presence. The voice, the humor, the feel, the predictable hand movements. Man, you are awesome, do you realize that? I know that it's apparent from the number of your subscribers, but I want to make it clear Tony. You are really, truly appreciated ❤ Thank you for being here for all those years! PS: I bought your t-shirt in XL size and then I lost weight. The fact that it's now too big to wear is the only single negative consequence of the weight loss 😆 But I can always buy an updated size...
Just calculated: with 314k views, people have spent over 3700 days watching this video. That's over 70 years for dogs, yet you couldn't find the time to smooth out those edges!? Outrageous! Then again, writing this, I realized it would've taken an extra 500 000 minutes of our time had you done so. Therefore I thank you, for not rounding out those edges and saving a year!
You don’t really strike me as the kind of person that could live the mismatch of just having that on one side, even on just a fish net. I’m way over particular, but I’d had to make both sides lol. Love your videos, you are the best!!!
"This, being a plastic part, means that it's stupid and complicated." God, I've been watching these videos for years and you still say things that make me snort and nod simultaneously. It's like you're in my head!
chainsaw-driven boat-kart that obstensibly ends up on land because the boy saw a coyote and went full captain kirk and declared ramming speed on the gorm
This channel is one of the reasons I’m a CNC machinist and programmer. Started out with manual and thinking I’d love it forever, and then got hooked on CNC in college. Still enjoy manual machining, but nothing gets me excited like high efficiency CNC machining.
I’ve been binge rewatching your videos the last couple days and I can only watch your videos 20 times or so before I start zoning out. This is a huge relief.
Went from having a bit of a meh day to all smiles because a ToT video appeared in my feed. This certainly takes having dealt with Helene all night long more tolerable.
Made my day seeing a New video from you. I started watching your videos before I owned any real machining equipment and wondered to myself why I was watching machining videos. Now I have 2 lathes a milling machine and a surface grinder. I have always enjoyed your content, regardless of the subject. I believe it helped me with my motivation to get into machining. Keep up the good work, my friend.
You should have called me before you made that part. I have the exact same net and every part except the one you made broke. It was the match made in heaven that never happened sadly.
A couple of days back I though it was a while since I'd see a TOT video. I must have felt it coming over the ether. Aways a bright point in my day. Sad, I know, but thanks for the little cheer we get these days.
Hey! Good to see you again! And you just pointed out that I missed many opportunities for engineering when I used to go fishing. But I didn’t do ‘engineering’ then. And maybe engineering now is why I have no time for fishing. Man, I think I’m confused. And fishless. Thanks anyway. Les 🇬🇧
@@ThisOldTony absolutely! I look forward to the video on CNCing a new fabric net! Here is the real question though. If you split in half and make the missing pieces, do you still only have 1 net?
@@ThisOldTony After so many upgrades I am the not-so-proud owner of a CNC of Thesues. If it can a 4x8 sheet, maybe it shouldn't be called a 3018 cnc anymore...
The true Spirit of the original net is kept when you repair it or replace parts as ling as you don't replace everything at the same time. At least that's how a drunk japanese bicycle mechanic explained it to me a long time ago or, more likely, how i understood it as he might have said something else entirely me being not fluent in Japanese, much less in _drunken, slurred japanese._ or maybe i was drunkier and it was an 🦦 working on that bike for 🎏 that was talking to me...
So how are you not going to be staring at that thinking "I should have done both sides".. for a machinist you OCD control/suppression is inspirational.
Told the wife, sorry, you've got to hold on for 17:17, TOT is on. Anyhow, I will be sleeping on the couch tonight and a half gallon of rockey road and a bouquet of flowers. Thanks much for the video, and I hope you have a wonderful day
oh boy, who is Uri Tuchman - a new subscription perhaps?? Oh, nope, I'm already subscribed to him, just didn't recognize the name. I think I subscribed pretty recently
The power is out after hurricane Helene, my phone only has 11% battery and TOT drops a new video…of course I’m going to watch it. This will be a bright spot in an otherwise crummy day. Thanks Tony!
Am I the only one who wants to see a 15 part series where TOT goes round and replaces all the parts on that net with expensive custom made parts? Except for the net, whever heard of a CNC'd net being able to catch a gopher?!?!?!?
One of my first ever lathe projects was fixing a tripod built about as cheap as this net. Replaced all knobs with knurled brass, and replaced the main pivot shaft from plastic to aluminum. Thing is holding up great today and I still use it 5 years later. It was my grandpa's so I had to fix it
I could not stand having one plastic and the other aluminum. I get it. Only a 15.00 POS but I would imagine with the other side in aluminum that you could cross sell it for 15.99. Seriously nice (enuff)work. My lathe/mill is 99% manual and although I imagine I could create a similar part (in a month of sundays) I always appreciate you sharing your time with us. Even if it is on a fishing net no serious fisherman would be caught dead using ;p
This is what the world desperately needs more of (as well as excellent innuendo), repairing stuff that's 99% functioning rather than landfilling and forcing another to me manufactured, which then doubles the amount or resources of a single item.
Woah, I am no machinist myself but I always enjoy watching TOT work. I just have one little question about this project: What is a drill? Also, what is metal?
@@eekee6034 that astrophysicist tease comes from the means of measuring the age of stars. As hydrogen is "burned" (fused) within the star to create heavier elements, that measure of heavier elements is called the metallicity of a star. Metallic liquid hydrogen is not star related, more planet related.
Most Excellent 👌 Next time you fix that net, try loading the prusa up with some extra fancy reinforced filament and see if a strong 3d print can match the aluminum one. Maho vs prusa 😉
My first thought was CAD and print with Nylon-X. Quickly followed by a 2nd thought of buying the all metal foldable net, which was totally superceded by wondering if I could talk my wife into wearing some fishnet lingerie. I concluded this was all "crazy ideas" and just watched the video. Hey, wait, what is my wife wearing ... sorry guys, gotta go.
@@ThisOldTony as I was watching the video, I was definitely getting a bit confused... thoughts running through my head included, "he must have a CAD model if he's milling the piece out..." and "the other side is already plastic anyway, why not 3D print this side with the CAD model he already designed?" and "Tony, who hurt you?"
spending 4 hours in the shop saving a 15 dollar fishing net. Exactly the kind of thing we use our expensive machine tools for. I completely encourage this kind of behavior.
I knew you didn't own a boat, cause if you did, we would have had 5 videos of you fixing it by now
The motorcycles prevent boat ownership !!
Sounds like more reasons for him to get a boat...
@@practicalplinking6133I happen to toot both horns. Inherited a six meter long sailboat from the mother of my girlfriend. Thank god it is a polyester one and I have enough space in my own building for it. I guess that qualifies me as a "boat owner" but not a "boat guy"....
Nah. Tony's too smart to own a boat. I wish I was that smart.
B.0.A.T.
Bust Out Another Thousand
Custom made 500$ replacement parts for 15$ objects is what we all live for. Thank you, Tony!
This reminds me again that the 'throw away' plastic bottles we constantly recycle would have been treasured possessions in former times!
I'm not sure how he resisted not making two honestly. TOT clearly has more self control than I do
Ah, another video from Tony! My kids can wait to get picked up from school.
🤣
😲
They'll understand.
I told mine to start walking. Should save me a little fuel. If @Thisoldtony had only uploaded a 30 or 40 min video, the kids could have had enough time to make it the full mile and a 1/2.😐😂
@@ThisOldTonyIt's a sacrifice they're willing to make. They will understand.
For some reason, the idea that TOT slowly CNC rebuilds a $15 net as each of the plastic parts gives out is hilarious and awesome simultaneously.
The Weekend Project of Theseus?
Probably shoulda made two. There's more than one chipmunk in the park.
The number of plastic parts you need to replace with machined ones depends on how much time you need away from your wife and kids.
I was going to say the same thing. Should've broke the other side to save time by making two together.
Maybe when that one breaks he’ll do the sensible thing and make a perfectly machined peg that fits inside the two broken pieces and epoxy them together 😁
@@solarcheesenow where's the fun in that 😅
Yeah but if he replaced both, then the plastic part they attach to would just break.
:)
Fixing what isn’t meant to be fixed is the most gratifying thing a man can do.
The man, the legend, the masochi ... I mean machinist.
😂😂🤣🤣
Remember when he made his own rifle stock?
Fishnets could work with that.
@@mikafoxx2717 pfp checks out
I misread "PAIN MOTOR" at the beginning and had to rewind
A good machinist will Always go 8 hours and 50 dollars out of his way to prove himself right (valuable)
The cost of truth.
An absurdly overly complicated solution to the problem. That is exactly what I would do...
Same. But I'd probably overlook something super obvious by focusing on the non important details, screw up and give up, and buy the thing anyways... I wish that didn't happen to me constantly.
In an age of 3D printing, this is much appreciated.
You should see the spare tire carrier I made for our utility trailer.
Lol same. This is why I love TOT.
This is a Rube Goldberg approved solution
We enjoy the company too, Tony! Thank you. At this point, after the years of living "on the Internet", one acquires a sense for places where you allow yourself to let your soul roam free, unattended and unconstrained. Just receiving joy. Your videos are such places. It's like with moving house or traveling. You find yourself in a new, strange, alien place. The first night there comes along. You are laying down, staring into the darkness, with the blanket held under your chin. Slightly worried look on your face, even if there is no one to see it. All around you are the new unfamiliar smells, shadows, sounds and you are... not exactly afraid but not feeling safe and comfortable either. Maybe in a week or so it'll be ok, but for now, you feel vulnerable and raw and exposed and lonely. At such time it really helps to have an anchor to a safe place. A tiny talisman. A pebble from your old garden. Your kid's drawing. Your comfy childhood book. Or This Old Tony's presence. The voice, the humor, the feel, the predictable hand movements. Man, you are awesome, do you realize that? I know that it's apparent from the number of your subscribers, but I want to make it clear Tony. You are really, truly appreciated ❤
Thank you for being here for all those years!
PS: I bought your t-shirt in XL size and then I lost weight. The fact that it's now too big to wear is the only single negative consequence of the weight loss 😆 But I can always buy an updated size...
You've been missed! Good to see you on the Ole Tube!
thanks!
@@ThisOldTonygood to see your smiling hands again!
Just calculated: with 314k views, people have spent over 3700 days watching this video. That's over 70 years for dogs, yet you couldn't find the time to smooth out those edges!? Outrageous! Then again, writing this, I realized it would've taken an extra 500 000 minutes of our time had you done so. Therefore I thank you, for not rounding out those edges and saving a year!
You know most of us was waiting for TOT to make the left frame side to match!
And machine a new net.
I dunno why he didn’t make a whole one-piecer, that cold affected his will power.
@@MalcolmPetty-d4z thats the next video.... when the other side breaks
@@JinushiProjects That, and the receptacle piece.
Because now it'd be hard to throw the thing out.
My symmetrical brain is having fits.
You don’t really strike me as the kind of person that could live the mismatch of just having that on one side, even on just a fish net. I’m way over particular, but I’d had to make both sides lol. Love your videos, you are the best!!!
My wife was like TOT just dropped a new video!
I married a good one❤
Mashallah so lucky
Or she just wanted to be left in peace for 17 minutes...
😂@@olavl8827
"This, being a plastic part, means that it's stupid and complicated."
God, I've been watching these videos for years and you still say things that make me snort and nod simultaneously. It's like you're in my head!
You should get a boat. You could get 1 or 2 videos out of it before we NEVER hear of it again.
LOL
He could machine the boat…or maybe file a boat out of a solid block or something.
@@ManFromLaBambaTurn a BOAT on a LATHE?!
chainsaw-driven boat-kart that obstensibly ends up on land because the boy saw a coyote and went full captain kirk and declared ramming speed on the gorm
Boats and swimming pools, just a large hole to throw money in.
There are only a few creators who I will stop everything to watch, when I get the notification. Tony is at the top of the list.
Is the folding mechanism...over-center?!?
Very good!
@@stco2426That's what I was thinking too! 😅
I had the exact thought when he clicked it the first time! Good call!
You...
This channel is one of the reasons I’m a CNC machinist and programmer. Started out with manual and thinking I’d love it forever, and then got hooked on CNC in college. Still enjoy manual machining, but nothing gets me excited like high efficiency CNC machining.
The $500 fix for a $15 net, Awesome !!! Nothing like Keeping it simple. Great video.
spent more money in materials, consumables and time than just buying another net.
the mark of a true engineer.
Please never go away. We. Need you here. You inspire me to do things I shouldn't.
Always a treat when This Old Tony drops a video! We miss you, and hope all is well with you and your family!
I'm loving the superfluous Fs in those acronyms 🤣
Are they superfluous tho 😂
F is for Fun!
🙃
Those F's are a load-bearing structure.
Impressive!
It takes an engineer to make something simple complicated! My hat off for you Sir.
I’ve been binge rewatching your videos the last couple days and I can only watch your videos 20 times or so before I start zoning out. This is a huge relief.
The real problem with watching a This Old Tony video is now I'm craving more, and I've been thru the catalog a few times. love your work!
Went from having a bit of a meh day to all smiles because a ToT video appeared in my feed. This certainly takes having dealt with Helene all night long more tolerable.
Made my day seeing a New video from you. I started watching your videos before I owned any real machining equipment and wondered to myself why I was watching machining videos.
Now I have 2 lathes a milling machine and a surface grinder. I have always enjoyed your content, regardless of the subject. I believe it helped me with my motivation to get into machining.
Keep up the good work, my friend.
You should have called me before you made that part. I have the exact same net and every part except the one you made broke. It was the match made in heaven that never happened sadly.
I'm sure Tony will gladly help you CNC all the other parts!
A couple of days back I though it was a while since I'd see a TOT video. I must have felt it coming over the ether. Aways a bright point in my day. Sad, I know, but thanks for the little cheer we get these days.
Hey! Good to see you again! And you just pointed out that I missed many opportunities for engineering when I used to go fishing. But I didn’t do ‘engineering’ then. And maybe engineering now is why I have no time for fishing. Man, I think I’m confused. And fishless. Thanks anyway. Les 🇬🇧
no one says you can't bring your calculator when you're out fishing!
@@ThisOldTony Can you demonstrate that in the next video? Dying to see all of the gags you can get out of such an opening.
I love this old Tony!
He could talk about anything and it would be interesting.
And probably something funny added on
I'm a simple person. Old Tony posts, I click and watch. And Like. And Comment. Engagement engaged!
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who would spend so much time, money, and resources to fix a $15 object.
In the nicest, humorous way possible, I was expecting the other side to break whilst testing the butterfffffish net.
I hope you know how much pleasure (and learning) your videos provide for us. Thank you for sharing this.
I look forward to the next repair on this fishing net. I consider the original $15 just to be a blueprint for for some nice quality TOTification.
once all the parts are replaced, will it still be the same net?
@@ThisOldTony absolutely! I look forward to the video on CNCing a new fabric net! Here is the real question though. If you split in half and make the missing pieces, do you still only have 1 net?
@@ThisOldTony After so many upgrades I am the not-so-proud owner of a CNC of Thesues. If it can a 4x8 sheet, maybe it shouldn't be called a 3018 cnc anymore...
The true Spirit of the original net is kept when you repair it or replace parts as ling as you don't replace everything at the same time. At least that's how a drunk japanese bicycle mechanic explained it to me a long time ago or, more likely, how i understood it as he might have said something else entirely me being not fluent in Japanese, much less in _drunken, slurred japanese._ or maybe i was drunkier and it was an 🦦 working on that bike for 🎏 that was talking to me...
@@Infrared73 chainmail net? seems a good thing to have if you catch a shark. or an angry knight.
These videos are just pure entertainment. Keep up the great work guys!
Thank you for the tutorial, Tony, I will follow it when my Amazon fishnet breaks.
So how are you not going to be staring at that thinking "I should have done both sides".. for a machinist you OCD control/suppression is inspirational.
Told the wife, sorry, you've got to hold on for 17:17, TOT is on. Anyhow, I will be sleeping on the couch tonight and a half gallon of rockey road and a bouquet of flowers. Thanks much for the video, and I hope you have a wonderful day
I told her to hold on for 17:17 because Tony dropped a vid.
She watched it already and rode me till the wheels fell off.
@@RKroeseme n who
Factiest Fact
You blew by gilding the lily so fast you added a space-time dimension to the lathe. Well done!
A new Uri Tuchman video AND a new ToT video in the same day! This is a good day indeed 🎉
I was just watching Uri when this one popped up!
oh boy, who is Uri Tuchman - a new subscription perhaps?? Oh, nope, I'm already subscribed to him, just didn't recognize the name. I think I subscribed pretty recently
If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. Nice fix! Thanks for sharing!
A new ToT video?! Do I watch it now, or do I save it and make popcorn first...
i'll be here waiting when the popcorn is ready!
@@ThisOldTonywill be waiting for the popcorn with that net he just fixed.
@@ThisOldTony oh my gosh he knows I exist! I AM NEVER WASHING THIS LAPTOP AGAIN! 😬
Thanks This Old Tony. Another video just in time to bring my sanity back to this relevant plane of existence. Love your work keep up the good job.
First CEE, now ToT, this is going to be a good weekend! 🤗
Add Not an Engineer to your rotation.
Ave uploaded as well
@@777SI-gsw He can get bent
@@stillious ?
ToT and Uri Tuchman releasing videos the same day. What a feast.
The power is out after hurricane Helene, my phone only has 11% battery and TOT drops a new video…of course I’m going to watch it.
This will be a bright spot in an otherwise crummy day. Thanks Tony!
Well, you can always dig that old bicycle out of the basement and hook the phone up to the dynamo...
shoot I hope everyone is safe!
@@ThisOldTony ❤ All safe here. We were lucky, just a little basement water and a power outage. Thanks again.
Somehow I know everything is well with the world when This Old Tony posts a video about fishnets, which I watched to the end.
Should have TIG welded it with ABS rod...
Everything is a conductor…some just require higher voltage :)
Bad obsession Motorsport has a great porcelain tig video
"Side B"! Nobody knows what 'yer talkin' about. 'Cept me! As always, I love your work, Tony. You're a treasure.
My favorite disembodied hands have returned.
Love a new TOT video! Now, it's time for me to get lost in my imagination about what Tony will give us in the near future.
Am I the only one who wants to see a 15 part series where TOT goes round and replaces all the parts on that net with expensive custom made parts? Except for the net, whever heard of a CNC'd net being able to catch a gopher?!?!?!?
Replace one piece from everything in the kitchen for fun!
*chipmunk
This felt like a classic old episode, I liked it
"That's just how CnC do." Was that a Ze Frank reference? Love that guy. Second favorite channel on UA-cam, second only to Mr. Old Tony.
with The time spent, the material used, and the labor time you can easily buy at least 10 new fishnet , I loved iT
Finally! New video! Poured myself a cognac before watching this. Well worth the wait. And the cognac. 😎
A ways a good day when TOT posts a videos. Especially a cnc video. Great humor as always.
YES! I look forward to ToT videos. Even my children like to snuggle and watch.
Your special effects are amazing! That was better than the original Star Wars
And voila, now you have a $515 fishnet. Congratulations.
One of my first ever lathe projects was fixing a tripod built about as cheap as this net. Replaced all knobs with knurled brass, and replaced the main pivot shaft from plastic to aluminum. Thing is holding up great today and I still use it 5 years later. It was my grandpa's so I had to fix it
You beat Clickspring by 20min. Congrats!
“Home of the over complicated solution” Great video as always!!
I could not stand having one plastic and the other aluminum. I get it. Only a 15.00 POS but I would imagine with the other side in aluminum that you could cross sell it for 15.99. Seriously nice (enuff)work. My lathe/mill is 99% manual and although I imagine I could create a similar part (in a month of sundays) I always appreciate you sharing your time with us. Even if it is on a fishing net no serious fisherman would be caught dead using ;p
The fish will appreciate the finely machined symmetry
As always great work. I could watch you make and explain making widgets all day.
14:30 - omg, that tapity tap tap fit is soo satisfying! :)
great to have you back, you are missed.
A good start for the weekend!!!
$14 net
$20 aluminum blank and hours of work.
Worth it.
BABE WAKE UP! This old Tony is talking about stuff again...
This is what the world desperately needs more of (as well as excellent innuendo), repairing stuff that's 99% functioning rather than landfilling and forcing another to me manufactured, which then doubles the amount or resources of a single item.
Perfect part to sand cast. But then TOTs cnc would be jealous.
dang i should've machined a MOLD, melted the part down, and ... you can guess the rest.
@@ThisOldTony Put out the ensuing fire? 🤣
Thanks for another stellar vid mate, I could watch you make anything.
Woohoo new TOT. Time to be late for work! Hope you’re well mate.
Good to see you in my feed again
Can't wait for next month's 20 min video of the other side!
Great to see you are still trucking on. look forward to your next video always enjoy your content.
Dude that abs acetone idea is fucking brilliant 👏
Currently dealing with a hurricane and this video is getting me through. Thanks dude
Woah, I am no machinist myself but I always enjoy watching TOT work.
I just have one little question about this project: What is a drill? Also, what is metal?
@leknelpowers5979, according to astrophysicists, metal is anything that is not hydrogen or helium... and I am not sure about helium.
@@fredericapanon207 But what about liquid metallic hydrogen?
@@eekee6034 that astrophysicist tease comes from the means of measuring the age of stars. As hydrogen is "burned" (fused) within the star to create heavier elements, that measure of heavier elements is called the metallicity of a star.
Metallic liquid hydrogen is not star related, more planet related.
I love listening (and watching) to you guys. Lots of wisdom and fun!
Good old CAM, cardboard aided machining
😂😂🤣🤣
I use AutoPad.
That must be what comes right after the Cardboard-Aided Design.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
$500 replacement part for a $15 squirrel catcher, I salute you!
This old Tony earned a new nickname. King of overkill. It’s good to be King!
It takes real training, talent and a lot of expensive equipment to turn a 5c part into a $500 part
What an amazingly over-engineered piece of art.
Most Excellent 👌
Next time you fix that net, try loading the prusa up with some extra fancy reinforced filament and see if a strong 3d print can match the aluminum one. Maho vs prusa 😉
jeez that is an excellent idea. I forget I have the thing! And I even made a CAD model.
now I know what to do when the other side breaks!
@@ThisOldTony He says as he calls in the child asking if hes ready for another fishing trip.
My first thought was CAD and print with Nylon-X. Quickly followed by a 2nd thought of buying the all metal foldable net, which was totally superceded by wondering if I could talk my wife into wearing some fishnet lingerie. I concluded this was all "crazy ideas" and just watched the video. Hey, wait, what is my wife wearing ... sorry guys, gotta go.
Making simple solutions more complex. That’s the job of governments!
@@ThisOldTony as I was watching the video, I was definitely getting a bit confused... thoughts running through my head included, "he must have a CAD model if he's milling the piece out..." and "the other side is already plastic anyway, why not 3D print this side with the CAD model he already designed?" and "Tony, who hurt you?"
I liked the part where Tony got back to explaining the 10 degree taper best. That was the best part.
I still wait for the day Tony finishes with “Keep your stick on the ice” …. (Clean version)
Doesn't deal with dead tree carcasses, either.
That's funny, I almost added that famous quote myself.........
I think he already did, a few years ago.
Great way to start the weekend. Thanks Tony!
It's been too long. Glad to see you back.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
spending 4 hours in the shop saving a 15 dollar fishing net. Exactly the kind of thing we use our expensive machine tools for.
I completely encourage this kind of behavior.
Nothing too strong ever broke. I can't wait to see the ToT indestructible net frame.