Really pleased with this as it's turned a tool that was useful but seemed to just be in the way to one thats on hand and blends in to the bench. Just another note that the RED KIDS SHOW is separate to the normal channel and thursday uploads will continue as the always have done so don't panic you don't have to have red to see my normal stuff.
Mr. Colin Furze, I'm a 21 year old film student in San Diego, USA. I come from a 'farming community' back home in Maryland, USA. Watching your videos makes me sane again whenever I'm stressed out during a film shoot or during midterms and finals in school. But this video, the 'how to make a tools one', was especially epic! It brought me back to the pure ingenuity of my family, friends, and neighbors back home. PLEASE, please make more of these videos, please. You're so full of talent, and I'd hate to see it go to waste in advertisement/cool (but over the top/show-style) inventions! There is absolutely nothing wrong with these videos, but don't forget to stick to your roots! PSA, I visited GB a few weeks ago, and it was *ducking* awesome!
This Old Tony probably best not to encourage him. 1. He might get too cocky and expend his 9th life. But more importantly... 2. Colin is very bad for my self esteem.
I like how most people probably assume Colin is joking when he says he's a "Tidy Person", but that is actually a pretty immaculate shop. For non-makers or builder types, it might look like a mess... but take my word for it. That is a beautiful, clean, and very functional shop. If you don't believe me, take a look at any older Diresta video and look at Jimmy's NYC shop! Google a few workshops and try to find a shop that's as functional, as well used, but also as clean and orderly as Colins. I have serious respect for Colin. Not just for his creativity and building skills, but for his respect for his workplace and tools and how he maintains a clean and effective work environment. Just the right amount of mess, just the right amount of chaos for inspiration! Way to go, Tidy Guy!
Put some recessed springs on the bolts under the clamp to lift the clamp automatically when the bolts are loosened. That'll make it easier to insert the workpiece.
These are my absolute favorite types of videos. Making something that's super cool and practical. Shoot, if you just filmed yourself tidying up around the shed and making like storage solutions and what not, i would watch the crap out of that series.
Agreed, this style of vid is great. Sure, the hyperactive megabuilds are fun, but theres something about these which are spot on too.Also, 3:30 was hilarious
I have spent hours looking at videos on how to do the hinges. This is the only one that gives all the exact detail. Would love a workshop like his. Would even wear a tie!
I absolutely adore the way you make your movies! Excellent sense of humour, interesting projects and fantastic workshop. I wish I had one like yours ;)
It was great to see someone use a saw for a saw and not a grinder with a cutoff wheel. Creative use of the notcher and nice TIG instead of the welds usually seen in a DIY video. It takes tools to make tools. Excellent!
dozens of clips out there showing home made items but first time view of this one. Love the sense of humor and different approach for a bench mounted brake. Nice having the right amount of tools and scrap around, coupled with a great presentation. Kudos!
Colin- Slot the hold-down holes and add fixed vertical holes aft a bit with horizontal threaded stock to allow the hold down clamp to be adjusted in/out for variable bend radius. Absolutely BRILLIANT (as usual); I am totally going to build one of these! You rock!
Colin I am also a father and make gadgets but never made a video. I like your attention to detail when it comes to designing / fabricating ingenious, as you call them bits, parts.
It’s crazy how much shop you got packed in there! This is one of my favorite videos of yours. I’ve been working on my shop for about 10 months now. I just picked up a 36in metal brake. I like seeing guys make their own tools. You have a high level of craftsmanship for guy in a small garage.
Bench metal folder, never going need my own but just finished watching making one for the last 12 minutes 😄... lol. Every video is awesome Colin. Thanks for the entertainment👍. Love from 🇨🇦✌.
I've looked at a dozen or more benders, and yours is by far the neatest. One thing that made an impression, is that really thick angle etc. functions, thin stuff bends, but in the wrong places! The other was the hinge construction, very effective. Thanks.
Been watching several videos on building a sheet metal brake. Your's is the tidyist, prettiest, and most inspiring quality work. High quality craftsmanship in the build and the video. Entertaining too. Thanks
It would still be useful if you were trying to do a weird angle bend like 17 or 83 degrees, as then you would have a reference point from which to start overbending. Although I'm not sure how often you need non 90 or 45 degree angles
couple of things, you should grind the sheet clamp bar face a little past 90 degrees to the table so you can bend a little more, it helps with thicker metal. also with the clamp bar, cut out some of your middle welds at the front edge and tap holes at the top of the angle iron so you can put in screws that will push down in the middle against the clamping face and effect more clamping pressure so the bend is more uniform on stubborn but middling wide pieces. now your next tool should be a magnet base drill, think of it as sort of a drill press that clamps itself to the work. its basically a rectangular steel box with an interior box you can place a electromagnetic field coil between to magnetize the edge of the inner and outer box. to cheat they make a permanent magnet base that is interrupted by a field coil (current unlocks it instead of locks it) to whatever magnetic base you need to add your drill in some sort of linear slide with some sort of lever to push it all down -OR- buy one of those tiny drill presses, finagle it so the center post will pass thru the top of the power head (so you can lower it fairly low) and bolt the base plate backwards to your magnet base so you got a all powerful magnetic drill press! if you're being cheap and lazy just knock a hole in the middle of the base plate where the spindle drops and just use clamps to hold it to whatever needs drilling. you can even bodger it to your lathe table to do complex drilling on chucked items. another handy tool to have on the corner of the work bench is a tapping station. its basically a swing arm mounted on a vertical post that holds a spinable shaft that can hold a threading tap square to the surface of the table. almost all of it can be made from steel pipes and fittings. first a pipe flange to bolt down to the table top, a length of clean pipe screwed into that. around that a clamping collar to adjust height. you want to take a steel T fitting and bore out the long side to slip fit the vertical pipe. easiest way is to screw in a short nipple right angle and place it against the face of the lathe chuck and chuck up the body of the T and lathe out the bore. you want three of these btw. the third T might need to be smaller as the pipe size you pick to slip fit must be able to be connected to a thread tap chuck either by butt welding to the face (hard to get running true) or bored to snugly fit the chuck and tack weld it together. now you add a longer nipple to your first T fitting and a 90 degree elbow to the other end. the elbow then gets a nipple long enough to pass through the second T and to that tee you add another nipple and your last T fitting. lay it all down against bits of plank so only the pipes are supported (it will square it all up to each other) tack weld the threaded connections. leave the slip fits free. stand it up on the flange and put the slip fit segments together and you have an arm that will always be square to the table top. the pipe with the tap chuck you can leave long and drill a cross hole opposite end to add a cross rod to spin it to do the tapping. you can even make yourself a set of chucks to cover the gambit of tap sizes. now after you drill a bunch of holes to tap in your drill press, you can just move the piece to another machine vice and tap them all nice and square to the surface
Look great! I would suggest instead of a handle, add springs in the tightening bolt so when loosen, it raise itself. They could be recessed in the guide tube where the bolt passes thru. Love to see the fun & craziness you put into you video!
At around 12mins you mention adding a handle, why not put a small spring on either side that would just raise the top piece by half a cm instead (to keep it looking streamlined)
the stiffener on the vertical part (the part that folds) is usually bolted on or off. the 8' brake i use at work is 1/2" with a 1/4" angle stiffener. we rarely use the stiffener. what's more important is having the top angle down brace (the triangle part) that uses threaded rod to put down pressure onto the middle of the clamp, making sure pressure is even all around.
4:35 you want it close because the top end is usually adjustable (such as is on yours, variable down pressure) which makes the gauge thickness not an issue. you want roughly a 1/16" or i guess 1mm from the edge - you will never put metal in there heavy enough to max it out because you'll never be able to bend something that heavy!
My grandfather made a brake like that. On my grandfather’s he mounted a piece of metal at both ends. This piece of metal was cut at a 45* , 22.5 *and a true 90* and a few other degrees for his work. He was doing commercial heat and air work before it was cool. He did his journeyman and master on Navy War Ship. That old man could make anything and I mean anything.
I'd only suggest a bit of a chamfer on the folding edge of the clamp so you can also account for the springback on the 90° angles. Otherwise a great build, I'm also planning to set one up in my workshop. Keep up the good work!
ive built my first lathe out of scrap steel, used an angle grinder, drill press and a cheap welder. i mean, could it build formula one engines? propably not, but it was more than good enough for first steps and propably for everything you will ever do in a home shop. "i dont have tools" is a very bad excuse, i mean if you have NO tools, it might be a problem but come on, drill press: 60$, angle grinder 20$ used mma welders are so dirt cheap too. 3 basic tools with those you can build pretty much everything, you just need the will and patience to do so.
David Gingery's books are the classic instruction sets for that. Very little needed in the way of tools, and no power tools are strictly necessary. gingerybookstore.com/ or Amazon. And once you've got the basic lathe built you can use it to improve itself.
There's plenty on YT for making tools with limited tools, such as turning a drill into a drill press. As you make tools you use these to make even more tools. Just putting a belt sander in a vice turns it into a bench sander. I made a table saw recently and all I had to buy was a circular saw. I used the saw to help make parts of it, strange as that sounds.... EG: I used a piece of wood and clamps to make a temporary fence which helped me to make a good square fence. So basically it built itself!
not worth it. you would need a lathe in the first place to make anything worth using. you can find used lathes fairly cheaply. I got a 1946 logan 820 with lots of tooling for 600$. Dont bother building one if you actually want to do real lathe work with it. A decent lathe pays for itself very quickly taking odd jobs and repairing and making tools. The same goes for a mill, got mine very cheap. Now I am building myself a CNC pool cue lathe with them, thats only for cutting tapers and inlay engraving, but to get the spindle I machined anywhere even close to the proper run out had to be done on a lathe then ground.
not worth using? and cheap? sure, you can get a 1000 pound lathe "cheap" but if he doesnt have a shop already, where should he put it at? following the gingery books is a very nice, fun and rewarding way to build your own shop, you learn so much by doing this stuff and you become better and better
You know what would be sweet is to put springs under those work clamps so when you loosen the T-handles BAM it's opened itself for you to take out or put in the metal. You'd probably need to store it with the springs uncompressed as they might loose their springyness overtime if you store it with them compressed.
I've thought you could maybe make the screws "in reverse" so the nut is in the top part screwing up and down, and the bottom is fixed but can turn freely. That way when you screw them up there is a growing gap.
Better as it is so you can unscrew leaving a flat surface to clamp longer of folded bits of sheet on to form boxed corners etc. You could still make it lift, a couple of starlock washers being easiest.
Not hating on your regular videos but this was miles better than most of them, you showed the whole build and test in one video rather than cutting it up into two or three separate videos released over a week or two
its a small project but the ones i break up tend to be ones where the result is something loads of people would want to see but only a few want to see how it was made and you have to wait a week because those projects take ages to build.
Great video, Colin. I do have to mention that this device cannot yet be classified as a homemade tool, as the handles have not been wrapped in black vinyl tape. I was told early in my career that all homemade tools must be wrapped in electrical tape, otherwise they are just bits of pipe stuck together;)
Awesome bender Colin! :) I would suggest a spring in the sides of the top holder. So when you unscrew the top bolts it automatically lifts for easy acces. IOW Handle no longer required.
Great build. Now just make some angle templates or stops that you can slap on or bolt on as needed. Then you can bend 15,20,45,65 degrees, etc. Well done chap
I thought of this the other day while at work. So, you know those little toy cars that when you pull them back a spring winds up and when you let go it shoots off? What if you were to take a real cheap car and try to make the same thing but full size? Highly a waste of time, but I believe it would be fun/funny to watch. Maybe make the exhaust shoot out flames or something.
IF the spring suddenly unwinds uncontrolled it will be mayhem. Total destruction. There's so much force in them. Just look at those tiny springs in garage door openers. They can already kill you.
Colin, you've shown outstanding fabrication skills, and you have an innovative mind. Aside from that, you're simply entertaining and very funny. You certainly brightened up my day! Thanks so much for producing this video.
Colin this video was GREAT. It had a good bit of the older feel to it. The quick transition shots of you working and goofing near the start were almost nostalgic. I absolutely love your channel but I miss a little of the old craziness. Keep up the amazing work and your unique editing style. You're an amazingly quirky person :D
#colinfurze But only using an old commercial grade office printer parts (Craigslist) for the hardware except for the Dremel tool or router and electronics as low cost as possible. @colinfurze
you could just put springs on the bolts that clamp down the top bit to make it automaticly pop up above the metal when you unscrew it, instead of having to pull it up with a handle. cool build, i might try making one myself!
Great build. On the handle, you might just have the handle detachable. That way you keep the clean profile when not in use. Shop projects get good views. In the movie Wall E, his storage unit revolved. With limited space that would work for you.
Colin, you thought about spring loading the clamp part?so when you loosen it off, the springs lift it, just an idea, saves adding a handle which would take away from the sleek look
If you tap your flat plate so you can move your fence back, you can take a piece of tube, say 25mm for instance, weld a piece of flat stock to it on the tangent, lay the tube piece in on top of your metal, clamp it down and now you have a 12.5mm radius. Most likely you'd have to add vertical clamp tubes to the back side of your hold down bar and maybe stagger the holes if you wanted to use multiple radius plates.
You could use springs to lift it up until you screw it down. Another feature regular breaks have is you can break past 90 degrees because the knife (top clamp part) is raked back at an angle. a sharper knife is also a plus because if you set it back half or more of the material thickness you can change the radius of the bend. it looks pretty solid tho
That metal bending tool is excellent. Wish I had something like that. I just have to make do with a vice to hold the metal and pliers and/or a hammer to bend it.
You could use some light, small coil springs under the clamping bolts to lift the upper portion. You would need to recess the spring pockets but it would save from having to raise the clamp while feeding or removing the metal
Heey Colin!, awesome tool! instead of putting on the extra handle, how about springs inside the upper part so it pushes off 3 mm, and when thightening it just clamps!
Had a fire in my shed yesterday half the shop is finished, I had just tidied up some wood shavings from a Bench I was planing the ends down on and after I left my hoover turned on, I thought nothing of it and started welding -another project- and apparently my hoover sucked up some sparks and lit up everything, I managed to put it out before it got inside the walls but it’s a lot to replace considering I bought most my tools brand new between the age of 18-19 and I’m now 20. Kills your motivation a bit but part of learning I guess :/
Excellent work. Thumbs up. Now I was trying to make a bender to bend sheets of galvanized iron that are 2 m long and 1.5mm thick, but it turned out to be very difficult. Any idea for such case? Thanks...
Really pleased with this as it's turned a tool that was useful but seemed to just be in the way to one thats on hand and blends in to the bench. Just another note that the RED KIDS SHOW is separate to the normal channel and thursday uploads will continue as the always have done so don't panic you don't have to have red to see my normal stuff.
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Mr. Colin Furze, I'm a 21 year old film student in San Diego, USA. I come from a 'farming community' back home in Maryland, USA. Watching your videos makes me sane again whenever I'm stressed out during a film shoot or during midterms and finals in school. But this video, the 'how to make a tools one', was especially epic! It brought me back to the pure ingenuity of my family, friends, and neighbors back home. PLEASE, please make more of these videos, please. You're so full of talent, and I'd hate to see it go to waste in advertisement/cool (but over the top/show-style) inventions! There is absolutely nothing wrong with these videos, but don't forget to stick to your roots! PSA, I visited GB a few weeks ago, and it was *ducking* awesome!
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This Old Tony probably best not to encourage him.
1. He might get too cocky and expend his 9th life. But more importantly...
2. Colin is very bad for my self esteem.
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I like how most people probably assume Colin is joking when he says he's a "Tidy Person", but that is actually a pretty immaculate shop. For non-makers or builder types, it might look like a mess... but take my word for it. That is a beautiful, clean, and very functional shop.
If you don't believe me, take a look at any older Diresta video and look at Jimmy's NYC shop! Google a few workshops and try to find a shop that's as functional, as well used, but also as clean and orderly as Colins.
I have serious respect for Colin. Not just for his creativity and building skills, but for his respect for his workplace and tools and how he maintains a clean and effective work environment. Just the right amount of mess, just the right amount of chaos for inspiration!
Way to go, Tidy Guy!
he has a lot of stuff. But no trash, dust etc its very tidy
Put some recessed springs on the bolts under the clamp to lift the clamp automatically when the bolts are loosened. That'll make it easier to insert the workpiece.
These are my absolute favorite types of videos. Making something that's super cool and practical. Shoot, if you just filmed yourself tidying up around the shed and making like storage solutions and what not, i would watch the crap out of that series.
Agreed, this style of vid is great. Sure, the hyperactive megabuilds are fun, but theres something about these which are spot on too.Also, 3:30 was hilarious
Agreed!
Put the top bit on springs, so as you loosen it it lifts itself up.
Andrew Bone just what I was thinking!
it would have to be inside the steel to have room to compress fully and still tightening to the steel
Low&Slow Works perhaps smaller springs with a higher compression ratio.
Not the problem just drill ot the top section srews guide a bit to give the spring room
You should fit a protractor on each end so you can get closer to doing more precise folds and not just 90°
Once you’ve done a bunch of bends, you can eyeball it pretty easily.
You have to go past 90° just the slightest amount due to the metal flexing. Let’s say if you went exactly to 90° then it may only be bent to 88°
@Rayan Norval it varies from metal to metal and various thicknesses so it wouldn't make much difference
Rayan Norval he’d need a different one for each thickness of each type of metal he’s bending
Combo square works for precision or make gauges for diff angles just slap on leaf or hold down..
I have spent hours looking at videos on how to do the hinges. This is the only one that gives all the exact detail. Would love a workshop like his. Would even wear a tie!
Colins enthusiasm is infectious. What a happy camper. Weld on sir from upstate new york.
Watched Collin for ages now still amazes me how how God of a engineer he is
1:18 - "Alan's metal" cracks me up everytime
I absolutely adore the way you make your movies! Excellent sense of humour, interesting projects and fantastic workshop. I wish I had one like yours ;)
It was great to see someone use a saw for a saw and not a grinder with a cutoff wheel. Creative use of the notcher and nice TIG instead of the welds usually seen in a DIY video. It takes tools to make tools. Excellent!
dozens of clips out there showing home made items but first time view of this one. Love the sense of humor and different approach for a bench mounted brake. Nice having the right amount of tools and scrap around, coupled with a great presentation. Kudos!
Good stuff man! I got some ideas to make improvements on mine! Thanks for sharing!
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Instead of the handle you want to mount on the back, you could simply just bore some holes to grap with your fingers to lift it up.
This just popped up in my suggested feed, very happy it did. Your a top craftsman lad!
Colin- Slot the hold-down holes and add fixed vertical holes aft a bit with horizontal threaded stock to allow the hold down clamp to be adjusted in/out for variable bend radius.
Absolutely BRILLIANT (as usual); I am totally going to build one of these! You rock!
Colin I am also a father and make gadgets but never made a video. I like your attention to detail when it comes to designing / fabricating ingenious, as you call them bits, parts.
It’s crazy how much shop you got packed in there! This is one of my favorite videos of yours. I’ve been working on my shop for about 10 months now. I just picked up a 36in metal brake. I like seeing guys make their own tools. You have a high level of craftsmanship for guy in a small garage.
Bench metal folder, never going need my own but just finished watching making one for the last 12 minutes 😄... lol.
Every video is awesome Colin.
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I've looked at a dozen or more benders, and yours is by far the neatest.
One thing that made an impression, is that really thick angle etc. functions, thin stuff bends, but in the wrong places!
The other was the hinge construction, very effective.
Thanks.
Been watching several videos on building a sheet metal brake. Your's is the tidyist, prettiest, and most inspiring quality work. High quality craftsmanship in the build and the video. Entertaining too. Thanks
Love the transition with the 360 Swing! Keep it up, Colin!
Stick a protractor on there, so you can see the angles and such.
Hot Wine that's doesn't work because you always have to overbend a bit so it's a matter of practice
It would still be useful if you were trying to do a weird angle bend like 17 or 83 degrees, as then you would have a reference point from which to start overbending. Although I'm not sure how often you need non 90 or 45 degree angles
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couple of things, you should grind the sheet clamp bar face a little past 90 degrees to the table so you can bend a little more, it helps with thicker metal. also with the clamp bar, cut out some of your middle welds at the front edge and tap holes at the top of the angle iron so you can put in screws that will push down in the middle against the clamping face and effect more clamping pressure so the bend is more uniform on stubborn but middling wide pieces.
now your next tool should be a magnet base drill, think of it as sort of a drill press that clamps itself to the work. its basically a rectangular steel box with an interior box you can place a electromagnetic field coil between to magnetize the edge of the inner and outer box. to cheat they make a permanent magnet base that is interrupted by a field coil (current unlocks it instead of locks it) to whatever magnetic base you need to add your drill in some sort of linear slide with some sort of lever to push it all down -OR- buy one of those tiny drill presses, finagle it so the center post will pass thru the top of the power head (so you can lower it fairly low) and bolt the base plate backwards to your magnet base so you got a all powerful magnetic drill press! if you're being cheap and lazy just knock a hole in the middle of the base plate where the spindle drops and just use clamps to hold it to whatever needs drilling. you can even bodger it to your lathe table to do complex drilling on chucked items.
another handy tool to have on the corner of the work bench is a tapping station. its basically a swing arm mounted on a vertical post that holds a spinable shaft that can hold a threading tap square to the surface of the table. almost all of it can be made from steel pipes and fittings. first a pipe flange to bolt down to the table top, a length of clean pipe screwed into that. around that a clamping collar to adjust height. you want to take a steel T fitting and bore out the long side to slip fit the vertical pipe. easiest way is to screw in a short nipple right angle and place it against the face of the lathe chuck and chuck up the body of the T and lathe out the bore. you want three of these btw. the third T might need to be smaller as the pipe size you pick to slip fit must be able to be connected to a thread tap chuck either by butt welding to the face (hard to get running true) or bored to snugly fit the chuck and tack weld it together. now you add a longer nipple to your first T fitting and a 90 degree elbow to the other end. the elbow then gets a nipple long enough to pass through the second T and to that tee you add another nipple and your last T fitting. lay it all down against bits of plank so only the pipes are supported (it will square it all up to each other) tack weld the threaded connections. leave the slip fits free. stand it up on the flange and put the slip fit segments together and you have an arm that will always be square to the table top. the pipe with the tap chuck you can leave long and drill a cross hole opposite end to add a cross rod to spin it to do the tapping. you can even make yourself a set of chucks to cover the gambit of tap sizes. now after you drill a bunch of holes to tap in your drill press, you can just move the piece to another machine vice and tap them all nice and square to the surface
Look great! I would suggest instead of a handle, add springs in the tightening bolt so when loosen, it raise itself. They could be recessed in the guide tube where the bolt passes thru.
Love to see the fun & craziness you put into you video!
I love building stuff but this guy inspires me to build more
At around 12mins you mention adding a handle, why not put a small spring on either side that would just raise the top piece by half a cm instead (to keep it looking streamlined)
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the idea is sound, but it may cause issues when tightening the sheet.
Oi, that was my metal :D
Please make more of these tool fabrication videos, the wacky ones are fun, but these are actively interesting.
the stiffener on the vertical part (the part that folds) is usually bolted on or off. the 8' brake i use at work is 1/2" with a 1/4" angle stiffener. we rarely use the stiffener.
what's more important is having the top angle down brace (the triangle part) that uses threaded rod to put down pressure onto the middle of the clamp, making sure pressure is even all around.
4:35 you want it close because the top end is usually adjustable (such as is on yours, variable down pressure) which makes the gauge thickness not an issue. you want roughly a 1/16" or i guess 1mm from the edge - you will never put metal in there heavy enough to max it out because you'll never be able to bend something that heavy!
My grandfather made a brake like that. On my grandfather’s he mounted a piece of metal at both ends. This piece of metal was cut at a 45* , 22.5 *and a true 90* and a few other degrees for his work. He was doing commercial heat and air work before it was cool. He did his journeyman and master on Navy War Ship. That old man could make anything and I mean anything.
0:48 That's some *top cable* Colin has right there.
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thats for high voltage stuff. i saw a reel of bottom wire for low voltage in another vid of his. He can do it all.
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I actually really enjoyed watching you make something totally normal for a change.
I'd only suggest a bit of a chamfer on the folding edge of the clamp so you can also account for the springback on the 90° angles.
Otherwise a great build, I'm also planning to set one up in my workshop. Keep up the good work!
I've got to make myself one of these. That is a great idea. Time to put my powertig welder to good use.
I'd say make a super easy and cheap lathe, but I know I wouldn't be able to make it.
I need tools to make the tools I want to make XD
ive built my first lathe out of scrap steel, used an angle grinder, drill press and a cheap welder. i mean, could it build formula one engines? propably not, but it was more than good enough for first steps and propably for everything you will ever do in a home shop.
"i dont have tools" is a very bad excuse, i mean if you have NO tools, it might be a problem but come on, drill press: 60$, angle grinder 20$ used mma welders are so dirt cheap too. 3 basic tools with those you can build pretty much everything, you just need the will and patience to do so.
David Gingery's books are the classic instruction sets for that. Very little needed in the way of tools, and no power tools are strictly necessary. gingerybookstore.com/ or Amazon. And once you've got the basic lathe built you can use it to improve itself.
There's plenty on YT for making tools with limited tools, such as turning a drill into a drill press. As you make tools you use these to make even more tools. Just putting a belt sander in a vice turns it into a bench sander.
I made a table saw recently and all I had to buy was a circular saw. I used the saw to help make parts of it, strange as that sounds.... EG: I used a piece of wood and clamps to make a temporary fence which helped me to make a good square fence. So basically it built itself!
not worth it. you would need a lathe in the first place to make anything worth using. you can find used lathes fairly cheaply. I got a 1946 logan 820 with lots of tooling for 600$.
Dont bother building one if you actually want to do real lathe work with it. A decent lathe pays for itself very quickly taking odd jobs and repairing and making tools.
The same goes for a mill, got mine very cheap. Now I am building myself a CNC pool cue lathe with them, thats only for cutting tapers and inlay engraving, but to get the spindle I machined anywhere even close to the proper run out had to be done on a lathe then ground.
not worth using? and cheap? sure, you can get a 1000 pound lathe "cheap" but if he doesnt have a shop already, where should he put it at?
following the gingery books is a very nice, fun and rewarding way to build your own shop, you learn so much by doing this stuff and you become better and better
0:31 had me in stitches, and wanting to watch more. Thanks Colin. Greets from somewhere near to distant Lincoln.
We want old Colin back who brings huge innovations
You know what would be sweet is to put springs under those work clamps so when you loosen the T-handles BAM it's opened itself for you to take out or put in the metal. You'd probably need to store it with the springs uncompressed as they might loose their springyness overtime if you store it with them compressed.
Love this one, only thing i might do different is add springs to the bolts so it auto lifts when you untighten it.
I've thought you could maybe make the screws "in reverse" so the nut is in the top part screwing up and down, and the bottom is fixed but can turn freely. That way when you screw them up there is a growing gap.
Better as it is so you can unscrew leaving a flat surface to clamp longer of folded bits of sheet on to form boxed corners etc. You could still make it lift, a couple of starlock washers being easiest.
True. Did you mean rounded corners? Does this work if you'd put a pipe on the top?
It always amazes me how much tools he has in his workshop
Not hating on your regular videos but this was miles better than most of them, you showed the whole build and test in one video rather than cutting it up into two or three separate videos released over a week or two
its a small project but the ones i break up tend to be ones where the result is something loads of people would want to see but only a few want to see how it was made and you have to wait a week because those projects take ages to build.
Great video, Colin. I do have to mention that this device cannot yet be classified as a homemade tool, as the handles have not been wrapped in black vinyl tape. I was told early in my career that all homemade tools must be wrapped in electrical tape, otherwise they are just bits of pipe stuck together;)
Awesome bender Colin! :) I would suggest a spring in the sides of the top holder. So when you unscrew the top bolts it automatically lifts for easy acces. IOW Handle no longer required.
Make a motorized shopping cart! No one wants to shop AND push and walk.
Neal Phelps that would be so cool
Neal Phelps check out the channel "BoostedBoiz". He has built one/is building one.
Neal Phelps trolley. Shopping trolley
they have those at Walmart for elderly and disabled not lazy people
The lazy use them anyway.
Try to fold a paper more than 8 times with it!
Mr C that escalated quickly
myth busters did it 11 times.
Thats...not how it works
I like to make stuff anyone?
Julia Verrier Nah...I like to make people do stuff
I thought that when I saw the thumbnail
Yes I do too
Julia Verrier
Yep. Exactly what I thought.
omg my thoughts exactly!
Great build. Now just make some angle templates or stops that you can slap on or bolt on as needed. Then you can bend 15,20,45,65 degrees, etc. Well done chap
Top work.
I dream of a workshop like this as i was a machinist.
All you need is a small manual milling machine Col.
I thought of this the other day while at work. So, you know those little toy cars that when you pull them back a spring winds up and when you let go it shoots off? What if you were to take a real cheap car and try to make the same thing but full size? Highly a waste of time, but I believe it would be fun/funny to watch. Maybe make the exhaust shoot out flames or something.
IF the spring suddenly unwinds uncontrolled it will be mayhem. Total destruction. There's so much force in them. Just look at those tiny springs in garage door openers. They can already kill you.
Very nice!
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The amount of drills he have thousands of them ......man a lot of drills
Colin, you've shown outstanding fabrication skills, and you have an innovative mind. Aside from that, you're simply entertaining and very funny. You certainly brightened up my day! Thanks so much for producing this video.
Colin this video was GREAT. It had a good bit of the older feel to it. The quick transition shots of you working and goofing near the start were almost nostalgic. I absolutely love your channel but I miss a little of the old craziness. Keep up the amazing work and your unique editing style. You're an amazingly quirky person :D
After dinner Colin said to his wife "I'm just going to the shed to do a bender".
Hey you should make a Cnc machine you are awsome
#colinfurze But only using an old commercial grade office printer parts (Craigslist) for the hardware except for the Dremel tool or router and electronics as low cost as possible. @colinfurze
Please upload more 1 episode projects
you could just put springs on the bolts that clamp down the top bit to make it automaticly pop up above the metal when you unscrew it, instead of having to pull it up with a handle. cool build, i might try making one myself!
Great build. On the handle, you might just have the handle detachable. That way you keep the clean profile when not in use. Shop projects get good views. In the movie Wall E, his storage unit revolved. With limited space that would work for you.
Why aren't u wearing ur shirt and tie today??😂
Power Pom he finally gave it to the laundry 😂
He wears it when trying out the inventions so they don't get destroyed when he's building it
the title and thumbnail made me think hes gonna build a folding bench that he carries around with him
7:40 NEEEAAAWWWWWW
I made one roughly the same a few years ago mate, is a real pain in the ass making the pivot points, I agree 100%.
Colin, you thought about spring loading the clamp part?so when you loosen it off, the springs lift it, just an idea, saves adding a handle which would take away from the sleek look
3:33 You're so funny! :D
this was properly funny
wtf ur not wearing a tie
British first...Safety second
Who else spotted toilet brush behind the lathe at 0:48 ? O.o
coil springs in the screw clamps, no handle necessary, and i'd say its a bit more of a challenge. Great vid, keep 'em coming.
really pro editing video..not boring..fun and educational too..good job
Build a car for zombie apocalypse
Make a multi tool with over 10 uses
FUCK UA-cam RED . . . OH WAIT A MINUTE !
All I need to do now is buy a lathe, mill machine, and a welder, then I can build this! YES!!! Super pumped!!
For 11:40 can you put springs inside the screws so it lifts as you loosen the butterfly tootners?
UA-cam red??? Seriously?
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When the rock music starts, it’s officially a furze video!!
Oh my, a bandsaw on wheels, why didn't I think of that before.... SO SMART!!! Thanks colin :)
nicely done Colin!
Perhaps use some springs to lift the clamp piece rather than adding a handle?
If you tap your flat plate so you can move your fence back, you can take a piece of tube, say 25mm for instance, weld a piece of flat stock to it on the tangent, lay the tube piece in on top of your metal, clamp it down and now you have a 12.5mm radius. Most likely you'd have to add vertical clamp tubes to the back side of your hold down bar and maybe stagger the holes if you wanted to use multiple radius plates.
You could use springs to lift it up until you screw it down. Another feature regular breaks have is you can break past 90 degrees because the knife (top clamp part) is raked back at an angle. a sharper knife is also a plus because if you set it back half or more of the material thickness you can change the radius of the bend. it looks pretty solid tho
That metal bending tool is excellent. Wish I had something like that. I just have to make do with a vice to hold the metal and pliers and/or a hammer to bend it.
I wish i had brand new metal in my scrap piles like all the You tubers seem to have. great video!
You could use some light, small coil springs under the clamping bolts to lift the upper portion. You would need to recess the spring pockets but it would save from having to raise the clamp while feeding or removing the metal
Love it!
Put springs under the bolts (knobs) to auto raise up when loosening knobs to take out metal. then there's no need to pull up on it.
Just an idea, maybe make different fittings for it so that you can bend precise angles?
looks awesome though Colin, great job!
Heey Colin!, awesome tool!
instead of putting on the extra handle, how about springs inside the upper part so it pushes off 3 mm, and when thightening it just clamps!
Very solid piece of gear. Excellent idea the way you mounted it on the table.
Had a fire in my shed yesterday half the shop is finished, I had just tidied up some wood shavings from a Bench I was planing the ends down on and after I left my hoover turned on, I thought nothing of it and started welding -another project- and apparently my hoover sucked up some sparks and lit up everything, I managed to put it out before it got inside the walls but it’s a lot to replace considering I bought most my tools brand new between the age of 18-19 and I’m now 20. Kills your motivation a bit but part of learning I guess :/
Very nice 👍
You are the best UA-camr ever CONLIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😎😉
Colin took his tie off. BLASPHEMY!
The guy is amazing. Such a creative mind. How does he know so much?
Excellent work. Thumbs up. Now I was trying to make a bender to bend sheets of galvanized iron that are 2 m long and 1.5mm thick, but it turned out to be very difficult. Any idea for such case? Thanks...