MAKING FORGE DOORS!!! Part 1
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Please name the last episode "today is the day!"
I watched your stream last night I was so happy to see the doors early
10:00 what is the tool you are using to scribe line before cutting? It look like a pen🤔🤔
Its probably already done but a rack and pinion dual driven from the bottom might have been easier, no pullys at least.
Alec Steele
Now when you finally got the forge doors, you can make Thanos infinity gauntlet. Do it man!
Ps. Love your work.
Alec, suggestion for next year. Keep a piece of steel, Damascus or otherwise, from every project in 2020. Then at the end of the year forge them together and make a tool or even just a commemorative billet for 2020.
Doctor_B that’s a cool idea.
Or save two every year and so he also can make a billet of the decade.
Great idea!
Love that idea. I’m going to start doing that.
Night Blood a billet for each year, and in 2030 combining those 10 billets
Forge: "I need doors mate."
Alec: "over designed pneumatic proximity actuated infrared bluetooth optimized gates it is"
It's the vacuum chamber all over again!
It's the absolute willingness to over engineer in exchange for "nice doors buddy"
I'm just over here like lovers exist Alex. And yould have like 6moving parts and no complicated electronics.
yeah infrared is a great idea for a 2000 degree forge
As an Engineer, even I think he's over engineering it more than necessary
..... how can you possibly make a door more complicated
Alec: hold my beer
*coffee
James Murphy lol exactly
Earl grey tea
Who feels like This Old Tony needs to get involved.
A little stepper motor action!
My first thought was AVE
Lol that would be epic!
Alec Steele, This Old Tony, and AvE would be the holy trinity of hilarity and skills
@@ostracizedelite5096 the 3 sit down, Alec and 2 pair of manly, dirty hands in shot.
Alec: So how do we film this?
Colin Furze kicks shop door open: I can fix that!
I never thought I'd see the day... I'll settle in for a 30 part series
Come on guy, this is the Alec Steele channel! Since when do things get done in 1 episode?
@@Callsign_Axel since when do we get stuff done in only 30 is the real question haha
Since when do we build forge doors :-D
Just 30 parts? 😂
At least 40. He won’t even start engraving until episode 25
Alec takes the terms overthinking and overspending to a whole nother level
Ryt......
seriously, a stepper motor?! a whole frame over the forge? Jeeez a simple sliding mechanism with foot pedals would have been more than fine
@@watvannou like a simple bridge across the top with a few pulleys and maybe a couple blocks to increase mechanical advantage, small diameter steel cable and a fabricated foot pedal. Simple, cheap, extremely effective
You are 100% right, however I think Alec really enjoys 1. Leaning new things and 2. Pushing himself with new and overdone things. This is part of his way of doing that, but yes you are right, its overkill.
@@espygaming5101 it's definitely a great way to learn while at the same time making something useful however my main concern is how are the electronics going to hold up in an environment like that
I'm an electrician with a lot of projects going on and I thought of some fully mechanical operated forged mechanism for this.
Alec who has a lot of mechanical experience, a workshop to build everything out of steel and no electronical experience goes straight for steppermotors and arduinos 😄
Alec: Open the forge doors HAL
HAL, I'm sorry Alec. I afraid I can't do that.
Bob McMillan showing your age Bob 😀
lol
The video hasn't even started and I'm checking the comments for all the "Finally" comments. LOL
ME TOO HAHA
Same! Haha
Tell me about iy
It*
Sorry I ruined your perfect 100 likes
"I make between three and six mistakes every day." -Alec Steele
I don't know why but this was rather inspiring. Cheers.
That quote should be on a T-shirt..
I think the simplest solution would have been a small cable winch.
I think the prolonged exposure to heat might degrade the ductility of the cable. I was thinking a simple rack and pinion would work, but it would be difficult to turn a scrap automotive part into something useful. And engineering it would be a pain.
@@BrownyCakes1 Steel cables are cheap to replace ,if you put thick enough it will last a very long time -or you could use a motorcycle chain instead.
A foot pedal would be the easiest and cheapest solution to lift the doors up as one steps on it....
I think the simplest solution would have been a door on hinges that swings sideways. Since you don't really close it, you can simply push it open with whatever you are holding
@@zumbazumba1 True. I guess my mind was fixated on the use of an electric motor.
"We are going to have forge doors run by a super computer!" ....goes and buys an Arduino....lol
Alec: “So check this out”
Will: “Oh my God!”
That’s when you know you’ve gone too far
8:16
Tune in next week where Alec begins his endeavor in quantum forging.
I love the over engineered blast doors. I can already see them finished in my head. I can’t wait to see them in action.
Just a little reminder: The nozzle of the welding torch requires to be cleaned at some point in the pretty near future. :D
Loéï Music & co or the not so near past more like 😂
Here's a little trick of mine: after you clean your nozzle give the inside of it a little spray paint to help keep the splatter from building up quickly. Any kind of paint will do.
@@patrickmcguire9663 Better use the proper spray for this, Patrick. Who knows what toxic fumes spray paint can produce once it burns?
Patrick McGuire are you talking about your welding torch?
@@russellmasters5764 I am talking about the nozzle on the wire welder. At the beginning of a big project I will take it off of the gun and just give it a light coating of spray paint on the inside. I don't like using the
'clean-green" type of products because I think they cause more accumulation inside the nozzle causing it to ground out at inappropriate times.
Man I misread that title.
Thought we were going to see some forged damascus house doors.
Andriy Manachinov well that gave me a headsche
@Andriy Manachinov what?
So....about the time they get the doors done, Alec will decide he needs a larger forge!!
Lunger77 the design should still work, he’d just have to increase the size of the door.
Is this meant to be a cautionary tale about the perils of over engineering a door?
Prob, but on the bright side door mechanism is pretty solid and "simple" construction, so adding mechanical leverage should not be that big of a deal when electronics fail.
The school of over engineering at MIT called, they'd like to offer Alec a professorship...
With a needlessly complex 401k!
So i'm a professional machine designer and as a hobby I build forges. So far i'm at 6 minutes of the video and hate to say I think you've gone off the deep end. :) Regardless it's fun to watch. hahahaha. All you need is a single piece of angle iron mounted across the top of both openings. You then slide the firebricks to the side with your tongs to open or close. Keep it simple and you'll be happy over the long run. You've got some serious long term issues with your design. :) I love your creativity!
richarddbeck shhh, we like many episodes! And over built! lol
I'm with you Richard. The forge is getting top-heavier with the gantry he's put in place. If it must be motorized, mount the doors below it and drive them up or laterally with a rack and pinion.
@@adamlucas4753 I was thinking the same thing. If he's gonna drive it with a motor use a rack and drive it up from the bottom. Why put it in the hot zone? I thought that's what he was doing then all of a sudden he's welding a big ass frame on top. hahaha. I think in the end he will tear it all off and go with the simple solution (angle iron track that holds replaceable firebricks) but It will be fun to watch the process.
@@markoconnell804 I agree. The journey down a dead end road can be a lot of fun. :)
@@adamlucas4753 you could buy a couple of old hospital beds and use the acme screws and gears. Since heat rises you could put your steeper motors underneath and they would stay cool
I clicked so fast when I saw forge doors
Alec: "We are gonna go steal shopping"
Me: "Are you gonna steal or are you gonna shop? "
8:40
Me: "Yes..."
Do u mean steel
We thought we wouldn't see this event within our lifetimes, but it is here!
Finally😂
Now now, don't rush in that fast, he is planning to do electronics and firmware (in industrial settings, using consumer components), grab a 6 pack and some popcorn. This will take a while lol
Have you thought about getting with the "Smarter Everyday" guy about building a whole new forge, larger, hotter, and full of technology? Good crossover video/s.
they doubled the size and power of the forge compared to the UK forge. they have the paragon ovens for large stuff.
@Ben Grant You need Colin Furze for that.
@@gumiiburr They can always make a bigger and more efficient one, maybe something sectional where it can grow as needed. Nothing wrong with additionally enjoyable content for us if it's useful for them.
He'd probably be boring and make an induction forge
@@jonahlotze1935 efficient*
Its not to late to change the name to "making the forge doors act 1 scene 1" so instead of calling it a series you could all it a saga.
Bright was the morning and high ovr hearts... (T Pratchett)
@@robfenwitch7403
R&J
ACT 1 SCENE 1 page 6 (my reference)
PRINCE
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbor-stainèd steel!-
Will they not hear?-What, ho! You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
75With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.
Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,
The word being "Forge Doors" LOL
Each part at least 3h long like lord of the rings!!!
@@zumbazumba1 not part... act or scene.... and no sagas have 3 hour long scenes. That would be called set stagnation.
Your old forge doors look positively smashed in. Especially the back ones 😉
O . G . B Woodwork 😂
2:50 though. The delivery is perfection. "Cause you wouldn't know you were going. "
I love that Alec knows how many mistakes a day he makes
If you think about it, every time he says "I do *number* mistakes a day" he does at least 2 more: 1 he forgot about and another mistake is that he thinks that those where all of them
Call colin Furze he would solve this in a jiffy
With proximity sensors that will make it open the doors when you get close enough
James Bruton too.
And I bet he'd also reccomend putting the motors under the forge and using a chain and gears to keep the motors safe and multiply the torque
Talking about Furze.
Wasn't Alec supposed to make some jaws of death for Colin's hydraulic arm mounted jaws someday?
I was thinking the same thing...
As an electronics engineer, I really enjoy watching your work on the electric side of things! Learning is always fun, and I learned a lot from your metal work, even though I might never apply it anywhere in my daily work.
8:38
Any time he goes shopping... it's "Steele" shopping
Looking good gents. I think I would have housed everything underneath just to keep the whole thing cleaner looking. Running the bars up the side and pushing the doors up to open and pulling down to close.
Why not a rack and pinion design with the motors at lowerlocations
As an engineering student, I absolutely love watching you problem solve and have to learn new things to completely overengineer something just for the sake of overengieering it 😊
I'm trying my hardest to hold in my inner engineer, I wanna see where this goes. Good luck.
Like knowing the sort of trainwreck you're about to see, right?
"Oh my." Got a feeling it isn't gonna be strong enough to lift those doors.
@@MichaelJCaboose013 yeah, I build cnc machines as a hobby, I have a feeling this will be a long fun series.
@@MichaelJCaboose013 Exactly my thought: flip the switch, groan, stall, bzzt. I'm sure they will close OK, though :-).
Damn I didn't know that just some doors need that much of thinking😅
it wouldnt be "good content" to just simply and effeciently solve the problem...this needs drama and suspense and viewers yelling at the screen. good job so far.
@@jeffreyburrows8248yeah I know, I love the way of videos they make, they say how they solve all the problems and show the struggle that they had to go trough
When dealing with a forge that gets up to 600 degrees f, it does. You don't want that bursting into your face or something xD
I think Paragon should get into the forge manufacturing business.
Alec: "I've made these amazing hardwood desks, they'll make life so much easier!"
Also Alec: "ah, a chest height tool bench, perfect for my laptop"
THE BASS MAN! When a youtube hits harder on your system then most AAA movies you know you have a good editor and crew working this videos. Keep it up loving the content Alex!
Forge doors before the end of the year. Santa granted My Wish.
before the end of the year lol not if its the usual 30 part saga 😂
Started* before the end of the year, he still has plenty of time to bedazzle the crap outa them and stretch it out to 10 parts
“We’re gonna go steel shopping”
Alec, don’t you always go *Steele* shopping?
It's amazing watching Alec over-complicate some forge doors.
Will's reaction is all of us.
Going to be a heck of a build
Alec: you want doors. ILL GIVE YOU DOORS!! FANCIEST DOORS EVER!!!!
I'm impressed. It only took about five minutes to go from, "I'm building forge doors" to, "I'm building SkyNet!"
Edit: Aww, I edited a grammatical error and it erased Alec's "like". I understand why this happens, but still :(
Can't wait till episode 48. Only 3 years till the doors are finished. So excited.
You definitely need to put the motors below the forge (heat rises)
Now that you've put in all this effort to make some fancy forge doors, is it too late to say that I appreciate the low tech practicality of the bricks? 😆
I have titanium rods in my spine and I tell my family that when I die I want them turned into a knife.
Can you make a titanium knife?
Yes, may want to go to someone more local. It also depends on how big they are. A fair bit is last to scale and oxides.
Dope
Same but I want it melted down and turned into a record with various pun related songs. I have no clue if that'd work but it'd be cool.
Before I press play, I just want to say; FINALLY! THANK YOU. This series can be 100 episodes for all I care
Yeah, these forge doors seem about right for this channel
Is this guy Leo Valdez?? Where’s calypso
-oCurrent Gaming Yogo = Festus
FBI Agent happy the dragon
He ain't mexican so he can't be Leo.
also, I finished rereading PJO and HDO for the 11th and 10th time, respectively, this year. I can finally retire to New Rome
THE VIDEO WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR HAS ARRIVED!!!😂😂
This is awesome. Thank you for sharing. Watching you build stuff is always entertaining.
Hey Alec, making forge doors, great project. I'm an electrical engineering 3rd year student, I would suggest putting the control unit below the forge and a chain drive for most of the system, you could use a wire for part of it, the coding should be pretty simple, but I think you might need a PWM to drive your sevo's and a simple button function (which should incorporate de-bounce)
If it's not too late. I would mount all the motor and electrical at the bottom and run a chain and pulley gear to raise the doors. Would keep the weight and center of gravity lower on the whole forge and keep the electrical in a cooler temperature area and shield it from the rising heat. Pretty awesome stuff! 8^)
Was going to say same thing about mounting under the forge
I was going to say the same, also you can use the legs of the forge to place a support for the electronics
Arduino? Sounds like a job for AvE. Super skookum forge.
AvE wouldnt make something so complicated lol
Man I was happy to see you guys finally were getting around to building these doors. I was curious to see how they would be built. This is definitely one of my favorite channels.
1.95 million now Alec, it was 1.94 yesterday I believe.
Lovely video again. Thank you!
I though he would make human size doors WITH the forge
"One day, we're going to make forge doors. And that day is today!"
put the motors below the forge with a pulley/ counter balance system to actuate
You guys keep thinking up cool projects. Always entertaining. Keep up the good work.
the moment you started all this I remembered an Acronym "K.I.S.S." I really think you might be over-designing that door.
Best acronym ever
just use linear actuators .. simple toggle switch, foot lever .. adding "cnc" controls will be a HASSLE .. 12" AC . build time, 2 hours
My mind is weird. I saw a foot petal that pulled a wheel that had a steel cord around it that went though two pulleys and pulled the door to the sides. Spring loaded so they’d shut when your foot was off them. Probably not explaining it right.
Alec isn't one to avoid hassle. Particularly when that hassle involves learning new things. Plus a two hour build means we don't get a glorious 67 part series.
@@trythinking6676 Clever idea but I think the weight of the doors would be enough to close. Maybe a push to the side of the pedal to engage some stop positions.
@David. I’m not explaining what I can see in my head. Better with conceptual ideas and sketching them than explaining it in words.
@@trythinking6676 it is simple. make a foot peddle. use a simple lever and fulcrum to lift the door. put a linkage between the back of the lever and the front of the foot peddle. otherwise the linear actuator. the steppers that he ordered are for light weight thinks and may not lift as fast as he is thinking. he may even burn them out with the load.
Dozens of perfectly usable forge door mechanisms exist, that have stood the test of time and do exactly what Alec wants... And he's all, "I'm gonna make it electronic!"
An engineer at heart. Just remember if it still works it doesn't have enough features yet.
*heres "super computer" "motors" and "arduinos"*
you should call Micheal Reeves.
He would just make the doors tase anyone who comes close
Yeah or anyone else that know a little bit of engineer in them
"We're gonna go steal-shopping"
You mean shoplifting?
Evan lol
lol you beat me to it
Always a thumbs up with you fella's , a real pleasure watching , keep it up ❤
Awesome video! Honestly one of my favorite videos that you've put out. I really love your attitude when it comes to new challenges, like the stepper motors. Motors and electronics are my jam! I love that you're going to throw a little bit of that into the channel. I'm excited to see more of your thought and design process. Keep it up lads!👍
FINALLY! 😂
I- It's happening. It-
Yes.
Yes!!!! They bowed to the pressure.
Congratulations. U have taken the simplest of tasks and over complicated it to the point of insanity. I love it haha.
I was hoping for Mercedes Benz gull wing style doors.
Yo Alec. You’ve been in America almost for a year- when are you gonna make a Damascus Kentucky rifle?
Saw the title and I was really surprised, good for you guys finally doing it!
One of my favorite knives, the Kershaw Leek.
Wouldn’t every time you go shopping be.....
Steele shopping?
And if Will were to do the shopping segment, would he... Steele... the show?
I almost didn’t believe the title 😂
I love how most of the comments were discussing mechanical solutions, and you just go the arduino route. That was a nice curveball.
In hindsight, it's to be expected that working with computerized ovens would influence your design...
This great! Invention is worthwhile, and the best way to learn, too... think, study, sketch, imagine, try things, apply knowledge.
Do mine eyes deceive me? Are the fated doors ‘o the forge coming to fruition? The prophecies have foretold this moment
Not that I'm hoping for this, but knowing Alec I imagine the motors he ordered is not strong enough for the doors filled with cement :p
One thing about explaining how many mistakes you make a day, is you might be mistaken. ;>)
Lol not nearly powerful enough, he will need a gearbox and counterweight just to make it barely move, what he has chosen are consumer product rated not industrial which is what he needs
Get another collaboration with fireball tools! He would absolutely be able to help design something that would work consistently!
I like the pivoting door idea. Use a pedal and forge a ratchet gear or stepping gear with stops/ledges that will hold the door open at any position, and a release for raising or lowering without engaging the stops. Would also work with a strait up and down door. All using a chain type system. All mechanical. What happens when the power goes down? Nothing ! I can still operate the forge without any deconstruction.
God plz, tell me that he would use pulley system to avoid power elements being above the forge...
Awesome project! Can’t wait for the next episode!
Just to say thanks for your enthusiasm and your fantastic videos. You have inspired me to build my own forge in my garage .you and wills have brilliant bladesmith skills .I would love to see some old fashioned blacksmiths projects just a thought.
When looking at the white board, did anyone else think guillotine project?
Me: *sees this video is uploaded*
Me: *Instantly scrolls to comment section*
Cool project Alec! If you get stuck on the electronics or driving that stepper motor I'd be happy to help. I'm an electrical engineer and also do UA-cam on the side.
Dude, you need to see this ASAP!!! This guys are demigods of the forge
I'm going to let you in on a secret: coding professionals are essentially professional googlers. If you need to know how to code something, google is your best friend.
Also stackoverflow, which pretty much sums up their fire brick situation...
I say "forge," you click the like button to say "doors."
FORGE
I am so proud of you Alec!
😮 your ability to overthink something is greater than any engineer i know. 👏🏻