Edit: Just noticed I'm the first comment. That has never happened before. Another win Wendell. Working in factories all my life I have handled and used literally tons of banding. The coils weigh 50 to 60 lbs each for the 3/4" standard stuff. The wider banding like you used can be a lot heavier coils. UTC banded all the billets that came off the Loma saw with the wide bands. I helped design, build, and troubleshoot the automatic cut to length saw, bundler, and bander that we used for the 8 years after we got it running. Remelt poured 100,000 lbs of aluminum every day of operation and that is a lot of bundles. The banding is such a good grade of spring steel it can be used for a number of purposes like you have shown. It will also make good blades for a frame saw. The kind that I used to buck up firewood when I was 11 and Mom and Dad bought a house with a fireplace. That was long before I learned how to sharpen saw blades. Great upper body workout. Thanks for sharing the preventative maintenance tips. I have a supervisor who makes lists of things that are due for predictive maintenance. She tells me if I don't take care of that it is going to fail. She is never wrong. 😁😎
My supervisor does the same thing but will less satisfactory results due to workload. LOL Almost all banding years ago was metallic, but now most everything that can be banded safely with it is banded with the yellow or brown plastic banding. I assume it's much cheaper and for sure its easier to pop open with a razor knife instead of tin snips or side cutters. I still have some of the hand tools for applying the metal banding by hand. Old, old school.
Great repair. I like how you make the parts yourself. Also I really like that you me and my grandpa are the only people I know that use newspaper to clean windows. He always told me it works the best and wont scratch so I've done it ever since. Great Job.
Newspapers are great for this....and it saves a ton of paper towels. LOL. But the main thing is it does a great job cleaning glass. I try to make as many repairs I can on anything that has a problem. Sometimes though, I have to pay someone. Usually its something on the newer cars and not on old stuff. Thanks for watching and leaving the comments !! Lots of wood cutting, splitting and chainsaw work on my channel too. Just fyi.
This is 1 1/4'' thin wall box tubing. I made one for my son out of gas pipe with all threaded joints and it turned out quite well too. His is a little more narrow, but taller because his hearth is a bit shorter than mine in width. You gotta twist 'em in tight though to keep the joints from moving under the weight.
Well, when I got the 'oh-oh' message with the picture I stared at it for at least 30 seconds before I could focus on the glass laying on the hearth !! Oh well, all's well that ends well, right ?
Its easy to get behind on the things we normally do, I'm quite guilty of that myself. LOL. I've been using newspapers and Windex for many years as well.
You make me miss my uncle bob muszall. He could of taught you soo much tractor man. You are a little lackadaisyical but great! Would live to stop by and have you teach me how to weld so i could fix my trailer which needs the tongue put back! It broke loose.❤😂🎉
Ah heck Chris, I would never make the claim to actually be a welder. I somehow by accident manage to get pieces stuck together adequately most of the time though. There's a lot that goes into it, but guys like me started blobbing metal back on the farm as kids in the shop when no one was looking. I'd buy a cheap MIG and some scrap metal to experiment with amp settings, wire speed and bead control. They weren't available when I was a kid. We just had a straight AC 300 amp Lincoln in the blacksmith shop. I started experimenting before I was 12.
I;d pretty much bet that a few of us, are thinking " oh oh, I wonder what my glass doors are like?" You're right 'Tractorman', David at 'RCAFpolarexpress' is a master of preventative maintenance, but you are the guy who can handle these actual repairs. Between the two of you, you should have a wealth of videos explaining the 'how to' and 'where fors' of repairing things similar to thid.
Yessir, our friend Dave IS quite the perfectionist is he not....!! I can't begin to hold a candle to him in that department. At least this was a pretty simple repair that'll work for a long time if not indefinite. But I WILL get the maintenance done as soon as we have an adequate warm spell.
@@tractorman4461 Thank you very kindly for your kind words Gentlemen 😇😇🙏🙏I can't wait to finish my one year long training and studies 🥴 I will have more time 😇😇👍👍
I like it because of the breadth and width. I can stack for a long lasting burn because of those characteristics. A full stack will burn quicker than doing a split stack that burns from one side to the other. The second half has a delayed start time because of the space between them.
Luckily an old friend of mine is the owner of a custom glass company in town. I'm sure my son went to him for his repair. I'm just glad I didn't have to. Thanks for watching today.
Good fix buddy very smart back a few years ago I was away on the road and Gail was all ready for work she was working in the office at the college and still is but now from home . but anyway put a couple blocks in and one apparently was a little longer my fault for cutting the wood long lol . lucky our son just lived up the road we came down and took the blocks out and took the door off and put a piece on tin over the opening . took the door to the place where e had got the stove and they took some where in town and got a new tempered glass installed wasn't cheap but us going again . I all have to have a big story to tell and you are not the only one that gets behind on things I got a new gasket for the door this fall and is still hanging in the basement works well there . okay I will shut up how you and the misses have a great week and take care
Hahahaha...good story Tom. I'm sure a LOT of us out there have stories that are funny now that wasn't quite so funny as they unfolded. LOL I have some new gasketing sitting in a jar as well.....I just don't have the proper cement for it !! But it sure has. kept the inside of the jar sealed quite well though, not unlike how well yours is working for you. LOL. I hope all is well with you and Gail buddy.
Well I must comment about that Lovely t-shirt I can see behind your long sleeve! Ain’t it amazing that my neighbor called last evening and told Alice that there was a package hanging on the mail box. Well it was dark and I was in me jammiez(not the ones with the feet and trap door) so I jumped in me truck and up the lane me went! Because it’s only 500 feet to the road I didn’t have a CuppaJO with me but I was thinking about one when I got back with the goods. Well it being damp and all who ever deliver said package had it in a big white plastic bag knotted to me mail box post, which consists of a 4x4 with. Car coil spring top and mail box attached. The knot was tightly knotted to the spring! Well me in me jammiez had no pocket knife, which is always carried when I’m in me pants and I couldn’t get that tight knot out. It was cold and fortunately our road ain’t that busy especially at night. Can you imagine the gossip had a neighbor seen me in the dark in me jammiez in the light of me truck foolin with a bag and a mail box? Or a stranger calling 911 about a nut case in his jammiez terrorizing a mail box? So I quickly surmised that a ripping method done stealthily, quickly and lower light was the ticket! Finally I got through the extra large and white no less plastic bag! But wait, there’s more! There was stuff in the box too with soggy mail and another package! With melting snow and above freezing soggy was the norm, plus the lid wasn’t quite closed! Imagine if my jammiez had feet and a trap door with mud, slush and the crap they spread on the road even if there’s a possibility of snow or ice! Or had it start to freeze and I would have become frozen to the slush around the mail box? I can see it now, 911 called and rescue called, the staters and FBI! Now how would I have to explain myself out of that? Back to the house I went unseen and undiscovered by the road in me jammiez! That was a close one fer ser! The bag contained a birthday late birthday gift from Alice, of which you’ll see in a later episode from the holler. The wet mail was junk stuff and crooked politicians wanting to tell me how wonderful they were and all the great (stupid) things they achieved,,,,,,,RIGHT! They help keep the cook stove going. But what’s this??? A mystery package! Alice asked, who is this from? Well HOLY MOLY! ORANGE SHIRTS WITH SPECIAL LOGOS! More on this later of course. But what I wanted to comment on was the fine job you did with the clip for the glass in the stove made with what most consider trash. Others would have ordered clips from eBay or Amazon and waited who knows how long. And in the meantime may well have frozen to death or got frostbite a waiting! And yep, replacing gaskets when the time is right, like when you have too is always a great motivational encouragement. I fix my glass one time with a gasket made of sheet asbestos about 1/8” thick cut in strips, when you could still get it way back when. And I made some clips kind of like yours out of an old clock spring. Used that stainless steel strapping used to attach to antennas to your chimney too. I even have some strapping around somewhere. Every time I look through a box or drawer in the shop it’s like Christmas! Oh,there it is or this is really cool stuff! The Joys of having stuff to fix other stuff that many would have thrown out, eh? You will very soon see what was in those packages that I retrieved in me jammiez! But not in me jammiez! As I’m buttoning, as I was watching above vid, I was grinding JO! Yep, a birthday gift from Alice was a hand cranked JO grinder! I grind away in the morning and it makes Fine JO, less noisy and good excessive too! I’m sippin and slurpin on a CuppaJO from yesterday, can’t waste liquid nectar of the JO Faeries! As soon as the Fresh is made I’ll most certainly be Drippin, Tippin and Sippin in your honor in the western direction of the 44Kind! MANY SQUEEZEZ PLEEZEZ! This here is DaveyJO inna Holler headin to The Holy Grail of The JObean! Not respoonsibble fer spell in ear erz
Hahahahahaha....what a comment my friend !! I'm glad Alice got her hand grinder for the JO beans. Awesome !! I'm wondering just what those orange shirts had on them...some kinda specialty logo or something about this or that huh. LOL. Enjoy the day my friend. And I'll be enjoying some fresh ground JOstuff with the Missus in the morning right along with ya, just a few hundred miles away.
Again Sir, I'm so Sorry ( I WILL CATCH UP ALL YOUR OUTSTANDING VIDEOS !!! ) 😇👍👍These Hot Temp Graded Glasses are Heavy, Very Explained air circulation !!! Yes News papers is very good glass cleaning 😇👍👍 Ho Man, Thank You Very Kindly For Your Very Nice Supportive Words ( I will make It Up To You My Friend ). 😇👍👌Keep Warm and Have Nice Lunch Sir Cheers 🍻🍻
Dave, I know you are a very busy man...so don't feel bad for missing videos. I've missed a ton of yours as well but to be fair I have been slacking on virtually ALL my normal channels I used to stay up with. There is only so much time in the day.
I'm surprised you didn't dig up the silica sand and fire it and make your son new glass. Missouri has some of the silicate sand. Drive a few metal rod's in the ground and check them in a lighting storm.
Actually Tom, the largest Silica sand deposit in the nation bordered our farm on the East side. We couldn't eat the fish below where the sand washings dumped into the little creek because of the silicate in them. My uncle worked in the mine for years and ended up with silicosis of the lungs as a result too.
I do a lot of maintenance on my equipment but it seems there is always that "oh crap" moment when I realize I forgot something (usually right when I need it). 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
It's a model based on a Victorian Enterprise except it has twinned 250 cfm dual squirrel cage fans that circulate air around three sides and out the top of the plenum supplying the two 12x12 four way deflection diffusers higher up the brickwork. Filtered return air enters the full width of the bottom and into the dual fans. Fully firebrick lined as well. Combustion air enters through the brickwork from the outside and floods the top of the doors to drop downwards across the doors. That minimizes the spillage of smoke as the doors are opened for adding fuel. In addition, there is another adjustable air inlet across the bottom front of the firebox below the level of the fire. This draws additional combustion air from inside the living space.
Thankz Wendell. Got a question on . Diesel heaters. Have you seen the bru ha over the new Diesel heaters running them threw old radiators? So many opinions I waz wondering if you would like to share yer opinion?
No Mike, I haven't seen them or even heard of them. Sounds like an interesting subject to look into. A lot of i nnovative things like that that may include a bit of DIY creativity are cool, but not for everyone. Most people want trouble free operation no matter what the source of heat is. Do you have a specific link in mind for me to look at, by chance..?
Edit: Just noticed I'm the first comment. That has never happened before.
Another win Wendell.
Working in factories all my life I have handled and used literally tons of banding. The coils weigh 50 to 60 lbs each for the 3/4" standard stuff. The wider banding like you used can be a lot heavier coils.
UTC banded all the billets that came off the Loma saw with the wide bands. I helped design, build, and troubleshoot the automatic cut to length saw, bundler, and bander that we used for the 8 years after we got it running.
Remelt poured 100,000 lbs of aluminum every day of operation and that is a lot of bundles.
The banding is such a good grade of spring steel it can be used for a number of purposes like you have shown.
It will also make good blades for a frame saw. The kind that I used to buck up firewood when I was 11 and Mom and Dad bought a house with a fireplace. That was long before I learned how to sharpen saw blades. Great upper body workout.
Thanks for sharing the preventative maintenance tips. I have a supervisor who makes lists of things that are due for predictive maintenance. She tells me if I don't take care of that it is going to fail. She is never wrong. 😁😎
My supervisor does the same thing but will less satisfactory results due to workload. LOL Almost all banding years ago was metallic, but now most everything that can be banded safely with it is banded with the yellow or brown plastic banding. I assume it's much cheaper and for sure its easier to pop open with a razor knife instead of tin snips or side cutters. I still have some of the hand tools for applying the metal banding by hand. Old, old school.
Great simple repair 👍
Hahahaha...Lucikly for me, it WAS !! Thanks for visiting today.
Great repair. I like how you make the parts yourself. Also I really like that you me and my grandpa are the only people I know that use newspaper to clean windows. He always told me it works the best and wont scratch so I've done it ever since. Great Job.
Newspapers are great for this....and it saves a ton of paper towels. LOL. But the main thing is it does a great job cleaning glass. I try to make as many repairs I can on anything that has a problem. Sometimes though, I have to pay someone. Usually its something on the newer cars and not on old stuff. Thanks for watching and leaving the comments !! Lots of wood cutting, splitting and chainsaw work on my channel too. Just fyi.
My wife and I liked your log holder next to the fireplace. Will be my next project after closet cubbies for quilt room. 👍
This is 1 1/4'' thin wall box tubing. I made one for my son out of gas pipe with all threaded joints and it turned out quite well too. His is a little more narrow, but taller because his hearth is a bit shorter than mine in width. You gotta twist 'em in tight though to keep the joints from moving under the weight.
Nice work Wendell 🙂👍
Hey Zane...I missed this one. Spring time is around the corner !! No more fires for a while then.
That was interesting. I am glad you know how to fix all those things. because that is totally out of my realm. Keep the videos coming.
Well, when I got the 'oh-oh' message with the picture I stared at it for at least 30 seconds before I could focus on the glass laying on the hearth !! Oh well, all's well that ends well, right ?
Been falling behind on videos. Fortunate indeed. Seems like we used news print to clean up windows for field day. Thank you Wendell.
Its easy to get behind on the things we normally do, I'm quite guilty of that myself. LOL. I've been using newspapers and Windex for many years as well.
You make me miss my uncle bob muszall. He could of taught you soo much tractor man. You are a little lackadaisyical but great! Would live to stop by and have you teach me how to weld so i could fix my trailer which needs the tongue put back! It broke loose.❤😂🎉
Ah heck Chris, I would never make the claim to actually be a welder. I somehow by accident manage to get pieces stuck together adequately most of the time though. There's a lot that goes into it, but guys like me started blobbing metal back on the farm as kids in the shop when no one was looking. I'd buy a cheap MIG and some scrap metal to experiment with amp settings, wire speed and bead control. They weren't available when I was a kid. We just had a straight AC 300 amp Lincoln in the blacksmith shop. I started experimenting before I was 12.
I;d pretty much bet that a few of us, are thinking " oh oh, I wonder what my glass doors are like?"
You're right 'Tractorman', David at 'RCAFpolarexpress' is a master of preventative maintenance, but you are the guy who can handle these actual repairs. Between the two of you, you should have a wealth of videos explaining the 'how to' and 'where fors' of repairing things similar to thid.
Yessir, our friend Dave IS quite the perfectionist is he not....!! I can't begin to hold a candle to him in that department. At least this was a pretty simple repair that'll work for a long time if not indefinite. But I WILL get the maintenance done as soon as we have an adequate warm spell.
@@tractorman4461 Thank you very kindly for your kind words Gentlemen 😇😇🙏🙏I can't wait to finish my one year long training and studies 🥴 I will have more time 😇😇👍👍
Thank You Very Kindly My Friend For Your Very Nice Words 👍👍😇😇👌👌
Nice job Wendell. I need to put new gaskets around my stove door before next season. That is a nice looking fireplace.
I like it because of the breadth and width. I can stack for a long lasting burn because of those characteristics. A full stack will burn quicker than doing a split stack that burns from one side to the other. The second half has a delayed start time because of the space between them.
And here I thought I was the only one who used newspaper for cleaning glass.
Hahahaha...me too. I thought I was giving a great tip there !! LOL
Pyroceram is really expensive too!!!
Luckily an old friend of mine is the owner of a custom glass company in town. I'm sure my son went to him for his repair. I'm just glad I didn't have to. Thanks for watching today.
Good fix buddy very smart back a few years ago I was away on the road and Gail was all ready for work she was working in the office at the college and still is but now from home . but anyway put a couple blocks in and one apparently was a little longer my fault for cutting the wood long lol . lucky our son just lived up the road we came down and took the blocks out and took the door off and put a piece on tin over the opening . took the door to the place where e had got the stove and they took some where in town and got a new tempered glass installed wasn't cheap but us going again . I all have to have a big story to tell and you are not the only one that gets behind on things I got a new gasket for the door this fall and is still hanging in the basement works well there . okay I will shut up how you and the misses have a great week and take care
Hahahaha...good story Tom. I'm sure a LOT of us out there have stories that are funny now that wasn't quite so funny as they unfolded. LOL I have some new gasketing sitting in a jar as well.....I just don't have the proper cement for it !! But it sure has. kept the inside of the jar sealed quite well though, not unlike how well yours is working for you. LOL. I hope all is well with you and Gail buddy.
Well I must comment about that Lovely t-shirt I can see behind your long sleeve! Ain’t it amazing that my neighbor called last evening and told Alice that there was a package hanging on the mail box. Well it was dark and I was in me jammiez(not the ones with the feet and trap door) so I jumped in me truck and up the lane me went! Because it’s only 500 feet to the road I didn’t have a CuppaJO with me but I was thinking about one when I got back with the goods. Well it being damp and all who ever deliver said package had it in a big white plastic bag knotted to me mail box post, which consists of a 4x4 with. Car coil spring top and mail box attached. The knot was tightly knotted to the spring! Well me in me jammiez had no pocket knife, which is always carried when I’m in me pants and I couldn’t get that tight knot out. It was cold and fortunately our road ain’t that busy especially at night. Can you imagine the gossip had a neighbor seen me in the dark in me jammiez in the light of me truck foolin with a bag and a mail box? Or a stranger calling 911 about a nut case in his jammiez terrorizing a mail box? So I quickly surmised that a ripping method done stealthily, quickly and lower light was the ticket! Finally I got through the extra large and white no less plastic bag! But wait, there’s more! There was stuff in the box too with soggy mail and another package! With melting snow and above freezing soggy was the norm, plus the lid wasn’t quite closed! Imagine if my jammiez had feet and a trap door with mud, slush and the crap they spread on the road even if there’s a possibility of snow or ice! Or had it start to freeze and I would have become frozen to the slush around the mail box? I can see it now, 911 called and rescue called, the staters and FBI! Now how would I have to explain myself out of that? Back to the house I went unseen and undiscovered by the road in me jammiez! That was a close one fer ser! The bag contained a birthday late birthday gift from Alice, of which you’ll see in a later episode from the holler. The wet mail was junk stuff and crooked politicians wanting to tell me how wonderful they were and all the great (stupid) things they achieved,,,,,,,RIGHT! They help keep the cook stove going. But what’s this??? A mystery package! Alice asked, who is this from? Well HOLY MOLY! ORANGE SHIRTS WITH SPECIAL LOGOS! More on this later of course. But what I wanted to comment on was the fine job you did with the clip for the glass in the stove made with what most consider trash. Others would have ordered clips from eBay or Amazon and waited who knows how long. And in the meantime may well have frozen to death or got frostbite a waiting! And yep, replacing gaskets when the time is right, like when you have too is always a great motivational encouragement. I fix my glass one time with a gasket made of sheet asbestos about 1/8” thick cut in strips, when you could still get it way back when. And I made some clips kind of like yours out of an old clock spring. Used that stainless steel strapping used to attach to antennas to your chimney too. I even have some strapping around somewhere. Every time I look through a box or drawer in the shop it’s like Christmas! Oh,there it is or this is really cool stuff! The Joys of having stuff to fix other stuff that many would have thrown out, eh? You will very soon see what was in those packages that I retrieved in me jammiez! But not in me jammiez! As I’m buttoning, as I was watching above vid, I was grinding JO! Yep, a birthday gift from Alice was a hand cranked JO grinder! I grind away in the morning and it makes Fine JO, less noisy and good excessive too! I’m sippin and slurpin on a CuppaJO from yesterday, can’t waste liquid nectar of the JO Faeries! As soon as the Fresh is made I’ll most certainly be Drippin, Tippin and Sippin in your honor in the western direction of the 44Kind! MANY SQUEEZEZ PLEEZEZ! This here is DaveyJO inna Holler headin to The Holy Grail of The JObean! Not respoonsibble fer spell in ear erz
Hahahahahaha....what a comment my friend !! I'm glad Alice got her hand grinder for the JO beans. Awesome !! I'm wondering just what those orange shirts had on them...some kinda specialty logo or something about this or that huh. LOL. Enjoy the day my friend. And I'll be enjoying some fresh ground JOstuff with the Missus in the morning right along with ya, just a few hundred miles away.
Again Sir, I'm so Sorry ( I WILL CATCH UP ALL YOUR OUTSTANDING VIDEOS !!! ) 😇👍👍These Hot Temp Graded Glasses are Heavy, Very Explained air circulation !!! Yes News papers is very good glass cleaning 😇👍👍 Ho Man, Thank You Very Kindly For Your Very Nice Supportive Words ( I will make It Up To You My Friend ). 😇👍👌Keep Warm and Have Nice Lunch Sir Cheers 🍻🍻
Dave, I know you are a very busy man...so don't feel bad for missing videos. I've missed a ton of yours as well but to be fair I have been slacking on virtually ALL my normal channels I used to stay up with. There is only so much time in the day.
I'm surprised you didn't dig up the silica sand and fire it and make your son new glass. Missouri has some of the silicate sand.
Drive a few metal rod's in the ground and check them in a lighting storm.
Actually Tom, the largest Silica sand deposit in the nation bordered our farm on the East side. We couldn't eat the fish below where the sand washings dumped into the little creek because of the silicate in them. My uncle worked in the mine for years and ended up with silicosis of the lungs as a result too.
You remind me of my papa, thought me damn near everything ik, he’s got a mustache just like ya too
Dang...!! TWO handsome devils out there then !! LOL Just kidding. Thank you for the very complimentary comment Dean.
I do a lot of maintenance on my equipment but it seems there is always that "oh crap" moment when I realize I forgot something (usually right when I need it). 🤦♂🤦♂🤦♂
I know, ain't it terrible. LOL But sometimes that's just the way I roll !!
@tractorman4461 what brand wood stove/fireplace is that? I have seen all kinds and I really like that one.
It's a model based on a Victorian Enterprise except it has twinned 250 cfm dual squirrel cage fans that circulate air around three sides and out the top of the plenum supplying the two 12x12 four way deflection diffusers higher up the brickwork. Filtered return air enters the full width of the bottom and into the dual fans. Fully firebrick lined as well.
Combustion air enters through the brickwork from the outside and floods the top of the doors to drop downwards across the doors. That minimizes the spillage of smoke as the doors are opened for adding fuel. In addition, there is another adjustable air inlet across the bottom front of the firebox below the level of the fire. This draws additional combustion air from inside the living space.
Thankz Wendell. Got a question on . Diesel heaters. Have you seen the bru ha over the new Diesel heaters running them threw old radiators? So many opinions I waz wondering if you would like to share yer opinion?
No Mike, I haven't seen them or even heard of them. Sounds like an interesting subject to look into. A lot of i nnovative things like that that may include a bit of DIY creativity are cool, but not for everyone. Most people want trouble free operation no matter what the source of heat is. Do you have a specific link in mind for me to look at, by chance..?
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It's always something, ain't it Tony. (-; Thanks for taking a looksee today my friend.
Safety warning for you tractorman; no combustibles within 5 feet of your fireplace.
Yeah, that'd be a good rule to heed wouldn't it..?!!