I had to laugh when Paul said "I'm happy with that." I thought immediately "no he isn't" And then the test pattern jump to Paul explaining how he wasn't happy with it. You are a joy to watch Paul Brodie and Mitch makes such good videos knowing you so well.
This is pretty close to a perfect video. It's a small project, you do some beautiful (if simple) machine work, you run into hurdles and figure out how to get over them, there's fire… It's a beautiful thing! Thank you Mitch & Paul!
Beautiful work Paul. The project rule is "It costs twice as much as you thought it would, and takes four times as long". I too have made bends the wrong way before. I have a 50% chance of getting it right and a 90% chance of getting it wrong. I enjoy the fact that you share your thought process. What a great video.
I've heard sharpie marks work quite well for annealing aluminum. Same as the soot, you just scribble them on and burn them off with the torch, and you know you've hit the right temperature.
There is good and there is over done, I think this is well done, that stand is the cherry on the cake and it fits the bike very well. I especially like the clear coat on the brazing on that frame, much nicer than a plane paint job.
As always, a great video. I don't own a bike, so I'll never need to make a stand! I just enjoy seeing you work and talking us through the procedures. All the very best to you and to Mitch
Paul, nice,small, project well executed. I thought with your last video, and again with this one, that you had more energy and that you maybe felt better… good to see, long may it continue! Thanks from UK. Les
Hello Paul, great to see you creating from scratch and seeing it develop as you work. Mk2 was really aesthetically pleasing and it shows how you can change as you work to improve the outcome. Thank you and Mitch for the video. Wishing you the very best, Kevin.
I have a project that I would like to see you do. It would be cool to watch you make a set of soft jaws that wrap around the back of the vise jaws and stay in place. Making it an easier set up and take down for. You work so hard and share so much info, so you deserve a nice set of soft jaws!
Obviously, I do have a set of brass soft jaws, but they do not wrap around the back of the vise jaws. I have seen ones like that but they always seemed so cumbersome. I will put some thought into it. Thanks...
Okay, I fast forwarded to the end. Those stands were made out of ~3/8" steel rod and chromed and clear vinyl sleeving placed at all the touch points and two little rubber caps on the ends for feet. Yup, I remember well, back when Viscount had an aluminum fork, ops.
@@paulbrodie The bicycle shops were full of them. I wonder what I'd find if I walk into what use to be a neighborhood bike shop turned (bought out) Trek shop? There must be a pile of them somewhere.
Your videos look so real, Paul and Mich, when you were drilling those holes, I turned away my head instinctively, not to get the splinters in my eyes ! 😉
Those stands you mentioned were a bike shop staple back in the 70's/80's I had a bunch of them at one point but it is interesting that they aren't readily available anymore....assuming that Romax is going to the meet to be sold someone is going to be a lucky cyclist!
Nice job as usual. It's nice to see you using the skills we were taught back in high school, like the proper way to use a file. How much would a bike like that weigh? I have a couple of generic bikes and they are both made out of aluminum, and both weigh around 50 lbs
@@arthurmiller-vl6sw I used a fish scale to weigh them, so it might be five pounds off one way or the other. Yeah the're heavy, but I get more exercise, LOL.l
Thanks John. I did do a lot of filing in high school, but can't remember if I actually was shown how to file... I haven't weighed my bike, but I would guess 24 pounds. Better weigh it tomorrow! :)
I am curious about what was happening at 10:33 - stopping the lathe with the bit still in and Paul adjusting or loosening the bit? I don't have a machining background, just curious!
i nodiced that too. He is cutting threads so fast the leathe couldn't stop fast enought and the thread cutting tool woud've been drawn into the part and probly broken off inside the part. Insted he loosent the thread cutting tool in the drill chuck, so the tool could spin with the part while the leathe slowed down. sorry for bad english, hope it made sense;)
Okay, now I'm 'up to speed' with your video's, haven't watched much You Tube last month or so. (still working on stuff around the house) Triumph oil tank, maybe it needs to be hot before the crack.split, whatever actually leaks? (although that did seem a lot of oil in the drip tray.) Neat stand, until you showed picture I couldn't actually think what you were talking about, was thinking something fitted permanently.
@@paulbrodie I'll bet it was a PITA? I've seen a lot of BSA C15's with similar leak that couldn't ber found until it got worse. There were plenty of oil tanks available back then though so it was easier to just change them.
I would of had to go with a solid stock on the tube that rests on the ground so it could have had ball radius ends, other than that, that was beautiful form and function
Well Mr. Chastiser at least you can't fault him for long hair! Anything dangling from one's body around machinery is a recipe for injury but maybe he has a medical issue with his hands such as neuropathy which can result in the need to keep his hands warm, even in a heated shop. He wasn't heat treating for hardening, he was annealing to make the aluminum more malleable for bending. Also he wasn't demonstrating precision machining practices in this wonderful presentation of seat of your pants engineering and fabrication. As far as your gobbledygook about swinging a mallet you might think about taking up another hobby, good day sir.
I noticed that this guy wears gloves to do his machining. Is that not an unacceptable machine shop practice to do machining with gloves on? Jewelry, long sleeves/hair/gloves etc. This is what I think is funny about precision machining: put it in a vice, and hit it with a hammer. I will have to try that lampblack and heat treating until the lampblack is all gone to get the metal hard. The little gap may also have been that your consistency of impact to distance each was overmuch one after the other from the previous impact, and varied from the distance of the tangent to the last impact, extended some supreme distance of degrees or some other suitable universal angle indication accepted by all nations, and the gap resulted from the proportions of impact distance one to the next and applied force. you get farther away from the last impact and you hit at an increase or decrease of force from an increase or decrease of distance (and proportionally coefficient of applied force) and the metal will bend more or less sharply across the same distance. The impacts, distance from last, and constant proportion of applied force in equal time and you should get a consistent curve.
Come on man this guy is a true artist working thru some difficult times in his life I’ve been machine’s for 35 years and learn a lot from this guy try to keep an open mind
Funny, Ive never seen a mr1fish2fish brand bike on the cover of mountain bike action, maybe I missed that issue? Nor have I ever seen a mr1fish2fish brand home engineered hand built from scratch vtwin motorcycle engine in a fully hand made frame roaring around a race track. This man is a genius, an artist and a craftsman who has lived a life most could only dream of. He is beloved many. Watch a few more videos and learn from a master.
I had to laugh when Paul said "I'm happy with that." I thought immediately "no he isn't"
And then the test pattern jump to Paul explaining how he wasn't happy with it.
You are a joy to watch Paul Brodie and Mitch makes such good videos knowing you so well.
Yes, you had me figured out... Thanks for watching!
3:01 Unless I wake up, one day, deaf and blind, I will ALWAYS tune in, Paul. This is my favorite part of each week.
Marty, thank you very much :)
This is pretty close to a perfect video. It's a small project, you do some beautiful (if simple) machine work, you run into hurdles and figure out how to get over them, there's fire… It's a beautiful thing! Thank you Mitch & Paul!
Thanks Larry. Very nice compliment!
Beautiful work Paul. The project rule is "It costs twice as much as you thought it would, and takes four times as long". I too have made bends the wrong way before. I have a 50% chance of getting it right and a 90% chance of getting it wrong. I enjoy the fact that you share your thought process. What a great video.
Thanks Tom. We all make mistakes, I think...
I've heard sharpie marks work quite well for annealing aluminum. Same as the soot, you just scribble them on and burn them off with the torch, and you know you've hit the right temperature.
I think you could be right.... Thanks!
There is good and there is over done, I think this is well done, that stand is the cherry on the cake and it fits the bike very well. I especially like the clear coat on the brazing on that frame, much nicer than a plane paint job.
Thank you Marcel....
Paul is my hero. Wish I knew how to fabricate like that…
It took me many years to get a good level of skill... Thanks for watching. :)
Hey Paul & Mitch, yet another superb video on metal art!!! Just love how you're able to make things of beauty that actually work as intended!
Thanks Tom. Appreciate your comments....
Very cool stand. The MKII was the right choice. Thanks Paul & Mitch.
Thanks Craig. MK11 is better!
Good Job Paul! Carving it to an exact shape of bronzes was overkill :) NICE!
Thank you!
A work of Art, could be in the Louvre in Paris.
Thank you Ray, that is very kind of you.....
As always, a great video. I don't own a bike, so I'll never need to make a stand! I just enjoy seeing you work and talking us through the procedures.
All the very best to you and to Mitch
Thank you Ray. But really, you should think about getting a bike...
Great project, and cool watch!
Thanks Steve..
Captivating....Really happy to see you looking more robust,strong,healthy.
Thanks Felix!
Good to see You and the one you don't see back upright ✊😎
Keep on rolling
Man...that Kickstand next to a Next Crank was a clash on the eye 👀
We will roll until we can no longer roll...
Another awesome video Paul, and Mitch
Thanks Rob.
Paul, nice,small, project well executed. I thought with your last video, and again with this one, that you had more energy and that you maybe felt better… good to see, long may it continue! Thanks from UK. Les
Thanks Les. Yes, my energy is slowly returning to "normal" levels, whatever that is!
Paul you look great. We appreciate you putting out content, I know it isn’t easy. Take care my friend. ✌️
Thanks Dozer. I am trying very hard to be healthy...
Paul so great to see you back in the shop love your work and the high standards you bring to it
Thank you. Just don't use zap straps, right?
Looking much better this week Paul, stay RAD!
Thank you!
Hello Paul, great to see you creating from scratch and seeing it develop as you work.
Mk2 was really aesthetically pleasing and it shows how you can change as you work to improve the outcome. Thank you and Mitch for the video.
Wishing you the very best, Kevin.
Thanks Kevin. Yes, the first is not always satisfactory, evidenced here...
That’s quite a nifty bike stand I must say! Very aesthetically pleasing as is most/all of your work is.
Well thank you very much!
1:04 - Paul is a Master of CAD..... Cardboard Aided Design. 😉😁
Yes, I am, thanks...
@@paulbrodie - You're Welcome 😁
Nice, kept me captivated and I don’t even need one.
Thank you kindly :)
Another superb video , 👏👌looking better every episode
Cheers Chris
Thanks Chris!
Great video Paul and Mitch, extra points for the skookum stand
Thank you Anthony. One can never have too many points!
Great design, well executed! You're looking so well, too... Much love.
Thanks Matt!
Pleased to see how well you are looking .
Vlog was top notched, thank you .
Thank you John....
What a great project. Turned out beautifully.
Thank you!
Cardboard aided design.👍
So true!
did we just get a glimpse of mitch?! worth sticking around to the very last second, never know what a person is going to miss!
That could have been Mitch. Hard to tell though, so quick!
Scoocum Ave 👍👍👍
I have a project that I would like to see you do. It would be cool to watch you make a set of soft jaws that wrap around the back of the vise jaws and stay in place. Making it an easier set up and take down for. You work so hard and share so much info, so you deserve a nice set of soft jaws!
Obviously, I do have a set of brass soft jaws, but they do not wrap around the back of the vise jaws. I have seen ones like that but they always seemed so cumbersome. I will put some thought into it. Thanks...
Toolbox tour maybe? ❤
I will think about it...
Definitely top-shelf skookum right there 👍👍😎👍👍
Thanks Joel...
Great to see you each week.
Excellent as usual!! Love the arc shots, can’t get enough of you tig welding
Thanks Glen... 😉😉😉
Hi Paul well thats a lot better than the one on the internet. Looking forward to the next episode.👍
Thanks Mark...
I'm not into bicycle things BUT its alway interesting to see your work !
Always top notch!!
Thank you Bertrand. Very nice comment!
Okay, I fast forwarded to the end. Those stands were made out of ~3/8" steel rod and chromed and clear vinyl sleeving placed at all the touch points and two little rubber caps on the ends for feet. Yup, I remember well, back when Viscount had an aluminum fork, ops.
Yes, you know the stands. It seems they have disappeared off the face of the earth....
@@paulbrodie The bicycle shops were full of them. I wonder what I'd find if I walk into what use to be a neighborhood bike shop turned (bought out) Trek shop? There must be a pile of them somewhere.
A joy to watch, Paul.
Thank you so very much!
Idea for a video...a universal bracket that fits everything. If life was only that easy. Nice vid.
Hello Paul and Mitch, always a pleasure to see your work. Now can you sign me up for a bike stand and the hose nozzle please. Thanks as always.
Thanks David. Your sense of humour is obviously well developed.... :)
Your videos look so real, Paul and Mich, when you were drilling those holes, I turned away my head instinctively, not to get the splinters in my eyes ! 😉
Thanks. Yes, Mitch has been working hard on Seamless Realism!
Looking forward to seeing this in person at the swap!
I was there. Hope you were too!
Love your videos and love your perfectionist attitude. I have same disease 😂 and sometimes it paralyzes me into a corner. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Stay out of those corners, please!
Pure villainy! So focused on the vid my coffee got cold.....Great work!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First World Problems. Thanks for watching!
Those stands you mentioned were a bike shop staple back in the 70's/80's I had a bunch of them at one point but it is interesting that they aren't readily available anymore....assuming that Romax is going to the meet to be sold someone is going to be a lucky cyclist!
Ha! I will never sell my Romax... That one is a Keeper. That's what I say now....
"Person number 9"! I have 3!
I think I got lost here somewhere...
Re: heat treating, I've heard that the same effect happens with sharpy ink
Never tried that, but thanks....
Reverse / mirror half moons when filing curves, rounds, finishing.
Yes, there are several techniques that work...
The skookum count for this episode was at least 2.
I will accept a 2 count :)
❤️🙏
Damn, I was so proud of the stand I made out of rebar then Paul shows me how to make THE STAND.
Thanks Chris. I did have to remake a part of mine....
@@paulbrodie Still not sure if that makes me feel better.
@@chrisallen2005 I hope you do feel better soon...
Really cool!
Nice bike!
Thank you :)
Re annealing the aluminum: I've heard that exact explanation (burning off the acetylene carbon) when I was at BCIT.
Aha! So there must be some truth lurking in there...
Here's a comment saying that the acetylene soot trick is what I was taught for shaping alloy panels on motorcycles. Worked for me...
I was shown that if you rub ordinary soap on the aluminium and heat till it turned brown.
Or sharpy marker and soap changes to brown at around 600 degrees. worth knowing.
Yes, there are different methods! :)
Nice job as usual. It's nice to see you using the skills we were taught back in high school, like the proper way to use a file. How much would a bike like that weigh? I have a couple of generic bikes and they are both made out of aluminum, and both weigh around 50 lbs
50! Holy. My 90’s MTB and steel Walmart front suspension bikes are only 34.
@@arthurmiller-vl6sw I used a fish scale to weigh them, so it might be five pounds off one way or the other. Yeah the're heavy, but I get more exercise, LOL.l
Thanks John. I did do a lot of filing in high school, but can't remember if I actually was shown how to file... I haven't weighed my bike, but I would guess 24 pounds. Better weigh it tomorrow! :)
@@paulbrodie Thanks.
I went to my shop and weighed the Romax. I was wrong... Even with the pump, it only weighs 22 pounds. It's a nice, light bike!
I am curious about what was happening at 10:33 - stopping the lathe with the bit still in and Paul adjusting or loosening the bit? I don't have a machining background, just curious!
i nodiced that too. He is cutting threads so fast the leathe couldn't stop fast enought and the thread cutting tool woud've been drawn into the part and probly broken off inside the part. Insted he loosent the thread cutting tool in the drill chuck, so the tool could spin with the part while the leathe slowed down.
sorry for bad english, hope it made sense;)
Yes, you figured it out!
The tap is powered into the part, and then I snap open the chuck so the tap doesn't go in too far and break...
Hey Paul turned out great. And Thank You for not making another bike accessory with a fukn beer bottle opener feature for the love of Christ!
Thank you Ronny. No beer opener...
Paul I’m always learning new machining techniques watching so I’m curious if you were trained as a conventional machinist or a tool and die maker?
I worked in 2 machine shops (jobbing and production..) for 4 years after leaving high school.... It's all in my book!
Okay, now I'm 'up to speed' with your video's, haven't watched much You Tube last month or so. (still working on stuff around the house)
Triumph oil tank, maybe it needs to be hot before the crack.split, whatever actually leaks? (although that did seem a lot of oil in the drip tray.)
Neat stand, until you showed picture I couldn't actually think what you were talking about, was thinking something fitted permanently.
The oil tank is now fixed! That was a long crack, and there was a lot of back and forth with the Tig welder..
@@paulbrodie I'll bet it was a PITA?
I've seen a lot of BSA C15's with similar leak that couldn't ber found until it got worse. There were plenty of oil tanks available back then though so it was easier to just change them.
@@1crazypj I had my friend Ross Schafer helping out. It was a fun way to spend time in the shop. I would not consider it a PITA...
I would of had to go with a solid stock on the tube that rests on the ground so it could have had ball radius ends, other than that, that was beautiful form and function
Thanks Daniel. Do you realize that if you had used "a solid stock of tube" it would not be a tube at all?
The solid stock would be used in place of the tube ?
awesome ! i love watching you create and listening to you talk and teach.
Thank you :)
Nice
Thanks Jako Tako :)
scope creep: if paul wasn't apt to scope creep I wouldn't have a brodie bike in my garage
I don't think I have ever scope crept... I would have to Google that term. But that's great you have a Brodie Bike in your garage....
@@paulbrodie lol... the scope of your mission crept though. I hear that's how we got the sloping top tube 🤣
@@pmeschultz Well, there is a story to the sloping top tube, and that story is related in my book....
@@paulbrodie know where a guy could pick up a signed copy?
@@pmeschultz I still have a few copies left. Send me an email and we will make it happen. My email is somewhere under the video... thanks...
ok, its a one off but... do I hear an auctioneer calling out for bids?
No one is calling out for bids... :)
i bought ONE of those belt sanders. No bs its the handiest Thing I have in my tool box!!! Paul is like Michelangelo with that sander.
Thank you Ed :). :)
i live 30 minutes away, but my passport is expired.. i wish i could make it to that swapmeet.
That swap meet really was a lot of fun. Maybe you can make it next year!
Well Mr. Chastiser at least you can't fault him for long hair! Anything dangling from one's body around machinery is a recipe for injury but maybe he has a medical issue with his hands such as neuropathy which can result in the need to keep his hands warm, even in a heated shop. He wasn't heat treating for hardening, he was annealing to make the aluminum more malleable for bending. Also he wasn't demonstrating precision machining practices in this wonderful presentation of seat of your pants engineering and fabrication. As far as your gobbledygook about swinging a mallet you might think about taking up another hobby, good day sir.
Couldn't agree more.
Well Sir, I think we all know that when Paul says "I like it about.... there." that is not precision machining practice.
He has a pretty accurate eyechrometer
No, my hair is not long, but it has started growing! I do not have a medical issue with my hands...
Probably no longer avialable because they don't fit modern bikes with non-cylindrical downtubes.
Yes, that does make sense. And things do change...
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Thanks for watching!
I noticed that this guy wears gloves to do his machining. Is that not an unacceptable machine shop practice to do machining with gloves on? Jewelry, long sleeves/hair/gloves etc. This is what I think is funny about precision machining: put it in a vice, and hit it with a hammer. I will have to try that lampblack and heat treating until the lampblack is all gone to get the metal hard. The little gap may also have been that your consistency of impact to distance each was overmuch one after the other from the previous impact, and varied from the distance of the tangent to the last impact, extended some supreme distance of degrees or some other suitable universal angle indication accepted by all nations, and the gap resulted from the proportions of impact distance one to the next and applied force. you get farther away from the last impact and you hit at an increase or decrease of force from an increase or decrease of distance (and proportionally coefficient of applied force) and the metal will bend more or less sharply across the same distance. The impacts, distance from last, and constant proportion of applied force in equal time and you should get a consistent curve.
Also, possibly with a proportional and coefficient change in Temperature.
He's been machining since before most of us were born. He can do it however he wants.
Come on man this guy is a true artist working thru some difficult times in his life I’ve been machine’s for 35 years and learn a lot from this guy try to keep an open mind
Funny, Ive never seen a mr1fish2fish brand bike on the cover of mountain bike action, maybe I missed that issue? Nor have I ever seen a mr1fish2fish brand home engineered hand built from scratch vtwin motorcycle engine in a fully hand made frame roaring around a race track. This man is a genius, an artist and a craftsman who has lived a life most could only dream of. He is beloved many. Watch a few more videos and learn from a master.
Some make comments, some make bikes from scratch. Just know your place.
excellent vid thanks
Thank you :)
Nice