You are moving and have time for videos. I had to vacate my 20yo shop for a new to be built. I had 25 days to get packed for six months. Thank you for using your time so well. Looking at the Gillian legacy was priceless.
Hi Tom, congrats on the new shop! Having purchased a "new to me" lightly used, but very dirty, Bridgeport mill last week, I understand what you must be going through moving multiple machines! In support, I grabbed a shirt, which I will wear proudly! I can say, I know this guy, met him, he's a goto for knowledge! Thanks!!
I didn't know until a few years ago that magnetic north has moved over time. I figured it out shooting old surveys and the property lines from 100 years ago were all canted and I could not figure out why. Pretty crazy to think an old deed can be 5-10 degrees off from where it is today.
We used to call that tape fish tape. It’d be really handy if only there was some kind of little ratcheting mechanism to pull it tight with. And maybe some hooks to go on the ends…. 🧐
Tom, Thanks for the education. Love the pull-tape repurpose. When you get settled in, please consider doing a whole video on how to buy, tie and use? Joel…..
Indeed, but Leitz is specialized in filing and document management stuff, they have nothing to do with compasses. but a quick search, I found like a gazillion of A. Lietz Co. compasses of all sorts coming out of San Francisco. They made quite a variety it seems, from ones for the US Army, to survey stuff and ship compasses. Found quite a few items on ebay and in auctions, and lets put it that way, the stuff seems to go for insane prices. That actual one seems to go as "US Army Signal Corps Surveyor Compass". Although there is no connection between Lietz and Leitz, I found that the company founder Adolph Lietz was actually born in Lübeck in Germany and came to San Francisco in 1879 at age 19. I guess the needle is oscillating so much because it has crazy little friction and is insanely sensitive. I guess you can put that thing up and leave it sitting while taking lunch before it stabilizes. And then you can tiptoe back to the tripod and look at it.
@@alexanderkupke920 There's numerous Leitz companies, the one most will be familiar with is Ernst Leitz GmbH, which owns the Leica brands including Leica Geosystems that manufactures geodetic surveying equipment.
Wow, I went to that estate sale! The house was interesting, but the buildings in the back seemed so out of place compared to the area it was in. The sellers kept talking about how things weren't selling, and how they had to get rid of it all ASAP, etc, but the prices were a little steep and they didn't want to bargain at all. I got a short look at the shop area, but not further in. I got a flat belt lacing tool for a steal because I had to explain what it was. Would have bought a lot more, including a large stash of tool steel, but it was too $$$. A buddy of mine went on the last day hoping for better prices, but they were still pinching pennies!
Ah yes, rope for securing stuff. Worked as an aircraft handler during my studying time and we had to learn how to secure cargo to IATA/ICAO standards. At that time rope was still the number one option. If you know how to properly do a truckers hitch etc. you can easily break wooden boxes when tying down, as with very little effort you create quite a lot of force. It was used with a nominal break load rating (I guess the rope actually was better, but they limited it to some margin of error for wear and improper knots) and depending on the load we had to adapt the number of ropes and tie points used. Or put boards under the load for weight distribution to not break the floor of the cargo hold. The rule was like, it may not shift when tied down, even if your tie down at some points is more like suspending it from the ceiling. Could easily be done with at least three ropes on four anchor points. Some airlines back then started to require flat straps with clamps instead, no ratched straps. from the loads we had to secure using those I had quite mixed feelings about them. Oh and back then, even on the apron we were allowed to carry pocket knifes, just in case some idiot at another airport had no idea how to tie a knot that held and you could actually untie within a few seconds. And believe me, you did not have minutes to play around with a knot when you had to turn around an aircraft. either you got it open immediately, or you cut it open. Using the flat webbing you may just reassess the knots you would commonly use on rope. some may work better, others not so much, especailly when it comes to opening them again. But I think you standard knots lika a figgure eight or a truckers hitch etc. should be fine.
The characters on the Victor brand plate are Japanese. Back in the 1970s-1980s days of SONY, Panasonic... the popular days of Japanese electronics... there was a brand known as JVC. That stood for the Japanese Victor Corporation. So, that's Japanese.
Guys who do repelling use a lot of flat strap too. They call it "webbing" --- and there are a lot of good videos that show how to tie knots with the webbing.. It's common for them to have some webbing sewn into a loop too, like 2ft, 3ft, and 4ft loops. (they just overlap the ends by 3 inces or so and sew 6 or 8 lines of cross stitches)-- and you can quickly use it as a tie off on your rope by rapping a prusik knot around a main line, and simply hooking onto it, since it's a closed loop; then you can hang on that loop and unhook your main line from your belt and change ropes, or whatever else you need to do.. Lot's of cool things about knots and ropes can be learned by climbing and repelling guys-- UA-cam is full excellent videos about ropes/ knots from the climbing world-- same goes to the rigging world-- sail boats.. It's kinda like machining in that way, you go down a rabbit hole a learn a few things and you realize how deep and wide the knowledge can go. Most climbing gear is rated in kn- kilo newtons... So like a standard hook could be 18kn or 22kn... and 1kn= around 225lbs... So a 22kn hook would hold 4950 lbs... So I always think of it as a multiple of one mans' weight... So if a hook or prusik webbing loop or rope is 22kn, It will hold 22x your body weight-- that's just a quick way to remember..... Those climbing hooks are just a thin/ light little forged aluminum hook with a latch on it--- you would never guess it can hold 5k lbs. Same with some ropes-- there is a lot to know in the selection of a rope-- there are different amounts of weave- such as regular twisted 3 strand... or a 12 strand rope vs a 36 strand double braided rope... And these ropes also have a second rope in its center, which can be straight strands-- which makes a 'static rope" -- or it can have another weaved rope as a center, which makes a 'dynamic rope-- because the center will stretch just like the outside sleeve.... You can have polyester outside, but nylon in the middle--- or a nylon outer sleeve but with Dynema in the middle, ect.. There's so many different things that go into making ropes, and you have to learn quite a bit before you can make an informed decision on buying which one you actually need... Like such as, Nylon is more water resistant, but a poly propolene rope will float, ect.. ( you can't go wrong with polyester/ nylon/ dynema).. and the same size rope can have wildly different strengths-- even if it's similar material...... Such as a cheaper 5/8" , 48 strand polyester rope may hold 9k lbs--- but then a 5/8" 12 strand polyester rope might hold 15k lbs... But a 5/8" dynema rope will hold 55k lbs.. It's crazy stuff-- people like to replace the cable in their winches with dynema rope-- because it's even stronger than steel cable a lot of times. I actually did electrician work for a couple of years out of high school and we would do long pulls through pipe with that webbing that you have-- and they would just throw it away; so I started bringing it home.. .I have several large rats nest's of those things-- still haven't found much use for it all; but it's good to have and not need it. lol... Congrats on your place-- I'm jealous.
Bias: I love ratchet straps and misuse them for all kinds of bad ideas. Webbing and pull tape: I use it too, especially as a climber but all kinds of things to be careful of. 1800lbs is only without any knots in it, and it loses more strength in knots than rope does. Probably still overkill for whatever you want to do but worth being careful about. If I need a little weight I keep some Paracord in the trunk next to the ratchet straps, if I need a lot I've got some dyneema slings that are good for 2700lbs (and tiny!). Other advantage of dyneema: if it breaks under that kind of strain it just flops on the ground like a dead fish, no rebound
Ref. the circumference rule, in the 1960s as an apprentice I worked in the Bristol Siddeley Engines aero engine factory in Bristol. (UK) we used the reverse of that, a circumference tape. Each inch was pi inches long and we used it to check that a welded up casing would produce the correct diameter when rounded up on the stretcher press. They then had edge rolled and machined flanges welded on. Happy days!
Mule tape. When they installed fiber optic connection into our office about ten years ago, they pulled it through with mule tape and then chucked it in the trash. I fished it out and have been using it for all kinds of bizarre projects over the years.
Yeah... They always simply throw it away when I worked as an electrician.. So I just started bringing it home. Not sure what I'm gonna do with it all-- but it's good material.
The late Mors Kochanski used to recommend the use of mule or fish tape on bow saws because of the low stretch. I never got around to using it but I'll have to up it in my to buy list. Do you have plans for the Ox hook rule? Thanks for sharing take care!!
I grew up with mule tape! Mine is covered in sewage from locating and pulling trace wires in residential utility lines, but it’s still going strong from when my dad passed it down to me 20 years ago.
It's cheap. It's disposable. Keeping sewage-covered pull tape is stupid and dangerous. And why in hell would anyone pull wires through sewer ducts? Your municipality is scary.
@@railgap Really? Many crowded developed cities use sewer lines for new cable instals because they are the only way to access a building underground, especially in heritage listed zones where you cannot even put a strip ditch on a street. One big usage of sewer pipes is for providing underground internet cabling/ fibre to old and historical buildings. So there's that!
@@railgap You misunderstand me, friend. There aren’t colonies of E. coli growing on the stuff, of course. We care about our health and I washed it in bleach water when I finished the job. The pipes don’t seem to care that the tape has been used before, so if it’s going to get covered in pollen and pine needles again, what’s the point of tossing it out? This is especially true in the sticks or on the farm where notions of consumption and disposability might come as a surprise to you. Some of us fix it instead of tossing it.
I was walking around Manhattan several years ago and bumped into an entire store full of vintage Steelcase office furniture. It’s the kind of stuff “they don’t make anymore”. Great meatloaf episode. I hope someone explains why the E and W are flipped on that compass. Was it viewed in a mirror or through a prism?
Imagine facing north and then turning to the west to look at something through the compass sights. Compass should now read 'W' with the arrow pointing to the right. Right?
I can see the pull tape used with something like an industrial strength wedge lock clamp. Like the boy-scout or Navy belt buckles but hella strong. I like the way you think.
Thanks Tom, I bought a set of ratcheting straps that came it a box with a crank on the back that winds up all four ratchet straps at once. I like to lube all my ratchet ratcheting ratcheters . I like to preset the strap slots horizontally so i can one handed pass the strap through the slot with the ratchet closed and locked. I don’t let people barrow my straps or tools or machines or trailers or trucks or jacks…Etc.
That first desk is a Navy Desk - I have one with the "Ever Last" plate on the front. The top is going bad. It was linoleum Gray naturally. Need a new top some day. Love that flat rope !
Can you please make a video about the correct and proper way of installing and bolting 2 micron precision linear guide rails onto precision granite surface plate which has a surface finish of 1 micron? The surface plate will be about 12 x 12 x 3 inch. Linear guide rails will be Hiwin. No one discusses the proper way to install them in a fundamental way. Thanks.
To store my rachet straps I ran a piece of conduit the length of my trailer toolbox and I leave the straps connected in the center. Then hook the hooks over conduit for each end and throw the rest of the strap in center. To grab one, just pick a side and pull it out until you get to the other end. Won't tangle in a knot. At worse case, the handle will get caught. A 5 gallon pail will work too leave enough room between the top and the conduit for the hooks. Then you can snap the top other can and they won't tangle inside.
Enjoyed the video! Like the old brochures.As far as the pull tape it really works well for securing things .As we said in the Coast Guard,If you don't know the knot then tie a lot!LOL
One note on the mule tape vs rope: (quality) ropes usually have a 10:1 or 12:1 factor of safety built into their strength listings. As far as I can tell, pulling tape is listed as its actual tensile strength. Pulling tape is still way cheaper and super handy though.
"...ropes usually have a 10:1 or 12:1 factor of safety built into their strength listings..." Pretty sure this is so. If your after 'for real' quality materials, check some outfits that sell sport skydiving rigging supplies... 'Paragear' & 'ChutingStar' are two. There's probably others... they sell online. Paragear has been around for eons.
The pictures from that yard sale were amazing. And the library would have been a temptation as well. Hope the 'epic' is proceeding without panic. Thanks for the MeatLoaf.
Fantastic Flavour packed meatloaf this evening (African Central Time), Im marbles been turning looking at that ruler thingy magic rule tool, funny you would say would make a great laser project, exactly what I was thinking. I recon still be a bit of a but load of work, as would require at least two lasers still a bigger high power to cut them out and a smaller to Etch/Engrave the markings. Been pushing this kinda item of recent as marketing material, with all our over thirty years off waste materials off cuts of rotary engraving plastic materials old stock etc, trying to be creative and epicycle well waste at the end of the day. Will defiantly be appropriating this neat measuring device layout to try a couple new reiterations on small measuring devices/marketing/business Card ideas. Hope the move is treating you good at this stage of the game. New property looks a treat!
The famous German optical company now named Leica was founded in 1869 by Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany. The A. Lietz Company of San Francisco, as the compass is marked, is apparently unrelated. It would be interesting if someone could find out more about that company.
What’s the story with the compass? East West are reversed, and the degrees are counter clockwise? At first I thought the image was reversed but Oxtools is correct…?
(Posted this a while ago... but it's now gone. Try two...) Speaking of moving, securing loads & all that, be sure to see the Joe Pieczynski video titled: 'best tie down knot ever. Don't miss this one' (sans quotes.) It works commendably well; have used it on a couple of occasion now. Great videos Tom, Thanks!
Regarding the webbing: Rock climbers use a re-threaded figure 8 knot a lot to create slings. Fastened to caribiners, pitons, etc. Tie a neat figure eight in one end of the webbing and bring around the slack end and follow the first knot, essentially doubling the web. Yeah hard to explain, but this method, despite the weight imparted, will be easy to release. Wet or dry.
Always great videos Tom. My brother recently introduced me to pull tape but I haven't used it yet since I suck a tying knots and need to practice, would love to hear what your ideas are on different uses for it.
Probably Japanese on the Victor plate, JVC is Japan Victor Corporation. Ironically Thomson, a French company owns the RCA name. For the most part the Japanese kanjis are the Chinese characters but the Chinese and Japanese pronounce many of them differently.😲
"Your tweezer/pointer has always interested me. What brand are they? I do a lot of small machine work (0-80, 00-90) and I would like to get a pair." He talked about them in Meatloaf 118 from a while back... I picked up a pair, they're very nice!
All for the pull tape webbing. I don't know directly but I have heard the military has gone to webbing for repelling and climbing. 30 feet of webbing. will fit in a pocket but 30 feet of rope will not.
1. re; the Gilliland brochure: notice the clock is BEHIND the workers. I suspect there was no such clock on the opposite wall. Back then, management told you when to sit and when to stand, when to eat and when to piss, even more so if you were a woman. 2. The brass rule looks like a case gauge used in armories. Brass so as to be non-sparking. 3. I wonder why I have never had the problems you have with ratchet straps - except storage. Storage is my only bugaboo for those. Are you any good with knots? You need to know fewer than a dozen knots. I hgappen to have a lot of experience with rope, banding tapes, and flat webbing; from climbing, rigging, theater, boating, you name it. And there is a problem with flat tapes: there are only two or three knots which retain a significant amount of the line's strength. Twisting tape into knots weakens it MUCH more than a round line. A knot in tape may have only 10% of the breaking strength than the running line with no twists in it. You also cannot twist it AT ALL without again significantly reducing its tensile strength. In addition, thin tape under tension is much less pleasant to work with than laid or kernmantle line - some banding straps will CUT YOU. Tensile strength isn't everything. ;D But hey, if cost is the only criterion that matters for your tools, carry on with your bad self. ^_^
okay you say ratchet straps hard to store you have to roll them well guess what you have to roll ropes and we still use chains and binders and over here ropes have been band all except for the minor but for transport related stuff these are far better stronger and are not a hassle to roll up at all cheers this was my rant to your rant still love your Chanel so a rant is a rant
what planet do you live on that the strap won't knot up. It will, same as any other long cord/strap. to me, ratchets are frustrating as all getup. wish they all came with winders.
Next time you are about to throw out some old socks. Don't. They work great to snug up a ratchet strap. All mine live in old socks now, after they get 'wrapped" like you show there. No muss, no fuss.
In 1979 I began my Tool and Die Apprenticeship at H-V Industries in Phila. We mainly built and maintained can dies for Crown Cork and Seal. The shop was next door to Warren Knight on Bennett Rd. A little bit of history. Before the age of CNC many people used a Bridgeport attachment called the Volstro Milling Head, to generate inside and outside radii on a part. The owner of our shop Herman Volm, and another fellow whose last name began "Stro", invented the device. Every few months we would run a batch of cast iron components for the build process of the device which was going on across the street.
Used ratchet straps for decades. Used properly, no problem. Used improperly, still safer than a snapping chain. 😱Good rope/tape is very expensive and still creeps like mad, under mild load.😒Dyneema is great, ultra low stretch, but you need to buy a wack load, from Timm Ropes, to get a deal. Cost benefit ratio gets a little out of kilter, otherwise. Best wishes from the far North.
The pointer always points north, if you turn the compass clockwise 90° to point east the needle will stay still and thus be pointed 90° counter clockwise from the North mark on the face. Thus that is where we put the East mark.
At 16:02, the sighting is NW and that is what the compass is reading. Therefore the compass is not miss-marked. When set up to take a reading to go East, the N will be to the North and the sighting will show E or 90 degrees on the compass. It is much easier to show than to describe.
I worked for a guy who used to put his mobile phone under the magnetic compass and then complain we were off course. When he moved his phone with a "little" prompting, we were perfectly on course. On another vessel, the emergency steering position was on the deck above the port generator. If you made a 360 turn, the compass went from 220 deg to 260 deg, a little different if the starboard generator was on. We used to call your end proverb type knot a Snowball Hitch!
Mule Tape / Fish Tape -- make sure the knots you're using are known-safe with webbing (vis. river rescue rated knots) -- some knots for round profile rope will happily undo or slip with tape.
When you were showing the pictures of the estate sale, the very last slide looked like a very blocky V-Twin engine. I'm confident it is not an engine, but could you explain what that is? It looked like it had two hydraulic actuators at 90° to each other both acting on a central shaft. I cannot for the life of me figure out what that was. Can you please tell me?
I don't think I could ever use up 300ft of rope. Maybe if I give it to my cat it could ball it up and play with it. You nearly made me buy a roll. I'm still very, very tempted. However, I do know rope has a shelf life.
Now there will be a run on pull tape, every machinists and home shop guy in the US will clear the shelves now! 🤣🤣 Except me of course, I love to aggravate myself with tangled ratchet straps 🍻
That's not a German leitz sadly. It is spelled differently and I don't believe they were ever based out of San Francisco. Still a very cool tool, but not leitz. I wonder if it was intentional to try to draw in less savvy consumers?
Why are the E(ast) and W(est) marks on the opposite sides to that expected ? In answer to an earlier comment, magnetic compasses are affected by two factors Deviation & Variation. Deviation is the effect of magnetic materials around the compass, Variation is the wandering of the magnetic north pole, if you look on marine charts they will have a note of the variation in effect at the time of printing the chart and the anticipated change over time.
I’d you follow the phone and cable drop guys, or find them out in the field, talk to them. When they pull a cable, they toss the rope. The big roll of orange pipe comes with the rope usually already inside.
My brother in law had some to pull wire thru a conduit about a mile long. The power company uses it once because they don't want to chance a break in the middle of a project. You could get used rope for nothing. I got some of the scrap, good stuff.
The estate sale images and story made me kinda sad. US industry had its day I guess. But I can’t help thinking we lost more than we know when places like that closed their doors.
Is there any way you can show how you made that mini pallet , an angle plate pallet? Thanks. I have learned a ton from all of your videos. Mike mercurio
I encountered a telecommunications contractor pulling new overhead lines and they just roll up the mule tape or pull tape and disgaurd it .. i talked nice to some contractors one day and they gave me a big hank of it
31:43 "You got to learn some knots" ok. the rabbit comes out of the hole, sees the fox, goes around the tree and back down in the hole. How's that for starters...
Tom hello again, it's rare to leave two comments for a single video, but the second you pulled out the pull tape, I really perked up! My fellow workers and I have installed thousands of feet of Fiber Optic cable at the Television lot I used to work for, I just retired, while they would toss the pull tape, I saw the value years ago. I have recently come down to the last of my supply, well, until you mentioned Amazon! I just restocked my supply, 1000ft 78 bucks! NICE FIND TOM!!! Again, THANK YOU!!!
My biggest problem with ratchet straps is NO ONE knows how to use them. You ALWAYS find them wound up super super tight with the entire strap on the reel. Thanks for the tip though Tom, I have an elec-chicken buddy I'm going to ask to grab me a couple thousand feet, haha.
You are moving and have time for videos. I had to vacate my 20yo shop for a new to be built. I had 25 days to get packed for six months. Thank you for using your time so well. Looking at the Gillian legacy was priceless.
Hi Tom, congrats on the new shop! Having purchased a "new to me" lightly used, but very dirty, Bridgeport mill last week, I understand what you must be going through moving multiple machines! In support, I grabbed a shirt, which I will wear proudly! I can say, I know this guy, met him, he's a goto for knowledge! Thanks!!
Congratulations on the Bridgeport.
I didn't know until a few years ago that magnetic north has moved over time. I figured it out shooting old surveys and the property lines from 100 years ago were all canted and I could not figure out why. Pretty crazy to think an old deed can be 5-10 degrees off from where it is today.
Suspicious Observervers youtube tells the story well. Its happened many times.
Fascinating!
We used to call that tape fish tape. It’d be really handy if only there was some kind of little ratcheting mechanism to pull it tight with. And maybe some hooks to go on the ends…. 🧐
Lol.
My exact thoughts as I watched
Morning meatloaf!! Perfect way to start the week!!
Tom, Thanks for the education. Love the pull-tape repurpose. When you get settled in, please consider doing a whole video on how to buy, tie and use? Joel…..
The compass reads “ Lietz “ , the german compagny is called “ Leitz “ , still a nice one, greetings from Amsterdam
Indeed, but Leitz is specialized in filing and document management stuff, they have nothing to do with compasses. but a quick search, I found like a gazillion of A. Lietz Co. compasses of all sorts coming out of San Francisco. They made quite a variety it seems, from ones for the US Army, to survey stuff and ship compasses. Found quite a few items on ebay and in auctions, and lets put it that way, the stuff seems to go for insane prices. That actual one seems to go as "US Army Signal Corps Surveyor Compass".
Although there is no connection between Lietz and Leitz, I found that the company founder Adolph Lietz was actually born in Lübeck in Germany and came to San Francisco in 1879 at age 19.
I guess the needle is oscillating so much because it has crazy little friction and is insanely sensitive. I guess you can put that thing up and leave it sitting while taking lunch before it stabilizes. And then you can tiptoe back to the tripod and look at it.
@@alexanderkupke920 There's numerous Leitz companies, the one most will be familiar with is Ernst Leitz GmbH, which owns the Leica brands including Leica Geosystems that manufactures geodetic surveying equipment.
Enjoyed! Also got my t-shirt in today. Lovely!
Good meatloaf Tom... Thank you.
Thanks for the video.
Making a modern version of the hook ruler would be interesting to purchase with the ox tools logo.
Wow, I went to that estate sale! The house was interesting, but the buildings in the back seemed so out of place compared to the area it was in. The sellers kept talking about how things weren't selling, and how they had to get rid of it all ASAP, etc, but the prices were a little steep and they didn't want to bargain at all. I got a short look at the shop area, but not further in. I got a flat belt lacing tool for a steal because I had to explain what it was. Would have bought a lot more, including a large stash of tool steel, but it was too $$$. A buddy of mine went on the last day hoping for better prices, but they were still pinching pennies!
Ah yes, rope for securing stuff. Worked as an aircraft handler during my studying time and we had to learn how to secure cargo to IATA/ICAO standards. At that time rope was still the number one option. If you know how to properly do a truckers hitch etc. you can easily break wooden boxes when tying down, as with very little effort you create quite a lot of force. It was used with a nominal break load rating (I guess the rope actually was better, but they limited it to some margin of error for wear and improper knots) and depending on the load we had to adapt the number of ropes and tie points used. Or put boards under the load for weight distribution to not break the floor of the cargo hold. The rule was like, it may not shift when tied down, even if your tie down at some points is more like suspending it from the ceiling. Could easily be done with at least three ropes on four anchor points. Some airlines back then started to require flat straps with clamps instead, no ratched straps. from the loads we had to secure using those I had quite mixed feelings about them.
Oh and back then, even on the apron we were allowed to carry pocket knifes, just in case some idiot at another airport had no idea how to tie a knot that held and you could actually untie within a few seconds. And believe me, you did not have minutes to play around with a knot when you had to turn around an aircraft. either you got it open immediately, or you cut it open.
Using the flat webbing you may just reassess the knots you would commonly use on rope. some may work better, others not so much, especailly when it comes to opening them again. But I think you standard knots lika a figgure eight or a truckers hitch etc. should be fine.
Tom for old Field Artillery Guy, (You ) 56 FA Pershing I can see why you get excited with the bubble protractor. Old home week for you.
The characters on the Victor brand plate are Japanese. Back in the 1970s-1980s days of SONY, Panasonic... the popular days of Japanese electronics... there was a brand known as JVC. That stood for the Japanese Victor Corporation. So, that's Japanese.
Guys who do repelling use a lot of flat strap too. They call it "webbing" --- and there are a lot of good videos that show how to tie knots with the webbing.. It's common for them to have some webbing sewn into a loop too, like 2ft, 3ft, and 4ft loops. (they just overlap the ends by 3 inces or so and sew 6 or 8 lines of cross stitches)-- and you can quickly use it as a tie off on your rope by rapping a prusik knot around a main line, and simply hooking onto it, since it's a closed loop; then you can hang on that loop and unhook your main line from your belt and change ropes, or whatever else you need to do.. Lot's of cool things about knots and ropes can be learned by climbing and repelling guys-- UA-cam is full excellent videos about ropes/ knots from the climbing world-- same goes to the rigging world-- sail boats.. It's kinda like machining in that way, you go down a rabbit hole a learn a few things and you realize how deep and wide the knowledge can go. Most climbing gear is rated in kn- kilo newtons... So like a standard hook could be 18kn or 22kn... and 1kn= around 225lbs... So a 22kn hook would hold 4950 lbs... So I always think of it as a multiple of one mans' weight... So if a hook or prusik webbing loop or rope is 22kn, It will hold 22x your body weight-- that's just a quick way to remember..... Those climbing hooks are just a thin/ light little forged aluminum hook with a latch on it--- you would never guess it can hold 5k lbs. Same with some ropes-- there is a lot to know in the selection of a rope-- there are different amounts of weave- such as regular twisted 3 strand... or a 12 strand rope vs a 36 strand double braided rope... And these ropes also have a second rope in its center, which can be straight strands-- which makes a 'static rope" -- or it can have another weaved rope as a center, which makes a 'dynamic rope-- because the center will stretch just like the outside sleeve.... You can have polyester outside, but nylon in the middle--- or a nylon outer sleeve but with Dynema in the middle, ect.. There's so many different things that go into making ropes, and you have to learn quite a bit before you can make an informed decision on buying which one you actually need... Like such as, Nylon is more water resistant, but a poly propolene rope will float, ect.. ( you can't go wrong with polyester/ nylon/ dynema).. and the same size rope can have wildly different strengths-- even if it's similar material...... Such as a cheaper 5/8" , 48 strand polyester rope may hold 9k lbs--- but then a 5/8" 12 strand polyester rope might hold 15k lbs... But a 5/8" dynema rope will hold 55k lbs.. It's crazy stuff-- people like to replace the cable in their winches with dynema rope-- because it's even stronger than steel cable a lot of times. I actually did electrician work for a couple of years out of high school and we would do long pulls through pipe with that webbing that you have-- and they would just throw it away; so I started bringing it home.. .I have several large rats nest's of those things-- still haven't found much use for it all; but it's good to have and not need it. lol... Congrats on your place-- I'm jealous.
Bias: I love ratchet straps and misuse them for all kinds of bad ideas. Webbing and pull tape: I use it too, especially as a climber but all kinds of things to be careful of. 1800lbs is only without any knots in it, and it loses more strength in knots than rope does. Probably still overkill for whatever you want to do but worth being careful about.
If I need a little weight I keep some Paracord in the trunk next to the ratchet straps, if I need a lot I've got some dyneema slings that are good for 2700lbs (and tiny!). Other advantage of dyneema: if it breaks under that kind of strain it just flops on the ground like a dead fish, no rebound
Ref. the circumference rule, in the 1960s as an apprentice I worked in the Bristol Siddeley Engines aero engine factory in Bristol. (UK) we used the reverse of that, a circumference tape. Each inch was pi inches long and we used it to check that a welded up casing would produce the correct diameter when rounded up on the stretcher press. They then had edge rolled and machined flanges welded on. Happy days!
As yeah! Glad you’re active again!
Mule tape. When they installed fiber optic connection into our office about ten years ago, they pulled it through with mule tape and then chucked it in the trash. I fished it out and have been using it for all kinds of bizarre projects over the years.
Yeah... They always simply throw it away when I worked as an electrician.. So I just started bringing it home. Not sure what I'm gonna do with it all-- but it's good material.
cool stuff there, thanks
Great as always!
"His Master's Voice". The dog's name was "Nipper".
You beat me to the name.
27:38 woah now that's an early model Heisler locomotive engine isn't it? What's the story behind that?
The late Mors Kochanski used to recommend the use of mule or fish tape on bow saws because of the low stretch. I never got around to using it but I'll have to up it in my to buy list. Do you have plans for the Ox hook rule? Thanks for sharing take care!!
I grew up with mule tape! Mine is covered in sewage from locating and pulling trace wires in residential utility lines, but it’s still going strong from when my dad passed it down to me 20 years ago.
It's cheap. It's disposable. Keeping sewage-covered pull tape is stupid and dangerous. And why in hell would anyone pull wires through sewer ducts? Your municipality is scary.
@@railgap Really? Many crowded developed cities use sewer lines for new cable instals because they are the only way to access a building underground, especially in heritage listed zones where you cannot even put a strip ditch on a street. One big usage of sewer pipes is for providing underground internet cabling/ fibre to old and historical buildings. So there's that!
@@railgap sounds like you don't know what a trace wire is.
@@railgap You misunderstand me, friend. There aren’t colonies of E. coli growing on the stuff, of course. We care about our health and I washed it in bleach water when I finished the job. The pipes don’t seem to care that the tape has been used before, so if it’s going to get covered in pollen and pine needles again, what’s the point of tossing it out? This is especially true in the sticks or on the farm where notions of consumption and disposability might come as a surprise to you. Some of us fix it instead of tossing it.
I was walking around Manhattan several years ago and bumped into an entire store full of vintage Steelcase office furniture. It’s the kind of stuff “they don’t make anymore”. Great meatloaf episode. I hope someone explains why the E and W are flipped on that compass. Was it viewed in a mirror or through a prism?
Imagine facing north and then turning to the west to look at something through the compass sights. Compass should now read 'W' with the arrow pointing to the right. Right?
I’ve seen a trade name on that tape once, it was called mule tape.
Mule Tape makes awesome light duty custom lifting straps for chucks and such....
We call it jet line... not sure if the name comes from a specific brand or not... use it to pull network cabling.
I can see the pull tape used with something like an industrial strength wedge lock clamp. Like the boy-scout or Navy belt buckles but hella strong. I like the way you think.
Thanks Tom, I bought a set of ratcheting straps that came it a box with a crank on the back that winds up all four ratchet straps at once. I like to lube all my ratchet ratcheting ratcheters . I like to preset the strap slots horizontally so i can one handed pass the strap through the slot with the ratchet closed and locked. I don’t let people barrow my straps or tools or machines or trailers or trucks or jacks…Etc.
I used several of mine today and noticed they really need lube, they are binding
That first desk is a Navy Desk - I have one with the "Ever Last" plate on the front. The top is going bad. It was linoleum Gray naturally. Need a new top some day. Love that flat rope !
If you can't tie a know, tie a lot 😂
I commented to the wife that I liked the equipment badges and she said they would make great belt buckle plates. Idea for a new product?
Can you please make a video about the correct and proper way of installing and bolting 2 micron precision linear guide rails onto precision granite surface plate which has a surface finish of 1 micron? The surface plate will be about 12 x 12 x 3 inch. Linear guide rails will be Hiwin. No one discusses the proper way to install them in a fundamental way. Thanks.
ebay does sell the pull rope in smaller quantities, I carry some in my camping trailer. great stuff.
I love using webbing. Have plenty laying around from rock climbing days when I was young and dumb.
To store my rachet straps I ran a piece of conduit the length of my trailer toolbox and I leave the straps connected in the center. Then hook the hooks over conduit for each end and throw the rest of the strap in center. To grab one, just pick a side and pull it out until you get to the other end. Won't tangle in a knot. At worse case, the handle will get caught. A 5 gallon pail will work too leave enough room between the top and the conduit for the hooks. Then you can snap the top other can and they won't tangle inside.
I really missed my meatloaf.
Curious about your aluminum angle plate in the vise while showing the clinometer.
Enjoyed the video! Like the old brochures.As far as the pull tape it really works well for securing things .As we said in the Coast Guard,If you don't know the knot then tie a lot!LOL
14:10 That's a pocket transit.
One note on the mule tape vs rope: (quality) ropes usually have a 10:1 or 12:1 factor of safety built into their strength listings. As far as I can tell, pulling tape is listed as its actual tensile strength.
Pulling tape is still way cheaper and super handy though.
"...ropes usually have a 10:1 or 12:1 factor of safety built into their strength listings..."
Pretty sure this is so. If your after 'for real' quality materials, check some outfits that sell sport skydiving rigging supplies... 'Paragear' & 'ChutingStar' are two. There's probably others... they sell online. Paragear has been around for eons.
The pictures from that yard sale were amazing.
And the library would have been a temptation as well.
Hope the 'epic' is proceeding without panic.
Thanks for the MeatLoaf.
Fantastic Flavour packed meatloaf this evening (African Central Time), Im marbles been turning looking at that ruler thingy magic rule tool, funny you would say would make a great laser project, exactly what I was thinking. I recon still be a bit of a but load of work, as would require at least two lasers still a bigger high power to cut them out and a smaller to Etch/Engrave the markings. Been pushing this kinda item of recent as marketing material, with all our over thirty years off waste materials off cuts of rotary engraving plastic materials old stock etc, trying to be creative and epicycle well waste at the end of the day. Will defiantly be appropriating this neat measuring device layout to try a couple new reiterations on small measuring devices/marketing/business Card ideas. Hope the move is treating you good at this stage of the game. New property looks a treat!
The famous German optical company now named Leica was founded in 1869 by Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany. The A. Lietz Company of San Francisco, as the compass is marked, is apparently unrelated. It would be interesting if someone could find out more about that company.
What’s the story with the compass? East West are reversed, and the degrees are counter clockwise? At first I thought the image was reversed but Oxtools is correct…?
Hard to imagine anyone working in the Bay Area now days, must have been cool post WW11.
People still work??
@@calholli for this discussion, hard industry and machine tooling
Thanks for another meatloaf :) oh and the Victor tag is japanese, JVC is Japan Victor Company.
Need some dough for the epic move ? Try selling some of your hammers 😂
The V-2 engine at the estate sale might be a Semple 10hp marine compound steam engine from plans or a kit of parts.
thank you ratchet straps -- bah humbug balderdash. How did ole timey sailors (wooden ship men of iron) get things done??
Dan Bentler
(Posted this a while ago... but it's now gone. Try two...)
Speaking of moving, securing loads & all that, be sure to see the Joe Pieczynski video titled:
'best tie down knot ever. Don't miss this one' (sans quotes.)
It works commendably well; have used it on a couple of occasion now.
Great videos Tom, Thanks!
Very interesting and unusual small V-twin steam engine at 27' 31" (in the library, on the right) and 27' 37".
27:31
27:37
Regarding the webbing:
Rock climbers use a re-threaded figure 8 knot a lot to create slings. Fastened to caribiners, pitons, etc.
Tie a neat figure eight in one end of the webbing and bring around the slack end and follow the first knot, essentially doubling the web.
Yeah hard to explain, but this method, despite the weight imparted, will be easy to release. Wet or dry.
Gonna need to see a video of this one.
Yup, I don't climb much any more, but that webbing is great stuff, especially the spectra and other newer types.
I think you just raised the price of pull tape
Always great videos Tom. My brother recently introduced me to pull tape but I haven't used it yet since I suck a tying knots and need to practice, would love to hear what your ideas are on different uses for it.
Probably Japanese on the Victor plate, JVC is Japan Victor Corporation. Ironically Thomson, a French company owns the RCA name. For the most part the Japanese kanjis are the Chinese characters but the Chinese and Japanese pronounce many of them differently.😲
Your tweezer/pointer has always interested me. What brand are they? I do a lot of small machine work (0-80, 00-90) and I would like to get a pair.
"Your tweezer/pointer has always interested me. What brand are they? I do a lot of small machine work (0-80, 00-90) and I would like to get a pair."
He talked about them in Meatloaf 118 from a while back... I picked up a pair, they're very nice!
@@rwbishop Thanks! Just ordered a pair!
@@rwbishop are you on a device that is quoting all of the posts you're replying to? I'm so confused as to why all of your replies have the op quoted.
All for the pull tape webbing. I don't know directly but I have heard the military has gone to webbing for repelling and climbing. 30 feet of webbing. will fit in a pocket but 30 feet of rope will not.
1. re; the Gilliland brochure: notice the clock is BEHIND the workers. I suspect there was no such clock on the opposite wall. Back then, management told you when to sit and when to stand, when to eat and when to piss, even more so if you were a woman.
2. The brass rule looks like a case gauge used in armories. Brass so as to be non-sparking.
3. I wonder why I have never had the problems you have with ratchet straps - except storage. Storage is my only bugaboo for those. Are you any good with knots? You need to know fewer than a dozen knots.
I hgappen to have a lot of experience with rope, banding tapes, and flat webbing; from climbing, rigging, theater, boating, you name it. And there is a problem with flat tapes: there are only two or three knots which retain a significant amount of the line's strength. Twisting tape into knots weakens it MUCH more than a round line. A knot in tape may have only 10% of the breaking strength than the running line with no twists in it. You also cannot twist it AT ALL without again significantly reducing its tensile strength.
In addition, thin tape under tension is much less pleasant to work with than laid or kernmantle line - some banding straps will CUT YOU. Tensile strength isn't everything. ;D But hey, if cost is the only criterion that matters for your tools, carry on with your bad self. ^_^
That electrical fishing tape looks pretty good. I’ll check it out. Thanks Tom.
And good luck with the move.
okay you say ratchet straps hard to store you have to roll them well guess what you have to roll ropes and we still use chains and binders and over here ropes have been band all except for the minor but for transport related stuff these are far better stronger and are not a hassle to roll up at all cheers this was my rant to your rant still love your Chanel so a rant is a rant
Muletape. Talk to your local electrician, they often toss used tape after one use which would be fine for most general purposes.
You may have noticed the mule tape is also marked every foot, so a handy measuring tape if needed.
what planet do you live on that the strap won't knot up. It will, same as any other long cord/strap. to me, ratchets are frustrating as all getup. wish they all came with winders.
Meatloaf for breakfast, I'll have to find something to do tonight.
Next time you are about to throw out some old socks. Don't.
They work great to snug up a ratchet strap. All mine live in
old socks now, after they get 'wrapped" like you show there.
No muss, no fuss.
In 1979 I began my Tool and Die Apprenticeship at H-V Industries in Phila. We mainly built and maintained can dies for Crown Cork and Seal. The shop was next door to Warren Knight on Bennett Rd.
A little bit of history. Before the age of CNC many people used a Bridgeport attachment called the Volstro Milling Head, to generate inside and outside radii on a part. The owner of our shop Herman Volm, and another fellow whose last name began "Stro", invented the device. Every few months we would run a batch of cast iron components for the build process of the device which was going on across the street.
Used ratchet straps for decades. Used properly, no problem. Used improperly, still safer than a snapping chain. 😱Good rope/tape is very expensive and still creeps like mad, under mild load.😒Dyneema is great, ultra low stretch, but you need to buy a wack load, from Timm Ropes, to get a deal. Cost benefit ratio gets a little out of kilter, otherwise.
Best wishes from the far North.
Protect your surface plate with da Pig!!
I am concerned that i cannot reason why East and West are swapped sides on the compass?
Me too! Is it made to be mounted the other way up?
The pointer always points north, if you turn the compass clockwise 90° to point east the needle will stay still and thus be pointed 90° counter clockwise from the North mark on the face. Thus that is where we put the East mark.
At 16:02, the sighting is NW and that is what the compass is reading. Therefore the compass is not miss-marked. When set up to take a reading to go East, the N will be to the North and the sighting will show E or 90 degrees on the compass. It is much easier to show than to describe.
@@royreynolds108 I should have paid more attention to what Tom was saying.
I worked for a guy who used to put his mobile phone under the magnetic compass and then complain we were off course. When he moved his phone with a "little" prompting, we were perfectly on course.
On another vessel, the emergency steering position was on the deck above the port generator. If you made a 360 turn, the compass went from 220 deg to 260 deg, a little different if the starboard generator was on.
We used to call your end proverb type knot a Snowball Hitch!
Mule Tape / Fish Tape -- make sure the knots you're using are known-safe with webbing (vis. river rescue rated knots) -- some knots for round profile rope will happily undo or slip with tape.
When you were showing the pictures of the estate sale, the very last slide looked like a very blocky V-Twin engine. I'm confident it is not an engine, but could you explain what that is? It looked like it had two hydraulic actuators at 90° to each other both acting on a central shaft. I cannot for the life of me figure out what that was. Can you please tell me?
I don't think I could ever use up 300ft of rope. Maybe if I give it to my cat it could ball it up and play with it. You nearly made me buy a roll. I'm still very, very tempted. However, I do know rope has a shelf life.
Great desk. After WW-III the only things that will remain are cockroaches and that desk. Probably won't even mar the paint.
Now there will be a run on pull tape, every machinists and home shop guy in the US will clear the shelves now! 🤣🤣 Except me of course, I love to aggravate myself with tangled ratchet straps 🍻
Awesome video truly i love the content.....however makes me think of the quote I heard from Rick sanchez "with a bubble Morty?"
Great vidayo Tom you crack me up Buddy. yep rope twine string etc is expensive. p.s wanna start a ratchet strap hate club ? im in lmao. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's not a German leitz sadly. It is spelled differently and I don't believe they were ever based out of San Francisco. Still a very cool tool, but not leitz. I wonder if it was intentional to try to draw in less savvy consumers?
Why are the E(ast) and W(est) marks on the opposite sides to that expected ? In answer to an earlier comment, magnetic compasses are affected by two factors Deviation & Variation. Deviation is the effect of magnetic materials around the compass, Variation is the wandering of the magnetic north pole, if you look on marine charts they will have a note of the variation in effect at the time of printing the chart and the anticipated change over time.
I’d you follow the phone and cable drop guys, or find them out in the field, talk to them. When they pull a cable, they toss the rope. The big roll of orange pipe comes with the rope usually already inside.
My brother in law had some to pull wire thru a conduit about a mile long. The power company uses it once because they don't want to chance a break in the middle of a project. You could get used rope for nothing. I got some of the scrap, good stuff.
That tool maker shop in toto belongs in a museum..like Henry Ford has-- historical industrial ...
The estate sale images and story made me kinda sad. US industry had its day I guess. But I can’t help thinking we lost more than we know when places like that closed their doors.
Clinometer also used by the military on BIG guns like mortars, howitzers, cannon, etc.
Is there any way you can show how you made that mini pallet , an angle plate pallet? Thanks. I have learned a ton from all of your videos. Mike mercurio
You should have heard me screaming "MULE TAPE!" before you pulled it out.
I encountered a telecommunications contractor pulling new overhead lines and they just roll up the mule tape or pull tape and disgaurd it .. i talked nice to some contractors one day and they gave me a big hank of it
Thanks for another great meatloaf. I figured we would have to starve until you finished moving.
31:43 "You got to learn some knots" ok. the rabbit comes out of the hole, sees the fox, goes around the tree and back down in the hole. How's that for starters...
That estate sale is certainly something else. Love that hook rule
It's expensive because the yellow line item tag adds lots of cost to the product.
I was corrected by a German, it’s pronounced “lights”
Angery birds
Tom? Anyone? Have part or model number or that brass ruler?
4:30 登録商標 is a Japanese word meaning registered trademark.
Tom hello again, it's rare to leave two comments for a single video, but the second you pulled out the pull tape, I really perked up! My fellow workers and I have installed thousands of feet of Fiber Optic cable at the Television lot I used to work for, I just retired, while they would toss the pull tape, I saw the value years ago. I have recently come down to the last of my supply, well, until you mentioned Amazon! I just restocked my supply, 1000ft 78 bucks! NICE FIND TOM!!! Again, THANK YOU!!!
My biggest problem with ratchet straps is NO ONE knows how to use them. You ALWAYS find them wound up super super tight with the entire strap on the reel. Thanks for the tip though Tom, I have an elec-chicken buddy I'm going to ask to grab me a couple thousand feet, haha.