An old machinist showed me to stick a countersink bit in a file handle and use that as a deburring tool and it's now one of my favorite tools in the shop
@@romanholowka9558 Dear lord, that's almost as bad as in the medieval. Sure, it works, but why wouldn't one just get tools made for exactly this purpose? I mean other than needing it right now on a Saturday morning at 2am when all the stores are closed? Even Amazon has better stuff around.
@@DuncanAitken I intentionally use permanent sharpies on white boards to freak people out, without telling them that a dry erase marker takes sharpie marks off the whiteboard.
2nd time I've seen that one in the last few months. Great tip both times. Dirt Lifestyle (Nate) posted it in his "19 Metal Fabrication Tips and Tricks". Love the idea. Both videos filled with great tips.
I'm shocked that you don't have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Keep doing helpful, well produced videos like this one, and it will happen in no time at all.
Instead of only one 5" grinder, keep two, one with a cutting disc and one with a grinding disc. Both ready and no time for changing discs, pluss you wear both of them out completly before changing. Saves money and time Keep up the channel 😎
haha two? I have like five.... cutting wheel, cubitron II fiber abrasive disk, flap wheel, wire cup, and wire straight. A mix of both electric and air (to get speed control with electric is expensive. air gives speed control for much less money). But yeah, I get that most weekenders don't have the budget for all that.
Need at least 3 I think even if they are just cheap ones. One for cutting, grinding and a flap disc. If you do any amount of metal work just one doesn't cut it.
Cutting aluminum with a cutoff wheel just apply some dove soap every now and then when you feel the wheel not performing as well. This also works for soft-back and flapper wheels to keep the aluminum from clogging up the paper. If you need to have well rounded corners on your edge to edge aluminum welds a router does wonders (carbide teeth) just don’t forget to scrape a bar of dove down the edge beforehand, keeps the aluminum from sticking; washes off nicely too.......so on and so forth. Good video.
Another good tip. To sharpen tungsten electrodes I put them in my cordless drill chuck to grind them perfectly while spinning the tungsten at the correct angle. I also have a container of water to dip them in to keep them cool. I also use a semi wet rag (not dripping wet)to wrap my Tig torch head after a few welds to keep it from over heating. It will last a lot longer. Of course I keep my gloves dry not to get shocked.
I often use a drill too that’s a good tip. Have not tried the water but may?? I’d eventually like to get a water cooled torch to prevent the overheating.
I welded with a syncrowave 300 with a water cool torch. I went through at least 2 torches a year in a 5 year period. I welded 6061T6 .049/.065 tubing to evaporation plates for refrigeration production for the marine industry. I had to use a short back cap with gas lenses set up for limited positioning space. The heat deteriorated the components after continues use.
A bonus tip is to never hold the work piece with your bare hand while drilling. A bit that grabs will spin it like a razor, and slice your hand before you can even see it.
I seen a guy do that while using it a piece of stainless on the drill press to drill a half inch hole in one step it sliced his palm right open in one big flap
I learned 2 things today that I will definitely use. How to easily debur a hole cleanly, and how to quickly remove a sharpie mark. It's the little things that matter.
I just subscribed, I sold my Marine business my home and all of my marine parts in Md and moved my wife and son to Statesville to follow my life long dream of fabricating for a race team since I had already built five of my own dirt cars and raced them but that was in 2008 and now I'm 56 years old and pretty much retired other than a few side jobs here and there but I'm still tinkering with something in my shop every night and that's why I think that you are alright because you have already done what I wanted to do and you are doing what I used to do. We have to hook up sometime and have a chilly 🍻
2:03 if you use a piece of copper instead of a scrap piece of steel to ball you tungsten you're less likely to contaminate it. I use an old piece of buss bar out an old electrical panel.
On several occasions I’ve needed a bigger tungsten but all I had were 3/32 gas lenses. Drilling out the gas lens is so simple & straight forward I wouldn’t have ever thought of it... thanks!
I watched till the end.. My favorite was the tubing notcher...I have one at my shop, but not at my home shop, I almost skipped it cuz i thought i got a tubing notcher.. then i saw how easy that was and shit i could have done that on the gate i built at home.... thank you !! and I subscribed..
I want to re-condition my pickup and I don’t know much about fabrication. But I like it so I keep watching these videos. Really helpful ..... thanks. New subscriber here 🙋♂️😀
Helpful...Thank you Subscribed! The Sharpie idea...I laughed after you showed it and your expression at the end. I will certainly be using these tips in my shop, well, maybe not the tin snip nail clippers. Despite owning a tubing notcher, I am going to give the manual notching a try. I love to learn new stuff... Cheers!!!
Favourite for me was, No. 1, tube notching. I dont own a TIG so they were of no use to me. As for trimming nails I use side cutters, also known as diagonal cutters, depending of area.
Tin snips as nail trimmers....boy does that bring back a memory. My father is one of those guys who likes wearing black socks and sandals. One day he decided he needed to trim his toenails. Off came the socks. What greeted my horrified young eyes was a hammer toe on each foot which was topped by a translucenct yellow corn. Thick, cracked calluses on each heel, and thick, yellow smoker toenails. The toenails proved impervious to the larger toenail clippers so he switched over to an old pair of carpenter pincers which he first sharpened with an old file. He lined the pincers up on his big toenail, grabbed the reins in both hands and started squeezing. You could see the reins start bending with the pressure. Suddenly there was a loud snap! and a piece of nail shot out of there like a bullet. I couldn't watch the rest. To this day, when anyone mentions black socks and sandals, I can't help thinking that it might be for our protection. Cheers.
Balling your tungsten is best done on a piece of copper plate with a high frequency arc starter, controlled with a foot pedal. This will allow you to control the sizing of the ball on your tungsten.
I know this is an old video but , here's my insight . I'm an industrial pipefitter , we just always bought 1/8" collet bodies and gas lenses that way they were always big enough for any smaller sized collet. Great tips , just found the channel.
#6 is a great reason to use a step drill for sheet metal. Drill the hole and debur in one operation. They taught me #1 in high school, but they didn't teach me how to (successfully) weld aluminum.
Lol, thanks so much for the nail clipper segment. I’m 64 and made me laugh hard mostly because I’m in bedroom on iPad and my wife heard it all and is still asking questions,,,,,,lol
Marvelous work! The blog is brilliant and provides all the necessary information. I like this site. Thanks for sharing this useful post. Thanks for the effective information.
Tip 2 :: "Only ball your Tungsten if you're using a transformer based machine. If you are using a new, inverter style welder... leave a point" - Mr. Tig
I read your comment like "hugh, that's counter intuitive". Then I read the quote attribution and it made sense. Wyatt Swain (Mr Tig) had a ton of advice, some good, others not so much. Inverter or no, try fillet welding with a sharp tip and a balled tip, really consider what arc is easier to control at the start (before the tip starts to naturally ball).
The only one I did not know was the fingernail clipper with tin snips but my nails are always too short to use tin snips as I have a dozen toe nail clippers around the house and keep mine clipped short. I hate to get a fingernail bent backwards catching on something in the shop as that hurts like crazy.
I find it better to use a pair of right cut (green handle) tin snips for the left hand fingernails lol. But I've been doing that for years, a fine metal file to take down the edges.
I can not count how many times I have trimmed my nails with snips.....it's hard to count with no fingers! Hahaha! But seriously I think at one point I could have done salon quality nail trimmings with a pair of snips. My wife got me some keychain fingernail clippers so I am way out of practice now. Great video!
Wipe off your filler rod! Ok... now thats a great tip I've seen countless welders say to wipe off the work to clean it (aluminum usually) But i tig weld aluminum and the work rarely needs cleaning... usually its the rod thats dirty
A few seemingly common sense tips along with some reeealy good ones. I have a notcher but can see just using the 45* cutback technique. Is good times learning the little tips and tricks for a shop guy. And I just bite my nails off, tastes bad but gets the job done
Can you please do a video on the dangers of Clorinated Brake clean and Tig welding and the production of Phosgene Gas. We need to pass this safety information on.
Who watched all the way to the end to make sure....?
Meeee
😂🤘
I liked the drill bit tip to deburr
Snip snip the tips :D
That’s awesome tin snips haha
An old machinist showed me to stick a countersink bit in a file handle and use that as a deburring tool and it's now one of my favorite tools in the shop
I have one welded to a piece of tubing for a handle! But I bet the file handle is more comfortable.
You can even buy a tool like this, but making it yourself is probably a bit cheaper
Another good one is to grind a triangle file smooth and run the edges around a hole. Also learned from an old machinists. Those guys are geniuses
@@romanholowka9558 Dear lord, that's almost as bad as in the medieval. Sure, it works, but why wouldn't one just get tools made for exactly this purpose? I mean other than needing it right now on a Saturday morning at 2am when all the stores are closed? Even Amazon has better stuff around.
@@smurface549 The guy probably made that before amazon existed lol
Sharpie trick was rad.
Using a whiteboard marker works as well (non permanent)
@@DuncanAitken I intentionally use permanent sharpies on white boards to freak people out, without telling them that a dry erase marker takes sharpie marks off the whiteboard.
@@stevenkeeffe9137 I'm sitting next to a whiteboard at work right now and just tried it. Very neat trick and good to know 👍🏼
2nd time I've seen that one in the last few months. Great tip both times. Dirt Lifestyle (Nate) posted it in his "19 Metal Fabrication Tips and Tricks". Love the idea. Both videos filled with great tips.
Teaching old school tricks is almost a thing of the past. Keep up the good content.
I'm shocked that you don't have hundreds of thousands of subscribers. Keep doing helpful, well produced videos like this one, and it will happen in no time at all.
Hey I appreciate that! Definitely helps keep me motivated. I love the fabrication community and just want to do my part.
Drilling out gas lens. Was not aware they are all the same center piece. Good tip
Instead of only one 5" grinder, keep two, one with a cutting disc and one with a grinding disc.
Both ready and no time for changing discs, pluss you wear both of them out completly before changing.
Saves money and time
Keep up the channel 😎
haha two? I have like five.... cutting wheel, cubitron II fiber abrasive disk, flap wheel, wire cup, and wire straight. A mix of both electric and air (to get speed control with electric is expensive. air gives speed control for much less money). But yeah, I get that most weekenders don't have the budget for all that.
Need at least 3 I think even if they are just cheap ones. One for cutting, grinding and a flap disc. If you do any amount of metal work just one doesn't cut it.
Cutting aluminum with a cutoff wheel just apply some dove soap every now and then when you feel the wheel not performing as well. This also works for soft-back and flapper wheels to keep the aluminum from clogging up the paper. If you need to have well rounded corners on your edge to edge aluminum welds a router does wonders (carbide teeth) just don’t forget to scrape a bar of dove down the edge beforehand, keeps the aluminum from sticking; washes off nicely too.......so on and so forth. Good video.
You can also use bees wax, and more convenient, a soap stone for this.
Another good tip. To sharpen tungsten electrodes I put them in my cordless drill chuck to grind them perfectly while spinning the tungsten at the correct angle. I also have a container of water to dip them in to keep them cool. I also use a semi wet rag (not dripping wet)to wrap my Tig torch head after a few welds to keep it from over heating. It will last a lot longer. Of course I keep my gloves dry not to get shocked.
I often use a drill too that’s a good tip. Have not tried the water but may?? I’d eventually like to get a water cooled torch to prevent the overheating.
I welded with a syncrowave 300 with a water cool torch. I went through at least 2 torches a year in a 5 year period. I welded 6061T6 .049/.065 tubing to evaporation plates for refrigeration production for the marine industry. I had to use a short back cap with gas lenses set up for limited positioning space. The heat deteriorated the components after continues use.
A bonus tip is to never hold the work piece with your bare hand while drilling. A bit that grabs will spin it like a razor, and slice your hand before you can even see it.
I seen a guy do that while using it a piece of stainless on the drill press to drill a half inch hole in one step it sliced his palm right open in one big flap
Couple of squirts WD40? Never had a piece bind, still use gloves tho lol.
bare hand yeah, glove is worse though if we're talking bench drills
Lmfao.....I’ve done everyone of those things for years.....good to find another badass faby on the planet
Hell yeah! 👊
You just blew my mind with the sharpie bit. I'm in NDT and we often mark our measurement locations for reinspection.
I am a fabricator and your videos are helpful thanks fam
Glad to hear it!
Nothing beats that tubing notch trick!!!
I learned 2 things today that I will definitely use. How to easily debur a hole cleanly, and how to quickly remove a sharpie mark. It's the little things that matter.
It’s always the little things!
AND a sharpie line reduces the friction and effort needed to cut the metal.Reducing heat,also.
I just subscribed, I sold my Marine business my home and all of my marine parts in Md and moved my wife and son to Statesville to follow my life long dream of fabricating for a race team since I had already built five of my own dirt cars and raced them but that was in 2008 and now I'm 56 years old and pretty much retired other than a few side jobs here and there but I'm still tinkering with something in my shop every night and that's why I think that you are alright because you have already done what I wanted to do and you are doing what I used to do. We have to hook up sometime and have a chilly 🍻
Drilling out gas lens is a great tip and so is the notching tube tip
Yes, I'll have to invest in a small bandsaw for most of my metal working.
That tube notching trick is great! Wish I'd know that many years ago :P Great video, keep up the good work!
It works well in some applications, and thanks!
2:03 if you use a piece of copper instead of a scrap piece of steel to ball you tungsten you're less likely to contaminate it. I use an old piece of buss bar out an old electrical panel.
Thanks for the tip!
I assume brass would work also?
I keep a copper water fitting in my welding stuff just for this.
On several occasions I’ve needed a bigger tungsten but all I had were 3/32 gas lenses. Drilling out the gas lens is so simple & straight forward I wouldn’t have ever thought of it... thanks!
No problem!
that sharpy trick is pretty cool im gonna go try it! Thanks!
It works! mind blown!
Your videos are so wholesome.
My nails have never looked so good! The first tip with the band saw never occurred to me makes things easier cheers!
at 5:00 (Number 6) a Step Drill on a Drill Press deburrs holes perfectly too, without shifting. Good video!
Much respect for the pneumatic drill❣❣❣
It’s the way to go
I watched till the end.. My favorite was the tubing notcher...I have one at my shop, but not at my home shop, I almost skipped it cuz i thought i got a tubing notcher.. then i saw how easy that was and shit i could have done that on the gate i built at home.... thank you !! and I subscribed..
Thanks for watching and sticking around!
I have a coumtersinking bit with my drill bits. Never once used it for actually making a countersunk hole; I use it all the time for deburring holes.
Thank you for the 9 tips it was a lot of help Everyday is a school day.
Love it! I am a full time welder/fabricator and I already use most of these
I want to re-condition my pickup and I don’t know much about fabrication. But I like it so I keep watching these videos.
Really helpful ..... thanks.
New subscriber here 🙋♂️😀
Welcome to the channel!
Helpful...Thank you Subscribed!
The Sharpie idea...I laughed after you showed it and your expression at the end.
I will certainly be using these tips in my shop, well, maybe not the tin snip nail clippers. Despite owning a tubing notcher, I am going to give the manual notching a try. I love to learn new stuff...
Cheers!!!
Drilling out that lens is a pretty slick trick. Good one, Justin!
Good morning Justin, really useful tips, tricks, and techniques. Thanks for sharing your talents and expertise. You take care.
Thanks for watching!
You honestly don't have enough subs for the great videos you put up
I can't wait to see how this channel explodes over the next 6 months. These videos are fantastic Justin, keep it up
Hey here’s hoping because I like making them!
Favourite for me was, No. 1, tube notching.
I dont own a TIG so they were of no use to me.
As for trimming nails I use side cutters, also known as diagonal cutters, depending of area.
Glad I watched till the end. I normally use the scissors on my little victorinox !!
Tin snips as nail trimmers....boy does that bring back a memory. My father is one of those guys who likes wearing black socks and sandals. One day he decided he needed to trim his toenails. Off came the socks. What greeted my horrified young eyes was a hammer toe on each foot which was topped by a translucenct yellow corn. Thick, cracked calluses on each heel, and thick, yellow smoker toenails. The toenails proved impervious to the larger toenail clippers so he switched over to an old pair of carpenter pincers which he first sharpened with an old file. He lined the pincers up on his big toenail, grabbed the reins in both hands and started squeezing. You could see the reins start bending with the pressure. Suddenly there was a loud snap! and a piece of nail shot out of there like a bullet. I couldn't watch the rest. To this day, when anyone mentions black socks and sandals, I can't help thinking that it might be for our protection. Cheers.
Excellent! Just subbed
New metal shop build in progress, beginner metal worker
Nice! and thanks for the sub!
Balling your tungsten is best done on a piece of copper plate with a high frequency arc starter, controlled with a foot pedal. This will allow you to control the sizing of the ball on your tungsten.
I know this is an old video but , here's my insight .
I'm an industrial pipefitter , we just always bought 1/8" collet bodies and gas lenses that way they were always big enough for any smaller sized collet.
Great tips , just found the channel.
If you want to ball your tungsten, leave the welder on A/C and strike your arc on copper.
You nailed the last one
#6 is a great reason to use a step drill for sheet metal. Drill the hole and debur in one operation.
They taught me #1 in high school, but they didn't teach me how to (successfully) weld aluminum.
Step drills are the best
“Just as safe as regular tin snips”
Is that what I said??
You did indeed 😂
@@tacticalultimatum can you time mark that?
7:22
I like using a bench grinder to notch tubes. Makes it quick and easy
Good stuff.. I'm also digging that Ingersoll Rand compressor in the background.. Work horse for sure.!!! Thanks for sharing.
It is!
Cool to see you can just drill a gas lens out to suit the tungsten. Will give that too a go tomorrow when I’m back in my shed!
I'm adding tin snips to our medicine cupboard... sick of those naff nail snippers. Great content man, keep it up.
The nail clipping was funny. I have always just used my belt sander on slow speed. Good info and cool video. Thank you!
Yeah, you never know when someone posts something like this if it’s worthwhile. Well done.
Lol, thanks so much for the nail clipper segment. I’m 64 and made me laugh hard mostly because I’m in bedroom on iPad and my wife heard it all and is still asking questions,,,,,,lol
🤣🤣 that’s great
Fantastic!! Definate saving these tips for my workshop 👍👍
The last one was definitely a fabrication trick, thanks! =)
On the 2nd tip putting your machine in dc+ will also clean off some impurities from the tungsten
Marvelous work! The blog is brilliant and provides all the necessary information. I like this site. Thanks for sharing this useful post. Thanks for the effective information.
I thought he was joking about the nail clippers till I realized he's right. It's technically more accurate than nail clippers lol
So simple, but so helpful! Keep it up! Last one got me though
It’s the only way to go..
I choose to to bite my fingernails off lol, Rad video, that notching trick and gas lens trick, very useful
Haha
I thought you would have suggestions we already know. But these blew me away. Loved the tubing notch trick!!!
Tip 2 :: "Only ball your Tungsten if you're using a transformer based machine. If you are using a new, inverter style welder... leave a point" - Mr. Tig
I read your comment like "hugh, that's counter intuitive". Then I read the quote attribution and it made sense. Wyatt Swain (Mr Tig) had a ton of advice, some good, others not so much. Inverter or no, try fillet welding with a sharp tip and a balled tip, really consider what arc is easier to control at the start (before the tip starts to naturally ball).
Great video!
Thank you
OMFG the sharpie trick is the best!!
I gotchu 👊
Definitely coming back to this one for sure! This vid is going to blow up!
you make awesome, high quality content! keep up the good work, your channel is on the brink of explosive popularity :)
Thanks buddy
Sliding calipers for SPLINTER REMOVAL! You don't even have to be able to see the splinter and you'll remove it easily.
Nice!
Tin snip nail clippers.. 😆 thats the mind of a fab guy at work.
It’s the best
Great vid man! Love the nail clippers haha
The only one I did not know was the fingernail clipper with tin snips but my nails are always too short to use tin snips as I have a dozen toe nail clippers around the house and keep mine clipped short. I hate to get a fingernail bent backwards catching on something in the shop as that hurts like crazy.
Thanks Justin! ✨✨✨
Such high production value
I have most definitely used cutting pliers as toenail snippers before.
I find it better to use a pair of right cut (green handle) tin snips for the left hand fingernails lol. But I've been doing that for years, a fine metal file to take down the edges.
Gonna try that one with the drill bit tomorrow. Tky
I watched to the end, good stuff. People that dislike are people that didn't think of this stuff!
Thank you! I’m pretty sure I’v never thumbs downed a UA-cam video. Unless they blatantly click baited or something.
Now I'll keep a tin snips in bathroom.
Biggest problem is they are too big for the medicine cabinet.
Excellent for the toenails, too
Right next to the poop knife.
Jay Kemm the what?? Lol
@@codavied what you don't have a poop knife?
Thanks for this dude. As a hamfisted asshole these tips are definately of use for future projects!
Bro love your videos. keep it up. Respect.
Thanks for the tips Respect and admiration
I use a step bit to debur my holes. Saves the life of my counter-sinks ;)
On the drill bit truck. It’s also good for having a slightly altered shape to your hole if you want a screw to go in
very Enjoyable Justin...cheers from Orlando, Paul
Great video. Keep up the great work brother.
Thank you
Nr. 6 !
Didn't expect the fingernail one. Might use this in the future instead of the angle grinder.
Haha
Nice tips Justin thanks brother
I can not count how many times I have trimmed my nails with snips.....it's hard to count with no fingers! Hahaha! But seriously I think at one point I could have done salon quality nail trimmings with a pair of snips. My wife got me some keychain fingernail clippers so I am way out of practice now. Great video!
my paint guy in the bodyshop uses the RO sander to sand his nails
Wipe off your filler rod!
Ok... now thats a great tip
I've seen countless welders say to wipe off the work to clean it (aluminum usually)
But i tig weld aluminum and the work rarely needs cleaning... usually its the rod thats dirty
Agree, the rod is usually dirty too
I should’ve stopped at the tubing notch. I was genuinely pissed at myself after watching that. 👌👌
Tin snips do make great nail clippers! I thought i was the only one......
The best
Love the video editing.
Thank you
Good stuff, real time savers
Glad you like them!
Very good! Thank you.
Best hacks ever
Worthwhile
Excellent job!
Thanks!
A few seemingly common sense tips along with some reeealy good ones. I have a notcher but can see just using the 45* cutback technique. Is good times learning the little tips and tricks for a shop guy.
And I just bite my nails off, tastes bad but gets the job done
Haha whatever gets the job done, thanks for the comment too
I thought I was the only one who cut my nails with snips... Good show.
Can you please do a video on the dangers of Clorinated Brake clean and Tig welding and the production of Phosgene Gas.
We need to pass this safety information on.