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Projects with Rich
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2021
My background is in metal fabrication, design, and mechanics. I enjoy the process of creating new tools or modifying existing tools and trying new techniques.
My goal is to create videos documenting interesting and useful homemade tool builds, tool tips, and DIY everyday carry tools. Everything shown here will be tools that I personally use and or carry and find useful. A lot of them will be prototypes so check the description for updates on any modifications that I decided to make after using a homemade tool for a while. There is always room for improvement. Nothing is sponsored.
Keep in mind that most projects can be made with less expensive tools. You can do a lot with an angle grinder, welder, and a drill. I did paying jobs with basic tools that covered the cost of investing in tools that could do the job faster and easier. Tools pay for themselves very quickly.
Thanks for watching
Richard
My goal is to create videos documenting interesting and useful homemade tool builds, tool tips, and DIY everyday carry tools. Everything shown here will be tools that I personally use and or carry and find useful. A lot of them will be prototypes so check the description for updates on any modifications that I decided to make after using a homemade tool for a while. There is always room for improvement. Nothing is sponsored.
Keep in mind that most projects can be made with less expensive tools. You can do a lot with an angle grinder, welder, and a drill. I did paying jobs with basic tools that covered the cost of investing in tools that could do the job faster and easier. Tools pay for themselves very quickly.
Thanks for watching
Richard
Little Knipex Cobra 125 Pliers Pushed to the Limit
How far can you push these little Knipex Cobra 125 pliers? I do multiple torque tests to find out how tight of a nut they can break loose. I wasn't expecting the results.
Take a look at my other Knipex Videos:
Knipex Cobra 125 Mod:
th-cam.com/video/YKaKgRaofbA/w-d-xo.html
Knipex Cheater Bar:
th-cam.com/video/CaNIpznqfp0/w-d-xo.html
Knipex Flashlight Trick:
th-cam.com/video/3N1eYuc4-cY/w-d-xo.html
Take a look at my other Knipex Videos:
Knipex Cobra 125 Mod:
th-cam.com/video/YKaKgRaofbA/w-d-xo.html
Knipex Cheater Bar:
th-cam.com/video/CaNIpznqfp0/w-d-xo.html
Knipex Flashlight Trick:
th-cam.com/video/3N1eYuc4-cY/w-d-xo.html
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2 Dremel Sanding Drum Mandrel Tricks You Haven't Seen
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If you use this style Dremel sanding drum mandrel and destroy it during a project, I'll show you three tricks to get you up and running again until you can get a replacement.
Making Copper Chain from Copper Pipe
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You can easily make a really nice copper chain from old copper pipe. It takes minimal tools and is a fun diy project. Larger diameter copper pipe can be used and the width of each chain link can be changed for a different look. To make a strong solder joint you would usually use a hard solder. In this case I used normal solder but used a bridge plate. This method can be done with a basic torch ...
Dremel Cutoff Wheel Made With a Sledge Hammer
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The Fastest Possible Way to Clean Welding Magnets! Clean in Seconds!
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The fastest possible way to clean welding magnets. Cleaning magnetic welding squares. Here is the link to the air blower guard: th-cam.com/video/2wmrRVKYxeA/w-d-xo.html
FREE!! KNIPEX COBRA 125 FLASHLIGHT HACK - EDC TOOLS - EVERY DAY CARRY
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Just find a smaller diameter hose, that fits inside the larger hole. No problemo.
What if you were to fill the rubber tubing with something?? Could that be helpful with securing it, along with the washer of course. 😊
These are real nice modification
That moment you realize to missed a very simple solution and feel stupid.......
Nice hack, thanks for sharing!
Great tip! Works like a charm. Thanks!
Love magnets and love Knipex lol
I'd love to see a version of the 180s from Knipex with extended handles. They'd pair up beautifully with the 250 Cobras, as opposed to the 250 Plier Wrench, which feels cumbersome in the hand.
… genius..!!!!
the more of your videos i watch the more im convinced you're the future me. Lots of cool ideas and I particularly like the build videos where you explain what you're doing while you do it. The genre of youtube thats just silent people building things where you have no idea where they're going with it vexes me to no end
its not Nipex. its KNIPEX
Got a deep pocket knife clip from Amazon. Attached it to the Knipex 125 screw that holds the retention clip. Now I can carry them around with me all day
Magnets ,a f*cking revelation.
well done
I remember my first beer 🍺 😎
As someone who regularly works with steel and grinding out rust. Magnetized tools are the devil. Even my phone case has "Magsafe" and I have a nice circle of ferrous shavings.
O.M.G , .....at last , a american that knows that ......KNIPEX ...is pronounced.......NIPEX , ....( NIP- EX )
Knipex Raptor test?
Just bought the 150 Cobra for my small off-road motorcycle roll. They fit my hand better, are that nth degree longer, and seem a little bit beefier than the 125. Sometimes you need a skinny plier with some grip to get in there, something I have always compromised and contorted to work, mostly. All multi-tool pliers are evil in my world
Great job!! Congrats!
Yawn
Well, I'll be darned.
Beauty!
I'm glad you didnt break them while proving how amazing they are
I can't get my Harbor Freight horizontal saw to cut straight through the work piece, I've been trying the adjust the bearing holders and made some improvement but not enough.
Small but good in awkward places
What a boring video
💯💯💯
Just smack the disk against the table to undo it. I have welded a nut to a grinder spanner before to undo it before.
Make an inside-the-pocket sheath.
thanks for the tutorial, easiest fix ever!
Good idea
Brilliant
Nice idea! But who carries that type of pliers as an EDC? I carry all sorts of EDC tools on me as a normal routine but I would not carry something like those pliers. But to each their own. :)
Nice! btw are these the next size up from the Cobra XS?
Why do I want one of these pliers so bad!!?
Pronounced Kuh-nipex. Rhymes with hun-hip-ex
O ring to hold close
I carry mine in a leather horizontal belt sheath made for folding knives.
This is such a good idea. I’m gonna make a whole set for my scooter building.
Much apreciated detail. thanks!
You’re saying it wrong, funny you pronounced it wrong TWICE. Like you corrected yourself only to be wrong again lol 🙄
Rubber bend helps with ratcheting around the pipes/nuts
"Hack" is so overused, but this is a great little hack.
Quality tool! These people that come up with these pocket gadgets appear not to be mechanically inclined. I’m very mechanically, inclined, and Handyman But I see no need and carrying around players with me for the rest of my life
They're "edc nerds" and they carry stupid shit around to feel superior to people who don't. Nobody needs to carry around a fuckin adjustable wrench.
Edc professor here..
cubes are the strongest shape for a magnet because if you were to stack magnets they only get stronger until they are as thick as the are wide and you can rotate it around the point the poles in whatever direction you need to if it’s a cube so for the most compact magnets you would want the highest grade cube shaped magnet you can find.
Just buy a sex machine it'll do both jobs lol
Wow. Very informative, valuable stuff. 👍 Genius!
This video should have taken one minute and you dragged it out and made it so long and boring.