SIMPLE Homemade Louver Press
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In this video I show you how I made a very simple louver press for punching louvers in 1/16" aluminum. This is the simplest way to make one of these presses that I've seen, and it works really well even on large panels. - บันเทิง
I am not commenting to bash the young man give him a lot of credit for what he does we need more young people to take an interest in this type of stuff. He was using more than simple tools that a lot of DIYers have at home.Take away about $20000 worth of tools and then it would be simple. Keep on making more projects simple or not.
Talented young guy! The world needs men like you. Thanks for sharing man!
Wait until you see ca' lem
More kids with rich parents?
This man is NOT afraid of hard work! Great vids!
Thank you for posting such instructive content on DIY louver press. Obviously you got the experience and talent !
I'm so glad to see a young man who knows how to use a hand file.
Dude! Totally awesome job. Please keep making more of these tutorials.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I appreciated the DIY solution to expensive dedicated use presses and limited die choices. I was looking everywhere to find micro louvers about an 1 inch to inch and a half. You gave me the inspiration to just make my own! Thanks again for taking the time to share the knowledge.
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I somehow forgot the password. I would love any help you can offer me!
@Jedidiah Elijah Instablaster :)
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Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
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Thanks so much, you really help me out!
@Jedidiah Elijah Glad I could help =)
I wanted to write "can't wait to see the final result" but the truth is I really really enjoy watching the process :) Keep up the good work and can-do-spirit.
Thanks for watching!
Great job Vince, I'm glad that we had the Same thoughts on louvres on the cowling, I think it will add a finishing touch to the vehicle, I am looking forward to seeing how they turn out on the cowling, maybe you could make up a directional vent inside using the mould to direct cool air on your feet I imagine they'll get pretty toasty shoved up behind the engine?
Tony from Western Australia
That is one of the coolest DIY's I think I have ever seen... Nice Workmanship (in all your videos) !!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE IT!!!! QUICK, SIMPLE & EASY. THANKS FOR SHARING.
Dude that is great. Old School tooling to manufacture stuff that industrial manufacturers have tried to wipe off so people doesn´t occupy market quotas.
Thanks for sharing this!.
I love how your power tools are older than you are...good show!
Very clever design and great inspiration! Thanks!
Very nicely done!
That second press louvre looked to be perfect.
Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful! Another amazing video. Thanks for taking the time to share.
I paid $3500 for one in my CNC machine and that was 20 years ago . I was in business 35 years and miss my metal shop . Great job!!!
What a nice feeling when the spark goes into your boot.........., keep it going
Exactly. Very poor safety practices. Most likely his father's machinery.
Ok Charles maybe , at least hes having a go .
I am a tradesman panelbeater / bodyman - metalwork 39 years , mechanic / engineer 42 + years .
I always wore my saftey glasses , ear muffs , overalls / coveralls , steel cap boots .
After 25 years of having metal / grit surgically removed from my eyes , having my overalls catch on most everything doing damage all the way as well as alowing multiple hot sparks to sit and burn through the folds and run down into the boot , lotsa fun .
15 years ago I started welding , grinding , cutting , working and living in bare feet , t shirt , jeans and beanie .
I wear my safty boots and glasses in my head .
15 years later my eyes are happy ( I do wear reading glasses because of previous amature hr surgery s ) my feet are healthy and intack , smell better too . Beanies are good ear muffs and I can still hear whats going on .
Good thing I work for myself nanny state would have a fit 😂 👍
Vince you never cease to amaze me . Hope college is going well . Your going to go far .
Good background music, the sounds of my youth! That's a nice little machine you've made there, Thanks!
That works really good, nice job
From the mind of a creative genius.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
That works great. Very inventive.
I hope you can make it work on the roadster's bonnet (hood). Louvres will give a superbly period feel to your project. Good job. 👍
That is pretty neat and would be very handy to have in the shop. I'll need to schedule some time in to use my everlast welder and make this.
Very neat, nice job. Well done!
Very creative. Thank you.
Very cool idea, great job!
Excellent job.
Its always good to learn something new each day many thanks good video.
BRAVO excellent travail 👍
thank you this is a very good tool, keep working with other crazy ideas
great work mate!
That was a great idea thanks for sharing
Nice, looks like it could use some adjustable guide plates to keep it aligned. It also might be possible to put a top cap on it to flatten the edge at the same time as punching the louvre.
Could you partially fill the void in your punch with another piece of metal? I'm wondering if that would eliminate the last step to flatten the louver (the die would end up clamping own against the metal, instead of only shearing it).
Nice job,and great skills kid.
Ótimo trabalho.
You’re doing fine, and the comments on safety are there because a lot of folks are watching your content.
You got some nice tools to play with for a young man, you are very talented and fortunate. I may try to replicate the louvre press without the use of a Bridgeport mill and lathe. Simple men got simple ways. But I admire your ambition. I wish I’d had it when I was your age. Love the projects. Keep it up. 👍 ✌️
You could definitely do it without a mill or lathe, those only made a couple parts a bit easier
@@MacroMachines Completely agree with you mate. As an apprentice railway fitter many years ago, we were trained to do that metalwork with nothing more than a hacksaw and files. Great work by the way.
Dude you are a freakin GENIUS!!!
Great video as always, Nice hair cut
This would work well in a normal shop press. You already have the jack, the strong frame etc.
Nice work.
I liked the "Trampled under foot" in the background.
Nice work 👍
That set up is slicker that owl crap. Very nicely done.
Owls crap nuggets, what are your owls eating?
love this video..
Great video nice works 👍🏻
very nice project
Good work
.....damn never seen that Handhold-saw that's a Beauty my friend. For your project nice job for a tool to use for one, two. times us .Like you mention self to many parts are to flex...lol.
Thnxs for the share.
Nice, louvers work. Had my 55 chevie with a 57 283 done. Even here in El Paso I could pull the fan and eliminate overheating. Helps in the quarter mile. Are the dies available ready made? Good video enjoyed a lot.
I wonder if dropping a piece of metal that would bring the floor of the bottom die up would help? You might have to make the top die shallow as well but it's a thought.
we in india have a similar die made thousands of louvers only thing your die top one has to have a taper going length side .2 to .4 it cuts smooth with out the bang works like a share try it
How about making 2 alignment holes in the top and 2 in the bottom and using something removable such as a pin to help with initial setup?
CONGRATS!!
got a 20 ton hydraulic press , think i can get sumting like it to work on it , just need to make sure it solidly mounted and doesnt move to the side
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏thanks for it , congrats!
I love this home made tool. Hope you make more. Plus all this is affordable for someone on a budget. Do you have more videos of home made tools? If not please make some!!!!
agreed
Obrigado pela dica 👍
good job
Very nice punch
How about adding a second louver, (just the negative part) behind and/or in-front of your stamp. This would help you line up the louvers in a nice row. Great job. When you building as a hobby and for the enjoyment of it time is free. So it really doesn't matter that it would take 40 hours to louver a full hood.
Good idea.
Good work bro
Thank you for the upload.. I've thought about your alignment problem, I would place the die part completely in the cavity, clamp the bottle jack part down, jack it up until the die assembly part touches the top of the English wheel frame and then clamp that in. I am probably wrong but wouldn't that make it so the die and cavity are lined up when you separate the two parts by lowering the bottle jack.? It seems like my idea would be faster than clamping them both in separately and then trying to line them up by trial and error.
Thats what i came here to say. Seem like it would work
Since you have a milling machine, you could use it to make a perfect female side and save a lot of eyeballing and filing.
And, what's your recommendation on cutting slot before forming the louver?
Thanks for a cool video!
That's pretty sweet!!
Brilliant, very cool. I will certainly be making one. Always love louvers!
Well done
You can line it up and drill pilot holes so you just check the holes when you want to aling your dies
Awesome sharing sir
Excellent
Very nice! Could you put some hard rubber in the bottom of the female die, to flatten the louver, instead of step 2?
Where does you talent ends ? .... nicely done !
efinetly great idea. I would have liked to see the cutter blade a bit more, as far as the radius and if it was slightly angled at all for the entering of the stele.
That's a great setup. Don't have to do any cutting as it shears the metal, too.
However, you didn't warn us when you were going to start welding ... and now I'm blind!
:-)
Félicitations là encore, je suis rudo depuis la première vidéo que j'ai vue deux fois pour en commencer une ici au Brésil et dommage que je ne parle pas je ne comprends pas l'anglais je ne vois que les vidéos que vous expliquez donc j'obtiens quelque chose mais si c'était traduit ce serait génial. félicitations
if you add a piece of rubber or the like into the die opening you would form it flat without your last step saving your punch if you over pressure it
eek, this really got me going
Excelente 👍 gracias por compartir tus conocimientos saludos cordiales desde Cali Colombia 🇦🇲✌️
por fin uno q hable español
esta muy buena la idea pero esta muy acelerado el video
Awesome!!
Nice job overall, Sorry if it's already been mentioned but when milling don't extend the quill, shorten everything up as a general rule. Extend the quill if drilling or boring, and occasionally to achieve clearance on a work piece. Leaving the quill extended will make it loosen over time and then you will struggle with poor finish etc.
Thats cool. Did you use tool steel for the die?
Home made? This is serious stuff, only the well trained person can build something like this
Add some metal locating pins to make it easy to locate the die to the mold plate its something simple but it'll save you a lot of time
he needs to keep room around the stamp so he can move the sheet metal around
Alignment pins would eliminate you ability to get the aluminium sheet through there then.
@@280zone huh? How big are we talking here it doesn't work with thicker materials the dies aren't thick enough to work since the dies are only so shallow to work
@@jessep3079 not once does he take it off whist moving the metal around he just released the pressure on the bottle jack to regain his space to press it again
Use the line up pins to set the punch and die, then lock it down and remove the pins...
Love the video, thank you.... But at 2 Minutes in I had thought this would become a video about the importance of band saw safety.
Nice man will it work in gi sheet and ss
Valeu amigo gostei da ideia
So good
nice job. Please though, find a way to safely hold the work while using the bandsaw. one slip and your life can change forever. clamp it or tack weld it to a larger piece so you hands are not in line with the blade. Cheers
Dan Neumann I was just thinking the same. Speaking from experience.
Watching push into the blade with an open hand made my cringe... serious injury if he slipped
So I'm not the only who noticed that too, feel bad about it.
When did you get the milling machine ? Thanks
Brilliant
Very nice
I made something similar years back. Knowing that alignment could be an issue I made it with the addition of a 2mm thick spring steel locating plate that went up the front of the female louver die and into a slot on the male half. It's hard to describe, But where your's has it's shearing edges, Mine had a metal plate sticking up on the female half where the louvers opening was to be made, and a recess machined onto the male half up to where your shearing edge is, And a thick metal plate bolted to the back to make a through slot for the alignment plate to move in. I hope that explains it well enough for you to get what I'm on about.
The only downside was that it wasn't really a proper louver "Punch" as you had to pre cut the slots in the metal before you could use the tool to shape the louvers. On the plus side, Using it was pretty much idiot proof (*Almost), And as you were only shaping rather than shearing the metal it required a lot less force.
You'd mark out the slots and drill the endpoints with a 2mm bit. Join up the holes with a 2mm slotting disc on an angle grinder (Using a piece of angle iron clamped down as a guide). Then put the female half of the tool on a solid bench, Drop the metal to be louvered on top and get the locating plate through the slot cut in it, Then fit the male half over the locating plate and CAREFULLY smack it with a ruddy great hammer. :)
It worked fine about 99.9% of the time, And the times it didn't work was down to the moronic gorillas who were USING the tool rather than any mechanical fault with the thing itself. :D
That thing was made from scrap we had around the place, and only took me about a day to put together, But it had already made that company a fair bit of money by the time I left.......... I should have nicked it when I quit !!!! LOL !
(*ALMOST idiot proof means it didn't stop complacent idiots missing the tool with the hammer and smacking it full force into a customers bonnet (I'm British...... Oh OK, "Hood" then) !!! OR managing to press the louvers in going every wrong way imaginable (The openings facing back rather then forward, Or being pressed outward rather than inward)....... Seems you can't outwit a determined moron. LOL !!!!)
Move the jack closer to the inside of the English wheel. It will reduce the flexing.
Instead of welding the jack to the base. Find some round stock that fits over the shaft and just secure it with a screw. Takes up less storage space and no need to dedicate the jack to one type of tool.
Yeah plus air over hydraulic would make this take a tenth of the time and allow for better aligning time and less fatigue which can cause mistakes. Let me tell ya, screwing up Louvre #24 of 30 suscks!!
Awesome!
Brilliant love it easy made and well explained so cool well done mate larrysullivan in London
To keep the alignment of the top and bottom halves of the jig, weld on arms that extend to fit adjacent to the side frame that you are jacking off (English wheel?) when these arms are against the frame they the slots will be aligned. They can be clamped loosely to the arm to stop the jig moving around.
Good work it was inspirational.
Very cool................ 👍👍👍
Oh my God! I'm a retired engineer. You never grind on the sides of a wheel as it can explode. You never grind with a a cutting disc either. This young guy is showing all the things you don't do if you want to work safely.
Cutting disc will hurt you I'm a fabricator had a couple fly part on me I always wear gloves and face sheild with cutting disc no longer young and dumb
Relax retired engineer, you have done that too when nobody was watching...