As a Filipino/American I will graciously accept the honor of new Filipino buddy if ever needed. With a Filipino buddy the job will get done and plenty left over adobo and lumpia to take home. Don't porget to take opp your choos!
I miss these tips and tricks videos. The grease, punch, paper towel, and a blind bearing trick still reigns supreme after all these years. I'm glad you started to do the starts on the simple stuff
"Where do you find an 80lb Philippino buddy?" As a merchant mariner I laughed too hard at this. There is nothing like trying to tie a chemical barge off to a tanker ship and having to yell up at the Philippino ship hands how you want to lay the leads. 😂😂
I spent 7 years in the NAVY on submarines you should see some of the ways we got things out. I wish I was still in to bad I got hurt and now in a wheelchair but I have lots of time to watch your great videos. Thanks!!1
You don't need a new air hammer (aka peening gun). You need to oil that one and rotate the black piece behind the spring portion clockwise while holding the silver piece still. Eventually it'll bottom out and you're good to go again. The vibration rattles them apart. When it's loose the air seeps by the threads and there's not enough driving force (air) behind the chiseling bit.
Here's a totally off topic tip that saved my bacon not too long ago. I needed to drill some holes in heat treated wear steel backhoe teeth. The holes needed to be precise, blasting them in with a torch wouldn't do. I was all set to run through boxes and boxes of drill bits but even those weren't looking like they'd do the job when I decided to see how far a hand full of dull old carbide tipped masonry drill bits would do. They did great! They didn't drill as fast or last near as long as a regular good quality bit would drill in mild steel but they did pretty good. Used a mag drill at 250 rpm with lots of oil and high downward pressure, safety glasses and ear plugs (it sounded like a dinosaur was being tortured to death) and what looked like an almost all day job got done in an hour with only the cost of some old masonry bits I had bought at a garage sale for no discernible reason. Definitely a win for me that day!
AVE, I've always wanted to see the internals and hear how air chisels work. If yours has bit the dust and you ever get time or think they'd be enough interest I would enjoy seeing you disassemble it and give us the overview. Thanks John
The two ways I loosen really tight bolts is to hit the end of the wrench with a hammer. If the bolt or nut head is shot then a good sharp chisel in and then at an angle with a good whack with the hammer will pop them loose. Your method looks nice and easy if you've got air and the pneumatic chisel hammer with you.
Vise is a tool used to hold something, vice is a sin or crime. It is two different words with different meanings. So, either is correct but only in the correct application.
If all else fails (including heavily offset wrenches, because you never have the size you need due to it being a specialty product) you fabricate one that will work. Angle grinder. hell of a bench vise, piece of medium carbon steel and a snipe bar is all you need. Don't have medium carbon steel? Go straight to the tough stuff and "borrow" the leaf springs off a truck. Sometimes its even good steel like 5160. You can definitely do this with next to nothing... besides a reciprocating air hammer.
Good tip. A wobble extension attached to a short socket might let you use your ratchet in that small space. The air hammer trick will also loosen up stuck front suspension parts on most vehicles in about 3 seconds, if applied to the right place.
he made the groove in the end of the air chisel, the put the open end of the wrench in that groove so it had something to grab onto instead of it just bouncing the chisel off the end of the wrench..
Hey. I was that 80 lb. Filipino buddy and was always sent inside the tight boiler water drum to unbolt the de-super heater. Those were the old Navy steamer life days. Thanks for the laugh AvE! 🤣😂
This also works when you have to drive anchor bolts in confined space or to ease your load when pounding them overhead. Though I usually don't have an air hammer, so I use a rotary hammer without the rotary function. Works like a charm.
The wrench fit, he just couldn't get any muscle on it, and there was no access for an impact wrench. So he set up a sort of air impact breaker bar... using a box wrench and an air hammer.
no its not on a lathe initially dummy. between a motor mount or trans mount & frame. I don't see room to use the trick as shown, but the gist is grind a bolt with a 1/2" head, square, to an air chisel type bit with an indent to fit the wrench. wrench on bolt, chiselbolt on wrench.
Definitely. A 12-point is an invitation to rounding off the bolt; you're better off with a 6-pt. Better yet, get a set of Turbo Sockets; they're 6-point, but also twist helically down into the socket, getting smaller the further in you go. These will notch the fastener as they twist, but you WILL be able to remove it. You can use the original Turbo Sockets (manufactured by Hudson Bearing), or try Craftsman's version or those made by Irwin. Craftsman turbo sockets won't permit direct use of a ratchet on them (but can be turned with a socket, a combination wrench or an adjustable wrench). Genuine Turbo Sockets and those made by Irwin have a 3/8"- or 1/2"-square drive for turning with a ratchet.
I have found, after watching all your videos, that saying "YOU FUCK!" works wonders in almost all situations. It's really the best tool in the tool box
Absolutely hats off to you sir. Your sense of humour chimes in so great with a man of the Britania persuasion. My jaws are aching.at your constant irreverent quipary lol
Seriously love your work. Not only do I get a experienced engineer's view of manufacturing, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science and cost engineering but I get to laugh hysterically when you scream at the camera "focus you fuck!" So genuine and true to life. Thanks for the education and making my day that much happier. :)
Is this fella from another Planet cause half the time I'm struggling to understand him but (there's always a but) he is better to watch & listen to than some of the crap that's on the Tube.
Man, I love the way you talk. It's spoken poetry at it's best. :) This is the best proof that more than any other nation, Americans reinvented the English language and made it sound as cool as it can ever be. :)
There is a fella of your type of spoken poetry here in Oz as well, or at least closer to you in a different accent. Check him out. Unlike yours, his poetry is bit longer but still entertaining and educational both at the same time, like yours. You either like him or you hate him. :) th-cam.com/video/kFlkcnIeX3Y/w-d-xo.html
if you don't have an air hammer... I use a dead blow hammer, longest wrench i have, 6 sided box end seems to cause less damage. make sure wrench is fully touching bottom of bolt where washer is. if rusty, wiggle wrench I until fully on. wire brush or carefully tap it to get wrench to bottom out before trying to turn it.
You dont need a new air hammer, theres like 2 parts inside of them, just unscrew the black bit, and reseat the thingy doodle in the fun hole, and its good
LOL 80lb Fillipino. I'm one of those lucky sods who gets stuck working in the shitty corners of draglines and coal plants. THIS will be remembered for all those times when things are rooted beyond belief. Thanks mate! (Although the safety sooks may have something to say about it...)
Forty years in the shop, That's a new one. I will use that idea . Thank You! One step further might be to make little short wrench's with a strike receiver .
Been there, dine that! A good trick for the book! I always start with PB blaster, then a torch and a WD40 quench when possible. This one is a fool proof, effective last ditch effort when you are willing to bugger up a wrench.
I use the technique to get the "screw onto the water pump" fan clutches off newer vehicles. I use a large crescent wrench and the v-groove chisel right on the end. Sure, it looks beat up, but it's worked every single time.
Time after time I've watched Americans interview Brits and they can't understand a word us Brits say. Which can be amusing, but this is the first time I've listened to a yank and not understood a single sentence. lol. I got the general idea from just watching what he's doing its all good. Quite a good tip actually. 👌👍
Well he's Canadian...so that might be part of the mix up. We Americans can't claim him for our own. Quick AvE translation guide: Skookum = good Chooch = work Choocher = tool Any name brand will be turned into a derogatory mixture of cusses. Milwaukee becomes Milfuckee. DeWaltz is DeWiltz. Home Depot becomes Home Despot, etc. It really is like hearing a different language.
Ah Ok. Pardon my ignorance. Quite embarrassing really considering the vast majority of my relatives are Canadian. I've never actually been to see them though. Thanks for the translation. Ha
44R0Ndin what wins is what works. If something is galled then you can lever on it all you want, and the best thing you'll end up doing is shearing the fastener off. Then you're fucked. Because now sure as shit you can't get in there to easy out the broken bit. Congratulations you just made a bad situation far worse.
Paul Frederick Right. If I know a fastener is rusted in and/or will likely gall on its way out, I'll soak it overnight in penetrating oil, and then go after it with a torch or induction heater to free it up, then wiggle it back and forth until I free it up enough to get the dang thing out. I work at my dad's independent auto repair shop in New York state. Ice on roads is kept under control by applying salt, so seized fasteners are something I encounter on a daily basis. The most frequent location on a car that I find them is brakes and suspension stuff. Cars don't wear out around here. They rust away. Also, if we do shear the head off of a bolt, we can weld a nut on to the end of it and crank it out that way. Often the heat from the welding will aid in extracting the remains of the bolt, too. That's a common technique for removing broken exhaust manifold bolts, but it works anywhere you can access with a welder. The tip of a MIG torch isn't much bigger than a wrench, so this usually works well enough. The engineers that design things have to make it possible to put them together somehow. If you can't get at a bolt or nut the easy solution is to remove the thing that's in the way. Example: There are some pickup trucks and SUV's that you have to lift the entire body off of the frame in order to change the spark plugs. Lifting the body off of the frame only takes undoing about 6 bolts and a few electrical connectors (less than 10). Surprisingly easy, right? Turns a 10+ hour job without removing the body into a 3 or 4 hour job if you actually get the thing out of the way. I'm not saying the problem in this video doesn't happen, I'm just saying that it doesn't happen often on the things I work on.
I worked with my uncle one summer He’s a welder machinist Came back after summer And talked like him My mom had a heart attack Needless to say Mom didn’t mage me go work with my uncle again
"" DIRTY TRICK FOR SEIZED BOLTS IN NASTY SPOTS "" A nasty spot is now defined in a vice in the workshop ? Why didnt you show us undoing the first bolt you showed us where you couldnt access it with a spanner ? Would you have been able to get the air gun in there too ?
Nice! I love how old school mechanics think and especially love how crass they are! This ole timer has been getting myself in trouble because the new generation mechanics all need safe spaces and get all offended just from my normal everyday communication. I just put in my earbuds now and keep to myself..... I’ll tell you though, the shop feels dead with everyone being all politically correct..... walking on eggshells. It sucks.
Comments suggest, many have passed by this way, lost souls of the Internet. Each of them left feeling bewildered, yet happy as if drunk on Caribbean rum.
Maybe that's just it, though. He's probably popping a pant tent every time he touches the thing. He's gotta let the new wear off before he can show himself on camera using it.
im sure the idea is that the second bolt is just an example of what to do on the first bolt but for video sake he did in the open so it would be easier to both see and explain
They're both stuck very tight. Putting a bolt and nut in a vice just gives more room for camera work. :) The idea is to show how you can use a closed end wrench as a substitute for an impact gun - with the help of a modified air chisel.
Lenny, there is no connection. He's showing the second bolt because the first one is too hard to get to and he can't show it getting unscrewed. In other words, his trick ain't workin.
LMAO Not a minute in and I'm laughing. I looked up this topic due to a similar issue but I don't have that pneumatic or hammer drill action. It got my mind thinking though and I WILL conquer this. Thanks!!
GoodISnipr, I would teach you the art of the TH-cam comment but I don't want to write an essay, I will instead say that you should take a comment with a condescending tone and unnecessary complicated words as a joke and if it is indeed literal, it wouldn't be to fun talking to someone like that, now would it?
Matco actually sells an air hammer tool like that. I even think that's it's intended use since it has nice smooth walls that won't mark up your nice Craftsman wrenches.
I've known a few guys, back in the times when Craftsman tools were worthwhile, who would bend their wrenches for one-off jobs and subsequently take them back to Sears for a new one. Dirty, but effective.
I work on those ships with the filipino sailors ( they are great seamen and shipmates) and each machine shop has a drawer full of wrenches that gave been heated up with a torch and bent to the shape required. There's some wild looking bent wrenches around.
I wish I had seen this before cutting off a nut on the turbo support bracket of my car to get to the clutch! I spent hours hacking my way out of the problem I created for myself. This tip might have saved me!
For all the people arguing about using stupidly expensive tools you need once to do this job. He was showing you how to work in a tight space where a rattle gun won't fit at all, by making a torque gun variaton.
Working on farm equipment can provide plenty of experience for removing stuck, rusted, and rounded off bolts and nuts. Usually in places where grinding and torches are NOT a good idea. Silo unloaders can be so much fun.
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Somewhere sometime a engineer caught a mechanic doing his wife and we have been paying for it ever since
Yup its called an impact wrench.
I’ve been saying that for 44 years!
Lol
@@motorcoachtech7615 and someone else has been saying it for decades before you, and some other guy for decades before him, and so on, and so forth...
Very true sir
As a Filipino/American I will graciously accept the honor of new Filipino buddy if ever needed. With a Filipino buddy the job will get done and plenty left over adobo and lumpia to take home. Don't porget to take opp your choos!
Now thats hilarious...Don't porget to take opp your choos! LMAO!!!
I'll bring the balut, sisig and San mig
I'm glad his humor didn't hurt your peelings
Ave is Canadian. We take off our shoes up here, for the most part.
@@itruck96 Don't worry buddy, the only thing that hurts our feelings is if you take away our food and sleep! (But mostly the food part haha).
I miss these tips and tricks videos. The grease, punch, paper towel, and a blind bearing trick still reigns supreme after all these years. I'm glad you started to do the starts on the simple stuff
That one still blows my mind.
this guy makes me so happy because he makes hardly no sense
Swamp mans Northern Cousin flipeggty the slapy its facer das way
These people still watching him in 2019??
@@t_ravi_ous9493 yes yes we are
Lol i understood, good tip
@@t_ravi_ous9493 yes
This is the first time on TH-cam that I’ve ever seen somebody use a grinder with the guard still on
And that shows how few people have commonsense.
Technically, that's the guard for the regular grinding wheel and he should have the closed bottom guard for a cutting wheel. But mejor que nada
@@jasonandjenparks1523 technically he used the cutting wheel as a side grinder, so that makes it ok. Lol
That's what that thing was? Hmm
He has it on wrong though.
This man's terminology alone made me sub
his verbal iq is like 300 thats why i subbed too. i have a desk job, have no clue about any of this manly stuff haha
Me to. Lol
"Where do you find an 80lb Philippino buddy?"
As a merchant mariner I laughed too hard at this. There is nothing like trying to tie a chemical barge off to a tanker ship and having to yell up at the Philippino ship hands how you want to lay the leads. 😂😂
That guy is so fill with bad jokes. Well, nothing more important than if the thing works as shown on TH-cam
@@juniorlewis9173 You're in the wrong part of TH-cam buddy.
@@juniorlewis9173 mans obviously an american poet. Tighten up Dudley.
I spent 7 years in the NAVY on submarines you should see some of the ways we got things out. I wish I was still in to bad I got hurt and now in a wheelchair but I have lots of time to watch your great videos. Thanks!!1
You don't need a new air hammer (aka peening gun). You need to oil that one and rotate the black piece behind the spring portion clockwise while holding the silver piece still. Eventually it'll bottom out and you're good to go again. The vibration rattles them apart. When it's loose the air seeps by the threads and there's not enough driving force (air) behind the chiseling bit.
I do believe I’ve learned to speak Canadian exclusively through this channel.
As soon as this man spoke I knew he was north of the border. Could be Wisconsin though or UP!🤣
Here's a totally off topic tip that saved my bacon not too long ago. I needed to drill some holes in heat treated wear steel backhoe teeth. The holes needed to be precise, blasting them in with a torch wouldn't do. I was all set to run through boxes and boxes of drill bits but even those weren't looking like they'd do the job when I decided to see how far a hand full of dull old carbide tipped masonry drill bits would do. They did great! They didn't drill as fast or last near as long as a regular good quality bit would drill in mild steel but they did pretty good. Used a mag drill at 250 rpm with lots of oil and high downward pressure, safety glasses and ear plugs (it sounded like a dinosaur was being tortured to death) and what looked like an almost all day job got done in an hour with only the cost of some old masonry bits I had bought at a garage sale for no discernible reason. Definitely a win for me that day!
Sharpen them to close to regular drill specs using a silicone carbide wheel . Cheap concrete drills sharpened will go through a lot of harder metals
@@shawndavies950 thanks to you and the OP for the tips
AVE, I've always wanted to see the internals and hear how air chisels work. If yours has bit the dust and you ever get time or think they'd be enough interest I would enjoy seeing you disassemble it and give us the overview.
Thanks John
I've been an auto mechanic for decades. I can't count the number of times I've used my air hammer on a wrench. Works great.
The two ways I loosen really tight bolts is to hit the end of the wrench with a hammer.
If the bolt or nut head is shot then a good sharp chisel in and then at an angle with a good whack with the hammer will pop them loose.
Your method looks nice and easy if you've got air and the pneumatic chisel hammer with you.
But you said, you couldn't get a wrench on??? How do I get the bolt in my vise??? LOL
Vise is a tool used to hold something, vice is a sin or crime. It is two different words with different meanings. So, either is correct but only in the correct application.
I have my vices, and I have my vise. Different words my friend.
If all else fails (including heavily offset wrenches, because you never have the size you need due to it being a specialty product) you fabricate one that will work. Angle grinder. hell of a bench vise, piece of medium carbon steel and a snipe bar is all you need. Don't have medium carbon steel? Go straight to the tough stuff and "borrow" the leaf springs off a truck. Sometimes its even good steel like 5160. You can definitely do this with next to nothing... besides a reciprocating air hammer.
carefully remove the rest of the vehicle
I thought that is what I said.
Good tip. A wobble extension attached to a short socket might let you use your ratchet in that small space. The air hammer trick will also loosen up stuck front suspension parts on most vehicles in about 3 seconds, if applied to the right place.
or just hammer it?
i have no idea what just happened...
wait, did you use the air chisel on the wrench to kinda make an impact wrench?
that's what I'm trying to figure out too. he put the fabricated groove thing on the wrench, but I don't understand how that could break lose a bolt?
Adam Chou that was im saying..what did the groove accomplish?
I believed he notched it to fit the wrench, keeping it from bouncing off and mauling your hand.
he made the groove in the end of the air chisel, the put the open end of the wrench in that groove so it had something to grab onto instead of it just bouncing the chisel off the end of the wrench..
Hey. I was that 80 lb. Filipino buddy and was always sent inside the tight boiler water drum to unbolt the de-super heater. Those were the old Navy steamer life days. Thanks for the laugh AvE! 🤣😂
Thanks for the great tip on removing seized nuts and bolts. That's one of the smartest methods I've seen!
This also works when you have to drive anchor bolts in confined space or to ease your load when pounding them overhead. Though I usually don't have an air hammer, so I use a rotary hammer without the rotary function. Works like a charm.
How are you going to get an air gun in there if you can't get a spanner there?
Very carefully. Possibly with a long extension bit.
The wrench fit, he just couldn't get any muscle on it, and there was no access for an impact wrench. So he set up a sort of air impact breaker bar... using a box wrench and an air hammer.
take the bolt out and put the bolt into a vise so you have more room to take the bolt out. durrr... lol
Creative Contagion
You can always weld a piece of rebar to an air chisel. To get yourself some more reach.
no its not on a lathe initially dummy. between a motor mount or trans mount & frame. I don't see room to use the trick as shown, but the gist is grind a bolt with a 1/2" head, square, to an air chisel type bit with an indent to fit the wrench. wrench on bolt, chiselbolt on wrench.
Don't use a 12 pt socket or wrench on a stuck bolt. You'll just round it off quickly. Use a 6 pt.
Definitely. A 12-point is an invitation to rounding off the bolt; you're better off with a 6-pt. Better yet, get a set of Turbo Sockets; they're 6-point, but also twist helically down into the socket, getting smaller the further in you go. These will notch the fastener as they twist, but you WILL be able to remove it. You can use the original Turbo Sockets (manufactured by Hudson Bearing), or try Craftsman's version or those made by Irwin. Craftsman turbo sockets won't permit direct use of a ratchet on them (but can be turned with a socket, a combination wrench or an adjustable wrench). Genuine Turbo Sockets and those made by Irwin have a 3/8"- or 1/2"-square drive for turning with a ratchet.
And use the newest one you have! And not cheap
The Engineer with 295,619 apprentices.
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I don't see how he finds time to make videos, if I was him I'd spend all day watching my subscriber count go up!
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he gets more subscribers per hour than I've had...ever
I found your channel a few months ago looking for how to fix my loose hammer handle. Now I'm flippin hooked.
Trick number one, use a 6 pt wrench.
Tip 1 # one before this tip buy some good tools in u will not need a 6 point wrench, a six point wrench ...... Whhhaaatt !!?? Lol
Muh, tool!
You can’t find them fucking anywhere
I, nearly ALWAYS use 6 point wrenches.
I have found, after watching all your videos, that saying "YOU FUCK!" works wonders in almost all situations. It's really the best tool in the tool box
Time to bust out the the air chisel and the grinder, thanks mate
Absolutely hats off to you sir. Your sense of humour chimes in so great with a man of the Britania persuasion. My jaws are aching.at your constant irreverent quipary lol
I have an 80 lb Vietnamese buddy. Will he work?
Filipino is the correct tool for the job
I weigh in at 160 lbs, I can do the job in half the time.
Got quite a few Cambodians, better quality than the Vietnamese tools.
Mental pic. Lmao till I tear up
Do they sell them Filipinos at my local Harbor Fraud? I have a 25% off coupon
Seriously love your work. Not only do I get a experienced engineer's view of manufacturing, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science and cost engineering but I get to laugh hysterically when you scream at the camera "focus you fuck!" So genuine and true to life. Thanks for the education and making my day that much happier. :)
Does this guy remind anyone of foghorn leghorn? "I say I say I keep pitchin'em and you keep missin'em!" You got a hole in your mitt!"
😅😅😅😅good analogy
I made funny, son and you're not laughing.
If foghorn was Candadian eh?
I say boy, I say
Is this fella from another Planet cause half the time I'm struggling to understand him but (there's always a but) he is better to watch & listen to than some of the crap that's on the Tube.
I love manly man skills. MORE PLEASE! Thanks, Uncle Bumblefuck.
Man, I love the way you talk. It's spoken poetry at it's best. :)
This is the best proof that more than any other nation, Americans reinvented the English language and made it sound as cool as it can ever be. :)
+dom ari bwahahaha.
There is a fella of your type of spoken poetry here in Oz as well, or at least closer to you in a different accent. Check him out. Unlike yours, his poetry is bit longer but still entertaining and educational both at the same time, like yours. You either like him or you hate him. :)
th-cam.com/video/kFlkcnIeX3Y/w-d-xo.html
Nasty spots?! You had your seized bolt in a vise!! Lots of clearance for what I seen...baaah!
I’m with U never had a bolt stuck in my vise! LMAOOO
Focus, you fucks!
Take off your lead hats boys!
‘twas demonstration purposes only
if you don't have an air hammer... I use a dead blow hammer, longest wrench i have, 6 sided box end seems to cause less damage. make sure wrench is fully touching bottom of bolt where washer is. if rusty, wiggle wrench I
until fully on. wire brush or carefully tap it to get wrench to bottom out before trying to turn it.
Loving the old school hip hop! Second time i've noticed it in two days haha
Was just bopping before I realise what was happening
I was trying to put lyrics to it hahahaha it sounded SO familiar
Fantastic as usual ! I watch anything you post, just to hear you tell the story, keep up the great work !
You dont need a new air hammer, theres like 2 parts inside of them, just unscrew the black bit, and reseat the thingy doodle in the fun hole, and its good
Lube that flapper falve wirh oinkiment and thats forgout the spanner wench wisdom moose
Video is 4 years old, I needed this last night getting out a water pump. It’s in my feed the next day. Typical
As a professional fleet mechanic, I thank you very much. I have used pickle forks that way.
Expat Canadian says - this is all kinds of awesome. I could listen to this all day - maybe I will.
Very nice.....you figured out how to untighten a bolt from a vise!
Why not show it working on an actual pain in the scenario!!
This guy is awesome, I am always glued to these videos.
FOCUS
You faack
You stole my line, you dirty...
LOL 80lb Fillipino. I'm one of those lucky sods who gets stuck working in the shitty corners of draglines and coal plants. THIS will be remembered for all those times when things are rooted beyond belief. Thanks mate! (Although the safety sooks may have something to say about it...)
I just fucking love everything you do a life time of experience and just dying to enpart it on us thank you
Impart.
You're welcome.
Forty years in the shop, That's a new one. I will use that idea . Thank You!
One step further might be to make little short wrench's with a strike receiver .
Much like the box end hammer wrenches used by industry fitters/mechanics/boilermakers etc.
This is the first time I've seen a 91/6 wrench!
After fighting with a fan clutch nut that's froze onto the pulley - this is just the ticket for humor and some laughs. Great Video. Funny as shit..
EVERY VIDEO: "Now,as you can see...Focus, you fuck!" I think it's come to be my favorite part. Please AvE, never change.
Voice activated focus.
That was awesome good sir! That's a great trick. Not your first Rodeo I see 😉. The jokes and humor were the best part 😂
Great tip. I just hope I can remember it one day when I really need to remember it.
Break enough hardware, and knuckles in your life and the lesson will stick with you then.
Top tip and demo mate. Thanks. All the best from Australia
I grew a beard from watching this
Been there, dine that! A good trick for the book! I always start with PB blaster, then a torch and a WD40 quench when possible. This one is a fool proof, effective last ditch effort when you are willing to bugger up a wrench.
Offset box end wrench woudln't get that? OBE wrenches are almost required for some older vehicles.
I use the technique to get the "screw onto the water pump" fan clutches off newer vehicles. I use a large crescent wrench and the v-groove chisel right on the end. Sure, it looks beat up, but it's worked every single time.
Just great!!! Now I have to buy one of those! Thank you so much for the added expense! :)
They cheap as those little air chisels
This guy just cracks me up, LOVE AVE.
Time after time I've watched Americans interview Brits and they can't understand a word us Brits say. Which can be amusing, but this is the first time I've listened to a yank and not understood a single sentence. lol. I got the general idea from just watching what he's doing its all good. Quite a good tip actually. 👌👍
Well he's Canadian...so that might be part of the mix up. We Americans can't claim him for our own.
Quick AvE translation guide:
Skookum = good
Chooch = work
Choocher = tool
Any name brand will be turned into a derogatory mixture of cusses. Milwaukee becomes Milfuckee. DeWaltz is DeWiltz. Home Depot becomes Home Despot, etc.
It really is like hearing a different language.
Ah Ok. Pardon my ignorance. Quite embarrassing really considering the vast majority of my relatives are Canadian. I've never actually been to see them though. Thanks for the translation. Ha
Whittle Moore you're welcome. Consider that he's from French-Canuckistan, so that may change his vernacular a bit.
Now you know how us swedistaners feel when our southern drunkard neighbors waddle over the bridge to visit
Onuma skookum is chinook jargon for brave, strong, monstrous, powerful, etc used predominantly in the Pacific Northwest.
The Professor Stanley Unwin of Canadian TH-cam. Deep joy!
still not gonna work in a tight place
Love the commentary. Sounds like we could be family. Never seen that trick but as a heavy equipment mechanic it will definitely be used. Thanks
Just put the wrench through a long pole so you can get more torque
or link two together open > ring
Impact always trumps torque when it comes to imparting force to hardware. Just how it works.
Agreed with the impact being superior, but sometimes you can fit a longer lever in but can't fit an impact.
In that case the lever wins by forfeit.
44R0Ndin
what wins is what works. If something is galled then you can lever on it all you want, and the best thing you'll end up doing is shearing the fastener off. Then you're fucked. Because now sure as shit you can't get in there to easy out the broken bit. Congratulations you just made a bad situation far worse.
Paul Frederick
Right. If I know a fastener is rusted in and/or will likely gall on its way out, I'll soak it overnight in penetrating oil, and then go after it with a torch or induction heater to free it up, then wiggle it back and forth until I free it up enough to get the dang thing out.
I work at my dad's independent auto repair shop in New York state. Ice on roads is kept under control by applying salt, so seized fasteners are something I encounter on a daily basis. The most frequent location on a car that I find them is brakes and suspension stuff.
Cars don't wear out around here. They rust away.
Also, if we do shear the head off of a bolt, we can weld a nut on to the end of it and crank it out that way. Often the heat from the welding will aid in extracting the remains of the bolt, too.
That's a common technique for removing broken exhaust manifold bolts, but it works anywhere you can access with a welder.
The tip of a MIG torch isn't much bigger than a wrench, so this usually works well enough.
The engineers that design things have to make it possible to put them together somehow.
If you can't get at a bolt or nut the easy solution is to remove the thing that's in the way.
Example: There are some pickup trucks and SUV's that you have to lift the entire body off of the frame in order to change the spark plugs. Lifting the body off of the frame only takes undoing about 6 bolts and a few electrical connectors (less than 10). Surprisingly easy, right? Turns a 10+ hour job without removing the body into a 3 or 4 hour job if you actually get the thing out of the way.
I'm not saying the problem in this video doesn't happen, I'm just saying that it doesn't happen often on the things I work on.
Thanks, work on European automobiles at a shop will be using this trick when I pickup an air ratchet this weekend
I worked with my uncle one summer
He’s a welder machinist
Came back after summer
And talked like him
My mom had a heart attack
Needless to say
Mom didn’t mage me go work with my uncle again
I use and always will use :
1. box end wrench
2. piece of wood
3. rubber mallet
gets the job done...usually
What's the music?
Always love the channel, but this trick is top notch lol. I just hope I remember it when time comes.
Friggin Canook, Lefty loosie! Great Idea! Great Videos!
Dude! That's a great trick! I might have to try that some day in my travels. Filed for future reference.
"" DIRTY TRICK FOR SEIZED BOLTS IN NASTY SPOTS ""
A nasty spot is now defined in a vice in the workshop ? Why didnt you show us undoing the first bolt you showed us where you couldnt access it with a spanner ? Would you have been able to get the air gun in there too ?
Probably because he wouldn’t have been able to clearly video it there.
Holy rusty testes, that's frigging genious. I'm using this, and kicking myself for not thinking of it myself.
Nice!
I love how old school mechanics think and especially love how crass they are! This ole timer has been getting myself in trouble because the new generation mechanics all need safe spaces and get all offended just from my normal everyday communication.
I just put in my earbuds now and keep to myself..... I’ll tell you though, the shop feels dead with everyone being all politically correct..... walking on eggshells. It sucks.
Comments suggest, many have passed by this way, lost souls of the Internet. Each of them left feeling bewildered, yet happy as if drunk on Caribbean rum.
What ever happened to the big mill that you had in a video a while back?
Maybe that's just it, though. He's probably popping a pant tent every time he touches the thing. He's gotta let the new wear off before he can show himself on camera using it.
If memory serves he's waiting for the Bridgeport to finally shit its pants
Your narration makes me happy
what the hell is he talking about??
What the heck is he demonstrating ,how did the bolt get to the vice.?
Already knew the trick but watched the whole video for the commentary... Funny Dude
What is the connection between the bolt shown at 0:10, and the bolt in the vice at 0:15? I don’t get the connection.
im sure the idea is that the second bolt is just an example of what to do on the first bolt but for video sake he did in the open so it would be easier to both see and explain
They're both stuck very tight. Putting a bolt and nut in a vice just gives more room for camera work. :)
The idea is to show how you can use a closed end wrench as a substitute for an impact gun - with the help of a modified air chisel.
Because he can't get to the first bolt. It's still in there.
Thanks for your comment John, but that doesn't explain a thing.
Lenny, there is no connection. He's showing the second bolt because the first one is too hard to get to and he can't show it getting unscrewed. In other words, his trick ain't workin.
LMAO Not a minute in and I'm laughing. I looked up this topic due to a similar issue but I don't have that pneumatic or hammer drill action. It got my mind thinking though and I WILL conquer this. Thanks!!
If I had a nickel for every single thing I ever hoopajooped...
Great tip! I'll be using this method today and I'll be happier than a hobo with a hot meal.
Ok... someone translate this convoluted commentary into inuendoless English please
Read the description you lazy fuck
GoodISnipr, I would teach you the art of the TH-cam comment but I don't want to write an essay, I will instead say that you should take a comment with a condescending tone and unnecessary complicated words as a joke and if it is indeed literal, it wouldn't be to fun talking to someone like that, now would it?
DERPFACELARY You never know, the internet is full of retards. I've seen more than a handful of comments that seemed like sarcasm but were genuine.
Stonedontherun exactly, those are the people that I mentioned when I said "not worth replying to"
Stonedontherun like this one, proof is in the puddin
Matco actually sells an air hammer tool like that. I even think that's it's intended use since it has nice smooth walls that won't mark up your nice Craftsman wrenches.
Could always heat and bend your wrench
I've known a few guys, back in the times when Craftsman tools were worthwhile, who would bend their wrenches for one-off jobs and subsequently take them back to Sears for a new one. Dirty, but effective.
or grab some common sizes from the pawn shop to mangle
technosasquatchfilms garage sales, estate sales, etc. Sometimes, you just need an expendable tool.
gotta bunch of "Kustomized" wrenches in my box
I work on those ships with the filipino sailors ( they are great seamen and shipmates) and each machine shop has a drawer full of wrenches that gave been heated up with a torch and bent to the shape required. There's some wild looking bent wrenches around.
I am none the wiser...............................
Goddamnit. I wish i had seen this video three weeks ago, that air hammer tip would have saved me over an hour and a handful of bruised knuckles.
what's that song? anybody?
Mean Streetz - MK2
awesome thanks!
I think he took it from a porn video
I´ve heard it on many Rick Piana videos before i heard it here :P might be some porn music still...
Darude - Sandstorm
I have four cross member bolts i am going to use that on right falking now! Another great vidjao.
A pickle fork tool is easily modified to do this, too, but it's often not compact enough and this approach will work better.
I like this guys humor lol I have to watch more of his you tube videos
I wish I had seen this before cutting off a nut on the turbo support bracket of my car to get to the clutch! I spent hours hacking my way out of the problem I created for myself. This tip might have saved me!
This man is a real one for sure I admire him already ! Can’t work with him if your sensitive
For all the people arguing about using stupidly expensive tools you need once to do this job. He was showing you how to work in a tight space where a rattle gun won't fit at all, by making a torque gun variaton.
I always learn something from your videos. Thanks
Working on farm equipment can provide plenty of experience for removing stuck, rusted, and rounded off bolts and nuts. Usually in places where grinding and torches are NOT a good idea. Silo unloaders can be so much fun.
Most excellent! You rarely disappoint. Thanks again.....