Making stuff from scrap rail.

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  • @jscarpetta1
    @jscarpetta1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +399

    I am worried that you have become lax with safety procedures. Not a single sign of safety goat in this video.

    • @Nicmadis
      @Nicmadis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Pretty sure safety went out the window when he started drinking the coolant.
      Can't see another reason to sodomize half of two budget anvils away into a bookend.

    • @alwayssleepy1
      @alwayssleepy1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      One's day is not complete without hearing Safety Goat.

    • @clammaster4
      @clammaster4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      mashing your hands all over carbon steel shavings

    • @trongo3
      @trongo3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I don't think he even put on his safety squints

    • @weareallbeingwatched4602
      @weareallbeingwatched4602 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Robots feel no pain

  • @Gantwo
    @Gantwo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1102

    While this will likely get buried in the comments, I just lost a great friend who loved to watch this channel, and his humour reminded me of AvE. Thanks for teaching me everything I know about tinkering with electronics, this comment is for you Dave.

  • @matthewjohnston1400
    @matthewjohnston1400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    I understand about 5% of the technical material on this channel. But learning the crude lingo of the pros is an important step toward becoming dangerously confident in the home shop. Love the channel.

    • @dangerdylan5005
      @dangerdylan5005 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      As a professional I laugh out loud.

  • @DrThunder88
    @DrThunder88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    "That's a lot of quality steel you got there. What are you making?"
    "Chips, mostly."

    • @dabeamer42
      @dabeamer42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Or, as the proprietor of this channel puts it, man glitter.

  • @exceptionaluser4153
    @exceptionaluser4153 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    I like decorations that are more likely to break the floor than themselves when dropped.

    • @Gkitchens1
      @Gkitchens1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's what you call quality. And a murder weapon if need be.

    • @saheilaanarzee5552
      @saheilaanarzee5552 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Gkitchens1 *drops the bookend*
      *cores a person three stories below*

  • @MattsAwesomeStuff
    @MattsAwesomeStuff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +795

    What we all have on our desks, is the ultimate organizational method of mankind's labors. It is sorted both chronologically and by importance. Layers deep, like a life's lasagna. The further deep and farther back you go, the less important and older the objects become. It's the geology of your life's efforts. Everything related to everything else. Need to find something? Just remember how important or long ago it was. Take a guess, and then use your well known monuments to guide your path. It was before the kitchen renovation sketch, got pushed aside for the plumbing fixture document, above the birthday card from your aunt. ... but then eventually your wife or mother comes along and "cleans it all up for you" and *with it is destroyed all that precious, irreplaceable meta-data* coded into the heap itself. Now you'll never find a damned thing.

    • @prophtube
      @prophtube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Always destroying my meta-data!

    • @beefysghost867
      @beefysghost867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Truth

    • @boobrowsky
      @boobrowsky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      zi mycelium of a workbench

    • @tomf3150
      @tomf3150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Well said.

    • @peteredwards2318
      @peteredwards2318 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Completely agreed👍

  • @shaunemicheal7362
    @shaunemicheal7362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I ran a CNC bandsaw for a couple years. My shop lead wanted me to cut a piece of track like that. After hours of explaining that I could not do it on the equipment that i had, I was coerced into doing it anyway. I tried everything. After going through a pile of blades, that chunk of rail still sits next to the saw.

    • @Matt-wl3jo
      @Matt-wl3jo ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Does it really need to be that precise? First thing I'd do is grab my oxyfuel or plasma torch lol.

  • @LonersGuide
    @LonersGuide 3 ปีที่แล้ว +818

    Using a US$100,000 state-of--the-art machining center to break expensive carbide bits to make tasteless bookends out of old scrap is something only deranged mind could appreciate. I want more!

    • @fshalor738
      @fshalor738 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I'm pretty sure those were chineezzium-sneeze-grade bargin-bin bits. (he said so, and I don't feel like my d**k was touched in the process.)
      That said, this was more about how to understand the process. And the challenge. And the Li.
      Yes. Have Some.

    • @mechromonger
      @mechromonger 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      "state of the art" best thing i have read in years

    • @LanceHarbart
      @LanceHarbart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      “Can’t make anything useful, might as well make art.” -AvE

    • @phantomwalker8251
      @phantomwalker8251 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      i have a mate,retired,,thats deranged,,being an ex chipi,,he makes tree,s into useless things. like,wood benches,,wood squares,,wood chips,that stik in your teeth..

    • @awesomefirebird69
      @awesomefirebird69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Wouldn't call Haas state of the art

  • @stickyleg6541
    @stickyleg6541 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    As someone who cuts 155lb rail in the wilds of bumblefck PA this video both amazed and terrified me.

    • @BossSpringsteen69
      @BossSpringsteen69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@CatastrophicNewEngland They use a huge saw with a huge composite metal cutting disk like the kind that you put in a grinder that makes a 78 record look small. I've seen the label on one but don't remember the exact properties of the disk. The next time i see one of our track guys i'll inquire.

    • @tawpgk
      @tawpgk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@BossSpringsteen69 78 records? Hell, you must be as old as me...lol. I haven't thought of those since I was in short pants.

  • @Edyorke
    @Edyorke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +484

    "we'd need to plug in the kiln" Killed me. That's a sense of humour you can't teach.

    • @bjem2287
      @bjem2287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      There's nothing more satisfying than spending 2 hours on a workaround rather than spending 1 hour using the correct tool.

    • @alienworm1999
      @alienworm1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@bjem2287 computer science in a nutshell

    • @bjem2287
      @bjem2287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @ivan schafeldt I was thinking from the point of view that he was afraid annealing would destroy the patina.

    • @Sabactus
      @Sabactus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Speaking of kiln. What would it take to get that to anneal?

    • @BrianNeff84
      @BrianNeff84 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I about did a spit take 😂

  • @brekkoh
    @brekkoh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    The artistry with which you chop off your own punch lines is truly timeless.

  • @kaneshillingford
    @kaneshillingford 3 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    The rate at which you're chipping those tools means that you're way too comfortable with the Patreon donations. 🤣

  • @arcadeuk
    @arcadeuk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +398

    "Watch me break $500 worth of endmills, to turn $10 of scrap rail into $20 bookends" 😂🤣

    • @greenolive1278
      @greenolive1278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Dang what a deal he’s doubling his money lol

    • @Steve211Ucdhihifvshi
      @Steve211Ucdhihifvshi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey itd be a fucking awesome present!

    • @allensandven0
      @allensandven0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Two dollar garage sale book ends ,? don’t embellish on this mans legacy! Lol 😂

    • @normansanchez8730
      @normansanchez8730 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Best comment thus farr

    • @davidkennedy3050
      @davidkennedy3050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@allensandven0 I'm pretty sure he said doll hair, not dollar.

  • @thetransformatorium7980
    @thetransformatorium7980 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This takes me back a few years! I built my first metal cutting lathe using a piece of rail for the bed. A very reluctant machinist allowed me to deck the top flat in his old Bridgeport with a face mill in it. Poor old buggers probably been dead for years, but I'll always be grateful to him for letting as he put it, "some dumb kid play machinist for a day!" 😁

  • @BonnieMCarter
    @BonnieMCarter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +464

    This looks like a great gift to give the mother in law that "loves" you...maybe even stencil in her name just so she can't regift it.

    • @monkipooman
      @monkipooman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Plasma cut it in, poorly. don’t remove any of the dross either

    • @jessepitt
      @jessepitt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I love it! My mother in law loves me so much she gave me a life size plastic mastiff-drinking-out-of-a-fountain bird bath that’s falking hideous, we’ve been stuck with it for years. She deserves a nice book end.

    • @disklamer
      @disklamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Add “Loathe Lathe Lag” , blackened on the sides, and randomly weld on some Shell oilcaps on for the seaside feel.

    • @TempoDrift1480
      @TempoDrift1480 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jessepitt I'd like to see that actually.

    • @dadillen5902
      @dadillen5902 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@monkipooman Then gushingly ask to see it every time you visit her. That way she will have to dig the heavy SOBs out of the closet and put it on display when you visit. Aint 'love' wonderful?

  • @ricothompson7451
    @ricothompson7451 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    "It never (clang) fucking (clang) ends! (clang)" 🤣 I feel this.

    • @andyl7935
      @andyl7935 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂🤣🥲

  • @lumispawn
    @lumispawn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I'm a 17 years RR maintenance of way guy. I've cut more rail with the biggest gas powered saw stihl makes than I wanna think about. Old rail will even screw with abrasive blades. Have to bang the blade to break of the edge due to what appears to be crystalization of some type.

    • @bjoe385
      @bjoe385 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Why Rolls Royce maintenance engineers cut rails I don’t know.

    • @blackopsrocks
      @blackopsrocks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      manganese nodules do that. Even annealed the hardness would probably be in the 30s on scrap rail. Its not uncommon for scrap rail to be in the 70s (which is crazy)

    • @tonistaru
      @tonistaru 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Just chop it like ToT

    • @temporaldisplacement
      @temporaldisplacement 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Only done one with the chopsaw, gas axe was a breeze when compared.

    • @Sean-vs3se
      @Sean-vs3se 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@blackopsrocks Hello worked as railway engineer The head of the rail is usually hardened with manganese used to take a long time using patrol hacksaw in the day

  • @HandToolRescue
    @HandToolRescue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +166

    You need a Mantle & Co vise! It's a fractal-jaw vise meant for holding weirdly shaped shit.

    • @HandToolRescue
      @HandToolRescue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Chris The Pack Rat Yes.

    • @hamaljay
      @hamaljay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@HandToolRescue I see what you did there.

    • @alltheusernameswastaken8936
      @alltheusernameswastaken8936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Do one have to factor in the consistency of ones stool in order to successfully make use of such a vice?

    • @ElTurbinado
      @ElTurbinado 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@alltheusernameswastaken8936 types 1 to 3 only, but you'll want soft jaws for type 3.

    • @tesladrummer
      @tesladrummer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hmm, where I come from they call that a Whipple tree. Awesome vise though!

  • @toolthoughts
    @toolthoughts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +148

    for a moment I thought you were showing off your best sunday shirt, but it was the Widlar poster

    • @MotorSwapDan
      @MotorSwapDan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Conveniently placed to look like he's flipping you off

    • @GlennHamblin
      @GlennHamblin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Widlar, My hero! Genius Drunk A$$hole, we share much in common, just not the genius part.

  • @VSO_Gun_Channel
    @VSO_Gun_Channel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    I have no idea what I just watched but I want more of it.

  • @MrDigitalCypher
    @MrDigitalCypher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    HAHAHAHAHA 3 minutes of posturing just for "...and we would have to plug in the kiln" This man is on a different level than most.

  • @thejoetandy
    @thejoetandy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was just today watching a vijayo on another channel where they were talking about needing to hire an experienced CNC captain for working with tree carcass, and that they had up to 100k p.a available for the right person. I thought of this channel instantly for some reason, and then you go and upload this to remind me that I should look somewhere else entirely.

  • @snodoubt
    @snodoubt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    “When you can’t make something useful...” sure sounds like a Red Green quote without the duct tape references.

    • @squigtonianmayhem4602
      @squigtonianmayhem4602 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Ol' Red's gotta be Bumble's uncle or somethin. Philosophies are a little too close, even if the nomenclature don't match up.

    • @andrewfarnsworth7178
      @andrewfarnsworth7178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I believe the last part of the quote is "at least make it heavy."

    • @azpcox
      @azpcox 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      “If you can’t make yourself useful, make something useless.” :)

    • @DoveWrestler
      @DoveWrestler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Also dick in a vice is pretty strongly reminiscent of stick on the ice.

  • @iamwhatiam4075
    @iamwhatiam4075 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No where near the level of most of your commenters, so I will just say thank you ! You are the best , and I appreciate your efforts and the sacrificing of the tools!!

  • @captiveimage
    @captiveimage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +222

    It's like this CNC thing isn't just science and expertise, there's a great deal of black art in the mix too.

    • @Yeanah_Nahyea
      @Yeanah_Nahyea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      And a whole lotta swearing too 🤯

    • @nineoclockhero
      @nineoclockhero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@Yeanah_Nahyea its called chanting.

    • @km5405
      @km5405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      light some incense for a better surface finish

    • @sixhundred3score6
      @sixhundred3score6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Yeanah_Nahyea I could hear the frustration in "it never FUCKING ENDS" ... been there 😂

    • @jrayfpv4963
      @jrayfpv4963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Witchcraft magic.

  • @UpLateGeek
    @UpLateGeek 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Stop your books from falling down alright. The whole bookshelf will fall right apart at the mere sight of these things!

  • @nestrac
    @nestrac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    The worst thing you can do to a man is to bring "order" to his chaos... Can't find what you need when it isn't where you last had it

    • @FUBARguy107
      @FUBARguy107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      You can just @ me next time, thanks. I swear, someone comes over and they move something and my world comes to a grinding halt. There is a madness to my methods.

    • @RustyorBroken
      @RustyorBroken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Preach it to the masses, brother. You move something of mine and I'm lost for days. I swear the other occupants of my household are conspiring against me.

    • @uberdang830
      @uberdang830 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Oh God. Last time I had my car all A-part and some one(Girlfriend)Decided to pick things up while I was having a read in the study. I come back to hey I cleaned up for you. The only way I knew how to put it back together was the way it was piled up on the floor. Ya know top parts or on my case parts closet to the car first. So then ya have to fiddle fack your way through on line forms with out trying to pay for a subscription. And what would have taken a few hours takes all day.Hopefully you had enough wabble pops to forget about the extra shims you have. Until it becomes abundantly clear you might have ruined sumthing about halfway to work in -30⁰ wether. But I fixed the problem. It was easy I'm now single.

    • @macbaar6073
      @macbaar6073 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So... do never enter the heaven of marriage...

    • @RustyorBroken
      @RustyorBroken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@macbaar6073 marriage is an institution.

  • @KiwiRanger1
    @KiwiRanger1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    10:25 "destination fuc*ed" Nice reference to Aussie Man Reviews ! Been binge watching a lot of his stuff recently

  • @d.e.m.9519
    @d.e.m.9519 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    As a young apprentice I went through 4 drill bits to get a whiff of a whole started on some sort of hardened steel. The old dude just asked you want another bit or an explanation?

    • @jongrimm7767
      @jongrimm7767 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We made breaker plates out of inconel. They were discs that were drilled so much you you'd wonder why bother. A cobalt drill would go halfway thru then need a resharp. It turned so painfully slow. Squeek. Squeek. Squeek. etc

    • @TheDuckofDoom.
      @TheDuckofDoom. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jongrimm7767 need some Boelube

  • @thomaslamothe3263
    @thomaslamothe3263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    AvE's grandiose version of Pinterest's favorite pastime: 'look what I made from this old pallet!'

  • @treddirt335
    @treddirt335 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    New subscriber here! Who’d a thunk a fella could get machining tips and broaden his vocabulary all whilst sitting on the shitter?! Time management I says! Excellent!!!!!

  • @gregg3364
    @gregg3364 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    My dad had a machine shop, I worked there as a broke college kid. The neighbor auto shop had brought in diesel engine manifold to be refaced, when the fly tool broke due to a hidden weld, it was the start of my education on true angry volgarity.

  • @dogwalker666
    @dogwalker666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    When I was a youngster and worked at British Steel the rails were a special grade, we used to specialise in IRS " Indian Railway Steel" it was formulated to cope with the extreme temperatures, it was a pig to cut, it was my job to cut up the reject lengths with a gas axe, a proper apprentice job.

    • @enbee_ash6740
      @enbee_ash6740 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You need a work experience kid to hand that off to

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@enbee_ash6740 that is probably the case now, but it did teach me to be able to gas cut straight lines, without resting on the red hot literally steel.

    • @philipcable7518
      @philipcable7518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dirty, hot and dangerous work. Plasma cutting is a bit safer but it's still grubby work.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@philipcable7518 indeed it is I ruined a pair of socks every day, I have used plasma cutters too, after all after i repair one I had to test it didn't l, and now we have a CNC plasma robot cutter, that took some programming, Still need the good old OxyAcetylene wher ther is no mains or compressed air, and any cuts over a few inches deep too. Sitting in a cherry picker burning 8"BSW nuts off is quite fun actually. Accidentally Setting light to the Forklift below was just an added bonus lol.

    • @AndyHullMcPenguin
      @AndyHullMcPenguin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dogwalker666 "Accidentally Setting light to the Forklift below was just an added bonus lol."
      Way more fun than setting fire to the leg of your trousers... Don't ask me how I know. Great for improving your Anglo Saxon outbursts though.

  • @radeckiless
    @radeckiless 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    With this Letterkenny and a few other shows(I'm American) I'm suprised no one ever talks about canadian humor like they do american or british. This is how you can tell if someone really has a sense of humor it's just gold shot at you in rapid monotone, picking it up is on you.

    • @spazzwazzle
      @spazzwazzle 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I absolutely agree, and it's a shame that no one seems to call it out or pick up on it.

    • @TheDuckofDoom.
      @TheDuckofDoom. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      What rock have you been under? Second city was almost all cunucks

  • @jakerogers6562
    @jakerogers6562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    When the door wouldn't shut because of the vise, i almost choked laughing so hard. My whole damm day has been like that. Thank God that 5:00 is finally here!

    • @dancearoundtheworld5360
      @dancearoundtheworld5360 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      question is, will it still run open

    • @charlesmcdowell3984
      @charlesmcdowell3984 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Congrats! Now the end of the weeks hurdles await me: a singular twelve hour shift fighting fires and pressing "start" buttons stands in the way of my weekend. Godspeed, sir.

    • @turdherders9749
      @turdherders9749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dancearoundtheworld5360 tape works

    • @stephen1r2
      @stephen1r2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dancearoundtheworld5360 not unless you disable the safetys. It will also spray metal shavings at silly speeds.

    • @stevenkelby2169
      @stevenkelby2169 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It never. Fucking. Ends.

  • @redpillcommando
    @redpillcommando 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am suffering from an almost apoplectic case of workshop envy. You have a lot of VERY nice toys.

  • @GrahamDallas
    @GrahamDallas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Frog Snacks, didn't realise rail was that hard. But, you've come a long way since the day you realised you could turn hardened steel on the ol' Boxford Lathe.

  • @jeffmatson2046
    @jeffmatson2046 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I totally enjoy this every time. It's a wonderful way to learn something New. Every episode. Great job 👍

  • @stealinghubcaps
    @stealinghubcaps 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    ...reminds me of an old machinist I knew that had one of those. he used it to machine one of those contraptions that lower caskets down into a grave. He wanted to be let down by HAAS one last time... LOL! Keep up the awesome VID's!

  • @christop672
    @christop672 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "There ya go Bob, here's a retired CN rail turned into a bookend for your retirement. Better appreciate it cause I had to retire a shitload of bits to make it!"

  • @ztwilkerson
    @ztwilkerson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Me and my brother-in-law *were* talking about getting a CNC but then you got yours...

  • @tomnolan9651
    @tomnolan9651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your videos, keep them coming. Your humor is priceless

  • @MrPirax
    @MrPirax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    The "big" drive is probably formatted in exFat, lot's of stuff(that isn't a pc) with usb ports prefers fat(32).
    Might work if you reformat it, if you really want to use that drive

    • @tomf3150
      @tomf3150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fat32 on a 128gB is a bit extreme, but for crossplatform it's mandatory.

    • @ValentinoMariotto
      @ValentinoMariotto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      some 128gb drives are actually a scsi array of smaller chips. They work with just about nothing.

    • @jonathan1427
      @jonathan1427 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or NTFS.

    • @FiatMortem
      @FiatMortem 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Partition a 32 gig fat32 up front for the old mill and the rest on exfat or NTFS.

  • @synchro-dentally1965
    @synchro-dentally1965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Rails: soft and "springy" in the middle and hard on the top. A brilliant and simple design.

  • @auricom242
    @auricom242 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You have no idea how much i love your videos, you seem like the coolest person to hang out with.

  • @Steve211Ucdhihifvshi
    @Steve211Ucdhihifvshi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jeeze youve got a wonderful job and shop. Living in a city apartment seeing all your stuff makes me tear up! Beautiful.

  • @stevie6420
    @stevie6420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Me: how much for the rail track do-dad
    Ave: well it cost me 5,000 doll hairs in machine parts to make it

  • @hk74654
    @hk74654 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Even just reading the title, I'm reminded of that old piece of rail about 30cm long that's lying around somewhere in my family's garage/workshop.
    AFAIK it's used once every few years as a kind of crude anvil by putting it into the bench vise or even just directly onto the workbench. Pretty handy to have around.

  • @nbolin2879
    @nbolin2879 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I wouldn’t mind a art “by AvE” but not sure I could afford the shipping... maybe I’ll stick to ordering stickers and shirts...

  • @kc9489
    @kc9489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    If you listen real close, you can hear the new tool exclaim, just prior to the first cut, "we who are about to die, salute you!"

    • @theskett
      @theskett 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      AvE atque vale :-)

  • @mikespunchlist
    @mikespunchlist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    A clean desk is the sign of a sick mind.

    • @yzrippin
      @yzrippin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Its a clean mind but a dull boy

    • @gramursowanfaborden5820
      @gramursowanfaborden5820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      a clean desk is the sign of someone who had nothing better to do than clean their desk.

    • @macbaar6073
      @macbaar6073 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ..of a poor mind... or too lazy to oversee the chaos that is like the universe

    • @ivo215
      @ivo215 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      - Looks at desk - ... Are you implying that I'm a mentally healthy individual?

    • @GlennHamblin
      @GlennHamblin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A brilliant man has a messy piled up desk (Bob Pease RIP), what kind of man would have a clean desk?

  • @tehpanda64
    @tehpanda64 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Sometimes a guy just doesn't want to watch a train-wreck, but once you start watching a man go through carbide at every cut you just can't look away.

  • @BobbyJHeupel
    @BobbyJHeupel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    God bless. Uploaded 9 secs ago and 1.5k views. You’re living right, AVE!

  • @chandlerbennett4562
    @chandlerbennett4562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The summary of shop work “it never fucking ends” still laughing minutes after this video.

  • @MrGrentch
    @MrGrentch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Never stop sir. 🙂 and thank you for the years of quality schmoo and schmoo that always chooches.

  • @mattgrover3096
    @mattgrover3096 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the reason I love you so much is your dad like demeanor and advice. Thanks papa.

  • @LoremIpsum1970
    @LoremIpsum1970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    A 3D chronological desk filing system...I am familiar with this practice...

  • @glenbarnier
    @glenbarnier 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    im glad im not the only one that has room to work on the very corner of my bench at all times

  • @78trav
    @78trav 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Few hundred doll hairs worth of bits to make $2 bookends. I love it!

  • @aycock1ofmanyindustries828
    @aycock1ofmanyindustries828 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am in love all over again. 12:11 "oh to be a fly on the wall at that garage sale . . . " the sort of insight that keeps me coming back for more. Truly, sir or ma'am or how ever's youse identifies your self... great work on all fronts. I wanna run off and join your army.

  • @tonykarter8830
    @tonykarter8830 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hey, the panel at 0:34 looks alot what I'm going to be using next year in my precision machining school courses. Neat!

  • @jeremypetro1084
    @jeremypetro1084 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude I absolutely love your channel. I can't wait to show my wife the Lee theory. You sir are an inspiration and I truly have nothing but love and respect from Brookfield Connecticut!!!

  • @dadfacts2371
    @dadfacts2371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Quote of the day: Organization, although not always present, is unique to owns own perspective."

  • @douglasmayherjr.5733
    @douglasmayherjr.5733 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sometimes it is just the principle of the things. “They say it can’t be done” I can do it with excessive amounts of money and swear words. Thanks for the videos. Happy Easter from Michigan.

  • @zapman2100
    @zapman2100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    you need to put a sitcker on the ON button that says "Cycle SMASH" since thats what they do most.

  • @DragonHeart5150
    @DragonHeart5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are absolutely hysterical yet very accomplished and interesting. You say what everyone of us have felt at one time or another. "It never fucking ends." I love it!

  • @erat91
    @erat91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I'm using the monologue at 2:22 next time the boss is on me about the shop being a mess. haha

  • @NathanNostaw
    @NathanNostaw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Old timer engineer I knew used to cut the hardened top (about 1/2") with abrasive then bandsaw the rest. Worked great.

  • @crackedemerald4930
    @crackedemerald4930 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This one called Lee seems like he's much everywhere, probably good to hang out with.

  • @toast47624
    @toast47624 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I haven't watched your vids for some time. I needed that comical relief.

  • @Heeby-Jeebies
    @Heeby-Jeebies 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Coming at this from a know-nothing perspective: I've never seen sparks on a mill before!
    That... that seems like a problem...

  • @charliezxi
    @charliezxi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live by a railroad. I’ve never been able to lift any of the scrap rail laying alongside parts of it, but I have made some interesting tools from the spikes!

  • @garner6583
    @garner6583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Your table is organized like mine, chronological.

  • @joshandicoechea6770
    @joshandicoechea6770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I used to be a fan of this channel but after this video I’m am a whole air conditioner now!

  • @GAIS414
    @GAIS414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Who knew fixturing was so important?" One might think a man who spent a couple of thousand dollars on Kurt vises might have an idea.

  • @willb.nimble6749
    @willb.nimble6749 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is like if
    Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't was a CnC machine operator, and I love it.

  • @PwnySlaystation01
    @PwnySlaystation01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in G Minor, Op. 8 No. 2, RV 315 (Summer)

    • @natalie5947
      @natalie5947 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you, this is exactly what I was hoping to find in the comments. I thought I recognized it but wasn't sure.

    • @gregorteply9034
      @gregorteply9034 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Duh.

  • @robertshand8923
    @robertshand8923 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I made a couple of rail anvils, cut them off with my old mechanical hacksaw, went through em like butter, bandsaw wouldn't touch it! shaped them with the actylene torch and milled the top flat with a HSS flycutter, worked perfect! Great watching as always

  • @dingdingdingdiiiiing
    @dingdingdingdiiiiing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    GF: ooh, look at the pretty sparks!
    Me: I'm in pain.

  • @jaredandkyleigh
    @jaredandkyleigh 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ah man, I felt that last "it never f*cking ends" in my bones. Can't count how many situations I've had like that in the shop.

  • @NBCRGraphicDesign
    @NBCRGraphicDesign 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was always told to cut rail from the bottom towards the top. The top is work hardened. A band saw will cut the bottom 3/4 or 7/8 of the rail; the the top needs to be ground after that. But that's US of A rail.....

    • @Chris-1974
      @Chris-1974 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Australian rail needs to be cut top to bottom though...

  • @oscaralejandrovelascorodri4430
    @oscaralejandrovelascorodri4430 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey dude, I love your video, so funny and represents a real workshop day, first time I watch your channel I’m a fan now

  • @dinon35
    @dinon35 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I have a rule. Always be mindful of the limitations of the FAT32 filesystem. It’s more common than you think!

  • @nobody-ly9ef
    @nobody-ly9ef 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, what a great episode. Cheers from Florida.

  • @SuperSecretSquirell
    @SuperSecretSquirell 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Now I just need some books to use with my bookends.

    • @chriswalford4161
      @chriswalford4161 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But first you have to fabricate the shelves

  • @uralbob1
    @uralbob1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Forty years ago, I bought from a farm auction, a little mini anvil made from old track. It was milled flat on top with a 3/4 inch hole in the top for driving out pins, etc.
    I never knew how handy this three dollar purchase would be. Wouldn't ⁸sell it for a hundred bucks!

  • @divingeveryday
    @divingeveryday 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's really 4D storage. You can't ignore the time component.

  • @russellstephan6844
    @russellstephan6844 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm the other guy. I found a nice broken forklift tine at the scrap yard on the last trip, 120kg at least. I cut a 35cm slab off to use on the hydraulic press as an arbor plate. It took more than an hour with a big grinder and a cut-off wheel to make it through the 65mm thick piece.
    I would have spent more time cutting additional slabs. But, someone offered me a pretty penny for the rest of the tine. They were willing to drive a few hours one-way to pick it up too.

  • @Lee_Adamson_OCF
    @Lee_Adamson_OCF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I made a cattle bridge out of old rails a while back.
    Tractor couldn't lift it into the hole when it was done. -_-'

    • @TheDuckofDoom.
      @TheDuckofDoom. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      well there's yer problem, tractors don't lift they pull, right in the name tract-ion

  • @johnburnitin1027
    @johnburnitin1027 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Reminds me of the time I made a door knocker out of a piece of rail. I finally got a slice cut off, using 3 blades in the chop saw. I almost buried myself in broken 5/16 inch drill bits, trying to get 3 holes in it, but by God, I got it done. A ball peen door knocker looks better all the time. I even used some cuss words I didn't know I knew!

  • @DIMTips
    @DIMTips 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That cnc has had more hot suppers than me....and I have had a few.

  • @shoestringeng6473
    @shoestringeng6473 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    One of my Fav AVE Vajayos! Tried to cut a 4' 136 Lb rail right half in two, took 4 hours with 14" cur off wheel.....also never knew that I too store things in 3D. Watched this last night but had too much to-kill-ya to write a comment. AVE the best thing ever on TH-cam!

  • @TURBOLANDRAIDER
    @TURBOLANDRAIDER 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This is the most interesting informative stupidity I've ever seen.

  • @leebatt7964
    @leebatt7964 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The “law of superposition” as a applied to a work bench piled with clutter. Nice work sir!

  • @gprefect
    @gprefect 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    PROTIP: CN leaves those all over the place, often right beside the road. Most of the time the one you might want isn't being used anyways, just sitting there.

    • @666nacirema666
      @666nacirema666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      yeah my dad and i have been collecting them and ties for quite a while, entire shops foundation is made out of ties. idk what im gonna do with the rails but theyre mine

    • @MrKarlPrince
      @MrKarlPrince 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@666nacirema666 Make good mail box posts and plot corner posts, don't forget to set up a camera if you think its going to get hit.

  • @andyb4236
    @andyb4236 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I laughed my butt off when the door wouldn’t shut. I’ve been there! I wish I had one of those Haas machines in my shop.

  • @ltgood
    @ltgood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So it’s not just me then? I have days when I cry aloud “it never ends”. It never used to be like that

  • @varveyok533
    @varveyok533 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What? Virgül? From AvE? Whoa. I was impressed. But now, its another level. Thanks

  • @cavemaneca
    @cavemaneca 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I recognize art when I see it. Just find the object with unknowable purpose and questionable appeal.
    Great little experiment in hard milling though.

  • @nickcook1556
    @nickcook1556 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    After a long shitty day of working on the railroad this video made my day