Good video. I like that so far all the criticisms have been constructive and not nasty. I also like that you have taken the criticisms/ comments in good faith and turned it back to the poster to ask for their advice.
Thank you for the kind words. The internet police must have been slacking this week 😅 I struggle with putting out informational videos because there is ALWAYS a better way to do something. On the other hand I try not to let perfection stop me from passing along knowledge, "Perfection is the enemy of progress". I know this method is 'good enough' because I have been doing it this way for many years and it works just fine. This response is way more than you asked for but here it goes anyways. I suddenly lost my dad a couple of years ago and it was a real wakeup call around 'life is finite' (He was only 61 at the time). My dad taught me A LOT when I was growing up, I recall very few things he wasn't able to do himself. I took that base he helped me build and have since stacked a bunch more knowledge on top. I am aware that my life is also finite and wanted to use this as a channel to be able to document some of these skills not only for my kids, but for those kids (or adults) who were never taught skills like these. I sincerely hope to provide value, or at least some educational entertainment. Do you have any ideas on skills or topics that would be helpful to cover?
@@diymetalfabrication on occasions if I had a stripped ID thread and no tap for it, I'd take a bolt of the same size, grind a long narrow point on the tip of the bolt and use that to re-fresh the stripped thread. Worked most of the time.
Ooh, that is a good one. DIY thread chaser. I had some thread chasers in my Amazon cart for a long time but never pulled the trigger on it. Like these: amzn.to/3InsQ94 Thanks for the ideas. I'll have to make a vid on chasing threads one of these days.
@@diymetalfabrication if you're going that route, you might be better off just buying an 80 piece set of tap and dies for both metric and sae for about $60 along with some nice handles.
I hear ya and agree with you, though I don't know any machinists. The technique I covered here is for the folks in the garage hanging upside down beneath the hood of a car. Running a nut down first is a safety backup to straighten the threads a bit if things go awry (or sloppily). I didn't have my belt sander until a couple of years ago, so historically a lot of my bolts in the past were dressed with an angle grinder 😅 What kind of sander do you prefer for dressing your cut bolts? Not from the machinist perspective, but there was a pretty good thread discussing this here: www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/how-do-you-properly-cut-and-finish-the-threaded-end-of-a-bolt.80070/
Good point. Got any suggestions for preventing that other than buying new bolts? In this particular case, these were just for mock up. I eventually ended up buying metric bolts with hex heads because this is my trail truck and I didn't want to get stuck on the trail unable to remove the bolts because I didn't have a triple square socket on me.
Good video. I like that so far all the criticisms have been constructive and not nasty. I also like that you have taken the criticisms/ comments in good faith and turned it back to the poster to ask for their advice.
Thank you for the kind words. The internet police must have been slacking this week 😅
I struggle with putting out informational videos because there is ALWAYS a better way to do something. On the other hand I try not to let perfection stop me from passing along knowledge, "Perfection is the enemy of progress". I know this method is 'good enough' because I have been doing it this way for many years and it works just fine.
This response is way more than you asked for but here it goes anyways. I suddenly lost my dad a couple of years ago and it was a real wakeup call around 'life is finite' (He was only 61 at the time). My dad taught me A LOT when I was growing up, I recall very few things he wasn't able to do himself. I took that base he helped me build and have since stacked a bunch more knowledge on top. I am aware that my life is also finite and wanted to use this as a channel to be able to document some of these skills not only for my kids, but for those kids (or adults) who were never taught skills like these. I sincerely hope to provide value, or at least some educational entertainment.
Do you have any ideas on skills or topics that would be helpful to cover?
I'm a retired Machinist and have been doing that for many decades. a great hack to know.
Thanks! Got any further tips that I missed?
@@diymetalfabrication on occasions if I had a stripped ID thread and no tap for it, I'd take a bolt of the same size, grind a long narrow point on the tip of the bolt and use that to re-fresh the stripped thread. Worked most of the time.
Ooh, that is a good one. DIY thread chaser. I had some thread chasers in my Amazon cart for a long time but never pulled the trigger on it.
Like these: amzn.to/3InsQ94
Thanks for the ideas. I'll have to make a vid on chasing threads one of these days.
@@diymetalfabrication if you're going that route, you might be better off just buying an 80 piece set of tap and dies for both metric and sae for about $60 along with some nice handles.
EXCELLENT
Thanks! What are you working on?
Ask a machinist how to chamfer the end of a bolt on a sander. It's not that hard. And you don't need a nut...
I hear ya and agree with you, though I don't know any machinists. The technique I covered here is for the folks in the garage hanging upside down beneath the hood of a car. Running a nut down first is a safety backup to straighten the threads a bit if things go awry (or sloppily).
I didn't have my belt sander until a couple of years ago, so historically a lot of my bolts in the past were dressed with an angle grinder 😅
What kind of sander do you prefer for dressing your cut bolts?
Not from the machinist perspective, but there was a pretty good thread discussing this here: www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/how-do-you-properly-cut-and-finish-the-threaded-end-of-a-bolt.80070/
@@diymetalfabrication I just hit it with a file at a 45 and it's fine.
They gonna rust like a volkswagen from the '90.
Good point. Got any suggestions for preventing that other than buying new bolts?
In this particular case, these were just for mock up. I eventually ended up buying metric bolts with hex heads because this is my trail truck and I didn't want to get stuck on the trail unable to remove the bolts because I didn't have a triple square socket on me.