Powerful vice using an old car shock absorbers! Unique idea
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- Friends, I hope you like this idea! Enjoy your viewing!
My name is Vanya! I am the author of the channel HandCraft.
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Do you like this system?
Absolutely. It’s ingenious, a wonderful up-cycling of scrap parts to make a very useful tool that all wood workshops need.
I'm glad you liked it friend👍
Great idea, shocks would be better higher than the threaded rod but thats an easy re-design!
That is absolutely amazing. It took me to the very end to figure out what you were building. Genious!
That's looks awesome!! Great use of parts
Loads of comments saying why didn't you buy one for $30 etc... but I appreciate that you are using highly engineered car parts to make a better vice. Changes I would make? 1. (as someone else mentioned ) put the screw below the strut rods (google carpenter's vice for image). This will allow you work to rest without tilting. 2. make your lock nuts on the strut rods flush. You will do serious damage to the back of your hand if the vice releases suddenly. 3. Use a piece of pipe rather than a broomstick as a handle. You can easily snap that handle if you put your weight (~100 ft-lbs of torque) to tighten the vice and failure will come very suddenly with sharp pieces of wood.
This is a valuable addition to my woodwork collection th-cam.com/users/postUgkxkNYRBJuiJ6EwD-tQSAlxg0eFKsnR2cgz I still will rate this woodwork plan as the best in my reference library. It always seem to stand out from the rest whenever you go through the library. This is a masterpiece.
Very good video for several reasons : No back siily electronic music...no talking asking for "like & share "....no tiresome.. no boring adds ...good quality video.! Congrats!!!
Amen! Well thought-out and well planned!
I wish I could give him 1 million likes for those reasons
It's true! If one has to beg for Likes & Shares well, maybe there's a reason? Just show great ideas in simple format that's NOT over-produced and folks WILL like & share them. If we wanted TV production crap, we wouldn't be here--simple as that. Once guys get fancy, I move on. I truly just want to see how the clever thing is made, the rest is unwanted (and unwarranted) distraction. All the best, @HoneyOnWales
Super clever. I knew not what it was being constructed until it was screwed to the table.
eventually he can and should place ads though, if hes spending a lot of time money and effort on videos he should be making a quick buck for it
great vid, thanks for not having horrible background music going, that was a blessing in itself.
What a great point. I totally agree. I hate videos with annoying background music especially when it's too loud.
It’s better to hear the tools.
Agreed!
Amen
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Think some viewers are missing a very important point here. It goes about the creativity and fun of making a useful tool out of old parts. Yes, one can buy a vice for x amount of dollars, but this goes about craftsmanship and possibly learning a new skill. Great video !
my concern is why the hell there is not LVL wood available in thickness like 1+ inches? each of this kind starts from the point of glueing two boards to one thick.... this is realky crap!
There is something special about creating something with your own hands.
I'm not a woodworker or a maker of any kind but I love these type of videos because they give me ideas for how i might make things for my hobby of photography. As I see it their are 3 reasons to make something yourself 1 to save money 2 to customize it to your needs and 3 So you can say "I made that" and that's when a simple thing like a vice becomes art.
For the longest time I wasn’t seeing the final result of what you were building. And then you fastened it to the bench and the light bulb went on! What a fantastic idea. One of those “why didn’t I think of that” ideas.
Great job! Thanks.
So many genius ideas here on TH-cam that most people wouldn't even think about, and this is no exception. Well done and thanks for sharing your ideas and skills. 👍
Oh wow, I was just about to go to a wreckers and get two struts, pick up a sheet of 3/4” plywood, some threaded rod, bolts, washers, plumbing pipe connector, 5 minute epoxy, get the grinder out, the drill press ready, the router, some wrenches and get started on this cool add on, and then I saw a big old vice at a garage sale for $10, changed the metal grips to wood and I was done! Lol Don’t let almost/sort-of perfection get in the way of good enough! 👍🤪
My personal lifelong mantra is: Good enough, satisfactory, sufficient, acceptable, suitable, reasonable, agreeable, adequate, usable, all right; these words do not necessarily mean compromise in any endeavor, just a point at which nothing further of substance will be gained by additional effort. Don't let perfection be the enemy of good enough. ☺
That last line is pure gold. It took me a VERY long time to figure that out. I've polished more turds than I can remember, and can't recall the shine of a single one...
@@YerBrwnDogAteMyRabit The shine is real, but a polished turd is still just a turd.
LOL!!! I was already thinking that is a SHITLOAD of work for a simple Vice! Even if I paid full price for a new one, I would be saving money over time.
It's a special purpose woodworking vise, not a $10 piece of crap. It's similar Rockler vise is over $250.
Excellent use of what I really considered scrap.
Who here finds this satisfying... No BS just intelligence!🌚🚬🥃👍
Yeah, i don't understand all the thumbs down....lol
Nice to see men just get to the point without a ridiculous soundtrack.
@@twohats8462 my take on it is this, the video sucks you in because you want to see what's being made, but then you realize it's a whole bunch of effort just to make a vise, yes it's well made for what it is but the amount of effort to get there doesn't seem worth it to me I do alot of fabricating and making of custom tools as needed , but not anything that's already been developed and is easily available
@@mikesullivan5851 the guys channel is called "HandCraft".... though I agree with the amount of effort involved, this is great stuff for millennials and such ya kno
You have to be s Craftsman to understand
I never thought about using the shock absorber mechanism as simply the guides for something. I like it!
It would be self opening too.
@@MuskratOutdoors There is no tension in a shock absorber. It has neutral pressure. You might be thinking of gas filled struts.
@@joewoodchuck3824 Yes Sir! You are right. That was what I was thinking.....Thank you!
@@joewoodchuck3824 a strut is technically a type of shock absorber. It has the same component as a regular shock absorber but it has a spring seat built-in and it's meant to house a spring. But they are the same exact thing for the point he was trying to make. A shock absolutely is filled with gas or air and it bounces back just like a strut when you depress it. And this might blow your mind but he used a pair of struts in this video. They were not shock absorbers in the standard sense. They were shock absorbers in the sense that a strut is a shock absorber.
@Brandon Veater : "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect!" [Movie: The Princess Bride"]
This is the way to make videos. Being able to hear only the sound of the work helps you stay more focus on what is being done in the work shop.
Friends, I hope you like this idea! Enjoy your viewing!
Genius
Bravo, Bravo, as soon as I have a shop and $$$$$ in tools. I will make one. In the meantime I'll go to Home Depot and buy one for a few $.🤔
Great video. I loved it. Just wish it was about rebuilding shocks. Nice quality
David H qqp
Yes genius but please stop using so much glue, it's a waste
I only got to step one. I have the shocks cut off my moms camry, but boy is she pissed.
Jason Allen 😂😂 now time to cut those furnitures for the wood plates
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One kick in the nuts coming your way!!!!
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Like it a lot Vanya!!
My wife doesn’t like it at all, because her car is bumping and shaking since i built this vice myself... 😊 🤭
Crippleman lolololololol!!!!!!
Arfff arfff.
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Does your wife approve of your "vice"?
@@Tsamokie None of them do.
This video did not only teach you how to make a wood vice, but how to precisely measure, drill and execute to a perfectly finished product done with your own hands. Good video! Thanks for sharing.
Replacing shocks soon on an old car and need a bench vise. Double bonus! Love the design of this system.
Brilliant! If only i had all the other tools used to make it. Still love how a great vice is made from recycled materials.
like a vise to begin with? :-D
What could he possibly be doing...?
Well damn, that was satisfying from beginning to end.
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen. I intentionally did not jump ahead and it wasn't until you began to screw it to your table that I realized what it was. Thank you so much for taking the time to create the vice and to upload the video!
I didn't know what you were building but I watched it from beginning to end, very well made, both video and vise grip.
You took the words out of my mouth!
Me too, and at the end I was like, ohhhhhhh. Haha
Love it! Big fan over here at @How2Wrench
I've been needing a bench vise. And I have 4 old shocks off my pickup. New project! Thanks for the idea!!
Great job, well done. Brings back good memories. Built myself a vise using car shock absorbers over 20 years ago, worked very well for many years. Finally retired it in favour of a quick release vise. 🇦🇺
This is absolutely the best DYI video I have ever seen. I love the final result and learned at least 3 new tricks along the way!
Now, THAT'S an easy build that will class up any home workshop! Thank you!
I love how videos are like, "look what you can do with thrown out junk" and then whip out their million dollar workshop.
Captain Velveeta exactly lol
Just going to quickly sandblast this piece of junk in my super sandblasting station and then we're all set.
@@TheLukio Those sandblast units are cheap to buy, definitely an item anyone with even a small workshop can afford.
Captain Velveeta Well you don’t need to sandblast it, it’s nice if you can, it would work the same. The little drill press is very inexpensive as it’s not a real drill press but a real drill press is not that expensive anyway. The welding on the other hand if you have tools why not use them? But you could certainly get somebody to weld the nuts to the washers for you.
He’s has a handful of “tools of convenience”, but nothing expensive was required to make this vice. No grinder? Use a hack saw. No blast cabinet? Use a steel brush. No welder? Use JB Weld.
Great video, and great idea for creative repurposing.
Just found your channel real cool talk about not wasting wood, I worked at Lowe's in lumber for 8 years if a customer had some wood cut if there pieces they didn't want I took it home if not it was throwed away. Those counter tops when come in they have some on the bottom the counter top with air staples ran thru them. I used the bottom ones make great work bench tops. One year they did a remodel talk about getting stuff new screws, bolts exc. from it. Nuts and bolts from the guy that assembled like grills and many other items every year get a nice box full of those. The year of the remodel I stayed after work took apart several 4 ft. florescent lights they had the cord on them just plug them in all kinds of bulbs, I love to tinker don't have all the nice tools you have. Like the saying goes One Mans Junk Is another Mans Treasure!!
Damn- I had to go back and watch it all again! Love the imagination here as much as the execution. Lots of ideas to steal here too.
Marvelous son.I admire about ur ideas.God bless u.
9:15 Don't you hate it when someone catches you polishing your knob on camera!?!?! Seriously, great build!
I not only learned something but also thoroughly enjoyed the video! I especially liked the "automatic" sandblasting cabinet (gotta' get me one of those) and the "silent" circular saw and router!! (LOL) GREAT video!!!
Thank you - I've been wracking my noggin trying to get the tiny monkey nut to Remember What the Big Cabinet with Gloves through was for !
Thank you indeed, for being the gentleman you are !👍👍👍😉
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Ten minutes of my life I'll never get back
@Matt Johnson
how many hrs you waste in your life? even those u never get back :) even the good ones
AND ANOTHER FULL.MINUTE TO WRITE AN STUPID COMMENT!!!
That was a GREAT video,....no music,....no talking, but CRYSTAL CLEAR !! Well done.
That was actually a really cool idea.! 👍. I like that you took old junk shocks and giving them a new purpose . Great idea .
That's nice if you have a multi million dollar work shop.
Damn I thought this dude was going to make a cannon or something gnarly... lol
Excellent Utilization of Used Shocks.
Thank you for a Really Interesting build. I was guessing, until about 2 minutes from the End, what the heck you were making !
I was very impressed with your Editing. A 10 minute Video from what must have been several hours work, is a tremendous Skill.
Like most Comments, Thank you for No Unnecessary Muzak, And an Special Thank You from me, for the Quiet Tools Sounds, as I was watching this in bed with Headphones on beside the wife, who complains about the Noise from my JVC In-car Gel Buds ! When they're IN I can't Hear Her snoring !! Anyway, Thanks again for your consideration of Noise, especially as I'm Deep Chronic Pain which causes Insomnia, so I end up watching a lot of these types of Video (reminders of when I had a Work-Shop and loved pulling stuff apart, to put back together and see How Many Pieces were Left Over ! )
Anyway, LIKED & SUBBED ! -
Well Deserved for your Video work, as much as your Clever Idea and what Happens when Needs Must ! 👌👍🛠🔩🔨
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So many tools and parts required!
Cuts everything freehand
Measures everything with calipers.
Measuring in base 10 is easier than fractions. Cannot say I don't do it too. Also the sharp points of the calipers scribe lines quickly.
@@court2379 I definitely see the utility of it.
I’ll never throw my struts away anymore. I’m making some of these to go on my bench, dining room table, living room table, bedside table
Keep Strutin', Baby! Wait ... BEDSIDE table?? Not sure I want to know what needs mechanical squeezin' by the bed! ...well, not unless you happen to be a college cheerleader, that is. 😊
I knew I was saving my struts for something. Thanks, I'm making one ! I work on guitars and it's just what I wanted. I just don't thing I'll be as fast HA HA
Excellent job.God bless your hands
"you want me to lathe you some handle stops?"
Him: "Nah, I got a dremel"
Power drill
@@luemn7691 PardOnE MOi. I woulda just welded the whole thing with that handy welder, but Im sheet metal rich and wood poor. I do wish I did this with the last set I took off. I thought it was going to be a long wood clamp for laminating boards or something, but then it got stuck to a table; which made more sense.
I laughed way too freaking hard 😂😂😂
Awesome Job!
NEXT VIDEO IDEA.
Take 4 old vices and make a car.
NOW THAT WOULD BE IMPRESSIVE 👍🏼
Make a set of pliers. Call em vice grips.
Drink too much vodka, make car look like it was in a giant vice.
Thinking outside the box. Awesome repurpose of what most people would throw out. Thanks for a great idea.
Well made video, good pacing & details. The "natural" sound effects are fun.
No background "music"..... well done. Great video.
Awesome. I love when the parts I’m looking for at the junkyard are nicely laid out for me. :)
Hi.. Wats the equipmemt purpose at 2.15
Wow! Great! Tahnks for showing!
Great idea, great video. I especially like the editing and high-speed stuff (no time wasted watching actual time) that slows down when necessary.
I watched use this vice on another vid and guessed you;d made it yourself,absolutely brilliant use of scrap parts.
Damn that was Nifty! Lol took me til almost end to figure it was going to be a Vice 🤣👍🏻
Awesome no talking no background music just working I like it
Never figured it out until the end when it was impossible not to say, oh it's a video. Genius.
Very nice build. Thanks for sharing.
When you glue two pieces of wood together, sprinkle salt and they won't slip when they are clamped together to dry. Try to let me know :-)
This BLEW MY MIND. You are a genius.
Neat idea, but I can't imagine that being able to hold very tight. The wood will split with the grain pretty easily when tightened down.
1/2" steel plates would be much stronger.
Wood vice clamps are better for wood workers as metal will marr the project wood.
This is plywood. It won't split.
How about using both!? As in.. Steel plates then have removable wood to cover them when you need a softer touch?👍🏻
This is cabinet grade plywood. Super duper strong.
That is why it is made of plywood however I can’t imagine this being very useful.
Absolutely brilliant and easy to make
Should be entitled “How to make countersinks magically appear in large washers” 😂😂😂
Great craftsmanship, well done
The thread on threaded bar will not last 2 minutes being used on a vice. Nor will the 4 x 4mm screws holding it to the bench..
A little anti seize will help but you probably need higher grade hardware.
Great idea for when you want to clamp woodwork without leaving marks you get from a steel clamp.
GENIUS YOU ARE !"
THANK YOU FRIEND !"
Very very great idea 💡 thank you for making this video
I'm more curious how someone gets a welder and a sand blaster, but doesn't have a table saw hahahaha
or a drill press
Ya kinda strange😕
Very nicely done, Vanya!
For 60 bucks you can buy the exact same thing and save the 300 bucks in labor invested.
Hmm, think you missed the point there son.
There's something satisfying about creating something with your hands.... It really is a lost art in this disposable society.....
I must commend your fabrication skills.... I tip my hat to ya 😉
Slick idea my friend!
Hmmm... That feeling... when you make something out of your head, no rules applying. Freedom.
Cristi, I agree. Sometimes, however, applying no rules while acting out ends in incarceration in the county lockup for the weekend. Thankfully, making your own bench vise rarely heads that direction -- except the way I do it, of course. Can't wait to show that video, as soon as the district attorney returns my property, that is. 😳
That's pretty slick. Nice build
Love that magic blue box that instantly takes the rust off things.... does it clean other stuff too? :)
Great video :)
Yes it cleans almost everything)
Yes and very WELL
You are a very clever person who takes pride in thier work. Keep up the good work👍
That’s great! So the used shocks don’t really do anything!
They're used as smoothe and sturdy guides.
They also help the vice to open more easily.
Very very slick. Things humans can do with common sense and some junk. If everyone got into projects like this and used their time wisely, think how the world would be and not to mention the usable constructed items that derive from it!
And how long before those worn out struts start leaking all over your floor? I bought something similar off Craigslist for 30 bucks it called a vise.
Anthony Nelson you missed the application for good craftsmanship! There may come a day when you don’t have an extra 30.00 for a piece of junk from Harbor freight. And you will learn to work with what you have around the shop! Cheers
@@jamesdyer744 Jimmy, Your reading comprehension indicates that you may have a problem with dyslexia. I said Craigslist, not Harbor Freight. I restore historic buildings and have a greater appreciation for good craftsmanship than most people. But if the day ever arrives where I feel the need to build something using a couple of old worn out suspension struts, it's because I am a guest star on Macgyver. Salute.
James Dyer If he doesn’t have the 30$ he will have also probably hawked all of the tools needed to build this... so sad.
Very clever idea, like the craftsmanship of this!
If I had these many tools, I would have made a car itself. 😂
Very Cool idea for a wood clamp !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Up next:
How to turn a carpenter's vice into car suspension!
What kind of vice? Smoking? Drinking? Gambling?
Great idea ! Impressive work.
The screw looked like it was too high should be a little below the guide bars to give maximum vise jaw depth
Yeah but it's wood so any lower and strength would've been compromised.
It's not a bench vice. I would agree if you were holding an engine block but you're only using these to steady things for sanding and other minor work. You're not going to jackhammer anything using these.
Not to shabby. Good work
once i figured out what it was i forgot it utilized shock absorbers. what do they do?
Guide rod system. And a very sturdy system at that.
Otherwise the outer jaw would just spin around with the handle.
The shock absorber resistance is kaput, they're worn out. But keeping the rod in line while it moves in and out still works.
Cool. BUT, what's with the down votes???? Frickn serious? What's wrong with this cool idea?
There is NOTHING WRONG with the idea... What IS wrong is PEOPLE critizising buy not suggesting anything of value!
@@alfredomarquez9777 Agreed. I believe they post stuff like that because they're insecure and are trying to show the world how intelligent they are in contrast. But that's MHO.
The only thing I would have done differently is having a nut on the outside so I could quickly power drill it opened and closed.
The only thing I would have done differently was not bothered doing it.
@@crunchynuts793
You're Hopeless Bob.
And use some good strong wood
@@lurezpe8655OR add some steel backs to the wood plates (which would be needed anyway to avoid dsmaging the piece held in the vise!)
@@alfredomarquez9777 Maybe if you only use it with wood it's a good thing because you won't damage your projects.
Good idea ! Most important is the shock absorbers must be paralel !
So you're literally just using the old shocks as linier guides. Okay, I'm sure it will function as expected for quite some time.
Not a bad recycle job. Kudos for you
is it just me or do other people like the chisel sound when videu is sped up...lpl
You must be a woodpecker 🐥😂😂
@@bipinmistry3590 pecker ? yes lol
only you.
I totally thought the same thing in the vid where he made the kids table out of scrap wood. So satisfying..
What a unique idea. I love recycling old things into new useful items. Good video
How could anyone put a thumbs down on this clever use of garbage.
There is nothing you cannot build with enough time and money. For me, I would rather spend the time with the kids. BTW...many thumbs down come from the TH-cam algorithm...not real people.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing.
DISCLAIMER: Alot of shocks are gas filled. Take precautions cutting and/or welding them! You could have a bad day.
Came here for this ... there is a reason alot of shock absorbers have warning labels on them. Be careful people. The video should have had a warning in it to start with.
Thank you so much. Good looking out 👍
Check 4 tin labels / Manufacturers Name Plates - those should be enough for a quick Internet Check. Do it On-site before taking home.
& Does Anyone knows whether the Gas Shocks are Filled with an Inert Gas ? One would think so, for Accident Safety - but I watched twice and 2nd time round noticed he primed ? Painted ? Them, and put them in an Oven ?? Damn It ! - now I've confused meself !!
Kieran Benn nitrogen gas usually. As for an oven that was a media blasting cabinet aka sand blast to remove paint.
Nitrogen isn't flammable or does not explode. What are you even talking about?
Lovely Bench Vice.
I live in a throw away society born of being in a country with wealth relative to much of the world.
We see things such as these as junk, not for what they can be. A couple of hundred years ago people in my county had to build most things themselves. This self reliance has been lost.
I had a cheap Timex sports watch for at least 10 years. While visiting my brother five years ago I replaced the battery and strap. His wife commented that I was wasting time, buy a new one. I told my brother to watch out, he was old and she may replace him with a new one.
Two days ago the watch finally wore out and cannot be coaxed back to life. I will buy another of that model and it will probably outlive me.
Don’t you recycle the material
My father-in-law from the Czech Republic has had his Czech made watch for 45 years. He was just visiting and told me this. The thing survived the Communists.