Good point. Largely because it was what I was thinking. Long time viewer etcetc. I haven't seen the rollenator since, that I remember. I'll have to check to see if I have seen the Tap Trick episode.
This is exactly what I admire about machinists: you want a thing, you have some tools and material, you make a thing. There’s some kinda magic in deciding “I want this thing to exist now” and then making it so.
@@jutde Ah, but thats $500 of bragging rights and fun! Given, i'm not a machinist, i am someone who enjoys designing things in my head and creating them myself. Tinkering, you might say.
This has got to end. I'm in my 60's for crying out loud. I have a metal shop and a wood shop, more garage than most mechanics. Restored motorcycles, hot rods, even a bus conversion for a lawn ornament. I just want to relax now Tony. I just want to sit on the porch and watch my grandkids grow up. I don't want to take out another equity line so I can put up another outbuilding. I don't want to run dedicated 3 phase in. I don't want to spend every damn day cruising Craigslist for deals. I don't want to dust off my falls and skates and call in favors from a bunch of other old duffers to huff tons of 50 year old beat up machines and tooling up the mountain. I don't want her to go off on me about yet another money pit I dived into.Hell, I have yet to tell her the plan to put up a pole barn so I can start an antique heavy equipment rescue. Now it's ring rollers. Really Tony? Really! Why Tony? Why you do this?
This give me a courage to continue, as I was thinking I am the only one to be so mad.... :)))) In the way to finish the wood and metal shop with almost everything(impossible) in my house 1st floor , also building a decent loft myself in front of the house. With some plans build caffe racers... and I am only in 40s All of this in an era, when everybody want to construct a big buildings, and gave me a fair amount of apartments for this place in the center of the capital.... Anyway... the same questions so far... :)
Oh I am right there with you brother, minus the bus lawn ornament. I MUST stop shopping on the online auction houses. Looks like I am currently winning a 3 phase surface grinder that no one else wants. I don't even have 3 phase here. My god, I am addicted. Wait... admitting a problem; isn't that the first step in recovery?
@@6milesup I'm with matt rickard and DeepPastry. You don't have a moral problem, you only have a phase problem, at worst a financial problem. Buy more tools! Too many is not enough!
Everyone always says “10-12 min is the perfect length for a TH-cam video...don’t go over that”...I get so happy when I see I’m about to watch 30min of TOT!!
That's only for the click baity, run of the mill, vomit content that youtube has encouraged. When you've got someone who's actually producing interesting, intellectual content I say feel it out and see what works for you and your viewer base. I would happily watch 30 minute+ vids like this on a regular basis(whether that be days apart or whatever) than some bumbling attention whorey 10.01min long daily trash. I used to be a big fan of alec steele but more recently I feel his content has fell down the youtube pit of dispair and he's now making shorter vids with too much filler bs to make his daily content as interesting as it used to be. He hasn't gone full clickbait hypemonster yet, but it's a slippery slope.
Filthy casuals have short attention spans. We all know as long as the content is good, the longer the better. You can always pause and come back anytime if you get bored or something. But yeah 30 minutes is a nice length.
For ten years I worked in a small job shop making tools then four more in a die making shop. Always wanted to set up my own, but one thing or another prohibited me every time I started. Now at 73 living in an RV it is a passing dream but I sure do like to watch you. You make me feel at home.
Not sure where you live and what your options are. That said, consider googling "maker space" in your area. It's not exactly as good as having own shop but as the Rolling Stones put it, you can't always get what you want so you get what you need and maybe a community shop with various tools and machines is just that. Hopefully there is one nearby where you live.
@@MrGreenAKAguci00 So true! A retired carpenter I know moved to a development where they have a huge woodshop/ metal shop with literally TWO of everything. The dues? $20 PER YEAR!
Too many stupid people on internet these days.They want ,makeup tutorials and stupid pranks and vlogs-the dumber video is ,more subs and views it will have -not machining,its small audience.
it's because despite the odd good joke a majority of the content is really dry, i actually do care about machining and to be fair to the dude these videos do struggle to hold my attention.
Aside from your skill in taking a thing from design to functioning device, you have a very well developed set of presentation skills that make watching the process really fascinating, entertaining, and educational. I had no idea what a "ring roller" was, and I watched an entire 30 minute video to find out.
I had a choice when I started in this industry between mechanical and electrical. While electrical pays better, mechanical work gives you far more experience in everyday applications. 10 years later, would I have changed? Yes But I can fix damn near everything on my car, home, and at my job.
This video's makes me think back to an argument I had with an old engineer back when I was young and fresh from training (And had a bit of paper that proved that I knew everything. :) ). The super abridged version of the conversation is that I was complaining that I didn't have the right tool to do a particular job, The old timer replied with "Once man has fire he can make a forge, Once he has a forge he can make basic tools, Once he has basic tools he can make complex tools, And once he has those he can make anything". My response was "Well, Why don't you f**k off to your forge and hammer us up a surface grinder then?". I later found out that this little comment resulted in the words "Confrontational and negative" being added to my company record. Oh well. :)
Thats like Fucking with your Career!!!.. FOLKS that Cant Take JOKES need some cocaine to blend in with the rest of normally active joksters! .. like meh . id laugh my head off infront of him .. and say confrontational my steel toe :p
So why do tool and die shops exist? someone still has to make it :P probably more cost effective for someone who has spare material and parts laying around too
When the counterbore is too close to the edge I like to just have it milled right out through the edge to form a u-shape. It looks better, especially if the edge has a chamfer or fillet.
I can justify any mistake I make while machining as an improvement over the original drawing. Its a valuable skill in itself. In fact, I’m much more skilled at it than I am at machining.
This is the stuff young American men have been denied the last 30 years. My shop instructor Mr. Starks would approve of this video. I for one adore your presentation, humor and lathe work. Keep up the great work Sir.
It's really nice to watch one of these vijayos and remember bits of Metal Shop just as TOT is showing it or starting to talk about it. Now if only our teachers had been as good at teaching as he is... I mean, showing why trig was worth learning! (see his sine plate video)
I had this in highschool, full on metal shop, last in the county as far as I know. We had a nice ring roller, with a big wheel on it so you could spin it up and really throw material through it. Fun times. I long for the day I can have a garage full of machines and get yelled at by the wife for tracking chips into the house.
@King Jace The Mighty Hey, learning how to learn is the secret to success in life, so while your teacher being lazy is unfortunate, ultimately, you'll probably be better off because you'll have learned how to learn and you have machines to play on. You might also ask if the teacher would be willing to open the shop up after school so you can get more hours in. Time spent throwing chips and striking arcs is never wasted.
I think you definitely need to be a bit of a tool geek to find these videos of Tony's funny (which I am but don't tell anyone) but the production value of all his videos is absolutely top rate.
I'm more impressed by how far he's come in a few years.. Go and see his early stuff, shaky hand held footage. Then compare to this and you'll have a hard time believing it's the same channel!
This vid is seriously next level. MrPete222 addition was fantastic! The video trickery was on point, especially the rotary weld table, microwave popcorn part! Please TOT, consider Patreon. Maybe ask in the community tab by taking a poll. I don't watch normal TV thanks to creators like yourself so It would be my pleasure to throw a few bucks at you a month. Oh, the ring roller came out great as well.... almost forgot about that. haha
I never LOL'ed so much in a long time! I almost spit up my coffee when you referenced the machinist feud with "On one four fingered hand..." absolute genius here....
Sir (probably Tony), I found your videos only two days ago, searching for information about (potentially my new) lathe. The way you play with words, machines, ideas and camera makes me laughing. You are smart like old vise machinist and playful like child. I love your sense of humor. Greetings from Slovakia :)
@@wafrikano Engineers might mess up at making things perfectly suited to how you prefer to build things, but its the engineers that make sure the part will last years and years and follows all the standards needed. Essentially they're responsible for telling you what to do, respect that.
Hey Tony! I just wanted to thank you for your awesome videos, You have inspired me to start taking manufacturing classes and am now on my way to becoming a machinist. Thank you for the inspiration. You rock!
This is not the place for serious replies. Tell him your stand-up comedy career was failing so now you’re taking machining lessons in the hope your stand-up gets better!
SpatialGuy I was working as an editor and sound designer and I'm now going to school to become a machinist. Having a desk job and working on commercials was really unfulfilling. So I figured I would rather work with my hands and not have to deal with the bullshit that comes with the entertainment industry.
You should build 2 of every tool like this you make then sell it. Even if it was more expensive than a commercially available one, i bet people would pay the premium to support you and have the story behind it.
lsdave I could not agree more. Even a raffle, maybe quarterly, would do a lot of fund raising. No shame in making a buck, TOT would just buy more tooling anyway.
used to have one of these at my old job building custom doors, gates, fences, and entrance enclosures. It was a lot bigger and arm powered. These knurled rollers seem like they would cause blemishes on softer medals, our machine used smooth rollers. On a side note I have just discovered your channel today and subscribes after the first video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your experiments with us, I look forward to your future videos.
Superb work. Informative and amusing as ever. Hearing Mr Pete's voice in the background (knucklehead!) reminds me how fortunate we are to be a part of this great online engineering community.
Things like this really make me excited to continue with my applied science degree. Cannot wait to start learning more and more about machining and all the jazz that goes along with it.
@ 24:56, Had everyone at Hardees looking at me like I was stupid I was laughing so hard, came home and watched this again, even funnier the second time around. Love the videos, as a Machinist I came for the skill you have,stayed for the humor you add to that skill, keep up the good work and great attitude, I'm really surprised you haven't hit a million subscribers by now.
The challenge of bringing an idea into a reality, love it. Inspiring! The problem solving theory; if all you own is a hammer everything is just a nail. Tony's hammer is a welder, lathe, miller, CNC and great humor. Cheers!
Very entertaining. You metal workers are true artists. I do water color paintings, wood working, but this is altogether just as much an art form. It's amazing to a non-metal working guy like myself to watch you carving to .001 of an inch. Very creative. Love the humor mixed in too. Thanks for posting.
Wow, this has got to be one of your absolute best!!! You must lay awake at night thinking up new and creative things to put in your videos!!! Thank you sir!!!
I just watched this in silence and was sitting here the whole 30 minutes trying to figure out what the hell you were making. By the end I just figured you were showcasing different machining techniques as you utilized so many different kinds, but when you sent that flat bar through and rolled that shit into a circle it all came together and I was crazy impressed. Very imaginative and skilled work there, I'd still have subscribed even if this was your only video ever. Thanks for sharing, this was very entertaining and educational!
Tony, I just got one of those. It cost me a buck 350+ the core charge. I returned the next day with the core, and he had closed up shop and moved. Actually, he closed his trunk, and I heard he was in the next town. Thanks for the entertainment.
This is definitely my favorite channel, anywhere. I love just about everything about it. ' It did however instill a belief that Milling, or Routing for that matter, is a super fast way to machine metal, chips flying at near the speed of sound. After watching abom, I started suspecting I was missing something. How can a hobby-priced lathe outrun the million horsepower professional (and profitable) machine shop machines? Apparently, I was fooled by the precisely-good-enough-to-be-believable special effects. With your teaching skills, you could easily have taught the 3D-'specialists' that made LOTR make everyone believe it was actually filmed on-site in Middlegaard (or Midgård, as it's actually named after). (Not actually critisizing those masters of making stories come alive. If you ever watched the 'behind the scenes' of LOTR... Man, the people behind those movies are some wizards with... everyting. Computers, clothing, mold-making. Even got master smiths making swords! Mindblowing, it is.) Thanks a bunch for sharing! (PS. For us just starting out, perhaps you could do a 'Machining on a shoestring, without any machining machines' series? How to make a try-square using files, some abrasives and elbow grease. DIY drill press. Perhaps even a lathe-from-scratch. Things like that. Just a thought, and I bet it would be lots of opportunities for some quality humor.)
I have no experience of milling etc. But I have a great admiration of people that create functional beautiful objects from metal. I have learnt so much watching your videos, and I find myself constantly examining objects to work out its manufacturing processes. Wonderful videos and funny as hell. You have found your multifaceted vocation. Bravo!!!!
Just what I need. So much that I'm gonna make one. I fell into the trap of buying SCA nylon tyre trolley wheels which have inbuilt obsolescence (perish) . I have victory fantasies of fabricating steel wheels (like olden days) which never go flat. BUT i was stuck at making the steel circle to spec. Thks old Tony. You're a bottler.
Man that can’t get enough of this old Tony 🙌🏼 I think I’m down to 6 more videos before I’ve completed all of them 😑 always happy to see new uploads 👌🏼 my metal work playlist is piling up 🍻
Wonderful video. Our machinists never demonstrated your humor when trying to build what we designed. BTW, if that was 300 series stainless you rolled, it work hardened a little more each time thru the roll, explaining the difficulty you mentioned. But you knew that.
2:55 Interesting fact: He used "kung fu" correctly. It technically means "expert skill." One's kung fu can be strong in mowing lawns, or engineering chemicals.
I dunno how much one of them cost . but i do know .. Building someyhing from nothing and the sense of pride and enjoyment from doing so . is PRICELESS !!! Nice job !! Wish i had that kind of Talent.....
ToT... there's only so many times you can properly laugh before the Mrs takes offence. I breached that threshold. Totally worth it. P.S. You can only muffle Tubalcan, he will return.
I doubt we will be seeing the "This Old Tony Fine Watch Company" any time soon. Good stuff as always Tony. Oh, and the machining stuff was pretty good too.........LOL
My wife just walked by and saw the pixilation and movement on my screen and said, in a disgusted tone. "Your dirty". I said. "No, No, Nooo, its machining porn". That only made it worse. The look she gave me. Said to hell with it. Went out to the shop to start building a f*ck machine. Only problem is that to build it, properly, I need a ring roller. Sigh.
yeah you hit the nail on the head for CnC v manual. If you're doing one or two parts manual is often better, unless you already have a very, very similar program set up for it. It's what we certainly do at work, and the time cost of coding for the new part is often outweighs the time saving the CnC machining then gives.
LOL 😆...my hands are restless from watching old Tony.. so educational, he should be a shop teacher. I will sign up and start to restore any old machines.
Ah, the knurling sums confidence trick. 1. Calculate "a" circumference. 2. Waste time hitting the diameter for it "exactly". 3. "Confidently" push the tool into the work through 3 or 4 other diameters that also give whole multiples of the pitch. Claim the reason you get a decent knurl is doing the sums, even though if you wanted to calculate accurately, you need to know what the circumference *will be* at the root of the knurl *after* you cold form peaks & then allow just the right extra to push up into peaks, a much more complex problem than I ever saw anyone actually calculate. Doable, but nobody does. Boils down to, go in confidently & the tool finds *one of* the diameters that works, go in half-assed & end up with it double-forming or making a mess. I invite anyone interested to do those same calculations themselves for say 2 inch or 50 mm ish diameter work, it's easy to prove you push the knurl in past several "theoretical" working diameters. It's black magic as Tony says, or just confidence & feel.
I suspect the black magic of knurling is due to the fact that the tool is free spinning and not driven or connected to the drive. This would allow it to "slip" into place if it doesn't line up precisely, otherwise it would tread over previous ridges. So as long as it's close enough, it should self align. Though, it likely does introduce some small undue stress on the work and the tool as the tool and the ridges get pushed around, but probably not to any greater extent than they would already see just using the tool. So, ideally it probably should be some factor of the circumference, but in the end, it likely doesn't matter.
This is a dad joke channel with a machining problem. love it.
Reminds me when I visited friends in Annapolis, MD. They are a drinking town with a sailing problem.
Right! I'm not even a father, and this is a very entertaining/trance inducing channel!
Or a machining dad with a joke problem. Matters not. They're two of my favourite genres
@@fpfree8821 a machining joke channel with a dad problem?
Simply all of this is gold... no stale MRE cracker disembowelment for y’all today!
Note to self (and others): When TOT says "...see a lot more of this in the future..." there's a 50/50 chance that you'll never see it again.
Well, at least it's 50%. So many Others don't even start.
3 years later... still nothing.
Late 2021 here, yeah this checks out.
Y'all this did show up again briefly at the start of I think the tap trick video. It's on the bench in one of the opening shots
Good point. Largely because it was what I was thinking. Long time viewer etcetc. I haven't seen the rollenator since, that I remember. I'll have to check to see if I have seen the Tap Trick episode.
This is exactly what I admire about machinists: you want a thing, you have some tools and material, you make a thing. There’s some kinda magic in deciding “I want this thing to exist now” and then making it so.
how i feel about art when i create it lol
"independence" that's what the magic is called. and it really is the best thing you can have on this earth.
The real magic is spending $500 in labor (time) to save $5 on shipping costs for something you could buy on Amazon 😉
@@jutde oh cmon now, im only guilty of that if i know the 5$ version is going to break doing what I need it to do forever.
@@jutde Ah, but thats $500 of bragging rights and fun!
Given, i'm not a machinist, i am someone who enjoys designing things in my head and creating them myself. Tinkering, you might say.
This has got to end.
I'm in my 60's for crying out loud. I have a metal shop and a wood shop, more garage than most mechanics. Restored motorcycles, hot rods, even a bus conversion for a lawn ornament.
I just want to relax now Tony. I just want to sit on the porch and watch my grandkids grow up.
I don't want to take out another equity line so I can put up another outbuilding. I don't want to run dedicated 3 phase in. I don't want to spend every damn day cruising Craigslist for deals. I don't want to dust off my falls and skates and call in favors from a bunch of other old duffers to huff tons of 50 year old beat up machines and tooling up the mountain. I don't want her to go off on me about yet another money pit I dived into.Hell, I have yet to tell her the plan to put up a pole barn so I can start an antique heavy equipment rescue.
Now it's ring rollers. Really Tony? Really!
Why Tony? Why you do this?
This give me a courage to continue, as I was thinking I am the only one to be so mad.... :))))
In the way to finish the wood and metal shop with almost everything(impossible) in my house 1st floor , also building a decent loft myself in front of the house. With some plans build caffe racers... and I am only in 40s
All of this in an era, when everybody want to construct a big buildings, and gave me a fair amount of apartments for this place in the center of the capital....
Anyway... the same questions so far... :)
Oh I am right there with you brother, minus the bus lawn ornament. I MUST stop shopping on the online auction houses. Looks like I am currently winning a 3 phase surface grinder that no one else wants. I don't even have 3 phase here. My god, I am addicted. Wait... admitting a problem; isn't that the first step in recovery?
@@6milesup ... Well you don't actually need 3 phase to run it, just a phase converter. Static versions are least costly.
@@6milesup Exactly! That means that you can by more stuff because you are already getting better!😉👍
@@6milesup I'm with matt rickard and DeepPastry. You don't have a moral problem, you only have a phase problem, at worst a financial problem. Buy more tools! Too many is not enough!
Everyone always says “10-12 min is the perfect length for a TH-cam video...don’t go over that”...I get so happy when I see I’m about to watch 30min of TOT!!
That's only for the click baity, run of the mill, vomit content that youtube has encouraged. When you've got someone who's actually producing interesting, intellectual content I say feel it out and see what works for you and your viewer base. I would happily watch 30 minute+ vids like this on a regular basis(whether that be days apart or whatever) than some bumbling attention whorey 10.01min long daily trash.
I used to be a big fan of alec steele but more recently I feel his content has fell down the youtube pit of dispair and he's now making shorter vids with too much filler bs to make his daily content as interesting as it used to be. He hasn't gone full clickbait hypemonster yet, but it's a slippery slope.
I made the surprisingly pleasent mistake of not looking at the time stamp, its now 20 minutes past my bed time :/
That other tool?
Filthy casuals have short attention spans. We all know as long as the content is good, the longer the better. You can always pause and come back anytime if you get bored or something. But yeah 30 minutes is a nice length.
30 min? Hell, I'd like to see a feature-length movie
For ten years I worked in a small job shop making tools then four more in a die making shop. Always wanted to set up my own, but one thing or another prohibited me every time I started. Now at 73 living in an RV it is a passing dream but I sure do like to watch you. You make me feel at home.
You deserved that shop mate, sux bein a slave to the system :(
Live it vicariously my friend!
Not sure where you live and what your options are. That said, consider googling "maker space" in your area. It's not exactly as good as having own shop but as the Rolling Stones put it, you can't always get what you want so you get what you need and maybe a community shop with various tools and machines is just that. Hopefully there is one nearby where you live.
@@MrGreenAKAguci00 So true! A retired carpenter I know moved to a development where they have a huge woodshop/ metal shop with literally TWO of everything. The dues? $20 PER YEAR!
We take care of our own here in the U.S. Sorry to here it!
The diversity of references from Japanese porn to microwave popcorn make me wonder why you don’t have a million subscribers yet for the humor alone.
Too many stupid people on internet these days.They want ,makeup tutorials and stupid pranks and vlogs-the dumber video is ,more subs and views it will have -not machining,its small audience.
I think not all people will understand that kind of joke, I mean some people will say "its a joke, right?" of course we know it is a joke.
it's because despite the odd good joke a majority of the content is really dry, i actually do care about machining and to be fair to the dude these videos do struggle to hold my attention.
And cutting aluminum with his bare hands. Don't forget that!
@@zumbazumba1 you're right, Japanese porn references are way better than makeup tutorials :p
That stretchy drill is one of your best bits yet........
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ HHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...
Ahh, yes! The elongation of a helical coil around an inclined plane!!!
I imagine that in Farnsworth's voice
He said "bits"!
Nice double entendre.
How in the world a 30 minute video keeps every second relevant, this is the ONLY channel where I NEVER scroll forward but backwards.
Aside from your skill in taking a thing from design to functioning device, you have a very well developed set of presentation skills that make watching the process really fascinating, entertaining, and educational.
I had no idea what a "ring roller" was, and I watched an entire 30 minute video to find out.
Then there's roll rings ...
Google is your friend...
@@johndias6614 I'd say they are noisy corp of surveilleurs, more than a friend. Duckduckgo.com is much more trustworthy imo
I had a choice when I started in this industry between mechanical and electrical.
While electrical pays better, mechanical work gives you far more experience in everyday applications.
10 years later, would I have changed?
Yes
But I can fix damn near everything on my car, home, and at my job.
@@johndias6614 Google/TH-cam got me here in the first place ;-)
Your editing and presentation are legendary.
Your grammar is not
@@jan48712 your dickheadness is tho
@@Autonomous15 calling someone a dick head makes you a cry baby? Well ok then.
Word!
Jan Chren don’t be a dick bud; maybe someone will call you Dick Smallwood
Thanks for making this! It inspired me to stop procrastinating, roll up my sleeves, and head out to harbor freight to buy one of my own!
This video's makes me think back to an argument I had with an old engineer back when I was young and fresh from training (And had a bit of paper that proved that I knew everything. :) ). The super abridged version of the conversation is that I was complaining that I didn't have the right tool to do a particular job, The old timer replied with "Once man has fire he can make a forge, Once he has a forge he can make basic tools, Once he has basic tools he can make complex tools, And once he has those he can make anything". My response was "Well, Why don't you f**k off to your forge and hammer us up a surface grinder then?".
I later found out that this little comment resulted in the words "Confrontational and negative" being added to my company record. Oh well. :)
Reman1975 this literally made me giggle. 😂
Thanks for the story!
I kinda feel like you deserved that XD
Thats like Fucking with your Career!!!.. FOLKS that Cant Take JOKES need some cocaine to blend in with the rest of normally active joksters! .. like meh . id laugh my head off infront of him .. and say confrontational my steel toe :p
😂😂😂😂
So why do tool and die shops exist? someone still has to make it :P probably more cost effective for someone who has spare material and parts laying around too
Man that roller just has such a cool look to it. The shaper and Mr. Pete gags had me laughing hard too.
PE in da house
Yeah. you should engineer something practical for him to make with it :p
Practical Engineering - Do I smell a bromance going on here?? lol
TowME > your opinion is equally important as anyone else’s. In fact, after re-reading my comment, it is a little (a lot) crude.Thank you.
noxxi knox > No.
Having Mr. Pete scolding you was comedy genius! It’s like what most of your videos have, but just a bit better 🤣
When the counterbore is too close to the edge I like to just have it milled right out through the edge to form a u-shape. It looks better, especially if the edge has a chamfer or fillet.
oh the old, "I'm designed this for easily removal!"
@@TimKellerLinuxNinja Just the counterbore, not the through-hole, unless that is what you want.
I can justify any mistake I make while machining as an improvement over the original drawing. Its a valuable skill in itself. In fact, I’m much more skilled at it than I am at machining.
Honestly, I have NO IDEA what you're doing or talking about but the way you present it is satisfying
Update: NOW I get what this is
This is the stuff young American men have been denied the last 30 years. My shop instructor Mr. Starks would approve of this video. I for one adore your presentation, humor and lathe work. Keep up the great work Sir.
It's really nice to watch one of these vijayos and remember bits of Metal Shop just as TOT is showing it or starting to talk about it.
Now if only our teachers had been as good at teaching as he is... I mean, showing why trig was worth learning! (see his sine plate video)
Neal Head your probably right for most areas in the country.
I had this in highschool, full on metal shop, last in the county as far as I know. We had a nice ring roller, with a big wheel on it so you could spin it up and really throw material through it. Fun times.
I long for the day I can have a garage full of machines and get yelled at by the wife for tracking chips into the house.
@King Jace The Mighty Hey, learning how to learn is the secret to success in life, so while your teacher being lazy is unfortunate, ultimately, you'll probably be better off because you'll have learned how to learn and you have machines to play on.
You might also ask if the teacher would be willing to open the shop up after school so you can get more hours in. Time spent throwing chips and striking arcs is never wasted.
Young American *anybody*
The best part was flipping the bushing over to check if it fit the other way. 😂
That's a level of desperation i think we have all experienced :)
@@koitorob i had flashbacks just before he flipped it over
I think you definitely need to be a bit of a tool geek to find these videos of Tony's funny (which I am but don't tell anyone) but the production value of all his videos is absolutely top rate.
I'm more impressed by how far he's come in a few years..
Go and see his early stuff, shaky hand held footage. Then compare to this and you'll have a hard time believing it's the same channel!
Man. I just thought of a project I need a ring roller for. And I was doing so well with my tool addiction recovery program.
This vid is seriously next level. MrPete222 addition was fantastic! The video trickery was on point, especially the rotary weld table, microwave popcorn part! Please TOT, consider Patreon. Maybe ask in the community tab by taking a poll. I don't watch normal TV thanks to creators like yourself so It would be my pleasure to throw a few bucks at you a month.
Oh, the ring roller came out great as well.... almost forgot about that. haha
This is The New Yankee Workshop for the TH-cam generation (and metalworking). Bravo Tony for another splendid video.
24:56 I tell you this man has the best indirect practical sense of humor ever.
Woohoo 30 minutes of Tony
Woohoo 2 seconds of Mr. Pete!
Aaaaand now I'm late for work
yayyy bc all he`s about is giving you 30 min of amusement!
Best 30 minutes of my day
And those junkies who allways complaine about how hard it is to quit. They don´t have a clue what I´m going through between Tonys videos.
ha ha ha : Flanged - Plane - Bear-ring.....
your style of levity always keeps me coming back for more.
I was just grateful once the graphics started that the last graphic wasn't the Australian version....
Dude- when I say I laughed out loud at the blurred-out shaper part. Omg, soo funny!!
got me too haha
Tony makes me chuckle a lot. That one got me! LOL!!!
Right!? And the so-bad-it's-good 80's _...ahem..._ 'film' music.
It's SO GOOD.
I have to admit, I laughed out loud and scared the s#it out of the cat.
@Path I think he meant to write, "When I say I laughed out loud, it's an understatement --- I absolutely GUFFAWED and PEED MYSELF!"
I usually stretch my drills the same way, very effective.. pro tip, put it in the freezer if you want it back to the original lenght
Lmao
been looking all over any idea where i can buy a board stretcher at ?? lol
I never LOL'ed so much in a long time! I almost spit up my coffee when you referenced the machinist feud with "On one four fingered hand..." absolute genius here....
Sir (probably Tony), I found your videos only two days ago, searching for information about (potentially my new) lathe. The way you play with words, machines, ideas and camera makes me laughing. You are smart like old vise machinist and playful like child. I love your sense of humor. Greetings from Slovakia :)
The popcorn gag is your best yet.
We have highly paid Engineers in the design department and YOU change the dimensions ? you knucklehead !! LMMFAO
Õp
The designers and engineers are clueless, unless they get their hands dirty
@@wafrikano Engineers might mess up at making things perfectly suited to how you prefer to build things, but its the engineers that make sure the part will last years and years and follows all the standards needed. Essentially they're responsible for telling you what to do, respect that.
@@fredriklarsen5968 all i heard was cartman yelling RESPECT MAH AUTHORATAE!!
@@aexwor1 LOL!!!
This was my first exposure to This Old Tony. Looks like I'm gonna have to go binge watch a bunch more videos now lol. Very cool.
Hey Tony! I just wanted to thank you for your awesome videos, You have inspired me to start taking manufacturing classes and am now on my way to becoming a machinist. Thank you for the inspiration. You rock!
skipopotamus good luck to ya brother.
This is not the place for serious replies. Tell him your stand-up comedy career was failing so now you’re taking machining lessons in the hope your stand-up gets better!
SpatialGuy lol. I am actually doing a career change from the entertainment industry. So not too far off.
skipopotamus > lol. What are you changing to?
BYW - one of the best names I’ve seen lol
SpatialGuy I was working as an editor and sound designer and I'm now going to school to become a machinist. Having a desk job and working on commercials was really unfulfilling. So I figured I would rather work with my hands and not have to deal with the bullshit that comes with the entertainment industry.
You could buy the same item for $69.95 plus shipping, but not in that colour. For that.. I’m gonna say priceless.
where?
similar to this www.baileigh.com/manual-roll-bender-r-m3?
In my mind!!! (Wierd crazy laughter)
Emerson White That's gotta sting.
As an added bonus. The Harbor Freight one walks the material off the rollers, so you don't have to do it yourself.
Apparently the HF one has some plastic bushings and the metal tends to walk off....
"Knurling is just Black Magic, so don't worry about it." -wisest man ever
You should build 2 of every tool like this you make then sell it. Even if it was more expensive than a commercially available one, i bet people would pay the premium to support you and have the story behind it.
This one is probably 69.99$ in materials only, probably more.
Just gotta find a stencil and some spray paint to let everyone know who made it.
lsdave I could not agree more. Even a raffle, maybe quarterly, would do a lot of fund raising. No shame in making a buck, TOT would just buy more tooling anyway.
Who wouldn't pay over the market rate for a "TOT Original", a potential collectors item?!?!
Count me in!
Why am I just now discovering this channel?
AlphaSquad, yes! I'm discovering it today (14/08/18).
You guys have been living in the darkness... :)
@@shtsurfer it feels good to find the light.
now you have to find the time to binge the back issues
I know, right? I discovered it about a week ago.
used to have one of these at my old job building custom doors, gates, fences, and entrance enclosures. It was a lot bigger and arm powered. These knurled rollers seem like they would cause blemishes on softer medals, our machine used smooth rollers. On a side note I have just discovered your channel today and subscribes after the first video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your experiments with us, I look forward to your future videos.
Yeah, you coulda bought it for $69.99, but what did it take you, like 30 minutes 11 seconds? That's a great hourly rate!
eltorrisimo
more like 3 hours and a half.
but he got some money from the views and he got to learn and teach at the same time, overhaul, yeah it's time efficient for him
the cyan platipus more like 3 1/2 days.
I can't even describe how badly I needed these 30 minutes of Zen after today. Thank you!
You and Frank Howarth. You entertain, have fun and still make something that is very professional and utilitarian. Thanks for all.
Oh man, the bolts... :)
Clickspring c'mon maverick leave goose alone
No thoughts on the, uh, precision gear meshing technique at 17:50?
:P
iwtommo Yeah, where’s a depthing tool when you need one!
they would have looked nice if just endmilled out the sides as pockets
I could have sworn he was going to blue them like how you do it but using ball-bearings. Then they popped and I nearly woke my wife laughing at it.
Dear This Old Tony, you make the difficult seem impossible.
Or the impossible seem difficult?
"Did you even LOOK at the print before you started machining?!" LMFAO brilliant.
The microwave pop-nuts earned you a new sub. Keep up the good work!
My microwave turned ball bearings into sheet metal... you must have used defrost mode!
UCanDoIt2 yea in my microwave the ball bearings turned into pop rivets.
Yea.... you cooked then too fast!!!!
Mine turned into drill bits...
Mine just exploded.
I really screwed up, I got metric sockets... maybe I had metric bearings...
Timecodes for LULs:
Nice fit 4:10 - 4:35
Assembly difficulties 14:50
Change of the plans on the go can lead to certain mistakes 17:20
Superb work. Informative and amusing as ever. Hearing Mr Pete's voice in the background (knucklehead!) reminds me how fortunate we are to be a part of this great online engineering community.
22:22 That coolant looks like it's feeding out of a 5 year old catheter bag... 😷🤕😷
Most catheter bags are on 75+ year olds... :-)
I would say "No shit" but I'm not sure!
Mmmm yummy Gatorade i believe the flavour is fermented mango and urine.
Looks like pruno (prison hooch), don't ask me how I know!
James Kilroy > I’m not sure either! lol 🤮
Things like this really make me excited to continue with my applied science degree. Cannot wait to start learning more and more about machining and all the jazz that goes along with it.
@ 24:56, Had everyone at Hardees looking at me like I was stupid I was laughing so hard, came home and watched this again, even funnier the second time around.
Love the videos, as a Machinist I came for the skill you have,stayed for the humor you add to that skill, keep up the good work and great attitude, I'm really surprised you haven't hit a million subscribers by now.
Tot is over 1M subs now, and this video has 3.3M views. At least two of those are mine!
The challenge of bringing an idea into a reality, love it. Inspiring! The problem solving theory; if all you own is a hammer everything is just a nail. Tony's hammer is a welder, lathe, miller, CNC and great humor. Cheers!
I'm not a machinist but I enjoy your videos and wise cracks . Keep'em coming.
There’s not many left now that can use the ‘candle method’ to stretch drill bits! Excellent video! Subscribed.
It's truly a lost art. I bet none of those gol' dern millenials know how to do it.
Your craftsmanship is absolutely beautiful.
Very entertaining. You metal workers are true artists. I do water color paintings, wood working, but this is altogether just as much an art form. It's amazing to a non-metal working guy like myself to watch you carving to .001 of an inch. Very creative. Love the humor mixed in too. Thanks for posting.
Whoa. I tried that drill bit stretching trick and it really works. Thanks for showing everyone. Cheers.
I like hearing MrPete and his pearls of wisdom! You better heed his warning, remember with age comes wisdom.
yeah i am now glad he wasnt my shop teacher
The cheapest price on Ebay was about $88. If I had your shop I'd build my own. Nice build. I really like your educational info on your video;s. Thanks
The exacto knife sharpening cracked me up! XD
Esteban why? He didn't even use it - waste of time because those things go blunt just lying around. :-)
Then tearing the aluminum sheet by hand, hehehe
Esteban Franchina he had me at cutting the steel with the bolt cutter :0
@@probablynotabigtoe9407 lol that wasn't even a bolt cutter... it was a tree pruner, for, y'know, wood and garden stuff.
@@tzxazrael that is correct!
Wow, this has got to be one of your absolute best!!! You must lay awake at night thinking up new and creative things to put in your videos!!! Thank you sir!!!
I'm not a machinist at all but I enjoy watching your videos for the humor and your machining skills.
The long awaited winter blockbuster has been released! Thanks Tony!
I just watched this in silence and was sitting here the whole 30 minutes trying to figure out what the hell you were making. By the end I just figured you were showcasing different machining techniques as you utilized so many different kinds, but when you sent that flat bar through and rolled that shit into a circle it all came together and I was crazy impressed. Very imaginative and skilled work there, I'd still have subscribed even if this was your only video ever. Thanks for sharing, this was very entertaining and educational!
Tony, I just got one of those. It cost me a buck 350+ the core charge. I returned the next day with the core, and he had closed up shop and moved. Actually, he closed his trunk, and I heard he was in the next town. Thanks for the entertainment.
As I re-watch some of these TOT videos, I go to give a thumbs up to realize previous me has already done it. Well done previous me.
This is definitely my favorite channel, anywhere. I love just about everything about it.
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It did however instill a belief that Milling, or Routing for that matter, is a super fast way to machine metal, chips flying at near the speed of sound. After watching abom, I started suspecting I was missing something. How can a hobby-priced lathe outrun the million horsepower professional (and profitable) machine shop machines? Apparently, I was fooled by the precisely-good-enough-to-be-believable special effects. With your teaching skills, you could easily have taught the 3D-'specialists' that made LOTR make everyone believe it was actually filmed on-site in Middlegaard (or Midgård, as it's actually named after). (Not actually critisizing those masters of making stories come alive. If you ever watched the 'behind the scenes' of LOTR... Man, the people behind those movies are some wizards with... everyting. Computers, clothing, mold-making. Even got master smiths making swords! Mindblowing, it is.)
Thanks a bunch for sharing!
(PS. For us just starting out, perhaps you could do a 'Machining on a shoestring, without any machining machines' series? How to make a try-square using files, some abrasives and elbow grease. DIY drill press. Perhaps even a lathe-from-scratch. Things like that. Just a thought, and I bet it would be lots of opportunities for some quality humor.)
I have no experience of milling etc. But I have a great admiration of people that create functional beautiful objects from metal. I have learnt so much watching your videos, and I find myself constantly examining objects to work out its manufacturing processes. Wonderful videos and funny as hell. You have found your multifaceted vocation. Bravo!!!!
The bearing image at 10:25 says "subscribe" on it. Very sneaky, +ThisOldTony.
Ha, I missed that but subscribed because this was better than watching most movies out of hollywood.
a few frames earlier, it said "Big Tatas"
Good catch!
Ah, that's why I felt the urge to subscribe...
The text radius was too big. (my confrontational negative reply)
I almost died laughing when Mr Pete popped in 😂
The plans Tony follow the plans.
By Henry Ford's ghost follow the plans.
Just what I need. So much that I'm gonna make one. I fell into the trap of buying SCA nylon tyre trolley wheels which have inbuilt obsolescence (perish) . I have victory fantasies of fabricating steel wheels (like olden days) which never go flat. BUT i was stuck at making the steel circle to spec. Thks old Tony. You're a bottler.
Man that can’t get enough of this old Tony 🙌🏼 I think I’m down to 6 more videos before I’ve completed all of them 😑 always happy to see new uploads 👌🏼 my metal work playlist is piling up 🍻
Here's hoping you don't become a creepy stalker and start following him around.
Not Dave go watch kitty videos bub this is above your critical thinking level 😁
"I have a feeling we're going to be seeing a lot of this thing in the future"
And then it never showed up again.
Hello from 2024!! Looking forward to more videos Tony!
Me 2 👍🏻
Wonderful video. Our machinists never demonstrated your humor when trying to build what we designed. BTW, if that was 300 series stainless you rolled, it work hardened a little more each time thru the roll, explaining the difficulty you mentioned. But you knew that.
Hands up for all who are sad not to see the lathe chase him around the shop... or who've got "Yakety Sax" stuck in their head now.
The comedy is on point. Never thought I'd be stuck at watching the construction of a part I have no clue about
2:55 Interesting fact: He used "kung fu" correctly. It technically means "expert skill." One's kung fu can be strong in mowing lawns, or engineering chemicals.
Actually, it means something closer to "dedication" or "effort in learning".
Henceforth..... in my shop you will be referred to as "TubalTony". Nice video; nice work. Your honesty and insight are also appreciated.
I dunno how much one of them cost . but i do know .. Building someyhing from nothing and the sense of pride and enjoyment from doing so . is PRICELESS !!!
Nice job !! Wish i had that kind of Talent.....
so beautiful!
Haha! Wintergatan happy to see you here! Quality contents attract quality people, and it can not be otherwise. pls send me your modulin 11!1!
Great minds think alike
Whoa you watch this old tony?!
lol this old tony made some parts of the marble machine for wintergatan
Nice seeing you here
You are an interesting engineer to watch, I salute you
Been watching on and off for about 3 years now. I have a great appreciation for your perfectly subtle humor. Please keep making content. Thank you!
Best channel on TH-cam bar none
ToT... there's only so many times you can properly laugh before the Mrs takes offence. I breached that threshold. Totally worth it. P.S. You can only muffle Tubalcan, he will return.
You're a maniac using a drill that long with such a small diameter, Tony. I bow before your greatness.
I doubt we will be seeing the "This Old Tony Fine Watch Company" any time soon.
Good stuff as always Tony. Oh, and the machining stuff was pretty good too.........LOL
New channel name: Clunkspring!
I have a sign hanging in my machine shop - given by a professional engineering friend - “its not watchmaking!l
My wife just walked by and saw the pixilation and movement on my screen and said, in a disgusted tone.
"Your dirty".
I said. "No, No, Nooo, its machining porn".
That only made it worse.
The look she gave me.
Said to hell with it.
Went out to the shop to start building a f*ck machine.
Only problem is that to build it, properly, I need a ring roller.
Sigh.
BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 👍👍👍👍👍
don't google machine porn.
@@blackfox7161 i definitely will now.
I know of a video on how to build a ring roller if you wanna make one yourself
It's spelled, "pixElization"... just sayin' :)
yeah you hit the nail on the head for CnC v manual. If you're doing one or two parts manual is often better, unless you already have a very, very similar program set up for it. It's what we certainly do at work, and the time cost of coding for the new part is often outweighs the time saving the CnC machining then gives.
Amazing channel, the author tries very hard both in work and in editing, you watch all half an hour without looking up from the screen)
I love this channel! Funny, educational, and makes me want to hurry home and BUILD STUFF!
These videos are good for sleeping: calm voice of Tony + chill music + humming of machinery = good sleep.
Best part of my day, had a good laugh feeling better, I call it machine medicine
I love the voice of “god”. I also hear my old instructor in my head when I make an easily seen mistake.
LOL 😆...my hands are restless from watching old Tony.. so educational, he should be a shop teacher. I will sign up and start to restore any old machines.
Ah, the knurling sums confidence trick.
1. Calculate "a" circumference.
2. Waste time hitting the diameter for it "exactly".
3. "Confidently" push the tool into the work through 3 or 4 other diameters that also give whole multiples of the pitch.
Claim the reason you get a decent knurl is doing the sums, even though if you wanted to calculate accurately, you need to know what the circumference *will be* at the root of the knurl *after* you cold form peaks & then allow just the right extra to push up into peaks, a much more complex problem than I ever saw anyone actually calculate. Doable, but nobody does.
Boils down to, go in confidently & the tool finds *one of* the diameters that works, go in half-assed & end up with it double-forming or making a mess.
I invite anyone interested to do those same calculations themselves for say 2 inch or 50 mm ish diameter work, it's easy to prove you push the knurl in past several "theoretical" working diameters. It's black magic as Tony says, or just confidence & feel.
I suspect the black magic of knurling is due to the fact that the tool is free spinning and not driven or connected to the drive. This would allow it to "slip" into place if it doesn't line up precisely, otherwise it would tread over previous ridges. So as long as it's close enough, it should self align.
Though, it likely does introduce some small undue stress on the work and the tool as the tool and the ridges get pushed around, but probably not to any greater extent than they would already see just using the tool.
So, ideally it probably should be some factor of the circumference, but in the end, it likely doesn't matter.
thanks for always showing metric and imperial units. this is actually quite a good education to get a feel for conversion of units
Not sure why this was in my recommend but it’s awesome