Making a Stainless Steel Hot Shoe for Flat Track & Speedway Motorbike Racing
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2020
- Making a Stainless Steel Hot Shoe for Flat Track & Speedway Motorbike Racing.
A friend of mine recently asked me to make him a stainless steel hot shoe for flat track racing. This video shows the process of taking raw stainless steel and hand forming it into a stainless steel hot shoe for flat track racing.
The hot shoe is made from 2mm thick 304 stainless steel and Tig welded together.
The toe is drilled for decoration and the whole shoe is polished to a high gloss finish.
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Disclaimer: This video is meant for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is in no way meant to be a set of instructions and therefore no attempt should be made by any party to recreate what has been seen in this video. Any attempt to do so is done completely at your own risk. - Věda a technologie
Great work Rob! Thanks very much for all your help with my bike and of course this beautiful hot shoe. Can't wait to try it out this weekend!
Cheers Danny, so glad you lived the shoe and the video. Hope it performs as well as you are hoping. Thanks again for such a cool project.
Beautiful craftsmanship!
Good job I remember seeing a video of the late Ken Maely making "skid shoes" using band saw material and coating the bottom with Stellite.
All the years of watching Speedway and never even gave this a thought !!!
Really interesting .
Seriously Bad!!👍Great fabrication work!
Good job! You gotta get her hands on some titanium really cool at night.
Very nice! The welds look good, the polished finish is brilliant and the accents are a very nice touch.
I’m guessing you’ve gotten more orders for hotshoes since then.
Beautiful work! I truly enjoy watching skilled people ply their craft. It also fills me with hope seeing a British-man (sorry I don’t know what nation you hail from exactly) carrying on the industrial tradition that made the modern world possible.
Cheers from the U.S.A.
Thanks very much, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Yep I am British. I also worries me that a lot of traditional skills are being lost and that as a nation we don't seem to make as much any more. Thanks for watching.
The hot show came out HOT! Nice work. That was fun to watch, and gave me some ideas. Thanks 👍😎👍
Cheers, the guy I made it for was very happy with it. He's been out and used a it a few times now which is awesome to see. Thanks for the support.
Truly a thing of beauty.
Great informative comments and humble to the end. Subbed!!
Well done 👏
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and welcome to the channel.
Wow, that looks absolutely stunning! Really impressive seeing what you started from and ending up looking that perfect!
Thanks very much. Glad you enjoyed it
Nice job, I especially like the pattern work on the front!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Superb work man. 👍🏻
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. There is a follow up video coming out soon.
I'll keep an eye out for it, thank you.
Wow stunning piece of foot ware!!! Beautiful job 👏👏👏
Thank you! 😊
A good start for the toe top is find a big soup ladle, you can cut it to size and it’s pretty close to dimensions needed. Also you can find them in stainless or steel at any thrift store, restaurant supplies, goodwill ect ...
One of the best clogs I've ever seen! 🤩😀
Thanks very much. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching. 👍
Wow...the material you used was way thicker than I thought it’d be! Nice work! Love the wing tip vibe you gave it.
(As a hobby machinist/welder/metalist I’d like to make one of those so I could start kicking people off the start going into the first turn at my next motocross race! ✊🤘🏻😬 Lol)
I thought you were making a hot shoe camera mount. LOL Knew I had the wrong hot shoe as soon as I saw the boot. That is a great looking hot shoe. He will be proud to wear it.
Haha, I did think that when I was writing the video title. "hope people don't get this mixed up with a camera one" Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching.
Always a pleasure to watch your engineering skills Rob :) Another successful project!
Cheers very much. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for making such great tools!
Great work, I need one ASAP !!!
NICE!!!
That subscribe was on par with ToT. :D I would have hot worked everything, hate dishing steel while it is cold.
I'll take that as a complement. I love his chanel! Hot working would have been faster for sure. I could do with getting a bigger torch over here and some fire bricks to make a bit of a hearth.
Thanks for watching.
One sided Crocs !! 👍
very nice
Thanks
Very nice!!
Thanks!
Very nice! If you have a mig welder or a stick welder you can of course hard face the sole with one of them.
Cheers, good idea! I have a stick but I'm not very experienced with it to be honest. Need a bit of practice i think. Thanks for watching.
People have been experimenting with welded-on hard facing for years, it doesn't work. Distorts the shoe and hard to repair.
Great video 👍🏻
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it.
Handmade Extreme always enjoy your videos
Hard facing in the USA that's stick welding abrasion resistance on heavy equipment. Are you talking about case hardening?
Yep same here in the UK. There is a follow up to this video where you can see what it looked after it came back from someone else who did the hard facing.... I wasn't happy. Normally with the shoes like this the hard facing is brazed on since the sole is so thin. We do earth moving equipment with the stick welder just like you guys over the pond. Great question and thanks for the support.
@@Handmadeextreme Just found it, they tortured that poor shoe. Why did they just not stop when it was obvious it was going wrong.
@@devinholland2189 I asked myself the same thing.
@@devinholland2189 I asked myself the same thing.
Great vid 😁
Thanks, Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
You need to make a simple sand filled leather bag for shaping and multiple angle grinders.
Great ideas. The sand bag is on the to do list. Multiple grinders is also something I would really like. I'd like to have them all on a rack ready to go. Just don't have the space in the current workshop. Thanks for the support. 👍
And the best part about the whole deal is that it's half price because you only need one. Win, win.
Great workmanship as usual, how many hours did it take you? I would imagine it would cost a pretty penny to commission.
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it. I did it over a couple of days on and off. If I make another one I would do a few things slightly different to make it a bit quicker and easier.
Great video! Can I ask what gauge metal you used? And you mentioned you would use a lighter metal for the sides and toe. What gauge would you use next time? Thanks!
I think it was about 2mm (14SWG) I'd probably go to 1.6mm (16SWG) for the sides doing it over.
Beautiful job! Would you consider making for others?
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. Yeah I would make another. If you are interested then the best thing to do is contact me through my facebook page.
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next time you need to radius the edge to the side pieces no creases on the edges ever they will dig into the dirt an throw your leg nice fab skills though steel shoes are tricky
Thanks for the tip i'll bare that in mind if I ever make another one. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching.
How much to make a full on metal shoe like Iron Man?
A lot. 👍
Wish I had a plasma cutter or torch.
Curious why so few try aluminum.
If I had that Id never take it off!
Thanks, glad you like it.
In case you ever consider making another one, how much would it cost aprox?
Ballpark £225 for mild steel, £275 for stainless. Price very much depends on desired surface finish and decoration. More polishing and decoration = more cost. I'm happy to do any commissions really. Custom parts etc If you are interested the best thing to do on contact me through my Facebook page. facebook.com/handmadeextreme
Thanks for watching. 👍
Purely our of interest (too old to flat track) I was wondering if anyone had tried materials like ceramic for the sole of a hotshoe? Or maybe a ceramic coating? Also a while back I heard of new alloy involving gold and platium that is nearly as hard and scratch resistant as DIAMOND! Could yu imagine an ultru thin lining ot THAT? "
The platinum-gold alloy is 100 times more durable than high-strength steel. It is so resistant to wearing that one mile (1.6 kilometre) of skidding using the hypothetical tyres mentioned above would wear out only a single layer of atoms of the platinum-gold alloy.Aug 24, 2018"
So perhaps a hot shoe coated with the gold platinum alloy only say fraction a mm thick might still be seriously expensive? Still it could last 100 times longer than plain ol steel? So what then if it cost 2 times as much? especially if is 1/4 of the weight? Racers though would have to carry a safe in their race van just to store their hotshoe!
I Can’t for the life of me find out what type of brazing rod they use for hard facing. Did you ever happen to find out?
Stoody bare or stelite 1. I believe kenametal owns stelite now. Both for oxyacetylene application.
How much would you charge to make me one of these?
It was a bit of a one off to be honest. To make another a ballpark price would be about £300 dependant on materials and design. I would also need your boot in my workshop to make sure it fits correctly.
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that's too pretty, now he can't use it 😂
Haha, that did cross my mind to be honest. Glad you enjoyed it.