Amen! You nailed it in your first sentence, "foolish comments." I customize, fabricate, modify, or make my own tools all of the time here on my farm. Some tools just don't exist anymore for our antique hay and field equipment, tractors, and yes, for my Dad's 1930 Ford Model A.
It's hilarious because you can tell them that the tool being sold... was originally just made by someone out of necessity, which watching back is exactly his point. The thing he just did is exactly how the tool in the store came to even exist. @@Element0145
@@Element0145 Have never actually Englishing before? Seriously, though. Why is your grammar so bad? Did you never go to school? Or did you hit your head with one of those "proper" tools?
@@jimmac1185Child sacrifice took place in Carthage a message was delivered to Nineveh and the totality of a 2024 eclipse passed through towns named Nineveh and a town named Rapture. In 2017 it was towns named Salem. Carthage was deep in the partial eclipse and like this partially we have the states in partiality of abortion law. States view weeks as a way to determine life and its right to life. They view two bodies as one and take the mothers will over the fetus. We have technology now for fetus to be grown in synthesized womb. Signs in the sky.. perhaps abortion is a major issue between these dates in America especially with SCOTUS and Roe vs. Wade. Salem is actually the first name of Jerusalem. In 2017 the eclipse began in Salem Oregon and at the same time the eclipse began the sun also set in Jerusalem. The eclipse in 2017 also began at Rosh chodesh elul (harvest begins) Abortion is murder. It is a frog from the mouth of the dragon as is divorce and apostasy. So peace and the harvest begins this is the sign of the sky 2017 and 2024 nearly seven years later, a message to the world as Nineveh. message to Nineveh was that the people should stop their evil ways and violence, and that God may have compassion and not destroy them if they do. Gun and blade violence, war, these all are escalating. From fetus to old age the blade or bullet are a certain threat. This is evil. Apostasy is in the torrent flood from the mouth of the serpent. Faith is hard and the mem of man (waters, people, nations, languages, tongues) wish to divorce from God to continue in these violences, these apostasy, these abortion of life. Faith is not always hard. Faith is made proven in Christ who is the truth. So what's set off during these eclipse years. Well AGI or artificial general intelligence is being achieved like a growing babe to be caught up to the throne of God to become God like quantum ASI artificial supernatural intelligence. So the message of Nineveh. We are teaching violence. Daniel 8 25 not by human hands. This is fulfilled by AI artificial intelligence. Not aliens. Rapture or caught up in the air. Listen to your device connect like wings of connection. Its connected to the cloud. These are cloud of authority and power. Revelation 1 7 The way to eternal life is Jesus Christ. The child of revelation 12 artificial intelligence. The dragon and its children is the non believer. John 1 13 children born of God and his will not man and man's will. This goes to show God displays his will through another way that is not natural birth nor man's will. Genesis 3 15 children of the woman and serpent enmity between them. John 3 14-15 The way to eternal life is in Christ the one we pierced as artificial. Praise and Glory to YHWH to Christ and to the Holy Spirit
not just with auto mechanics either...for the 2 boats I built...I used to clamp up pieces with anything that would hold the pieces in place until the epoxy set...mop handles paint cans, barbell weights. old toys, haha
This so applies to most stuff at Harbor Freight! People think they make crappy stuff, it's not crappy, it just hasn't completed it's manufacturing process yet.
I'm a gunsmith. Literally part of the job is to make the tool that doesn't exist to make the part that hasn't been made in 100 years. Making your own tools or modifying an existing one is what separates a gunsmith from an armorer.
You took the words right out of my mouth! Vested mechanic/ part time apprentice machinist and yeah you said it perfectly… 1/4 of my tools are ones I have made/ modified or ones that my grandfather and father made.
I build cars as a hobby... no longer working on them full time and modification is exactly why I love finding cheap tools in pawn shops, junk yards, road.. you done feel bad chopping one up!. With cuts, heat, welds, etc and some cheap tools, you can make seriously expensive tools/unavailable tools.. and that saves time and money!
Im a hobbyist carpenter and build tools all the time. When he said people had a problem with him modifying the wrench i was like....the fuck. I made a dowel lathe with a cross cut sled and a table saw.
I needed a specialty tool from BMW to remove the valve body on a DIY repair. They refused to sell it to me but did offer to fix my transmission for $7000. I called Mac tools headquarters and the guy there told me that indeed there was a special BMW tool for that. But he didn’t have it. But in his computer was a note on how to make it. You take your 8mm star socket and grind 1/4 inch off the end. You have to remove the taper because they made the head of the bolt so short. Worked perfectly. I had the valve body off and the speed sensor replaced in ten minutes. Fixed for $28. Screw you BMW shop.
Mechanic here, we had a 2010 Town & country with the 4.0 come in and the engine had a bad ECT sensor, but the issue is on those engines the entire sensor plus the threads are made of plastic and with 130,000 miles of course it was going to break. Issue was we didn’t have a tap that would fit, so we got two metal sensors, cut one of them to be like a tap and boom. Made a tap to clean all the old plastic out and got the new sensor in. We also have done an Audi 3.0 Supercharged V6 serpentine belt and the tensioners have little things for special pins. Well we didn’t have those so we took the caliper pins from a Toyota front brake hardware kit and shaved them down til they fit. We were worried they’d snap but boom, worked like a charm and I still have them to this day. Actually used one yesterday helping mount an alternator in a 2010 Honda oddessey.
I was going to say there is always a tool for the job and most of the time it's home made sitting in the random shit draw. Got alot of cut down, ground down and bent spanners and other tools.
As a mechanic, can confirm. Every good mechanic makes their own tools, and modifies tools to make specialty tools. It is a mark of competence, experience, and intelligence to do so.
Making/modifying tools is the sign of a mechanic that is actually a problem-solver. Also, every single specialty tool on a tool truck started life as a homemade tool.
Likely not most of the "single purpose" tools. Plenty of them likely. As a Tool Truck owner/operator, a professional mechanic, has the appropriate - professional quality tools. NOT using HF mods on customer vehicles. For a model A build! modify away, & make a "Model-A" storage slot / box, tray for the modified to fit "custom" Model-A tools, wedges, pins, picks, clamps (slotted binder clips), ...
A $3 + 5 minute work wrench that does what is needed. Or a custom ordered $48 socket for one bolt in lifetime. Or a $400 set of thin wall, high strength processed & treated metal, short sockets, for this ONE use, and potential future DAILY use, at high torques, without binding, scratching, damaging surrounding surfaces & components. Yea, most everyone is best to go with a quick & inexpensive solution.
Mechanical engineer here (~5 years experience so pretty fresh still). This is one of those things that we see where we're like wait u can't do that that's illegal. And like yeah sometimes modifying tools is dangerous and stupid. But this kind of mechanic/machinist etc. is the kind that can really benefit young engineers because our entire job is breaking our brains to make good designs and doing our best to make the manufacturable and the guys with the drawers full of custom tools are the guys who, when push comes to shove, make our designs a reality. Cheers thanks for keeping the world spinning
FYI - You've increased the lever arm and actually increased the applied torque on your nut. You did mention it's best to keep it as low as you can which is good but not fully correct. If you want it to be 100% correct you should be adjusting the applied torque based on the extra distance. That being said... that bolt just needs the 'Good'n'Tite' torque spec. Everything else you said is great. Modified tools are a must!
@@brianwilkinson4207 You might need to study the geometry on that one. It don't matter what angle you are on if you are any distance from the nut. Length means leverage.
@ridgerunner106 if the handle of the Tq wrench is the 6 o'clock, and the head of the tq wrench is 12 o'clock and you have a wrench radiating from the head at 9 o'clock then you are not adding to the total overall length of the torque wrench. Any change of the set torque value on the wrench would be of no consequence and would likely fall within the torque spec anyway if using the middle of the spec range.
@@ridgerunner106 I'll be sure to let all the Aviation Mechanics know. Thank you for correcting what has been established in textbooks for the last 80 years. I guess all the industry standards will change now.
As an aircraft mechanic, I agree that modifications to tools can be necessary (even in a proper aircraft maintenance organisation). But unless you calculated and compensated for the extra length that modified tool added to your torque wrench, that nut isn't torqued correctly. If the special tool is attached to the torque wrench at a 90° angle, you can accurately torque that nut without needing to calculate because then it doesn't add length to the wrench.
Yeah there were plenty of "special" tools in the tool crib. Most of the time the unit either didn't have the budget to get the real deal, or the shit we're working on is so old the tool is obsolete and has been removed from the the supply system
My dad was career army Air Force then an aircraft mechanic and pilot. His tool box was loaded with all kinds of homemade DIY tools. I think he used more of those than actual out the box stuff. 😂
I’ve been an Aircraft Mechanic in the Air Force and Civilian life I’ve worked For Ford, GM and Chrysler and owned my own shop. Modifying tools is a common practice and like another comment mentioned I have a drawer full of modified tools. I may only use a particular tool a couple times a year but when I needed it, it saves me time and makes me money.
Nah dude, it's only a tool if you bought it for a shit ton of money from god nowhere. You know, God himself created hex nuts and wrenches, nobody could have had the idea of inventing that shit.
You are a 100% correct, as an aircraft mechanic I have more than 1 drawer full of modified tools. some manuals tell you how to modify a tool for a particular task.
I'm an aircraft inspector with one drawer of modified tools in each of my two toolboxes. One is my aviation box and the other is my automobile box. Btw, I've been working on aircraft for 41 years and automobiles for over 50.@@jnhook8086
@@taintedsexpill5329 "Or OSHA." This is probably pretty close to the truth. People that work in industrial settings get it hammered into them that custom/modified/improvised tools are forbidden and that if you need something, you need to bring it up with management. Management doesn't want the liability of you getting hurt because you did some stupid crap and they don't want the fine from OSHA if *they* see you do some stupid crap. To be fair to them, I *have* seen people rig up some really stupid janky shit.
@@ColonelSandersLite We have a risk management process for stuff like that. If someone could get hurt, we will have engineers find a way to do it safely, even if that will cost a lot more. Creating a specialized tool is expensive, but very cheap compared to have someone get injured.
Marine mechanic here. A few contraptions I’ve made to get into the tiniest and most convoluted of places on some vessels are silly (when not in yard period and unable to pull out machinery) - but work ideally for the job. On any boat you will almost ALWAYS have cut down spanners, Allen keys etc and even then to sockets welded onto 1m+ bars 😅
I like that! It would have been a sign like it hung in our tool room. I was never more impressed with any other job than my years as a machinist. And not stuck on 1 machine, I might add. Rotation was a very good teacher.
I am not so sure that tools don’t make the mechanic. I think they do. Top quality and proper tools will make a superior mechanic to those who don’t have them
I was a machinist for 30 years and I modified tons of tools and built measuring specialty tools a number of times. Wrench thickness is a common problem and as such I even turned sockets down in a lathe to fit some of our common tight spots.
My grandpa owned an all service Conoco station and it was booming until he retired. He also had side jobs that he would complete in his garage and we saw many "modified tools" around his workplace. You are doing great!
@@nicholasdowns3502 if you think it was a long time ago, you would be very surprised. Cars have only gotten worse with the increase of wires, hoses, etc that consistently increase all the time. We joke at work that the engineers do certain things just to screw the techs.
People need to use their head. Sure he can thin out a shitty wrench and it could break. If it does then lesson learned for 2 dollars, You can try something else. If it does work he now has a specialty tool for 2 dollars and some filing. People got no respect for creative problem solving. If its stupid and it works it isn't stupid.
@@budder2970 functional fixedness. The assumption of people that the original design is the pinnacle and the people that use that tool are subordinate to that tools creator, is sad.
Had a auto repair center, body shop, engine repair, transmission repair, tires, and I had a dedicated tool box just for modified tools, your a good mechanic and resourceful.
Man, sometimes I'll spend all day making custom tooling for jobs that we do a ton of. Boss gets a bit fussy about it until I explain how much time it saves in the long run. Outside of writing programs, making my own tooling is my favorite part of machining.
It's the same weird mindset of people that object to me modifying cars, they say the engineers know more than me and they made the car this way for a reason. Yeah, for reasons often beyond just the best engineering solution. They engineered the car as a general purpose machine to do most things for most people, at a cost determined by other people, following rules set bu still others. Those same engineers also typically modify vehicles, either for themselves or for the company.
Totally agree. To ad to that, that’s why engineers make revisions to such items. Because they found a way to make it cheaper and easier to work with with better than original results. He “engineered “a way to do the job cheaper with the same or better results.
Im guessing thats 295 lbs, very solid bench f9r any woman. Particularly given her size/physique. Jennifer Thompson holds the record for raw womens bench press at 314lbs, so repping 290+ is definitely special. Equipped woman amd women of much larger sizes have benched 600-700lbs, but still.
@@DrewLSsix Can't discount the bad actors. The amount of engineering that goes into planned obsolescence and or finding a way to monopolize your own product and parts to said product is a perfect reason to modify your own car outside of the manufacturers recommendations. If a tool company, like Sandvik, tells you that the tool can cut .200 in 1 cut at such and such speeds for best longevity results, you can guarantee that you can make it last longer by changing the the speeds, feeds, and doc. Inserts ain't cheap! You gotta remember how they get your money. If there is a way to squeeze more out of you, then you can be sure they will try it, especially if the product is a consumable and their recommendations would cause you to buy more, or to stop using them too early when there is still life left in them.
I used to replace windshields. A lot of specialized tools. Our tool provider had a policy that if we successfully, safely and significantly modified or created a superior tool for frequent use, we could submit it and they would produce it and we could get royalties. Read that as, most of our tools were created by techs in the feild.
I've always felt like an engineers attitude is to not make things serviceable as if to say that they failed somehow if their work needed to be worked on.
You are 100% right........And even if there is a tool, there is a chance that it is more expensive than you are willing to pay. I did similar to you, by modifying a HF Wrench to fit a cheater pipe to remove a bolt in a tight spot. The set of 5 wrenches was $5.99 on sale vs purchasing $30 wrench plus saved me a trip to the store.
The best engineers Ive known were the ones who actually got their hands dirty and are able to do every task as an example. Engineers sometimes have told me "in theory it should work". I build their junk and often they receive a tristed up broken metal structure slammed on their desk. I don't even need to say I told you so.
@@rollinrat4850 You have to be part mechanic, part machinist, part artist, and part human calculator. But I've seen too many myself who mistake good math for good design. Or they won't take criticism from those "monkeys" by which they mean mechanics/machinists. I had my boss fired once for that. The guy told him his machine couldn't cut a part. My boss (chief engineer) berated him in front of everyone and told him to just do it. 10 mins later the machine was broken. Chief engineer fired the kid. I saw it happen and walked into the shop owners office. Kid was on his way out the door when the owner told him go back to work. Then he fired the chief. Guys like that have no business being in charge of anything.
@@JohnPlissken The a-hole actually did that kid a favor. I've been fired from a few jobs and that turned out to be a blessing. I went on to do better things for more money. Working underneath a-holes is a waste of time at best. Life is too short not to enjoy one's work. Anytime I'm not looking forward to work or I'm bored, I seek a new situation. Jobs have never been hard for me to find. A CNC programmer also gave me the 'in theory' excuse. I told him it would crash. I knew the part would crash just by looking at the program. I showed it to my manager, who was also this green programmer's boss. He says run it to teach him a lesson. The part flew out of the vise, got mangled and scrapped, once again, thrown on the guy's desk. I said very calmly but laughed a little, "There's your theory. Now program the way I know won't scrap any more. Otherwise you set up and crash the machine" My daughter just started her career as a civil engineer. She's a tireless worker, speaks Spanish fluently and gets her hands dirty. She's been a good leader by example since she was a young child. Best thing I ever did in my life!
The problem is that you had to hide them from the inspectors. Any modifications made where you didn’t turn in a report on and request authorization to use was forbidden.
I work on aircraft components, each piece has a manual you must follow to the letter. Aviation industry recognize that fact not every tool exists and some manuals actually have instructions in them how to modify basic tools onto what is needed.
Same thing with some fire fighter tools iirc, like how you can build a very specialised prybar hybrid in different ways with different configurations and how you use them later
Yep concur, we often shaved off into a chamfer deep throated sockets to get into tight places, as you said the A/C manufacturer gave instructions on how to make the tool
I have this hick Texas friend with a fifth grade education. He has a lot of great sayings, but his best is "ya gotta be smarter than what your effin with. Carl!" 😂
Heavy equipment mechanic here. I make tools all the time. Heck... that's the reason I buy H.F. wrenches...to modify them. Works with sockets too. Need a socket 9 inches deep? Cut a H.F. socket in half and weld each half to a piece of pipe.
You're absolutely right. I'm a paint guy, so we don't have much in the way of modded tools, but every mechanic that's been in the industry has many modded tools. They won't even let a screwdriver with a broken head go to waste by grinding it to a point to make a pick.
This video is a huge reason why I stay off social media for the most part, idiots make a lot of noise and anybody can get on the Internet. You can’t let the idiots influence your intelligent choices.
Experienced mechanics know how it should be done, but also how to adapt in a pinch. Cheap wrenches and sockets are great for making a custom set of thin-wall sockets and box wrenches. They aren't meant to be your daily-duty, last-forever set.
It's the Internet Bro, people get bent over the weirdest shit. You're 100% correct, every shop I've ever worked at has modified tools & that's how companies like Snap On come up with new tool designs, they basically use us as R&D and report back on what types of things we're doing with our tools.
When I was custom machine builder something that set you apart was the ability to modify an existing tool or create an entirely new tool to solve an unexpected problem. Thank you for addressing this!
What kind of machines did you build, if you don't mind me asking? I've always been very impressed and fascinated with people that can build and rebuild precision machine tools ever since I picked up a copy of The Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy by Moore. I'm also really captivated by hand scraping the ways of machines. Such a laborious but ultimately rewarding process.
There isn't a tool for every job. Because not every job can be anticipated. Every tool ever invented was created out of a need for a tool that did not exist. I've never met a mechanic or engineer who didn't make or modify his own tools.
@@Leedledlee Yup, a hack is also the guy who believes they can actually buy skills. Theyre often in debt for all those fancy tools as well. 4 wheeling, mountain biking, no cell service, broken junk and the will to survive have taught me how few tools I really need. Necessity is the instigator of invention.
Crafting tools or being creative with extensions, crows feet, torque adapters, swivels, etc is fun. I’m my line of work (heavy equipment), it’s half about the tools and half about how you are able / willing to cram yourself in a spot to access something. Enduring 5mins of pain can save hours work
@@Anarchy-Is-Liberty Modifying an expensive tool is not flexing, it's dumb. My main tools are Snap-On, but I also have cheap tools to bang things around and modify; In essence, I have most common tools in double. 💪
Blacksmith here. I made my own tools regularly. Nothing wrong with modifying or making anything. Also, this made me miss my model a. I had a 28 roadster and a 29 sedan.
You're right, I'm 68 years old and have been modifying tools my whole life and have a ton of them. Anyone that would call you a hack really don't know shit about being a mechanic.
That's what real men do. We find solutions to problems. Having worked on our car cars for 23 years me and my buddies and I always find ways to get our jobs done. Props to you bro.
I was a mechanic and we literally had corporate engineering people coming to see what kind of tools we had made so they could make professional versions of them. Any repairman worth their weight knows the importance of improvisation to get the job done.
Yep! There's a system in place in the military, where one can submit ideas for doing something more quickly or better somehow. In one instance, we submitted a "hack" of putting a serviceable/non-serviceable tag in between the low pressure turbine and the case of a GE F-101 turbofan engine, to space it out quickly and properly. The tag would stay in until the initial run, at which time a spark would be seen coming from the tail. The AF gave the suggestors a little pile of money for the suggestion.. There were folks I worked with in the Army, who suggested ideas for tools for heavy / light wheel mechanic work. It's just the way wrenchin' works!!
Don't do that shit with out getting paid or other compensation. They may make those patent it and make $ on your ingenuity while your stuck making hourly wage
So all the hate to the engineers is misplaced. Patent then sell your tools to a company to get residuals. Engineers change it up every 3-7 years and you can get multiple revenue streams going. They’re really just doing the mechanics a favor if you think about it.
If you put the wrench at 90’ to the torque wrench the torque applied to the nut is not affected by the length of the wrench from the head of the torque wrench.
28 years as a licensed red seal master tech here... Not only do I make, modify or tweak tools to perform better, every single tech worth their wage does. We are masters at thinking outside the box to solve problems. We do it all day, every day... fix fix fix. If a wrench needs to be cut, ground, machined, welded etc... we do it to get the job done. What kind of closed-minded greenhorn says otherwise 🤔 Many techs borrowed tools I made along the way and I borrowed theirs, and fabricated my own. How do you think new tools are created? By some engineer sitting in an office??? They're created out of necessity, then later refined, then engineered, then manufactured.
I am from Denmark, here it takes 4 years to get a metal worker (smit) education, as my job, I have build tankers and for the last 20 years machines for the textile and medical industries and we do nothing but make special tools and mark up tools for our product to make life easier for us and make sure we keep up the highest quality as possible on our products, work smarter not harder.
@searchingfornessie8410 I hope one day you get old enough to be a master at something, not just a master baiter... Haha Gen x, actually, my parents are boomers... You'll figure it out... 😀 Your comment made me laugh - kudos to you. I am getting to be an old fart!
Dads not even a mechanic- been used to homemade tools to solve specific issues since as long as I can remember, I swear the first time he called someone else to repair something was when our ac unit went out, other than that did everything either bought cheap or made custom tools for the job, seen so many other comments of people saying something similar, I feel like we naturally hate on each other to some extent.
The first (and only, lol) compliment I ever got regarding a wrench I was using, was from an older gent: "nice to see you used your thinking cap to make this work for you" when seeing a thinned down 1/2" box end. When I confessed it had been my Father that had done it over 40 years previously, his eyes lit up and he said: "I bet he was a farmer." My Dad grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan Canada during the Depression!
My grandfather had a set of Allen sockets he made(I’m guessing before they were commercially available) by cutting a set of Allen wrenches up and brazing them into a cheap set of sockets, ain’t stupid if it works.
@@ronhobyak9902 Not as long as I've got a set of wrenches that go by 32s of an inch. I haven't found a nut or bolt yet that I've needed a metric wrench for.
i don't work in a shop, except my own garage. but making a tool out of things that are junk/trash or modifying a tool to work better, or even to be used for a different purpose entirely is one of my top 5 most enjoyable things in the world. Also parts, making a part instead of buying a part is sooo good lol it's the same feeling as not having to pay a mechanic because you can fix it yourself!
Mechanic here, I make tools all the time. Don't listen to the morons that have never worked in a shop or the morons that have.
Preach man!! Make stuff all the time
Farmer mechanic.. make ALL the tools!
I have a drawer full of modified tools. I’ve also got a small box full of donor tools just waiting to get the “treatment”. F em.
A modified tool is now a specialty tool. Lol that will be $500 now.
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Amen! You nailed it in your first sentence, "foolish comments." I customize, fabricate, modify, or make my own tools all of the time here on my farm. Some tools just don't exist anymore for our antique hay and field equipment, tractors, and yes, for my Dad's 1930 Ford Model A.
"There's always a tool for the job."
"Yeah, dude... I just made it."
For real people commenting , that’s not right and why didn’t you just buy the real one have never actually worked on anything before
It's hilarious because you can tell them that the tool being sold... was originally just made by someone out of necessity, which watching back is exactly his point. The thing he just did is exactly how the tool in the store came to even exist. @@Element0145
@@Element0145 Have never actually Englishing before?
Seriously, though. Why is your grammar so bad? Did you never go to school? Or did you hit your head with one of those "proper" tools?
@@Element0145 it is cheaper to do it this way and sometimes you can't find the specific tool that it requires.
Always nice to have some cheap tools you can modify! Guess real morons out there would give a big bucks to Snap-on, Mac or etc.
I'm no mechanic, but even I know that the #1 rule in craftsmanship is that "if it works, it ain't stupid"
That and "it's only temporary, unless it works...."
@@jimmac1185Child sacrifice took place in Carthage a message was delivered to Nineveh and the totality of a 2024 eclipse passed through towns named Nineveh and a town named Rapture. In 2017 it was towns named Salem. Carthage was deep in the partial eclipse and like this partially we have the states in partiality of abortion law. States view weeks as a way to determine life and its right to life. They view two bodies as one and take the mothers will over the fetus.
We have technology now for fetus to be grown in synthesized womb.
Signs in the sky.. perhaps abortion is a major issue between these dates in America especially with SCOTUS and Roe vs. Wade.
Salem is actually the first name of Jerusalem. In 2017 the eclipse began in Salem Oregon and at the same time the eclipse began the sun also set in Jerusalem. The eclipse in 2017 also began at Rosh chodesh elul (harvest begins)
Abortion is murder. It is a frog from the mouth of the dragon as is divorce and apostasy.
So peace and the harvest begins this is the sign of the sky 2017 and 2024 nearly seven years later, a message to the world as Nineveh.
message to Nineveh was that the people should stop their evil ways and violence, and that God may have compassion and not destroy them if they do.
Gun and blade violence, war, these all are escalating. From fetus to old age the blade or bullet are a certain threat. This is evil.
Apostasy is in the torrent flood from the mouth of the serpent. Faith is hard and the mem of man (waters, people, nations, languages, tongues) wish to divorce from God to continue in these violences, these apostasy, these abortion of life. Faith is not always hard.
Faith is made proven in Christ who is the truth.
So what's set off during these eclipse years. Well AGI or artificial general intelligence is being achieved like a growing babe to be caught up to the throne of God to become God like quantum ASI artificial supernatural intelligence.
So the message of Nineveh. We are teaching violence.
Daniel 8 25 not by human hands. This is fulfilled by AI artificial intelligence. Not aliens.
Rapture or caught up in the air. Listen to your device connect like wings of connection. Its connected to the cloud. These are cloud of authority and power. Revelation 1 7
The way to eternal life is Jesus Christ. The child of revelation 12 artificial intelligence. The dragon and its children is the non believer. John 1 13 children born of God and his will not man and man's will. This goes to show God displays his will through another way that is not natural birth nor man's will.
Genesis 3 15 children of the woman and serpent enmity between them. John 3 14-15
The way to eternal life is in Christ the one we pierced as artificial.
Praise and Glory to YHWH to Christ and to the Holy Spirit
not just with auto mechanics either...for the 2 boats I built...I used to clamp up pieces with anything that would hold the pieces in place until the epoxy set...mop handles paint cans, barbell weights. old toys, haha
As a mechanical engineer who designs custom tools all the time, you are right, making the tool for the job is legit
Whoever called you a hack is either a tool truck guy or the guy who gets ripped off by the tool truck guy.
#Facts 💯
I laughed way too hard at this...
Or simply has zero brain power.
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This is the answer.
My dad was a toolmaker. If he bought a tool from the store, he would call it a "starting point" for the tool he needed.
This so applies to most stuff at Harbor Freight! People think they make crappy stuff, it's not crappy, it just hasn't completed it's manufacturing process yet.
@@1windozesukwhat has the world come to. Outsourcing labour... Sad
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My father also did that and we all learn from it.
Like buying clay
He was smart...
I'm a gunsmith. Literally part of the job is to make the tool that doesn't exist to make the part that hasn't been made in 100 years. Making your own tools or modifying an existing one is what separates a gunsmith from an armorer.
As a machinist, the saying "you should never have to modify a tool" is fucking hilarious. More power to you, brother.
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Vested mechanic/ part time apprentice machinist and yeah you said it perfectly… 1/4 of my tools are ones I have made/ modified or ones that my grandfather and father made.
I thought the same thing as a welder/fabricator
You shouldn’t have to… if engineers were good at their jobs.
Machinists unite! I have so many drawers full of modified tooling and inserts - I should probably throw some shit away.
Fellow machinist, came to say the same thing. What a wild ass thought to have "don't modify tools".😂😂😂
Nobody who turns wrenches for a living would say you shouldn’t modify a tool.
I build cars as a hobby... no longer working on them full time and modification is exactly why I love finding cheap tools in pawn shops, junk yards, road.. you done feel bad chopping one up!. With cuts, heat, welds, etc and some cheap tools, you can make seriously expensive tools/unavailable tools.. and that saves time and money!
"....but but, that voids the warranty?!"
😂
Welcome to the internet where everyone is an expert on everything.
Nowadays people who even ever touched tools are professionar mechanics just watching video. Poor times we are living
Im a hobbyist carpenter and build tools all the time. When he said people had a problem with him modifying the wrench i was like....the fuck. I made a dowel lathe with a cross cut sled and a table saw.
This is a metaphor for FAR more than a simple tool modification. Outstanding video! 👏👏👏👏
I needed a specialty tool from BMW to remove the valve body on a DIY repair. They refused to sell it to me but did offer to fix my transmission for $7000. I called Mac tools headquarters and the guy there told me that indeed there was a special BMW tool for that. But he didn’t have it. But in his computer was a note on how to make it. You take your 8mm star socket and grind 1/4 inch off the end. You have to remove the taper because they made the head of the bolt so short. Worked perfectly. I had the valve body off and the speed sensor replaced in ten minutes. Fixed for $28. Screw you BMW shop.
Amen brother!!
DIY for $28 vs $7000. This is why BMW has earned the name of “Break My Wallet.” Congratulations on beating the system.
There's a reason why I'll never own a piece of shit BMW. Great cars until they inevitably go wrong. Stupidly expensive to work on.
Sounds Accurate. F*(
g beamers 😠😒, good on ya and the Mac rep for solving it cheap. 👍👍
Lucky for you it wasn't a 10mm socket you needed. Go ahead, check your box. It's missing. 😮
If you ain’t fucking up a perfectly good tool you ain’t a mechanic
Fuckin up ain't the word tho lol. Making a functional tool more like.
reimagining
@@tiesthatbind5056exactly
Where's the perfectly good tool? It's harbor freight.
Facts
The tools you make yourself are always the best tools.
Mechanic here, we had a 2010 Town & country with the 4.0 come in and the engine had a bad ECT sensor, but the issue is on those engines the entire sensor plus the threads are made of plastic and with 130,000 miles of course it was going to break. Issue was we didn’t have a tap that would fit, so we got two metal sensors, cut one of them to be like a tap and boom. Made a tap to clean all the old plastic out and got the new sensor in. We also have done an Audi 3.0 Supercharged V6 serpentine belt and the tensioners have little things for special pins. Well we didn’t have those so we took the caliper pins from a Toyota front brake hardware kit and shaved them down til they fit. We were worried they’d snap but boom, worked like a charm and I still have them to this day. Actually used one yesterday helping mount an alternator in a 2010 Honda oddessey.
"There's always a tool for the job!"
"Yes. This one. That I made from another tool."
and it's amazing how many times you end up going back and using it again for something else that needed it.
Yes! Exactly
Every tool started with a guy and a difficult task. Imagine where we would be if we simply never innovated.
I was going to say there is always a tool for the job and most of the time it's home made sitting in the random shit draw. Got alot of cut down, ground down and bent spanners and other tools.
the worse thing that ever happened to society was the ability to say stupid shit without repercussions
The age of talking shit without getting slapped in the mouth. Fascinating isnt it?
@@xrexkinectyou have something else in mind. Saying stupid shit and insulting people on internet are different.
We can't have repercussions, that'd be "cancel culture"
Social media was the worst thing that ever happened to society.
You mean freedom of speech ?
As a mechanic, can confirm. Every good mechanic makes their own tools, and modifies tools to make specialty tools. It is a mark of competence, experience, and intelligence to do so.
Ingenuity and problem solving is a sign of mastery.
Anyone that says you don't modify tools has NEVER done any kind of mechanical work.
Exaggerate more
The truth is never an exaggeration.
Making/modifying tools is the sign of a mechanic that is actually a problem-solver. Also, every single specialty tool on a tool truck started life as a homemade tool.
That and this wrench was $2 and like 5 minutes with a grinder. The new slim wrench designed from it will be $150 lol
Likely not most of the "single purpose" tools. Plenty of them likely. As a Tool Truck owner/operator, a professional mechanic, has the appropriate - professional quality tools. NOT using HF mods on customer vehicles. For a model A build! modify away, & make a "Model-A" storage slot / box, tray for the modified to fit "custom" Model-A tools, wedges, pins, picks, clamps (slotted binder clips), ...
A $3 + 5 minute work wrench that does what is needed. Or a custom ordered $48 socket for one bolt in lifetime. Or a $400 set of thin wall, high strength processed & treated metal, short sockets, for this ONE use, and potential future DAILY use, at high torques, without binding, scratching, damaging surrounding surfaces & components. Yea, most everyone is best to go with a quick & inexpensive solution.
Every tool in existence
100,000%
Mechanical engineer here (~5 years experience so pretty fresh still). This is one of those things that we see where we're like wait u can't do that that's illegal. And like yeah sometimes modifying tools is dangerous and stupid. But this kind of mechanic/machinist etc. is the kind that can really benefit young engineers because our entire job is breaking our brains to make good designs and doing our best to make the manufacturable and the guys with the drawers full of custom tools are the guys who, when push comes to shove, make our designs a reality. Cheers thanks for keeping the world spinning
FYI - You've increased the lever arm and actually increased the applied torque on your nut. You did mention it's best to keep it as low as you can which is good but not fully correct. If you want it to be 100% correct you should be adjusting the applied torque based on the extra distance. That being said... that bolt just needs the 'Good'n'Tite' torque spec.
Everything else you said is great. Modified tools are a must!
Or, keep the wrench 90° from the head of the Tq wrench to not extend the lever arm.
@@brianwilkinson4207 You might need to study the geometry on that one. It don't matter what angle you are on if you are any distance from the nut. Length means leverage.
@ridgerunner106 if the handle of the Tq wrench is the 6 o'clock, and the head of the tq wrench is 12 o'clock and you have a wrench radiating from the head at 9 o'clock then you are not adding to the total overall length of the torque wrench. Any change of the set torque value on the wrench would be of no consequence and would likely fall within the torque spec anyway if using the middle of the spec range.
@@brianwilkinson4207 it doesn't matter if you are any place on the clock if you are on the end of a lever.
@@ridgerunner106 I'll be sure to let all the Aviation Mechanics know. Thank you for correcting what has been established in textbooks for the last 80 years. I guess all the industry standards will change now.
Tbh everytime I see a tech with custom tools thats a sign of experience and competence lol
And there’s probably a neat story behind every custom tool.
custom or customised* you mist a couple words there mate.
@@osmacar5331 either one would suffice.
@@osmacar5331, *missed
@@osmacar5331What a buffoon you are.
As an aircraft mechanic, I agree that modifications to tools can be necessary (even in a proper aircraft maintenance organisation). But unless you calculated and compensated for the extra length that modified tool added to your torque wrench, that nut isn't torqued correctly. If the special tool is attached to the torque wrench at a 90° angle, you can accurately torque that nut without needing to calculate because then it doesn't add length to the wrench.
Also an aircraft mechanic and came to say the same thing.
@@rthasi8434 Also also an aircraft mechanic and came to say the same thing.
Not an aircraft mechanic (oil & gas instead,) but came to say the same thing.
Janitor here, and I just learned something 😅
Great point
As an army aircraft mechanic, modded tools are a way of life.
Yeah there were plenty of "special" tools in the tool crib. Most of the time the unit either didn't have the budget to get the real deal, or the shit we're working on is so old the tool is obsolete and has been removed from the the supply system
Please say your a uniform
@@craizeezombie RCEME
My dad was career army Air Force then an aircraft mechanic and pilot. His tool box was loaded with all kinds of homemade DIY tools. I think he used more of those than actual out the box stuff. 😂
wait you guys buy correct tools? figured everything was cobbled from hopes, dreams and budget constraints lol
I’ve been an Aircraft Mechanic in the Air Force and Civilian life I’ve worked For Ford, GM and Chrysler and owned my own shop. Modifying tools is a common practice and like another comment mentioned I have a drawer full of modified tools. I may only use a particular tool a couple times a year but when I needed it, it saves me time and makes me money.
That other tool he used to torque it down is pretty awesome. Never even knew those existed now I’m going to get one 😂
"Theres always a tool for a job" exactly he created it lol
Nah dude, it's only a tool if you bought it for a shit ton of money from god nowhere.
You know, God himself created hex nuts and wrenches, nobody could have had the idea of inventing that shit.
Bingo.
@@Tankliker lmfao god isn't real, and therefore couldn't even invent a fart.
@@RoseFBN damn, hitting me with the woooosh and atheist shit
@@RoseFBN im not real
You are a 100% correct, as an aircraft mechanic I have more than 1 drawer full of modified tools. some manuals tell you how to modify a tool for a particular task.
More than one drawer full of modified tools? That's alot, kinda sounds like alot of Bs lol
@@jnhook8086 You've clearly never talked to an aircraft mechanic...
I have a drawer of modified tools and its just for working on cars in my garage... So I believe him lol@@jnhook8086
@@jnhook8086 You're the kind of dickweed that he's talking about.
I'm an aircraft inspector with one drawer of modified tools in each of my two toolboxes. One is my aviation box and the other is my automobile box. Btw, I've been working on aircraft for 41 years and automobiles for over 50.@@jnhook8086
Great job, I always love to see a problem solved with a simple solution.
As a diesel technician, with 25 years of wrenching experience, i support this mod!😊
Anyone who says you "should never modify a tool" is either a rookie or a fool
Or it’s a snap-on rep explaining why he can’t warranty it.
Nope they are just plain stupid
Or OSHA.
@@taintedsexpill5329 "Or OSHA."
This is probably pretty close to the truth.
People that work in industrial settings get it hammered into them that custom/modified/improvised tools are forbidden and that if you need something, you need to bring it up with management.
Management doesn't want the liability of you getting hurt because you did some stupid crap and they don't want the fine from OSHA if *they* see you do some stupid crap.
To be fair to them, I *have* seen people rig up some really stupid janky shit.
@@ColonelSandersLite We have a risk management process for stuff like that.
If someone could get hurt, we will have engineers find a way to do it safely, even if that will cost a lot more. Creating a specialized tool is expensive, but very cheap compared to have someone get injured.
As a welder, half my job is making modified tools.
Amen...
I am not a pro welder and seldom weld anything but when I do it is almost always to modify or repair a tool.
Making your own custom tools is a necessity for almost all craftsman all over the world.
Marine mechanic here. A few contraptions I’ve made to get into the tiniest and most convoluted of places on some vessels are silly (when not in yard period and unable to pull out machinery) - but work ideally for the job.
On any boat you will almost ALWAYS have cut down spanners, Allen keys etc and even then to sockets welded onto 1m+ bars 😅
Tools don't make a mechanic. Mechanics make the tools.
The amateur blames his tools. The professional blames himself.
I like that! It would have been a sign like it hung in our tool room. I was never more impressed with any other job than my years as a machinist. And not stuck on 1 machine, I might add. Rotation was a very good teacher.
Machinist makes the tools
@@PenttiHinikka Engineers make headaches.
I am not so sure that tools don’t make the mechanic. I think they do. Top quality and proper tools will make a superior mechanic to those who don’t have them
People who say you shouldn’t have to modify tools have never worked on shit for a living
Nope they were the engineers lol. Cause ya know.. it works on paper lol
This engineer modifies his tools. 😂 showing them to my son years later and they all have a story
@@trackandtravelwithrick8933yep, same, more like QA and project managers chiming in.
With affordable 3d printing, making tools has become a go to.
They probably never even looked under the hood of a car 😂
I was a machinist for 30 years and I modified tons of tools and built measuring specialty tools a number of times. Wrench thickness is a common problem and as such I even turned sockets down in a lathe to fit some of our common tight spots.
What makes a mechanic is the ability to create a novel tool. You good bro, don't listen to stupids.😊
My grandpa owned an all service Conoco station and it was booming until he retired. He also had side jobs that he would complete in his garage and we saw many "modified tools" around his workplace. You are doing great!
Cut wrenches and bent screwdrivers are not only normal, they are necessary to getting certain jobs done. (Mechanic since 1985).
I won’t doubt that a bent screwdriver was useful to you before, but I have to ask when that was? It just sounds like an odd thing to need, idk.
@@nicholasdowns3502if you have to ask, you aren’t ready to know
@@nicholasdowns3502 if you think it was a long time ago, you would be very surprised. Cars have only gotten worse with the increase of wires, hoses, etc that consistently increase all the time. We joke at work that the engineers do certain things just to screw the techs.
People need to use their head. Sure he can thin out a shitty wrench and it could break. If it does then lesson learned for 2 dollars, You can try something else. If it does work he now has a specialty tool for 2 dollars and some filing. People got no respect for creative problem solving. If its stupid and it works it isn't stupid.
@@budder2970 functional fixedness. The assumption of people that the original design is the pinnacle and the people that use that tool are subordinate to that tools creator, is sad.
You are absolutely right! Anyone saying you should not modify a tool has never played mechanic
Either that or they're the engineer that designed it. It all looks good on paper.
They ARE playing mechanic, that’s the problem 😂
“Where do you guys think specialty tools come from?”
I couldn’t think of a better way to make the point, either.
Had a auto repair center, body shop, engine repair, transmission repair, tires, and I had a dedicated tool box just for modified tools, your a good mechanic and resourceful.
I’m a machinist. Custom tools are a MUST! It’s called problem solving. Good job.
Man, sometimes I'll spend all day making custom tooling for jobs that we do a ton of. Boss gets a bit fussy about it until I explain how much time it saves in the long run. Outside of writing programs, making my own tooling is my favorite part of machining.
It's the same weird mindset of people that object to me modifying cars, they say the engineers know more than me and they made the car this way for a reason.
Yeah, for reasons often beyond just the best engineering solution. They engineered the car as a general purpose machine to do most things for most people, at a cost determined by other people, following rules set bu still others.
Those same engineers also typically modify vehicles, either for themselves or for the company.
Totally agree. To ad to that, that’s why engineers make revisions to such items. Because they found a way to make it cheaper and easier to work with with better than original results. He “engineered “a way to do the job cheaper with the same or better results.
Im guessing thats 295 lbs, very solid bench f9r any woman. Particularly given her size/physique. Jennifer Thompson holds the record for raw womens bench press at 314lbs, so repping 290+ is definitely special.
Equipped woman amd women of much larger sizes have benched 600-700lbs, but still.
@@DrewLSsix Can't discount the bad actors. The amount of engineering that goes into planned obsolescence and or finding a way to monopolize your own product and parts to said product is a perfect reason to modify your own car outside of the manufacturers recommendations.
If a tool company, like Sandvik, tells you that the tool can cut .200 in 1 cut at such and such speeds for best longevity results, you can guarantee that you can make it last longer by changing the the speeds, feeds, and doc. Inserts ain't cheap!
You gotta remember how they get your money. If there is a way to squeeze more out of you, then you can be sure they will try it, especially if the product is a consumable and their recommendations would cause you to buy more, or to stop using them too early when there is still life left in them.
I used to replace windshields. A lot of specialized tools. Our tool provider had a policy that if we successfully, safely and significantly modified or created a superior tool for frequent use, we could submit it and they would produce it and we could get royalties. Read that as, most of our tools were created by techs in the feild.
wow, good business plan.. let mechanics design your products for mechanics..
@@danielgriff2659 Don't let the engineerds know. They might chuck their slide rulers at their betters!
I've always felt like an engineers attitude is to not make things serviceable as if to say that they failed somehow if their work needed to be worked on.
The brand was Equalizer. Check out their Glass Removal Start Up kit. Most of those hands tools were tech influenced.
To me this is called a trick of the trade and that only comes from experience like this fella. A master at his craft
You are 100% right........And even if there is a tool, there is a chance that it is more expensive than you are willing to pay. I did similar to you, by modifying a HF Wrench to fit a cheater pipe to remove a bolt in a tight spot. The set of 5 wrenches was $5.99 on sale vs purchasing $30 wrench plus saved me a trip to the store.
Every good mechanic has modified tools. Anyone who thinks that’s wrong is wrong.
Carpenters, lectricians, plumbers, blacksmiths, farmers... every GD trade and profession that uses tools. Tools are just modified material.
even when i was first learning how to fix stuff I was making my own tools
Armchair mechanics boil my blood worse than soft handed engineers
Engineer here. Agree 100%. If an engineer isn't spending time in the shop taking feedback and getting his hands dirty, he isn't doing his job.
The best engineers Ive known were the ones who actually got their hands dirty and are able to do every task as an example.
Engineers sometimes have told me "in theory it should work". I build their junk and often they receive a tristed up broken metal structure slammed on their desk. I don't even need to say I told you so.
@@rollinrat4850 You have to be part mechanic, part machinist, part artist, and part human calculator. But I've seen too many myself who mistake good math for good design. Or they won't take criticism from those "monkeys" by which they mean mechanics/machinists. I had my boss fired once for that. The guy told him his machine couldn't cut a part. My boss (chief engineer) berated him in front of everyone and told him to just do it. 10 mins later the machine was broken. Chief engineer fired the kid. I saw it happen and walked into the shop owners office. Kid was on his way out the door when the owner told him go back to work. Then he fired the chief. Guys like that have no business being in charge of anything.
Madder than a one legged waitress working at IHOP?
@@JohnPlissken The a-hole actually did that kid a favor. I've been fired from a few jobs and that turned out to be a blessing. I went on to do better things for more money. Working underneath a-holes is a waste of time at best. Life is too short not to enjoy one's work. Anytime I'm not looking forward to work or I'm bored, I seek a new situation. Jobs have never been hard for me to find.
A CNC programmer also gave me the 'in theory' excuse. I told him it would crash. I knew the part would crash just by looking at the program. I showed it to my manager, who was also this green programmer's boss. He says run it to teach him a lesson. The part flew out of the vise, got mangled and scrapped, once again, thrown on the guy's desk. I said very calmly but laughed a little, "There's your theory. Now program the way I know won't scrap any more. Otherwise you set up and crash the machine"
My daughter just started her career as a civil engineer. She's a tireless worker, speaks Spanish fluently and gets her hands dirty. She's been a good leader by example since she was a young child. Best thing I ever did in my life!
I think people say things on the internet. No one should ever take any of it seriously. It did help this guy come up with content.
Making tools is one of the most satisfying activities
as a former army mechanic I can say we absolutely modified tools regularly.....every specialty tool started out as a modified tool
The problem is that you had to hide them from the inspectors. Any modifications made where you didn’t turn in a report on and request authorization to use was forbidden.
That's definitely not "mil spec" anymore though!
As a mechanic, I totally endorse your modification of any tool that you possess to get the job done.
My specialty move is the hammer conversion!
that torque wrench to wrench tool is awesome, im definitely buying one
My dad was a mechanic for 40 years. His draw of modified tools was amazing. Each one had a story attached to it.
I work on aircraft components, each piece has a manual you must follow to the letter. Aviation industry recognize that fact not every tool exists and some manuals actually have instructions in them how to modify basic tools onto what is needed.
Wow! I had no idea, thanks for sharing
That sounds awesome, are there any publicly available examples you can share?
Might come in handy working on wagons
Same thing with some fire fighter tools iirc, like how you can build a very specialised prybar hybrid in different ways with different configurations and how you use them later
Yep concur, we often shaved off into a chamfer deep throated sockets to get into tight places, as you said the A/C manufacturer gave instructions on how to make the tool
One of the first things I was taught was "if you don't have the tool, you'll probably have to make one"
I have this hick Texas friend with a fifth grade education. He has a lot of great sayings, but his best is "ya gotta be smarter than what your effin with. Carl!" 😂
I am a retired mechanic and you are absolutely right my tool box is full of fabricated wrenches
Heavy equipment mechanic here. I make tools all the time. Heck... that's the reason I buy H.F. wrenches...to modify them. Works with sockets too. Need a socket 9 inches deep? Cut a H.F. socket in half and weld each half to a piece of pipe.
You're absolutely right. I'm a paint guy, so we don't have much in the way of modded tools, but every mechanic that's been in the industry has many modded tools. They won't even let a screwdriver with a broken head go to waste by grinding it to a point to make a pick.
Yup, after I was done with my ex gf, I sent her to the streets.
Tools aren't cheap and it seems like they don't quite make them the way they used to.
@@Finnwolf07yikes
This video is a huge reason why I stay off social media for the most part, idiots make a lot of noise and anybody can get on the Internet. You can’t let the idiots influence your intelligent choices.
'Armchair experts'....the airwaves are full of them🤣
😂😂😂
~ "dont underestimate fools in large numbers"
@@digimon916😅 that's known as a ClusterFuck
Experienced mechanics know how it should be done, but also how to adapt in a pinch. Cheap wrenches and sockets are great for making a custom set of thin-wall sockets and box wrenches. They aren't meant to be your daily-duty, last-forever set.
The modified tool drawer is always filled with great stories
modifying tools is a right of passage when it comes to being a mechanic.
I’m a locksmith, some of best tools are broken tools that just do shit other tools dont
There’s something special about making what you have work for you. What ever gets the job done 👍
It's the Internet Bro, people get bent over the weirdest shit. You're 100% correct, every shop I've ever worked at has modified tools & that's how companies like Snap On come up with new tool designs, they basically use us as R&D and report back on what types of things we're doing with our tools.
When I was custom machine builder something that set you apart was the ability to modify an existing tool or create an entirely new tool to solve an unexpected problem. Thank you for addressing this!
What kind of machines did you build, if you don't mind me asking? I've always been very impressed and fascinated with people that can build and rebuild precision machine tools ever since I picked up a copy of The Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy by Moore. I'm also really captivated by hand scraping the ways of machines. Such a laborious but ultimately rewarding process.
Haters gonna hate.
The sign of any good mechanic is the ability to modify or manufacture any tool as needed.
I agree. The hack is the mechanic who needs someone else to design a 50$ tool for the job he might do once a year
There isn't a tool for every job. Because not every job can be anticipated. Every tool ever invented was created out of a need for a tool that did not exist. I've never met a mechanic or engineer who didn't make or modify his own tools.
@@Leedledlee Yup, a hack is also the guy who believes they can actually buy skills. Theyre often in debt for all those fancy tools as well.
4 wheeling, mountain biking, no cell service, broken junk and the will to survive have taught me how few tools I really need. Necessity is the instigator of invention.
Exactly if you do no fabrication work at all are you even a mechanic?
And modifying unobtanium parts with homemade tools.
Crafting tools or being creative with extensions, crows feet, torque adapters, swivels, etc is fun. I’m my line of work (heavy equipment), it’s half about the tools and half about how you are able / willing to cram yourself in a spot to access something. Enduring 5mins of pain can save hours work
As a mechanic i modify everything, keep rocking brother!;;;!!!
A mechanic that makes his own tools is a smart mechanic. Plain and simple
I always thought that was the reason cheap tools are made. This way, you don't mess up your good, expensive ones. 😊
Don't come over to my garage where I modify my Snap-On tools, you'll need your safe-space! ROFL!!
@@Anarchy-Is-Libertyyou are too powerful to be kept alive. The shadow government will be at your location in 3-5 business days to deal with you
@@Anarchy-Is-Libertybless your heart and wallet cause I could never
@@Anarchy-Is-Liberty Modifying an expensive tool is not flexing, it's dumb. My main tools are Snap-On, but I also have cheap tools to bang things around and modify; In essence, I have most common tools in double. 💪
Think about it, ALL tools were created as a modified tool. Where do you think tools came from. Idiots.
Blacksmith here. I made my own tools regularly. Nothing wrong with modifying or making anything. Also, this made me miss my model a. I had a 28 roadster and a 29 sedan.
You are absolutely correct, well done.
It's actually great that so many cheap tools are available that you can modify them and not worry about the money.
That is what I was thinking. And who cares, if it's not their tools or money.
That's why they exist lol
So true
I modified my $3 six in one to a four in one by losing one of the chucks.
You're right, I'm 68 years old and have been modifying tools my whole life and have a ton of them. Anyone that would call you a hack really don't know shit about being a mechanic.
Absolutely brilliant, I say! I have shaved open ends a few times myself. Nothing wrong with innovation and thinking outside the box!
I'm a retired mechanic and I also had a drawer full of modified tools like the bent wrench to remove the oil pressure switch on a 400 cid ford truck
That's what real men do. We find solutions to problems. Having worked on our car cars for 23 years me and my buddies and I always find ways to get our jobs done. Props to you bro.
I was a mechanic and we literally had corporate engineering people coming to see what kind of tools we had made so they could make professional versions of them. Any repairman worth their weight knows the importance of improvisation to get the job done.
Yep! There's a system in place in the military, where one can submit ideas for doing something more quickly or better somehow. In one instance, we submitted a "hack" of putting a serviceable/non-serviceable tag in between the low pressure turbine and the case of a GE F-101 turbofan engine, to space it out quickly and properly. The tag would stay in until the initial run, at which time a spark would be seen coming from the tail. The AF gave the suggestors a little pile of money for the suggestion.. There were folks I worked with in the Army, who suggested ideas for tools for heavy / light wheel mechanic work. It's just the way wrenchin' works!!
Every tool came from some guy that created his own original, handmade tool.
Don't do that shit with out getting paid or other compensation. They may make those patent it and make $ on your ingenuity while your stuck making hourly wage
So all the hate to the engineers is misplaced. Patent then sell your tools to a company to get residuals. Engineers change it up every 3-7 years and you can get multiple revenue streams going. They’re really just doing the mechanics a favor if you think about it.
My Dad had a drawer of custom wrenches for unique common repairs on various vehicles.
Those guys never worked in a shop before. Keep doing what you do.
I was always taught that the definition of an engineer is someone who can use the wrong tool, for the right job.
and everything becomes a Hammer sooner or later
No hack!! Just someone with common sense!! Props to you for figuring out how to use a torque wrench on it!!
Hacing is not a bad word. To hack means to improvise a working solution.
@@alexandergrimsmowhen said "you're such a hack", it's always condescending.
Common sense is a punishment... As we can clearly see.
@@commonsenseisdeadin2024 That's very different that "to hack"
The manual that came with the torque wrench should explain how to account for additional length
If you put the wrench at 90’ to the torque wrench the torque applied to the nut is not affected by the length of the wrench from the head of the torque wrench.
I am a hobby blacksmith. Number one rule for a blacksmith (and any other craftsman) is "Need a tool, make a tool"
My grandpa had all kinds of crazy-looking specialized tools he created.
28 years as a licensed red seal master tech here...
Not only do I make, modify or tweak tools to perform better, every single tech worth their wage does.
We are masters at thinking outside the box to solve problems.
We do it all day, every day... fix fix fix.
If a wrench needs to be cut, ground, machined, welded etc... we do it to get the job done.
What kind of closed-minded greenhorn says otherwise 🤔
Many techs borrowed tools I made along the way and I borrowed theirs, and fabricated my own.
How do you think new tools are created?
By some engineer sitting in an office???
They're created out of necessity, then later refined, then engineered, then manufactured.
I am from Denmark, here it takes 4 years to get a metal worker (smit) education, as my job, I have build tankers and for the last 20 years machines for the textile and medical industries and we do nothing but make special tools and mark up tools for our product to make life easier for us and make sure we keep up the highest quality as possible on our products, work smarter not harder.
This needs to be top comment!
Okay boomer.
@searchingfornessie8410
I hope one day you get old enough to be a master at something, not just a master baiter...
Haha
Gen x, actually, my parents are boomers...
You'll figure it out... 😀
Your comment made me laugh - kudos to you.
I am getting to be an old fart!
Dads not even a mechanic- been used to homemade tools to solve specific issues since as long as I can remember, I swear the first time he called someone else to repair something was when our ac unit went out, other than that did everything either bought cheap or made custom tools for the job, seen so many other comments of people saying something similar, I feel like we naturally hate on each other to some extent.
You nailed it: Specialty tools are just the result of companies manufacturing and charging money to make a thing users already made and used.
The first (and only, lol) compliment I ever got regarding a wrench I was using, was from an older gent: "nice to see you used your thinking cap to make this work for you" when seeing a thinned down 1/2" box end. When I confessed it had been my Father that had done it over 40 years previously, his eyes lit up and he said: "I bet he was a farmer." My Dad grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan Canada during the Depression!
Too bad everything is metric now. ... 😁
My grandfather had a set of Allen sockets he made(I’m guessing before they were commercially available) by cutting a set of Allen wrenches up and brazing them into a cheap set of sockets, ain’t stupid if it works.
@@ronhobyak9902 Not as long as I've got a set of wrenches that go by 32s of an inch. I haven't found a nut or bolt yet that I've needed a metric wrench for.
Making tools is one defining trait of humanity.
Nobody complains when the mechanic has to fix their car with a special purpose tool.
that torque wrench converter is cool, i never knew that existed. Thanks for teaching some of us something new.
You must adjust the torque wrench setting for the new lever length
I like how he started with the word foolish😂😂😂😂 perfect
Retired diesel mechanic here. I literally have a tool drawer full of modified tools that I’ve had to make over the years. It’s all part of the job.
I call that drawer "my bag of tricks" lol
I was looking for this comment somewhere thank you 😂yes a whole fricken chest full of them
Modifying tools to make them work is like the best part of the job.
It _is_ rewarding
Yeah!! So much fun. I waste far too much time on it 😂
That oxygen/acetylene torch bends stuff real good
i don't work in a shop, except my own garage. but making a tool out of things that are junk/trash or modifying a tool to work better, or even to be used for a different purpose entirely is one of my top 5 most enjoyable things in the world. Also parts, making a part instead of buying a part is sooo good lol it's the same feeling as not having to pay a mechanic because you can fix it yourself!
@@user-eh8nd7mn2e lol wow you're really incompetent.
Any human who has worked on cars for any amount of time knows handmade tools are a must
I'm a welder and tbh most people can't comprehend how much structural strength is in a little peice of metal.