Pipe bender modifications and homemade brackets
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- čas přidán 2. 12. 2022
- modifying the pipe bender to take a 1 5/8 pipe and getting the first bends made up for Crusty. Also making all kinds of brackets with scrap from around the shop.
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When I'm feeling down about how one of my projects is going, I watch you do things for awhile and always come away encouraged to keep trying. Thanks.
I do the same thing when I feel down with my truck resto watch fitzee good to go
Great content. I am in the same stage on a 1971. O et coyote project. The radiator and inter oiled Monte are great
same
This project is coming along great tony! So much freedom in a scratch built car
No No No not home made.................Shop made...... you are a professional. No one does better work that I have seen and I have seen a lot. Love the videos and the true life honesty.
Tony, i know you aren't driven by money but I think you are missing a trick here. That front end could be an entire bolt on unit with a little modification and you could make a fortune fabbing and selling them. One of the hardest jobs is the idea, but if you haven't already thought it, I just thought I would suggest it. Love the vid again and I didn't think I would be interested but your initiatives can be applied in loads of different areas. Love it all Tony, you're a star. JOE
You know things are getting serious when Fitzee gets out the welding helmet! Wee Corolla is looking good!👍🇨🇦
Your not wrong, he looks likea proper welder in this one 🤣😅
Fitzee The way you can visualise the end part and fabricate it out of scrap is fantastic. Experience!! Beautiful work.
You missed your career as a teacher. Bravo. Action-packed and well produced. I could almost see you planning the post-production as you were filming. 👍
I know what you are saying, but Fitzee isn't a teacher, he's a professor.
I need brackets and radiator mounts and all that's available is scrap, a pipe bender, and a grinder! Fitzee: " Hold my beer"...... Loved the video Tony. Great stuff as always!
Hi Tony, lots of good fabrication tips. The brackets you made from the square and rectangle tubing are beautiful and blend in nicely with the tubing supports. Brilliant job shimming the tube bender dies for the smaller diameter tubing. More practical than buying the extra dies. Crusty is coming along. Thanks for the video!
Sometimes I watch far too much on CZcams and get depressed - politics, environment, war - and then a new Fitzee video appears and the sun shines again. Thanks Fitzee! You're a national treasure! (I sent one of your driving / tour videos to the NL tourism office a few months ago.)
As an instrumentation mechanic, I learned real quickly that you have to bend a bit more due to spring back. When you take the pressure off the metal has a memory and will spring back a bit. Same with flat metal, bend a bit extra so it is right when it has the tension or pressure is removed.
Generally 3 deg extra on my bender with similar sized pipe
Another great episode loaded with good tips. I love the "use what you got" approach. Thank you Tony
I have learnt so much from you Tony! I'm in the middle of a build tackling making custom patch panels.. I often use your methods with great success. Thank you!
Frickin amazing! That was a superb piece of engineering and fabrication! Thanks for showing us how it is done.
You’re a genius , I love the way you think . Excellent lesson was given here , thank you and God Bless !!!
Hi Fitzie, you hope tips were good?
No. They were - as usual - excelent 👍👍👍
Man, you rock 👍
Awesome. Makes me smile watching. Thank you for the videos.
Well Fitz, I must say, that was a genius idea, man, you cease to amaze me, I was thoroughly impressed with the level of product you produced afterwards. Ya can't expect better than that my friend you really can't. Car is coming along great.
That was some top of the class work you did. It made all the sense they way you did it piece by piece and the result is a joy to see.
Great craftsmanship Fitzee. Came out amazing. Such attention to detail and functionality. Nice welding too!
You encourage me to do my V8 first generation Honda Civic. A lot of what you are doing will make it easy for me to get ideas. Always enjoy your videos Tony, thanks.
Great progress on the car. So many useful tips and tricks! You’re the best Fitzee!!!
Always enjoy your videos Tony. She's coming together. Love the channel. Keep On Keeping On Brother!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Top-notch DIY Tony. I could watch your content for hours. Oh, I just did! As always, the tips were good!
You are a fabricating genius! I have learned so much from you! Thank you!
great metal work with excellent communication and video editing skills.
As always, the tips were good. Thanks for sharing your skills with us Tony.👍👍❤
You have one of the best intros on the tube. When you say "stick around" it is always going to be a good one... You have to know you are one heck of an inspiration to other fabricators cause Fitzee has probably already done it.
Job well done ! my friend, Your video is so great to watch, because you make them simple and easy to learn , Thank you Sir.
That's awesome brother the way you can think about the problem then solve it. Incredible gift you have. Great way to help others figure this stuff out. Ty 😊 🙏
Great looking job. I'm a gusset guy. I'd probably put a gusset where the two pieces of pipe are welded to the frame rails. But, it's not my car. Thanks for the video.
Exactly what I kept telling my TV while watching this video. Again, wonderful work and ingenuity from Tony, with clear instruction. Being an Ontario boy with East coast relatives and growing up on CodCo and 22Minutes, I wonder how much of the dialogue people in other parts of the world scratch their heads over. :-D
Amazing. I love your style. From what most consider scrap, you turn it into gold. Definitely going to be a desirable machine when done.
Tony, I used to paint small white circles on the floor then took a plumb bob and center points and clear paint over them for locator points
and took a book and made notes for measurements since I did not have a 'leveling plate' also I had marking points
on the floor and my frames for stand placement as well...... time to time I'd just redo them or scrub em off as well for a new car
but NOTES BOOKS/PADS ARE KEY!......
I like watching you. I think people get a good idea of how long it takes to build things. I am working my 1960 Thame. 40 years ago I won a first place in customs 4x4 at the Detroit Autorama. 15 years ago it was in a fire. I started rebuilding it 3 years ago.
New floor, wiring, interior, new motor and transmission, a little body work.
Thanks for all I have learned watching you
Splendid work Fitzee. Nice to see a real builder. Using a computer is as fake as it can get. A real builder is in fact a builder, not a CNC worder. Keep doing what you're doing. You have it right!
The tips were good! Very creative solutions. I can’t wait to borrow some of those tips!
Masterful. Love the stand alone rad intercooler mounting
Brilliant! If that is the pipe a guy has to work with, adapting tooling to make it work is what a true craftsman does.
That was time well spent making the die shims, that $500 can be spent elsewhere. Thanks for sharing the tips and experience.
Thats Bad ass tony. I like how you made the tabs. Now i learned something i can use on my prostreet to redo my radiator hold down thanks for the tips. Tony. Keep the tips coming
Heck you could even do the same bow set up against the firewall, and have removable stretcher pipes from front to rear. Make them like a removable ladder rack rear bar. Give yourself a little extra protection in the event of a front end Collision. Great jobTony!
Magnificent fitzee....the rad support of ole toy takin shape yes indeed....🙂👍🙏
Nice Job. I got some good pointers from this video as I get from all your videos. Thanks and stay warm up there.
I can hardly wait to show this one to my buddy tomorrow. You make it look so easy. Thanks Tony.
Just a bit of advise with that type of bender from a lot of experience.
Set the needle to zero with the pipe firmly clamped in the die and pulling gently on the bender handle to remove all slack.
That will give you an accurate reading.
Also every diameter and wall thickness as well as material type will have different spring back.
4130 will always be more than 1080.
The U clamp doesn’t really keep the tube from slipping. That’s the pinch bolts function.
Check out the fabrication series for a really in depth lesson on using that type of bender. He gives great tips as well for calculating length of tube needed and distance between the beginning of bends.
So many good pointers. Thanks for going into so much detail. Great videos!
Fantastic job Mr. Fitzee!
That's some great Fab work on this one Tony, great tips as always and I love those rad mounts, strong and simple, nothing beats that
You are one of the best i have seen , building a good reliable structure and frame without any major plans ahead.. love that build.
You are a great teacher. I’m learning a lot. Thanks.
That was a really cool mounting setup for the front end.
Fantastic video Tony! Glad to see you are getting more acquainted with your new pipe binder. Can't wait for the roll cage videos!
loving this build mate keep up the good work!
Another fantastic video. I just keep learning!!
Great job Tony, nice to see you doing some fabricating and working things out. The tips are good as always.
Tony never fails to amaze!
Tony, great to see the bender st work. I'm really enjoying all your projects. Thanks
Brilliant work, as always. I like how you walk us through your process, showing before and after when fabricating a piece, for example. You're a good teacher, Fitzee!
Awesome build very creative. You have given me some insight on my current project. The tips were good. Thank you
Excellent job on that fabrication... Looks like its going to work just fine!
That is a slick setup Fitzee!
You are so resourceful. I love the fish mouth technique!!!
Well done great work
Thank you for the Video
Greetings from Germany
Take care yours Frank Galetzka
Je dois avouer que tu es un vrai artiste rien à voir avec certains bricoleur du dimanche
Great work and an even greater learning experience for me, Thanks !
Very nice placement - used the space you had and solved the issue - and it looks damn fine
Beautiful work and great ideas...thank you
I was thinking why not use box iron tube but the round tube looks absolutely perfect. You nailed it yet again!
Great for me seeing the pipe bending as I'll be doing the same for my project car very soon.
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Nothing short of brilliant 👍
Comin' together nicely. 👍
Great work as always Tony. Merry Christmas.
Very good Looks good and solid well done sir Fitzee
You sure have a way of simplifying making brackets with what you have laying around. Thanks for sharing.
Tips were good. Thanks Mainks!
Really great video Fitzee love this little car project your doing I have done two Hillman Husies myself ,watching you do this car I want to mar another little car project truely inspiring to watch you work small car big power true Hot Rod!
Hey Tony, always enjoy watching you work!:) Thanks for another great video! I always learn something:)
The Tips were GREAT!!!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. You are a genius. Very inspiring to me for sure.
very nicely done sir!
This was art. I am always so impressed by your vision and creativity.
You're an Amazing Guy... Thanks for Sharing
Looking good, Tony!
heled my dad build a 55 ft ALL steel sailboat in our backyard about 30 years ago. We bent each of the 10-15 ft ribs by hand too. Love to see your ingenuity.
Looking good! Looking forward to se it running down the road this summer
Fitzee you do a real good job at anything you do front of the car looks great.
I was looking for a way to do that. It was so simple that way you did it. I tend to overthink stuff. Thank you!
Any video with stuff about trusty Crusty, is a good video.
great work as always
Great idea, thanks for sharing.
Great video, Tony! That little car's starting to look pretty good!
Great work!
Great Video. I’m restoring my 87 Suzuki Samurai and I’ve wanted to make a flip front end . These tips will definitely help out with the fabrication.
On a side note I might have to plan a road trip to watch when the Corolla makes that 1st pass down the strip. Thanks for the tips. 👍👍👍😎
Fantastic…. Useful and practical tips everywhere 👍👍😎👍👍
Really nice work Fitzee , we’ll done!!
Thanks! Merry Christmas to the whole crew at Fitzee's Fabrications. Always look forward to your metal fabrication videos!
Merry Christmas to you snd yours and thank you
Excellent display of a skilled craftsman. Always a pleasure to watch and learn from.
Great info Tony. Thanks
Excellent work.
Smart how you thought it through so that you can easily remove things to work on it and do maintenance in future but have it all together so you can run it !!! NICE !!! not like car are built today have to take them half apart to do anything even simple things like change a headlight bulb ! Very impressed GREAT job !!