And all these years I used Jumper cables or a short length of weld cable and a couple pair of Vise grips. This is a much less barbaric and elegant solution. I might just have to build me a couple sets. Make great gifts too. Thanks Jim
Till this day I cant get over watching Karl weld. Under the helmet watching him you would have thought it was a robot running the tig torch. Seen many of welders and never seen a hand as steady and rock solid as his. Awsome experience
2 a.m. Just got in from the shop, making a repair to some steering linkage on our YT4000 mower, and find a few new items on the plate. Good to see you at it again. I'd be hoarding those copper shavings for making aluminum bronze.
I have your channel marked and have not been getting notification. I’ve watched your videos for a long time and even though I come and check on you periodically I have not been getting notification when you put a video out and I’ve noticed that was some of my other favorite channels.
Welcome back, you’ve been missed. It’s been too long. I’m not sure. I dig the new editing routine with the pictures inserted and too much text. Looks forward to your next video please don’t take a lot of months.
That sign behind your right shoulder made me laugh. When I was a kid the neighbours across the road was an Italian woman and her New Zealander husband. He played golf. One day we heard this loud Italian accent say: "Don'ta you washa your dirty balls ina my sink!"
@@dustinandtarynwolfe5540 Well, most certainly you should do you, since you speak as suck an expert. I love these clamps and carry them in my welding ditty bag. Wouldn't hesitate to make them again.
It’s called a work clamp. It’s only a ground clamp when you’re welding DCEP. When you’re welding DCEN, the torch is the ground and the work clamp is positive. It’s not hard to remember, it’s in the name. DC-electrode positive, DC-electrode negative.
It’s actually not a ground period! The work clamp just completes the one circuit! There not 2 separate circuits like normal electrical equipment! Also DCEN and DCEP is just changing polarity! Just saying!
@@outdoorzone on DCEP, the electrode is positive and the work clamp is negative. Traditionally, the negative side of a dc circuit is referred to as the ground. Honestly though, that’s only where I live. People might not refer to the negative side as the ground where you live.
@@outdoorzone Typically everyone I know refers to the clamp (not torch) as the "ground" even though we TIG DCEN. The big difference between the 2 polarities is that you tungsten supplier will love you if you choose to weld DCEP.
Good video but It’s actually not a ground! Drives me crazy when everyone calls it that……it’s misleading! It’s a work clamp, It just completes the broken circuit!
@@gibbsey9579 The "ground" lead on the machine, and earth ground have the same potential. The machine bonds to the earth ground through the earth ground in the wiring in the shop. The work will have the same electrical potential as earth ground. This ensures that there is no potential difference between the work, and "earth" to cause a shock in the idle state.
@DoRiteFabrication No. The 'ground lead', which is really a work lead is not connected to ground unless someone does it thenselves. It is not grounded through the welder.
What a waste of valuable material. Sure can tell the sponsored video makers from us home shop guys. Could have cut that out wit a saw and saved all that material. Doesn't really speak to us much for us home shop guys. Not saying it was a bad idea, just doesn't work for most of us, but hey you got your video ou for this pay period.
@@kimknowles3681 bla bla bla. It's not a sponsored video...at all. I bought that hunk of copper from a scrapper with my money I earned and my FULL TIME JOB . I bought it at scrap value. I get it that you have your opinions, that doesn't make it a fact, so let not talk like it is. I made this project because I wanted to, and I have used it a lot since....thanks for watching.
Could have used a gold bar to reduce the cost.
Yep. But it would have been to heavy.....lol
I was surprised he wasn’t running a shopvac during all the cutting processes
And all these years I used Jumper cables or a short length of weld cable and a couple pair of Vise grips. This is a much less barbaric and elegant solution. I might just have to build me a couple sets. Make great gifts too. Thanks Jim
Till this day I cant get over watching Karl weld. Under the helmet watching him you would have thought it was a robot running the tig torch. Seen many of welders and never seen a hand as steady and rock solid as his. Awsome experience
next time I cast a block of copper...or mabe pass by the machining and make a copper g clamp...could be fun
Excellent share thankyou
Mill it to dimensional perfection then hand sand it till its pretty. 😀 Besides this evidence no one will ever know about that paralax error. :-)😂
Thank you for sharing. The welding community has been an amazing group of people will to help each other get better.
Good to see you back, wishing your family is doing well. And thank you for sharing and teaching.
Nice to see you, Jim. I hope that you and your family are doing better now, sorry to hear of your troubles of late, I hope you are all doing well.
2 a.m. Just got in from the shop, making a repair to some steering linkage on our YT4000 mower, and find a few new items on the plate. Good to see you at it again.
I'd be hoarding those copper shavings for making aluminum bronze.
Good to see you back Jim, hope everyone is doing well.
Enjoy the 4th
ATB……
Good to see you again! Thanks for sharing 👍
Loved the video, beautiful product!
Glad to see you publish again Jim!
Awesome as Always... Really cool content. Pleasure to watch and Learn... Glad to have you Back.
Great to see your back to making videos.
Thanks for sharing Jim! Love the idea. Stay well, Phil
Nice to see you, I hope everyone is doing well.
Great project Jim, Thanks.
I have your channel marked and have not been getting notification. I’ve watched your videos for a long time and even though I come and check on you periodically I have not been getting notification when you put a video out and I’ve noticed that was some of my other favorite channels.
Welcome back, you’ve been missed. It’s been too long. I’m not sure. I dig the new editing routine with the pictures inserted and too much text. Looks forward to your next video please don’t take a lot of months.
That's how I learned to tap, by hand...still the best
if you heat that copper till red or until the flame leaves wave marks then quench it will be a lot softer and easier to work than just cooling
That sign behind your right shoulder made me laugh.
When I was a kid the neighbours across the road was an Italian woman and her New Zealander husband. He played golf.
One day we heard this loud Italian accent say: "Don'ta you washa your dirty balls ina my sink!"
Thanks for promoting us
Outstanding
nice
Someone should tell this dude that is not a indoor hat lol
Nice job!
Nice clamps.
@@noneofabove5586 thanks for noticing....lol
Good to see you back give me a phone call when you can.
I didn’t know copper was hard enough to require Tap Magic for tapping and drilling. I’ll file that away for future reference. Thanks!
Waaay too much time, effort, and money when there are simple solutions readily available
@@dustinandtarynwolfe5540 Well, most certainly you should do you, since you speak as suck an expert. I love these clamps and carry them in my welding ditty bag. Wouldn't hesitate to make them again.
Seems like a lot of time and material.
I think a beam clamp is about $3.75 and a copper one under $20.
@@burtreynolds3143 you should do that! Then make a video about it.
@@DoRiteFabrication What video editor do you use ?
hopefully the flywheelers will be less wet this yr,, Them charging you to take an electric assist bike in sucks though..
It’s called a work clamp. It’s only a ground clamp when you’re welding DCEP. When you’re welding DCEN, the torch is the ground and the work clamp is positive. It’s not hard to remember, it’s in the name. DC-electrode positive, DC-electrode negative.
It’s actually not a ground period! The work clamp just completes the one circuit! There not 2 separate circuits like normal electrical equipment!
Also DCEN and DCEP is just changing polarity! Just saying!
@@outdoorzone on DCEP, the electrode is positive and the work clamp is negative. Traditionally, the negative side of a dc circuit is referred to as the ground. Honestly though, that’s only where I live. People might not refer to the negative side as the ground where you live.
@@outdoorzone Typically everyone I know refers to the clamp (not torch) as the "ground" even though we TIG DCEN. The big difference between the 2 polarities is that you tungsten supplier will love you if you choose to weld DCEP.
Going to OSH this year??
Melt the copper you milled out and cast more ground clamps!
👍😎👍
what did that bar of copper cost?
@@davidparker3346I bought it surplus/ scrap for 40 bucks or so. I had to buy the whole chunk to get him to sell it. So I have a bunch left.....
@@DoRiteFabrication you got a good deal on it.
@@DoRiteFabricationIt would take a lot of pennies to make a chunk that size.
Good video but It’s actually not a ground! Drives me crazy when everyone calls it that……it’s misleading!
It’s a work clamp, It just completes the broken circuit!
The welder is ‘grounded’ not the work.
@@nopenoper9644 fake news!
If the welder is grounded he's gonna get a shock....
@@gibbsey9579 The "ground" lead on the machine, and earth ground have the same potential. The machine bonds to the earth ground through the earth ground in the wiring in the shop. The work will have the same electrical potential as earth ground. This ensures that there is no potential difference between the work, and "earth" to cause a shock in the idle state.
@DoRiteFabrication No. The 'ground lead', which is really a work lead is not connected to ground unless someone does it thenselves. It is not grounded through the welder.
saw guid should have been lowered close to work height
What a waste of valuable material. Sure can tell the sponsored video makers from us home shop guys. Could have cut that out wit a saw and saved all that material. Doesn't really speak to us much for us home shop guys. Not saying it was a bad idea, just doesn't work for most of us, but hey you got your video ou for this pay period.
@@kimknowles3681 bla bla bla. It's not a sponsored video...at all. I bought that hunk of copper from a scrapper with my money I earned and my FULL TIME JOB . I bought it at scrap value. I get it that you have your opinions, that doesn't make it a fact, so let not talk like it is. I made this project because I wanted to, and I have used it a lot since....thanks for watching.