I'm about 99.99 percent sure he drilled the first couple holes with the drill in reverse

Yep you’re right nobody will ever tell you to do this with their grinder and for good reason.

I have a Jet wood lathe in the garage, but now after watching this I'm going to try to turn it into an angle grinder. Wish me luck!

SCREW THAT! I am a tradesman wood machinist who has had his share of chomped fingers over the years. This is an accident waiting to happen at worst, outright power tool abuse at best. I could easily see someone trying this with a grinder that is not speed variable and the entire rig disintegrating in their face at 13000 rpm

On behalf of my best friend David that was recently killed in Australia due to an angle grinding accident, I urge people to think twice before modifying an angle grinder. David was using his angle grinder with the correct size blade and it had a guard fitted. Yet the machine jammed and a small piece of the disc broke off and hit him in the leg and cut through his femoral artery. He died alone at home before help arrived. Family and friends are still suffering from his loss. Please don't make angle grinders any more dangerous than they already are.

This guy is absolutely amazing!!!!!!!! It amazes me that he still has all his fingers after all the stupid stuff he builds.

9 minutes wàtching holes being drilled, screws being run in and nuts being tightened. 38 seconds of watching a janky lathe. Brilliant!

Next week: We'll safely show how to transform a hammer drill into a toothbrush.

Awesome video, thank you! I did it in my garage and it works perfectly. Now I`m missing one eye and four fingers, but hey: passion takes sacrifices! Please upload more, keep these great videos coming! Genius!

Another episode of turning useful materials into lethal tools

Used to be a Manager of a Harbor Freight Tools store and sold cheap $20 side grinders, had a customer that wanted to modify it with one of our 4" table saw blades to make a tool to cut baseboards to put down tile or hardwood floors. We sold a tool for this. Had adjustable depth, and reach but it was about $60. The side grinders had a 5/8" arbor, and the 4" wheel had a 1/2" hole. The side grinder ran at 20,000 RPM, the table saw blade with Carbide teeth had a Max RPM of 6500. He wanted to Redhill the table saw blade up to 5/8". I told him that it would have to be completely concentric or else it would be off center and wobble like an Egg. He planned on using a Reostat speed controller to slow the grinder down, so I told him that most grinders really didn't run like that, and would bog down and shut off if they didn't get enough power. About 2 weeks later he came in. His right hand was bandaged up, and he told Me that he should have listened. He tried His idea, had to run it without the Speed Control, it started to vibrate so bad He dropped it, that blade broke into several pieces, one about took his thumb off, and parts of the carbide tips fragmented like shrapnel into his forearm before he could get clear. He bought to Side mounted Cut off saw to cut his baseboards. I did give him his Money back on the grinder as it was undamaged.

I had a lot of old pipes and rebar to cut up and from what I read kzfaq.infoUgkxPDBfLu68o58Aw85O_J-zIFfjJARBhp-3 this would be the tool for the job. Since I had never used one, I watched a couple of youtube videos and I'm so glad I did. Some really good safety tips, which I followed, and this tool did a splendid job. One good thing to know is the weight of the tool puts just about the right amount of pressure on the metal I was cutting, so I didn't have to use a lot of pressure, which is more likely to jam the tool. It made fast work of my job.

The creator of this video then used the $20k it earned him and bought a really nice, real lathe.

This has inspired me! I'm going to do the same thing with an old 250cc two stroke dirt bike I have. I'm going to make it into a lathe. I'm just going to hook stuff to where the sprocket goes. Just imagine I'll be able to turn trees that are 18 to 25 in thick. Watch for the video in upcoming series I'm going to call death of a diy-er.

I didn't know wood workers were so witty and ruthless at the same time. The responses worth the wait.

This is brilliant. If only there was an actual safer tool out there like this. If only! What a time to be alive!

Man that is bloody brilliant!. I was just given half of a small laythe. Now I can rig up the other side. Thank you so much! 🙏🙏🇦🇺

Amazing that that guy has all 10 fingers.

Please invent a hack to get the last 8 mins of my life back thank you!!!

The so-called ‘lathe’ is the most stupid idea but the wisdom I found in the ‘comments’ is priceless! Thanks!!

I have used angle grinders almost on a daily basis, yet I have never used one without a cover, hence I have all my fingers.

Gonna dust off the old wood lathe and turn it into a grinder this weekend

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye because one end of the piece loosens up and it come flying out at you at 200mph.

This is the best advertisement for the development of a common maker space in your area. He has saved hundreds of dollars with this rig that he might only need to use once. A communal tool shop is the best answer. For the small membership fee you have access to the right equipment and a community willing to advise and help.

If I wanted 6” long table legs I think I’d just go buy them at the home improvement store. But put those studs on a battery powered side grinder and it would make a formidable weapon at the Renaissance festival

Can't stress this enough - THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE RIGHT JOB

Super cool little build... God damn dangerous as hell too. 😳

Ive been using mine for years. Works great saved me a fortune too.👍

Tip for watching DIY videos, set your playback speed to 2. You can always go back if you need to.

Now make an angle grinder out of a lathe.

I saw almost the same thing on Amazon for $2,432.00. I bought it, but thanks for all your work and dedication. Really, tho, that's a lot of work and planning that you put into that hack and I appreciated it for that reason. I "liked". Good luck with your channel.

EXCELLENT!!!!! Thank for sharing 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻

There's 8 minutes of my life I'll never get back

I was waiting for the chisel to catch and fly up through his eyeball.

Amazing, if I can find any time, I have to try that. Thank you for your show

BRILLIANT!!! Stellar video! 😀👍

Look mom, I made a wooden leg. Good work son, now you just need to make some wooden fingers to replace the ones you lost.

Safety 3rd! Keep the hacks coming! Darwin Awards will be given out at the end.

If you sharpen your drill bits properly, they will product shavings instead of dust - and cut much easier & faster. A cheap set of wood turning gouges will cut MUCH better than scraping across a flat chisel. The flat chisel isn’t much better than a screwdriver. A face shield might save you an eye when you’re learning. I have some good size dents in my workshop ceiling from shattered or ejected turning blanks.

OUTSTANDING LATHE Awesome jig

I always wondered why no one would tell me this angle grinder hack. Now I know..

It was great.... I used it to make a hand railing 8" tall.

Excellent thanks

Brilliant...!!... Meantime... I went to lumber yard...

I watch videos like this, with a combination of apprehension, anxiety and morbid curiosity. Wondering aloud just what kind of batsh!t crazy idea is coming to fruition before my very eyes. As I watch this video I find myself wondering aloud, what the hell, could it be? What sort of maiming device has he come up with now? Is it meant to simply to amputate fingers? Act as a blunt force trauma machine? Perhaps simultaneously disembowel and eviscerate? Maybe he has gone all in on the trifecta with this one and it is ALL of the above...

If I wanted a lathe , Harbor freight tools has a really nice bench top lathe and is much more safe than this setup which is very dangerous because of the high speed of an angle grinder , Even with the speed turned down , You have to start at a very low speed because your stock is gonna be out of balance and running it that fast can launch that piece of wood and you have no idea where it's gonna go and possibly hit you right in the face or forehead Back in high school , One guy was turning a baseball bat on the lathe and he turned up the speed to finish sand it , He didn't realize that the wood was off balance and it shot out of the lathe and hit him on the bridge of his nose , He was very lucky to be alive and had to have reconstructive surgery on his face and plastic surgery , For safety's sake Buy yourself a lathe instead of trying to make one because if that piece of wood comes flying out of there and hits you in the head can kill you , A lathe will cost much less than ending up in the hospital

Love it , great stuff ! 👍

Thanks for showing 4 (FOUR!) times how to screw a nut on a bolt! That is very difficult and I don't think I could manage without four examples!

The vibrations will ruin the gearbox pretty soon though. On lathes you have the spindle connected to the motor through a belt. So that vibrations caused by excentricity of the rotating piece you're working on don't get transferred onto the motor shaft (bearings) and rather dissipate along the elastic belt. The RPM are too high as well. And I wouldn't want to be around when that piece of wood rotating at 25k snaps off the spindle...

Did anyone else notice the bolt on the right was about to start a friction fire,

That’s great! What could possibly go wrong ☺️

awesome back scratcher!

I find it amazing that he still has his fingers lmao

The reason NOBODY will tell you about this is , LIABILITY............ Nobody wants to be sued because you did this and ended up in the emergency department of your local hospital.

“Hey let’s take the most dangerous tool in almost anyone’s garage and make it even more dangerous”

Very good , thanks for sharing.🇦🇹😎

This guy solved world peace on his break from doing this. And then I myself took a piece of titanium yesterday and widdled a pirate ship out of it with just my thoughts inside of a glass bottle.

Oh dear, blunt drill bit was irritating, so easy to fix but then it got worse. Blunt chisel used as a scraper, scary bit of wobble in the system as pressure is applied, what could possible go wrong. I hope no one copies this idea. The rules of natural selection unfortunately sometimes apply. Fast moving appliances need to be precise and treated with respect.

That is seriously creative.

Now why didn’t I figure that out! Very creative guy or gal!

I think you can actually buy a mini Lathe for about the same price as the grinder and all the labor

Looks like a great way to burn out a perfectly good grinder. Not designed to run for several minutes at a time. Cool, regardless.

Are those drill bits for masonry? Seemed quite the effort.

That is freaking brilliant brother

Use the grinder to sharpen your drill bits and chisel first!

Admittedly I guessed what you were making , but very ingenious. As a young schoolboy I was dragged off the wood lathe so other members of the wood work class could have a go , fruit bowls and candle sticks , made for my grandmother’s . A funny story in my adult life was being bitten by an ultra long lathe for turning rams for hydraulic cranes , my boss managed to remove half of my left thumb with it . He swung it on to my hand while it was suspended from an overhead crane , I was lucky as it hit my shoulder first should of taken my arm off . Excellent machine though …

Just great

Thank, you for you're video

Don't like how the one end doesn't spin and just burns a hole through the work though... Friction will eventually ignite your piece...

Am I crazy or did everyone tell me when I was a kid”only use a tool for its intended designed purpose”?

GENIUS! That is the absolute BEST way to burn out an angle grinder motor!

On top of what others have said about this, using a bench chisel as a turning tool is an accident waiting to happen as well. The tang from a bench chisel is far weaker and one good catch it will snap and you will have a piece of metal jutting out the back of your hand the way you are holding it.

first three minutes: *bewilderment* next three minutes: please tell me he isn't trying to make a lathe final three minutes: oh dear god

I’m ready to smoke a doobie now. Lmao

I'm up for this. He'll yeah. Eye protection is a must, though.

nice thanks for sharing

I skipped to the end to find he made a fishbonker with no handle.

By the time you made that Jig & Set up & produced pc of Wood, I went to Lowes & got a Wooden Dowl put it in a drill & made the same thing in shorter time

Pretty good idea

When I was looking up homemade tools to fiddle with my wood - I didn't expect this... My search continues.

Not an "hack" but an improper/very dangerous way to use a tool, please don't do that, always use tools the way they are intended to be used.

All fun and games until the grinder throws the wood at you at high speed.. accident waiting to happen. (I tried turning wood by attaching it directly to a 7000 rpm 1hp motor when I was little, sort of learned the hard way how dangerous that could be.)

Dude that's so kool..

Well I really appreciate this one.

May not be the safest or reliable, but the man shows genuine ingenuity. Props for the imagination it takes to create a tool like this. The world needs more brains and less violence.

How cool is that!

Now that is just to neat

That's better than your dangerous chain saw built from an angle grinder.

Nice ingenuity. However, I think I’m gonna make a giant band saw powered by the 454 Chevrolet sitting in my garage. Seriously though, that was king of neat.

Good one

I liked it. Maybe others can afford new but with cation this would work for me

Should rename this "How to make an angle grinder even more dangerous."

I can see why no body has told me about this hack.

Think I'm going to put my car up on stands, use the wheel hub as a wood chuck and use it as a lathe! Thanks buddy!

YES ! Meccano clamp, haven't seen it used other than for building proper toys or motorcycle battery boxes for at least 40 years, build on

So what was the reason that NOBODY will tell you about this, or did I miss that bit?

A few notes... Add a guard to keep wood shavings out of the grinder. Otherwise it won't last very long. Put the disc guard back on the grinder when using it for grinding. It might have kept your finger safer. And when using drill bits, make sure the drill is set to rotate in the proper direction. Sharp bits also help...

Great job 👍👏👏 I likey invention man it's amazing how you come up with things and introduce them to the public... PERFECT I SAY..!.. Hey just a question haven't you made a homemade lumber saw from a long to lumber.?? If so can you share it with us (me) .?????

Real men of genius! Bud light salutes you!

I applaud your imagination it looks really cool, that said, as an EMT 1st responder I have answered more calls than I'd like to admit pertaining to homemade tools just like these, certain tools are set at certain rpm's with,and certain torque values and particular braces and hardware they have certain functions that are set for certain jobs without overloading the units, im sure if it's used sparingly maybe you'll be ok but if your not CERTAIN of you "homemade" skills than this type of thing is where I'm the most buissyest please think if it's worth your face and hands b4 attempting making something like this the consequences could be permanent 😉 happy woodworking!!!