Fisel Fjordson received a viking funeral, which is better than most of us get in this life. unto Valhalla little brother!

Will never forget the one armed boss that sent me into the back end of an Okuma to track down a coolant leak, machine was E stopped and the operator was notified. Crawled behind the electrical cabinet and sat on top of the main spindle motor, started feeling down the coolant lines running through the casting till I felt the frayed wires. Yelled out that I found it and the one armed fella yells out “alright, hey Justin, turn it on and turn the coolant on to be sure.” My hind end hath never puckered up so much in my life when I felt all the contactors click on in the electrical cabinet I was leaning up against whilst sitting on top of a 26 horse motor. Needless to say I don’t work for that company anymore.

Congratulations, you made a bunch of people with internet watch you not have internet for a solid minute.

I was shocked you didn’t heat up the bracket with the MAPP and beat it back into place with mini sledge…but you vindicated yourself with the weld quality. 😂

That weld job made my soul cry.

Two hours at full chooch? What are you, Superman?

I feel like I walk into the movie "Mouse Hunt" whenever I walk into the shop. Mouse shit everywhere. Why do they feel the need to waste all that energy to climb up my work bench to shit on my vise? The view isn't that great, I checked!

This one was another peek into the depths of skills in AvE's toolbox. Still not much in there but a mouth and a hammer😂

Almost spat my coffee out when you showed the weld you "might blow through"🤣

That sign on the tool mount “Not to be operated by. . .” Oh the irony. . . Splendid video, Old Son. Even a guest mention of our Favorite ElectChicken. Thank you for the Moral Boost.

(Uncle B examines the damaged concertina) "That moment when you realize that you're the reason you can't have nice things."

I never show my welds, dual-sport riding, or paper shooting targets on YT. I salute the brave souls that do!!!!

Did you have Ray Charles weld that?

Haven't had a Fuckoff Friday in years, but somehow, it's happening today. I applaud your timing. PTSD'd the shit out of me, fingering those telescoping guards (had to look that one up)... Not sure if it's the same situation, but jets have titanium plates like that - turkey feathers - bridging between the engine and airframe. They get sharp as hell over time. I watched a Marine drop a Hornet engine door and slice through the tendons in his hand. But I digress! Thanks for hanging out on this glorious lazy day!

AvE the best mouse bait is to hot glue dry cat food to the bait holder. It works every time

A repair done in true Red Green fashion!

The proper way to lock out the cams is with two crescent wrenches bolted together

Great, now I need to setup my 3d printer so it goes ding when a print finishes

.. that buffed right out!

As always Ave delights the ears with word smithy etiquette of legendary comedic gold!

your doing gods work thanks for taking care of my machines its look sweet.. love the personality you added to it

This won't beat into place, in place. Spoken like a true wrench. All you're missing is the 50 year old boss, who's been a boss for 30 years telling you how he would have done it faster and better when he was a mechanic.

Personally, I like the fact that I can't be reached in my shop.

how to turn a 5 min hammer job into a nightmare.

You know times are tough when you keep trying to grab that crisp $20 through the screen. Almost enough for a beer at the old wobble maker.

I appreciate the tip on smelting aluminimum!. I too have been trying to recycle the metal in the same manner!

Luminium needs multi-ton-press action before it goes into the fire, that way can fit more of it and it doesn't make as much mess when chucking the pieces in.

I had to look up whatever it is you're building (found Lisle makes one out of metal too) cause I couldn't understand what it was supposed to do. So there's two spots on the camshafts that are slightly bigger than the shaft, cut in straight lines, which prevents them from turning with this thing. Considering VW figured out the whole "timing two cam gears" thing years ago, this Ford solution is hilarious to me.

A friend of mine recently had to have the water pump replaced on his wifes Ford Focus(?). For some reason, manufacturers have decided that it's a GREAT idea to put them inside the timing cover, thereby requiring replacement of the timing components as part of the job. Our local, independent shops were willing to try it but, wouldn't guarantee the work BECAUSE the cam locking tools are such low quality. The car ended up at the Ford dealer and the repair was finished 3 days later.

It never ceases to amaze me, but doesn’t surprise me at the width/breadth of your skills. A true renaissance man. I want to know about this casual, “while prospecting for gold”. You can do a whole series of how did I get here.

Nice to see a new Video from the great AvE. Looks like a pretty nice cam tool. Thanks for the videos.

"Cantilever"? Can't aleave her anywhere, She always finds her way home.

If you could inject a little Co2 into the crucible it should reduce the oxidation and thus reduce the amount of slag formation.

Nothing more permanent than a temporary fix that works! I got a shop full of them.

Another job well done, maybe next time it'll be done well ! Only you can make us mentally press the space bar with you, that's genius !

Dude. Get thee some Tomcat brand rodent catchers. Two finger squeeze to set, super easy to make the trigger but a hair. And I’ve yet to have the dirty bastards steal the bait.

I have to tell you when I was in tapping 200 6/32 holes in Boeing parts , working for a machine shop here in Oregon. Loading in 3000 lb billet aluminum into the HASS. I have never seen anything been s*** like that in my life. You are the most unique individual I've ever met besides myself. Outstanding I hope you get her fixed.. Tappy Tappy Yo-Yo. LOL.❤❤❤

We use some Dynatect energy chain at work. There's a decent chance they won't sell you that part directly. Something about Haas wanting their cut. However, seems like a guy like you could fabricobble a sheet metal brake using a Dear John compact tractor.

Ive seen pans, or "skirts" as some guys called them, fold up like an accordion on VMCs, 16' of stainless steel stacked up like an old timey log jam. Makes one helluva racket, too. Working on these machines is like living in Sliver City for a few hours, the microscopic stainless or alloy steel you can barely see are the worst since theres nothing to hardly grab with the tweezers. Dont miss them days.

Guarges, absolutely guarges.

I love the way they put the controls for the metal oven right where you could spill the hot magma.

A long time ago I needed a cam setting plate for an engine I was working on. Didn't have any fancy tooling so I used a wood router on so aluminum plate. It was 100% skookum.

You can duck the low-flying pterodactyls with the down key. A little harder as a 2-key game than as a 1-key game, but more exciting!

Won't it bend back? Then a little heat to shrink the metal and you'd be back in shape.

You need a bender in your life, they can make sheet metal bend over like nothing... :P

One trick I like doing before hitting the cycle smash for real is adding my final z depth (plus 0.100” or so) to the z offset and dry running right above the work to make sure everything looks proper skookum before making any chips.. helps ease the pucker a tad

Greetings, (12:13) S.S. weld projects, try clamping a thick piece of brass or copper to the back side of the work as a heat sink. Weld a little then cool air and repeat...Jim.

Try welding clamped to a copper backing plate. Also, 'in air', it's a case of just enough current to melt the base material, or tig. 1mm mild steel is feasible with stick!

Jesus. As machine repair bodges go, that one takes the biscuit. It'll buff out.

Always a pleasure.

The *whistle* upon showing the work... 😂😂

Something sorta neat. In an aluminum reverb furnace they count on the aluminum haveing high surface tension to not leak. If the burner gets stuck on and overheats the furnace. The aluminum becomes more like water and it just starts leaking out of all the cracks in the refractory. It's neat how it works. Not neat for the guys in the plant that now have to try to scrape a slab of spilled aluminum that has molded itself to the floor and around any near by structure.

9:22 there was a reflection of the master himself.

Guarges is now AvE cannon

"Whats your angle?" Made me laugh too hard this morning. Now my wife knows I've been up all night drinking.

I think I'd have beat that part back into good-enoughish spec, but that weld job makes for far better youtube content.

I've been contemplating using a hydraulic press to press the swarf into bricks and then smelt it. I don't know if that will work ant better, but it will reduce the surface area to atmosphere. I may pipe in a little argon if I use an electric furnace.

Whitney Houston's greatest hit.... oh man that's gold. Gold, Jerry, GOLD.

Congratulations you made a tool you could use two wrenches and two vise grips to hold the cams in place but hey it's each their own I love your Channel

14:13 Great timing on the magnet label.

You can melt chips, cans and other scrap with small volume and large surface area area by adding them to a crucible of molten aluminium. There'll be very little oxygen available to increase oxidation. Just make sure everything is absolutely dry and not too dirty or you'll get molten aluminium flying everywhere.

Edit: I should have watched a few minutes longer - looks like you're already using flux. Bah. I'll keep this here in case someone else needs the info. For remelting the aluminum chips, you need some flux. Sodium Chloride (table salt) and Potassium Chloride (a salt substitute) mixed together is used in commercial remelting. Use a bunch over the top of the aluminum and melt away. Keeps out the oxygen, helps break down the oxides. I'd probably get a bag of salt and a bag of potassium chloride from a water softener supplier. A bag of each should last even through that Canadian winter.

6:07. Please tell me that was a Billy String reference? Awesome AvE

Billy Strings got 20 for that dust in a baggie !!!

Young folk of today could use some fine role models like this! More Focus you Fack 💪🏼

I've been burning my brass and copper mill scrap. I tried putting them in molten metal, but it never worked. Next time I'll try to put it in first and throw some solid pieces on top.

Ooh, more machining!!!

My favorite gaming channel

6:48 So true AVE. So true. 👌🏻😆

This is very strange, it's Sunday here in Australasialand and the next job I have to do is make tooling for my BMW timing chain job tomorrow. Must be a parallel universe thing.

VARIFY THE ORINENTATION!!!

If you do enough setups on enough machines the vise will eventually make contact with the column cover.

@AvE I was on first name terms with Stanley Kubrick, I worked for him for over a decade. He recounted many stories but none of them involved faking the moon landings.😂

Now she’s sounding like a town pump.

Now I feel like having sushi...

@13:29 - did sushi what I saw? “You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish?”

Holy ol fuck. How dare you let us past the fourth wall.

The opposite side of globe I have exactly the same Victor mouse trap and it works exactly as well as yours.

A very effective mouse trap is theDizzy Dunker Mousetrap Water in the bottom with a shot of beach. To kill any fleas etc. Shawn woods video 👍🏻

Can you readjust home or touch off on the longest point of anything that is put in the fixture on the X axis? My particular machine knows its boundaries and I can always manipulate them without crashing a tool or workpiece.

I work for the company that makes those covers for Haas. Let me know if you want any help with that.

Buying stickers and definitely Buying that Knife!!

how have i never thought of confusion 360 before?

Hurts my pride, too.

Need to put baking powder in those aluminum muffins, keep um from falling 😂

Uh oh... he's back... with TOOLS! 😲

made 3 of these out of carbide on the bus to school with a nail file

$200 for a clipboard, oh dear I was born in the wrong timeline.

Gud vid.

Very nice. Used a set just the other day ford 3.5. Internal chain driven water pump, great idea ford 🙄

100% needed eyes

What can be done to stop the metal from sinking like that? Is it because you opened the oven door before it was cooked?

15:56 LoL exactly dude. HAHAHhhaA ! Love ya champ !

With all due respect , why not heat and beat ? guide rail for a splash guard or am I mithing someting again still ?

It was the Envoking the Dooclaw that helped this vid

Good to see you back in the saddle. Hope your 2024 rocks your socks and tickles your pickles.

Solves the question, you aren't a Tony. Let alone an old one.

For preventing oxidation while melting aluminum, what about packaging it with carbon?? I haven't done it, but the carbon should reduce the aluminum oxide(as in a redux reaction).

12:10 Holy shirt. You done an forked her

My buddy from canadia!