What are you talking about? IF you could contact the manufacturer, they would want at least $2 or $3 or more for that part.

@@royreynolds108 Most of that would be postage and the time spent packing and shipping the order. I'm sure the actual cost of manufacture is under a penny. The factory probably ships them in fifty pound sacks or some such.

@@royreynolds108 A piece of duct tape costs much less than a dime. :) Also wow, looked up the timer itself, because I was going to poke fun of fixing a $5 timer with same $10k in tooling, nevermind the time. Damn things are $45 if you find them on sale (!) Complaint retracted! (That said, there's other timers down in the $5 range that do the same job--but we all know that there's a tendancy to get what you pay for [hopefully!!] when buying tools for the shop, be they for cutting, measuring, or whatever else.)

@@andyb9124 I have had a couple of these timers myself for years. They still work and still have their battery covers. Not saying that I didn't ALMOST lose them a couple of times though. 😄 $14 these days - www.champchoice.com/store/Main.aspx?p=ItemDetailOptions&item=CL098

Yeah like that one time I spent 3 hours making a barrel for a carburetor for a radio control airplane engine just so I could fly tomorrow instead if waiting until next weekend.... or when I spent like 70 hours casting a block and milling out a radio control airplane engine just to do it.... when I could have bought one for 50 bucks .... or when I built that jet engine in my garage just because hey I wanted a jet engine to play with.... funny thing is my friends were not impressed with the rc engine but the jet they were ....guess it was the roar that made the impression .....lol.... how about that week I spent building a ship in a bottle .....

A few years back a neighbor (and boy do I miss him his replacement is a grade-a asshat) brought me a garden rake to repair (I noticed it was busted and told him to please bring it to me the next weekend). He had not been in my shop before, so we chatted about this and that while I fixed his rake. It involved drilling a new hole for a bolt and one little weld. It was more convenient to drill the hole on the mill because I had something set up on the drill press. So my neighbor makes a friendly wisecrack asking how many thousands of dollars of equipment did I just use to fix his garden rake... I said I used it because I had it handy, but then I made a point of showing him how he could have fixed it - for life - using literally bailing wire, epoxy, and a hand drill he already owns... he said, "I would not have thought of that!" I asked him, "did you try?" Then we had to have a conversation about why I have bailing wire and epoxy lying around and he doesn't. In the end, it's what you'd expect: I _want_ to fix things. I _like_ fixing things. He doesn't. The end.

@@jolllyroger1 funny how the same folks who see all of that as a waste of time are the same ones asking us to fix their shit when it breaks. :/ I look at them and I have to bite back the question, "why do you even have opposable thumbs?"

All kinds of stuff to pick up on.

im to shy to admit my man crush,luckily for tom cos i have projects...... lol

The little vise appears really nicely made, like everything Tom makes. Looks like an assembly of precision hardened bars and an interesting nut arrangement. I do not remember seeing a video explaining how this was made but with close to a thousand Oxtool vids, hard to have watched everything. Daniel

Wonder if Tom would do a video on making one of those or post some prints. That is a sweet vise.

That's not cheating, that's just being smart! I tape mine all the time.

I just add a dab of superglue to the tabs, that way, it's far more difficult to open them.

for certain joints and fastenings, another favorite dodge of mine is to use a tiny dab of silicone (RTV) rubber. It seems to have just the right combination of durability and removability. (fun fact: a friend of mine once rang up Dow's (or maybe GE, not sure) application engineers to ask if they knew of a solvent for cured silicone rubber. The smartass on the other end said, "sure! we call it a razor blade!" (the other option is super-heated silane gas, which you don't want to be in the same county with, let alone actually using yourself for anything - you need a space suit) - sigh, what a love-hate relationship we have with that stuff.

Only a single timer (just like Tom's) but only $14 as well. 😉 www.champchoice.com/store/Main.aspx?p=ItemDetailOptions&item=CL098

I also picked up on that. Very cool operation, Tom. Thank you.

I think Tom doesn't like 3D printing.

I think those little tiny tabs would break right off if that was 3D printed.

@@merlinmagnus873 You can print them, You just generally need to slow down your print speeds to have the area cool correctly and not warp/expand. You might need to add some support even. I rather appreciate Tom's more traditional approach to things. While I have a lot of cad and 3d design experience. I don't have crap for machining experience. Once you understand the way a manual machinist approaches a problem. it certainly helps you create better parts that have a lower chance of complete failure. After all thats part of the reason Tom shares his knowledge with all of us.

I was about to ask if this was a commercial for 3D printing. I'd ONLY go this trouble if the part had to be metal. Love the tips and tricks though. Cheers!

Close cousins to jeezluss clips 🤣

easy, step1: buy a DRO, you know you need it!

Thumbs up!