I think the safety glasses comments are cute. For those folks with those comments, do YOU wear them every time something is rotating in your vicinity? Been doing this stuff for a long time, actually have a close friend that lost an eye due to hardened steel and a hammer. Cut them some slack, it’s their eyesight after all. Enjoy the tips and tricks, you’re not earning brownie points with OSHA. Stephen and Justin I hope y’all will keep up the great content, even if you’re “dangerous”...

Quoting AvE? A man of culture!

I'm a machinist, learned to use that tool 40 years ago.

Top guys , working on marks smoking Sally . Respect to you both , Stephen and Justin . Almost a year for mark . RIP . . ⛪ .

put a rubber hose over shaft

So good to see work on Smoking Sally! RIP Mark

I found that I like welding the end back on so the paper stays on, i.e. making a notch, the split is nice for blind holes when you leave the sandpaper hanging out the end of the rod so you don't mess up the bottom of your hole

I like that you give a shout out to the person that you learned this from. Not only is it the right thing to do, it gives all of us more resources and knowledge to learn from

Its another thing that I learned and use all the time as a machinist. I also use a good old fashion hack saw to cut the slot. Use different sand paper grit for different finish. You can glue abrasive grit to the end if you need for tight areas too.

Hopefully you are going to pull the crank and oil pump back out so you can blowout all the oil passages, that now are surely contaminated with abrasive from the abrasive pad.

Warmed my heart Working on Smoking Sally. Great information on restoration work.

Always great to see you two working together! Love the tool! Brilliant! Fun video!!!

That looks like it works better than sending it off to machine shop

In the oil and gas industry we call the absorbant pads diapers. They are great!! Thats a great tool for many applications!!

IT'S SURE IS NICE TO SEE "SMOKING SALLY" BEING REBUILT.. I'M SURE EVERYONE WANTS TO SEE IT RUN AND BE," REFORMED SMOKER SALLY" ! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR'S STAY SAFE GODSPEED

I use this all the time . Works wonders

Thank you Stephen I always watching your videos I am from South Africa

An old school mechanic had me make one of these for myself almost 20 yrs ago.... Super handy n gets used on things constantly!!

Now that my friend is a video full of awsome tips. Thanks for the info. 👍

Thank you Stephen

i made one years ago for my chainsaws and lawn mowers, and made screw driver adapters for nintendo

I love your videos. I have had the pleasure of meeting a lot of body men over the years. The best bodyman. I have ever known is also my adopted grandfather. He was a true metal master. The rest of the body men I have seen. I have to be honest are hacks or just parts changers. To do body or metal work is an art. I was blessed to be taught by one of the best.

As a machinist I approve of this method. Any stick with sand paper or scotch brite wrapped around will work just fine as well. You can even apply as much pressure as you need to.

Scotch brite is your friend exultant for engine and gearbox building great videos stay safe

Thank you for a good tip!

love Keith Fenner he is one dude with mad skillzzzz!!!!!

I've been polishing like that for over 50 years, & my dad taught it to me. Nothing new.

Why waste a perfectly good PDR tool when basically any long/thin material would have done the job?

I had a wonderfully bad idea- Justin should start a cooking channel where he cooks nothing but pork products. He can call it "The Good of the Ham". that is a great little trick, used it myself a few times now.

Made my 1st one of those 52 yrs ago.

Great tip!👍🏻

Genious! Thanks for sharing Stephen.

Done this many of times 👍 good little trick

When I was a young man, I worked in a blending shop. We used die grinders and dental drills to bring aircraft parts to blueprint (within .001 usually). We used this extensively and called it lapping.

That's funny I actually made 1 last week, seen it on a chainsaw repair channel. Worked a treat👍

We spin parts up in the lathe to polish them and use this by hand without the drill to polish the internals

I have forgotten how many times I have made those. Different lengths and diameters.

Amazing! I've done this same thing for years! But use Scotch Brite. Will clean without cutting as easily. You can also get Scotch Brite wheels in various diameters with a drill extender. Good video!

that was an awesome hi-tek technic 👌 thanks for the tip bro 👍👍👍👍👍

I made this same tool in 1976. Worked then and works now.

Great video I've use cotter pins with emery cloth in a similar fashion

Very smart but so simple

You can also cheat a little if you have shotgun cleaning kit. Just chuck up one of the rod segments and screw on the eye. They're usually aluminum so it won't muck up the iron. Smaller cleaning rods could be used for things like valve guides and tappet bores. Look into crocus cloth (ultrafine iron oxide polishing compound on a cloth sheet comes just like emery cloth) rather than the scotchbrite for close tolerance bores.

Good tips .

I had about a dozen of those rods made up for my rebuild area for Cat, from 3300's, 3400's, 3200's both blocks, heads and front covers besides transmission bell housing, also 6 1/4 heads. For 32 years I ran machines, I really enjoyed it and really could have done it without foreman. I told and showed Cat they had a problem with their snap gages. I proved they and plug gages couldn't check for out aroundness and they took off and never said another word but they had oil leaks where I told them they had problems. Oh well. Manufacturers are a pain. I love the cartoon about Engineers

Great tips.

Can use a mere wooden dowel and do the same thing without worrying a metal rod damaging the bearing journals. JMHO

I use wood dowel or plastic tube,, this reduces damage if you contact the work, excellent method, have used in many different situations for years

"DON'T TRY AND MAKE THIS LOOK LIKE A MACHINED SURFACE AGAIN" best advice for anyone working with gaskets or metal contact points. if it's that clean, you've gone too far

I use a large split pin - it works even better

I made that tool about 20 year's lol

Barrel cleaning tool swab tip brass soft metals no damage to surrounding metal strips of crocus cloth.

You can do the same thing with repeated use with a shotgun/rifle cleaning kit just screw on as many brass rods as you need squish some scothbrite and thread it through the felt pad holder you can use scotchbright sandpaper abrasive cloth emery cloth brass 12 20 gauge and even handgun brushs work for all kinds of stuff aswell just make sure you tape your rods if you need to go in reverse or you may unscrew your rods 👍👍👍

My Dad taught me this he called it a lapping rod,and we used wood dowel rods

Been using a variation of this same idea for woodworking, only using a wooden dowel instead of a metal rod.

I've made those many times, usually use wooden dowel rods and a drill

That's literally just a 30 cal gun bore cleaning rod haha

could you not use a rifle shaft cleaning tool?

Now what are you going to use to smooth out the dents on your trucks?

What’s up with the cheap HarborFreight set and tool cart?

Good old smoking Sally!

Huh, was using that so called tool back in the 70s. I usually used a wooden dowel if possible.

I've been doing this for 45 years

so, you're worried about the trash on your dirty work bench contacting your partially assembled engine more than the trash you are creating inside the partially assembled engine by cleaning the cam journals with the spinning abrasive pad?

Seems like you could use a gun cleaning rod with old brass or aluminum tip.

hey have you ever heard about the XTOOL X100 PAD2? u know if its bi directional? AND the Ancel X6 OBD2 Diagnostic?? (supposedly does some bi directional controls)?? cheerz!

Don't let OSHA see that grinder

Cutting a slit freehand in a rod with a cutoff wheel is.. technical.. as they say in climbing...

Inkjet printers have rods like that in them and are often in the trash.

Works for cleaning weapons as well…

We don't do safety glasses or machine guards in this shop because we have such high I.Q.'s!

A wood dowel makes an even better, safer lap stick.

7:10 That's what she said !

btw steel is not harder than cast iron. i doubt even hardened steel is in the same hardness level of cast iron

Cummins only approved Scothbrite because it does not remove material.

I am sorry, but I have to go there, That is what she said.

Any one who does not already know about this tool and has not made one should not be touching wrenches

The paint less dent repair guy gonna be pissed you cutting up his tools.

Or you could just by the same thing from the tool shop

No biggie, Iv been doin that since i was a baby Lol

FOCUS you FACK...bahahaha...well cultured vocabulary. I watch him too

you need to use some safety glasses...lol

Don't know him

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Certainly not a new tool. I have been making and using them since 1970.

The more you talk, the more I lose faith in what you are saying. "You get a much more concentric hole." Do you know what concentric means? Concentric is the relationship between multiple holes. A single hole can't be concentric. It can be cylindrical (parallel walls)

WTF! U need to work on your sound.

You dont really rebuild engines for a living do you?