A wise man once told me "You cannot make a mistake until you do something!" Be wary the man who never makes mistakes. He’s likely not doing anything. Another job well done!👍👍

@mongoose388

8 ай бұрын

Anyone that says they never broke anything, never fixed anything.

@Watchyn_Yarwood

8 ай бұрын

@@mongoose388 Truer words were never spoken!

@dwjr5129

8 ай бұрын

My dad always said “if you do all the work, you’re gonna make all the mistakes!”. Truer words were never spoken.

@BruceBoschek

8 ай бұрын

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that is not what ships are built for. 🙂

@chrisstephens6673

8 ай бұрын

Another phrase is an expert can fix his inevitable mistakes so that nobody ever notices.

Nicely done! When you were marking the holes out, I was screaming: "Flip the ring over....flip the ring over!" .......But it turnout well in the end. Like I say to my kids, "Its much easier to play the game on the couch eh?"

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

I made the mistake of thinking it would be symmetrical

Ollie, we are blessed with the English language that includes a wide variety of very rude swear words that can be used to provide some relief from balls ups such as these.

@hemibreath

8 ай бұрын

“one lump” 👍😂

The flaming exhaust clip at the end might make a short that could go viral.

You could have edited your mistake out, and we would have never seen it. Your a excellent trades man, you own your mistakes, and learn from them. Job well done!

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

I edited a lot of swearing out when I realised it was wrong 🤣

Greetings from Las Vegas, NV. Really glad i found your xhannel, this is great stuff!

Great stuff, being honest here, I've known time served engineers who would NOT have made that spacer better than you have. The error with the hole spaces is a lesson learned, you probably will never make that same mistake again. Really enjoyable post, thank you 👍 We do appreciate the time spent making these posts, and watching you and your mates have tractor pulling exercises 🚜🚜🚜 thanks again

Well done, Ollie! I'm stunned at how true that turned in the lathe before you started skimming it!

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

Skillz 😎 🤣

It's only a "balls up" if it's scrap! Job well done. The only man that never made a mistake it the same guy that never did anything.

Thanks Oliver. Them’s who never made a mistake never made nowt !!! ,Oliver😊👍

Gday, that riser block turned out pretty bloody good and looks like a good weekend away to, cheers

Superb job, and thank you for showing how life really is in a engineering shop. Things dont always go to plan, however we learn from it and move on, the job gets done just the same.

Clever lad you ! Well done !

The best forklift as a ceiling crane dude on the internet

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

Isn’t that what forklifts are for? 😉

@kailuagarage

8 ай бұрын

@@snowballengineering of course!

Awesome video, great work. Thank you Oliver 😍😍😍😍😍😍

Nicely pulled back. That plate machines up well.

excellent work as always... thanks for sharing

Brilliant as usual

Greeting from the Oklahoma USA....if that's the only mistake, you still win the game. You could have edited the mistake out and we would have never known but you kept it in the video so I commend you. Excellent! Keep up the good work Oliver.

Well done and much appreciated for the explanations of the processes! As someone new to milling I am able to learn many new things by watching and listening to your reasoning. Thanks! 👍👍👍😀😀

Pozdrowinienia z Polski od spawacza😊😊😊

Looks like a nice add to the workshop!

My mate and his father before him were farmers. They did all their own repairs. The father said to the son it doesn't matter if something is wrong or broken you can only make it better. There are no problems only solutions. The outcome is all that matters in the end. Another good job done enjoyed that very much.😁❤

Your a clever lad well done

The tractor day looks like a lot of fun

Comment for the algorithm to help the channel 👍.

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for that!

Hell Oliver, if that's the worst thing that happened all week I think you did alright! Especially if you and the lads didn't break any tractor parts! . Cheers

Excellent work Oliver👍👍👍 . Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourself 🇨🇦

That was good as usual Oliver. The correction to the riser block, the tractor pulling and and that witty bit of sarcasm made this another beaut video, looking forward to the next one already.

Great job!

I watch a few creators who post on Fridays, so it's nice to see one appear on Sunday. Thanks for posting enjoyed it. Good camera work 😊

@Taroodin

8 ай бұрын

If you don't mind, how are the creators besides Curtis you follow?

Enjoy watching your projects and how you approach them. I enjoy when you mention how you measure things and the mathematics you use. The tractor pull was excellent.

What a way to close a weekend ... with a Snowball Engineering video. Now I can face work in the morning.

nice job right there and you are an honest man one who can admit to making mistakes well done in the end the prof is in the final fit up Cheers

Nice fix for the mill, I have to turn the head on mine 90° and then I usually run out of table travel ! My old foreman warned me about flipping stuff over. When he first got married, they bought a carpet remnant, but couldnt afford to get it fitted, so he reckoned if he turned it over, he could draw the room plan on the back with a marker pen and cut it out exact. Worked perfect till he flipped it back the right way up !

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

I’ve done conversion plates before for engines/gearboxes so I’ve had experience with the mirrored image before (thankfully I’ve never ballsed one of them up) but these bolt holes I expected to be symmetrical.

Great save on the part. I like the old J.L Snowball 1973 crate above the lathe.

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

Back from the old potato growing days. Well before my time.

Your intuition is your strength.

Fantastic video again ollie

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Excellent job Ollie, a you are a real engineer/designer and not afraid to develop.

Hi Ollie, hope you're keeping well. If you're not making mistakes you can't be doing owt. Someone said that once. Great job, and fixing your mistakes only took a bit o' time. Well done. As for the tractors? I knew my life was missing something! 😂 Thanks for sharing. Stay safe and keep up the good work.

Good without a doubt. Very cool tractor pulling at the end 🚜

another great job. Good to see honest mistakes left in to show even pro's make mistakes...

you did it again Sir, mad skills.

We called them "soup cans" where I used to work. Had a big overhead crane in the shop and eye bolts in the top of the Bridgeport mills. Just bring the crane over lift the top off change out your desired height soup can reattach the head and your done. Great job on your riser block. If you can't find what you need and you have the skill and knowledge then you build one... A viewer from the USA.

job well done, I enjoy watching your videos

Clever👍

Enjoyed that build, look forward to seeing it in use...

Great video! I enjoy watching tools being made, just something about these types of videos.

Great job Pal. Anyone who makes no mistakes, either does nowt, or is a liar.

Binge watching again, 4th night on the trot 10pm-2am

@snowballengineering

7 ай бұрын

Hope you’re enjoying the videos!

@ianlitchfield9273

7 ай бұрын

@@snowballengineering Of course 👍 top man 🇬🇧

Well that was quite uplifting...thanks for posting.

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

It's a pity that YT dont allow multiple thumbs up (one for the fabrication and one for the sled pull at the end).😄

Impressive machining.

Another excellent job. Well done !

Very well done, I did not see you flip the ring over, but it makes sense that the holes would not line up. You taught me a great lesson here. I would have thought the holes were in the center like you did. Excellent fix and solution. The tractors at the end were pretty cool.

cool, another new video, I've been looking forward to watching it the whole time and you've once again done a great job. Greetings from Germany 😎

Nice work. Thanks for the interesting content!

Thumbs Up! Very interesting project build. There are certainly more ways to skin a cat, sort a speak, than just cutting a huge block of metal to make such an adapter. And since you turned it parallel on the lathe so both ends are true, it works!

It never would have occurred to me to build a bigger riser like that. You did a good job

You didn't say whether you used a steak or a pork pie to get the circumferance 🤣 Fantastic video and great work (as usual).

Just awesome craftsmanship🎉🎉

nice job ! little disapointment about the "clifhanger". cheers ben.

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

Sorry! 🤣

"if something is worth doing it's worth doing right" Great job!

Good job and nice recovery from the holes. Been caught out with hole patterns like that before too, they look bang on so you assume it to be but for some design reasons they make them a baw hair out!! All the best.

As always, great video!

Nicely done very strong. I think it will be rigid enough too.

wow... simple correction ....nicely done

Great work, such an annoying issue at the end, I feel for you here!

Waiting for new vid, spot on

Well done!

Great Job!

car jack, block of wood...smart...

I just picked up a tap guide from McMaster for work and it saves me from having to start taps from a drill 😂

MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼

Nice build.

I was watching you mark up the holes thinking he's forgotten to flip the angle scale, then I looked at again and thought be alright its symmetrical. I did the same last year measuring up to make a bracket for a Bosch injector pump, found my mistake after it was made - Doh!

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

My friend did the same with a bosch p pump onto a tractor puller 🤣

Well anyone can make mistakes because we are human, I made mistakes in the past and made me a better man. You learn something new and that is part of life keep learning everyday. Job well done at the end.

Well done simple mistake but remedy well done and looks good.

Great project. Can you add both blocks? When you are turning the OD, you might try a boring bar instead of a toolbit holder so you could stand off a bit more. I enjoy you channel

@Watchyn_Yarwood

8 ай бұрын

Good idea on both points.

@BruceBoschek

8 ай бұрын

Hmmm, even massive fabrications like that have their torsion limits. I'd sure do some testing first before using both blocks together.

@jst.hilaire354

8 ай бұрын

@@BruceBoschek I've watched enough Snowball videos to know he'll just temporarily weld it all together if he needs to then gouge the weld out later and start over again. Nothing seems to stop him. Haha

@kindablue1959

8 ай бұрын

At 41:33 he says he has an upcoming job where he'll "need either both blocks in or neither".

@BruceBoschek

8 ай бұрын

@@kindablue1959Oh, thanks. I missed that!

Great job. I was watching closely to see if you flipped that ring when doing the second side. Then I couldn’t think if you needed to flip it or not. Good save though. You are handy with that putting on tool. Nice to see the power cord hanging there while your drill was in tapping mode. 🤠 You need a tapping head. I’m sure you can get one that doesn’t work from China. Seriously it does look like you are doing it the hard way which is why it rates as your favourite. Have you seen the tapping thing Abom79 has. Talk about overkill. I reckon it must have been a freebie.

I think it might be a good idea for you to putting in a over head Crain for lifting all your heavy stuff

Can I make a suggestion about turning the O.D. of your riser block in one! Turn your tool post through 180 degs. and use a boring bar if you have one long enough and set it out far enough to make one complete cut across the diameter.

Nice job on the Riser Block! Make sure you get the top and bottom faces ground so they are flat and parallel.0.01mm out over those faces could throw your head out by 0.1mm or more over the length of the ram. And don't paint the top and bottom faces!

I always keep in mind the the little Blue Bird of Happiness is always circling ready to crap on your shoulder given the chance. Good onya

Good job mate, you've just given me the incentive to make one for mine - they are a pain in the neck doing tool changes though!

@aserta

8 ай бұрын

Invest in a pneumatic tool changer. There's a non-zero chance there's a kit specifically for your mill somewhere, maybe even second hand (tho most kits are pretty cheap these days, and it's not like it has to take lugs off a truck rim). You'll never look back after that and you can supply them with air from a very small compressor (one of those jobsite ones) if you don't have one in the shop.

Excellent job man, I've got a 7"riser for my kbc mill haven't had to use it yet, great video, keep'um coming..

Oliver is keeping it Real. Excellent work sir 👏

@snowballengineering

8 ай бұрын

Much appreciated

Great job, and that's some beautiful countryside.

Great job Oliver, top notch Plater/Welder 👌, like the tabs design. Thanks for sharing

A good video, thank you. I always think it is satisfying to make your own tools, and in part that is what you did in these episode. 😀🇬🇧

excellent video! very entertaining.

Good stuff

i enjoy watching the power of the mind and the little mistakes we all make on the way particularly when you're honest and own up to them . Keep the content coming it's good.

That`s what I like about your channel is that you are not afraid to show your cock ups and how you always find a solution keep up the good work

Job well done

Very tidy man! 🧐🤔

Very impressive indeed

It is always a learning curve. keep on learning.

Nice work as always and as someone else has already noted, if you never make anything then you never have to worry about making an error either, trial and error is how we got were we are and is the mother of our ability to problem solve. Loved the tractor pull stuff as well.

That was an interesting way you made the new riser block, considering that the old one was cast in one piece. But the new one will do the job nicely. I was watching you make that mistake when you were marking out the holes when you put the plate on upside down and thinking it should have been up the other way. But you fixed it, so it was all good in the end. It will be interesting seeing the job you use it for. Hope you can film it and it's not something propriety that you can't film.