Alec's description of the imperial and metric systems just perfectly described what its like to live in Canada. Only difference is instead of using miles we switch to hours.

Looking forward to Alec making a tiny forge, weeny hammers and tongs, itty bitty grinders and then... finally... forging a miniscule sword. It's just going the be so adorable.

@SeanMacRSA

3 ай бұрын

If he doesn't I'll be very disappointed!😂😂😂

Gentleman, outline the object you want to work. Fill it in if you finish it. That’s how we do it in construction

I gotta say, the edits and music on the brass bit at the end, Jaimie knows his audience. Well done fellas.

“I have created a career out of doing things that confuse me.” - Alec Steele, 2023 Absolutely legendary.

@McNasty43

5 ай бұрын

You gotta love the defeated self-awareness.

@PitboyHarmony1

5 ай бұрын

Ahhh ... beat me to it ... actually ka-chortled there.

@frankierzucekjr

5 ай бұрын

Hahahah haven't we all. He's really funny, and im here for it.

@Nagria2112

5 ай бұрын

i watch him for entertainment and not for confusion. so i would say he made a career out of being a good presenter/actor. in other words: most people still would watch him if not confused, but most people would not watch if video was bad.

@jaredreid2661

5 ай бұрын

further expanded on it with Metric vs imperial haha.

MAN, I'm loving this series. Keep them coming, Alec.

Looking good Alec. These kits are a non-stop opportunity to test your creativity. I'm enjoying the ride.

@AlecSteele

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 🙏🏻

@ryanwilson1369

4 ай бұрын

​@@AlecSteele A spring pushing the handle off the notches could fix the issue with your new handle. Using a small clip at the end of the shaft the handle wouldn't spring off but the spring would always be pushing it off the notches so it never engaged until you physically pushed it into the notches. Once you let go it would spring back off.

I loved your take on the Metric and Imperial systems. As an American Bladesmith in Michigan, I find myself using metric tremendously more while smithing and grinding. However that may be due to a lesser knowledge of larger machinery like lathes and mills. This is a really old account, but Hello, from us all at Rogue Forge! :)

@Fabrice1970

5 ай бұрын

The imperial system is now obsolete and so stupid

@loberd09

5 ай бұрын

I’m an American as well and was a chemist/engineer (small company many hats) so I was more familiar with metric and just used metric in all my designs. Just made more sense to me. Although I did consider for a project that I was going to have a coworker use making 1/2 of the fasteners imperial, 1/2 metric (most similar size that Wouldn’t work) and 1/2 left handed threads. Wound up not doing it.

@ifindmetal

5 ай бұрын

@@Fabrice1970what’s more stupid 182.88 cm or 6 feet ? Discerning a persons height is much easier with imperial way easier to visualize it . Just like building housing it makes way more sense than using cm’s

@JoeldaSilvaVicenteFilho

5 ай бұрын

@@ifindmetal for me is 6 feet, that doesn't mean absolutly nothing, so yes, 182.88 sounds a lot less stupid. and to build a house people just use the meters actually, if they need something smaller they will use cm that is just 1m / 100 way moe intuitive than anything imperial

@martinweichsel5278

5 ай бұрын

@@ifindmetal6 feet is more stupid. You just prefer imperial because you grow up with it. With Metric everything else is easier especially calculating. I grow up with Metric an ich know exactly how large Someone with 1.82m is.

When he said he wanted to "add a very special part drawings didn't call for" I felt a shiver going up my spine.

Legend has it someday Alec would return with part 6.

@bwroth355

4 ай бұрын

Maybe something broke or he had to order something

ngl you should definitely make a full sized power hammer at some point, I would watch it even if it was a hundred episodes of machining

@stevenwest1494

5 ай бұрын

He'd need a bigger unit to work out of, just to fit the new chuck in to make it.

9:11 I once lived on a tract of land, HUGE it was. The East end of the property was 1 mile, 74 meters, 2 feet, 1.13 decimeters, 2 inches, 1 millimeter and 27 thousandths of an inch long. So I guess you're right, it really does begin and end with imperial! -✌🏽

@DH-xw6jp

5 ай бұрын

That made my eye start twitching ha. I would _love_ a Chunk of land that size though.

Can't wait to see the final power hammer working!

The sequence from 14:40 to 15:27 was stunning. Great work, Jamie!

I am an aspiring machinist at my current workplace and I frequently learn from your experiences whenever you take to the mill. This whole project is ALL milling work and I love it! Getting to learn as you learn is valuable indeed! This might be my favorite series that you've done after watching your videos for several years.

@resurgam_b7

5 ай бұрын

Have you discovered the channel "This Old Tony"? He is a hobby machinist who does some great technical videos mixed with some truly excellent humor. If you're in the mood for more milling videos, I can definitely recommend giving some of his a watch 🙂

@samwashburn6823

5 ай бұрын

@@resurgam_b7, I haven't heard of that channel, but I'm always eager to learn more. Thank you for the recommendation, I'll check it out!

Can’t wait for part 30 of this!

Watching you get in over your head is why I started watching your channel years ago.

Im constantly impressed by the cinematography of this channel. It really looks beautiful

I hope I'm not your actual source on this, but the chuck and the backplate are separate pieces. The backplate is what fits your lathe. Maybe the smaller 4-jaw you have will fit on the new backplate.

@sjv6598

5 ай бұрын

That was my thought. That 4 jaw he just bought is ginormous.

@foldionepapyrus3441

5 ай бұрын

If not can always make new holes in the back plate, a new backplate using those locking bar or perhaps more simply change that backplate and the one on the three jaw as well perhaps for a shank you can grip in the now permanently fitted 4 jaw - chuck holding a chuck style.

This project is perfect to feed alec's adiction of buying new tools

Im really loving this series! The dynamic between you two is really fun to watch!

Alec, when you're talking ounces and lbs. you also need to specify if you mean avoirdupois or troy units. Could be very important if you do any sort of precious metal inlays!

And nice to see you finally got a four-jaw chuck!

@cambridgemart2075

3 ай бұрын

Now get one with smaller jaws! It is well worth having a set or 4 of soft jaws, especially for those jobs with an awkward shape like that brass bar; you can also taper the tips to get a slightly smaller closing diameter. I thought my 12" 4 jaw was a beast, it certainly is heavy enough, but that 16" is a monster.

Love this type of video Alec, also freaking love that you put an actual dovetail in, my first thought when I saw the piece was I hope he actually puts a dovetail in 👌

just wanna say starting at 14:35 the camera work with the music is amazing lol

Happy New Year. So glad for the new episode of this series !

I'm really loving this series, Alec and Jamie. Have a great new year!

wait you titled and achieved PSA3!? that is INSANE! not many people know how special this title is and how much training is involved. I only just had a read of your k9 page - WOW you have come incredibly far in only 3 years - that takes dedication. massive congratulations. I'm in australia where it's a rather new sport but Pat is going hard trying to build it up. quite a few clubs popping up.

I remember when I did my Stuart Models stationary steam engine. I spent an absolute fortune on tooling, probably ten times what the original kit cost 😂

Alec and Jamie, HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎆! Keep the aspidistra flying! Paul

Absolutely the best channel on youtube. Never disappoints.

Happy New Year Alec and Jamie

Alec is a bloody genius to get the comment section to blow up with his imperial vs metric spiel so that the engagement of this video pushes it higher into the algorithm which brings more people to fight about imperial vs metric. This is about as close to perpetual motion the world will ever see.

Two things, your take on metric/imperial makes perfect sense, second the videography of the brass piece was sooooo good

@drthmik

5 ай бұрын

Thing is the USA doesn't use the Imperial system And we never have We use the United States Customary system

@Genagen

5 ай бұрын

@@drthmik You are using the metric system in disguise, because in reality all your units of measurement are defined by SI standards.

Alec still manages to make a video series of assembling a kit into 6+ parts. Never change we love it.

New sketchpad day! Immediately disregards the lines and draw something diagonally

Up here in the Scandinavian countries we call 10km one “mil”, a metric mile if you like. Y’all are so welcome to adopt it 😄

@Tvngsten

5 ай бұрын

In metric terms, that would be called a myriametre

@DominusFeles

5 ай бұрын

@@Tvngsten Yepp, 10⁴ 🙂 It was ditched from the SI in the sixties, dunno why 🤷🏼‍♂️

@Tvngsten

4 ай бұрын

@@DominusFeles I don't know, it's a really cool unit. Far from necessary but definitely cool.

@cambridgemart2075

3 ай бұрын

Do we? I can't say I have heard that being used here, I'm going to have to ask people about this now!

@Tvngsten

3 ай бұрын

@@cambridgemart2075 according to your youtube page, you are finnish, but I think the "mil" only applies to swedish, norwegian and danish. And by the way, I've had finns yell at me when i said they were scandinavian, and now you're saying you're scandinavian, i don't know what to think hahaha

As I German, I have the advantage, that even our imperial units are metric: One German pound is exactly 500g=0,5kg and one German mile is exactly 7.500m=7,5km (which doesn't get used anymore btw)

You need to make a King Tut’s dagger. Would be a series. Said to be meteorite iron. Lots of intricate inlay and gold work. Could be your best series yet.

I started my mechanical engineering apprenticeship in 1971 we were taught in both imperial and metric. I found it ridiculously easy to work between the two systems. I have worked in the US, all over the place and even though our large industrial gearboxes were metric, I found the American engineers were very adept at also working between the two systems.

@drthmik

5 ай бұрын

Except the USA has never used the Imperial system We use the US Customary system the two are quite different (example 1 USC gallon = .8 Imp Gallons)

@cambridgemart2075

3 ай бұрын

@@drthmik Oz, lbs, inches, yards, miles are all Imperial measurements. Your ton, pint and gallon are USC units.

@drthmik

3 ай бұрын

@@cambridgemart2075 No they are all USC We Have never used Imperial

@cambridgemart2075

3 ай бұрын

Oh, so you happen to use an system that was invented by the USA but is coincidentally identical to Imperial?

@drthmik

3 ай бұрын

@@cambridgemart2075 it is called history I know it is really hard for arrogant people like yourself to learn about it rather than just invent whatever nonsense that suits your foolish self image But if you can’t be bothered to learn I can’t help you

You should try making a watch. Use the insides of your sample watch but make the strap and case yourself. Like you did for the your pen.

For fixturing small parts in a large lathe I like to use a small cheap 4 jaw chuck in the 3 jaw chuck. You can even make backplates for it that will fit your mill so you don't don't need to remove the part from the workholdong to change machines

@cambridgemart2075

3 ай бұрын

I was here to say the same thing!

New series idea: high quality garden tools. What's the best design for a spade, head shape, material, thickness of handle. Even small hand tools could be included

@DH-xw6jp

5 ай бұрын

High quality garden tools can be found on the hub if you need inspiration.

Am really enjoying this video series - keep up the good work. Stay safe and Happy New Year to you, Jamie and all your families.

Question from somebody who watches all the videos but has never (and likely will never) played with such toys - what will the tiny power hammer be used for when it's complete? If it's simply for joy then it has already succeeded in bringing many of us joy!

@cambridgemart2075

3 ай бұрын

If a jeweller ever needs a steam hammer....

Happy New Year!!!

The original content that first brought me to this channel, is back in these episodes. 😎

I'm having a lot of fun with this series. I like the meticulous nature.

I’m impressed that you’re happy to do a series like this as it highlights all of the things that you don’t know to do. I’m fairly certain that this is an apprentice piece so unless you’ve done an apprenticeship it’s going to highlight all of the gaps in your knowledge

Dude, you should move to Canada. Your measurement system fits perfectly here. Literally wouldn't change a thing. 👌🏻😂

Alec I once had to run a Bullard VTL that the side head was metric scale and threads and the boring turret was Imperial imagine having to machine a part out to Imperial tolerances with it at a peace Rate machine shop , I would have to convert in my head the difference and not forget

Starting to look awesome!!

*I LOVE THIS SERIES* the making of the model steam hammer - you should deffo do more little models - mostly cos you are crap at them and have to work everything out

Love videos, the dog is best ,so funny 😂, love work

6:20 As the father of a 2 year old, I can definitively say that her technical drawings are on par with yours. But she tends to use metric, as she likes to make things easier for everyone. She’s sweet like that.

You've nailed the pacing. Thanks for the great content 👍

I love this channel it is so amazing watching y’all work and the interactions with you and Jamie are just hilarious

A non machinist / blacksmith / metal working person here…. But I do a lot of leatherwork, and working in imperial for me for anything up to about 12 inches makes a lot of sense. 1 inch, 1/2 inch 1/4 inch spacings are just pleasing to the eye, and far easier to work with. Beyond 8 inches it is metric all day. Loving this video series too 🤟

Always love the videos. Hope u had a great Christmas 🎄 and happy new year 🥳 🎉

Love how Alec is on part 5 of what's shaping up to be a 20-parter, and he thinks to himself... let's add in an extra complicated authentic dovetailed die! I'm just going to order some extra popcorn to get delivered in April. Folks, we're not here for a quick time, we're here for a long time. Salt or sweet everyone? My shout.

Im loving this series!!!!

I think you're coming up on the time to remind you that you will need to cut a part 90° rotate from what the drawings show.

Really enjoying this series. As with all your vids, highly entertaining, and informative. Well done, please keep it up.

Always so happy to see another steam hammer video. Gonna be lost when this journey is complete.

I rarely comment but this series is so much fun, im glad youre enjoing it so much yourself!

You should try leather working again, it would be great to see some more custom sheaths like you did with the bowie knife.

This is a fantastic content project Alec! Loving the build so far!

love this series keep em coming

Very nice, Alec! Great job!

i am loving this ty for making it!

Happy new year bud!

This combo of metric and imperial actually makes a lot of sense to me

@stupidocanerosa

5 ай бұрын

It depends mostly on how you were educated. To a metric system native, this system is simple and intuitive. The division he made between the two, depends on the fact he was forced to use both systems and the correlations he had to made in his head to deal with both. It's like talking about CV (or HP) and kW. For an HP mechanic it's more natural to talk and think with this unit instead of kW, although with a little thinking it's quite simple to get around it. Or, to an imperial native to understand the real gas consumption of his car in gallons/miles than liters/kilometer. Naturally it's the opposite for a metric native.

Happy new year lads, all the best for 2024, I expect great things ;)

Metirc intensifying! 😊 Not going to mention that Alex beat off the Chuck 😂

Someone send alec a microfiber spectacles cleaner

@TunaNSweetcorn

5 ай бұрын

Please! I impulsively took mine off & cleaned them at the start of this video 😂

Loving this content and consistency

I get your gripes with the whole Metric/imperial thing. I used to be a CNC Machinist, always working with Metric, but I have recently changed jobs and now work on Historic racing cars. I really wish the world just chose one way of doing it back in the day and just stuck with it. When I look at a bolt, I try to size it up in metric, then I realise that it’s an Imperial bolt, so I get a different spanner, then when I try it, it’s JUST too tight, or JUST too loose. OH JOYS it’s a Whitworth! And don’t get me started on UN/BS/WW/BA threads….

The music goes hard this episode, damn Jamie, this is just the chronicles of Alec's suffering, you dont have to burn my headphones.

I live in the US and grew up never wanting to use the metric system. Now I love it and I hate that we don't use it. It makes so much more sense. Like Alec said they both have a time and place but metric is superior imo.

His wife must have got a helluva Christmas gift this year. He had bought a crapload of stuff for this!

I’m so happy I found your videos man you always make great content. Thank you for doing what you’re doing and keep doing it.

We here in Canada use both, plus if you're going somewhere we measure that distance in hours

Alec Happy new year God Bless you❤

Please do a side project with clean up and taking the Chuck apart and restoring it to ensure your tolerances are perfect so you know any part you make will be perfect

6:35 I feel your pain! I grew up in a Metric country and then moved to the US later in life. I measure air temperature in F, water temp in C, short distances in cm or in, whichever seems closer to the length I want measured, medium distances in meters, long distance in miles, light weights in grams and heavy weights in lbs, and liquid is Liters for water bottles but gallons for everything else.

The work around is building a Fixture out of a couple scraps of Aluminum to hold the angled sides of the Anvil.

it always makes me happy when i see that yellow light because I know its coming from that big ol mean articulating lamp you made. seeing something you made accenting videos is *chefs kiss

7:57 but we all love pints! 🍺

I live in the US, i think the metric systems makes more sense, especially with weighing stuff. Distance is weird though. Inches are dumb, but not having anything between cm and m in metric is weird. It needs a foot or something as an intermediary. Km also makes more sense, but miles are bigger and that's useful in its own way.

A chuck at $70,000? I'm in the wrong business!

Can't wait for next episode! Awesome seies as always

As a Canadian I 100% agree with how you measure for shop work and distance i personally love working in miles over km's but unfortunately or liquid and distance doesnt work like that up here and i still try to use yards on a daily

6:50 born and raised American. Started using metric when I got into 3D printing. Dear god metric is so much better. I hope I see in my lifetime the move to metric. If you want to get used to .2 mm or .05mm, get a 3D printer. Thats the scale you work with when tuning prints and you really get a better understanding of the tiny distances in your mind. Thats how I started 'getting it' at least.

I agree whole heartedly with your metric v. Imperial. I myself am wanting a career in welding but to be able to take those classes at the college I want, I need to take construction safety classes since the two constantly coincide. We, in the class, constantly used imperial because it is so much more reliable for precise fitment, but used metric for much more broad workloads. Kilograms was so much easier to use than pounds when figuring out a lifting apparatus that could work as a safety device for a human, just like using imperial was so much better when having to figure out a stair way, where to put it, how much material and what dimensions it needed, and how tall the railings should be to be safe. There is always a point where you need to use either, I just find imperial to be better at most things, especially when my insight was expanded due to the class I took. I love both, but I can still say they both have their upsides and their downsides, but, something people can’t see, is that the other makes up for what both lack.

@drthmik

5 ай бұрын

the USA has never used the Imperial system we use the US Customary system

As an American, the bit with metric and imperial made me laugh. But i definitely understand and constantly have to ask my phone what certain millimeters are in inches, then it gives me a decimal and im back to square one. Lmao 🤣 I would love to get good at both.

Something tells me that Alec seen "The Video" 14:02 I am glad you respect the shear power of a machine like that.

You should make a Damascus anvil for the little steam hammer!!!!

I’ve become addicted to this series

Dude congratulations to you and the dog on the training. It takes a very specific person to be able to train a dog like that. Lots of trust.

happy new year Alec love the content🤙🤙🤟🤟