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.

@ADBBuild

4 ай бұрын

Lock-out tag-out exists for a reason. Your fault for climbing up there without it.

@TheDuckofDoom.

4 ай бұрын

@@ADBBuild The problem is schools are setup to reward kids for blind trust and obedience for 13 years, then they get dumped into the shark infested real world. So most need some sort of lucky close call to break that indoctrination, some are more lucky with minor incidences or second-hand experiance, and others not so much.

@Gameboygenius

4 ай бұрын

Either you lock-out, tag-out, or you get out.

@nathanielweaver7078

4 ай бұрын

When I started at my previous job they told me that the EDM was brand new because the previous one had caught on fire while they were doing electrical work to it with it powered on because the owner didn't want it to lose its memory... I didn't stay there long

@rynohorn3819

4 ай бұрын

Jesus!

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

@arduinoversusevil2025

4 ай бұрын

I'm pround of that bit, it worked on so many levels.

@ucitymetalhead

4 ай бұрын

Who doesn't love the dinosaur game?

@bhess1212

4 ай бұрын

I skipped ahead some. He only got me for about 45 seconds... :)

@IntermediateSolutions

4 ай бұрын

​@@ucitymetalhead it's Microshit*, the souls of *nix nerds died to make that. Shame on us all!

@0wl999

4 ай бұрын

Holy crap, there's a dino game?? I mean, even in the one horse town without a horse we live in internet doesnt go out for too long, never knew.😅

That weld job made my soul cry.

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. 😂

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

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😂

@IntermediateSolutions

4 ай бұрын

He mills his own hammers!

@rynohorn3819

4 ай бұрын

Haha! He's entertaining though and we can't help but love his sincerity

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

@Nevir202

4 ай бұрын

Does he have a vid of doing that? If so I missed it.

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!

@papapetad

4 ай бұрын

Beauty's in the eye of the beholder. Your "not great" is a mouse's King-of-the-castle-on-a-throne.

@dr.kraemer

4 ай бұрын

@@papapetadexactly, no cat's gonna sneak up on him from there.

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

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!

@arduinoversusevil2025

4 ай бұрын

I dunno if mine will last long enough to get sharp. But I'll watch for it now, Thanks!

@SkyhawkSteve

4 ай бұрын

dang.. those variable geometry nozzles are mechanical marvels, but I never thought about that aspect of them! When I was working on A-4 Skyhawks, I managed to cut myself on the worn edge of an access panel. Over the years, it had worn thin on one side, just waiting for someone like me to slide their hand in just the wrong way. Nothing serious, but I sure wasn't expecting it. Can't imagine getting tendons cut though! Ugh.

@scumbaag

4 ай бұрын

@@SkyhawkSteve Feels like guitar strings breaking, *PLINK* and then agonizing pain. Caught myself in the palm with a dull box cutter pretty good once. Takes absolutely forever to heal up, would not recommend.

@IntermediateSolutions

4 ай бұрын

Don't stick a 'broccoli' knife into the soil, at least not soil with stones below the surface 🩸

@junkman8742

4 ай бұрын

​@@IntermediateSolutionsouch

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

A repair done in true Red Green fashion!

.. that buffed right out!

@papapetad

4 ай бұрын

Looks like the method got upgraded from grinder-and-paint to tape. Taking notes here.

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

Did you have Ray Charles weld that?

@Mr.NiceGuy80

2 ай бұрын

Did Ray Charles weld it with his feet?

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

@arduinoversusevil2025

4 ай бұрын

Chicks dig scars eh.

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.

@uenragedbro

4 ай бұрын

Fuckwits. Like the people moderating KZread, suppressing our free speech.

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

@geirkselim2697

4 ай бұрын

And I'd just make it out of mild steel. It's a brace not a chisel.

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

@IntermediateSolutions

4 ай бұрын

They should teach everyone that in computing 102

@fanplant

4 ай бұрын

@@IntermediateSolutions I'm more like Dewclaw, an elecchicken

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

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.

@IntermediateSolutions

4 ай бұрын

Until you're having a sense of doom 💓

@rynohorn3819

4 ай бұрын

It's the only place my phone doesn't work. But the stereo works awesome!

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.

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.

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

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.

@alexaescht

4 ай бұрын

Either a 3.5/3.7 V6 or 3.5 EcoBoost (water pump is driven by the timing chain and is located within the timing cover. Or could have been a 1.5/1.6L Sigma or EcoBoost which has the water pump behind the timing belt. The 1.5/1.6L isn’t that hard to do though

@MikeBrown-ii3pt

4 ай бұрын

It doesn't matter which one to me since it's not my car. It's still not a great idea in my opinion.

@martienthestar

4 ай бұрын

Easy, don't go to a fucky garage Those waterpumps should be replaced with the rest of the timing stuff as preventative maintenance to save you from suffering down the line Big question is, why wasn't it replaced?

@MikeBrown-ii3pt

4 ай бұрын

@@martienthestar I know how it's supposed to work! The reason it hadn't been replaced is that the interval for replacing the timing belt hadn't come yet, the water pump went bad first. It's a bad design no matter which manufacturer is doing it!

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!

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

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.

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

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

@antoniocampos5638

2 ай бұрын

If only one could have a solid form of CO2 to magically expell the air, that would be sublime!

@russellsmith8609

2 ай бұрын

Well it is 1.5 times heavier than air. So it should push the oxygen out of the crucible to reduce oxidation.

@antoniocampos5638

2 ай бұрын

@@russellsmith8609 Yeah, that's the point 🤣 Whoosh

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 !

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

Guarges, absolutely guarges.

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.❤❤❤

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.

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.

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

@davidlobbestael7770

4 ай бұрын

Good catch. The only known one! Screenshot and enhanced and I was so happy. Never what you imagined, just like your favorite DJ

@yzrippin

4 ай бұрын

There's been many before ​@@davidlobbestael7770

@AndrewSpellman

4 ай бұрын

@@davidlobbestael7770 Is this bigger than the Slipknot unmasking?

@719vol

4 ай бұрын

Pretty decent profile view awhile back when he redid a bathroom. It’s like siting Bigfoot.

@davehanson2701

4 ай бұрын

I hovered over the timestamp for a second and then...stopped. I can't explain it but a part of me likes it better not knowing what he looks like.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

Guarges is now AvE cannon

@Drmcclung

4 ай бұрын

Come to think of it Chip Guarges was the name of that jeezless proctologist what stuck his finger in my bum

@squelchstuff

4 ай бұрын

Semetric simantics?

@LightFlesh

4 ай бұрын

Chip Guarges is that sicko from Montreal who just pretends to be a doctor

@Drmcclung

4 ай бұрын

@@squelchstuff lmao

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Always a pleasure.

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.

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

@arduinoversusevil2025

4 ай бұрын

Easy bake muffin mix effect. No peeking!

@rehoboth_farm

4 ай бұрын

I think somebody slammed a door or something. Sacré bleu! Mon soufflé! C'est ruiné !

@JohnMullee

4 ай бұрын

That stuff just shrinks when cooling. Trick is to have big chunky sprues uphill or your clever bits to fill in the important parts while shrinking

@jamesocker5235

4 ай бұрын

Lol a aluminum french pastry

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

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

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

Ooh, more machining!!!

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

Buying stickers and definitely Buying that Knife!!

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

My favorite gaming channel

14:13 Great timing on the magnet label.

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.

Now she’s sounding like a town pump.

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 👍🏻

@martin-vv9lf

4 ай бұрын

He has a similar one in the video though. His problem was the mice would not climb the ramp.

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

Hurts my pride, too.

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

@arduinoversusevil2025

4 ай бұрын

I dream of doing that one day. Practice practice practice.

@LuckySlevin7

4 ай бұрын

@@arduinoversusevil2025 just keep at it boy you'll get there...

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

VARIFY THE ORINENTATION!!!

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.

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

12:10 Holy shirt. You done an forked her

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

1:45 😮 ouch

@arduinoversusevil2025

4 ай бұрын

It'll buff right out.

@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.😂

It was the Envoking the Dooclaw that helped this vid

Now I feel like having sushi...

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

6:48 So true AVE. So true. 👌🏻😆

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).

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.

@arduinoversusevil2025

4 ай бұрын

Problem was, I was manual jogging.

@petemoore8923

4 ай бұрын

@@arduinoversusevil2025 Oh. I gotcha.

@RustyorBroken

4 ай бұрын

@@arduinoversusevil2025 nobody knows what you like better than you.

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

I'm sure you know a tin knocker or three that has a brake and a pile of scrap steel. That Z-track would be a cheap three-minute job (not counting poking the screw holes) with a small brake.

@martin-vv9lf

4 ай бұрын

when i'm doing a diy fix on something like that i cut it across at or above the bend then swap them around so the bend is at the end of travel, so it doesn't bind. i.e. keep the unwarped metal in the middle of the run. all you have to do is redrill the mounting holes. and weld both ends at the join.

I love your approach to learning CNC compared to Abomb. No disrespect to Abomb. They wouldn't let me on the short bus, even if I wore my hockey gear. You fooled them. Red Green fix 101. Trudeau is confused with your ability to continue working. AvE for MVP and the win. Canadian legend!

As we say over this way the z axis is fucking mint

The clapped out Bridgeport never had these problems

Where can I get one? And do you know if it’s for the 3.5?

Mr. Sir. I don't know if you've noticed it about your subs. On how they fluctuate. I've had to re-subscribe 3x in the past year. Due tell. Curious minds want to know. Thanks

@arduinoversusevil2025

4 ай бұрын

They don't like us.

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

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

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

Uh oh... he's back... with TOOLS! 😲

Are you making aly bollacks with the hex?