After a long day I was ecstatic to see your -wife- video in my feed.

I know what a "cowl" is but every time you said "cowl" i heard "cow" and i thought to myself "why would they name that piece a Cow Plate" 😂😂😂 Anyway, fine job on the "found" motor, random parts, half-assed maintained, fall out of the sky, plane rebuild. You seem to be a quite competent aviation mechanic. The list... Bomb shelter refurbisher vending machine extraordinaire, general badass rebuilder of most things... and now "plane engineer" who knew?!? Keep up the great work. You're doing a fine job

I've always predrilled holes with pilot holes. In fact I drill pilot holes for my pilot holes. But I'm also a pilot so it's a relief to know I can ditch this unnecessary step. Thank you!

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

As long as you're current with a your biannual flight review you can skip the pilot drill.

Cleco no klinko...lol. I found this to be a riveting episode, still holding my bucking bar.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Don't play with your bucking bar while watching me!

Hey Herb, I loved this, really hypnotic actually to watch you do airplane mechanic things. I found this quite riveting. 🥰

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

First with the riveting joke! Thanks Cake!

@RCake

Ай бұрын

​@HerbOMatic wondering: were you a vending machine tech first and got into plane mechanics, or the other way round? And did you ever accidentally mix these topics up?

I would like to Thank the Patrons, that music is FIRE! Like always another informative video, with humor, thanks.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Lol, it felt right for that scene. Really the mic malfunctioned and I lost audio, so I made that montage.

"I don't know if one gets hot and one gets cold, that works on me" ...Your serious tone of voice makes that even more hilarious 😂

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

My brain is always saying that bs inside so now I just say it on the outside and throw it on YT. Thanks Greg!

@frank-t6857

Ай бұрын

Our brains can be funny but few dare to say it out loud 😄

"Boy is it hard to find pants" 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

It looked very satisfying and rewarding to see you put your bit into the dimple. Almost educational.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Hey! Satisfying is good, but we don't do educational around here.

Those are some neat tools you showed off here, I appreciate the demonstration.

I’m fairly new to your channel, I just gotta say this was for me one of the most interesting things I’ve watched for a long time. Keep up the great work!

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Thanks Billy!

@OffGridGetAway

Ай бұрын

Same

Looking good bud, nice to see someone saving and maintaining an old airplane.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I paid 45K for this bird and turns out she had a bum engine. New ones are twice what a house costs so if I want to fly I'm working on it! Also it's fun.

Love your style, very entertaining, thanks Herb-O-Matic

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

You got it Corbin Dallas.

Always enjoyable to watch you work on a project (despite this episode not having the usual surplus of gratuitous butt shots). I kind of get the idea that whatever you spend on an airplane, you have to spend an equal or even greater amount on tools to maintain it. And we all know specialized tools don't come cheap.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I haven't even scratched the surface on crazy specialized tools! For now I try to make things work. I was disappointed when I went to edit this episode, there were NO butt shots in the raw footage. It's going to affect my ad revenue for sure.

You're a cool dude! Big fan of your humor! 😂

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Mad props for the comment bro.

Hey Herb, my first time commenting. Love the Channel, great videos. Love your sense of humor, keep up the great content

@garyfairbrother5532

Ай бұрын

One of his strong points that make his channel successful. The ridiculous chatter doesn’t wear on you, and it never gets old!

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I'll keep doing it! I appreciate the love, even if it's just this one time.

You have enlightened me in some tools that I have never seen before as well as the body clenching details to check the amount of tension applied

Really interesting all that aviation stuff, can't wait for the next episode! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I'm working on it!

@Alexelectricalengineering

Ай бұрын

@@HerbOMatic That's awesome 😎

I was glued to the screen for all 39:24 of riveting content. Herb does not disappoint.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Thanks Cory!

"Woops, it's not my birthday." 😂

@txkent

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Wasn't sure anyone would catch that!

darn it, came for the laughs, stayed for the learn. ❤

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Don't go tryin to lern stuff aroun her.

9/128", #4 rivets, #10 drill... you guys will really do anything to avoid using metric, won't you? :)

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I would change but it would take me a 129/21 of a fortnight to get the hang of it.

@frank-t6857

Ай бұрын

Here in Europe we are blessed with metric. No head scratching. I feel sorry for the Americans forced to use both 😄

A good trick is to let your beard and mustache grow real long and bushy so that it catches all the particles from grinding, it's like a natural respirator...Hope that helps...thanks for sharing!

fun to do stuff when you have the proper tools.. specially that switchable metric to standard wrench 😂😂

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Saves alot of trips to the hardware store.

18:30 - Sounds a bit like like Raymond Scott. Please post the music sources in the header please. Keep up doing what you do. You make me smile. The joke from the last video, three dudes and the genie, was a great smash hit where I work with everyone except H.R. Thanks!

for measuring centers of holes you measure on either both left sides or both right hand sides of the hole distance between gives you the exact center

Congrats on doin your own A&P work,,last aviation work I did was on an SH60B earley 90's on a flight deck,,,good times

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

That Sikorsky is a bit more complicated than this Mooney!

Im glad you got your cow fixed 🐄

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Dang cow flaps.

Whoa, we're half way there Whoa oh, livin' on a prayer, Seems timely...

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I hope Bernoulli doesn't let me down, let's pray to him.

@SrslyNoz.

Ай бұрын

@@HerbOMatic Shall we lift our leading edge in prayer?

Ix-Nay on the Arbor-Hay Freight-Ay (that's a coded message for Herb). I don't want people to discover that they now have pretty good tools at a great price. If more people discover this, they will raise their prices, and you will have to sell even more candy bars to pay for them while keeping your candy stash hidden from the wife. A tough task indeed.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

They have gotten better! Man they were junk. With their new lines I can afford decent tools for a reasonable price.

clinko... I thought they're called cleco fasteners. At least that's what the box they come in says. Idk, maybe it's a typo. :)

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I just looked it up, you may be right! Potatoes Tomatoes.

You play the cocky-glib-guy perfectly, but I’d let you work on my plane, if I was a pilot, and I had a plane, any day! I have a hearing impairment and it took me a while to figure out what the autogenerated closed caption was displaying as a “cow flap” was. Sounded like a name you would make up so I just figured….you know. Thanks, it’s always interesting to be shown stuff (special tools and gauges) that is specific to strictly regulated procedures and standards. I’m a wood worker and love me jigs, sleds and gauges.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Lol, Cow Flap is something I would say! When the Wife is having a cow you open these flaps and the wind noise will drown out her droning. Those little jigs and gauges are cheap insurance.

👍✅ Tks Herb, funny and informative as always😂

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Thanks ParatyShow, I'm trying to crank them out while getting my projects done.

Funny you mention drilling into your finger while using rivets and clinkos. My dad built 2 gyrocopters and 2 airplanes in his life. All were “experimental” kits. Lots of clinkos and riveting for the airplanes at least. When I was maybe 12 he was building a Capella and came running inside from the garage with a fully bloodied rag on his hand and ran to the bathroom and my mom and I followed him and he had drilled a hole into the side of his finger while preparing holes for rivets. He refused to goto the doctor for stitches and just cleaned it up and wrapped it up himself. He was done working on the airplane for the night after that mishap but was back at it the next day after work. Be careful dude!

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Your dad sounds rad! That's brave to fly something you built from scratch, I hope to do that one day! I try to be careful but have been cut pretty bad, one time I cut an artery in my leg and before I passed out wrapped several layers of duct tape over it. I passed out and woke back up starving. I would have died if not for duct tape.

@jakesgr8sakiorjoe58

Ай бұрын

@@HerbOMatic Duct tape, Super Glue. Whatever it takes. That’s sounds like a harrowing experience. He wanted me to be a pilot but I didn’t want to do that. I loved flying and he let me fly the cappella a lot. I learned to take off and land it but wasn’t really interested in getting my pilots license. I was way more into cars and he was excited about that too and always worked on my muscle cars with me. Going to see him tomorrow actually. Our current gig is RC truck racing. We might build a track in his field this spring. Maybe I’ll film it and start my own channel. 😂

Funny stuff. But informative.

My wife's dad had a Mooney. When she was 11 he flew it into some moderate turbulence and the tail separated from the aircraft. There wad an A/D out on it that required a check for cracks in the frame during annual inspections. The plane was a few weeks out of annual so he was deemed responsible. He didn't survive.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I've never heard of a Mooney tail separating, are you sure it wasn't a Bonanza?

It's really a shame that you live so far away from me. I would weld the aluminum back together for you in my workshop. Thanks for the many great videos you two made.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I never learned to weld Aluminum. I need to get a good tig one day. Man, the more I learn, the more I know I don't know and the more tools I need!

@garyfairbrother5532

Ай бұрын

Your offer, while very generous and well meaning, would have robbed us of another humorous, prolonged version that makes a boring airplane repair video great content. Thanks anyway, lol.

@buckwild8920

Ай бұрын

He lives in Avondale, he doesn't live close to anybody. Lol.

do that to end nippers and it will have more leverage to cut the rivet.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

That's a really good idea, in the RV forums those dudes are disassembling whole wings with side cutters.

dude is funny!! would be hilarious if he could get his own little segment from time to time, like put him in a funny suit and have him read the dude news XD

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Dude is awesome! He can't read though.

@Soupyxo

Ай бұрын

@@HerbOMatic damn... that witch set a hex on him :'( poor dude

Is the reason you didn't weld it back together because it would anneal the aluminum? I'm just curious.

Gotta get the HF caliber’s. My expensive ones don’t convert to fractions.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Yeah, the HF calipers are cheap and work fine.

Heat to soften the aluminum 1st. Work it. When all shaped heat and rapidly cool to harden.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

In airplanes, they get weird about heating or welding aluminum. They outline what you can do in AC 43.13 it's available for free online.

Nice work. Surprised you didn't just take the cowl home to the workshop though.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I get weird blind spots in my mind and I don't think of the simplest solutions!

Your wife would probably like the engines I used to work on (Trent 900, 1000, and XBW), because they're way bigger than yours.

Great job. I wish I had that rivet tool in the Navy, it would have saved me hours of work with a hammer and buck. When do you have to have a A&P check your work or do you?

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Those squeezers are my hangar neighbor's he's generous, I will grab a pair one day. I have gotten pretty good with the gun to the point where it's not too much hassle but If I had alot to do the squeezer sure is low drama.

if you're wearing headphones and have your volume up, jump straight in here: 23:35 you're welcome

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

It's aweful, why did he do that. Nail on chalk board.

Were you in the USAF or an aircraft mechanic at some point? You make this stuff look interesting. Maybe it's the commentary...

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I did not serve, just tinkerer. Thanks Joe I'm working on more!

The smell from the drill is the soy insulation on the wires inside. I hear they are tasty aswell.

Something tells me that you have *_DONE_* this before!!!

So after repair do you need a licensed A&P to inspect?

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Yes, you have to have an A&P that you are working with. There are provisions in the regs for that and it's a way to build experience to get your own A&P license.

Another awesome episode, Thank yoiu Herb and wifey! ❤ I don't understand how you can understand the imperial system, metric with millimeters are so much easier just straight up a clean number, not fractions like you have. I've tried all my adult life to understand the imperial, it just.. I don't know.. it's crazy! 😋 Can't wait for next episode, whatever you do, always interesting and fun to watch! Always, always love your comments throughout the videos❤

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

The metric system makes sense. Problem is I was raised on this stuff also there is a ton of metric stuff here too you gotta get a sense of both over time. Aviation is very SAE and probably going to be there for awhile!

I really like watching and learning high standard machine work. You're a pretty fart smeller

Brought to you by Craftsmen.....

Klinko

I may have accidentally learned something…. Maybe

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Sir, I make these for entertainment purposes only!

@billmcdonald9933

Ай бұрын

@@HerbOMatic i assure you, it was an accident. Going by my wife, I am normally in capable of learning

Few hundred for tools to install $1 worth of rivets. I know. I know.

Why not aluminium welding the cracks?

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

Heat weakens aluminum. This aluminum is tempered for strength so heat will goof it up.

@survivalgameexploration5724

Ай бұрын

@@HerbOMatic Ahhhhh

What is it with this channel and cracks? 🤣🤣🤣

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I wanted to put "crack kills" on thumbnail, still might!

@wickedmuffin76

Ай бұрын

@@HerbOMatic Crack is whack.

Cleeeeco

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I have to buy off-brand klinkos. I'm not made of money!

RIvet squeeze... gross but LOL

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

You saw it?!

Herb-O-Matic come on down to play CLINKO.

@HerbOMatic

Ай бұрын

I may have got that name slightly wrong! Maybe they made the game and the rivets and forgot to change the name.