I think it's incredibly unfair that my eye can tell when two circles aren't concentric with micron accuracy _only after_ I've drilled it wonky.

Very educational. The concepts you described are applicable to all kinds of diy projects. Thank you...14:25 min of my day well spent.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

Appreciated ;)

I have just got used to golf balls now this! To clarify my remark l have watched Pockets videos for several years.my clamps files and drill press have golf balls attached to them, improving their usefulness . As seen in many of Pockets videos Tony.

@Dapstart

5 ай бұрын

... Uh huh

Thank you for an enjoyable video with innovative, clever content and no product placement.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for noticing.

This makes me want to make a custom magic 8 ball out of an actual 8ball. It would actually be a pretty easy project with all of the stuff available nowadays. Like 3D printing your own core out of resin.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

It would be funny to give it clever responses. Like~ _You don't want me to answer that honestly. Yes._ _No. But don't blame me if something goes wrong._ _You are asking an inanimate object for advice?_ _My sources are unavailable; please stay on the line._ _Either way. I don't really care._ _Are you sure you want me to decide that?_ _Yes. Especially after shaking me like that._ _Grow up and make a choice._ _Sure, yes. There's a 50% chance it'll work out._ _No. Yes. Wait. OK, No. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, no._

@VagabondTE

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared LOL those are good. I always wanted to write a book on 8-ball maintenance. Filled with nonsense gobbledygook and made up rules that sound like there's a plausible science to it. Like "Asking you're eight ball too many questions or the same question can cause spiritual injury. If you're able becomes injured, then wrap it in cloth and set it aside so we can rest. 8 balls are a consumerism product so surrounding it with other plastic low effort memorabilia will aid in the healing process. Lava lamps are particularly potent. If nostalgia memorabilia is not available other corporate cash grab consumer products can work. Like your Harry Potter wash cloths and coaster sets. The more mass-produced the better. This will help your 8 ball feel comfortable. Please avoid handcrafted Etsy items at all costs."

I've heard that cue balls are manufactured to be slightly bigger than the other balls in order to sort them out in those pool machines. I'm not sure how much bigger, though, and 0.0015" seems like a really small difference for the machines to detect.

@MrModTwelveFoot

5 ай бұрын

I've heard that too. I'd imagine there are different sets available, the set he's working with is for a home pool table with no ball return so they're all the same, a set for a commercial table would have a larger cue so it separates. But I'm guessing.

@sbird7251

2 ай бұрын

I think it's usually 2inch balls, with 1 7/8th inch (you crazy Americans) cue balls.

I have a 6 ball as a shift knob on my 6 speed jeep, that's one good reason to drill and tap one.

An admirable degree of thoroughness in every step.

And now I'm going to to and find some pool balls second hand, and make a simple 'two balls on a rod' thing. All glued together. it looks like a nice fiddle toy it'll be fun to have on a shelf to get random questions about.

I don't have any pool balls. I want to move the 2x4 closer to the edge of the table before clamping it and fill the "nest" with straw. I'd like to be able to get a pencil with a sharp point like yours has, even though I rarely use a pencil. I listened to two long commercials. The third commercial with rats made me think about drilling them instead of pool balls, but I wouldn't want to use dead rats to stabilize a table. I wonder if the epoxy glue smells "good". I want an abacus made out of pool balls. That's how many interesting things I found in your video. Thank you! It is time for me to take my medication.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

Sorry about the ads. I try to keep the midrolls down, but without sponsors these videos are really hard to justify for the time spent. Best way to get a sharp pencil is to use a single-helix cheap sharpener, believe it or not. X-acto makes a great one. The single helix means that you can use 'feel' rather than mechanical precision. Also, Cedar pencils are a must. BOSTICH makes a good one. Epoxy smells good sometimes. Depends on the brand. Some brands smell like dried pot flowers. That's not a bad medication, but avoid forming a habit. Plural of abacus might be abaci. Abacuses sounds offensive. I'll not be making one, because they're too hard to use. Numbered abacus beads would be too distracting anyhow.

You gave me an idea for a present for a friend - an ethanol molecule made out of pool balls. Perfect for the pool player who likes to drink

@pocket83squared

2 ай бұрын

That would really be cool. Unless he's also a chemist, he won't notice if you use tetrahedral geometry for all the connections. Here's one of my old videos for something like that: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g2h30K5whse4aNI.html

@sbird7251

2 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squaredchemEng. I discovered I can use the balls out of 'magnetic ball door stops' as the hydrogens. (6 kid sized cue balls was going to be too expensive. Golf balls was the other possibility) These chromed steel balls come threaded on a screw. 6 for $15. Drill a hole in the O and C, hack off screw head and epoxy in place. Only outstanding question is whether to counter sink the pool balls into each other slightly. Local charity shop has some odd balls I can experiment on. Hoping the result will look good enough to present to son as Ethyl the Dog for his birthday. Represents 4 interests: chem, sport, drinking and his pet dog.

@pocket83squared

2 ай бұрын

@@sbird7251 Ha. Good stuff. I don't think I'd sink the balls into each other. Looks less like a dog. Before you epoxy, it might be sensible to make connections that still allow the atoms to rotate (at the hip/neck), just so he can get the geometry correct in case the detail bothers him. Maybe think of it like a Transformer that can be either drink or dog! Consider that chemistry is really picky; a molecule's functionality depends heavily on its precise shape. Chemical engineers are, well, sorta detail-oriented. Either way, he's sure to love it.

If you make an autmotive shift knob, be careful when bang shifting! I had a cue ball I made years ago break and slice my fingers open.. I won the race but then had to go get stitches lol.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

Pool balls have changed over the years. Those you're likely to buy now are much less glass-like. I remember shooting one with a handgun in high school--er--um, I mean, _while_ I was high school aged. It shattered into shards. The balls used in this video seemed much more resin-like.

@davewood406

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared Really old ones were made of celluloid and occasionally exploded, not shattered, but the combustion type of explosion .

@sbird7251

2 ай бұрын

I was told that porcelain door knobs are illegal now for this very reason. I was looking for a knob that was denser and make less noise in the middle of the night.

If you partially drill with the Forstner bit, then you can drill a through hole in the center dimple. Then you don't need a drill press and you can use the same through hole for aligning the tap. Add a thin rubber washer between the ball and the leg (or widen the end of the leg hole) to allow a tiny amount of height adjustment without needing a nut.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

The washer-spacer part is obvious, but I don't understand your first suggestion. Please elaborate, because I've been trying FOR YEARS to figure out a way to drill a sphere straight without using a drill-press. And 'close to center' doesn't count here, either. Sounds like you're telling me to simply drill through the back of the board and then just eye it up for straight. Also, aligning the tap is pointless here. It's the easiest stuff you'll ever tap.

@sdspivey

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared Drill deep enough into a 2x4 for the ball to sit without hitting the bottom of the hole. Then drill through the center dimple left by the Forstner. You can then use your regular drill to run the bit through the "backside" of the 2x4. Not as safe or as useful, but if you have no drill press, it would work.

@sdspivey

5 ай бұрын

Scrap that idea. I realize that without a drill press, you won't get the hole in the 2x4 straight enough anyway.

I must confess, my day job is in IT, I’m not a carpenter, but my dad was. Someday, I know I will want to try this. (The poll ball thing. And I’m really curious now to try measuring their diameter with calipers.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

I wasn't talking about you. Not even close. You've never once presented yourself as having more expertise than you actually hold. Further, your video format is nothing like the trendy new tool-fetishizing woodworker paradigm that I was talking about. Nothing but professional respect for you, Mr. Mulder. Any IT guy that branches out and into hands-on stuff is a person who has made it in life. Especially considering the quality of wood-craft you manage to produce. You deserve every ounce of success you've earned on this platform. Cheers.

@Wordsnwood

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared no fear, I was not taking offence. I too think there is a bit too much of "teh M0ST aweSOME tool review EVERRRR" sort of thing out there.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

@@Wordsnwood Eh. And the "YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SAWDUST."

-- At approximately 7:15... if you're really concerned with wearing out your blade, don't let it ride on the metal on the backstroke. Doing so does nothing but wear out the teeth prematurely. Only engage the metal on the forward stroke if the blade is properly mounted, which is to say, teeth pointed away from your body. Yes, some folks will mount a hacksaw blade in the non-traditional direction as they believe it gives them more control when first starting out. To me, it doesn't really matter which way the blade teeth are pointed as long as you can remember which way they are pointed when you're using the hacksaw. Best wishes! - Max Giganteum

now you just need a pool table!

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

Made a scaled-down one years ago. All Cherry. You can see it in that video about shaping cue tips. Not to be confused with cotton swabs.

believe it or not, i was actually wondering how i might go about doing this. the handle of the large vise i inherited is completely hooped and i want to replace it. its a long metal rod with balls on either end that seem to be threaded on and then welded. i'll need to completely remake it, hence drilling and tapping perfectly round balls. i was planning on just sanding a large flat on a metal sphere and then somehow holding it under the drill press so i can drill and tap it. no clue how i would hold it though lol

I'm sure it's been answered in some other video, but what is the purpose of the mirrors in the background? I can understand having one at the drill press to help align and keep objects straight, but are there other uses? or is this a filming aid?

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

Provides visual appeal and depth. I'm also toying with you, as if I might forget to edit out my face. Still haven't been recognized at Harbor Freight _yet._

@n2darkness

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared If I happened to be at the same Harbor Freight as you and herd you speaking from the next aisle over, I'd totally recognize your voice anywhere!😀Thanks for the reply!

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

@@n2darkness Maybe not. I use a different cadence in real life; my speech is faster, sorta squirrely and irregular, and often forceful/aggressive. I think out loud and ask questions and try to communicate with other human beings, which are all weird now. Most people think I'm some sort of talkative idiot. When I turn the camera on, I snap into clear and concise mode.

Ah, I see you're moving up from golf balls. And recently I've found more and more woodworker/maker youtubers who I just don't vibe with at all, and I do feel that it's bc I'm less interested in content for content's sake and prefer watching clever people in their garages doing creative things, which was much more prevalent in older youtube

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

Tell me about it. I can't for the life of me understand how the newtuber 'woodworkers' get as much social traction that they do. Every piece of content has already been done to death, they say mostly nothing, and the clickbaiting thumbnails have gone beyond the limits of good taste.

@andrewgalbreath2101

5 ай бұрын

@pocket83squared Definitely. I have also gotten into comment section beef with Stumpy Nubs before as well

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

@@andrewgalbreath2101 Ha ha! You're blocked. I'll bet on it. His comment section is way too circle jerky. Me? I _encourage_ people to argue with me. Just do it respectfully, and I won't take it personal. In his defense, the vast majority of his content is solid, trustable stuff.

@emeltea33

5 ай бұрын

​@pocket83squared at the risk of sounding like a spammer, this YTer was in my suggestions (for the SS cotter pin, but I watched a lot of others): kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHiCy9FylsjNYdI.html He's got a chill vibe, though not polished. The link is for a very thoughtful metal bandsaw table. An idea that's been done some but his was great! Thanks for your videos as well!

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

@@emeltea33 Clever guy. Some good stuff in there. And no sponsors, either. The unpolished stuff is what _made_ KZread. Now it's all highly polished but awful.

cool 🎱

This great old trick is for silly tricks shots in pool as found in ROBERT BRYNE'S compendium of trick shots.

12:43, whats the rack of billiards on a wire for? 11 through 15.. cant think of it. Nice video!

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

It's a counter, 1 through 5. It's beside the weight bench, so that I don't lose count of sets. A typical round involves sets of both bench-press and curls, along with a set each of perhaps two or three other exercises. The entire routine goes through this pattern five times, and then I'll typically finish off with a few body weight exercises. This takes between 1 and 1.5 hours, and I do it three times a week. It's been over three months now, so it'll be tough picking it back up again. Gets harder every year, but that's the price you pay to have people believe that you're twenty years younger than you are. Also, drink your morning kale shake, and realize that sugar is a drug like any other. For a routine to work, repeatability is everything; it has to become a percussion: 1-2-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5... like a mantra; thoughtless, persistent, an unalterable fact of life. You can analyze it later-as we're doing right now-but in the moment, the self drops away, and you become the brute. It's inseparable to our being. Part of our history. Best to incorporate it in some useful way, eh? A dog's gotta have its job. Bet you didn't expect _that_ answer.

@ledraps22

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared I like that workout routine, i normally do just simple sets for one exercise , do like 3 or 4 of them, then move on to the next exercise. Doing them all in a row in a set then repeating the entire thing is a nifty idea. I will try it. Cant say im much into the routine as I used to be. When i stopped going to the gym and gathered a few dumbbells and a nice bench for home and then got sick I phased out 3-4 workout days and mostly do like 1 a week now, not good but at least im still sticking to it. Also commute to the office more, which sucks! Didnt even notice i stopped running but fortunately this winter i do a lot of hiking every weekend and stay active with stream fishing. Very fun exploring the creeks in PA! - and yes sometimes i do expect these kinds of answers :D thank you !

Speaking on the size of pool balls, I would imagine the cue ball has the most size variation due to how pay to play tables work, they're usually smaller so it returns to the opposite side of the table the other balls come from.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

That was my first thought, too. But that's not the case here. First of all, a 0.001" variance is not really enough distinction for a mechanical separation apparatus to work (usually). Further, with respect to keeping the rest of the set to a standard, that sort of tolerance would be way too high-end for a mass-market product. All of the the balls were within 0.0015 of their target size; that is, the manufacturing tolerance was +/- two thousandths. Imagine calibrating a rail-based separator, like my old marble sorting machine for example, to that degree of precision. This one, I mean: kzread.info/dash/bejne/q5Vt3LaspM21ebg.html From what I understand, over the years, there have been many clever methods designed for returning the cue ball after a scratch, but I'm not quite sure what the majority of modern (home) tables use. Most likely, for simplicity, the balls are all the same, because the pockets are often just little baskets. The average coin-op? I don't know, but I'm interested.

@yeetmcmeat

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared Of the few coin operated tables I've played on the cue ball was noticeably smaller, not by much but if it was next to a regular ball you could visibly see a slight difference. I did get a chance to look into one of those tables before and both of the return rails had a slot just big enough for the cue to fall into kinda like a coin sorter. I'd imagine that's one of the simpler ways to take just the cue ball but those specific tables had some ball return issues. I believe there are magnetic cue balls as well but I haven't seen or tested that myself.

Ur definitely a electrician

That billiard ball farts like an old cartoon. 👍

@Telos954x

5 ай бұрын

Another thought, after you were spinning them. Put them on a low-friction surface and blast the side of one with some compressed air. Maybe make sure there's a wall of some sort around them just in case.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

@@Telos954x Bad idea, unless they're glued together. When spun the wrong way, they _really_ want to come loose. If you've ever tried this with connected bearings (hurricane balls), then you already know what level of broken stuff you can expect from a separation.

@Telos954x

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared True, but trite safety warnings aside, add some good epoxy or that autobody putty and go wild lmao

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

@@Telos954x Twenty years ago, before I did that, I asked my buddy's brother (a mechanical engineer) for some of his auto putty. He told me no, stipulating that it wouldn't last. Did I mention that this was twenty years ago? Frustrated, I then went out and bought a can of my own putty anyway, and I've taken every piece of "as an engineer, you should..." advice I've heard since with a grain of salt.

I hate to be that guy, but have you poked around to see if threading is all that necessary? Drilling may score the side wall well enough for a sufficient bond with epoxy. Also, I can't decide if it looks better as is, like it's balancing on the balls, or if the legs were contoured to the balls. Trying to think of a clever way to cope the legs, but short of a custom paddle bit and a jig to keep the wood from tearing out, not much comes to mind.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

First part: threading the ball is easy as pie, so you might as well add the option. Threads better distribute an axial load. And don't worry about being "that guy"; you're not even close, and I appreciate the counterpoint. Second part: plunging into end-grain with a router is a recipe for tear-out UNLESS the entire leg has been surrounded by sacrificial boards. This is not as hard as it sounds. Imagine making a sandwich like this; using two boards that have been clamped to a pair of legs: ________________ □ □ ________________ Now a router can easily ride the rails. Not shown in this diagram are the blocks of wood in-between that surround the other, unprotected faces of the legs. The controlled way to make a spherical nest in end-grain is to make a series of Forstner bit circles that become gradually smaller as they get deeper, and then use a burr bit on a rotary tool to knock all the steps down. Fine tune using some other (preferably smaller) sphere that has sandpaper wrapped around it. For fans of the series, a threaded golf ball in a drill would work. Quick and dirty way? Wrap the snot out of each leg with masking tape, plunge in with a gouge chisel, and then clean it all up with an aggressive wood burr. Lots of ways to get to the fair.

@custos3249

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared On threading, that's plenty fair. As for coping the legs, pretty close to what rolled around my head. After fully detailing an alternative approach, I took a look and noticed my legs at the base are both tapered and rounded, ruining my idea to come in from the front and side faces with a correctly sized forstner or hole saw matched to where the surfaces intersect. You may still have the right idea since I can't easily reference off the front and side surface like I'd thought. Curved geometry intersecting with curved geometry and whatnot. Other problem is that my skills with a ball burr leave a bit to be desired, pun intended. Still really tempted to use some old bed rail to fabricobble a custom cutter basically like a big countersink bit. Gonna mull this over more and do some test work before I butcher anything.

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

@@custos3249 Oh, whoa. You're really doing this? Most people just comment hypothetically. OK. Let's see. Ideas for fabbing a 2¼" carver. Do you weld? Four pieces of half-circle ¼" steel welded to a 3/8" rod could be sharpened into a medieval looking ultra-burr. Drill out perfect ball sockets. The tapered and rounded legs really mess things up. Is it an expensive piece?

@custos3249

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared It has sentimental value more than much else. Dad's old patchwork furniture from his younger days before he became a proper carpenter. Rare instance of him being creative over purely utilitarian. He used to be a small time pool hustler too, so I really like the added feature the balls add. That ultra-burr essentially is what I'll shoot to weld together out of old bed frame. I should be able to get a reasonable temper out of the carbon steel. May be ideal to add either a guide pin to the tip for a pilot hole or a dagger tip like a common spade bit too.

Not a criticism in any way, just an idea, but what if you carved out a semi circle in the bottom of each leg for the balls to nest into?

@pocket83squared

5 ай бұрын

Sure, why not. And you you've been around here for long enough that you're entitled to the occasional criticism. Just don't ever say: _why not just buy one_ (using no punctuation).

@mattjohnston2

5 ай бұрын

@@pocket83squared "why not just buy one"?? Ugh, I felt dirty just typing that out!