Discussion I WILL NEVER SHOW OFF A HOME MADE PROJECT AGAIN

[Gino]

This is not about insurance. It's more about competent people exploring things and making them work. Sh!t like this should always start like most television shows of this nature...... Do NOT Try This At Home. For some reason.... 'responsible' should be bebeing used, too.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

This is why the best carpenters only have 9 fingers.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

This is not about insurance. It's more about competent people exploring things and making them work. Sh!t like this should always start like most television shows of this nature...... Do NOT Try This At Home. For some reason.... 'responsible' should be bebeing used, too.

However, in a lot of ways, competent people aren't able able to explore and make things work or repair things. Unless one only defines competent people as those that work for the OEM on those specific products or apart of their "authorized" network.

I guess that's why I tend to like things that are modular to begin with now and the various companies expect the owner to do more (in some instances actually put it together) from the outset (for as much as I can, not for everything though). That does come with some cons, but that ability (for me, may not be for the next person), I value higher.

 

[GAC05]

When the clip started I was hoping he was going to modify the saw to throw cutting disks across the room to stick in the wall. Something Gino could use on his landscaping customers. Was disappointed.

 

[Gino]

I won't pretend to know why, how or how capable you are to go on any adventure you choose, but it's not a good idea to expect someone to try some of these dangerous tasks, you presume to be harmless. Your reasoning just seems to be opposite of whatever..... whoever says something/anything. Perhaps when dealing with horses, this is a good basic rule, but for a responsible person, it sounds a tad risky..... especially someone who is not exposed to these sorts of things.

 

[netsol]

This is why the best carpenters only have 9 fingers.

Sometimes 8...

 

[ikarasu]

I'm all for people modifying something and getting more use out of it.

But imo, changing a chain saw to a large angle grinder does not seem like a good idea safety wise to me either.

Angle grinders spin at a specific rpm in order to cool the blade fast as well as make it optimally cut. A blade heating up too much would mean it cracks/shatters and then flys off at thousands of rpm.

Angle grinders are one of the scarrier tools as is, not sure I'd want a modified one! Definately looks cool,.and it's nice that this hasn't landed up in a landfill and has found another use... And maybe the guy thought of everything and safely made it into a large one, who knows!

But it's not like he's selling them... Or asking his employees to use them. So if it's for personal use, I don't see the problem. It's like the last step on the ladder that warns you not to stand on it, but we all do when we need that extra few inches of height... That could end up going just as bad, but it's a risk I'm sure every single person here has taken a dozen times.

 

[GAC05]

I am subscribed to this guy on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere

Technically his stuff is DIY, homebuilt, but he does have more fabrication equipment than the jet propulsion lab at NASA

 

[WildWestDesigns]

I won't pretend to know why, how or how capable you are to go on any adventure you choose, but it's not a good idea to expect someone to try some of these dangerous tasks, you presume to be harmless. Your reasoning just seems to be opposite of whatever..... whoever says something/anything. Perhaps when dealing with horses, this is a good basic rule, but for a responsible person, it sounds a tad risky..... especially someone who is not exposed to these sorts of things.

That's not what I was trying to say, maybe that's what came across, but that isn't what I was trying to say.

If one doesn't have knowledge, doesn't want to do it, doesn't want to learn to do it, even if they know how to do it, but are put off to it due to an accident or something along those lines. That's fine. Do not do it. No sense in one being scared while they are doing something that is dangerous.

However, that appears to be taken to an extreme level that want deny anyone even if they are highly capable of doing it (in terms of tools and knowledge), from doing it. My word, even changing batteries is considered a high risk endeavour now (some devices get bricked if the end user tries to swap them out, some devices they are not modular at all) and safety is cited as the highest area of concern for not even having user serviceable batteries (that were once user serviceable). So safety tend to be an excuse used way way too much in places that it really doesn't make sense to be there. Nothing in life doesn't come with risk, not to say that we need to over due it with risk, not at all, but there needs to be a happy medium between the two.

Back in the 90s, there were a lot of user serviceable items that are now no longer serviceable and safety is most often cited as the reason for this. Protection of IP is the other. I would argue that safety is just there to run smokescreen.

That is what my consternation is over. This fact that people shouldn't do this that or the other, without knowing much about if they are able to do so. For our own safety have to be locked out of all our devices/vehicles and everything is just taken as is. That's the problem that I have. Is that notion. There may be something that I wouldn't do, for a variety of reasons, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I think people should be locked out of it. Now, if one can show that there is absolutely no way that they can do something without a level 3 biohazard setup, yea, I think there is some room to deny something there.

I just think that there is an over reaction to go overboard one way.

Now with your horse portion, in actuality, the reasons that I mentioned (and I'm sure that there are other valid ones that I didn't think of) are actually doubled as one is dealing with not only a prey animal, but one that will pick up on your nervousness as well. That equals a big no bueno situation.

 

[Mike Paul]

Damn, That’s a lot of work. Hats off to him for loving metal shop but I’d rather buy one that engineered correctly. I have no use for either but if a blade tooth chipped off and got stuck in someone’s eye your f- d and can’t blame it on manufacturing defect.

 

[Aardvark Printing]

From an entertainment point of view (his and ours) this was great. If he was trying to save money it's a total failure. Take the cost of components and time this guy put into it, especially when you consider what his skills would earn for the same amount of time and the total real cost was probably twice what he would have paid buying a saw.

 

[Aardvark Printing]

I am subscribed to this guy on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere

Technically his stuff is DIY, homebuilt, but he does have more fabrication equipment than the jet propulsion lab at NASA

I want that lathe!

 

[GAC05]

Don't they sell those?

Maybe Home Depot was closed the day he needed one of these.

 

[Notarealsignguy]

Sometimes 8...

True, if it's 9 1/2, you're gonna get shoddy work.

 

[GAC05]

Then I will tell my wife in her free time she can use her talents and skills of loading the dishwasher, while I go to pornhub and **** ***. That is what each of us are used to doing and doing.

I like the way netsol thinks out side the box, and his shares about his tinkering are interesting. No one should get depressed. Cheer up cowboy.

Nestol is thinking outside of the box, while Tex is thinking of a totally different box.

 

[netsol]

I want that lathe!

I want to have his touch eith an sngle grinder