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I'd like to point out that when you realized that the 2 nuts had uneven spacing it would have probably been easier to just machine away some of the threads instead of moving the J channel. Either way it looks great.
@@bdkj3e Thanks! I've gotten this suggestion a lot and there was actually another constraint with the key pin mechanism under that cap, so the slot correction was the only answer without more changes. Though I didn't realize this at the time so I got kind of lucky 😆
Many builds on this channel can pretend they were made because they were useful, and not because you just wanted to make them. This is the strictest abider to the old maker's creed: he who dies with the most toys wins.
Because I can....that's been the mantra of my 30s that a friend of mine just didn't understand...while he's in the process of rebuilding a small airplane that has no material benefit to his life. I'm more of a chemistry nerd, and yes we do a lot of things just because we can, to prove that we can, and to gain better insight into the process rhat we can lord over others.
"For the next step, a sample of sodium was introduced to the chlorine generator because my employer ran out of table salt in the cafeteria."@@nunyabisnass1141
I also build shit because I can. I've been watching this channel to bring my skill and finishing up to the sort of level on manual machines. I'm not a machinist but I do enough manual Machining at work to be proficient. The finish quality on his work is what gets me.
Funny, my signature on a gun forum, I used to post on all the time on, is "He who dies with the most tools/toys wins!" I chose it because repairing, building, fabricating, and designing is just what I do. When I was at a summer program as a kid sitting with animated movies playing to entertain other kids, I was designing a work bench with oxy acetylene hoses, extension cords, and air hoses all built in. My dad did a lot in the garage, although he was a meat cutter by trade and his dad was a tool and die maker for the aerospace industry. As a kid, I put a rocking lawn chair on my red wagon, like dad put the camper on the truck for vacation. Of course, dad's electrical solder worked well to wire in the "lights" on that setup. As a kid, I took a lot of things apart and started fixing them by time I was 12 or 13 years old. I could have bought a manual bullet casting machine and automated it like others. Instead, I built my own from scratch with a 100 pound lead capacity because I could one up their 40-70 pound pots and I wanted to further my fabrication skills. It is almost all tig welded instead of mig welded as well....because I knew it would be a challenge. It isn't perfect but I was working on it today, buy using a better pneumatic cylinder that is more controllable. There are some short videos on my channel, but I'm not a youtuber.
I love that your video intros are always about the video we are about to watch and not the same intro over and over. It's the extra things that set you and your craftsmanship apart.
As a guy who loves puzzles, I can tell you that this is an amazing puzzle. It's innovative, well built and the solution is so unique that anyone would have fun while solving it. Also would have loved to see the assembly of the puzzle.
Hey bud, I strongly request you make an unpickable lock and send it to lockpickinglawyer! It’ll be like the unstoppable force meeting the immovable object 🤩
To make an unpickable lock, all he has to do is make it so the lock doesn't even use a key, or anything other than the one puzzle solution to get it to open. Another way to make an unpickable lock is to just make a lock that never opens unless you destroy it. But that would be rude.
Gotta respect a guy who still uses a drawing board! I designed a log house a while back on the computer, then built the house. The house had a front porch that went the length of the house. It also had a couple of dormers on the roof. The dormer that was above the living room had to line up with the double window that was below since the living room was open all the way to the peak of the roof with an open loft on the back side of the house. Since it was all opened I built up scaffolding in the living room to make it safer and easier to work on the ceiling and build the dormer and finish it on the inside. We finally got finished and it was time to remove the scaffolding. I was pretty excited to go up on the loft and and take in the final result. My heart sank. The two windows were not aligned. You couldn't not see it. Here you have this beautiful tongue and groove ceiling with exposed beams and a massive stone fireplace and all you can see is the two windows not lining up. They were six inches off. I went back and measured everything according to the plans. The dimension for the lower window was wrong and I never caught it. It took me a long hard day to fix that screw up. And yes, I had to remove and put in new logs and cut logs to move the window over on a house that already had a roof on. The point is, I know the frustration of building something from the plans only to find out one of the dimensions was wrong.
I am really thankful that you started doing RUclips and that I found you, especially since you live so close to me in Louisville. Even though I watch a couple of Maker RUclipsrs, you talking about how you inherited all his Machining tools and such. It got me inspired to get my career back to where I wanted to go when I graduated from Speed School in Mechanical specializing in Tooling. I now have a job as a Flat Die Tooling Engineer and already love it 10x more than my previous job as a general contractor/project manager. I don't know what it is but moving heavy metal and cutting parts down the the tenths just feels so good. This company started back in the 50's and they're still a little slow to progress and still have a lot of the old drafted blueprints that were done by hand and seeing you do it just makes it all the more better
Im sure its been said before but I really appreciate the clearly hand-written closed captions. They’re so well paced and just absolutely perfect. Your work is not unnoticed. Have yourself another gold star 🌟
@@InheritanceMachining Whether you do them or pay someone to do them, the fact that you don’t use the poor-quality auto-generated captions reflects how much you care about the quality of your work, both in and outside of the shop. 🌟
I'm so glad that someone as talented as yourself is also capable of making "dumb" mistakes. Makes me feel significantly better about scrapping parts for my own projects 😆. Thanks for sharing all your projects with us and making them so intersting!
@@NOLAfugeewhat you mean whit "making another rotated one" both J had to be in the same direction, i suppose he could had moved both 90° but that would still entail a new end cap part
Very devious! I'd really love to see a left-hand thread for the internal joint. Almost everyone will try a typical unscrewing motion for the first move, so they'd be cranking the two halves together even harder. Congrats on a beauty.
The mark of a professional hobby machinist channel is making a nut puzzle...So congratulations on becoming a pro🎉. 😂 Love your videos and hope to see you on the machinist Secret Santa. I especially Love that you keep your grandfather his legacy alive and sharing it with the world, i also love that you keep your mistakes. I would also like to ask if you'll do a Q&A at a subscriber milestone and will you do a giveaway of the parts in the box of shame or will you make a bigger Chest 'O shame in the future? With love from the Netherlands. Mekki😊
It's actually really inspiring to see both your failures, and your reaction to them. I work as a prototype technician, essentially making one offs in a workshop all day long. People often ask me, seeing how much I curse and emote during my work day, why I do this if I don't enjoy it. While it's frustrating to scrap a part, it's still the most rewarding job I can imagine. I get to make cool stuff every day!
It is a ton of work to be a craftsman and tradesman who does similar things for hobby and sometimes I wonder why I do it for fun too. For one, I already have the tools and skill, but if I just do simple mind numbing trade work for weeks or months on end and don't get to do more creative design, repair, or fabrication, I don't feel fulfilled. For all of 2020, I worked out of town 3 hours away and wasn't home every weekend. Only a couple months into that year, I started rebuilding my own garage at home, so my shop was emptied out and I only had the new things I learned and did at work. That was on the weekends that my body allowed me to do more physical work (I live everyday in pain anyway). It was so nice to get back to finishing my own shop and when I got to the part of filling it back up and laying it out to work better it was really enjoyable, then came working on new or existing projects. The first half of this year, I was working and staying out of town again but also tried a relationship with someone who I have known for 10 years. Unfortunately, we have some important differences and it is back to just a friendship, but even with the focus on a relationship, I was still missing my shop.
This channel has skyrocketed faster than almost any other I can recall. Amazing craftsmanship in the shop and in the video world have both paid off tremendously. And you also happen to make some really dope stuff. So yeah, rock on!
thats an extremely satisfying and clever puzzle, from the outside it looks like magic, how the springiness from one cap is transferred across to the other
I’m not sure which I’m most impressed by: 1) the puzzle’s ingenious design 2) your superior machining skills 3) your presenting style and technique 4) your humorous approach I know: ALL THE ABOVE!! Thanks for being you, Brandon, and sharing that with us!!
I had a hard time at first understanding why the end caps had to be removable, but in the end I see the center split is just a clever diversion. That is a splendid design, beautifully executed, and very well explained.
Thanks to you, Brandon, I asked the machinist in my workplace if he could teach me how to use lathe and mill. We turned a custom sink for our children's bath tub (old plastic one was broken). I so much enjoyed the process of turning and tapping that I want to dive deeper into the subject. Being an IT guy and a hobby woodworker, getting things done in the physical world is great. You, sir, have a new subscriber. Cheers from Switzerland
Wonderful machining! It reminds me of the time when I was in the army (back in the 70's) and we had to clean our M16 rifles. At that stage, our drill sergeants hadn't fully explained how the rifles worked, so it was the perfect opportunity to figure out how the auto-sear, trigger and disconnect worked when setting the safety selector to full auto. I was quite proud to be able to figure out the amazing engineering myself. It is always a pleasure to watch your work! ❤😃
To be fair, I think you’d be sage if you were content with just being a fly on the wall. It’s the flies that get too greedy for a closer look that leave the wall and wind up papered.
I'm getting just as amazed every time I see you make your blueprints with pen and paper and not a computer program even now days! Amazing to see such precision done by hand!
I appreciate you showing the failures during the creation of this puzzle. Especially when you didn't drill the hole in the bin at the right angle, it's a small thing but it's really the true nature of creation. Making failures along the way to success is part of the proccess!
Great stuff as always. Your channel has become one of my favourites in recent years. Probably take me until Christmas to make one of these at work during my breaks. Coworkers would get a kick out of it, love to see the old dogs try and figure out how it works.
I absolutely love this! Chris Ramsay would be your ultimate tester if you continue down the rabbit hole of puzzles! He'd be the guy for sure! Awesome video! Really enjoyed the ups and downs of the process without letting the box of shame to over take and prevent you from completing this! :)
its really an incredible project. I can only imagine how much more of a puzzle it was for you making it than it ever could be for those trying to solve it. I have been playing with puzzles for as long as i can remember and have one heck of a collection. But even my most expensive puzzle doesn't compare to your beautifully thought out and executed Captive nut Puzzle. Thank you as always for sharing your process and intricate designs. Its always a pleasure.
Thanks so much, Charl! It was probably one of the trickiest mechanisms I've had to come up with to date. Second only a quadruple interlocking mechanism I had to design in my previous job. A story for another time I suppose 😁
I love your narration throughout these projects, but I have to say that the half minute of pure machining sounds at 16:10 was soo satisfying! Edit: and another at 22:33!
Awesome project. I'm impressed that you created that in your mind, worked it out in a drawing, then built it with minimal mistakes. No small feat. Great job. Cheers
The only things that I can add that hasn't ALREADY been said is I absolutely love that you go "Old School" using a drafting machine and table. It brings back dusty memories of a drafting board, t-square and triangles and sanding points on my mechanical pencils. God, I feel old.
Ok now I have watched all of your videos and some twice, I can now tell you that this my favorite RUclips channel. That being said, I never think I will have either the skill, nor the tools to be able to do anything in metal. For some reason I do love watching your channel and I think you and Old Tony are on par with each other. Can't wait for all your future videos. I am a chef so if you need any culinary tips or recipes I would love to help out.
@21:48 There’s a reason why we switched from drafting tables to CAD. Also, whenever I make a mistake, typically going to short, I’ll create a cap and cut threads on the messed up piece and the cap then just locktite (as long as it’s not necessarily structural
What I think there is a lot of work involved in doing something like that and y'all two guys toolmakers and all that especially in something like this is intricate as it is.. wow.. it's awesome
Man that thing's a beautifully crafted masterpiece. Thanks for being true to the title (Not What You Think), as I thought this was just gonna be the regular unscrew the hidden thread thing and was instead pleasantly surprised with a very interesting build. And those beautiful bronze chips!!
I just found this channel yesterday. Love it sir. My Dad is a machinists and I am planning to become one. This video was so cool and your other videos are the same. Please keep making them sir.
Finally I've watched all of your videos, it has been both informative and enjoyable. It's obvious that a lot of time and effort go into these videos, I love how they are done compared to many others I've seen. 👍
Oh my gosh your manually drafted drawings are beautiful. Maybe it's my inner hipster coming out but old fashion drafting is something i can appreciate the beauty in
Every single one of your videos are so interesting to watch but I have to say, your tool-making videos are my favourite. That said, most of your videos are tool-making so…
Great video, I loved the puzzle. Couldn't figure it out on my own so I'm glad you explained it for dummies like me, hah. I love all the little bits and skits you put into your videos, and the segue to Brilliant was great. You're really coming into your own and feeling more comfortable on camera. I can't wait for your next video.
Thank you so much for being a content creator. I find your videos educational, entertaining and mostly calming. It's never been easier to get my kids to fall asleep by playing one of your videos, and in a few minutes, they are out.
What a amazing birthday gift! Thanks for the awesome work and production, Brendon. It's always a joy to watch your videos and learn a little about the art that is machining. Stay safe and keep the good work.
Combine the satisfaction of machining, pretty solid video making, the right style of humor, math and designing and you have the right formula for instant follow and binge watching the entire uploads. Plus the right amount of fails and how to fix it gives me (never machined before, I'm used to work with death screeching banshees (wood working machines) a somewhat good understanding where to focus my thoughts when doing my first project in my girlfriend's father's machine shop. The gd&t is such a good resource to understand tolerances and helps also a ton. And seeing you hand drafting gave me the urge to do the same, it's so meditative. I'm surprised I say this because in my training as a carpenter when I had to hand draft I dreaded it. I'm looking forward for future projects and videos to come. Have a great one :)
I just bought a lathe last week after a lot of "research" (i.e. a couple years of watching youtube videos), and now I am looking at this video with an eye for how every step is done rather than why every step is done. The immediate change of thought process is kinda cool and I look forward to going through it with your videos as an inspiration on where to go next.
I just started watching, and it looks so much like my first lathe/mill project from a year ago inspired by one of the ThisOldTony's video. I'll passionately watch how did you went over this one. Edit: Wow! If mine was level 1 of this contraption, this is level 7. The precisions here are mindboggling, such a slick, tidy and intricate design. I bow to your superior skills and knowledge of machining. Thanks a lot!
The design process of this contraption must have been a massive mental undertaking. You have a gift for integrating requirements of design and order of operations in machining. I love how you demonstrate basic principles of geometry and physics in your video presentation. A job very well done. 🥇🏆✌🏻
Amazing project, i loved how you used so many new camera angles thanks to the camera gantry you made some time ago. My favorite angle was the top view of the lathe.
0:27 Yes I paused the video to say that I was ready to close the video and move on to something interesting, but then you said 14 pieces to that puzzle and then I was glue to screen and ready to click play again!
That is a pretty well designed puzzle. It is relatively easy once you know how but seemingly impossible beforehand. But not too hard that you can't stumble upon the correct steps.
I’ve never seen better editing on iMovie the intro song fits well with this channel please keep it even if you change to a different editor! 😊 this channel is the perfect mix of helpful and entertaining an absolute hidden gem
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Please make a video making the Diamond Tool Holder that holds a piece of HSS on an angle that only requires one grind.
I'd like to point out that when you realized that the 2 nuts had uneven spacing it would have probably been easier to just machine away some of the threads instead of moving the J channel. Either way it looks great.
@@bdkj3e Thanks! I've gotten this suggestion a lot and there was actually another constraint with the key pin mechanism under that cap, so the slot correction was the only answer without more changes. Though I didn't realize this at the time so I got kind of lucky 😆
i love how we all slowly realize it is a brilliant integration before he mentions it
IM finally makes something that isn't more tools for his shop, and it's a completely frivolous toy. I absolutely love it
You forgot the pen
@@rebmcr *and wallet.
Surely anything that isn't a machine shop tool is by definition a frivolous toy?? :P
@@rebmcr Usable in the shop.
@@Warped65er Used to buy things for the shop.
Many builds on this channel can pretend they were made because they were useful, and not because you just wanted to make them. This is the strictest abider to the old maker's creed: he who dies with the most toys wins.
Satiating my whims is useful as well 😂
Because I can....that's been the mantra of my 30s that a friend of mine just didn't understand...while he's in the process of rebuilding a small airplane that has no material benefit to his life.
I'm more of a chemistry nerd, and yes we do a lot of things just because we can, to prove that we can, and to gain better insight into the process rhat we can lord over others.
"For the next step, a sample of sodium was introduced to the chlorine generator because my employer ran out of table salt in the cafeteria."@@nunyabisnass1141
I also build shit because I can. I've been watching this channel to bring my skill and finishing up to the sort of level on manual machines. I'm not a machinist but I do enough manual Machining at work to be proficient. The finish quality on his work is what gets me.
Funny, my signature on a gun forum, I used to post on all the time on, is "He who dies with the most tools/toys wins!" I chose it because repairing, building, fabricating, and designing is just what I do. When I was at a summer program as a kid sitting with animated movies playing to entertain other kids, I was designing a work bench with oxy acetylene hoses, extension cords, and air hoses all built in. My dad did a lot in the garage, although he was a meat cutter by trade and his dad was a tool and die maker for the aerospace industry. As a kid, I put a rocking lawn chair on my red wagon, like dad put the camper on the truck for vacation. Of course, dad's electrical solder worked well to wire in the "lights" on that setup. As a kid, I took a lot of things apart and started fixing them by time I was 12 or 13 years old. I could have bought a manual bullet casting machine and automated it like others. Instead, I built my own from scratch with a 100 pound lead capacity because I could one up their 40-70 pound pots and I wanted to further my fabrication skills. It is almost all tig welded instead of mig welded as well....because I knew it would be a challenge. It isn't perfect but I was working on it today, buy using a better pneumatic cylinder that is more controllable. There are some short videos on my channel, but I'm not a youtuber.
I love that your video intros are always about the video we are about to watch and not the same intro over and over. It's the extra things that set you and your craftsmanship apart.
Reminds me of mission impossible.
To be completely honest that's exactly why I skip them. I don't want to be spoiled about the video I'm about to watch.
Yet, without clickbait! Brilliant!
I totally agree. Hate watching multiple videos and seeing the same into.
There's something strangely beautiful about a chamfered hexagon.
I know right...
Hexagons are the bestagons! CGP Grey taught us! ruclips.net/video/thOifuHs6eY/видео.html
Chamfered hexagons are the bestagons
@@ScriptCodedwhat about chamfered pentagons? Or septagon? Or octagon? Or nonagon? Okay, this is getting stupid now, and I’m just being an a$$hole.
@@joesmith1574 We all know that...
...hexagons are the bestagons 😉
As a guy who loves puzzles, I can tell you that this is an amazing puzzle. It's innovative, well built and the solution is so unique that anyone would have fun while solving it. Also would have loved to see the assembly of the puzzle.
Thanks a lot! And doh! How did I not think to show that 🤦♂
@@InheritanceMachining addendum video?
Hey bud, I strongly request you make an unpickable lock and send it to lockpickinglawyer! It’ll be like the unstoppable force meeting the immovable object 🤩
Stuff made here did it already
@@Vanilla_Icecream1231 yeah, it was a good attempt. But this guy has the minerals to defeat him.
🤔
To make an unpickable lock, all he has to do is make it so the lock doesn't even use a key, or anything other than the one puzzle solution to get it to open.
Another way to make an unpickable lock is to just make a lock that never opens unless you destroy it. But that would be rude.
@@InheritanceMachining OOOOOOOO LEGGOOOOO
Just for the record: When I weed-wack my sidewalk, I now internally refer to it as 'chamfering my lawn". Thank you. :)
LOL, 😂
I paused my work day to watch a 27 minute video about machining a puzzle... that's some captivating content.
But if the content is captivating. And we are thus being held captive.
Does that mean we are all nuts?
😮
@@VYR1985mind. blown.
😁 Thanks!
Bronze nuts👍👌🇦🇺
Gotta respect a guy who still uses a drawing board! I designed a log house a while back on the computer, then built the house. The house had a front porch that went the length of the house. It also had a couple of dormers on the roof. The dormer that was above the living room had to line up with the double window that was below since the living room was open all the way to the peak of the roof with an open loft on the back side of the house. Since it was all opened I built up scaffolding in the living room to make it safer and easier to work on the ceiling and build the dormer and finish it on the inside. We finally got finished and it was time to remove the scaffolding. I was pretty excited to go up on the loft and and take in the final result. My heart sank. The two windows were not aligned. You couldn't not see it. Here you have this beautiful tongue and groove ceiling with exposed beams and a massive stone fireplace and all you can see is the two windows not lining up. They were six inches off. I went back and measured everything according to the plans. The dimension for the lower window was wrong and I never caught it. It took me a long hard day to fix that screw up. And yes, I had to remove and put in new logs and cut logs to move the window over on a house that already had a roof on. The point is, I know the frustration of building something from the plans only to find out one of the dimensions was wrong.
This has become one of my favorite channels. You have great skills and a nice sense of humor all at once. Thanks for the wonderful entertainment. 👍
Much appreciated 😊
it's like BOM of machining channels its great
I am really thankful that you started doing RUclips and that I found you, especially since you live so close to me in Louisville. Even though I watch a couple of Maker RUclipsrs, you talking about how you inherited all his Machining tools and such. It got me inspired to get my career back to where I wanted to go when I graduated from Speed School in Mechanical specializing in Tooling. I now have a job as a Flat Die Tooling Engineer and already love it 10x more than my previous job as a general contractor/project manager. I don't know what it is but moving heavy metal and cutting parts down the the tenths just feels so good. This company started back in the 50's and they're still a little slow to progress and still have a lot of the old drafted blueprints that were done by hand and seeing you do it just makes it all the more better
Hey man! Im really glad to hear that! For something we spend half out waking hours doing (our jobs), might as well enjoy it, right?
Im sure its been said before but I really appreciate the clearly hand-written closed captions. They’re so well paced and just absolutely perfect. Your work is not unnoticed. Have yourself another gold star 🌟
Thank you 😊 Though I will share that I pay a service to put those together. I wouldn't have the patience for that 😂
@@InheritanceMachining
Whether you do them or pay someone to do them, the fact that you don’t use the poor-quality auto-generated captions reflects how much you care about the quality of your work, both in and outside of the shop. 🌟
27 Minutes of excellent craftsmanship ahead, lets go!
I'm so glad that someone as talented as yourself is also capable of making "dumb" mistakes. Makes me feel significantly better about scrapping parts for my own projects 😆. Thanks for sharing all your projects with us and making them so intersting!
Was the original J too big to make another rotated one?
@@NOLAfugeewhat you mean whit "making another rotated one" both J had to be in the same direction, i suppose he could had moved both 90° but that would still entail a new end cap part
@@link7417 the nut isn't an octagon. If there was room on the shaft to make another J and still line everything up, I guess he would have done that.
@@NOLAfugeefair fair
With mistakes come experience! Though hopefully by showing them others wont repeat them haha Thanks!
I love this. It shows your skills at both machining and mechanical design, without being overly complex in either aspect.
Thanks, man! 😁
Very devious!
I'd really love to see a left-hand thread for the internal joint. Almost everyone will try a typical unscrewing motion for the first move, so they'd be cranking the two halves together even harder.
Congrats on a beauty.
Thanks! That might be worth adding!
i love how you actually explain what each step of the process is for
You should send this to Chris Ramsay. I'm sure he'd have fun attempting to solve this.
I was gonna say the same thing!
Really love that puzzle, I'm especially impressed by the both mechanical and executional complexity you thought of
Thanks! Took a lot of stumbling around in the dark but I eventually stumbled onto something 😂
The mark of a professional hobby machinist channel is making a nut puzzle...So congratulations on becoming a pro🎉. 😂 Love your videos and hope to see you on the machinist Secret Santa. I especially Love that you keep your grandfather his legacy alive and sharing it with the world, i also love that you keep your mistakes.
I would also like to ask if you'll do a Q&A at a subscriber milestone and will you do a giveaway of the parts in the box of shame or will you make a bigger Chest 'O shame in the future?
With love from the Netherlands. Mekki😊
It's actually really inspiring to see both your failures, and your reaction to them. I work as a prototype technician, essentially making one offs in a workshop all day long. People often ask me, seeing how much I curse and emote during my work day, why I do this if I don't enjoy it. While it's frustrating to scrap a part, it's still the most rewarding job I can imagine. I get to make cool stuff every day!
That's exactly right! We only get mad because it's something we care deeply about in the first place.
@@InheritanceMachining yes! That's a really good way of putting it!
It is a ton of work to be a craftsman and tradesman who does similar things for hobby and sometimes I wonder why I do it for fun too. For one, I already have the tools and skill, but if I just do simple mind numbing trade work for weeks or months on end and don't get to do more creative design, repair, or fabrication, I don't feel fulfilled. For all of 2020, I worked out of town 3 hours away and wasn't home every weekend. Only a couple months into that year, I started rebuilding my own garage at home, so my shop was emptied out and I only had the new things I learned and did at work. That was on the weekends that my body allowed me to do more physical work (I live everyday in pain anyway). It was so nice to get back to finishing my own shop and when I got to the part of filling it back up and laying it out to work better it was really enjoyable, then came working on new or existing projects. The first half of this year, I was working and staying out of town again but also tried a relationship with someone who I have known for 10 years. Unfortunately, we have some important differences and it is back to just a friendship, but even with the focus on a relationship, I was still missing my shop.
This channel has skyrocketed faster than almost any other I can recall. Amazing craftsmanship in the shop and in the video world have both paid off tremendously. And you also happen to make some really dope stuff. So yeah, rock on!
😁 Thanks a lot, man!
thats an extremely satisfying and clever puzzle, from the outside it looks like magic, how the springiness from one cap is transferred across to the other
Thanks! That's one of my favorite aspects
I love it. Now the multi start threads from an earlier post makes perfect sense. This is sadistically brilliant.
😁 Thanks, Clyde!
I just love your honesty in showing your mistakes, it makes you a very special person. Thanks.
I’m not sure which I’m most impressed by:
1) the puzzle’s ingenious design
2) your superior machining skills
3) your presenting style and technique
4) your humorous approach
I know: ALL THE ABOVE!!
Thanks for being you, Brandon, and sharing that with us!!
Mr Puzzle would be proud of this puzzle. Beautifully machined
Thanks!
I WANT ONE! Huge fan of puzzles. Have a few of them, specifically look for ones with a nice feel and design. Especially if made from metal.
I had a hard time at first understanding why the end caps had to be removable, but in the end I see the center split is just a clever diversion. That is a splendid design, beautifully executed, and very well explained.
😁 Thanks a lot, Ron!
I love these nut puzzles! I'll have to watch this one a few times!
Thanks to you, Brandon, I asked the machinist in my workplace if he could teach me how to use lathe and mill. We turned a custom sink for our children's bath tub (old plastic one was broken). I so much enjoyed the process of turning and tapping that I want to dive deeper into the subject. Being an IT guy and a hobby woodworker, getting things done in the physical world is great. You, sir, have a new subscriber. Cheers from Switzerland
That's great! I love hearing that. Thanks for sharing and welcome!
Wonderful machining! It reminds me of the time when I was in the army (back in the 70's) and we had to clean our M16 rifles. At that stage, our drill sergeants hadn't fully explained how the rifles worked, so it was the perfect opportunity to figure out how the auto-sear, trigger and disconnect worked when setting the safety selector to full auto. I was quite proud to be able to figure out the amazing engineering myself.
It is always a pleasure to watch your work! ❤😃
No better way to learn than taking it apart 😁 thanks Richard!
Thank you for being very upfront and clear about what your channel is like. No clickybaity nonsense or beating around the bush.
I used to want to be a fly on the wall in this shop until I saw the flypaper at 4:28!
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To be fair, I think you’d be sage if you were content with just being a fly on the wall. It’s the flies that get too greedy for a closer look that leave the wall and wind up papered.
bro 😂
I'm getting just as amazed every time I see you make your blueprints with pen and paper and not a computer program even now days! Amazing to see such precision done by hand!
This is the first Brilliant ad read I have fully watched in some time.
The only other ones that I don’t skip through are from zefrank (the True Facts guy). Those are hilarious!
Mission accomplished! Thanks a lot!
You clearly have a passion for designing and machining. Never lose this.
Watching this at 1:25Am on a rainy night. Best thing to happen. Thank you for your high quality content ❤
😁 My pleasure! Thanks
I appreciate you showing the failures during the creation of this puzzle. Especially when you didn't drill the hole in the bin at the right angle, it's a small thing but it's really the true nature of creation. Making failures along the way to success is part of the proccess!
3:45 I KNEW IT 😂😂
Great stuff as always. Your channel has become one of my favourites in recent years. Probably take me until Christmas to make one of these at work during my breaks. Coworkers would get a kick out of it, love to see the old dogs try and figure out how it works.
And thank you as always! If you end up making one I'd love to see how it turns out
I absolutely love this! Chris Ramsay would be your ultimate tester if you continue down the rabbit hole of puzzles! He'd be the guy for sure! Awesome video! Really enjoyed the ups and downs of the process without letting the box of shame to over take and prevent you from completing this! :)
Thanks a lot! I might just have to make him one!
Alwasys a pleasure watching those videos, greetings from Germany
Thanks!
Beautifully made trinket. There are puzzlers on RUclips that might love an opportunity to play with this, food for thought.
Thanks! I'm considering it!
its really an incredible project. I can only imagine how much more of a puzzle it was for you making it than it ever could be for those trying to solve it. I have been playing with puzzles for as long as i can remember and have one heck of a collection. But even my most expensive puzzle doesn't compare to your beautifully thought out and executed Captive nut Puzzle. Thank you as always for sharing your process and intricate designs. Its always a pleasure.
Thanks so much, Charl! It was probably one of the trickiest mechanisms I've had to come up with to date. Second only a quadruple interlocking mechanism I had to design in my previous job. A story for another time I suppose 😁
I think I speak for all subscribers when I say we want to hear that story
I love your narration throughout these projects, but I have to say that the half minute of pure machining sounds at 16:10 was soo satisfying!
Edit: and another at 22:33!
Gotta dribble in some of the reason we're all here 😁
Just beautiful. Love watching your videos. I took a few semesters of machine shop decades ago and I really enjoy watching the processes.
Thanks a lot! You are lucky to have that opportunity. Hardly a shop class exists anymore!
What a treat. I was just wondering when the next video would drop.
Amazing! I don't think I could get it back together after taking it apart. Good job.
haha it's not too bad! Thanks
Great video beautiful work
Thanks!
Awesome project. I'm impressed that you created that in your mind, worked it out in a drawing, then built it with minimal mistakes. No small feat. Great job. Cheers
It didn't come without its own bits of pain. But thank you a lot!
Brilliant! If I were to get a box of shame I would need a shipping container. Cheers, Stuart 🇦🇺
I wanted to say the same thing but your comment was more clever 😂
@@earlfinn5489 Thanks Earl👍
This was the most entertaining build you've done yet. I did not expect this thing to be that complicated .
Thanks, Brian! I didn;t expect it to be this complicated either when I started 😂
As a European I have to say your friend has awesome accent
The only things that I can add that hasn't ALREADY been said is I absolutely love that you go "Old School" using a drafting machine and table. It brings back dusty memories of a drafting board, t-square and triangles and sanding points on my mechanical pencils. God, I feel old.
Frickin sweet!
Ok now I have watched all of your videos and some twice, I can now tell you that this my favorite RUclips channel. That being said, I never think I will have either the skill, nor the tools to be able to do anything in metal. For some reason I do love watching your channel and I think you and Old Tony are on par with each other. Can't wait for all your future videos. I am a chef so if you need any culinary tips or recipes I would love to help out.
It would be a cool collab to send this to Mr. Puzzle (assuming he hasn't already seen the build video).
@21:48 There’s a reason why we switched from drafting tables to CAD. Also, whenever I make a mistake, typically going to short, I’ll create a cap and cut threads on the messed up piece and the cap then just locktite (as long as it’s not necessarily structural
Thanks for another video 👍
Thanks for watching!
27 Minutes of excellent craftsmanship ahead, lets go!. Mr Puzzle would be proud of this puzzle. Beautifully machined.
Thanks!
I kinda want one now. Do you release blueprints to Patreon?
Thanks for watching! The drawings are on Patreon or you can get them directly in the drawing store here.
inheritancemachining.com/?product=captivenut
What I think there is a lot of work involved in doing something like that and y'all two guys toolmakers and all that especially in something like this is intricate as it is.. wow.. it's awesome
Okay, that is a super cool mechanism! Fantastic video!
thanks!
Man that thing's a beautifully crafted masterpiece. Thanks for being true to the title (Not What You Think), as I thought this was just gonna be the regular unscrew the hidden thread thing and was instead pleasantly surprised with a very interesting build. And those beautiful bronze chips!!
Can we crowd source some O'Keeffe's hand cream for you? @5:30
I just found this channel yesterday. Love it sir. My Dad is a machinists and I am planning to become one. This video was so cool and your other videos are the same. Please keep making them sir.
Love to hear it. Thanks, man!
Yes sir.
My only disappointment with this video is that Lock Picking Lawyer wasn't your first test subject
😂 we're not on a first name basis (yet)
Finally I've watched all of your videos, it has been both informative and enjoyable. It's obvious that a lot of time and effort go into these videos, I love how they are done compared to many others I've seen. 👍
😁 Thanks a lot, man!
YAY! My disappointment is nonexistent, and my day has just been made exponentially better.
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It's really beautiful, I like how the mechanism work and the sound it makes when you free the bronze nut!
Brandon got a sponsor!
woot woot!
Your videos get the same attention to detail as your machining, and are gorgeous.
I want to be the first one! wow man! I love mechanical puzzles!!
Oh my gosh your manually drafted drawings are beautiful. Maybe it's my inner hipster coming out but old fashion drafting is something i can appreciate the beauty in
Every single one of your videos are so interesting to watch but I have to say, your tool-making videos are my favourite. That said, most of your videos are tool-making so…
Guilty 😂 Thanks a lot!
Elegantly beautiful, and beautifully elegant. Love your gentle explanation, and your willingness to show us the oops moments.
Thanks, Kris!
Great video, I loved the puzzle. Couldn't figure it out on my own so I'm glad you explained it for dummies like me, hah.
I love all the little bits and skits you put into your videos, and the segue to Brilliant was great. You're really coming into your own and feeling more comfortable on camera. I can't wait for your next video.
Thanks so much! I appreciate the encouragement!
All I can say is it was like watching my dad work. Thanks so much for sharing and the memories it brought back. Cheers.
Thank you so much for being a content creator. I find your videos educational, entertaining and mostly calming. It's never been easier to get my kids to fall asleep by playing one of your videos, and in a few minutes, they are out.
I'll bet they are having lucid dreams about lathes and mills haha thanks!
The blind machining and looking at the part instead of the readout is hilarious. love the commentary.
15:25 - You missed an opportunity to tape a string on the lid and make the Box of Shame look like he was eating that piece..... 😂🤣
😂 I should have!
What a amazing birthday gift! Thanks for the awesome work and production, Brendon. It's always a joy to watch your videos and learn a little about the art that is machining. Stay safe and keep the good work.
Thanks man! And Happy Birthday!
@@InheritanceMachining Thank you!
you make this expert skill look easy. truly a master at work.
Combine the satisfaction of machining, pretty solid video making, the right style of humor, math and designing and you have the right formula for instant follow and binge watching the entire uploads.
Plus the right amount of fails and how to fix it gives me (never machined before, I'm used to work with death screeching banshees (wood working machines) a somewhat good understanding where to focus my thoughts when doing my first project in my girlfriend's father's machine shop. The gd&t is such a good resource to understand tolerances and helps also a ton.
And seeing you hand drafting gave me the urge to do the same, it's so meditative. I'm surprised I say this because in my training as a carpenter when I had to hand draft I dreaded it.
I'm looking forward for future projects and videos to come.
Have a great one :)
I just bought a lathe last week after a lot of "research" (i.e. a couple years of watching youtube videos), and now I am looking at this video with an eye for how every step is done rather than why every step is done. The immediate change of thought process is kinda cool and I look forward to going through it with your videos as an inspiration on where to go next.
That's pretty interesting. Congrats on the purchase! And thanks for the support!
I love little puzzles like this one. Glad to see innovation on them.
I just started watching, and it looks so much like my first lathe/mill project from a year ago inspired by one of the ThisOldTony's video. I'll passionately watch how did you went over this one.
Edit: Wow! If mine was level 1 of this contraption, this is level 7. The precisions here are mindboggling, such a slick, tidy and intricate design. I bow to your superior skills and knowledge of machining. Thanks a lot!
You should have a go at this one too! It's not too bad 😊 Thanks!
19:07 Is that an illusion or is the smooth shank on both sides of the thread a different diameter? The left side looks fractionally larger.
I think it's an illusion. They are probably within a couple tenths in diameter haha
The design process of this contraption must have been a massive mental undertaking. You have a gift for integrating requirements of design and order of operations in machining. I love how you demonstrate basic principles of geometry and physics in your video presentation. A job very well done. 🥇🏆✌🏻
You are amazing. I am so excited that ive found your channel this early in your journey. Fantastic work as always!
You are kind! Thank you so much and welcome
Amazing project, i loved how you used so many new camera angles thanks to the camera gantry you made some time ago. My favorite angle was the top view of the lathe.
Thanks! Yeah I don't what what I would do without the gantry. I'm so spoiled!
0:27 Yes I paused the video to say that I was ready to close the video and move on to something interesting, but then you said 14 pieces to that puzzle and then I was glue to screen and ready to click play again!
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That is a pretty well designed puzzle. It is relatively easy once you know how but seemingly impossible beforehand. But not too hard that you can't stumble upon the correct steps.
Thanks!
I am speechless. Nice video editing too.
😁 Thanks!
what a beautiful set of different elements.. thank you for sharing!
Love that you earned some ads/sponsors, you deserve it! Well done!
Thanks so much!
I’ve never seen better editing on iMovie the intro song fits well with this channel please keep it even if you change to a different editor! 😊 this channel is the perfect mix of helpful and entertaining an absolute hidden gem
A rather clever mechanism masterfully created. Bravo, sir. Thank you for bringing us along!
Thanks, Mike!