Yeah that was a single bag of fixings. If you think that represents reasonable value you must also believe Joe Biden is the leader of the free world. And makes all the decisions. 🤦🏻♂️😂 Are you fully china vaxed and" boostered "also?
@@inventiveowl395 Oh yeah, that makes sense! :) BTW, mokume gane is like damascus steel, but with softer metals like copper, bronze or brass, not an alloy :) I think it's still called the same, even if it's not copper based metals.
Not to mention material certs and traceability.... I've seen torx fasteners with a roughly $600 cost to manufacture. Who knows what they were sold for.
and keep track of witch batch of metal was used to make each bolt. And which machines made each bolt. And how many bolts the consumable parts of said machines have been used to make. And, and, and, and...
@@OperatorMittensactually it's based on who the aircraft manufacturer says you can get the part from. Airbus for example has a seal that is manufactured in the US then shipped to Europe to be repackaged then shipped back to the US government. They will not allow the government to buy the parts direct from that manufacturer at a lower cost because theyre not "certified parts".
Sooooooo. I work in military aviation. Hardware that is for critical applications go through robust quality control steps. From metallurgy, dimensional, heat treatment and non-destructive inspection, the quality control is what makes parts expensive.
0:13 Well, Those simple little fixings AREN'T that expensive. That's the entire point of the hearing. They're not worth $90,000, they're worth like $100, but being sold to the MILITARY for $90,000 when civilians can purchase the SAME thing for a couple dollars. It's basically a scam. 1:26 YES! ABSOLUTELY it will cut wood. Why? I smashed some thread into a colored pencil by twisting a nut onto it, and it made perfect wooden threads. A sharp enough metal die should easily be able to replicate this feat. Edit* it also depends on the orientation of the wood.
For everything the infantry uses yes it's low quality from the lowest bidder because it's considered disposable. Aircraft and such is on the opposite end of quality standards.
Alec has never heard of US government corruption if he thinks that bag of bushings actually cost 90k. It’s $100 for the bushings and $89,900 for the buy off to someone
There is no reason in hell why a bag of bushings should cost that much. We are about to learn that, but Alec is going to try and play devil's advocate first.
aeroplane parts you pay _a lot_ extra for the paper trail - so if it fails you can find out why, who caused and also where else parts of that lot were used so it can be replaced. 90k still seems very expensive though.
It’s not the material cost that makes military parts so expensive, it’s all the paperwork and overhead to document that the part legally meets military specification. Material certification and traceability, manufacturing certification, first article inspections, etc. there’s a whole ecosystem of paper-pushing-people set up to document and track everything. That and the general inefficiency that surrounds every big corporation. If I drop and lose a screw during assembly it can take a day or more to get a replacement- assuming that extras have been stocked. Go to the project planner to get a request issued to the stockroom, document the disposition of the original screw (dropped and lost), request goes into the stockroom queue to be filled, part delivered with new documentation as soon as the overworked stockroom can get to it. It is unbelievably inefficient, but the traceability and documentation is legally required by the military.
Yeap the military and the secret service paperwork is the worst due to the cost. Like 70% of bolts, screws, cables and other stuff is the same that we can buy at a store or even online. There are some goods that need a specific standard in the construction of the plane, the boat or the tank etc. but some good department stores also could be a replacement.
That still doesnt add up to $90,000. If the system is so horribly efficient that 70-80% of the military budget cant be accounted for, the whole system needs to be torn down and started over
If you have ever done government work you would know why it is so expensive. The paperwork is a pain and must be completed just right. Then once you finally get the paperwork in and correct time to sit back and wait forever to get paid. When I did construction work for the government I would charge more for a door knob and installation than the entire door. I made my money by extremely inflating the easy and cheap work.
the cost is also supposed to breed quality which often isn't the case. the manufacturers know how much it's being sold for at the end of the day and have a guilt based obligation to stick to a quality assurance level.
We use some aluminium bronze m5 screws for bits at work, they go for about £500 a go 🤯 Also if you can arrange a visit to Tapex threaded insert factory in Stratford upon Avon. You’ll be able to see some amazing manufacturing of fasteners by a British company at a mass production level!
I've worked in medical, and the military are similar. you can only buy from approved suppliers who have to supply a certificate of conformance on everything they provide.. so as these suppliers know you can only buy from them, the prices go up. Once got sent to the US to get a part modified, the contracter we used, was welding 20 foam tips for us. but his manufacturing facility was inside one of the US military giants.. $15000 for 3 hours work, because we could only use him.
You completely misunderstand. It's a hearing in the American senate about procurement costs for the military. And why defense contracting and the bureaucracy around it is designed in such a way to exploit the government financially. Simple terms why is a bag of bolt priced at 90000usd for the military but it's the same bolts you can buy in your local store for 50cent each. So no it has nothing to do with golden bolts 🤦
So, your first instinct to use a die on the wood was the correct instinct. You just need three different sizes and progressively. The last die is actually blunt and rounded, the idea of this is the last pass actually burnishes the wood into shape which increases it's strength substantially. If you get a wooden dowel and just thread it through a nut you'll see wooden created without even cutting any material off.
The irony that having a hand carved wooden bolt, from a blacksmith, probably makes it the most valuable in the rarity sense as he may never make anything else that's purely woodworking, making it the only truly unique piece from Alec
Checkout the crash of Partnair Flight 394 which due to forged spare parts crashed off the coast of Denmark. The accident had a huge impact on entire aviation, civilian and military. Truckloads of paperwork to ensure no forged bolt will ever cause another crash. With all the associated cost of piles of paper and the pencil pushers to authenticate every part.
Sadly I know why that one bag of 100/1lb (standard sizes for NSN small parts typically has those quantities of each) bushings costs $90,000... and, its Congress Members own damn fault. Every CONgress member DEMANDS a portion of the Defense Product be made in their Congressional District, so manufacturing is disjointed and requires a frickken Herculean amount of Logistics Transport. The Customer, read Arm of the Military like USAF or Air Army or Air Navy (Air Marines use Air Navy Logistics since its in DoN for that aspect) want one thing and give the Primary Contractor a laundry list of wants, needs and desires....and every 3 months some Ossifer who wants to add a star to their tabs decides to insist on their pet thing, some some of them aspire to be CONgress Critters one day and make the BIG $$$$$$ in bribes. So you end up having an ever changing build of materials. Then there is the actual Science, no putting a gold plated Trump style toilet on a helicopter its stupid and heavy and in all the worlds helicopters the ones with traditional Western toilets with a water tank and waste tank is heavy, but the shear weight of the water required is insane! As for small parts that cost that much, or tools that cost similar, they are made out of Unobtainium, or a highly dangerous material, or the actual forming/machining is esoteric in nature, all of which means only ONE company in the US holds the necessary FAA and DoD, DoN, etc. required Certifications, Qualifications and abilities to both produce the required part in the numbers required....and....if its for say and F-22 Raptor or a B-2 Spirit the total numbers produced in Military Circles make them 'Orphan Aircraft' with few flying examples which means that the companies making even the small parts for those two aircraft in order to both see a profit and be able to keep the doors open for the life of the project the parts, much like parts for a Ferrari, McLaren, or Lamborghini which cost an arm, leg, spleen, first born, second born and everything in the bank plus your eye teeth. So yeah, a bag of small consumable parts costs $90,000. Hell, on the A-7E Corsair II the Intake Lip Antennas are packaged individually with a screw in a plastic cage, in paper, in a box, sealed foil barrier, in paper, in a box, sealed foil barrier, in paper, in a box, sealed foil barrier, in a box. So a 1/4 inch by 3/8 inch ended up in a box 12 x 12 x12 and one aircraft took about 143 (if memory serves) screws. We got a NavAir Rapid Message requiring us to replace every one of those screws in our 123 aircraft......... we emptied the East and West Coast warehouses, a total of 12 Semi Trucks, and only fitted half of our aircraft. the cost was close to $500,000 for just screws.
A brilliant upload, good fun! We need another round, this time making a nut and bolt of ridiculous proportions, say a M80 x 240 hex bolt👍‼️ Keep doing what you do!
90.000$ because of the price of developing the aircraft. Very few aircrafts in the USAF are "off-the-shelf". They are designed, developped and built in a limited number. The price reflects that, not the price of the bolts.
This was the bomber program we used to hide the Stealth bomber program. There were no actual $700 hammers and $10k toilet seats. It was the F-117 nighthawk
Next video's gonna be "I made bolts from the whole periodic table" And the thumbnail would have a glowing radioactive bolt with the text "URANIUM" next to it. This one was a fun watch tho :)
NGL Alec...with the wooden bolt construction, this makes me want to see a mechanical build using nothing but wood, and machining tools, not woodworking tools.
By selling the bolt at the cost of silver, you've shown how you value your work! I hope you leave that gold bolt though, the idea you have £5,000 hidden in the ground tickles me.
Hey Alec what are the chances you’d be up to revisit making a folding knife. I remember the first attempt you did was a multi video series. Would be cool to see how your skills have progressed
Alec, Off topic, but I know what would be a fun challenge for you, if you made something from Wootz steel or true Damascus, ive seen it done i think you’ll love it… Or you’ll pull your hair out lol
Alec, Off topic, but I know what would be a fun challenge for you, if you made something from Wootz steel or true Damascus, ive seen it done i think you’ll love it… Or you’ll pull your hair out lol
There is a reason it costs this much. They didn't order enough initially. Probably had to bring a machine out of a storage. Re hire the maintenance tech. Re hire the operator. And they are not going to leave their new jobs and come back without a great bonus. Gotta get certified metal. Do the run. Not destructive and non destructive testing. These need to meet FAA and DOD testing standards. A batch may have failed. The key here is planning. If this is a wear item. Don't order 1 bag. Order 100. Price per unit will drop.
I've seen thread pressing / rolling for spokes. I'm not sure if they make them for 10mm but I'd imagine it'd be the beat process for threading soft metals.
Ok 5 materials is a great start. Now keep going I would love to see you do Damascus and different metals and resin and maybe even stabilized pinecones?
Just remember that every single bolt, rivet, nut, and every other fastener and part in an aircraft is heavily inspected and certified by the manufacturer. The part isn’t necessarily the extremely expensive part. The paperwork is.
tbf with the us military, contractors charge an arm and a leg for everything bc they know the military is just going to pay without asking questions. It's a horrible waste of taxpayer money but a great profit for the contractors :/
Don’t get crazy on me I’m pretty sure it’s so much cuz the people who make it can have it any price. The us military gonna buy it anyway so the company can make hella profit it’s a monopoly but it’s not talked about that much
Quite a thing to ruin such a beautiful piece of Wood. But to just have it stored for no purpose is not good as well. I don't know a lot about wood, but I would guess it was Walnut or something even more exotic.
In the free market, an item is worth what an individual will pay for it. In the government, an item is worth what a corrupt politician can plunder the treasury for it.
Is anything on any of your websites in stock? Having 4 different ones is sooo confusing and a waste of time for us the consumer and no wonder you dont update them if its 4 x the work. Can you at least link them for people in the description of your video? You seem to have the same list every week anyway how hard is it to add that?
I can't say what the fair price for that bag of bushings really is, but it's important to note that a lot of that price is quality assurance. These parts are tested and checked to very high standards because a defect could kill somebody.
It’s humorous that you left out the cost of your time. I guarantee if I wanted you to make me another wooden bolt, you’d charge me the same if not more than what I’d spend at a store for 100 regular bolts.
rule of thumb for aeroplane parts get the price of the same part for car and then add a zero to it
The bag held up IS a bag of airplane parts. Stilll not worth 90k xD
Yeah that was a single bag of fixings. If you think that represents reasonable value you must also believe Joe Biden is the leader of the free world. And makes all the decisions. 🤦🏻♂️😂 Are you fully china vaxed and" boostered "also?
only 1 zero?
@@cerealport2726 you add another 0 when you go from airplane part to military grade for the same thing
thats the rule for boat planes you add 2 zeros
boats stand for Bust Out Another Thousand
How much wood could a wood bolt bolt if a wood bolt could bolt wood?
*How much wood would a wood bolt bolt if a wood bolt would bolt wood?
You didn't want to check to see if Oliver C. wanted to buy the $5,000 gold bolt?
Yay, can’t wait to get my bolts!
Also we need an update in a few years of how the gold bolt lasts.
Edit yes I did dox myself
You should make a frame and mount all the bolts of various materials on it as a nice display piece
Did you also go for the gold one, or did he not sell it?
@@ESTrashfire13 Jamie said they won’t sell it because of shipping + insurance costs as well as tax
@@cocodojo yes it is planned, a nice heat bent swept acrylic frame with a walnut base.
Future video idea! Forging a sheer for your shop.
Why no Damascus bolt???????? Between silver and gold ?? Come on it would be the best one
That would technically be mokume gane, I think, and I think those metals are too mechanically different to work together.
@@bjrn-oskarrnning2740 He meant steel damascus that would be priced between the silver and gold bolts. Not a bolt made of silver and gold alloy :D
@@inventiveowl395 Oh yeah, that makes sense! :)
BTW, mokume gane is like damascus steel, but with softer metals like copper, bronze or brass, not an alloy :) I think it's still called the same, even if it's not copper based metals.
There's a mokugame video in the back catalogue.
And I'm sure there was a small block of it left after Alec finished making belt buckles iirc...
You skipped the most expensive part of the process... You have to x-ray each one to check for voids or defects.
Not to mention material certs and traceability.... I've seen torx fasteners with a roughly $600 cost to manufacture. Who knows what they were sold for.
and keep track of witch batch of metal was used to make each bolt. And which machines made each bolt. And how many bolts the consumable parts of said machines have been used to make. And, and, and, and...
Hi man love your videos can you do a video where you make darts and sell them and raise th peice until people stop buying them
90k for that tiny bag of bushings is criminal
In theory, that bag was sourced from the lowest bidder too.
the joys of a government contract, license to steal
@@OperatorMittensactually it's based on who the aircraft manufacturer says you can get the part from. Airbus for example has a seal that is manufactured in the US then shipped to Europe to be repackaged then shipped back to the US government. They will not allow the government to buy the parts direct from that manufacturer at a lower cost because theyre not "certified parts".
Sooooooo. I work in military aviation. Hardware that is for critical applications go through robust quality control steps. From metallurgy, dimensional, heat treatment and non-destructive inspection, the quality control is what makes parts expensive.
@@OperatorMittens "Lowest bidder" is determined by an overall cost estimate, not a microscopic estimate of how much an individual bushing costs.
0:13 Well, Those simple little fixings AREN'T that expensive. That's the entire point of the hearing. They're not worth $90,000, they're worth like $100, but being sold to the MILITARY for $90,000 when civilians can purchase the SAME thing for a couple dollars. It's basically a scam.
1:26 YES! ABSOLUTELY it will cut wood. Why? I smashed some thread into a colored pencil by twisting a nut onto it, and it made perfect wooden threads. A sharp enough metal die should easily be able to replicate this feat.
Edit* it also depends on the orientation of the wood.
Alec, have you ever thought of collaborating with Collin Furze? Think of the possibilities.
I'm thinking about it... what are the possibilities? they design things in a way almost opposite to one another
They technically kinda did years ago. Not a real collab but were in a video together. I forget exactly what Colin was doing there.
Colin has made a brief cameo in one of Alecs videos before.
Colin came to his shop and went dumpster diving looking for metal scraps 😂
I'm not sure those bolts are compliant with ISO 4014 Alec.. 🤣
"Are they all going into the bucket Jamie?"
"Yeah straight in"
My sides have left the building.
Lets not ignore that American military grade is usually of subpar standard, often sourced by the cheapest resource available
For everything the infantry uses yes it's low quality from the lowest bidder because it's considered disposable. Aircraft and such is on the opposite end of quality standards.
did we not just establish that the bolts cost $90k? subpar... maybe, cheap... not if its paid by the American taxpayer.
Alec has never heard of US government corruption if he thinks that bag of bushings actually cost 90k. It’s $100 for the bushings and $89,900 for the buy off to someone
Legend has it, Oliver C. still refreshes his browser, waiting for the next bolt
If you can. get a contract with the Pentagon you will be ‘golden’!
There is no reason in hell why a bag of bushings should cost that much.
We are about to learn that, but Alec is going to try and play devil's advocate first.
Probably added the federal contract cost and engineering cost into it.
aeroplane parts you pay _a lot_ extra for the paper trail - so if it fails you can find out why, who caused and also where else parts of that lot were used so it can be replaced. 90k still seems very expensive though.
@@ElvianEmpire Unless you're Boeing, in which case you just get some AliExpress stuff and lose the paperwork
It’s not the material cost that makes military parts so expensive, it’s all the paperwork and overhead to document that the part legally meets military specification. Material certification and traceability, manufacturing certification, first article inspections, etc. there’s a whole ecosystem of paper-pushing-people set up to document and track everything. That and the general inefficiency that surrounds every big corporation. If I drop and lose a screw during assembly it can take a day or more to get a replacement- assuming that extras have been stocked. Go to the project planner to get a request issued to the stockroom, document the disposition of the original screw (dropped and lost), request goes into the stockroom queue to be filled, part delivered with new documentation as soon as the overworked stockroom can get to it. It is unbelievably inefficient, but the traceability and documentation is legally required by the military.
Yeap the military and the secret service paperwork is the worst due to the cost. Like 70% of bolts, screws, cables and other stuff is the same that we can buy at a store or even online. There are some goods that need a specific standard in the construction of the plane, the boat or the tank etc. but some good department stores also could be a replacement.
That still doesnt add up to $90,000. If the system is so horribly efficient that 70-80% of the military budget cant be accounted for, the whole system needs to be torn down and started over
So that's why taxes are so high...
If you have ever done government work you would know why it is so expensive. The paperwork is a pain and must be completed just right. Then once you finally get the paperwork in and correct time to sit back and wait forever to get paid. When I did construction work for the government I would charge more for a door knob and installation than the entire door. I made my money by extremely inflating the easy and cheap work.
the cost is also supposed to breed quality which often isn't the case. the manufacturers know how much it's being sold for at the end of the day and have a guilt based obligation to stick to a quality assurance level.
I remember you making the knife. Am sad it was smooshed.
Great little project though. So many possibilities that you could have played with!
That bag of bushings isn't 90k but the curruption within the Army supply chain makes them cost 90k.
Meanwhile the navy marking up regular bolt prices by 1000%
We use some aluminium bronze m5 screws for bits at work, they go for about £500 a go 🤯
Also if you can arrange a visit to Tapex threaded insert factory in Stratford upon Avon. You’ll be able to see some amazing manufacturing of fasteners by a British company at a mass production level!
I've worked in medical, and the military are similar. you can only buy from approved suppliers who have to supply a certificate of conformance on everything they provide.. so as these suppliers know you can only buy from them, the prices go up.
Once got sent to the US to get a part modified, the contracter we used, was welding 20 foam tips for us. but his manufacturing facility was inside one of the US military giants.. $15000 for 3 hours work, because we could only use him.
You completely misunderstand. It's a hearing in the American senate about procurement costs for the military. And why defense contracting and the bureaucracy around it is designed in such a way to exploit the government financially. Simple terms why is a bag of bolt priced at 90000usd for the military but it's the same bolts you can buy in your local store for 50cent each. So no it has nothing to do with golden bolts 🤦
Dude. You can absolutely use a metal die on (hard)wood. Hell, you could use a NUT if you back it off a bunch.
Did you just try a die? I'd imagine a larger bore would have worked better mind. And a decent hardwood zero knots. Or lots of knots 😂
Please do a damascus swiss army knife...would love to see the forging of different tools and the complexity of the construction
I'm glad I bought a barker street hammer back when Sam was striking for you. I cherish it
So, your first instinct to use a die on the wood was the correct instinct. You just need three different sizes and progressively. The last die is actually blunt and rounded, the idea of this is the last pass actually burnishes the wood into shape which increases it's strength substantially.
If you get a wooden dowel and just thread it through a nut you'll see wooden created without even cutting any material off.
Alec should make one giveaway bottle opener for every like. 👍👍
The video is full of advertising crap.
I watch this video again for every like
just 1 mans opinion, but these 20 minute Squarespace ads are getting kinda tired.
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You have our gratitude.
Ok not gonna lie, that "skin" firming over the molten copper was stupidly satisfying to watch... MORE!
People like to joke that adds keep getting smarter, thank you for proving them wrong. Dammit Squarespace.
The irony that having a hand carved wooden bolt, from a blacksmith, probably makes it the most valuable in the rarity sense as he may never make anything else that's purely woodworking, making it the only truly unique piece from Alec
No damascus bolt? Missed opportinity there!
Squarespace must be happy with a almost 20minute long commercial... Ah putting some gold on the work place must be nice.
Cutting machine threads on wood, that was impressive.
Checkout the crash of Partnair Flight 394 which due to forged spare parts crashed off the coast of Denmark. The accident had a huge impact on entire aviation, civilian and military. Truckloads of paperwork to ensure no forged bolt will ever cause another crash. With all the associated cost of piles of paper and the pencil pushers to authenticate every part.
Sadly I know why that one bag of 100/1lb (standard sizes for NSN small parts typically has those quantities of each) bushings costs $90,000... and, its Congress Members own damn fault. Every CONgress member DEMANDS a portion of the Defense Product be made in their Congressional District, so manufacturing is disjointed and requires a frickken Herculean amount of Logistics Transport. The Customer, read Arm of the Military like USAF or Air Army or Air Navy (Air Marines use Air Navy Logistics since its in DoN for that aspect) want one thing and give the Primary Contractor a laundry list of wants, needs and desires....and every 3 months some Ossifer who wants to add a star to their tabs decides to insist on their pet thing, some some of them aspire to be CONgress Critters one day and make the BIG $$$$$$ in bribes. So you end up having an ever changing build of materials. Then there is the actual Science, no putting a gold plated Trump style toilet on a helicopter its stupid and heavy and in all the worlds helicopters the ones with traditional Western toilets with a water tank and waste tank is heavy, but the shear weight of the water required is insane! As for small parts that cost that much, or tools that cost similar, they are made out of Unobtainium, or a highly dangerous material, or the actual forming/machining is esoteric in nature, all of which means only ONE company in the US holds the necessary FAA and DoD, DoN, etc. required Certifications, Qualifications and abilities to both produce the required part in the numbers required....and....if its for say and F-22 Raptor or a B-2 Spirit the total numbers produced in Military Circles make them 'Orphan Aircraft' with few flying examples which means that the companies making even the small parts for those two aircraft in order to both see a profit and be able to keep the doors open for the life of the project the parts, much like parts for a Ferrari, McLaren, or Lamborghini which cost an arm, leg, spleen, first born, second born and everything in the bank plus your eye teeth. So yeah, a bag of small consumable parts costs $90,000. Hell, on the A-7E Corsair II the Intake Lip Antennas are packaged individually with a screw in a plastic cage, in paper, in a box, sealed foil barrier, in paper, in a box, sealed foil barrier, in paper, in a box, sealed foil barrier, in a box. So a 1/4 inch by 3/8 inch ended up in a box 12 x 12 x12 and one aircraft took about 143 (if memory serves) screws. We got a NavAir Rapid Message requiring us to replace every one of those screws in our 123 aircraft......... we emptied the East and West Coast warehouses, a total of 12 Semi Trucks, and only fitted half of our aircraft. the cost was close to $500,000 for just screws.
A brilliant upload, good fun! We need another round, this time making a nut and bolt of ridiculous proportions, say a M80 x 240 hex bolt👍‼️ Keep doing what you do!
90.000$ because of the price of developing the aircraft. Very few aircrafts in the USAF are "off-the-shelf". They are designed, developped and built in a limited number. The price reflects that, not the price of the bolts.
This was the bomber program we used to hide the Stealth bomber program. There were no actual $700 hammers and $10k toilet seats. It was the F-117 nighthawk
Next video's gonna be "I made bolts from the whole periodic table" And the thumbnail would have a glowing radioactive bolt with the text "URANIUM" next to it.
This one was a fun watch tho :)
An almost 2oz bolt? if I'm right about current gold prices per ounce..
Cmonnnnn Sell Oliver C. the golden one! He needs the full collection! Even if he could buy 200 silver for it- Probably has some artistic value too
Been a fan for years. Especially so when I saw your flags in the old workshop….Love from New Mexico Alec!
The reason government/military contractors charge so much is because the gov WILL pay for it. More spending more budget increases.
NGL Alec...with the wooden bolt construction, this makes me want to see a mechanical build using nothing but wood, and machining tools, not woodworking tools.
By selling the bolt at the cost of silver, you've shown how you value your work! I hope you leave that gold bolt though, the idea you have £5,000 hidden in the ground tickles me.
Thank goodness for channels like this which still keep RUclips alive with great content. Cheers
You want a shear? Make one. Take measurements from your neighbor's shear and build one yourself.
You probably said the F word more times at the end of this than all your videos combined 🤣 you're normally VERY good with your language on camera 🤣
Hey Alec what are the chances you’d be up to revisit making a folding knife. I remember the first attempt you did was a multi video series. Would be cool to see how your skills have progressed
I used to love this channel, but will you ever do sword projects again? All these random videos are getting quite boring…
Alec, Off topic, but I know what would be a fun challenge for you, if you made something from Wootz steel or true Damascus, ive seen it done i think you’ll love it… Or you’ll pull your hair out lol
Alec, Off topic, but I know what would be a fun challenge for you, if you made something from Wootz steel or true Damascus, ive seen it done i think you’ll love it… Or you’ll pull your hair out lol
There is a reason it costs this much. They didn't order enough initially. Probably had to bring a machine out of a storage. Re hire the maintenance tech. Re hire the operator. And they are not going to leave their new jobs and come back without a great bonus. Gotta get certified metal. Do the run. Not destructive and non destructive testing. These need to meet FAA and DOD testing standards. A batch may have failed. The key here is planning. If this is a wear item. Don't order 1 bag. Order 100. Price per unit will drop.
u should have just alloyed the gold a bit, make it MUCH ore machinable
How do you not give the guy a chance to purchase the set? I know it's 5k, but maybe lol.
Why doesn't make a 1million layer damaskus screw
Exactly. Thats what self made things shall be used for. ❤
Why no Damascus bolt???????? Between silver and gold ?? Come on it would be the best one
I've seen thread pressing / rolling for spokes. I'm not sure if they make them for 10mm but I'd imagine it'd be the beat process for threading soft metals.
A 20-minute squarespace ad. Yay.
This might sound stupid, but what about cooling the metal for cutting the threads? Surely it would make the metal harder.
Woah!!!! Did Oliver buy the gold bolt??? 😅
Ok 5 materials is a great start. Now keep going I would love to see you do Damascus and different metals and resin and maybe even stabilized pinecones?
Just remember that every single bolt, rivet, nut, and every other fastener and part in an aircraft is heavily inspected and certified by the manufacturer. The part isn’t necessarily the extremely expensive part. The paperwork is.
12:26 sand casting sequence: "this is the plan." music and editing feels inspired by oceans 11. intentional, jamie?
What timing. Only a week ago, How To Make Everything was working on a threaded wooden rod. And now this.
tbf with the us military, contractors charge an arm and a leg for everything bc they know the military is just going to pay without asking questions. It's a horrible waste of taxpayer money but a great profit for the contractors :/
Compete with 'Big Fastener' lol!!
Now Oliver can never get the full set, a collector's worst nightmare.
Was hoping he would do some crazy mosaic Damascus version
Compete with “Big fastener.” I laughed way too hard at that.
The anti milatary nutters are going wild. Wait untill you get to know about the costs of parts on commercial aircraft....
“Up against Big Fastener“- feel that should have gotten a bigger laugh.
You are a genius, every time I watch your videos I couldn't care less that it's an ad for Squarespace because it's so well made and integrated
Don’t get crazy on me I’m pretty sure it’s so much cuz the people who make it can have it any price. The us military gonna buy it anyway so the company can make hella profit it’s a monopoly but it’s not talked about that much
Quite a thing to ruin such a beautiful piece of Wood. But to just have it stored for no purpose is not good as well. I don't know a lot about wood, but I would guess it was Walnut or something even more exotic.
What looks like...I don't believe you now
Alec, everyone wants to know did Oliver C buy the gold bolt? He bought all the other ones
So was this a infomercial for squarespace or an actual video`?
I'm pretty sure you missed the aluminium bolt.
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They are set screws that are being made, not bolts?.........
In the free market, an item is worth what an individual will pay for it. In the government, an item is worth what a corrupt politician can plunder the treasury for it.
Is anything on any of your websites in stock?
Having 4 different ones is sooo confusing and a waste of time for us the consumer and no wonder you dont update them if its 4 x the work.
Can you at least link them for people in the description of your video? You seem to have the same list every week anyway how hard is it to add that?
I can't say what the fair price for that bag of bushings really is, but it's important to note that a lot of that price is quality assurance. These parts are tested and checked to very high standards because a defect could kill somebody.
Can you get hold of a block of Lignum Vitae?
Putting the bolt in the anvil stand was perfect 😂
Sheesh! Is there no way to conceive a way to do proper thread _rolling_ in the shop?
That gold swarf is hella expensive!!
With threading wood, soak it in mineral oil first. You'll minimize tearing out the grain.
Wood you kindly continue the puns after the first two minutes.
I bet Oliver C. is pissed that he didn't get to buy the full collection!
what about damascus bolt? that gotta be expensive.
It’s humorous that you left out the cost of your time. I guarantee if I wanted you to make me another wooden bolt, you’d charge me the same if not more than what I’d spend at a store for 100 regular bolts.