You missed one important thing. Notice the lack of metal hitting metal when you are operating the file. The spaces at the end of the cylinder compresses the air, creating a cushion, like a spring, help sending the piston back.
I used to make gold granules for my dad who is a gold smith. the method for making these is actually very simple. I would alloy the gold from gold, silver and copper casting grain in a crucible using an acetylene torch, then I would poor the gold into an ingot mold. Once it cooled, I use a rolling mill to roll the long ingot into a thick square wire. then I file one end down and draw it through a draw plate until its very very thin. every other draw I would anneal the wire and pickle it. my draw plates only go down to .25mm, however I could probably have a smaller done on an edm machine. then I wrap that wire around a specific diameter mandrel. I have a tool that allows me to cut that coil down the middle effectively making equal size rings. I arrange the rings onto a piece of charcoal that has small indents. I use a smaller tip on the acetylene torch to melt the rings and due to the surface tension they ball up into perfect equally sized spheres. Once these granules are made, my dad would use a glycerin glue to arrange them onto a piece of fabricated jewelry. Then using a small kiln and the torch he would fuse the granules together and onto the piece. the process is the same for brass, however its much easier because you don't have to manually arrange the granules, and you just pour them into a mold and heat it in an oven.
So thew company I work at has oodles of pneumatic cylinders to push product around. I recently found out about those bronze meshscreen things as well, and have been stealthily replacing them with the little plastic thing in airhorns that makes 'em go toot. Work has become a lot funnier lately :D
@anvilshock to protect my identity, I will not be providing evidence, but I can assure you, I have done this. Okay to be fair, it's not the cylinders themselves that I screw the airhorn bits back into, it's the pneumatic switches (the thick plastic thing with a solenoid on one end to computer control the airflow), which have several in and outlets, and it's got a pair that lets out overpressure when cylinders actuate in the "push direction" and "pull direction". All the switches are nicely clustered together, and I took care to get a few airhorns with different pitched tones. tldr; It's quite an orchestra.
All in all, if I let Engineering aside, these videos are more of a therapy than educational. Have been following this channels for two years now and it still has a unique vibe of endless possibility. Thank you, Tony!
Coach Cochran was my 7th and 8th grade shop teacher. Can't remember a single other teacher's name, but I remember him. Great guy, but a real hard ass. Rules. But, no one lost a finger, which was his point.
Clickspring videos help me sleep, one minute i'm watching him file away at gear with a toothpick, next thing you know I wake up and he's finished a few teeth.
Mike O'Barr is that the one he used a Babbage analytical engine as the computer? I would actually like to see clickspring make the analytical engine, it's pretty cool.
Clickspring, your a legend. Alec steele and Ave both mention you every once in a while but this tops it. That laser light at the end almost had me fall out of my chair. Tony, Chris, great colab.
It is getting to the point where it really doesn't matter about the subject Tony, the production and wit make for 20 minutes of truly worthwhile existence on this earth. Thank you!
"Life was a whole lot easier before they made 3-dimensional tools" Thank you for sharing your great humor and shop talk with us, it's always a pleasure to watch your videos.
As good as the Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin's dad said that photos were always in colour it was just that the world used to be in black and white
I am in awe of how a man - somewhere out in this wide world - films himself doing stuff and talking about it....and then days or weeks later I - some guy out there in this wide world - sit for HOURS watching it....and then write this.... Love the channel. Dont ever change. (Love to see ya build/CNC, and play with, a Tesla one way valve/valvular conduit)!)
Those that didn't watch to the end really missed out. That last scene...HILARIOUS. Tony, good comics use the callback and you used it PERFECTLY. Your videos must take a TON of time to produce. I appreciate all of your content. Thank for your hard work.
I like these videos so much I don't want them to end. I want them to last longer. I have started watching all of them at .75 speed, I recommend changing your settings (the gear cog at the bottom of viewer) and trying it out for yourself.
Always eager for a new TOT production. And on that note, you've come a long, long way from the early days of the hydraulic press build. TOT, always entertaining and occasionally informative. Seriously, I learned much and never enjoyed doing so more. Like the collaborations too; Clickspring, AvE, Abomb, Diresta, Mr. Pete, Keith Fenner, etc. Mrs. TOT must love traveling in such.....ummmmm.....lofty circles, though I suppose wardobe could be a challenge. Thank you for all your efforts and please keep 'em coming.
Norm Jacques no, no, no. "Our chief tools are gears! Gears and supplies! Two! Or two chief tools are gears and supplies! And a fanatical devotion to quality..."
Hey Tony, small correction here: the piston doesn't *need* to hit the ends of the cylinder, although it probably does on occasion, a little bit... Newton's 3rd law provides that when the piston moves forward, the air is also pushing against the opposite wall of the cylinder, and starts moving it in the opposite direction... so the piston serves as a mass that works like an oscillating counterweight to the cylinder. If it really did slam into the end, you'd be hearing it when running the file. Your best improvement might come from drilling a few holes in the piston (without breaching the airways) and pouring molten lead in it... assuming it's only hardened on the sliding surfaces that is. Great videos! Thanks!
I use these at my work place...you can mount on it air pressure reduction valve to manipulate the speed...generally We use it to mimic shot blasted surfaces with a tungsten carbide tip ...and it does the job very decently....
DO NOT throw away that 'dirty' filter. As a 'professional' you should know that a well lubricated filter increases performance and will give your tool another 400 HP.
Late to the comment game but I wanted to say that I found this really interesting! Seemed like you were unsure about the comment but I thoroughly enjoyed it. When other opportunities like this come up I hope you make more like videos. As always, thanks for making videos!
Tony, if you put out a video on how to make smores with a vacuum cleaner and a rubber mallet I would watch it twice. You just keep doing you sir! Thanks :D 17:45
Between you and Chris those are the Very Best motion graphic overlays on YT, imho. Mega Kudo's to you both and to get another collaboration is off the charts! Splitting the arrow in motion and the Sintered bronze was brilliant, although the cat lips seemed right out of Logitech but still the best use of it I've seen while falling out of my chair...and thank you for not sharing any hair balls, but the laser threw me out of my chair..again. As for Hilarity, I think you are winning because I messed up my espresso intake Again and spewed...12 thumbs up for catching me, again. Great content and explanations with minimal expletives that were at least bleeped. OK, I have to ask what software and add-ons are you using?...Please. I think I know the real reason for this video, it's to turn Chris on to an air filer because his fingers have to be down to the nubbin's after hand filing 126,846 gear teeth over 2 millennium (2096yrs)...Right? Gob struck in Awe and grinning ear to ear (again) is the best I can say for a Thank You, Tony and Chris!!
I really enjoy your videos, and your humor. you have given me some great ideas that I have implemented in the shop I am employed at. I went to college to be a welder, but have become a metal fabricator working for an early model mustang, performance suspension oriented shop. I have learned light machining skills on a manual mill, and manual lathe from my employer, but learn something new every day from your videos. I would like to see more machining tips you have up your sleeve if at all possible. Thank you for putting out good content!
I love your videos and was really happy to see a new one come out so soon. I learn something new and useful almost every time I watch, and even when I don't, I'm still very entertained. You do great work, thank you for being a welcome break and an inspiration to try new things in my shop.
I think that bottom port is to equalize the pressure around the cylinder and provide a bit of air cushion for it to travel on, and less for the small percentage of times that the tool may be stalled.
Does the piston actually smack into the walls of the cylinder on each stroke? Seems like that'd cause a lot of noise, wear and tear, and wasted energy. It kinda looks like the piston will uncover the "go the other way" hole long before it hits the wall, so it might just be that the piston vibrates back and forth inside the cylinder, and the air pressure pushing on the ends of the cylinder makes it vibrate forth and back. The cool thing about designing it this way would be that if the piston weighs about the same as the cylinder, since one's always going forward while the other's going backward, there's no net momentum and no recoil, so you won't feel (much) vibration when you hold the tool.
Jason Goodman I think you are right, or at least with some design you could attempt to do so. Maybe that is the reason why there is the maximum prescribed pressure, not because the tool would burst but because the higher pressure would make the piston slam the end stops. You could test this drilling some vent holes in one side, or both, if the sound changes there is an inpact.
Yup, that's almost certainly exactly how it's intended to work. Note that this only works properly if the weights balance, which means the file needs to weigh the right amount. Which is probably another reason ... er, justification ... for the "don't use other files" rule. There shouldn't be any recoil in any case, since nothing much is pushing on the file body.
Thank you for making this video. I had the same questions that other people (2) asked about whether it could be "skooked" up or not, and I really enjoyed the step-by-step breakdown of how it works. I understand now! Thank you!
Mike oliver for the quality of work that man does I don't think it'd be possible to post any faster. I'm always amazed at the production quality of the project and the video. Tis a staggering amount of work, so I have no problem waiting between uploads.
Just listening while I dabble through chores, but the description around 2:30 could very well describe most of my friends babies- supply goes in one way, comes flying out front or back!
Hey Tony you need to do a series on souping up your air filer! Take a carbide end mill and bore those parts to over a quarter inch. Add a 12 inch saws all blade. Connect to a 600 CFM gunnite compressor and you'll be ready to cut a winters worth of firewood in half a day!
Tony,I think I'd recommend that any users of this Harbor Freight product (which I usually would not recommend as a good financial investment for hard earned cash) seriously upgrade the files to industrial quality diamond files available from McMaster Carr or similar source of quality tools.These files are available in several grits as in fine medium and course.And a variety of sizes whose shanks can be modified by a competent craftsman to fit this model Air File.The diamond files are very hard and will allow you to file very hard steels and maybe carbides.The Diamond file are better not used on Aluminum.Even T6 or T651 hardness aluminum is so soft it tends to load the files and be very tough to clean without a chemical to dissolve the the Aluminum.The Diamond files cut in both/all directions making them much more efficient.Good video.As a side note,there is hope for Your cat illness.A Witch turned Me into a newt,but it got better.
Was expecting another result with the added drops of oil at the end - that the whole vise disappears in a tenth of a second ;-) This is my absolute favorite channel combining know-how, professional photography and editing, plus humor in a unique mix. Clickspring: eat your heart out! ;-)
😂 You are certifiable, cat man. I have so many air tools in my garage but I ever use only two of them. A high flow blower gun to clean the garage and a low flow blower gun to clean the garage... That's not completely true, though. Twice a year I change tires on my car. I wait for a male person to pass, and fire up the pneumatic bolt tool. It never fails, they cannot ignore that sound. 😜
I like it better then the 1st. Truth be told. You sir, AvE, and Alec Steel inspired me to change my career in life and go back to school to be a machinist. 41 year old student. 2nd term, coming up!!
Jared Springer I've been getting into wood working the past year and after discovering and binge watching TOT, I'm really reconsidering this whole dead tree business.
That's pretty good with the talking cat! Mr Ed eat your heart out! Wilburrrr! 😁 Oh yeah, the air file portion was pretty great too! Thanks for the detailed walk though of the entire tool!
Tony i dont know if anyones already brought this up but that air filer is for all intent identical to a pnuematic air graver, aside from graver being smaller. Two things...air gravers HATE oil, it reduces their impact...second..to increase impact they use heavier pistons...(they make a few different lengths and material types.) If you want this machine to function better, use dry air, dunno if you could machine a piston with more mass..also if you ground a graver or chisel point on the end of one of those files and used it like a graver or chisel i suspect youd be pleasantly suprised by its functionality as a chisel
So this is an air file. Well, have urgent need to go buy one BUT need compressor first. File 13 that thought, will just watch Old Tony with his when put together again. Enjoyed this. .now l know how air file works. Thanks Old Tony!
As requested, I paused and thought about it, and realize this video has three dimensions (X,Y,Time) and is used to represent of a 4 Dimensional event (X,Y,Z,Time). Is this the trick to your time travel ability?
Thanks for the disassembly and explanation of operation, especially without junior high profanity in an attempt to inflate your manhood. GOOD job as usual and love your clean sense of humor.
What the fack pardner? Never worked around other guys before? Either you work in an office or you're the guy on the job site with the clipboard that everyone rolls their eyes at. Either way you can go ahead and refer to Anthony's reply above.
Dick beaters = or /= dick skinners? I know this chick that has a mean set of dick skinners... er uh vageen that can really give the dick a good 'ol scrub.
Well you’re definitely part of the carpet people clan, but what really makes me sick? He smells just like a “safety coordinator”. Appointed to out of compassion once the talent dried up no doubt...
Ron, don't blame the player; blame the game. Watch AvE's older video on drilling/broaching a square hole to see what he is like when your wish comes true. This is a video, before there were vijayos. It's not AvE's fault that RUclips spews buckets of money at him for making 30 minute dick jokes. He learned what kind of audience you need to make hundreds of thousands of dollars on RUclips and Patreon, then he said "hold my beer." Thus, Uncle Bumblefuck was born. I consider it performance art by a smart man. The art of the Canadian dick joke. Cockfordollie == Dick jokes for dollhairs.
The hole on the bottom is to lubricate the outer cylinder to body interface, it's a bleed hole that allows a little air to bypass; it's ALWAYS getting air in operation, not only when it's stalled.
The small hole on the other side of the 5 holes for the main port is there in order to avoid, that the cylinder is pressed to this side. The hole allows pressurized air to reach the other side of the cylinder opposite of the main port. The milled flat mirrors the area of the pocket in the housing. Therefore the pressure and area on which the pressure is applied are balanced. This has nothing to do with the piston being in neutral position.
A guy i work with removed the key to allow the cylinder to rotate as he rotates the file so he can control the air flow. He also made a delrin adapter to hold stones. Thing works well
So many internet rules broken here. First off you have to have a green mat and a moldy coffee mug on your healing bench. Also the kittah should speak only in french and of course always more skook (try some pink tape and tap oil).
Tony, imho to increase the effectiveness of the tool is to increase the size of the ports. The right angles into the cylinder, then to the piston, and then out increases friction at each turn and thus reducing operational effectivenes. (Love those '80 buzz words!). In addition, those small holes also increase friction (vise one large hole) like an air brake on an aircraft. I realize Bernoulli is the master, but from this foxhole, its the GPM that makes the horsepower. Increase the surface area of each orifice, and then each in turn, and give a it a shot. Thanks !
You should market these videos with a syllabus. I am not even remotely a machinist, student, but your combination of humor and details, makes me want to be. Thankis,
Henry Beason Not really, Tony doesn't feel the need to question the judgement of the engineer who designed it, or subtly belittle the people who buy some of their tools at Harbor Freight. It's easy to poke at Harbor Freight, but without them, many people wouldn't be able to afford to have some tools. They might not offer the 'best quality' tools which professionals need, but for the ' weekend warrior', it allows the expansion of a non-professional's capability to perform larger projects.
Henry Beason There-in lies a tremendous problem when interacting with and engaging with other people on the internet, if you do not CLEARLY state the intent of your message, it will invariably be misunderstood by someone. I still stand by my previoua statement though.
Pegleg Swantoon I guess I’m sorry I have a bit of sarcasm seems a little bit funny that you can’t figure out a joke considering the RUclipsr you are watching
That was a really nice breakdown and explanation. I think this video should be the go to for anyone that wants to know how an air file works (engineering students perhaps). Unfortunately I don't think they will find it with the current title.
You missed one important thing. Notice the lack of metal hitting metal when you are operating the file. The spaces at the end of the cylinder compresses the air, creating a cushion, like a spring, help sending the piston back.
Oh nice info !
I Hope this is the second part of the trilogy.
Be careful, Rian Johnson may try to direct the next installment.
I wonder what will be included in the prequels?
Brent Wolff
Midiclorians and CGI
I feel as though I have entered an alternate reality with Wintergatan, the best musical tinkerer, commenting on a Tony video.
This is amazing.
Dear Mr Wintergatan, it's the second part of a five part trilogy.
10:40 "this is air"... "this isn't air" I chuckled heartily
I used to make gold granules for my dad who is a gold smith. the method for making these is actually very simple. I would alloy the gold from gold, silver and copper casting grain in a crucible using an acetylene torch, then I would poor the gold into an ingot mold. Once it cooled, I use a rolling mill to roll the long ingot into a thick square wire. then I file one end down and draw it through a draw plate until its very very thin. every other draw I would anneal the wire and pickle it. my draw plates only go down to .25mm, however I could probably have a smaller done on an edm machine. then I wrap that wire around a specific diameter mandrel. I have a tool that allows me to cut that coil down the middle effectively making equal size rings. I arrange the rings onto a piece of charcoal that has small indents. I use a smaller tip on the acetylene torch to melt the rings and due to the surface tension they ball up into perfect equally sized spheres. Once these granules are made, my dad would use a glycerin glue to arrange them onto a piece of fabricated jewelry. Then using a small kiln and the torch he would fuse the granules together and onto the piece. the process is the same for brass, however its much easier because you don't have to manually arrange the granules, and you just pour them into a mold and heat it in an oven.
Oh I wish that I had a clip from "Monsters vs. Aliens." Or maybe a montage where B.O.B. just states, "Amazing."
Poor guy can't spell pour.
sorry typed it out on my cell phone
Far too many words and steps to be simple. 😁
So thew company I work at has oodles of pneumatic cylinders to push product around. I recently found out about those bronze meshscreen things as well, and have been stealthily replacing them with the little plastic thing in airhorns that makes 'em go toot. Work has become a lot funnier lately :D
Ha
devjock that is hilarious
This never happened.
@anvilshock to protect my identity, I will not be providing evidence, but I can assure you, I have done this. Okay to be fair, it's not the cylinders themselves that I screw the airhorn bits back into, it's the pneumatic switches (the thick plastic thing with a solenoid on one end to computer control the airflow), which have several in and outlets, and it's got a pair that lets out overpressure when cylinders actuate in the "push direction" and "pull direction". All the switches are nicely clustered together, and I took care to get a few airhorns with different pitched tones.
tldr; It's quite an orchestra.
too loud; did a racket?
Oh the Clickspring dig was a beauty. Excellently placed and the timing was perfect.
All in all, if I let Engineering aside, these videos are more of a therapy than educational. Have been following this channels for two years now and it still has a unique vibe of endless possibility. Thank you, Tony!
You're the shop teacher everyone wishes they had in middle/high/secondary-school.
Coach Cochran was my 7th and 8th grade shop teacher. Can't remember a single other teacher's name, but I remember him. Great guy, but a real hard ass. Rules. But, no one lost a finger, which was his point.
"Don't be alarmed." Hard to when I see a mouth rotoscoped onto a cat.
These videos are so packed with dry humor, I have to keep my moisturizer nearby when watching them!
Seriously, though, can't stop laughing!
It sure feels like Clickspring has been working on that one gear since 76 B.C.
Clickspring videos help me sleep, one minute i'm watching him file away at gear with a toothpick, next thing you know I wake up and he's finished a few teeth.
I know the feeling I once watched him make a file but my RUclips was set to autoplay and when I woke up he'd just finished a windup lunar lander.
Mike O'Barr is that the one he used a Babbage analytical engine as the computer? I would actually like to see clickspring make the analytical engine, it's pretty cool.
Mike oliver No, he used it to build Alan Turing's "Christopher" I believe.
Well, once he's done with the Antikythera in a few centuries....
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE
Clickspring, your a legend. Alec steele and Ave both mention you every once in a while but this tops it. That laser light at the end almost had me fall out of my chair. Tony, Chris, great colab.
It is getting to the point where it really doesn't matter about the subject Tony, the production and wit make for 20 minutes of truly worthwhile existence on this earth. Thank you!
"Life was a whole lot easier before they made 3-dimensional tools"
Thank you for sharing your great humor and shop talk with us, it's always a pleasure to watch your videos.
As good as the Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin's dad said that photos were always in colour it was just that the world used to be in black and white
I am in awe of how a man - somewhere out in this wide world - films himself doing stuff and talking about it....and then days or weeks later I - some guy out there in this wide world - sit for HOURS watching it....and then write this....
Love the channel.
Dont ever change.
(Love to see ya build/CNC, and play with, a Tesla one way valve/valvular conduit)!)
*Looks at cylinder.*
"I suppose this is the cylinder." -TOT
Those that didn't watch to the end really missed out. That last scene...HILARIOUS. Tony, good comics use the callback and you used it PERFECTLY.
Your videos must take a TON of time to produce. I appreciate all of your content. Thank for your hard work.
You could put a tiny glow plug at each end of the cylinder and use nitromethane model airplane fuel for oil. It’ll be awesome!
I like these videos so much I don't want them to end. I want them to last longer. I have started watching all of them at .75 speed, I recommend changing your settings (the gear cog at the bottom of viewer) and trying it out for yourself.
Ohh Paul does he still sound like Ray Romano?
Always eager for a new TOT production. And on that note, you've come a long, long way from the early days of the hydraulic press build. TOT, always entertaining and occasionally informative. Seriously, I learned much and never enjoyed doing so more. Like the collaborations too; Clickspring, AvE, Abomb, Diresta, Mr. Pete, Keith Fenner, etc. Mrs. TOT must love traveling in such.....ummmmm.....lofty circles, though I suppose wardobe could be a challenge. Thank you for all your efforts and please keep 'em coming.
NOBODY EXPECTS THE CLICKSPRING INQUISITION
"Our chief tools are fear............" :-)
Norm Jacques no, no, no. "Our chief tools are gears! Gears and supplies! Two! Or two chief tools are gears and supplies! And a fanatical devotion to quality..."
LOL! :-) Python invades the toolroom!
I wish I could vote this into positive oblivion
Norm, mel brooks
Hey Tony, small correction here: the piston doesn't *need* to hit the ends of the cylinder, although it probably does on occasion, a little bit... Newton's 3rd law provides that when the piston moves forward, the air is also pushing against the opposite wall of the cylinder, and starts moving it in the opposite direction... so the piston serves as a mass that works like an oscillating counterweight to the cylinder. If it really did slam into the end, you'd be hearing it when running the file. Your best improvement might come from drilling a few holes in the piston (without breaching the airways) and pouring molten lead in it... assuming it's only hardened on the sliding surfaces that is.
Great videos! Thanks!
The couch analogy had me crying.
It had that ring of truth.
"...Clickspring, making a gear since 76 B.C." that cat... I laughed so hard
I use these at my work place...you can mount on it air pressure reduction valve to manipulate the speed...generally We use it to mimic shot blasted surfaces with a tungsten carbide tip ...and it does the job very decently....
ah a wooden v block, a true machinist
Tony, I wasn't disappointed at all but strangely relieved that you went all the way with the air file. Greetings from Arizona.
At 7:15 all I could think of was:
"FOCUS YOU F#*K"
and I thought you want more chooch, not more skook.
Haha live the vid!!!
Wrong channel - you're thinking of "This Old Kanukistanian"
I have seen YTrs do that same kinda alert intro.
Thank you for lowering the volume and not killing my ears like others have :)
I *always* thought there's a little woodpecker inside air-files. Thanks Tony!
Not in the ones designed for metal working.
Millions of them in fact
Thats more of a metalpecker...wait wasnt that the name of a post-apocalyptic porno?
Shane Ellis I'm not gonna ask how you even know that 😂😂
Nice Guy rule 34
This channel is the best. Its not common to find someone that is really good explainer and funny, love your vids definitely subscribeeing.
DO NOT throw away that 'dirty' filter. As a 'professional' you should know that a well lubricated filter increases performance and will give your tool another 400 HP.
Late to the comment game but I wanted to say that I found this really interesting! Seemed like you were unsure about the comment but I thoroughly enjoyed it. When other opportunities like this come up I hope you make more like videos. As always, thanks for making videos!
Tony, if you put out a video on how to make smores with a vacuum cleaner and a rubber mallet I would watch it twice. You just keep doing you sir! Thanks :D 17:45
Cracking open a cold one, sitting back and enjoying a new episode of This Old Tony shenanigans. This Friday just got awesome.
"The proctologist's view..." Laughed out loud at that.
3 minutes later and I’m still chuckling at the laser light cause and effect. As always great video. Thanks so much
Between you and Chris those are the Very Best motion graphic overlays on YT, imho. Mega Kudo's to you both and to get another collaboration is off the charts! Splitting the arrow in motion and the Sintered bronze was brilliant, although the cat lips seemed right out of Logitech but still the best use of it I've seen while falling out of my chair...and thank you for not sharing any hair balls, but the laser threw me out of my chair..again. As for Hilarity, I think you are winning because I messed up my espresso intake Again and spewed...12 thumbs up for catching me, again. Great content and explanations with minimal expletives that were at least bleeped. OK, I have to ask what software and add-ons are you using?...Please. I think I know the real reason for this video, it's to turn Chris on to an air filer because his fingers have to be down to the nubbin's after hand filing 126,846 gear teeth over 2 millennium (2096yrs)...Right? Gob struck in Awe and grinning ear to ear (again) is the best I can say for a Thank You, Tony and Chris!!
I really enjoy your videos, and your humor. you have given me some great ideas that I have implemented in the shop I am employed at. I went to college to be a welder, but have become a metal fabricator working for an early model mustang, performance suspension oriented shop. I have learned light machining skills on a manual mill, and manual lathe from my employer, but learn something new every day from your videos. I would like to see more machining tips you have up your sleeve if at all possible. Thank you for putting out good content!
Why do you want to kill that filer?
I love your videos and was really happy to see a new one come out so soon. I learn something new and useful almost every time I watch, and even when I don't, I'm still very entertained. You do great work, thank you for being a welcome break and an inspiration to try new things in my shop.
I love this old tony!
I think that bottom port is to equalize the pressure around the cylinder and provide a bit of air cushion for it to travel on, and less for the small percentage of times that the tool may be stalled.
Does the piston actually smack into the walls of the cylinder on each stroke? Seems like that'd cause a lot of noise, wear and tear, and wasted energy. It kinda looks like the piston will uncover the "go the other way" hole long before it hits the wall, so it might just be that the piston vibrates back and forth inside the cylinder, and the air pressure pushing on the ends of the cylinder makes it vibrate forth and back.
The cool thing about designing it this way would be that if the piston weighs about the same as the cylinder, since one's always going forward while the other's going backward, there's no net momentum and no recoil, so you won't feel (much) vibration when you hold the tool.
Also, I suspect that the air trapped on either side of the piston would give it a spring action as it's compressed.
Jason Goodman I think you are right, or at least with some design you could attempt to do so. Maybe that is the reason why there is the maximum prescribed pressure, not because the tool would burst but because the higher pressure would make the piston slam the end stops. You could test this drilling some vent holes in one side, or both, if the sound changes there is an inpact.
Big thanks for posting this, Jason. It makes so much sense.
I really must watch the video before I read the comments! :o)
Yup, that's almost certainly exactly how it's intended to work.
Note that this only works properly if the weights balance, which means the file needs to weigh the right amount. Which is probably another reason ... er, justification ... for the "don't use other files" rule.
There shouldn't be any recoil in any case, since nothing much is pushing on the file body.
Thank you for making this video. I had the same questions that other people (2) asked about whether it could be "skooked" up or not, and I really enjoyed the step-by-step breakdown of how it works. I understand now! Thank you!
Would you look at that! Clickspring good job!
Sasha Z don't encourage click spring to do other projects. We wait a long time between his videos already. 😉
Mike oliver for the quality of work that man does I don't think it'd be possible to post any faster. I'm always amazed at the production quality of the project and the video. Tis a staggering amount of work, so I have no problem waiting between uploads.
Jesse S oh I agree completely I was just playing around. I do look forward to his videos though.
Jesse S - what are you talkin about. He’s been workin on the same, one gear for two thousand years. I expected better honestly.
Barry Freeman to be fair that one Gear has over 100,000 hand filed teeth.
That cat moment at the end. That's Gold Old Tony, That's Gold!!!! And thanks for the Coldspring intro. looks interesting.
I've come full circle, when I started watching RUclips it was all funny cat videos.
Don't know how you accomplish that, but the sense of humor is still rising from episode to episode. It's an enrichment for everyone ;)
I say hog out those holes by 50 % and see if it chooches.
OOPS, wrong channel.
Why do I always have an aching desire to SUBSCRIBE when watching these, even though I know I already have. Strange, spooky, something like that.
I thought you said 'Air Rifle'... But then you wouldn't have a talking cat problem.
It did happen to many of us in the 1st part too.
If you're high on acid, an air rifle will only make your talking cat problem worse...
LMAO, OMG that is sooo funny! I started to cry.
I’ll make the Johnny Dangerously joke. “I had a talking cat problem once... ONCE”
Just listening while I dabble through chores, but the description around 2:30 could very well describe most of my friends babies- supply goes in one way, comes flying out front or back!
I dont know anything about tools like this, quite informative :D
Hey Tony you need to do a series on souping up your air filer! Take a carbide end mill and bore those parts to over a quarter inch. Add a 12 inch saws all blade. Connect to a 600 CFM gunnite compressor and you'll be ready to cut a winters worth of firewood in half a day!
"This Old BOLTR"
Niiice. Can't sleep and I see a new This Old Tony video, sure makes my night easier!
3,700 strokes per minute... my dog would love it.
Tony,I think I'd recommend that any users of this Harbor Freight product (which I usually would not recommend as a good financial investment for hard earned cash) seriously upgrade the files to industrial quality diamond files available from McMaster Carr or similar source of quality tools.These files are available in several grits as in fine medium and course.And a variety of sizes whose shanks can be modified by a competent craftsman to fit this model Air File.The diamond files are very hard and will allow you to file very hard steels and maybe carbides.The Diamond file are better not used on Aluminum.Even T6 or T651 hardness aluminum is so soft it tends to load the files and be very tough to clean without a chemical to dissolve the the Aluminum.The Diamond files cut in both/all directions making them much more efficient.Good video.As a side note,there is hope for Your cat illness.A Witch turned Me into a newt,but it got better.
It's sort of like "Clutch Cargo" with the cat lips!
Was expecting another result with the added drops of oil at the end - that the whole vise disappears in a tenth of a second ;-) This is my absolute favorite channel combining know-how, professional photography and editing, plus humor in a unique mix. Clickspring: eat your heart out! ;-)
😂 You are certifiable, cat man. I have so many air tools in my garage but I ever use only two of them. A high flow blower gun to clean the garage and a low flow blower gun to clean the garage... That's not completely true, though. Twice a year I change tires on my car. I wait for a male person to pass, and fire up the pneumatic bolt tool. It never fails, they cannot ignore that sound. 😜
Lithium powered tools are so good now I only use the air for blowing / tyres
every single video you post is an absolute gem
We love you Tony!
I like it better then the 1st. Truth be told. You sir, AvE, and Alec Steel inspired me to change my career in life and go back to school to be a machinist. 41 year old student. 2nd term, coming up!!
Man I love your videos and I’m not a machinist
Jared Springer I've been getting into wood working the past year and after discovering and binge watching TOT, I'm really reconsidering this whole dead tree business.
You misspelled masochist.
your jokes always get me! plz keep the videos comming!!!
It's a miniature combination between the working-principal of a 2-stroke engine and the one of a steam engine
sort of a Klein bottle crossed with Walschaerts valve gear . . . no wonder Clickspring showed up when he took it "apart"
That's pretty good with the talking cat! Mr Ed eat your heart out! Wilburrrr! 😁 Oh yeah, the air file portion was pretty great too! Thanks for the detailed walk though of the entire tool!
I was gonna clean the house, but then I got notification that TOT posted a video !!
I was gonna get up and find the broom, but I got notified
EREBUS and I know why......because I got ‘Fied, because I got ‘Fied, because I got notified
Tony i dont know if anyones already brought this up but that air filer is for all intent identical to a pnuematic air graver, aside from graver being smaller. Two things...air gravers HATE oil, it reduces their impact...second..to increase impact they use heavier pistons...(they make a few different lengths and material types.) If you want this machine to function better, use dry air, dunno if you could machine a piston with more mass..also if you ground a graver or chisel point on the end of one of those files and used it like a graver or chisel i suspect youd be pleasantly suprised by its functionality as a chisel
Huh, I remember BOLTR having a lot more cussin' and Richards in vises.
So this is an air file. Well, have urgent need to go buy one BUT need compressor first. File 13 that thought, will just watch Old Tony with his when put together again.
Enjoyed this. .now l know how air file works. Thanks Old Tony!
As requested, I paused and thought about it, and realize this video has three dimensions (X,Y,Time) and is used to represent of a 4 Dimensional event (X,Y,Z,Time). Is this the trick to your time travel ability?
0:53 "Or does it?" [cue Vsauce]
17:29 Oil's contribution to sealing depends on the clearances. Use a little now, or need a lot later.
Thanks for the disassembly and explanation of operation, especially without junior high profanity in an attempt to inflate your manhood. GOOD job as usual and love your clean sense of humor.
So much vulgar talk!
What the fack pardner? Never worked around other guys before? Either you work in an office or you're the guy on the job site with the clipboard that everyone rolls their eyes at. Either way you can go ahead and refer to Anthony's reply above.
Dick beaters = or /= dick skinners? I know this chick that has a mean set of dick skinners... er uh vageen that can really give the dick a good 'ol scrub.
Well you’re definitely part of the carpet people clan, but what really makes me sick? He smells just like a “safety coordinator”. Appointed to out of compassion once the talent dried up no doubt...
Ron, don't blame the player; blame the game. Watch AvE's older video on drilling/broaching a square hole to see what he is like when your wish comes true. This is a video, before there were vijayos.
It's not AvE's fault that RUclips spews buckets of money at him for making 30 minute dick jokes. He learned what kind of audience you need to make hundreds of thousands of dollars on RUclips and Patreon, then he said "hold my beer." Thus, Uncle Bumblefuck was born. I consider it performance art by a smart man. The art of the Canadian dick joke.
Cockfordollie == Dick jokes for dollhairs.
The hole on the bottom is to lubricate the outer cylinder to body interface, it's a bleed hole that allows a little air to bypass; it's ALWAYS getting air in operation, not only when it's stalled.
Clickspring cameo?
Realtime1501 if you like this, you may also enjoy "Origins"
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The small hole on the other side of the 5 holes for the main port is there in order to avoid, that the cylinder is pressed to this side. The hole allows pressurized air to reach the other side of the cylinder opposite of the main port. The milled flat mirrors the area of the pocket in the housing. Therefore the pressure and area on which the pressure is applied are balanced. This has nothing to do with the piston being in neutral position.
Glad TOT reopened the File on this harbor freight tool. Really airing out the dirty secrets here.
OK, I'm sorry.. I'm done.
It was wearing me down, like a burr in my side.
C’mon man, just go with the flow...
Chipped a tooth, did ya?
I've tried filing air. The damned stuff just keeps moving around. Very frustrating!
ExtantFrodo2 did you file alphabetically or numerically? I’m no expert, but I bet it makes a difference
Thanks Tony! Congrats on the new addition to the family ha ha
Did you take that file to your fingernails??
Well done Tony! great explanation of the workings of that air file.
ATB, Robin
Niiice. Im one of the 6 hahaha.
I don't think the sponsor at the end got a lot of attention
me too :), where are the 4 remaining at?
Viewer number 5 here. Looking forward to the die filer!
I must be number 6
A guy i work with removed the key to allow the cylinder to rotate as he rotates the file so he can control the air flow. He also made a delrin adapter to hold stones. Thing works well
My wife just asked if I'm watching one trick Tony 😁 maybe a cool name for a second channel
Its ok to have only one trick - if it is a really really good trick.
"I fear not the man who practice 10,000 kicks once, but the man who practices 1 kick 10,000 times" - bruce lee.
The last bit with the laser. Man, I nearly choked with laughter!
So many internet rules broken here. First off you have to have a green mat and a moldy coffee mug on your healing bench. Also the kittah should speak only in french and of course always more skook (try some pink tape and tap oil).
Sy Bernot Sounds like you just want to watch AvE.
I’m always ready for the next video. Indeed educational.
😁good Kitty!
Tony, imho to increase the effectiveness of the tool is to increase the size of the ports. The right angles into the cylinder, then to the piston, and then out increases friction at each turn and thus reducing operational effectivenes. (Love those '80 buzz words!). In addition, those small holes also increase friction (vise one large hole) like an air brake on an aircraft. I realize Bernoulli is the master, but from this foxhole, its the GPM that makes the horsepower. Increase the surface area of each orifice, and then each in turn, and give a it a shot. Thanks !
"Well, This Old Tony, what is that hole for?"
You should market these videos with a syllabus. I am not even remotely a machinist, student, but your combination of humor and details, makes me want to be. Thankis,
Am I sensing some AVE
Henry Beason yes.
Henry Beason Not really, Tony doesn't feel the need to question the judgement of the engineer who designed it, or subtly belittle the people who buy some of their tools at Harbor Freight. It's easy to poke at Harbor Freight, but without them, many people wouldn't be able to afford to have some tools. They might not offer the 'best quality' tools which professionals need, but for the ' weekend warrior', it allows the expansion of a non-professional's capability to perform larger projects.
Pegleg Swantoon I believe what I was doing was making a joke
Henry Beason There-in lies a tremendous problem when interacting with and engaging with other people on the internet, if you do not CLEARLY state the intent of your message, it will invariably be misunderstood by someone. I still stand by my previoua statement though.
Pegleg Swantoon I guess I’m sorry I have a bit of sarcasm seems a little bit funny that you can’t figure out a joke considering the RUclipsr you are watching
Always enjoyable and informative. Ave will be proud!
BOLTR
Ogri Grindstaff. Lol. I wonder if ave&tony will ever collab
Brendan Stanford they sort of have in the past. AvE made some parts for TOT
His box opening skills need some honing.
I almost heard a "and as always keep your dick in a vice" . At least it was in my head.
"Keep your piston in a cylinder"
That was a really nice breakdown and explanation. I think this video should be the go to for anyone that wants to know how an air file works (engineering students perhaps). Unfortunately I don't think they will find it with the current title.
On his first try he accomplishes what AvE has been attempting to do for years.
Enjoyed the humor. Great job TOT