Wire Brush IN CORNERS (simple DIY end-brush tool)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Easy-to-make wire end brush for a drill. Great for removing paint and cleaning welds. Cheap, durable. Better than anything store-bought. Can apply lots of force to a small area, so works well for getting into tight spots.
SOLDERING:
Soldering galvanized wire will make toxic fumes. This wire brush will work fine without soldering it-but if you must, make sure the cable isn't galvanized. Consider instead using epoxy or steel pipe.
Hacksaw users note:
It's OK to start your lengthwise pipe cut while it's still under compression in the vice. Technically, the top part of a squashed pipe is still under tension, and as you cut through it, you end up running into the compressed part inside. Think of it like bending a piece of plastic in half; where it turns light-colored is the tense part, and where it gets wrinkly is the compressed part. Sometimes we have to cut things that are under compression, but there are very specific procedures to go about doing so. Consider what it's like to drop a tree; the entire thing is upright, so it must be under compression, right? Not exactly. On a calm day, the compressive forces can pass through the hinge part of the cut, and so the tree can stay there by funneling all of its compressive tendency onto a thin line as the other parts are being removed. Consider that if the compression is not in balance while the tree is being cut, the chainsaw bar will get compressed, and it ends up 'pinched' there, supporting the tree it's supposed to be felling. This is why wedges are used, to transfer the compression (the weight) around the saw cut.
Clickbait:
This is how far we've fallen: the vast majority of viewers won't even blink an eye at this display. It's now expected-and this one's even mild-here in modern RUclips "woodworker" world. I didn't even make any misleading/false promises; just one little rhetorical interrogative. The title is conservatively spot-on, enough even to be considered modest. I considered using [THEY DIDN'T SAY I COULD INVENT THIS!], except for its blatant lack of descriptive content. The honest ambiguity was cute, though.
Clickbait is awful. It's not even funny to me anymore, so much as it is repulsive. Reminds me of the pre-millenium car salesman cliché: it's sleazy, hucksterish, slimy. You know, I'm making fun of you by doing it (and lowering myself in the process). We should both be ashamed that this is what it takes to get a look. I try to give you good ideas. I try to say things that aren't often said, rather than to just drill-down on the same old by-the-book methods that have been long-established, yet somehow recently get "discovered" by popular RUclipsrs. Every once in awhile I drop one of these sensation-bombs out of pure, disgusted hatred, in part for the social commentary, in part for the lulz, and in part for the artistry flex, sure, but I promise it has nothing to do with promoting myself on this medium. I am a failure on this platform, and I've accepted that; the fact that I debase myself by using clickbait at all, even ironically, is a pathetic demonstration of just how cynical I have become. A plague on us all for the present appearance of this medium. We can't even tell what's real here anymore, and because of the hidden censorship, we've lost any ability to critique enough that we can no longer preserve our ability to discern.
What is honest now, who can say?
The tragedy, to me, is that this video really will get higher than usual ratings. And then next week, when I restore normalcy, so too will I be returned to my appropriate obscurity. Sadly but also incidentally in this case, the topic idea really is a good one this time. And I knowingly flush it down the sensation hole for a cheap joke, as though I were scrawling it on the inside of a port-o-shidder I'm about to knock over.
O, O, O-you know what I'm talking about.
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Music:
As I Figure by Kevin MacLeod
Link: incompetech.fi...
License: creativecommons...
*SOLDERING:*
Heating galvanized wire can release toxic fumes. This wire brush will work fine without soldering it, but if you must, make sure the cable isn't galvanized. Consider instead using epoxy or steel pipe.
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It definitely added a lot of flair. btw, I am listening to this at a reasonable volume.
@kathyedmundson232 I made a couple of these brushes today and it works great
Just do a Bill Clinton, and don't inhale.. More realistically, use a shop fan and do it outside or similar.
@@ModelLights Most realistic of all, don't bother, because my first one wasn't soldered and it's a year old & still going strong.
I'm having a hard time understanding the insistence here on soldering, considering the severity of fume fever. I guess people just don't know. That, and everybody likes to overbuild.
Ignoring the rest of this video, the wire through the pipe into the vice trick alone made viewing worthwhile.
totally agree. Thought that was brilliant!
Absolutely that was a nice trick
Yes, problem solving in action, liked it
I'm not a new kid around here and I've never seen anything like it.
A wire brush that doesn't fling wires everywhere? I like it.
This is a BIG advantage over store-bought!
and i guess when it's done you just unclamp it pull out what you need and add a new cut piece to the bottom and clamp again
Man being able to use a hacksaw is an honor. To think there's a tool that can cut through virtually every material using only human power? I feel like God accidentally left a dev tool enabled when he created the earth. Top tier tool 10/10 (but I do wish I could have a bandsaw in my apartment)
They're totally underrated. A hacksaw is somehow perceived as being low-class, so it doesn't get the love it deserves.
Meanwhile, weirdos buy brass-ferruled pullsaws and ebony-knobbed handplanes, as though such tools will somehow reconnect a person's crafting aura back onto the spirit realm to be once again united with the great Creatress of the Universe. Sigh. Nids. If you want to feel grounded to the Earth, try using a shovel for an hour.
Not much a man can't do with a hacksaw, some cold chisels, a few files, and time.
I've been using a hacksaw, or rather, just the blades, quite a bit recently. If you need to cut small nails in tough places without damaging anything around them, it works great. My go-to for removing old nail-on outlet boxes (without damaging drywall) to replace with a larger one. Slip the blade between the box and the drywall on the stud side, slide it up until it hits a nail, grab blade (glove if your hands are softer) and saw.
I did a similar trick to remove a windowsill recently to trim its depth. Sure, I could've just cut a new one, but I was able to remove the old one with zero damage, cut the backside and reinstall without any painting or touch ups.
@@pocket83squared This comment really makes me want to do a video on making a super overdone folksy-meets-blingtastic hacksaw.
@@FloweringElbow How could using a Bedazzler to "upgrade" your hacksaw NOT be appreciated by your subscriber base? Beautiful, yet practical- _nobody_ is going to mistake that hacksaw for theirs! I'd give the video a thumb-up.
As a person that has done a fair amount of wire brushing, I have to say this might be the most ingeniously useful thing I have ever seen on youtube!
Nice of you. Thanks.
I'm not going to disagree
I have watched (too) many supposed hacks and tips on the tube, and most are gimmicks at best. This is not one of those. Instead it's the answer to a problem that I've encountered many times. Like all the best solutions, it's simple and clearly works. So I'd like to say thank you, as I'll be making a couple this afternoon.
Like that foolish big socket for a 3/8” drive, that has all the spring loaded pins inside that when pressed down on a bolt, are supposed to hug the bolt head. It replaces all your 7mm to 19mm sockets with just one. Anyone who has encountered a very tight bolt or worse rusted, knows that thing is totally worthless.
Agree , two of my sons bought one each I think they only got used a couple of times then got binned
Yep .. there's a Lot of crap misinformation on the "internet" these days.. seems everyone wants to be an onlyfans star ..
Hard to find "useful" true information 2024 ... rather than click bait..
Its like the Taoist saying of Yin Yang
Too much of one thing becomes its Opposite ..
In today age of internet it equals "Too much Information (truth) becomes Too Little Information (truth)
I'm 59 and so sad in life... When I was younger I had strength and was a little crafty BUT I wanted Money//// NOW at 59 and sick and weak, I have money but wish for Strength and Craft.... Settling for the next best thing is this video!... I learned, and I have hope that I can enjoy making and using this!.... You are a smart man,,, I really benefitted from the clamping a tube longways in a vice to cut!.... So many great points you made here......
Thanks for the video.
Forty years ago or so I worked a summer job in a remanufacturing plant for compressors. I started on the "cleanup" station for heads after the hot-lye bath and used a store-bought wire brush similar to this. The brushes were composed of much smaller wires and they wore out (flinging wire pieces everywhere) in about four hours or so of touching up rust spots. The shop boss was ***loathe*** to give you a new brush until the thing was worn down from a two inch brush to a tiny nubbin. It wasted SOOOO much time when it got small as it was almost completely ineffective. If we had something like this my life would have been MUCH easier. The line would not have been slowed down as much and the effectiveness would not have been so negatively impacted either. Too bad some folks just want to cheap out and "hope" for better outcomes. Shop boss was like: "Stop wasting the tools! They cost MONEY!"
I banged my head against that wall for about four six weeks until I reasoned it was NOT going to ever get better. I did landscape construction for the rest of the summer and early fall. No regrets.
Peaceful Skies.
That wire in the vice holding the pipe trick was genius…
I love this! I use a lot of tiny wire brushes on rotary tools for cleaning metal parts because regular wire wheels are too big. The biggest issue for me with the tiny wire cups are that they're so weak and like you said, you want to switch directions with any wire cups - you can't do that with a rotary tool cup brush. What I did was throw a bunch of hot glue around and within the brush to give it some strength. It keeps the wire brushes from flying everywhere and makes them last longer but I still would usually rather use a cup brush on a real drill - they're always too big though! This is a great idea and gives me something to do with a bunch of old braided wire I have laying around. My wife thanks you so much for supplying me with a great reason to keep it 🤣
Man I am so glad I found this. Rather than store hop trying to find cable I just looked online and found 26 ft of 1/4 304 stainless cable for $20. Combined with a chunk of copper I'll have a lifetime of brushes. I burn through crappy brushes so fast this is going to save me money and frustration. I've got a welder so I can just tig braze it to any tube or rod as well since it's stainless.
That's what I do, I use spent shell casings as the tube. After stuffing it with wire, I braze them in place at the base.
Congratulations for sharing this excellent idea and video with us. We should have more videos like this one. Straight to the point, no unnecessary blabla and no stupid loud and repetitive music. PLUS an excellent idea. Congratulations again. One of the best videos. I especially love the brush going to the corners. Best regards from Belgium. 😀👨🔧
Glad you found it useful. Thanks from southwestern Pennsylvania.
I’m just so happy you’re posting regularly again. You’ve long been one of my favorites. Thanks for the content!
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The actual secret is to anneal the copper before working it. Overall great vid!!
I appreciate how you explain and demonstrate while getting to the point. Also, letting beginners know that we have all started with basic tools like a hacksaw is not shameful. We all start somewhere, and it can take decades to aquire tools
That Manscraft sticker is brilliant
This is probably the best diy tool ever created.
Another benefit over perpendicular wire brushes is that this one won't shoot strands out into your body! I've been watching since drilling pizza, thank you for all the ingenuity over the years.
Thanks! I ate that slice of pizza, you know.
@@pocket83squared I wouldn't have assumed differently.
@@pocket83squared
Drilling pizza? ...I'm definitely going to look that up. I'll bet most people do it the wrong way.
I have used this type of metal wire for cleaning two stroke exhaust pipes as a long strip. I never thought to make one in a smaller form like in this video. This tool is exactly what I need right now thank you.
I'm from the UK and a few cheap DIY stores sell packs of wire wheels and one of them is an 'end grain' wire brush just like the one you made, so luckily I haven't found the need to make my own. But as someone who has done a lot of rust repairs on my car, I fully appreciate the need to get into rusty internal corners with a wire brush.
This is such a brilliant idea. I was a maintenance engineer for many years and this would have been so,so useful. I'm happily retired now but am going to make some of these as they appear to have myriad uses for home maintenance, vehicle work etc. That's the Wife's Christmas present sorted🤣🤣
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This is freaking cool as heck, man. Many of these RUclips tool "hacks" are cheesy and often not worth the squeeze. This looks useful and I look forward to making a few from scrap materials at work.
Such a great little tool, I made some of these same brushes just 3-4 months ago to remove paint down in a several round recess pockets on color coded drilling fixtures, Worked so good, I really didn't want to tell my buddies how I was removing the paint so quickly, I felt sorry for them, and showed them what I was using. they didn't get the concept. these were actually worked better than anything I could have bought. I also made some from 3/16'' copper bent them 90 degrees ( no hard bends ) put them in a pneumatic angle grinder to remove paint on the side walls of the pockets. I'll not forget this little trick.
Excellent idea, thanks for sharing! Getting in to corners to clean up welds has long been a frustration.
I’ll have to try this! I use wire brushes a lot and corners are always frustrating.
I use a deburring tool, but lately, i have taken to using a step bit in reverse. It has the added effect of massaging the tubing back to full diameter and concentricity, especially if you were heavy handed with your tubing cutter. Also, I made a tube salvaging tool by cutting off the short leg on the right size long hex key and grinding it to a point(it looks like a metal pencil). I run it in my drill with a little lube and it fixes up so much mangled old tubing that I can use in my craft.
interesting idea on tube fixer jig made from hex key... I wish I could remember all of the diy hacks folks are sharing...
I just use a Stanley knife on copper it works inside and out , I was a fridge engineers apprentice !
I'll be borrowing those ideas!
@@craziedde so lately I've been using a bunch of salvaged ⅜" copper tubing, and I have been having really good luck with a tool made from an extra long 7mm L Allen key. You'll have to figure out what particular key size to choose for your tubing application. Also, I like using a cutting wax as a lubricant to minimize any copper galling that occurs when the friction heat gets out of hand. The wax seems to help really well with that, but also, make sure the key stock tool you make is reasonably smooth and nick free.
@@MichaelWillby You're right; using a utility-knife really can work to make perfect copper flares. A sharp blade can get that little burr off better than anything. I did my mini-split that way, because refrigerant lines have to be PERFECT so they don't leak. The trick is to use a dental pick on the inside of the pipe flare to feel, because with one of those, you'll detect a burr that's smaller than you can see.
A de-burring tool is great for lots of things, but flares take a special sort of finesse, and that tool would risk scratching the inside. Strike another point for developing basic hand-tool skills!
Buddy Boy, without even looking up your catalogue of videos, on the strength of this one I am an instant subscriber. Looking forward to all other ideas and techniques you have to share! That technique for gripping pipe in a vise alone is worth the price of admission, and you go onward and upward from there.
Thanks. I've been making videos for well over a decade now, so there are a few gems here and there. Check my main channel for the more interesting stuff; this channel is mostly shop stuff and woodsy things. I don't take it too seriously here. Hope you find something useful.
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Can't wait to try this. This may be the most useful hack I've seen on RUclips.
Great idea! You're ability to take common day item and create useful objects never ceases to amaze me. Keep up the great work.
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You can find the cable in your house more than likely on your garage door. Lol
The techniques and tricks used to get to the hack were beautiful. Thanks
It's a great idea. And since you used a copper tube, you can solder it with tin for a perfect finish and make it even more strong.
my grandfather retired when i was 4, back in the 70s, spent a lot of time with him in his shop with him showing how to weld a run a lathe. my point is, he showed me a lot of thing people don't know about today, they just go buy it, or they make do with what they have, never trying to make anything. thank u for the video and the memory of goodtimes.
Thanks! This looks very useful indeed. Great idea and good luck with your planer restoration! Cheers
Qui in Italia le vendono anche alla Lidl già fatte in set da tre con le spazzole ottonate.
per quello che costano sono molto utili,io le uso ormai da qualche anno.ci sono quasi sempre nelle ceste del fai da te.
You have lidl in Italy, wow world domination or what ?
Cutting the pipe in the vice like that just gave me a why didn't I think of that wow thanks
Nice idea. I was fooling around with a dremal and dozens of their pricy inserts to do the same thing.
I've always viewed you as a mentor figure. My life has recently been going through a number of positive changes, and I just wanted to thank you for being an inspiration to me. I hope you're doing well, Pocket.
Glad to hear things are going well. I'm flattered. Thanks.
Thanks...I will be making these in the shop today... with winch cable off my atv!
Great video 👍🇨🇦‼️
I was sold when I saw you use it to clean out that keyway. Such a great idea. Thanks!
Best tool hack ever... Thank you!
I've been buying end brushes from Amazon. They last a long time, but they always seem expensive. I'm definitely going to give this a try. Great video!
My god this is brilliant. This is EXACTLY what I need in all the tight spots on my rusty ass project car. Thank you for making this and sharing with us.
Also I love how you're making it seem like an angle grinder is some high level diy tool, like you can't buy one for 20 bucks lol
Thanks. Plenty of my audience is working with a limited tool set. I try to provide alternative methods. Good luck with that project car. Hope this saves your knuckles.
Fantastic idea! Will probably last far longer than the cheap ones you can buy.
Years as a blacksmith and working with my hands.... and I just never saw that possibility. Genius! And I just happen to have a small restoration project that I've been putting off for ages because it would mean having to get into those nasty corners to remove rust and paint! Truly a brilliant solution that looks like a fun project. And you can bet I'll make one of those bendy versions just because I can!
You're right: I need to make one. 👍
Kudos for this incredibly useful tip. And it couldn't have come at a better time for me, as I've just begun restoring the chassis of a 1960 VW beetle so it looks like this DIY device will work out nicely for me and save me time.
fantastic home made tool. I have purchased a few brushes similar to this, but never again :D
That is a great tool for even cleaning body joints before you weld body panels. Cleaning the small areas is tough, but that is a great tool to make. Thank you for showing us.
Been looking for an end brush for a decade. This is perfect! I'll make one using copper wire as well.
Thank you sir, I appreciate your invention, I was looking for this a. long time. From. Trinidad
Dude, kudos to you!!! These simple tools that now is obvious and you are now thinking....how did I not thing of that!!!! the power of the internet!!!!
Actually if you look and really see how such brushes are made, you can use these same techniques to make most any type wire brush. If you need a rounded brush head, bend the individual wires to form such a brush. Nice video that opens ideas to make other things as well... Thumbs Up!
I'm sold. I'm making one
Pretty sure I learned about five different things in this video that I can use in my daily life. Excellent video, thank you!
Great. Glad it was useful.
OK, I had a go at this today, and it turned out great. I made a couple of changes, so I'm just reporting back on those. Instead of copper plumbing pipe, I used some 10mm stainless steel tubing from a mug tree from the charity shop (thrift shop), and I did all the cutting with a diamond cut-off wheel on a Dremel tool. The 1/8" wire rope I used came from a couple of really cheap old bicycle locks, cut with high-leverage side cutters - which in itself tells you how useless these bike locks were!
Thanks for the idea. I bought some wire rope today and with the 1/2" copper tube I already have, I'm going to give it a try. 🔨
This is a great idea. I have taken the store bought end bristle wire brushes that spread out the first time you use them and fixed them by using heat shrink tubing. Never thought to make my own. Thanks for posting.
Awesome and I have some cable and copper pipe just hanging out in the shop
I’m rarely impressed at my age but this is a solid tip.
Excellent idea, 👍👍
This is great, I use a bunch of the OEM ones to clean up my bike. I’ll give this a go, thanks 🙂 Just a tip for others, don’t use steel wire to strip paint from wood, the metal embeds in the wood and rusts later - use stainless steel wire 👌
I don't know where you live but I have found such wire brush at the hardware store right next to the other types you showed...
That said, using cable to make one is a neat trick.
And also, very neat pipe in the vice trick !
Why didn't I think of this. Simple genius. I have wire rope swages and the machine to do it at my work so I'll make a robust one. I mostly have miles of stainless wire rope on hand.
Clever idea, a very usefull tool and thanks for sharing it. I will keep that in mind should I need that kind of tool. Cheers now☘
You can buy narrow wire brushes, but they're usually too soft to really bear down into the work. This solves that problem.
Good video. On a 1 1/4 or 2 inch receiver cavity on a tow hitch, I used your method and bent the wire cable 90 degrees to 1 1/4 and another to 2 inch. This removed the rust in those cavities so that the hitch slid in easier. Once that was done, I cut a piece of ridgid foam insulation to a square size of each cavity, approx 6 inches long. I pushed into the end of it a double barbed hook so that it can be pulled out. And then I soaked the ridgid foam inserts with oil to prevent any more rust.
Terrific ideas! When I think of how much time this could have saved me! Thank you!
New subscriber!! I need this so I can paint my engine!!! It’ll clean in all the corners!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Excellent narration and delivery. I've had many applications that this idea would suit. Many thanks😊❤
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Thank you for this. I absolutely need to make one for a metal door frame rusted against tiles❤
Great idea thanks for sharing 👍👍
I absolutely adore all of your ingenious, , usually simple, elegant, but also practical solutions problems.
I personally am not a maker, at least at this time, and I have absolutely no need for a wire brush to get into corners (nor any of the other ideas mentioned in this or your other posts), but your practical way of going about things is… refreshing to say the least. Especially so in a world where everyone is trying to make things more complicated than they should. Even I fall to this trap more often than not-I mean I’m doing it right now in this comment. Appreciate you sharing your ideas.
Nothing happens in a vacuum. I mean that both literally and figuratively. Anything that you see here is something that I've presented _explicitly_ to carry some cross-discipline application. I'm not exclusive to the tinkerer's world, you know. And neither can you be constrained to the realm of the "am not a maker." Be careful about bottling yourself, because we tend to fulfill the limits we impose upon ourselves. Glad you get it. Appreciate you sharing your beautiful comment.
Well said; thinking in a way that produces useful tools like the end-wire brush is helpful just about anywhere.
I've become no stranger to cleaning things with wire brushes over the last few years and boy this could have really helped out on every occasion. I actually got a huge length of 1/2" rusty old cable somebody was throwing out and I've got plenty of tubing . Don't know when I'll be using a brush again, but once you start using them you always seem to find another reason to use them. I'm going to make me at least a few of these. I don't suppose it's 9 days too late for you to put a patent on this, huh? I really appreciate you sharing your ingenuity like this, but I'm going to hate seeing Big Corp making a fortune off of your generosity. You got my like and sub out of it though, for whatever that's worth.
Thanks. Can't take our ideas with us. And I sure don't want to spend my life guarding one of them. That leaves putting it up here! Happy if it's useful to you ;)
Most excellent. Thanks. Also, impressed by how straight you cut that tubing with a grinder.
yes Great
Thank you for the tip! Definitely a game changer!
I like your tool‼️
Like the tool you made! Many of the pipe cutters 5:08 have a deburring tool built in.
Excellent tool I will be building some of those myself .......and prototyping whilst filming makes it more interesting ...
Thanks for sharing
I wonder if I could do a really small one with brake pipe....plans world domination starting with a home made wire brush.
Great idea! I will definitely do this.
I'm an artist and steamfitter and this is freaking great. Thank you!
Can't believe I've suffered all these years without this simple tool. Why didn't i think of this?
Because you were too busy cursing the little bits of paint stuck in the corners!
Fantastic... Very impressive. However, I would add just one more simple process. Clamp the tube as you did and then use plumbers flux and solder to make it very tight.
What a fantastically useful tool! Thanks!!
Of course. Glad it helps.
Thanks!
Great video
Really good narration. Nice innovation as well.
Am I the only one to notice the ManCrafts belt sander @4:28? That's awsome man! And great idea too!
always nice to see someone actually use the guard on their angle grinder 😭🥺
Personally, I like the guard on an angle grinder. It's a great finger-rest-slash-stabilizer. You can use two fingers of the same hand to sort of 'finger walk' the grinder onto the material to begin your cut. Helps you balance. Doing this will dramatically increase landing accuracy over the old freehand-plunge.
@@pocket83squared Gotta be OSHA safe! :)
Came back to thank you for the idea. I made both versions and they worked great.
Appreciated.
My 6 inch Beaver jointer, is also around 75 years old. After restoring and blueprinting, it works great.
Thank you so much for talking about and showing all those simple jigs and methods that allows to make stuff without almost any tools. Like a wire to secure the piece of tube in the wise for cutting lengthwise. I never thought about it, it's genius!
I'm so tired of the DIYers who use huge industrial metal lathes or magnetic drills or plasma cutting tables. Jesus! can it even be called DIY at this point?
We've lost the plot. Thing is, those high-production videos bring in the views. Looking at my modest shop, I must not know what I'm doing. Nobody watches content like mine until I use clickbait.
@@pocket83squared True. But nobody download for future use their videos like I am doing right now with some of yours :) (Just in case I'm stuck without internet for long or something bad happens to your channel). That high production content is just useless crap wrapped in foil. Vids like yours are little gold ingots.
Thanks ;
I have been using this trick for 20 plus years with smaller wire for cleaning out masonry drilling/anchoring holes. A quick spin with a fine wire rope and a shot of air and your anchors will bite solid everytime.
I made one of these for my air tool in my deburring area i used opper an lead to fuse it into the copper
My man, this is a very nice tool. Awesome video. I have a cast iron bench chair back and has a floral design. Nucks and cranies galore.
Thank you definetly will be part of the cleaning arsenal.
Wow ....great looking tool ...I have so many places to use that on my truck restoration...I will be making some of these to use ....no more sandpaper on a screwdriver....thank you for a solution for my problem...
Awesome idea.
I like it!
I wish there was a power tool that had angle grinder RPMs but power drill ergonomics and a chuck, that would increase the effectiveness of your awesome cable/wire brush bit.
I love it. Cant wait to build and use my own.
This exactly the tool I need (and I didn't even Google it - spooky), I'm restoring a engine and need to get into lots of dirty greasy corners. And thanks for your other tips too !
Funny how that works. Good luck. Take care of those knuckles.
Awesome idea, thx for sharing. I've been watching videos on 'jeweling' metal using various methods, one of which requires a similar brush. They can be ordered but tend to be hard to find & costly for what they are. I just might try my hand to diy one of these. I have copper & I have cable. It will need to be a smaller version than what you've made as I'd like to jewel a firearm bolt. ;)
OMG I have been using so many different ways to remove rust, paint, etc and haven't found a great way to get into crevices. Vinegar + scraping has been the best so far but your wire rope idea is exactly what I need.
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