Alec, go speak to DMM, based in Llanberis, to see how they forge them en-mass. That would be a cool vid in a similar vein to your visit to Tata steelworks or when you went to your local foundry
You should look into how carabiners can cut ropes, it's really quite insane to me how little of an edge can result in such a catastrophic failure. Even what would appear to be a smooth edge can be dangerous, even with strong ropes.
@@graeme.davidson I agree but it’s still a super cool process. You couldn’t use it in your kit because of the heavy testing and certifications that the come with the commercial
@@neloy4200 I mean, you could use it if you wanted. You just could not sell it without a lot of liability risk. You coukd use whatever the hell you want though. Whether it is smart to use it is a different question and one that involves your own calculation of risk.
obviously it goes without saying that Damascus and Aluminium have different tensile strength. So please just be careful on how much fall/sheer pressure is applied when you use it. Otherwise nice one! have fun!
Steel carabiners would actually be stronger than aluminum ones they would also be a lot heavier so if you’re doing a long climb, where do you need a lot of carabiners for supports it would get really heavy.
Alec, your work is phenomenal, so I propose a challenge to you, to produce all the hardware of an electric guitar in damascus steel. It would be really cool to see you do this. A big thank you for all your content that I've been following for years. Wagner Berzagui from Brazil
Please do a DMM factory tour, the hot drop forge their aluminium carabiners and I have now idea how they make their steel ones. It would be fascinating to see your perspective on their manufacturing, plus Jamie would get to make beautiful B roll of North Wales.
I think it'll be really interesting to see the wear on the damascus pattern after the caving trip! Can't think of many others doing this level of material testing on pattern welded steel ;D
@@Merennulli I regularly suffer with bouts of depression, especially in winter. A friend of mine recently talked me into starting running, using the "Couch to 5K" app. It's really helped with my mental health!
@@ApexHerbivore I have a disability that prevents me from walking very well, but I appreciate it. This was the result of a terrible day at work (former coworker lied about something being ready, I got assigned to deploy it on short notice, and found it's fundamentally designed in a way that could never work, meaning it really needs a total rewrite...in 5 days after he spent months making it a glorified mockup.) I do have cyclical depression, but it's not tied to seasons and I am thankfully not in the depressed part of the cycle now. I try to keep a distinction between feeling down (bad day sort of thing) and feeling depressed (where it's biological and my circumstances have limited effect on it). My last cycle was before my injury, and honestly the exercise was of some effect but not much. I normally find social interaction draining, but I find forcing myself to do it when I am in a depressive cycle is the best way to mitigate it.
@@Merennulli I'm sorry to hear about your disability, I shouldn't assume everybody is fully mobile when I make comments like that, my bad. I struggle with social interaction too, and had a 15 year struggle with alcohol and cannabis which I thought were helping, but were actually making things worse! Glad you've found something that helps you, sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders in any case, and that's the main thing! All the best to you :)
I am seriously enjoying the videos where you make these every day objects like the lighter and crescent wrench. Its so interesting to see the mechanisms behind the items. Keep up the good work!
I think it might be beneficial if you only surface-harden it like it is done with gears. This way you can achieve some more strenght with a still low risk of snapping it. As far as I know, surface hardening can be achieved by blasting it with glasbeads just like in sandblasting. The material should work harden on the surface. But if you actually put your life on the line with this, better trust your guts. We just learned about this method in university which is why it came to my mind. Its a pretty cool concept that could possibly work quite well for parts like this.
I understand what you mean about being scared of heights. When I was in the Boy Scouts I could never do the climbing more than above a certain amount of height. Although for me the fear was going up not down so if I started high up I could climb down no problem. I did go caving once my last year as a youth but we didn't do much traversing of ropes, just one in order to get around a drop that most people didn't go past.
I have got to say, you are an amazing entertainer, and teacher. I have never messed with a forge in my life, the most I've done is bend some rebar, and I have been watching you on here and my other account for a very long time, you got a great personality and I love the videos and I don't even know much about this, I guess what I'm saying is well done. You're A huge inspiration
When I was in Boy Scouts getting the Climbing merit badge the instructor did a demonstration for how strong the ropes. He attached the rope to his harness and suspended himself about a foot off the ground, then cut the sheath around the outside exposing six smaller stranded ropes that braid together into the core. He then cut each strand one by one until he was suspended by only a single core rope. That made me much more confident while climbing because I knew just how overengineered the ropes were which made it easier to just trust them to do the job and focus on the actual climbing.
Most beautiful carabiner I've ever seen! Will certainly be at least three times 'super good enough ' given that it's made of steel and will only see static loads, not any lead climbing falls.
Steel carabiners are the go-to for caving. Not sure about Damascus ones. But it's awesome to see. I was always taught 'thumb on bum' for SRT descents. Better control of the rope generally. Awesome to see a crossover between two hobbies!
This feels like the start of one of those conversations that goes "Where's Alec?......Oh, he's in the hospital after breaking his legs while testing out home-made carabiner" and all you can think of is Why??
Alec, an engineer should be to quickly calculate the strength of your carabiner to see if it's strong enough or not. After all, you don't necessarily know if your Damascus billett is as strong (or stronger) than the carabiners material. The modulus of elasticity of your material has a lot to say in a cross sections strength 😅
For this material, it would be almost impossible to tell, because of the different properties of the two steel and there is no way to know what proportion of each material there is at any given cross sectional area. Its possible to make an estimate by averaging the two materials though.
@@JacktheFireEater bcs you have a life on the line you go safe and take the lowest possible values / worst case scenario, that way it can only be the same or better.
@@I_am_here_to_eat_your_toes Well, yes, but this will already be above the minimum factor of safety just through the design and material. That doesn't tell the yield strength for the carabiner like I think the OP was getting at. Im an engineer, so I agree with you that thats what would be done for the lowest estimate, what I was saying is that there isnt any way to get the exact value and that an average would just be as close as we could get.
@@JacktheFireEater I'm just done my engineering degree, and that crossed my mind. There are tests one can do to determine an approximate strength, it's done with rebar, but it's not accurate. Averaging would be my go to, but I lack the experience to be more confident in my abilities to say anything else 😅
@@I_am_here_to_eat_your_toes this is also a solution... Though aren't the carabiners made of aluminum? In that case steel in general has a modulus of elasticity about 2.5x that of aluminum, which should sort any issues out.
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You should consider cutting out that channel that the bought one has, that cross section shape like an I-beam makes it more resistant to bending than an oval, even though there's more material in the oval.
before using it, get it xrayed and a ultrasound done on the metal work, big ouch if it goes wrong. My climbing gear used to have yearly inspections. A couple of them came back chopped in half.
Seeing you strapped up in the air makes me want to see you do a video forging but only in the air no feet on the ground. Makes me imagine a old time skyscraper worker up there working away.
Did I say single video? I meant single-year project, I don’t think it will take more than 52 episodes, unless something goes wrong at the very last moment ofcourse
If those aluminum carabiners are not forged, they will be weaker than the forged steel one you are making due to the rearranging of the metal structure during the forging process so hopefully by time you are done there's no stress cracks and it will function well as a carabiner
He is planning on going caving with a homemade carabiner that has already proven to have cracks in multiple spots. That is the definition of reckless, regardless of how much PPE he wears while grinding.
Alec and Jamie, here are two important tips for climbing and repelling: 1) For climbing, make a three or four hoop ladder in your ascender strap. Climb it like a ladder and you will not get as fatigued ascending. Climb the ladder then bring up your harness ascender and sit, elevate your ladder ascender, climb the ladder and repeat. 2) Now on repelling, usd your right hand (assuming that Jamie is also right-handed) to hold the loose rope behind your lower back. This will give you extra braking friction. I've repelled and climbed since the early 1970's. I still have the gear but no longer participate in the activity. When you're young DO IT! because you won't be able to in your later years.
Hi Alex! I've been watching your videos for a while now. I remember one of your videos, where you mentioned horseshoeing being part of a blacksmith's workload. I was wondering if you could make horseshoes, and then fit it on a horse. (If no horse, maybe a horseshoe for humans, and then fit it onto a human shoe).
Nice reflex control Jamie to keep hold of the camera and let the towel roll fall. More times than I care to admit I've dropped something I was holding to catch something tossed to me
As an arborist, your rope rub on the tree is nothing compared to rock. Good luck and be safe. Also, get a knee ascender it's helpful on 60ft' + climbs or sorry 18.2 m
Alec, If you're worried about carabiner strength, it doesn't matter whether it bends or snaps: a fail is a fail. The minimum CE requirements for a non-locking carabiner are: Major axis - 20kN (along the spine) Gate open - 7kN (along the spine but with an open gate) Minor axis - 7kN (cross-loaded spine to gate) If you have some friends in the materials testing business, that's the spec should be shooting for. Happy Spelunking!!!
You know... When you make the gate... You could make it L shaped to force a front and back section in the closed carabiner... Or by adding a secondary wire gate like in the Beal Orient Express. Should help stop you cross loading the biner when you're moving around at weird angles.
You should check the story of Yvon Choinard,founder of Patagonia. He start his career manufacturing carabiner, pitons and hammers for bolting routes, and then created clothing equipment for climbers. Really cool to se climbing becoming more popular 😊
I have a very silly obsession with D-rings of all kinds. I’m a disabled vet…I have absolutely no use for real climbing gear, but I will find uses for them even if just a fidget object when I’m having increased pain days. I have some that have a cool magnet locking gate that I love the most. I’ve got a couple of those. Then I have another thing that’s made by a company called Kong. Not the dog toy(but they do use one of them in a dog leash) it is a gate that will close onto a carabiner and an arm on each side you have to pull back on to open it and release whatever it has ahold of. That’s probably absolutely trash for a description. I would be lucky to even buy a piece of cutoff Damascus scrap, not a chance I’ll ever have the cash to buy a A. Steele Damascus carabiner.. unless someone liked my idea for The Kingsman mad gadget guy/turn into the bald teacher guy that I posted in the first video making the Damascus. Not that the idea is worth anything to anyone other than a funny action drama in my head. Heck if it is worth something, I could really use a belt sander/grinder…just saying, lol
I wonder if there's been any studies on the force required to delaminate Damascus steel. Common sense that it should be less than the typical force to snap the steel, but by how much?
@@dumbideas3361 literally everyone else has been saying the same thing for 2 videos. I'm more thinking of strain testing damascus in different orientations and patterns with a standard size billet, and standard metal combos.
Epic work mate concurring fears!! As always the videos and collaboration is top notch keep it up boys. Out of curiosity is the Katar build done and dusted now?
Please make steele branded boiler suits!!!! Would be perfekt for people like mee who just wants to put something on whilst working and then taking that layer of for when you go in the house
You should do a collaboration with hownot2!!!!! Pleaseeee im begin you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Also.. i hope that you dont really mean to try that carabineer in a real life scenario. Those things have manufacturing standards
Come to Utah, in the states, and I'll get you over your fear of heights. It isn't caving, it's canyoneering. Utah is one of the best areas for canyoneering. I've got a 300 foot rappel with your name on it Alec.
pleas please please Alec, you have to carve the grooves on the sides of the carabiner!! its very structurally important as it is stronger WITH the grooves than without!! this is the reason "I beam" exists and plain beams are basically trash!!!!
Alec, go speak to DMM, based in Llanberis, to see how they forge them en-mass. That would be a cool vid in a similar vein to your visit to Tata steelworks or when you went to your local foundry
That *would* be cool to see! 😄
I was literally going to say the same, it's a fascinating factory and would make an awesome video
Let me break test it! 😅
Ryan is in the chat everyone!!! He needs a Damascus carabiner to destroy!!!!!!
You should look into how carabiners can cut ropes, it's really quite insane to me how little of an edge can result in such a catastrophic failure. Even what would appear to be a smooth edge can be dangerous, even with strong ropes.
NEAT STUFF!
I don't think they'll actually be using it in their kit.
@@graeme.davidson but what's wrong with learning the ropes? (Lmfao)
@@graeme.davidson I agree but it’s still a super cool process. You couldn’t use it in your kit because of the heavy testing and certifications that the come with the commercial
@@neloy4200 I mean, you could use it if you wanted. You just could not sell it without a lot of liability risk. You coukd use whatever the hell you want though. Whether it is smart to use it is a different question and one that involves your own calculation of risk.
obviously it goes without saying that Damascus and Aluminium have different tensile strength. So please just be careful on how much fall/sheer pressure is applied when you use it.
Otherwise nice one! have fun!
It’s gonna be a heavy caribeaner…. But unless it totally delaminates the steel will be so much stronger than aluminum.
It'll probably be stronger but I don't see the 2 of them actually using it for proper spelunking.
Steel carabiners would actually be stronger than aluminum ones they would also be a lot heavier so if you’re doing a long climb, where do you need a lot of carabiners for supports it would get really heavy.
Alec, your work is phenomenal, so I propose a challenge to you, to produce all the hardware of an electric guitar in damascus steel. It would be really cool to see you do this.
A big thank you for all your content that I've been following for years.
Wagner Berzagui from Brazil
I'm SO happy to see you and Jamie living the best of your lives! Man, this whole lore is so wholesome
So that climbing harness is how Jamie gets such excellent shots o.0
Please do a DMM factory tour, the hot drop forge their aluminium carabiners and I have now idea how they make their steel ones. It would be fascinating to see your perspective on their manufacturing, plus Jamie would get to make beautiful B roll of North Wales.
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As a tree surgeon I absolutely love to see you making stuff like this! It's very interesting!
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I think it'll be really interesting to see the wear on the damascus pattern after the caving trip! Can't think of many others doing this level of material testing on pattern welded steel ;D
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As a rock climber I can say wearing a harness to do normal stuff is normal. Thank you for representing us with the correct amount of stoke.
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Nice to see you guys hanging out while you work.
Thank you, I'm feeling very down today, so I needed to see you two up in climbing harnesses. You really raised your work to a new level with this.
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@@cocon16_PW And yet all true statements. 😁(I'm feeling better now. The video helped, but so did telling puns.)
@@Merennulli I regularly suffer with bouts of depression, especially in winter. A friend of mine recently talked me into starting running, using the "Couch to 5K" app. It's really helped with my mental health!
@@ApexHerbivore I have a disability that prevents me from walking very well, but I appreciate it. This was the result of a terrible day at work (former coworker lied about something being ready, I got assigned to deploy it on short notice, and found it's fundamentally designed in a way that could never work, meaning it really needs a total rewrite...in 5 days after he spent months making it a glorified mockup.)
I do have cyclical depression, but it's not tied to seasons and I am thankfully not in the depressed part of the cycle now. I try to keep a distinction between feeling down (bad day sort of thing) and feeling depressed (where it's biological and my circumstances have limited effect on it).
My last cycle was before my injury, and honestly the exercise was of some effect but not much. I normally find social interaction draining, but I find forcing myself to do it when I am in a depressive cycle is the best way to mitigate it.
@@Merennulli I'm sorry to hear about your disability, I shouldn't assume everybody is fully mobile when I make comments like that, my bad.
I struggle with social interaction too, and had a 15 year struggle with alcohol and cannabis which I thought were helping, but were actually making things worse!
Glad you've found something that helps you, sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders in any case, and that's the main thing! All the best to you :)
I am seriously enjoying the videos where you make these every day objects like the lighter and crescent wrench. Its so interesting to see the mechanisms behind the items. Keep up the good work!
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I think it might be beneficial if you only surface-harden it like it is done with gears. This way you can achieve some more strenght with a still low risk of snapping it. As far as I know, surface hardening can be achieved by blasting it with glasbeads just like in sandblasting. The material should work harden on the surface. But if you actually put your life on the line with this, better trust your guts.
We just learned about this method in university which is why it came to my mind. Its a pretty cool concept that could possibly work quite well for parts like this.
Hownot2 is a youtube channel that breaks carabiners. you should do a collab with them to see how strong your carabiner really is.
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Love the climbing bits, both in the shop and the woods! What a fun thing!
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Climbing and especially rappelling is one of my favorite things.
How about risk of delamination in real stressing usage condition in future?
Surprising how much you can get done just Hanging around in the shop!
love the sense of humour with the rope climbing while building/recording.
I understand what you mean about being scared of heights. When I was in the Boy Scouts I could never do the climbing more than above a certain amount of height. Although for me the fear was going up not down so if I started high up I could climb down no problem. I did go caving once my last year as a youth but we didn't do much traversing of ropes, just one in order to get around a drop that most people didn't go past.
I have got to say, you are an amazing entertainer, and teacher. I have never messed with a forge in my life, the most I've done is bend some rebar, and I have been watching you on here and my other account for a very long time, you got a great personality and I love the videos and I don't even know much about this, I guess what I'm saying is well done. You're A huge inspiration
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When I was in Boy Scouts getting the Climbing merit badge the instructor did a demonstration for how strong the ropes. He attached the rope to his harness and suspended himself about a foot off the ground, then cut the sheath around the outside exposing six smaller stranded ropes that braid together into the core. He then cut each strand one by one until he was suspended by only a single core rope. That made me much more confident while climbing because I knew just how overengineered the ropes were which made it easier to just trust them to do the job and focus on the actual climbing.
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Damn he must’ve been on the big bucks, those ropes aren’t cheap
Most beautiful carabiner I've ever seen! Will certainly be at least three times 'super good enough ' given that it's made of steel and will only see static loads, not any lead climbing falls.
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Steel carabiners are the go-to for caving. Not sure about Damascus ones. But it's awesome to see.
I was always taught 'thumb on bum' for SRT descents. Better control of the rope generally.
Awesome to see a crossover between two hobbies!
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This video was fun, and very well produced.
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This feels like the start of one of those conversations that goes "Where's Alec?......Oh, he's in the hospital after breaking his legs while testing out home-made carabiner" and all you can think of is Why??
2:27 so thats why hes got a harness
Alec, an engineer should be to quickly calculate the strength of your carabiner to see if it's strong enough or not.
After all, you don't necessarily know if your Damascus billett is as strong (or stronger) than the carabiners material.
The modulus of elasticity of your material has a lot to say in a cross sections strength 😅
For this material, it would be almost impossible to tell, because of the different properties of the two steel and there is no way to know what proportion of each material there is at any given cross sectional area. Its possible to make an estimate by averaging the two materials though.
@@JacktheFireEater bcs you have a life on the line you go safe and take the lowest possible values / worst case scenario, that way it can only be the same or better.
@@I_am_here_to_eat_your_toes Well, yes, but this will already be above the minimum factor of safety just through the design and material. That doesn't tell the yield strength for the carabiner like I think the OP was getting at. Im an engineer, so I agree with you that thats what would be done for the lowest estimate, what I was saying is that there isnt any way to get the exact value and that an average would just be as close as we could get.
@@JacktheFireEater I'm just done my engineering degree, and that crossed my mind. There are tests one can do to determine an approximate strength, it's done with rebar, but it's not accurate.
Averaging would be my go to, but I lack the experience to be more confident in my abilities to say anything else 😅
@@I_am_here_to_eat_your_toes this is also a solution...
Though aren't the carabiners made of aluminum?
In that case steel in general has a modulus of elasticity about 2.5x that of aluminum, which should sort any issues out.
You should send the finished product to HowNot2 for stress testing. Would be a cool colab to see.
Just make a gift of this one to Jamie and then make a "safer" one for yourself. 😘👌 Great video 2x👍
my two favorite things in one video. love it
Rappelling has to be one of my favourite things I’ve done
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As always, fun to watch and your vids have superb production values. Fantastic. Remember to account for shock, like if you drop 20 feet suddenly.
You should send it to the you tube channel “how not to”when your done and they can test it and see how strong it was.
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Alec--I suffer from low-level balance issues, due to a bout with vestibular neuritis a few years back. Part of what I do with my life involves climbing a scaffold (6m) from time to time. Imagine my delight....
I was going make a joke about the climbing gear being for overhead shots, but....
Yeah
You should consider cutting out that channel that the bought one has, that cross section shape like an I-beam makes it more resistant to bending than an oval, even though there's more material in the oval.
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before using it, get it xrayed and a ultrasound done on the metal work, big ouch if it goes wrong. My climbing gear used to have yearly inspections. A couple of them came back chopped in half.
Can't wait till pt 3
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Seeing you strapped up in the air makes me want to see you do a video forging but only in the air no feet on the ground. Makes me imagine a old time skyscraper worker up there working away.
You should forge a clamp, you made a vice a long time ago but a table clamp would be a nice single-video project
Ha ha ha! "Single-video" project. Ha ha.
Did I say single video? I meant single-year project, I don’t think it will take more than 52 episodes, unless something goes wrong at the very last moment ofcourse
All the carabiners I owned said drop forged. Squishing it out seems like the right thing to do :)
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That's great, now we need 11 more of those caribiners.
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@@AndrewCartwright304 I have something for you too! Reporting your BS scam crap. Enjoy!
I’d be interested in seeing some load testing done on it when your all finished.
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Anyone else hearing the 90s X-Men theme in the Spanish guitary song at 4:30? Just me?
Yep. I just posted the same thing.
If those aluminum carabiners are not forged, they will be weaker than the forged steel one you are making due to the rearranging of the metal structure during the forging process so hopefully by time you are done there's no stress cracks and it will function well as a carabiner
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Jaime will do ANYTHING to get the perfect shot.
Nice stuff
Thank you for consistently using PPE, so many youtubers just normalise being reckless.
He is planning on going caving with a homemade carabiner that has already proven to have cracks in multiple spots.
That is the definition of reckless, regardless of how much PPE he wears while grinding.
Oh yeah!!! Thanks Alec!!!
Alec and Jamie, here are two important tips for climbing and repelling: 1) For climbing, make a three or four hoop ladder in your ascender strap. Climb it like a ladder and you will not get as fatigued ascending. Climb the ladder then bring up your harness ascender and sit, elevate your ladder ascender, climb the ladder and repeat. 2) Now on repelling, usd your right hand (assuming that Jamie is also right-handed) to hold the loose rope behind your lower back. This will give you extra braking friction. I've repelled and climbed since the early 1970's. I still have the gear but no longer participate in the activity. When you're young DO IT! because you won't be able to in your later years.
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Hi Alex! I've been watching your videos for a while now. I remember one of your videos, where you mentioned horseshoeing being part of a blacksmith's workload. I was wondering if you could make horseshoes, and then fit it on a horse. (If no horse, maybe a horseshoe for humans, and then fit it onto a human shoe).
After watching Alec from being a child to then getting a job as a tree surgeon I’d never ever believe I’d hear the words “single rope technique”
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Every single climber is wanting that in their addition of climbing accessories and gear, and i am also one that is jealous
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The music sounds like an italian folk music version of the 90s Xmen theme.
If you have any worries about the strength of your carabiner, just hook it to the wall, give it a yank with your lorry and see if it falls.
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Nice reflex control Jamie to keep hold of the camera and let the towel roll fall.
More times than I care to admit I've dropped something I was holding to catch something tossed to me
As an arborist, your rope rub on the tree is nothing compared to rock. Good luck and be safe. Also, get a knee ascender it's helpful on 60ft' + climbs or sorry 18.2 m
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You were actually working in a harness. That is pretty cool.
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Alec, If you're worried about carabiner strength, it doesn't matter whether it bends or snaps: a fail is a fail. The minimum CE requirements for a non-locking carabiner are:
Major axis - 20kN (along the spine)
Gate open - 7kN (along the spine but with an open gate)
Minor axis - 7kN (cross-loaded spine to gate)
If you have some friends in the materials testing business, that's the spec should be shooting for. Happy Spelunking!!!
Or he could just send it @HowNOT2 who has a youtube channel and a machine specifically built to test climbing gear.
@@TheUncleRuckus you'd still need the spec
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4:23 was that a classical guitar cover of the 1997 X-Men theme song !?!?!
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At about 4:30 I thought that was a spanish guitar rendition of the old X-Men cartoon theme... Showing my age a bit probably
Only very vaguely, and only after you mentioned it, lol.
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Hello from Finland!
Hello from Switzerland
Hello from your neighbour Sweden!
It's coming along nicely. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God Bless.
You know... When you make the gate... You could make it L shaped to force a front and back section in the closed carabiner... Or by adding a secondary wire gate like in the Beal Orient Express. Should help stop you cross loading the biner when you're moving around at weird angles.
You should check the story of Yvon Choinard,founder of Patagonia. He start his career manufacturing carabiner, pitons and hammers for bolting routes, and then created clothing equipment for climbers. Really cool to se climbing becoming more popular 😊
Please send it to HowNot2, it’s such a great operation over there, and I really want to see how it fares!
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I have a very silly obsession with D-rings of all kinds. I’m a disabled vet…I have absolutely no use for real climbing gear, but I will find uses for them even if just a fidget object when I’m having increased pain days. I have some that have a cool magnet locking gate that I love the most. I’ve got a couple of those. Then I have another thing that’s made by a company called Kong. Not the dog toy(but they do use one of them in a dog leash) it is a gate that will close onto a carabiner and an arm on each side you have to pull back on to open it and release whatever it has ahold of. That’s probably absolutely trash for a description. I would be lucky to even buy a piece of cutoff Damascus scrap, not a chance I’ll ever have the cash to buy a A. Steele Damascus carabiner.. unless someone liked my idea for The Kingsman mad gadget guy/turn into the bald teacher guy that I posted in the first video making the Damascus. Not that the idea is worth anything to anyone other than a funny action drama in my head. Heck if it is worth something, I could really use a belt sander/grinder…just saying, lol
I wonder if there's been any studies on the force required to delaminate Damascus steel. Common sense that it should be less than the typical force to snap the steel, but by how much?
hownot2 is a channel that breaks carabiners they could find out.
@@dumbideas3361 literally everyone else has been saying the same thing for 2 videos. I'm more thinking of strain testing damascus in different orientations and patterns with a standard size billet, and standard metal combos.
Even if tempered back to a spring blue would still be sufficient. May not be necessary but it would minimize any chance of distortion
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6 months from now this will be a climbing youtube channel I'm calling it now
That's the X-Men Animated series theme at about 4:23
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Epic work mate concurring fears!! As always the videos and collaboration is top notch keep it up boys. Out of curiosity is the Katar build done and dusted now?
Lets gooo , do more videos 🫡💪🔥❤️💪
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Beautiful etch!
Is the music your playing at 4:26 a flamenco guitar cover of the animated x men theme song from the 90s? Anyway keep up the good work !
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Alec! Can you please make a video where you forge a hammer using a knife.
Like the knife is what you're using to hammer the new hammer lol
I'd love to see the finished product be tested by someone like Mamut or how not 2
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Other than taking some Dramamine to get through it, loved it.
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I got excited to see the height gage
would love to see you make a golf club iron let's see how the old timers did it
Did you throw the - I'm assuming aluminum - reference carabiner you set your forging on while it was still red hot away?
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You need to make a recap of all the tools u made
Yooooooooooo finally recognized red as the superior color elli would be proud
Please make steele branded boiler suits!!!! Would be perfekt for people like mee who just wants to put something on whilst working and then taking that layer of for when you go in the house
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Been a long time since we heard the Famous🤣😂😂 Blue Dycon Song!!!
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Nice looking carabiner- I'm looking forward to watching you put the fuller in both sides!😆
I don’t think he is going to.
You should do a collaboration with hownot2!!!!! Pleaseeee im begin you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Also.. i hope that you dont really mean to try that carabineer in a real life scenario. Those things have manufacturing standards
Come to Utah, in the states, and I'll get you over your fear of heights. It isn't caving, it's canyoneering. Utah is one of the best areas for canyoneering. I've got a 300 foot rappel with your name on it Alec.
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The filming while hanging on the rope looks cool.
Sre you already working as climbing photographer jamie?
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I know you are not done yet with this but you should make a farriers knife next if you want another challenge.
pleas please please Alec, you have to carve the grooves on the sides of the carabiner!! its very structurally important as it is stronger WITH the grooves than without!! this is the reason "I beam" exists and plain beams are basically trash!!!!
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If you find any nice rough gems in those caves you should get them cut or better yet learn to cut them and then set them in a sword or dagger.
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Getting them overalls off once the sparks lodge in the brass!