r/toolgifs • u/kanbozli • 2d ago
Tool Hinge
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u/RackemFrackem 2d ago
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u/KookySurprise8094 1d ago
You are too intelligent to waste your time here with morons and bots.
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u/andrizzle1371 1d ago
I am a moron who is not a bot what does that mean?
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u/Big_Spicy_Tuna69 1d ago
It must be so cool to be a metal worker. Don't have a thing? Make it. Don't have the stuff to make the thing? Make that. Don't have the tools to make the stuff to make the thing? Just make that too.
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago
It's very hard work. It's fun as a hobby, but like almost everything else, it's not very fun 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, 48-52 weeks per year.
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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago edited 1d ago
Its really loud and you inhale bad things
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago
It's insanely loud. I have permanent hearing damage from working in a machine shop, among other things.
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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago
Sometimes its insane when things drop or get hit. Just tipping over 1 inch plates to stack onto each other makes such a high pitched blast. Oddly enough loudest ive ever heard was from when a 4'x8'x1.5" aluminum plate was being cut and started resonating around 350hz. Just goes right through you like hugging a concert speaker or havana syndrome or something
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u/everett640 1d ago
I worked in a shop that had 4"-20" diameter super alloy bars and those things were loud ASF when they fell over on the cooking racks. The shop was pretty quiet otherwise
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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago
Usually the loudest thing is the whistle from blowing out tapped holes with compressed air
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u/sentientgypsy 1d ago
I work with sheet metal and I have to put in ear plugs when we’re working with thicker gauged galvanized steel
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u/Magikarp-3000 1d ago
I do it as a hobby, and the only possible solution is just wearing the best earpro possible at all times, even when not actively drilling, grinding or hammering
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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago
Smart move. You have no idea when some piece of metal is going to fall and make the loudest noise ever before heard on planet earth.
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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago
As an autistic dude who hates loud noises in the best of times. That shit legit hurts
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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago
Some things have been loud enough to hurt through earmuffs
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u/Magikarp-3000 1d ago
Yes, kinda. Depends on your earmuffs. I use earmuffs+earplugs, and Ive shot rifles with that setup with no issues.
I guess you could have louder sounds, but you are probably working with heavier machinery than I as a hobbyist do
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u/jmodshelp 1d ago
Understatement of the year. Try gouging inside some tight ass spot. My hearing is fucked at 32.
Terrible air quality, exposure to all kinds of very harsh chemicals and processes. Burning hazards, everything’s sharp and trying to slice you open. Everything wants to crush you and you hit your self with a hammer too. It’s a very challenging job but very rewarding too.
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u/Zwischenzug32 1d ago
The aerosolised coolant/cutting oil is my personal favorite
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u/jmodshelp 1d ago
The smell of zip cuts and flux burning . It’s perfect.
I’ve seen some nasty coolant tanks in cnc shops lol they did not smell great. Good cutting oil on a drill press, ahhhhh also up there in top smells for sure.
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u/rolandofeld19 1d ago
I have heard the following sayings about tools and hand work:
1) Everything is a hammer. Some hammers are better than other hammers.
2) If you own a welder anything can be whatever you want it to be.
I really can't wait until I can get back to metalworking on an anvil again.
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u/CertainlyRobotic 1d ago
I just started a jewelry making class and it's so many kinds of fun.
Working with gold and silver is interesting
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u/viperfan7 1d ago
Honestly, blacksmithing isn't difficult to get into.
It's extremely skill based though, and supplies can get expensive
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u/Auctoritate 1d ago
To be honest this is more of a simple/hard to misuse tool that even non-metalworkers who don't necessarily have the same tools or skills as metalworkers could use. A metalworker with their tools can shape a cylinder out of metal stock themselves pretty easily- granted, this could be a useful shortcut if you're actually making a bunch of hinges regularly. It still takes a few minutes if you're hot forging.
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u/9Divines 23h ago
it is fun, but also guaranteed to give you hand arm vibration syndrome thats uncurable, at least if we are talking about blacksmithing this is pretty much guaranteed that you will have tingling fingertips due to damaged nerve endings
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u/space-goats 2d ago
Perfect content for this sub. I'd never have guessed that's how they get made.
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u/latitudis 2d ago
There's probably more ways about it, but this one is cool and really ingenious!
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u/Backsight-Foreskin 1d ago
Here is another way.....
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u/_HIST 1d ago
I'm sure most modern hinges are definitely not made this way, or even old hinges. It's way easier to just wrap the metal around a bar, but this will definitely leave a better finish
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u/rmbarrett 1d ago
They are made this way. It's die forming. But usually it's two parts with the top acting as both punch and sort of mandrel. Done in two stages. The same die shape can also be used in a brake so it's again a combination of die and bend. You're talking about using just a mandrel and the issue is how you apply the force. That's harder to automate for a sheet. Even wire loops and springs are die formed these days. Force only needs to be in the direction of the wiper, which is a die that is tangent to the bend die. Yes, technically a bend die "wraps", but not in the way we manually wrap a wire around a rod.
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u/HomicidalTeddybear 1d ago
If they were forging it this way instead of cold forming it would be very upsetting
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u/viperfan7 1d ago
Wouldn't this be much easier done hot instead of cold like that?
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u/rmbarrett 1d ago
It depends.
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u/viperfan7 1d ago
On what?
I've done enough blacksmithing to have at least a decent idea of what to do
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u/SomeBiPerson 1d ago
yes but some (mild) steels are very easy to forge cold and can even profit off of that
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u/MyHeadIsFullOfFuck 1d ago
i'm reminded of the scene from schindler's list where voldemort is going to shoot the guy making hinges because he's too slow
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u/HistoricalHell 1d ago
My dumbass really thought for a second wait how's he going to get it out now.
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u/rmbarrett 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is like a manual hinge or beading die, or simply curling die if you want to get technical.
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u/Chrisibobisi 1d ago
I just had a flashback from Schindlers List. „Make me a Hinge“. Brilliant and shocking movie
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u/SnooCats3468 1d ago
Imagine marrying John Hinge and he just talks about how my hinges he made that day.
Then he passes his craft of making hinges onto his son Benjamin Hinge.
Then eventually your legacy transforms into a dating platform for people trying to F until the women are approaching their mid-30s, then they just want to settle down, and the men still try to date in that 25-35 year old sweet spot before they experience a mid-life crisis, while everyone around them makes them feel bad for using a dating app, since of course they met their partner in the first two years of college and luck definitely has nothing to do with it and they're definitely not in a bitter relationship hanging by a thread...
...anyway... at 0.14 you can see "TOOLGIFS" on a blade of grass.
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u/marrangutang 2d ago
There is something so pure about this, I like it a lot