Improving my Workshop with Hydroforming

Using the metal inflating power of Hydroforming to create new tool stands for my vise and polishing machine.
More projects: www.connorholland.com/
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00:00 Welding
1:47 Hydroforming
3:28 Fabrication & Finishing
8:41 Finished Pieces
#hydroforming #metalwork #workshop

[@laurenttremblay3178]

I'd suggest adding a 90 degrees bend inside the upper side of the shield plate around the polishing grinder, because if something gets caught by the rotation it could go flying towards you by following the curve

[@olevaiti4302]

Same thing occurred to me immediately. Nobody can't avoid it happening during time. Sound face face, eyes and teeth indicate a true pro. Fine stands anyways.

[@Bob_Adkins]

@@olevaiti4302 If he doesn't try to polish roller skate wheels, he'll be fine,

[@bobhatesrainbows]

Yup, he might get a scratch.

[@elitearbor]

Those are some truly gorgeous tool stands! I can't wait for a decade to pass, I want to see your first of its kind fully hydroformed house. 😁

[@ConnorHolland]

One day maybe!

[@anonymousbrowsing389]

@@ConnorHolland It's an intriguing idea!

[@drd1924]

That is one of the best ideas I've hear in about 10 years!

[@jpsimon206]

Well that's pretty damn clever. Since it's tapered the whole way, you could also use them as concrete forms for outside. I don't know about you, but I like having one vice and one small work bench outdoors for the really dirty stuff. It looks like you could use those to cast a few in place, lift them off, weld on the floor, and have another pair inside as you do.

[@ConnorHolland]

I did think they would make good concrete molds, it's also possible use them as a model for a silicone mold

[@TheAussiePirate]

What a great idea! Love it.

[@pirateradio1926]

very good work man! I really like the art element you have added to your shop

[@jpsimon206]

One of my favorite lathe projects for new learners is making an oversized Jack. I'm hoping you are familiar with this term, it's from an old kids game 100 years ago. They look sort of like caltrops, I think you would bounce a ball and try to collect as many as possible before it lands. It is just an interesting form from ancient pop culture, for some reason it seems to bring a lot of joy and whimsy when people see them oversized. I have a handful, the largest being 18 in, that I use as door stops. I would love to have an 8-ft one in the yard as a piece of sculpture. Just my two cents because the form you are making in this video is basically 1/3 of one of these jacks

[@richardw3294]

Fascinating, great video, thanks!

[@gorillaau]

​@auntysocialistPainful, untill Lego blocks came along.

[@gorillaau]

@auntysocialist I haven't experienced the metal jacks that you talk of. The noxious weed locally called a caltrop, gawd you will know about it. And they are slightly barbed so hurt pulling them out also.

[@gorillaau]

@auntysocialist I've seen them on TV, probably Seasame Street. But never put my foot on one. More dangerous was lawn darts.. fun for the entire family.

[@pootnikalexander]

Brilliant! an excellent solution!

[@JohnJones-oy3md]

7:32 - I dig this channel so much. Dude just Rub 'n Buffed a vise!

[@ConnorHolland]

Thanks, black paint & graphite powder is a favourite of mine

[@pezz38]

The Video production, And the execution of your work is ten out of ten. You got my vote 👍

[@ConnorHolland]

Thank you!

[@IntergalacticBrowny]

I love the little toss he does after the welding, like "yes, its an object"

[@ConnorHolland]

Its the satisfaction of transforming a flat 2D sheet into something 3D

[@johnniecameron8829]

Very nice work

[@DonnaChassie]

I AM impressed!

[@mohinderkaur6671]

Nice Balls of steel! Great work!

[@lianium]

Nice work

[@brianhoefer7148]

Very nice!

[@428Mario]

Well done

[@gordon6029]

Pretty sweet

[@NicholasDeJong-eh4ye]

heck ya buddy!!

[@TheUncleRuckus]

I was thinking they'd make nice Bar Stools but that's cool. 👍👍

[@kinklee]

Very nice

[@AdamosDad]

Great job, chasing the bead.

[@MrKotBonifacy]

That reminds me of my first "attempt at hydroforming" more than a decade ago. I made a rectangular steel container, the heat accumulator for central heating system in my workshop. Which was heated by a stove burning all kind of scrap wood - and the problem was that it had to be stoked up regularly, since wood burns fast, and whenever the fire went out the temperature started to drop almost immediately (as the volume of the water in the system - stove, pipes and radiators - was rather low, below 200 litres/ 50 gal). And, needless to say, in the morning it was pretty cold there. So I took some spare steel sheets laying around (2 mm/ 0.08" thick!), some angle irons and some fittings and welded up the container that could hold nearly 500 litres (130 gal) of hot water, and then I decided to conduct water-tightness test BEFORE adding thermal insulation layer. Not really a pressure test, as the heating system was "open" one, but I decided that a little added pressure would reveal any leaks much better. So I took it outside, connected the water hose (regular ones used for watering nearby garden patch), filled it up, closed the outlet valve and turned on the pump again, "gee, I think I'll pump it up a little - not much, maybe, see... 0.3 at/ 4-5 psi". I watched the manometer next to the pump - the container was outside, doors closed since it was pretty cold already and I was watching the needle, slowly climbing up and thinking "heck, why it takes so long? it should reach it already, and there's only 0.2 at there - better check out what's up, maybe some serious leak?" No, no leak - but the formerly cubic container was, erm... "somewhat rounded" now. Guess what, the manometer was calibrated in MEGAPASCALS - so that 0.3 on the scale was 3 atmospheres (bars), ten times more... (The manometer was small, maybe 5 cm/2" in diameter, and the print on the face of it was also tiny.) And yeah, I had a hard time getting the whole thing back to something resembling a cube... But after few hours I succeeded (sorta) and the heat accumulator works perfectly fine till now.

[@etniopaltrebor]

Wouah ! J'adore Wow! I love it

[@marklevrett6173]

Beautiful, yet a lot of time and energy for stands!

[@ConnorHolland]

Worth it for me as I get unique stands for less money, a good hydroforming experiment, and a video from the project

[@marklevrett6173]

@@ConnorHolland I get it! Again awesome!

[@GothGuy885]

these look Awesome man! 😀👍 I love the ...... Stainless Steel? I must have been a cross between a Crow and a metal Smith in a former life. I love Shiney metal. Stainless Steel, Copper, Diamond Plate, Etc

[@ConnorHolland]

Thanks, it is mild steel that's polished to help prevent rust, which has worked so far

[@youyouulf]

Wow! You are obviously a crazy guy, but I very much like your craziness! Very well done!. Fantastic , futuristic and lovely designs!

[@KarasCyborg]

Pretty cool. I thought you were making a concrete roller to make a V-shaped flat bottom trench for water.

[@ConnorHolland]

It does look similar

[@GroovyVideo2]

Nice

[@wickedprotos1937]

Idea: Giant Christmas Ornament? You videos are very creative/inspirational !!! Now I have yet another (233rd) hobby and backburner project to research ;-).

[@paulsim7589]

Cool, not what i expected.

[@jonasedholm2614]

Great video - Please make a rocket in stainless steel. Like Starship and SpaceX.

[@TABRO284]

Really nice. Have you looked at metal spinning?

[@ConnorHolland]

Spinning would be very useful, but unfortunately needs expensive equipment and expertise

[@motocomconteudo497]

I would love to try doing motorcycle exhausts with this technique

[@ButBigger42]

Use thinner filler wire when tig welding that sheet metal. Will go a whole lot better and be easier to do.

[@pricedavis1358]

So frick’n cool 😊

[@JohnJones-oy3md]

2:08 - Ab roller for King Kong?

[@TrillShatner]

Your bench grinder and vice are now Milton Bradley "Sorry" game-pieces. lol

[@gorillaau]

The bases look like pawn pieces from a chess set, 6 more to go!

[@HomeDistiller]

Sealing up the leaks and giving it another pump would have given you a better shape, I would also have added some cement in the bottom before the sand or just filled the whole thing with cement, much more ridged not just sound deadening

[@maxenielsen]

Very nice work!! I disagree with @THESLICK as to the value added by hydroforming. There is value in learning and applying each new method and technique. Very well thought out project. (I wish I could say the same about some of mine.)

[@jpsimon206]

Have you tried hydroforming where you left a bubble of air? Or perhaps experimented with air alone? I presume you see very minimal expansion followed by sudden destruction, but I'm just guessing. I'm very curious what the facts are. Even if you have not tried this, I would be interested in your opinion, I think it's probably worth quite a bit more than mine. I've played around with hydroforming only once on a small scale with a grease gun.

[@jpsimon206]

It would be nearly impossible to calculate, but in theory, a form like this one, you could control the location of the air bubble and especially if they were not a weld seam, theoretically take advantage of an expected response. Obviously it would be very dangerous to experiment with, do you think it might work though? Or is the steel much more likely to tear then to stretch? Have you found particular alloys to be much better for hydroforming?

[@ConnorHolland]

I use compressed air under 100psi only to inflate pieces, I made a video showing how I make furniture this way: kzbin.info/www/bejne/laO5ZX2qatJgsNU It's not safe to compress air further, some air was left in my "Banana" hydroforming experiment, leading to a big pop and split in the weld seam, instead of the usual pinhole leak when using only water: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIXTe56ibrWegZo

[@kinzieconrad105]

No that level of pressure in air can become lethal if it ruptures. This is why all boilers are proofed with hydrostatic water testing. And failing that test doesn’t end in catastrophe. & Small air bubbles are negligible!

[@kinzieconrad105]

Also why all new SpaceX starship models are hydrostatic tested before doing cryogenic tests. You can find videos of both failures the hydrostatic failures are quit boring, the crying failure go kinda soft boom

[@danoldsbb4558]

bro got some skill

[@redimage4255]

why did u need to hydro form this for a 5 degree Radia?

[@ConnorHolland]

The piece was uneven with flat spots, Hydroforming gave it a nice circular cross section throughout and increased the piece's strength and rigidity. It was also an experiment to see what would happen when this shape inflated

[@markarita3]

Nice AND shiny! lol

[@gcl2783]

Have you ever seen Flight of the Navigator? You could make a video, "Hydroforming American Nostalgia" and make a model of that ship.

[@ConnorHolland]

I haven't, but the ship looks cool and an interesting challenge

[@franknovak8060]

wow

[@infernusifrit9348]

Its either a mock axle or a tie. Fighter

[@ConnorHolland]

Would be a good way to make a TIE!

[@laca8612]

How thick the metal sheet was, you used?

[@ConnorHolland]

1mm thick mild steel sheet

[@laca8612]

@@ConnorHolland Thank you very much. And how much was the pressure, you used? 120 bar pressure washer is enough for this job? I am really interested in this technology and your video helps a lot.

[@ConnorHolland]

@@laca8612 I use a 90 Bar pressure washer, and the 1mm metal always leaks before full pressure is reached

[@emiliohuizar3549]

I do not get it. What was the purpose of hydroforming here?

[@ConnorHolland]

The parts were only roughly shaped by hand, hydroforming rounds and evens them out, giving them more strength by curving any flat sections

[@HughSheehy]

Very nice. Your welds are a bit leaky though!

[@ConnorHolland]

Leaks can be difficult to avoid when using 1mm thick sheet, as the welds stretch and crack as the piece inflates

[@HughSheehy]

@@ConnorHolland I can imagine. It wasn't meant to be a criticism.....more a complimentary little joke! Love what you do!

[@ConnorHolland]

@@HughSheehy Thanks!

[@user-zk8by4nk3w]

👍👍👍

[@i_shoot_stuff]

Frieza!!!

[@bradleyheathhaysable]

So do you want to be a film maker or a regular maker?

[@ConnorHolland]

Both, as I make furniture and design commissions off camera, and film videos in my free time

[@joshmnky]

Sorry your axle didn't work out. Good pivot though.

[@aaronjennings8385]

I'd like to see balloon animals or similar sculptural objects.

[@user-mg9mg1dy8n]

The drill press rule from the scrap and the topic is over 🌹🌹🌺

[@infernusifrit9348]

Wow whod uh thunk it, pedestals.

[@Terrestre1]

That could have been a weird stainless steel... Piñata😅

[@sroJumper]

at first i thought fancy bar stools :'D

[@ConnorHolland]

Would be easy to swap the vise with a seat

[@user-eh3bm3ip7e]

Я всегда говорил своему диетологу что шар это идеальная форма.

[@quillclock]

looks like an olive on a skewer to me

[@matthewrichardson828]

weird, I sub now

[@mankihonda983]

THE SANDS OF TIME ARE RUNNING LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

[@gordonmackinnon8838]

sorrie i asked that dam cute i love the idea lol.

[@user-zc7fs9xk5w]

your grinder shield is a bit dodge i know someone who had a Perspex flap shield that sat low but he still got a faceful of bronze

[@ConnorHolland]

I only use the wheel to grind TIG electrodes, by spinning them in a drill

[@user-fs9pw6kk2d]

Красиво и оригинально.

[@ArcanePath360]

Tidiest workshop ever

[@Aaron_Barrett]

Чудові тумби! Теж думаю зробити дещо подібне, щоправда, не маю такого високотехнологічного обладнання, але сама ідея-чудова! Дякую за відео! Мої вітання з України! 🇺🇦❤

[@mavigogun]

At first, I thought the superhero-like initials on your chest was a bit of over-the-top egotism; by the end of the video, I was like "where can I get me one of those shirts".

[@yobb89]

you should of whisperd "it's free real estate''

[@parrotraiser6541]

The Tin Man from " The Wizard of Oz"?

[@LukasTaman]

Dunno much about chemistry, but that rust inside formed too quickly.

[@thetigerstripes]

Nice……so much work for something from Home Depot or even Harbor Freight. It would be difficult for either one of them to screw up a vise or grinder stand.

[@TheShorterboy]

I thought it was going to be something useful like a still

[@spudpud-T67]

Thumbs up for the like and subscribe shout out.

[@SanyOK1979-km3nd]

Я точно не стану так заморачиваться.

[@zyxwvutsrqponmlkh]

Redonculous.

[@TheMikevt]

should have used tungsten as a ballast

[@levettp]

You need dynamite

[@dereksawyer6051]

Bike resonators are getting ridiculous

[@THESLlCK]

I personally feel like hydroforming added nothing to the project at all. It was already function initially.

[@ConnorHolland]

The parts were only roughly shaped by hand, hydroforming rounds and evens them out, giving them more strength by curving any flat sections. Plus I like to hydroform everything, it's what I do

[@__--JY-Moe--__]

👍

[@akaretnikov]

Вот ужо взорвемся в одночасье....