Thermal lance too HOT for 1” pin!

[@HughesEarthworks]

Really enjoying your videos. I would have enjoying seeing the rest of the repair as well. I always like seeing how someone else tackles a job, even as mundane as it might seem. Thanks for posting!

[@snowballengineering]

Thanks for watching!

[@gerryboard6615]

I enjoy your video's because they stand out from all the others. An engineer getting his hands dirty doing heavy thankless tasks, solving problems and coming up with solutions in your day to day work.

[@snowballengineering]

Glad you like them!

[@graemewhite5029]

Great tip about welding the pipe on to support the punch, my little finger's still not right from when I was holding a punch while my son wielded the sledge last August. He glanced off the cleat on the tractor tyre a few belts in and sent the hammer onto my hand !

[@snowballengineering]

Ouch! That’s where the chicken punch comes in handy. A punch with a long handle 🤣

[@ruthbees7214]

Good job snowy. Your right on when you say that's how it goes when you have to do a bit more work to make a new Bush it does happen in repair. Best not to assume anything with repairs. That's why it is hard to give an accurate price. Some people do not understand this. Family run car repair garage for 30 years. A real eye opener. Mark and ruth. Ps love your new line borer by the way.

[@snowballengineering]

Very difficult to give an accurate price, too much can do wrong. Luckily most of my work doesn’t require giving a quote, it just needs doing. I bet it is! The average car owner has no idea what’s involved under the bonnet. Thanks for watching!

[@Chrisrivespeed]

Can you show us the finished job please? ? Really interesting content

[@epamanonda1]

Takes me back to the days , of replacing King pins and bushes, on the old Transit vans. Without Thermal lance . Bloody nightmare. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😁😁😁..

[@snowballengineering]

Stuck pins are never fun!

[@beakittelscherz5419]

Thanks for show&tell. Actually never seen this before.Interesting! I like your Content!

[@ypaulbrown]

fI love the way you think and work.....great demonstration of the thermal lance too.......Paul

[@JMJValleys]

A very good demo of the lance - but what does the machine that supplies it look like? Is it just a welder? Perhaps with different settings? It would be lovely to see the whole repair.

[@snowballengineering]

There isn’t a machine that supplies it. You connect it to a 12v car battery to strike it and once it’s lit, it’s just the oxygen supply that keeps it going.

[@kentuckytrapper780]

You gotter out man, great video, keep'um coming..

[@hornetboy3694]

Awesome video, great work. Thank you Oliver

[@bumpkinrocks]

I appreciate it takes extra time but would've been great to see the whole job. Nice work anyway 👍

[@normanbuchanan9710]

dang that thing is violent 😮, great little video though.

[@jamesriordan3494]

Enjoyed your giving that pin the beans, “ Who’s your daddy, daft pin ?!?”

[@snowballengineering]

🤣

[@jamesriordan3494]

Still, it was grand to see !

[@nmccw3245]

Nice! Thermal lance was a wee bit overkill for that little pin. 😂😁🇬🇧👍🏻

[@AdelinoGambiarras]

Nice that was impressive 👏 👌 👍

[@chrishigdon1070]

great video never have tried a thermal lance but some them in the Army on big equipment

[@ypaulbrown]

wonderful Video Oliver.....Paul in USA, Florida

[@NOELTM]

A thermal lance aka a "sparkler" to impress your friends on Bonfire night 🙂 Thanks for sharing this.

[@snowballengineering]

It’s a very savage and expensive sparkler 🤣 Thanks for watching.

[@kenwood8665]

Thanks for another amazing video.

[@vinnyhern]

thanks for the tips! I actually learned something! maybe since your replacing pins and bushes, its time to go bigger with replacements so they last longer????

[@snowballengineering]

I’m pleased I could share some knowledge. Yes, that might be a good idea.

[@paintanddent]

well done that man!! good fettling!

[@therealspixycat]

Close but no sigar?

[@sjv6598]

Holy heck that thing is savage! 😮

[@snowballengineering]

A bit too savage 🤣

[@premier_attachments4971]

Hi great video, don't see many of those lances in action much so was v interesting. I haven't watched all your videos but maybe a hydraulic press ( large as possible lol) might be in your future to help with these things. I know ours does. As soon as you got the arm out it would have been simple job. Also love your determination in getting things done. 👍

[@snowballengineering]

Hello, thanks! A large press would be useful, I’m just lacking the space to put one.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Nice one . 👍

[@artisansportsman8950]

Great video, had a problem changing pins on main rams on a skip truck of myn , they wouldn't move 1 mm had to drill a 10mm hole with magnetic drill then my mate cut through with my gas cutting torch .

[@snowballengineering]

I’ve done similar to that before. Before I got the thermal lance.

[@jimg7784]

I have never seen one of those used here in the states. Very interesting.

[@snowballengineering]

If you watch icweld on KZbin, I think he has the same arcair slice as me.

[@jimg7784]

@@snowballengineering I’ve tried to watch his channel several times (ICwelding) and just can’t get into it. Just for grins a channel I like I just found is Ants pants. Check it out you may enjoy it. Not really much to do with welding. I’m 58 and retired from the U.S. Army and bought a Lincoln welder and trying to learn. The TIG welding is VERY confusing to me, mainly what to do with all the settings.

[@patrick103b]

Better than fireworks 🎉

[@MarkDurbin]

Thanks for another video, I watch them all. I think you should draw some eyes on the side of your kettle, given how often it appears in your content👀

[@Comm0ut]

It would be easy to tack weld a simple guide made from scrap when you need to keep the lance centered. Holding both hands in space is inherently innacurate but a guide would make it easy. You could use a punch or other tapered object in the guide to center the guide on the pin for tacking. Doesn't cost but a few minutes and avoids rework.

[@rgthomson1]

I enjoy seeing how these things are done, something that came to me would be, would liquid nitrogen poured into the pin after heating the outside part, maybe a silly suggestion but just something i thought of

[@normesmonde5332]

Can’t understand why you didn’t get any volunteers to hold the pin

[@snowballengineering]

Me neither. I hit it more times than I miss it 😆

[@sunroad7228]

"No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future".

[@jimsvideos7201]

If I had the shop next door and had a laser engraver I'd gladly put "shift ya bastard" on the side of that hammer.

[@snowballengineering]

That’s what it needs 🤣 but I’m also a bit lazy when it comes to giving it the big swings.

[@constitutionalUSA]

Bloody Brits, always a tea kettle handy 😅

[@jameshockey6916]

Those 1/4" rods sure burn down quick!! Lol

[@snowballengineering]

They do! 🤣

[@BurnAndHackett_RC]

@@snowballengineering ...but as they say "it can't be tight if it's liquid" (-:

[@stuartmccall5474]

I presume the notion of farmers doing routine oiling/greasing on their plant would have a negative effect on your business. Well, better to watch someone else washing and polishing their Range Rovers than getting dirty looking after their plant. Interesting video, thanks for that.

[@snowballengineering]

Yes, I get a lot of work caused by lack of grease. But then a lot of agricultural equipment is made on the cheap right from the start.

[@stuartmccall5474]

@@snowballengineering : Hi, You asked for comments on your videos. You'll be aware on YT, no doubt, of Kurtis at CEE in Aus. A difference I think you need to highlight is the awful UK weather conditions you need to do farming plant work in without always the benefit of a nice big, near clinical, working environment in sunny hot T shirt conditions. There is the technical job,........ and then there is the adverse conditions you need to complete the job within which is what usually makes any job, no matter how simple, a nightmare to do and is actually the real story. I think this aspect needs to be highlighted. All success to you!

[@warrenjones744]

Rust sure can wedge things together eh? I have managed to lance out 3/4"(19mm) pins without too much unwanted destruction of the part I wanted to save. But it does not take long for things to go completely awry if you are not fairly straight. Oxy lance and it's river of molten magma has no mercy! Good stuff

[@snowballengineering]

Unbelievable how tight rust can make things. How much oxygen pressure were you using on the 3/4 pins? Think I’d of maybe got a better result with less oxygen.

[@warrenjones744]

@@snowballengineering I usually run 70-80 PSI. Less Oxy is a viable idea. I have a lancing job coming up. although not a small dia pin, I think I will experiment some regardless. Thanks for the idea

[@AW-Services]

I've seen thermal lances used in marine underwater demolition

[@snowballengineering]

At least underwater you wouldn’t get showered in as much molten metal 🤣

[@davetaylor4741]

So much for the grease hole.

[@ciaranconeely8579]

👍👍👍.

[@adamcichanowski77]

Pozdrowienia z POLSKI

[@Rigoknow]

👍

[@lynjames4306]

I would think that a press would have pushed out the central pin on the arm ,😮

[@williamrosenow6176]

They make a 48 inch portable press for track pins that would work great for this. I love the lance but it's a bit much for this. Drill from both sides first then push the lance thru.

[@iurii-wind]

Хорошая работа. 💪👍🤝🇷🇺

[@yenerm114]

👌🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@glennmoreland6457]

Better of with a new bush in that anyroad... ☹🇬🇧