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Today's video,

we're going to be making some removable vent covers for the exterior of the house.

The current covers that are on this house are deteriorated

and the owners looking for something new.

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All right.

So going over to my metal supply here, and that keeps adding up

and keeps adding up.

I keep thinking I'm going to get rid of it, but it just

I keep getting more and more projects and no room to store it.

So for now, that's where it's going to be.

All right.

So for this particular project, we're using some three quarter inch square tube.

This is one 20 wall.

And I'm over at the Evolution S3, 80 CPS.

You know, this this all right.

Here, I've got this one.

And I also have the 14 inch as three 55 CPS l

they're pretty much the same store this one here is got a 15 inch capacity.

I run a 14 inch blade on both of them really good size.

Don't have any issues with them.

I haven't had any issues with them.

They work perfectly. You can see that

I really like the adjustment for the 45 and the different angles.

I even got some dedicated angles chair where you can

you can adjust the the table right there but I've also set my own angles

with some markers and that easy adjustment.

All right after getting everything all cut out,

what I'm going to be doing is installing some thumb latches,

some spring loaded thumb latches on the ends of this.

Now, you know, I try to think everything through thoroughly

before I build the project.

And, you know, in this case,

I thought it would be best that I just drill and tap these holes

prior to the assembly Well, that's what I'm doing right here.

The thumb latches are quarter 20.

So this is a No.

Seven drill bit, and it's roughly about an inch

and a half from that end on on either side of both frames.

You know,

the funny thing is, so I've had the KBC mail for about six months

now, and I just love the comments in the comments section.

You know, I, I've got one guy that said or several people said, Hey,

congratulations, good job.

And then I get another guy that says, Yeah, I'll just going to drill small holes

with it.

That's, you know, I guess I got to agree.

I got to agree with them. Sometimes it is that way.

I'm not a machinist

but I am starting to do a little bit more milling projects on it, and it

is a lot of fun.

But for now, this is what I'm using it for.

And I like the accuracy of it and the way it performs.

It's it's been a really nice addition to the shop.

All right.

So once I got the holes drilled out, it's just the little,

little counter sink right there to clean up the burrs.

And now I'm going to get back over to the mill.

Now, this is the steam reversing tapping had

you know, I got this a while back for a project

I was doing at 100 holes to drill and tap, and I didn't want to do it by hand.

So I did a little research.

I ended up getting this at KBC Tools.

Now, this is very similar

to the tap magic.

However, this is a little bit cheaper

and I decided to splurge and get the 02 quarter inch.

That's what this size is here.

And then also the 56 to three quarter.

So I've got a pretty wide range of of

tapping capability with these these tapping the edge.

You see how how well they work. You just set them right in

but a lubrication,

just drive the handle down at Taps and then just reverses out.

It does a great job for, you know, tapping quickly like I said, you can do

100 holes fairly quick and accurately with this tapping that pretty cool.

You don't use it all the time, but when you need it, you need it

all right.

After all that's done,

now it's time for assembly number here to the sort of flat welding table.

Got my table dog armor fixture clamps and clamp and everything down, you know?

And again, I just I can't say enough about being able to have the right tools

for the right job, you know, between the table and the clamps.

You know, the smallest job like this right here just makes it really easy.

You know, make a final adjustment here with the square.

You can see it doesn't take very long at all.

Once everything is adjusted and the measurements are just right

and it's nice and square, it just time to put it together.

Now, if you didn't have all this capability,

we two or three or four times longer to get everything just right.

All right.

A couple attacks on either side.

And once that's done, then just well,

as much as I can get rid of all the clamps and stuff, nothing's going anywhere.

And then I'm just going to go ahead and roll it out. Now, it's not much.

Three quarter inch square tube doesn't take a lot to go around, but

but that's the way I like to do things.

And when this is all done, we're going to we're going to get a flat district,

cleaned everything up

all right.

I'm working off the HP proposals to 20 M.P.s.

That is my go to machine for most things I do

it is spool with 35,000 wire and I like to run

90 ten 90% argon 10% CO2

you know 75 25 works well too it's just I've been using 90 ten,

I've been very happy with that for the last three or four years.

It's worked out well for me and for my machine for something

like this, an average is about 250 to 275 inches a minute.

That's what works the best for me as kind of stays at that,

at that adjustment for mostly everything I do,

you know, for the thinner wall stuff, you might have to be a little bit careful

what you don't burn through, but for the most part

it just works well for me

I got them all well enough

now to just get a flap disc, kind of grind everything down, smooth everything up.

It is going to get powder coated.

So I do want it to look nice.

And for that, I'm using a ceramic Trimble flap disc for Mercer here.

This is a 60 grit now.

You know, they make all kinds of different grips here, you know, one 20,

60, I believe 36 and 24.

They've got a lot of different

varieties of grits and I have them all and I do use them all.

But my go to is a 60.

I found that that works the best for what I'm using it for.

Sometimes

you know,

if I'm painting it versus powder coating, powder coatings a lot thicker.

And so it hides maybe the scratch marks from the from the grinding down.

But if you're painting, I've found this a little thinner

and sometimes I have to back this up the 60

grit up with a one 20 and it smooths it right out perfectly smooth.

So you know, all in all this is something that I like to do

is just clean up the welts on mostly everything I do.

I get a lot of people say you don't need to do that at weekends project.

I've never had any issues with any of the stuff that I've done

and I just think it makes for a cleaner looking project.

All right.

And for the screen on this, we're just going to be using some quarter inch

mesh that I had leftover from a project.

And that's another thing.

I hang on to everything.

Everything that I use, every piece I hang on to.

You just never know when you're going to use it for.

This stuff worked out perfect for the project we're using right here.

This marked it all I can. You can tell.

It can tell us.

I've had it for a while.

It's a little rusted up, but, you know, the rust is not a bad thing.

We'll get it all cleaned up without a coat,

and I'm just using a I cut off.

We'll untangle, grind it right here.

I find that's the best way to cut it.

Nice clean job.

You can see right there that, you know, I like to leave a little bit.

Not the exact size, a little shorter.

So I've got room for the well to to fit on the fit on the square, too.

All right.

And these are these little spring loaded thumb latches

I got from McMaster Carr perfect for this project.

The length and everything is just right quarter 20 and you can see that

now's the time.

I want to assembly these things and put them in there.

Yeah.

Prior to you had been a little bit

more difficult to deal once and all put together.

I'm fascinated by these thumb latches that I'm amazed at

how perfect this this turned out.

You know, it didn't plan on.

I just ordered them. And this is the way they came.

And it just worked perfect with this three quarter inch square tube.

And that's one.

And then here is the other one right here.

You know, for the most part, they all screwed in pretty good.

There was eight of them and all seven of them did, except for this one right here.

There must have been a burger or something in there.

I probably could have ran a tap through there again and cleaned it up.

But, you know, it's just a quarter inch.

I just grabbed a quarter inch wrench and it just screwed right in there

with no problem

and. All right.

For, well, in this thing together, all I'm doing is just bump tacking this

about every two inches all the way around and getting all the corners as well.

And that's about all you need.

And that turned out pretty good.

I'm really happy with the way that turned out a good, clean little project.

All right.

That was a great little project. I got to say.

I had a lot of fun building this up.

It was a good, really good design.

I really like the deep the round pattern mesh that's behind this.

And I like these spring latches right here.

Great idea.

They fit really well in this three quarter inch square tube.

But it was just then when I realized

that there could be a design flaw here

after I thought about

how this is how well this is going to work,

I realize that in order to put this in and to take it out,

you need to take the spring latches and you need to bring them in.

But there's four of them now.

I don't know about you, but most of us only have two hands

I think it's going to take four hands to do this.

So one I'm going to have to do because I'm going to have to come up with something

that I can maybe slide over the top of this with a slot in it.

That one, I can bring this spring back.

I can just move it over the top and it'll

retain the spring latches in the open position.

Therefore, giving us room to put it into place and then releasing those

and they can go back in it to hold them in place,

only taking

two hands that idea how this is going to happen.

So let's get started and I'll show you how I think I'm going to do this

all right.

So what I found was some brass tubing.

Now, I'm not certain if this is three eighths or quarter inch,

I'm not I don't know how they measure this stuff, but all I know

is the idea this fits right over top, that quarter

hex nut and nice snug fit.

So I've made my dimensions there. I've measured it.

I believe it's right. It's about an inch

and an eighth is the size I need that's going to work for me.

And what I've done is I have just

cut everything off to the right length and then just run

a champion tool on the inside and then a champion tool on the outside.

Do that on both sides and that's what it looks like.

Take it over to the mill, got an eighth in general

and woops, forgot to tighten device.

All right.

Got in there and nice clean cut brass is great to work with.

So smooth and so soft and it makes for a clean project.

And this is the way it works right over the top.

And that spring latch is retained open and the opposition and springs close.

I got eight of them to make.

So I'm just going to show you this one more time.

Basically, I just started it off to the right length

and then run a Chamfer tool on the inside, slight little chamfer on the inside

and then a small chamfer on the outside

did the same thing on the other side as well.

It doesn't take much as is really soft.

And then

over the KBC, eight inches and mil and just run that right through there.

And that worked out really good.

I'm really pleased with the way that that worked.

That's a nice, smooth, tight fit over the top.

I just gathering up all the pieces right here, all eight of them,

and then this is the way they go right over the top.

They slide right on a nice tight fit

and I got to say as a fun little project

and that turned out really good

All right, so there you go.

Those brass tubes were the ticket here on these spring latches right here.

Now we're able to keep these things held open.

Will be able to put them in and install them without any problems at all.

You know, these small little projects, sometimes with the funnest ones.

This is a good looking project.

As small as it is, it turned out really well, better than expected.

We're going to get this over the power cutters and then we'll get it installed

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