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Matt of Many Trades
United States
Приєднався 15 лип 2013
Random video outbursts about craftsmanship, tools, projects at home, adventures, remodeling, reviews, opinions, bikes, Jeeps, wooden boats, VW Vans, blacksmithing, fabrication, paddling, building furniture, and some other stuff.
Running a Fireplace Insert with a Catalytic Convertor -|- How-To
I am putting together some how-to videos and notes for our renters and as the folks that we sold our last home to also struggled with getting the insert to run properly without pouring smoke into the house, I thought that I would make a public video so that the information was out there as a ready-reference.
Our particular model is a BlazeKing Ashford 25, but most on these types of inserts and stoves are similar - the damper or air flow lever is sometimes in a different spot and can be a lever or a pull shaft. Same principle of operation though.
Please refer to your owners manual before using a new stove in a home that you rent or buy for the most accurate and up to date information.
Our particular model is a BlazeKing Ashford 25, but most on these types of inserts and stoves are similar - the damper or air flow lever is sometimes in a different spot and can be a lever or a pull shaft. Same principle of operation though.
Please refer to your owners manual before using a new stove in a home that you rent or buy for the most accurate and up to date information.
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Descend on Bend - 2023
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Descend 2023 was a wet and windy affair this year, but still was a great time connecting with friends and making new ones. Humans Being. We didn’t see one fight or any ruckus and folks just seemed to be having as good a time as we had. The event was a little smaller this year, but better in some ways - toilet lines. In other ways, there is still some work to be done - site logistics. There were...
Portraits from Descend on Bend - 2023
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You can skip ahead of the talking to just the pictures starting at 00:00:42:07 Descend 2023 was a wet and windy affair this year, but still awesome and I had the pleasure of taking folks pictures in front of their buses, vans, trucks, and other vehicles as photo documentation (a yearbook of sorts) of the folks in our little circle for 2023. Most images were taken with a 1954 Rollieflex Automat ...
VW Syncro Engine and Trans Rebuild
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Over the winter and while we were off having a baby, my van spent some considerable time in the shop having the 2.1l water boxer engine and the Syncro trans axle completely rebuilt. I considered swapping the OEM motor for a 2.5l Subaru, but I prefer something I or any semi-competent VW shop, can work on to a Frankenstein Van. The Subie Swaps have amazing power, but they go through Syncro transa...
We F'ed up and bought a house!!
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We bought a new house that we didn’t mean to buy…. Really. My wife and I meant to buy a rental house, but due to some external/internal factors (pregnancy!) our rental house has become our house. When that switch was made, we changed the plan of what we would be doing or how much we would be doing to the home to make it livable for our family - personal touches that a renter might not want or m...
FIXED!! SawStop Blade Lower Limit Issue
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FIXED!! SawStop Blade Lower Limit Issue
Custom Sheet Metal for an Electrical Panel
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Custom Sheet Metal for an Electrical Panel
FABRICATION || Custom Steel Firewood Rack
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FABRICATION || Custom Steel Firewood Rack
BLACKSMITHING: When Expectation Does not Meet Realization - A Workshop Gone Awry
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BLACKSMITHING: When Expectation Does not Meet Realization - A Workshop Gone Awry
Outgear Solutions Rear Tube Bumper Install: Toyota Tacoma Gen2 (2005-2015)
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Outgear Solutions Rear Tube Bumper Install: Toyota Tacoma Gen2 (2005-2015)
Covering Screws in the Stairs with Shop-Made Hardwood Plugs
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Covering Screws in the Stairs with Shop-Made Hardwood Plugs
VAN LIFE | VW Syncro PNW winter road trip: Hopes, heartache, a breakdown, snow, and lots of driving
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VAN LIFE | VW Syncro PNW winter road trip: Hopes, heartache, a breakdown, snow, and lots of driving
CUSTOM CABINET BUILD | Part 3 - the Finish
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CUSTOM CABINET BUILD | Part 3 - the Finish
You just have another one with a good camera without SD card
That is beautiful. I collect the SB mugs too but I’m only up to like 38 lol I’ve got a few on my list from places I’ve been before Starbucks was even a thing. Running out of shelf space too and I just can’t seem to find what I want. My favorites are Disneyland and San Francisco 😊 Great job!
Thanks buddy. I think you can link to other videos of this series so we can find easily. Great job and stay safe and healthy.
Where is xcarve?
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I have no ide what you are building as where is the xcarve and final table LOL
I will use glue every hang
Nice...as far as plates...I went to metal supermarket and got them to cut 1x6 inch flat stock to make new plates. Popped indexing pins in them and they are in there nice...way better than the cast plates. Nice mods, good ideas.
I might try the hammer at the back and see how that goes. I like the old est wings over the new titanium hammers personally
It's not cheap? you bought this? it literally took me 45 minutes to make from scrap metal ... 🤣🤣 and yet you're "Matt of Many Trades" you sure about that?
this has to be one of the worst tool demonstrations I've ever seen 🤣🤣 like, what is this? were you going for the "stop motion" effect? lmfao ... I'm almost certain you're supposed to show the tool being used, not skip through to different points of the progress 🤣🤣 ffs ... I think I know now why you bought the tool
Had a staff of 15 once, and had every computer screw up they made left up to me to fix. I'd fix it, and they'd look amazed that I was so smart. And every single time I'd say, "ask me how I know that."
Gettin there.
Can I come
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Matt, I’m currently in the market for a fly press myself…. I’ll have to build a table too, since it doesn’t come with one… this is a cool video man .. I cant wait to buy mine
Nice job Matt! I'd like to see it when you get it sanded down, stained and poly!
will these saws, cut small semi-precious stones?
No.
Thanks you the best 💪
Hey. Are you in Fullerton CA now? I saw your truck parked a block from my house. I’m E. One street SW of where you were on Sunday. Look for a wht/yellow ‘62 single cab and that’s me. Welcome to Orange County🙂
Yep, thats me! It was on the street because we were moving in. Doka and van moved with us. Will be around on Saturday if you want to stop by.
@@MattofManyTrades Cool. Welcome to the neighborhood! I’ll try and swing by at some point. My Son is a fan of the Doka and spotted your truck and your channel sticker. Don’t see many here despite this being the VW bus capital. Sorry if this seems sorta stalkerish. Totally unintended. Guess it’s a VW guy thing. Haha.
@@ocavant not stalkerish. It is a VW thing. I super get it.
Elegant solution, thanks for sharing!
Great information, I have same exact saw, and purchased it for 75 bucks a few years ago. I'm glad to see these saws are finding a purpose, I wasn't sure in a new future shop design I'd keep it, but now I see a definite reason for its use.
Nice and good ❤
What bit did you use to countersink the holes in the rail?
Follow your video. Fixed the problem. Thanks
You seem like a great guy Matt - thanks for the video! No need to buy new if you can reuse!
Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very nice lathe
I have this exact problem! I completely cleaned inside of saw tonight before finding this video. That did not help. Will try this tomorrow. Thank you!
I have doors like that too that have no metal stripping to attach too. What size/length screws did you use for this? I’m scared of punching through my door. Seems like I’d just be catching insulation in the garage door if I screw into it but obviously yours is doing great!
Your doors are probably inch and 1/ quarter inch and a half thick. I used three-quarter inch screws that were into three-quarter inch material so untruth only about a quarter of an inch protrude into the door insulation. What holds the racks to the door is not substructure or insulation it’s the sheet metal. Tap a little pilot hole and use sheet metal screws. Not self tappers. Don’t over torque. Just tighten them until they’re snug. These were up in my old shop for two years and the door went up and down every day. They’re mounted in my current shop on a 14 foot high rollup door that goes up two or three times a week there hasn’t been a single pull out or failure.
Is it just me or is everything out of focus? Good effort though.
Probably. I had an auto focus issue with my camera and had a couple videos that I shot complete and just had to go with the footage that I had already shot.
This took me back to HS at Brooklyn Tech . We built everything a house , tools, drill bits , plum bobs… a plane 😂😂😂. Thanks for this
Nice!!
Love my catalytic converter burns so nice saves me on a lot of wood I used both kind of stoves wood catalytic saves me so much money on wood I used probably half the wood than a stove without
Same. I know people complain about government oversight, blah blah blah, but it’s more efficient. It burns less wood and heats bejesus out of my house.
@@MattofManyTrades so true
Did you have to thin the latex paint?
I don’t, but it depends on your paint. A SW exterior house paint is thick as putty and would have to be thinned. I sprayed with a quality interior trim paint that is fairly thin - Ben Moore Advance.
I guess that "COMEDIAN" was right! 🤣
Nice. Gald I didn't have to look as hard. Now that I know where to hit it, I was able to stick a goose neck air blower down from the top blade space, through the belt and hit that worm gear. I have a built in cabinet around the saw and while it's possible, getting to that swing opening can be a lot of work. Blowing it out from up there worked, even though I couldn't see what I was hitting. Lifted and sank the blade at different intervals to get it working again. much easier to use the wheel now as well!
Looks like you are using the throat plate levelers incorrectly. the buttons on the table should be higher and on the plate they should be extended so as to "lock" under the buttons on the cast iron, the an allen wrench from the top to level the throat plate, this prevents the back end of the plate from lifting. Also you have a thin kerf blade with limiting lugs behind the carbide teeth - the limiters prevent the brake from fully engaging the Brake, and thus allow the blade to make more rotation after deployment.
Since you have a closed loop in the firebox, a simple way to heat the whole home, assuming you have attic access is to install a small insulated duct from the fireplace room, through the attic to the other end of the house. A small inline duct fan will circulate the air for pennies end-to-end of the home and really improve the effectiveness of the stove.
I had something similar in a house years ago. That was a single story ranch. And it worked great. My current home is a bi-level mid-century, and I also have duel Heat pumps on each level with head units in each bedroom. The fans in them are super efficient and when I have the fireplace on I almost never turned the internal fan on in the fireplace, because it is a little energy inefficient. Instead, I’ll turn the fans on low in all the units on and open the doors and the heat circulates all over the house levels. Works great. I stayed in an A-frame once that had an 8 inch tube/duct that ran to the very top of the peak to almost floor level that had a fan that drew the hot air in the peak down. It made it super comfortable and fix the issue of the main area being comfortable and the sleeping loft being hotter than the fifth level of hell. The fan on the duct seem to have been a large DC computer fan, so I’m sure that it was just sipping pennies a day as well
why in the world do you need a catalytic converter on a wood stove? It's a wood stove.
The country where you get an inversion later in the air stagnates in winter, the only way that you can legally buy a woodfired heat source (stove insert, regular wood stove, pellet stove, etc..) is to have one with the catalytic converter, installed to reborn the particulates in the hot instead of venting. Most cities have passed similar ordinances from New York to Chicago to Dallas to Portland. if you live in an urban area, you can’t use grandpa’s potbelly stove that was in the cabin for 55 years. It makes it a little more complicated to light, but my home growing up was heated solely on wood heat so I have some experience and I will say that stoves and inserts with the catalytic converter I have longer burn times and I use less wood in them so they are more efficient and a better use of . I don’t like how much more expensive they are, and I think that the expense is directly reflective of the fact that they mandated by law, but the return of investment in comparison is only for five additional years and a good woodstove will last you for your lifetime. With the newer models, you may after 10 years have to replace the catalytic brick, but on mine it costs $250 is fairly easy to get to and I bought an extra with the stove and it’s on the top shelf of the pantry just in case I need it in a decade or so.
@@MattofManyTrades You must be in Canada. Wow. Even got the wood stoves. Ridiculous.
@@chrisragan9766 Nope. Oregon. Same rules in Seattle, Chicago, St. Louis, and even Dallas. Any major urban area.
That is increíble my friendwho do fire shimny work.
W video! W time!!!!!
Thanks Mason! See you there next year!
This made me so happy. Thanks, even though I must be possessed or a demon cause my picture is the only one that was all burry. That for including it.
I wouldn't have even thought of not including it! Your photographed inner demon is full of love and generosity!
Very nice work,great video!👍🏻
Thank you
Just what I was looking for! Thanks for the great idea!
Thanks. There are commercial options available now, but my home-built ones are still working great and are not plastic. Send a pic when you build yours :-)
Shit. Way too complicated. I just need somewhere to put my books. They are all over the floor
Cinder blocks and boards are old school. IKEA is the new version.
Hi Great vid, this is exactly what I've been wanting to do, but in bigger size, 81 inch x 77 inches, have you done any of that size? Do you think i can do this same project but with those dimensions? Any help is greatly appreciated.
you could, but would HAVE to add a face frame with the shelf biscuit joined into the back of the face frame. Done for reinforcement. If not, the shelf WILL bow.
I have the same issue along with the saw/blade stopping in the middle of a cut. Did you experience that too?
I did not. That would would flip me out as I would think that it would have a reliability issue connected to the sensor. I would call SawStop TOMORROW!
Good job Sir I like your build. Doing same myself. I like welding and metal fab too. I built my own engine stand as I am 6-1 and the once out there are too short. Thank you Sir.
Nice! Yep, the Engine stand Method is the way to go. I just sold this bender (not the dies) to a local guy and I and upgrading it a little and will build version 2 on the engine stand.
Have you ever had an issue with the upper elevation limit not going to 3 1/8"? That's my issue right now. Great video!
Thank you. No, I have not had that issue.
Dang! That looks awesome!
Do you have a link to buy from him?
You sure helped me. Just building my first dedicated machine shop and layout and organizing is daunting. THANKS!
sick dude, happy for ya! looks like an AHU tdi with a mechanical pump. she needs a 1.6 boost pin and and manual boost controller now !
It is the 1Z. Supposed to be the ALH. Now has the 1.6 pin and excuse temp & boost gauge in cab.
how thick is the metal?
which? The bender material (.250") or the post holder (.125")? Or test material (cold Rolled .250")?