Welding 3rd hand

[Haslip Cycle Works]

Any welders out there ever need a 3rd hand? I needed one especially for tig welding smaller pieces, so I came up with this. It will even work over head.

[Altair]

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Welding Third Hand by Haslip Cycle Works

tags: welding, third hand

[Tooler2]

excellent idea. It would be nice if you post the time in video we can skip to to see what you are making, we can always go back and check out details. Personally I would prefer the video to start with the end product in use but very few you tubes are like that. Too bad there is no fast forward on you tube!
Rob

[desbromilow]

excellent idea. It would be nice if you post the time in video we can skip to to see what you are making, we can always go back and check out details. Personally I would prefer the video to start with the end product in use but very few you tubes are like that. Too bad there is no fast forward on you tube!
Rob

There is a fast forward (at least when watching via PC) - you simply grab the sliding dot in the time/progress bar across the bottom, and pull it left or right. In my PC, it even has a small preview screen above the dot so I can see the hours of some person yakking on, or cutting steel, and when I see the finished product, I then let it run properly.
FWIW, MY next big hate in a lot of youtube videos is a person builds something, but doesn't show how to use it. or they show it cutting paper, instead of steel (if it is a metal working tool)
when I find good youtube videos, the next step is saving them for offline viewing.

[Tooler2]

There is a fast forward (at least when watching via PC) - you simply grab the sliding dot in the time/progress bar across the bottom, and pull it left or right. In my PC, it even has a small preview screen above the dot so I can see the hours of some person yakking on, or cutting steel, and when I see the finished product, I then let it run properly.
FWIW, MY next big hate in a lot of youtube videos is a person builds something, but doesn't show how to use it. or they show it cutting paper, instead of steel (if it is a metal working tool)
when I find good youtube videos, the next step is saving them for offline viewing.

Your method works on short videos, it is too fast on longer ones. It is amazing to me how people want to watch painfully clumsy amateur working of metal.

[WmRMeyers]

My only gripe about the video is that the lighting is terrible. One lousy LED worklight over the bench would make it so much easier to see what he's doing.

Bill

[Haslip Cycle Works]

Are you saying I’m a painfully clumsy amateur?

[Haslip Cycle Works]

Actually if you look at the top of the frame of the video there are actually a couple led light strips right above me. The issue is not a lack of lighting but rather too much lighting, the sunlight through the garage door windows causes the dark foreground. This is just one of the challenges of filming yourself doing this sort of stuff especially when you aren’t setup in a “studio” vs a home garage.

[Tooler2]

Are you saying I’m a painfully clumsy amateur?

I do not remember your video and the comment was generic not personal. Sorry if it came across badly. I love creative home made solutions especially if they involve re using material.
I do not understand why anybody would want to watch somebody else cut up plate steel with a 4'' grinder for minutes on end. I wish videos would start with the finished product so I can decide if I want to watch the whole thing.

[WmRMeyers]

Are you saying I’m a painfully clumsy amateur?

More that I'm going blind. In much of the video what you are holding is in the shadow cast by your body. What you need is a fill light. That shadow may be perfectly well lighted to your eyes, but the camera cannot see in the same range you can. That shadow swallows all the details of what you're doing. Especially to me, since I'm developing cataracts, so I need a great deal more light to see with any acuity at all.

My shop currently has 3 5000 lumen LED fixtures and a 2000 lumen fluorescent fixture, and I'm still having problems seeing well enough to clean and sort stuff in there. It's a 16x21 room with one small window on the north wall. I expect I'll need at least 3 more of those LED fixtures to actually work in there.

I bought an LED ringlight to use with my cellphone, and may break down and buy good photoflood lights if I ever do what you're doing. Been a long time, but I was a real photographer once upon a time.

Bill