Start Making With Metal - No Welding!

A 40 min metal working class? Yes please! It's just riveting content from beginning to end! Seriously though. This format is great. Please do more.

If you are going to get into riveting, and doing a lot of it, save your hand, invest in a powered rivet gun. Pneumatic, electric, whatever you choose, a powered rivet gun will keep you from having to spend all that rivet gun money on painkillers and wrist braces.

Really well done - THANKS! As a longtime metal fabricator, I must say this is the best video on the covered topics of binding sheet metal EVER! In less than 40 minutes, too!

I really like this format. Your humor has always been great, but this "I'm showing my brother's kid how to do it" vibe is really cool.

This video sure does make sign making seem more approachable.

The ratio for a caulk gun is the thrust factor that will be applied to the tube plunger from the force of you squeezing the handle. You apply 10 lbs of force, and it will apply 80 lbs to the plunger.

Love seeing someone use words like thaumaturgy in an everyday situation.

A Rip Taylor joke!?!?! Oh we are old my friend!

The first nibbler I bought (to mod a computer case for my nephew) was a hand tool. The window in the computer case was incomplete when I bought my second nibbler. It was an attatchment for a hand drill. Like your pneumatic version, it threw the bites all over the place. Cleaning them up reminded me to wear gloves when dealing with metal. This also caused me to tape a shop vac hose to the drill to collect those bites. The ability to cut straight lines, then curves, and turn tight corners, all without changing tools, convinced me the nibbler was a brilliant invention.

I was less than 10 seconds into the video before I had to comment on it. No plumber has ever looked at someone else's plumbing and said that guy knows how to plum. I just about spit out my coffee. No mechanic has ever looked at someone else's mechanic work and said that guy knows what he's doing it's so funny and I don't know why it is but it's so true.

For your holes, you can get any spade bit and grind the sides to whatever shape you want. You can make some interesting patterns in wood using the same technique.

"I feel like RIP Taylor!" got a genuine LOL from me. Great reference.

Sandpaper on Aluminum edges seems a great way to come up with new cuss words.

as a handyguy, I appreciate your inclusion of simple tools. creative!

A trick if you use an air nibbler. Get a small drink bottle with the neck opening the same size or slightly smaller than the nibbler head. force it on maybe with a little heat till it stays. This will catch almost all of chips.

When using tubes like the JB-Weld, don't open the cap: unfold the other end, snip a tiny corner and squeeze the product out, then crimp the end up again with pliers and refold. This is a far more airtight method, especially for highly volatile products like shoe glue.

I haven't tried them yet, but the spade bit photos on the Harbor Freight site show that they also have the cutting spurs... Cheap enough to find out how well they work.

Wesley Treat, for Mayor of all internet woodworkers/crafts ppl. Earnest, smart, no condescension, and a well of useful info and real no bullshit commentary on tools and techniques, not to mention entertaining. You have made me more confident in simply just beginning so many times.

I am a sign maker that cuts 063 aluminum all day long. Spiral up metal single flute bit with 60 to 70 Inches per min. 20000 spindle speed. Light oil or misting fluid. But the key is a vacuum table. Stick it down so it can’t move at all and you will be an aluminum cutting pro…

Im a automotive sheet metal worker and coach builder I can't say I disagreed with any of your statements and I watched the whole thing and learnt some things myself