Burning that Midnight Oil: Motor Cracking at 2AM!!

Added: 2026-05-11

[00:00:08]So today on product shop we are going to make the base plate the uh workhorse of what this machine is going to do. Now if you seen in the last video I went ahead and cut this big I believe this is 1 and 1/2 in thick.

[00:00:26]Yeah, one and a half inch thick plate. And I got me a a cutout. Now, I'm gonna go ahead and just uh send it without putting any reinforcements on the inside. I just don't think it's necessary as thick as that plate is.

[00:00:45]Plus, we'll be dropping bigger plates on top. Well, not bigger, but more plates.

[00:00:49]And I found this plate here. This interestingly um if you see these four holes and then these drilled and tapped holes, this plate was the original plate that I had this vice mounted to. I don't know how I got from that to this little plate or why I swapped or why it came off or what the deal is with that. But, um, being that this is a thicker plate, um, we're going to go ahead and use this. Plus, it's got, uh, it's diamond plate, so it's got a little bit of grip.

[00:01:29]Um, we need to add two things to this.

[00:01:31]We need to add some type of like a V, kind of like what we have here, but I need thicker material because we're going to be pushing hard on this.

[00:01:41]Probably going to use a piece of this cuz it's/ inch thick.

[00:01:49]I think I got some more of this over there.

[00:01:53]Um, we might just go ahead and put that in there. Bam. Like that.

[00:02:00]I'll get another piece. We'll weld that like that. And uh actually I might trim a little bit off this back end to lay that down a little bit. That is kind of a steep angle.

[00:02:17]And then we need to basically weld two things like this on the inside, but a little uh lower profile.

[00:02:27]We'll have to cut cut some more of this.

[00:02:29]I I want to I want to get some of that 1/2 inch stick AR500 uh because this is this is going to be uh worked. There's going to be a lot of pushing and pulling. And basically what I need to do is that right there. Okay.

[00:02:47]I need it kind of rugged and then I need a lip at the backside.

[00:02:53]And it doesn't have to be a big lip, you know, just enough for the motor to lock onto it. and it not slide out. And then uh yeah, so I'll probably wind up the holes that are here in the middle. Well, actually, I don't even think there's going to be a problem with that. It's going to maybe plug weld them up, but I don't think that's a problem. Now, I went over and found while what I found that looking for these other plates, I found this big boy. Now, there's already huge chunks. And look, man. I don't know how they did it. Look how square those corners are, right? That's crazy.

[00:03:39]It does look like they cut that with a torch somehow. Um anyway, that bad boy there is 2 inch thick.

[00:03:49]That bad boy there is even more. Wow.

[00:03:52]Why did we use this one? What was I thinking?

[00:03:57]You know what I was thinking is that plate was bigger, I believe. I want to I want to think it was bigger. Oh, and then I found these two big rods.

[00:04:09]I'm probably going to use this one.

[00:04:15]Um, I need to make a small basically an insert like these that I can slide up in here that just has like a probably about that deep, a big round something I can push stuff down through this hole. Now, someone had made a comment, why did I put that hole there if I'm going to be pushing stuff sideways? Well, I absolutely will try and push the stuff sideways, but there's certain things like this.

[00:04:47]Um, I am going to make a plate that drops in here that has like a small V where I can hook stuff like this and push the shaft out and maybe even push the whole shaft out. I I I don't know if that's going to work. on these small ones it might but like bigger stuff I want to be able to push with the 100 tons that's not 100 tons I don't even know what that is I mean we could do the math and figure it out um but yeah and there there been a couple times where I needed to have a a way of pushing stuff through and now we do so and now I can locate all these plates. So, this plate here on the bottom side, I'm basically going to weld some of that 1/2 in stock. Or I'll just take a straight up um well, be kind of a waste of a plate.

[00:05:46]I got plenty of that half inch.

[00:05:48]I think I'm going to do that. I'm going to do the half inch and uh then I'm probably most likely going to drill four holes and tap it.

[00:06:02]Um which I wish I had a mag drill for, but we'll figure something out. Um that way I can just bolt these down even though they'll be locked in. Uh, I don't want them flipping up for whatever reason. You know what I'm saying? Even if I just did one bolt in the middle, I I think we'd be good, you know? Anyway, um, yeah. So, that's that's what I was doing with that. But I'm going to see also I found this.

[00:06:37]These are all I found all all of this in a dumpster. I should have measured that before I started.

[00:06:52]Uh, I believe the reason why Yeah, this one was 30 in and this one here was like quite a bit more. I forget what this was, but this one was a little bit bigger.

[00:07:14]Now, I'm thinking maybe I should have went with the bigger plate.

[00:07:18]That extra 1/2 inch would have been beast mode.

[00:07:22]But I already had I already struggled cutting this thing. But anyway, we'll probably take some of this big plate here that's already cut up. And this is what we're going to make the the dye out of. Basically, I'll use a section over here. And and and basically all it's going to do is straddle the hole and probably have three different size holes. something I can put the shafts straight down and just just come down on it. Man, there's something else I want to do. We might actually even test it tonight.

[00:08:03]We might test it. I think this blade here will do it. I don't know if these holes will hold up, though. Right now, we're limited to these because I've already wallowed out one of them holes and bent and the whole thing is bent on the bottom there from it getting stretched. Anyway, I'm going to go find another piece of this angle and I'm going to dig up a piece of that AR500.

[00:08:32]We need two little pieces like that.

[00:08:34]Pretty much the same. I don't know if we're actually going to be able to get them to weld onto here, but we're gonna give it the old redneck try.

[00:08:47]All right, this is where we're at. Okay, I made a couple custom pieces. I basically took the angle. I cut one side down. These are going to sit on here like this. Basically, just like that. We made two of those.

[00:09:04]So that'll give us basically mimic what I have on the top. Okay. And then uh so we can put big motors in here. The little ones um I had two small pieces of the AR500.

[00:09:23]Um and I thought it was going to be okay, but now I'm looking at it. I think I'm going to actually make longer ones. Okay. And these are going to go in here like this. But I believe I'm going to run these all the way down. I might just make two small pieces and weld them in here. Doesn't even really matter. But this is pretty much going to be the base plate. Now, once we get this set, we get this in place, I will locate the bottom. And we'll take some scraps. I just cut some uh like this.

[00:10:00]This is what I shaved off of um this side. And then I'll just cut probably uh maybe just two pieces this way.

[00:10:18]We won't even worry about the front.

[00:10:20]I'll just weld them in there like this.

[00:10:23]Right. And then that'll locate it and pretty much lock it in.

[00:10:29]Um, but before we do all that, we're gonna have to come over here and actually secure this a little better.

[00:10:37]Get this thing kind of welded in here so we can uh, you know, put some pressure on this thing and it's not going to just slide off.

[00:10:48]So, I'm going to go ahead and weld this up now.

[00:11:21]All righty. I'm just going to weld that bead all the way across. I think I need more wire.

[00:12:10]Oh yeah.

[00:12:13]Heat. Heat.

[00:13:04]Hey, hey, hey.

[00:13:38]Heat up here.

[00:13:41]Heat.

[00:14:07]Heat.

[00:15:19]Huh.

[00:15:33]I might have to press this thing straight, but let's go throw it up in there.

[00:15:41]See how it looks. Yeah, I'm definitely going to run these all the way down.

[00:15:45]Other than that, I think it looks good.

[00:15:58]Oh yeah, that's definitely uh she definitely rocking now.

[00:16:07]That's center. Bam.

[00:16:10]Oh yeah, this thing's coming together nice.

[00:16:14]So I got my center line there.

[00:16:17]That's center. That'll definitely uh stop things from sliding back. Also, the uh diamond plate, that's why I wanted to use this piece here. Will help grip a little bit. Not much, but it'll do something. See, I don't think this is I don't think this is square.

[00:16:38]I do have a center line there. I guess I could just take a Sharpie and go up underneath and uh draw where it needs to be. and we weld a plate in there and then we can test this thing out. Okay guys, here we go.

[00:16:54]Where's my uh my little uh adapters?

[00:17:02]Um now what I did is let me show you.

[00:17:07]Now this is just temporary and just to see if I can't break a motor tonight.

[00:17:12]I'm gonna have to thoroughly um lock this thing in tomorrow.

[00:17:28]So, what I basically did is I I sharpied from underneath the outline and then I just welded a square stock or actually a piece of that scrap from when I cut these right to the front. So, it'll push on this. Now, I did weld this side and then I came back and I ground the weld flat. So, it does have penetration on this side and this side. And what I'll do tomorrow is I'll do the same thing here. And then I'll build the pieces in between and it'll stop this from moving around cuz right now this will move around. But we should be able to at least push them over.

[00:18:09]Bam. It locks right in. I'm just going to put some clamps on the backside real quick.

[00:18:33]Now that's just holding it from wanting to twist. So, let's go ahead and throw this bad boy up in there.

[00:18:47]Probably going to want to push this out.

[00:18:56]H, that's interesting.

[00:19:00]I guess I guess it doesn't matter really.

[00:19:10]We'll see what happens.

[00:19:14]Um, oh, you know what?

[00:19:19]I guess it's not going to go back. I don't have this uh finished up here, but we should be able to do something.

[00:19:30]Okay.

[00:19:47]Oh man, that's just breaking everything.

[00:20:16]Oh yeah.

[00:20:46]Okay. Well, we successfully just straight up ram the the core out.

[00:20:54]Now, you did crack the case, but seems like it wants a little bit more work.

[00:21:40]We got a chunk of aluminum in there.

[00:21:43]Okay.

[00:21:59]Okay, that's going to be annoying.

[00:22:01]Um, I for for this operation, I need a bigger end. This thing's already got gummed up with aluminum.

[00:22:26]There it is. There we go.

[00:22:52]copper.

[00:22:55]Okay.

[00:23:12]Now, here's where this comes into play. Now, with a proper hydraulic, this is going to be so much better.

[00:24:03]Heat. Heat.

[00:24:10]We got to be careful about deforming.

[00:24:20]Oh, coyotes are howling. Going to be time to call it a night.

[00:24:31]Heat.

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[00:26:21]Heat. Heat.

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[00:27:02]Heat.

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[00:27:39]It absolutely destroyed that casing. And Now, it's a little clumsy right now, uh, because I'm kind of just figuring out and this here needs to be on the I have that other thing. It's going to be a little slow, but at least I can go forward and back with my foot and I can operate this and not have to thing. And I need to make another I already can tell I need to make something that's not so pointed.

[00:28:10]This is nice and everything, but basically I need a longer tube that's maybe just the tube at the end.

[00:28:19]Um, I think that'll work just fine. And this needs to be on a full balancer cuz this is freaking heavy. Um, and this thing is sweet, man.

[00:28:31]Uh, and then the cast here.

[00:28:36]This thing is shredding it. Shredding it, man.

[00:28:40]Now the whole Now I am crushing this a little more than I should because I'm I'm like I'm not really paying attention. I'm I'm just uh and that needs to be locked in. Um yeah, it's it's doing exactly what I think it's do supposed to be doing.

[00:28:57]Um I just need to dial this in a little better.

[00:29:04]Uh, I like how I can just drop this plate in and it'll locate. I will most likely put at least one bolt on either side just to keep it from popping up and then the welding on will stop it from sliding. I think that'll be uh perfect.

[00:29:25]And then I I think I'm going to take one of them big sheets of AR500 that I have and bolt it underneath here somehow. Either I'm going to actually run a bolt right through this, maybe three bolts, and bolt a huge plate so that I can uh push this stuff forward and not worry about it getting on the ground.

[00:29:54]Um yeah, and already I could see um we need to go faster.

[00:30:05]This this here is, you know, okay, cuz we're just coming down and cracking. But this here, this needs to be faster, you know. And uh I I think we have some I think we're on to something.

[00:30:19]Um I just destroyed those motors like it was nothing.

[00:30:24]I mean, now we are going to have to work on like this here.

[00:30:30]You know, there's going to be some after cleaning that we're going to have to deal with.

[00:30:37]Um, and then, oh, tomorrow.

[00:30:42]We're going to test this blade on something.

[00:30:45]We're going to see if we can't get this blade to do something. But first, I'm going to need to make a pusher.

[00:30:51]Basically, we need to take um a plate that'll slide in here. And we need to weld one of those big rods.

[00:31:00]Probably the smaller one will be fine.

[00:31:03]Probably about, you know, that far. Just enough to get something pushed down started. I mean, we'll try it with this, but it's going to be hard to center it.

[00:31:18]It's going to be pushing on a weird angle, right? because it's like kind of that's where it should be.

[00:31:25]Um, but we'll try it.

[00:31:28]And oh, I guess I can almost try it now.

[00:31:33]Well, I don't think it's going to come down enough. I need to be able to push these shafts out. Whether I do it this way or that way, I mean, I don't care. Um, but getting to the copper.

[00:31:51]I mean, we're we're there, man. We we'll we'll get to the copper. This thing just cracks this stuff. Now, obviously, stuff like this needs to be cut. I still will be able to put that in here and ram out the core, which is basically what this thing is for, ramming the core out. And a couple other things. There's going to be more. It's going to do more than just what we're what you just seen here. So, it's going to be a work in progress. But I think tomorrow what I'm going to do is square that up, fix this so that it doesn't slide out. And then we're just going to clear the table. We're going to run these. And then I'm going to go get them other motors over there. And I'm just going to run this stuff.

[00:32:40]kind of feel it out, you know, get get in a groove and um then it'll come to me what we actually need to do cuz there'll be there's going to be a couple other things. But at least for now, we can blow through all this and start putting some copper in the bucket cuz that's ultimately what we're here for. And um these things have been sitting on the table here for probably a month or so. Let me know what you guys think. I'm exhausted. It's like probably 2:00 in the morning and I'm out here breaking motors.

[00:33:13]Coyotes. I hear the coyotes out there, so I know it's late. Um, yeah. Let me know what you guys think. I'm definitely I'm definitely uh actually I don't know.

[00:33:21]I kind of liked it that this is back here.

[00:33:25]Um because it catches on here as well and there. That worked great.

[00:33:31]Um, and then when we put some bigger motors in here, you know, that's what this is for. It'll still catch the lip back here and we'll be able to crack these bad boys. This blade is nice, man. Woo! That thing was just piercing piercing through that cast.

[00:33:48]I can't wait to put some big motors in here. Man, we are going to have to beef this thing up. The holes here. I'm going to get a piece of that big plate.

[00:34:01]Maybe that one or whatever. 3/4 inch.

[00:34:05]We'll get some big plate on here and weld up these holes. And then the only way for me to um upgrade this is if I get some flat bar on the inside here, weld it all the way up. But I got to drill out all these holes somehow.

[00:34:25]Um a mag drill would be great for that.

[00:34:27]Maybe we'll have to invest in that. But we'll have to plate that. And then we have to fix up here. We'll have to put a plate straight up across here.

[00:34:40]And then I think if we did that, it would it would handle this 100 ton a little better.

[00:34:48]But this thing here, man, it's crazy.

[00:34:50]When this kicks into low gear, you can't. It It almost looks like it's not moving, but it's moving slow, but it just doesn't stop, you know? I mean, there's not much that's going to stop that ram.

[00:35:03]Definitely not these motors.

[00:35:06]All right, guys. Let me know what you guys think. Um any uh ideas on any of this stuff really. I'm open to anything.

[00:35:16]And uh we'll see you in the next one.

[00:35:39]Heat. Heat.

[00:36:00]I'll tell you where we're going. Right to the scrapyard.

[00:36:39]Watch it.

[00:36:41]dance. You ever seen a copper dance before?

[00:36:56]Come on.

[00:37:00]Come on.

[00:37:05]Heat.

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