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Fabricate & Prepare Custom Latch Components

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Wood Chipper Fire part 2: Weld, fabricate and repair

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What happens here

The presenter identifies a safety concern: the chipper's large lid can swing open when the machine is in motion. To solve this, he plans to create a custom latch. He starts with an old hasp (a hinged plate with a slot) and determines that the missing pin needs to be fabricated. Using a regular steel nail, he places it in a bench vise and carefully bends it into a 'U' shape using a hammer. The goal is to create a pin that can slide through the hasp's slot and lock it in place. He ensures the bent nail has the correct dimensions to function effectively as a secure locking pin for the chipper lid.

Goal: To address the issue of the chipper lid inadvertently opening during transport, a custom latch mechanism is fabricated using a standard hasp and a modified nail as a pin.

Tools and materials

  • Bench Vise
  • Hammer
  • Old Hasp
  • Steel Nail

What they say

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little fabrication so I found this old hasp and here's where the old bracket used to be I want to weld this hasp down right here but as you can see it's hitting right there and in order for me to latch it in place right here it's got to go in this spot and it's got to lay down flat now I can't find the other half of this uh hasp so I decided I'm going to use a nail so we're going to take this nail and I'm going to bend it over to fit in the slot in the hasp and then I'm going to weld it right here so we're in here this is the chainsaw sharpening area I put a mark right here I'm going to put this guy in my Vie straight and even as I possibly can and I'm going to just give it a few Taps now I'm going to run outside and I know I've got to it's got to go a little further I can just look at it and tell I'm going me give it another tap or two there we go all right I've got to think about this so we've got her in there we're going to snip that end off and that end off and we're going to weld this both up both up there and uh make what we need so it only needs to stick up about that far

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