AMAZING MILWAUKEE TOOL HACK!!

one of the best things about being a youtuber is really cool equipment shows up in the mail if it's a bright red box and it says Milwaukee on it you know it's good but this video is not what you might think but so you want to see what's inside you sure the shirts inside it's a port aband well what's a porta band a porta band is a portable bandsaw let's talk about this a little bit so this video is not about the portable bandsaw now just to give you a little back history so back in the day when I worked in the construction trades especially doing commercial work working with rebar and steel steel studs this tool was a staple this tool was was something that was just so necessary because if you wanted to cut steel and whether it be any of those things you could simply do it with a very small compact portable handheld tool you could cut rebar if you were manly you can use it with one hand I mean it was just just indispensable we used it for everything but outside of that application you know it really had it really isn't I think it's probably hard to justify because it's not a cheap tool and it's not a tool that you can be really could be used for precision you know it was just kind of a crude cutter but my my man Troy from swag offroad well he's kind of changed all of that so we're gonna we're gonna talk a little bit while we work we'll put this thing together here it'll all come clear here soon just wait a few more minutes so Troy from swag off-road we've got I've known him for a long time so back in the day when I had a I had my wrecking yard I was doing a jeep part selling jeep parts and we were take taking lots of Wranglers apart doing all of that well Troy was just starting his business and lived just down the road from me and we had a lot they had that in common and so we had a big metal dumpster that all the scraps you know things we couldn't sell or damaged items whose a lot of the things we we bought were broken or crashed he would come through and because he was building prototypes for this being one of them for equipment for tools and different applications for off-roading and what have you he would come kind of come through and dig through the dumpster and it was futile scrounging parts and scrap metal different things and it was just stuff I was happy to give it to him as the stuff that we were just selling for scrap metal anyway and so I hadn't seen Troy since we moved away from there for a long long time he emailed me just to maybe a week or so ago and said hey this is Troy I don't know if you remember me oh yeah of course you know I remember who he was and he said well you know my business is doing really well and I've invented some things that you know something that I think you would really like I want to send it to you as a thank-you for your helping me get started and and being generous with your Jeep parts and all that and I said okay okay that sounds that sounds good and so so it showed up here and that's why I'm sharing with you here today so that's kind of a little back story of how I know Troy now why am I featuring this video you know why is this something that I think is you know important or worthy to put up a channel and it's not just to help Troy out that's part of it I've always went out of my way when I could when possible to help small businesses and entrepreneurs that make well what I would consider to be exceptionally good products which we'll see here in a minute and something also that is all you know that must be a criteria for anything that I feature like this has got to be something that's useful to the common man that's on a farm or homestead or something like that and this I consider to be well I consider it to be a game changer you see where we're going here you seeing the seeing the brilliance let's see I don't have done this before we're gonna find this out together so here's what Troy has come up with a very high-quality stand table for the poor taband sake there's a this is red adjustment screw that goes in here so let's put this on it well talk we'll talk a little bit it's why this is such a deal here in a minute once that Porter band slid into place that red knob just screws right in here run it up until we can feel it flush at the top of that tray and the instructions Troy recommended checking these for alignment that there are a set screw option here that you can put in here to adjust the tilt of the blade there's a long one for cordless and then this short one I guess is for the accorded that doesn't seem nice I don't isn't it's not necessary here because I'm checking it it's it's in alignment so everything looks really good how brilliant is that I mean how brilliant is that I mean that is that is taking a tool a robust affordable tool a really powerful bandsaw and making it so you can utilize it for precision cutting you have a really well-made table right here a small table this bandsaw has got a deep throat in it there you can cut six inches probably really similar maybe a little bit less with the table on it you've got two slide outs here for miters we'll talk about that here in just a minute but I mean that is really clever Troy I mean that is a what a useful tool because here's the problem so most of us if we need if you need to cut a piece of steel let's say you need to Pete cut a piece of steel in half how do you do that hacksaw unless you have really specialized equipment and really specialized saws it's not an easy thing to do what if you need to cut a radius and steel what if you want to cut a corner or something round or you want to cut a piece of tubing in a precise measure at a at a twenty two and a half or a forty five just just fabulous so let's talk about miters and cutting angles here a little bit because it just keeps on getting better this here is really really cool I think it embodies the whole need the whole philosophy of what Troy is doing I mean when you look at what he's building and the quality of it and it means just it's amazing it's really everything from the hardware to the powder coating to the CAD ium on the side I mean to the court I mean it's really really built well so I'm not surprised that when he's sourcing parts here Troy's not making this miter gauge it's made by the incra incra inquiry Rose I use their stuff for woodworking but I mean you won't believe how much you know some people just don't get this stuff you know they think well it's a tool the tools a tool but this is really a really good one so this is a miter gauge this is similar to what you have on your table saw right you know you can change the angle and it helps you to cut everything's on there but look at this one I mean the ones I have are really crummy ones that just come with my tables are little cheap ones from tools that I have so you've got this Paul system the hooks to the the handle on there look at the nylon bushings look at this locking system here that that gives you a nylon a nice these bearing surfaces that that pinch as you put them in the channel look at the we're not steel on steel right there we got a nice bearing surface with nylon on there I mean you want to talk about quality and I that's impressive I mean that really impressed me that you could you know you could have just go to go to China and think you know it's just it's just a miter gauge right it's not that it's not that important but this is not just well I got the wrong one this one goes here I'll bet or here is it goes there the handle I throw the hand handles on the back no I don't know I don't know I don't want the washers on there okay I gotta take five here I want to do it right so I think I finally got to put together right look at this this is a nice piece of equipment right here you loosen the handle and you can change your ankles you can see now you can cut first I'll say I want to cut at something I want to cut 22 and a half right I can line that up there no guesswork that's nice I'm gonna use this on my table saw so there I got my 22 and a half lock that in there I can make precision cuts look at that from both sides I've got the that is really nice now this thing I was wondering well obviously that goes in there what's this for No oh so it doesn't come out maybe oh oh okay so if you wanted to have it so it doesn't come out is that what that is for you put that in there is that yeah no well Troy I'm so sorry Troy these guys laughing at me here I don't know what that's for I'm not to look into that something cool I'm sure oh and just wait he it keeps getting better look at this a foot switch a foot switch I didn't even know you could buy these I would have had these from every tool that I own so this is a this is you you can get these as well is this is a it gets an interrupter there that you plug the it'll plug the porter band in to put on the ground so when you want to cut something right you got something in your hand and you're working and you're fabricating this is sitting down there what do you do you step on it you step on it and it's hands-free operation I love this and even that it's nice quote this is quality look at the size of the court line master line master comm factory drink that is cool I could see applications for that everywhere it's even got rubberized skateboard tape on there so let's see how it cuts so the the no aw he doesn't have a trigger lock on it so you've got to put a clamp you know any type of a clamp you have on there just clamp on the on the switch I've got the foot pedal installed look at this [Music] oh there's a light listen that's nice I got my feet okay so let's try it out see how it cuts I got a piece of when we got here got a piece of flat bar oh it's probably all of a quarter-inch quarter inch or so well 3/16 so it's thick heavy by two strap let's see I mean if you have to cut this let if you're if you're working in your shop you know this a fabric aid building trailer whatever you have to cut this and you don't have a plasma torch or you know big saws type of equipment to do this how are you gonna cut that I mean most of us have had to result with using a hacksaw it's just not that's okay for small jobs to have a hacksaw is a wonderful tool for that but if you're doing any type of production or you're trying to build something trailer hitch or whatever man you need it you need the ability to cut steel if you're doing a foundation and you need to cut rebar you need something you know that you can cut rebar with time and time again and a hacksaw just doesn't get it done on anything with production alright here we go so let's let's square this off let's see how it does that is brilliant that really is brilliant that is slick that is slick good job Troy I can tell you this is gonna be a very very welcome addition to my shop this is something that I would use all the time and I mean it's it's just fabulous to be able to have I I never could really justify buying a big metal cutting bandsaw I mean it's an expensive piece of equipment and they're so huge but this having the ability to use it I have a tool now that I could use on the field portable you know really good for cutting rebar cutting whatever and something I can use in the shop for doing precise work you've been doing scrollwork if I wanted to you know I've never had the ability to cut a radius in anything like a piece of aluminum or sheet metal or anything that cut precisely like this it's it's wonderful state definitely wanted to mount it down to a bench or some you know I just clamped it down here temporarily there you can see the shavings well but it really cuts so that's great I'll put a link to troy site this is not a paid endorsement apart from Troy gave this to me as a gift he didn't there was no expectation of video I did this because I wanted to I did it because I wanted to help an old friend and I did it because I wanted to show a product that I think is is excellent and would help any of you guys that have small fabricating shops or doing anything like that I'm not saying that this is a an essential homeowner tool but if you like to weld and you'd like to fabricate and you need to cut material in a really compact affordable package I mean this is really nice really put well well put together all right good job Troy thanks a lot and visit Troy site swag offroad I'll put a link in that in the subject this is the just the beginning the tip of the iceberg he's a very prolific inventor and he's got some clever clever stuff that he comes up with I mean some guys are just made like that I wish I was more like that I wish I had that creativity to have these ideas and bring them to fruition like this because this is I mean it's just extraordinary it's really really cool alright thanks a lot thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed the video and we'll see you on the next one pretty clever tool really is really is something that I would use a lot around here I've put the table and incra ruler miter gauge in my store Franklin Mart calm if you'd like to go over there and take a look at those your purchases are always appreciated help support the channel and don't forget to thumbs up and we'll see on the next video

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Id: LrMhZEIweA0

Length: 14min 50sec (890 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 01 2016