back when I was a kid I was in Boy
Scouts and my dad was actually the Scout
leader and he went through a phase where
he was trying to teach us all the
different knots that you could tie with
rope but he wanted to take it one step
further and actually make the Rope
itself so he used this little guide book
to put together a little makeshift rope
making machine and we spent hours
winding the sisal like this and turning
it into long strands of rope now
eventually we made so much rope we built
a horse corral and caught two wild
horses that’s a different story for
another day the problem with our rope
making machine is it generally took
about four to five different people to
operate it so the purpose of this
project today is to see if we can make a
simple machine that will allow you to
make a rope all by yourself now I made a
quick trip down to my local Home Depot
and in the hardware aisle I found almost
all the materials were going to need for
this project today I picked up three
quarter inch by five inch eye bolts to
come with a hex nut already on them I
got a couple different sizes of large
fender washers I got some cut washers
some hex nuts and I also picked up some
plastic caster wheels as well these are
the kind of wheels you’d put on the
bottom of a cabinet or a workbench gave
out in the garage but we’re just using
them for the wheel we’re gonna cut the
rest of it off I stopped at the lumber
aisle and I got a one by six by six
piece of common board as well as this
two by two but these things are a bit
too big to work with as is let’s get
busy and cut them to size
[Music]
so guys our wood is cut and here’s what
we ended up with I took this common
board and cut it to lengths of seven and
a half inches I took the first piece and
doubled it over the second one and cut
them together so that they’re exactly
the same way then I took a piece of our
2×2 and cut it eight and a half inches
long when you put that over the board
you can see it overlaps about three
inches on the other side and the last
piece of 2×2 is the exact same width as
the common board itself so you put all
the pieces together it should look
something like this to update guys our
wood is cut and it’s looking good so the
next step now is to line up our hardware
and drill some holes the idea here is to
take your large fender washers and
position on the board forming a triangle
you want to do it in such a way so when
you add your two by two to the top as
well as the bottom it’s going to leave
similar spacing at the top in the bottom
I also use the width of my bolt as a
spacer to create gaps between the
washers and ensure they’re symmetric to
place I think this is the best way to
eyeball this thing together without
getting super technical on the
measurements and that’s looking pretty
good so let’s mark the centers not bad I
think we got a set once the center’s are
marked it’s time to drill some holes now
since we have a quarter inch bolt it
makes sense to use a quarter inch drill
bit to drill some holes in this wood we
want it to be just as tight and snug as
it can be we’re going to drill these
holes we can put the two boards together
and drill the holes at the exact same
time that way they’ll line up perfectly
and make sure I get them absolutely
perfect I’m just going to use a couple
clamps to hold them in place
alright let’s drill some holes
[Music]
all right sweet so our three holes are
drilled we can go ahead and undo these
clamps and theoretically these things
should be lined up perfectly
symmetrically and just for reference I
am going to mark a little arrow on here
in case they ever get disconnected and
turned around putting an X on them like
that they should all line up perfectly
all right we have finished up pretty
much everything that we need to do with
the wood for now so let’s move on to the
next important step making the metal
spinning hooks these spinning hooks are
going to be made out of these eye bolts
if we put them in a bench vise and tug
on them slightly we can get the eye part
to open up and form a hook that we could
put a string into later on we also need
to develop a way that when we put one
into the Chuck of our drill bit and pull
the trigger it spins all three hooks
simultaneously and here’s what I’ve got
in mind what if we took three plastic
wheels and use them as pulleys and
connect them all together with a band so
that when we spun one of them all three
of them would spin together let me grab
a hacksaw and show you what I’ve got in
mind
number right there on that axle
[Music]
weirdo okay so cool guys here’s what we
got
I use my hacksaw to cut through these
little pins in the caster wheels and
released all three of these little
plastic wheels if you take one of your
large fender washers and push it against
the wheel you’re going to find it
overhangs about a quarter of an inch
that’s actually really important and
you’ll see why in just a second all
right this is where it starts getting
excited guys because all of our pieces
are cut all of our pieces ready all we
have to do now is put them together
start by removing all of the hex nuts
off of your bolts you just have them
naked bolt by itself you’re going to
take the end of the bolt and push it
through one of the holes all the way
through and then take one of your small
cut washers and bump that up from the
inside with the cut washer in place we
want to take our hex nut and screw that
on and thread that all the way down and
tell us as far as they can go then take
a wrench and crank it a little bit more
beautiful and just like that we’ve got a
bolt that’s locked in place but can spin
freely as well we’re going to do that
three more times
[Music]
there we go our bolts are in there and
secured we can go ahead and take another
cut washer now and drop it on top of
each one of those bolts and then it’s
time to add our little plastic wheels
there’s only one problem though these
little holes in the middle are a little
bit too small to fit over the bolts so
we’re going to need to drill them out
with a quarter inch fit first
beauteous alright so the holes on our
wheels are cut what we have to do is
just build up the base a little bit so
that there’s a ridge line on either side
of these wheels because when we put our
band on we don’t want it to slip off and
to do that I’m using some of these
fender washers as retaining walls now
the problem is these fender washers have
a very large hole in the middle so we
need to build them up with a smaller
fender watch the first
now these fender washers are the only
ones I could find the Home Depot it
would be more ideal if you could find
one with a quarter inch hole in the
center however using what we’ve got we
can use this wider fender washer with
the quarter inch hole place it on top of
the cut washer and then take the larger
fender washer and place that on top
beautiful and once our wheels on we’re
going to do the same thing in Reverse
large fender washer first slightly
smaller fun to watch our next followed
by our cut washer and a net now as we
start to tighten the nut it’s important
to make sure all our fender washers are
exactly in place and once it looks like
everything’s lined up in place go ahead
and take a couple wrenches and crank
that sucker tight because we want that
wheel to be pinched so tight that it
will not come undone beautiful
alright one down two to go
Booya there we go guys we got our three
spinner set and all functioning fine
all right update guys the hard part is
over I’ve got all three of our spinners
in place with our hooks securely firmed
on the other side and I went ahead and
tested all of them and make sure they
all spin freely and all of them do so
here’s the challenge how do we make it
so that when we spin one the other two
spin at the same time there’s a little
solution I’ve come up with it’s even
easier than you think
and this is it an old use bicycle tire
tube now if you don’t have one of these
lying around they’re really easy to find
just go down to any bike store they
throw these away all the time use tire
tubes they have no use for so probably
give you as many as you want take your
tire tube it doesn’t really matter where
and just go ahead and cut it right in
half it’s going to do two nice clean
cuts just like this then take the end of
the tube and line it up between the two
washers and cut off a piece it’s roughly
about the same distance as that gap
maybe a little bigger take that piece of
inner tube and flip it so that it’s
inside out so the inside is now pointed
outside and the thick rubbery stuff is
on the inside now we’re going to stretch
this a few times to make it a little bit
bigger and then we’re going to loop it
over all of our pulleys at once this
creates a makeshift rubber belt that has
quite a bit of tension you can see how
it’s pulling everything into the center
that’s where our second board comes into
play because the holes were cut exactly
the same we should be able to push the
bolts in place and that’ll line
everything up symmetrically and now when
we turn one bolt you can see the belt
drives the other two pulleys and they
all spin together sweet so this right
here is the essence of our rope making
machine and all it’s left to do is take
our two by twos and screw one block into
the top and the longer block into the
bottom so it has a couple of overhanging
pieces that allow us to clamp this unit
to the cable well this thing is looking
good yeah so guys check this out this is
what we have created a simple rope
making machine made with very cheap
materials from local hardware store
what’s really cool about it is it has
these little flanges on the side so you
can take a clamp and clamp it straight
to your table and believe me that’s
going to come in really handy as we
start making rope in future videos when
it comes time to operate our machine all
we have to do is take something like a
cordless power drill latch onto one of
the bolts in the back
trigger how cool is that guy is simple
little rope making machine we just built
here at home but the problem is it’s
still going to take three to five people
to help make the rope in the next video
I’m going to show you how to rig up the
rest of the system to automate the
process so with the press of a trigger
one person can make a stranded rope all
by themselves so there you have it guys
with just a little bit of effort and
some low cost materials from the
hardware store which is written
ourselves up a pretty cool little rope
making machine and I can’t wait to show
you in a future video exactly what it
will do thanks for joining me for this
project I’ll be looking for you the next
one talk to you then
beautiful ah you gotta be kidding me
when all your work goes down the drain
Scouts and my dad was actually the Scout
leader and he went through a phase where
he was trying to teach us all the
different knots that you could tie with
rope but he wanted to take it one step
further and actually make the Rope
itself so he used this little guide book
to put together a little makeshift rope
making machine and we spent hours
winding the sisal like this and turning
it into long strands of rope now
eventually we made so much rope we built
a horse corral and caught two wild
horses that’s a different story for
another day the problem with our rope
making machine is it generally took
about four to five different people to
operate it so the purpose of this
project today is to see if we can make a
simple machine that will allow you to
make a rope all by yourself now I made a
quick trip down to my local Home Depot
and in the hardware aisle I found almost
all the materials were going to need for
this project today I picked up three
quarter inch by five inch eye bolts to
come with a hex nut already on them I
got a couple different sizes of large
fender washers I got some cut washers
some hex nuts and I also picked up some
plastic caster wheels as well these are
the kind of wheels you’d put on the
bottom of a cabinet or a workbench gave
out in the garage but we’re just using
them for the wheel we’re gonna cut the
rest of it off I stopped at the lumber
aisle and I got a one by six by six
piece of common board as well as this
two by two but these things are a bit
too big to work with as is let’s get
busy and cut them to size
[Music]
so guys our wood is cut and here’s what
we ended up with I took this common
board and cut it to lengths of seven and
a half inches I took the first piece and
doubled it over the second one and cut
them together so that they’re exactly
the same way then I took a piece of our
2×2 and cut it eight and a half inches
long when you put that over the board
you can see it overlaps about three
inches on the other side and the last
piece of 2×2 is the exact same width as
the common board itself so you put all
the pieces together it should look
something like this to update guys our
wood is cut and it’s looking good so the
next step now is to line up our hardware
and drill some holes the idea here is to
take your large fender washers and
position on the board forming a triangle
you want to do it in such a way so when
you add your two by two to the top as
well as the bottom it’s going to leave
similar spacing at the top in the bottom
I also use the width of my bolt as a
spacer to create gaps between the
washers and ensure they’re symmetric to
place I think this is the best way to
eyeball this thing together without
getting super technical on the
measurements and that’s looking pretty
good so let’s mark the centers not bad I
think we got a set once the center’s are
marked it’s time to drill some holes now
since we have a quarter inch bolt it
makes sense to use a quarter inch drill
bit to drill some holes in this wood we
want it to be just as tight and snug as
it can be we’re going to drill these
holes we can put the two boards together
and drill the holes at the exact same
time that way they’ll line up perfectly
and make sure I get them absolutely
perfect I’m just going to use a couple
clamps to hold them in place
alright let’s drill some holes
[Music]
all right sweet so our three holes are
drilled we can go ahead and undo these
clamps and theoretically these things
should be lined up perfectly
symmetrically and just for reference I
am going to mark a little arrow on here
in case they ever get disconnected and
turned around putting an X on them like
that they should all line up perfectly
all right we have finished up pretty
much everything that we need to do with
the wood for now so let’s move on to the
next important step making the metal
spinning hooks these spinning hooks are
going to be made out of these eye bolts
if we put them in a bench vise and tug
on them slightly we can get the eye part
to open up and form a hook that we could
put a string into later on we also need
to develop a way that when we put one
into the Chuck of our drill bit and pull
the trigger it spins all three hooks
simultaneously and here’s what I’ve got
in mind what if we took three plastic
wheels and use them as pulleys and
connect them all together with a band so
that when we spun one of them all three
of them would spin together let me grab
a hacksaw and show you what I’ve got in
mind
number right there on that axle
[Music]
weirdo okay so cool guys here’s what we
got
I use my hacksaw to cut through these
little pins in the caster wheels and
released all three of these little
plastic wheels if you take one of your
large fender washers and push it against
the wheel you’re going to find it
overhangs about a quarter of an inch
that’s actually really important and
you’ll see why in just a second all
right this is where it starts getting
excited guys because all of our pieces
are cut all of our pieces ready all we
have to do now is put them together
start by removing all of the hex nuts
off of your bolts you just have them
naked bolt by itself you’re going to
take the end of the bolt and push it
through one of the holes all the way
through and then take one of your small
cut washers and bump that up from the
inside with the cut washer in place we
want to take our hex nut and screw that
on and thread that all the way down and
tell us as far as they can go then take
a wrench and crank it a little bit more
beautiful and just like that we’ve got a
bolt that’s locked in place but can spin
freely as well we’re going to do that
three more times
[Music]
there we go our bolts are in there and
secured we can go ahead and take another
cut washer now and drop it on top of
each one of those bolts and then it’s
time to add our little plastic wheels
there’s only one problem though these
little holes in the middle are a little
bit too small to fit over the bolts so
we’re going to need to drill them out
with a quarter inch fit first
beauteous alright so the holes on our
wheels are cut what we have to do is
just build up the base a little bit so
that there’s a ridge line on either side
of these wheels because when we put our
band on we don’t want it to slip off and
to do that I’m using some of these
fender washers as retaining walls now
the problem is these fender washers have
a very large hole in the middle so we
need to build them up with a smaller
fender watch the first
now these fender washers are the only
ones I could find the Home Depot it
would be more ideal if you could find
one with a quarter inch hole in the
center however using what we’ve got we
can use this wider fender washer with
the quarter inch hole place it on top of
the cut washer and then take the larger
fender washer and place that on top
beautiful and once our wheels on we’re
going to do the same thing in Reverse
large fender washer first slightly
smaller fun to watch our next followed
by our cut washer and a net now as we
start to tighten the nut it’s important
to make sure all our fender washers are
exactly in place and once it looks like
everything’s lined up in place go ahead
and take a couple wrenches and crank
that sucker tight because we want that
wheel to be pinched so tight that it
will not come undone beautiful
alright one down two to go
Booya there we go guys we got our three
spinner set and all functioning fine
all right update guys the hard part is
over I’ve got all three of our spinners
in place with our hooks securely firmed
on the other side and I went ahead and
tested all of them and make sure they
all spin freely and all of them do so
here’s the challenge how do we make it
so that when we spin one the other two
spin at the same time there’s a little
solution I’ve come up with it’s even
easier than you think
and this is it an old use bicycle tire
tube now if you don’t have one of these
lying around they’re really easy to find
just go down to any bike store they
throw these away all the time use tire
tubes they have no use for so probably
give you as many as you want take your
tire tube it doesn’t really matter where
and just go ahead and cut it right in
half it’s going to do two nice clean
cuts just like this then take the end of
the tube and line it up between the two
washers and cut off a piece it’s roughly
about the same distance as that gap
maybe a little bigger take that piece of
inner tube and flip it so that it’s
inside out so the inside is now pointed
outside and the thick rubbery stuff is
on the inside now we’re going to stretch
this a few times to make it a little bit
bigger and then we’re going to loop it
over all of our pulleys at once this
creates a makeshift rubber belt that has
quite a bit of tension you can see how
it’s pulling everything into the center
that’s where our second board comes into
play because the holes were cut exactly
the same we should be able to push the
bolts in place and that’ll line
everything up symmetrically and now when
we turn one bolt you can see the belt
drives the other two pulleys and they
all spin together sweet so this right
here is the essence of our rope making
machine and all it’s left to do is take
our two by twos and screw one block into
the top and the longer block into the
bottom so it has a couple of overhanging
pieces that allow us to clamp this unit
to the cable well this thing is looking
good yeah so guys check this out this is
what we have created a simple rope
making machine made with very cheap
materials from local hardware store
what’s really cool about it is it has
these little flanges on the side so you
can take a clamp and clamp it straight
to your table and believe me that’s
going to come in really handy as we
start making rope in future videos when
it comes time to operate our machine all
we have to do is take something like a
cordless power drill latch onto one of
the bolts in the back
trigger how cool is that guy is simple
little rope making machine we just built
here at home but the problem is it’s
still going to take three to five people
to help make the rope in the next video
I’m going to show you how to rig up the
rest of the system to automate the
process so with the press of a trigger
one person can make a stranded rope all
by themselves so there you have it guys
with just a little bit of effort and
some low cost materials from the
hardware store which is written
ourselves up a pretty cool little rope
making machine and I can’t wait to show
you in a future video exactly what it
will do thanks for joining me for this
project I’ll be looking for you the next
one talk to you then
beautiful ah you gotta be kidding me
when all your work goes down the drain
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