Beamish DIY hides a joint inside steel tubing
The fast-starting workshop compilation moves from concealed fittings to a homemade car jack, with viewers questioning some of its automotive demonstrations.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 201,581 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (19,444).
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An angled notch opens up the tube, revealing room for a nut and threaded rod inside. Beamish DIY's metalworking Short begins with small fabrication details, then moves into much more ambitious territory: casting a battery terminal and lifting a van with a homemade jack.
The compilation drew an estimated 200,000 views in its first day, roughly ten times the channel's usual Shorts start. Unlike the individual plumbing fixes featured in its earlier uploads, this one packs a succession of different jobs into a single, wordless demonstration.
Gloved hands fold square tubing, secure tabs and use an abrasive cutting disc as a curved marking template for a frame corner. Later, a rivet gun joins shaped sheet metal, and a metal framing piece becomes backing for a drywall patch. The title promises steel projects, but the sequence stretches into automotive work and household repairs too.
Those automotive segments are also where the small comment section gets specific. One viewer questions the jack's placement beneath the van; another challenges the material and shape of the cast battery terminal. These are demonstrations rather than tested results: the clip shows the jack raising the vehicle, but provides no spoken explanation of its load capacity or safety testing.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Beamish DIY
- Subscribers
- 651,000 ▲ 13,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 19,841,770
- Channel views, pace per day
- 2,807,034 (on a normal day: 3,053,328)
- Video published
- October 24, 2026
- Video views so far
- 334,052 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 330,526
The numbers
The metalworking Short's estimated first-day views were far above Beamish DIY's usual Shorts start.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which tool does the craftsman use to align the anchor bolts at the start?
The opening demonstration uses a spirit level to align the anchor bolts before fitting a metal base plate.

