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Tom Lipton fits new pipe handles to a prized tool, then welds and finishes their rounded end caps.
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Greenfield 26 Tap Wrench
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- 0:36Lipton traces his interest in oversized tap wrenches to friendly exchanges with Adam Booth.
- 4:13The Greenfield #24 measures more than six feet long.
- 6:01The Greenfield #26 wrench head appears alongside a giant six-inch tap.
- 11:01Lipton TIG welds hemispherical steel caps onto the new pipe handles.
- 13:06Grinding blends the welded caps into the handles for a smooth finish.
The bench gets crowded. In "Greenfield 26 Tap Wrench," Tom Lipton works through a collection of increasingly enormous vintage tools before bringing out the wrench he calls the "unicorn of unicorns." A banana supplies the familiar scale reference, though long pipe handles soon make the proportions even more extravagant.
There were no new uploads from oxtoolco this week, but this workshop presentation has reached nearly 150,000 views and is comfortably the channel's busiest video right now. It is not simply a large-tool show-and-tell: Lipton takes the newly fabricated handles into the shop, TIG welds hemispherical steel caps onto their ends, then grinds the joints smooth. The finishing work gives an outsized collector's piece the same careful attention as a smaller shop tool.
The collection also carries a friendly connection to fellow machinist Adam Booth, known as Abom79. Lipton recalls their old "Big Tool Smackdown" exchanges and closes by thanking Booth for introducing him to these larger tap wrenches. Before the Greenfield #26 appears, even the earlier wrench stretching beyond six feet looks like it ought to be the main attraction.
Across the channel, weekly viewing added about 87,000 views, while the subscriber total held steady. Daily views are a little below their usual level. "Hardened Wedge Machining" and "Forging Die Machining" continue to draw smaller audiences, keeping the Chambersburg drop-hammer work in the mix alongside Lipton's rather substantial wrench collection.
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Lipton recalls his large-tool exchanges with Adam Booth and thanks him for inspiring the collection.