Q&A while making prop stuff Part-1
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- Answering questions from the comments on the recent Q&A videos while showcasing the glamorous world of prop-making.
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Clive I just wanted to say thanks, your soothing, friendly voice helps take my mind off whatever horrors are sure to await me in dream land as I fall asleep.
Even my dog can dream to Clive's voice.
I worked on a few productions, you're right about building props you dont need to be on hand for. 12+ hours of not much, punctuated by short bursts of frenetic activity.
You should checkout 6061 here on YT. Loads of cool projects i alu/welding.
Would love to see an update to your Soldering 101. How you feel about USB powered irons and maybe some surface mount tips.
All in one vid :)
Keep up the good work chief, you're doing Scotland proud.
I'm pretty happy with the Pinecil. Would love to hear his opinion
"... if I get the new shop I've been looking at, with more space and less stuff to go on fire next to it..."
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Adjustable wrench = Metric/Imperial fitsall
or in desperation = Imperial/Metric Nut Rounder
Portuguese call it an English wrench.
Wow - 20 wire pairs per bunch, 20 bunches = 400 petals. The assistant who has to stick all 400 petals back on after each show is really going to thank you!!!
Clive, your videos are always very interesting and love your wicked humour. Cheers
I've been pondering the issue of the falling petals, and I think the best thing would be to glue the last petal on (just in case the wax wants to melt too early), and use pyro for that last petal, just for dramatic impact.
lol.
"Bachelor Chow" needs to be a thing. I don't like having to spend more time dealing with food than it takes to eat it. To me, gathering and preparing it is just a nuisance. I get that some people actually enjoy spending chunks of their day fiddling with food. I'm just not one of them.
There's always Soylent.
@@tim1724 I was an early adopter, but I can't really justify the cost.
I usually do something like a box of macaroni and cheese (or pasta and sauce) with a protein and a vegetable mixed in for my iteration of 'bachelor chow'. It's a one-pot meal that usually gets me 1 serving and two- three meals for leftovers (which refridgerate/freeze nicely, and reheat fairly well in a microwave.) YMMV, of course.
I've a dish I've personally dubbed "bachelor chow". Basically chuck a tin of your favorite "cream of" soup into a saucepan according to package directions, add a packet of instant ramen with seasoning packet, bung it on mid low heat and let it sit until good and goopy or you get bored of doing whatever else you feel like. Decent taste, about a meal's worth of calories, and your day's sodium intake in one go.
@@brianargo4595 "Saucepan?" I have an old pizza box I could sorta fold up... I think my stove uses gas though so that probably wouldn't work very well.
When I have to do repetitive cable work (like making 100 BNC cables) I listen to BigClive videos. The boss can't complain since it is work related.
Around 5Ghz (ignoring crazy overclocks) has been the basic limit on processors for like 10 years now. Seems they have switched to adding more cores, and making the chips more efficient.
The biggest gains in the last ten years or so have been in a different type of efficiency; that is, more work per clock, instead of less power. Luckily this means it uses less power as well, win win.
Big improvements were made on branch prediction, too. But graphics processing mostly need not to branch, so it runs way faster than common business logic.
A”shifter” - very close to the Swedish name for an adjustable wrench: “skiftnyckel” = shift key.
Yep. We call them shifters too - shifting spanner
The funny thing is that in Dutch they are both called ”bahco” (after the Swedish brand) and/or "engelse sleutel" (= english spanner / wrench )!
The Dutch word ”sleutel” has exactly the same meaning as ”nyckel” has in Swedish, it can either be a key (to open a door/lock) or a spanner / wrench ( the tool) so I thing that ”shift spanner” is a better literal English translation of the Swedish word ”shiftnyckel”.
@@martinmanuel6228 My Papa calls it "That fuckin thing there" like all his tools.
@@Acamperfull and in Denmark they are called ‘svensknøgle’ = Swedish key :)
@@Acamperfull In Germany we call an adjustable wrench an "Engländer" (englishman) too. It is said that this is because you used them mostly for all those weird nuts and bolts found in english/american machines and automobiles.
Years ago I got poked pretty good by a 277/480v line that was supposed to have been turned off. That was the day I learned the guy working on the wiring should be the guy that verifies the circuit is actually off.
14:30 an semi-minor addendum to this: most furries do not own a fursuit, myself included, primarily due to the cost, usually in the high hundreds to mid thousands, though some just choose not to. and yes from experience, most other furries i have met are on the spectrum, and usually study and work in a technical industry, or are wanting to rather than their current occupation, and a substantial portion are also part of lgbt+ too, myself included too. this isnt criticism, just more information that you may not have known.
God, hearing Clive talk about furries with such respect, that was bliss for the ears and the soul.
@@jackpijjin4088 yeah it was quite a relief to hear them not just jump straight to usual sexual/fetish parts of it that are so frequently the main talking point whenever furries are mentioned
@@ThePiGuy24 for real though. Furries are no worse than anybody else who dresses up for a convention.
Plus, from what I understand, Clive probably understands about a community being judged by outsiders. (Like when he mentioned Burly nightclub.)
In relation to the adjustable wrench question, I was wondering if you use a metric or imperial adjustable?
It's metric. It only does millimeters.
@@bigclivedotcom Try to get a "fractional metric" one next time - they can do one tenth of a millimeter in precision and that is close enough for the odd imperial nuts you will come across in daily life. They are slightly more expensive due to the higher precision needed, but I found it worthwhile.
On the other side of the pond: sorry guys, the 1/16th of an inch "high precision" imperial shifters just don't cut it. Try to get a dual- (metric/imperial) or triple-system (metric/imperial/traditional japanese) artisanal hand crafted one from Japan. They are horribly expensive though.
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Get yourself the Whitworth style of nut fucker. Good for everything except nail extraction.
I would be willing to pay the increased US shipping rate if you were to start your shop up again.
wow i just looked up the shipping it's nuts, 2 kilos is pushing £30 tracked but you might be surprised what people will pay
Clive, lots of technically inclined people also enjoy making homemade food.
As someone who's learning welding at tech school, I would highly recommend going a similar route. If you decide later on that you hate doing it, at least you didn't buy any of the machines...
You'll probably also have a much better idea of what machine you actually should buy if you decide to go on with it. This is particularly important for machines that need gas cylinders, as those are probably going to cost like a BASTARD to get out on the Isle of Mann. They're hazardous cargo, so they're not something you can just hop on the ferry with. (I think this might leave stick welding as the only viable form unless you've got the money for regular hazardous cargo shipments.)
@@evensgrey flux-core in a MIG machine would also avoid gas tanks.
@@EmyrDerfel Looking at the process and requirements, it doesn't look like a good choice for a beginner. You also need to either do it outdoors or in a suitably ventilated shop due to the smoke it tends to produce. I get the impression Clive doesn't really have a lot of space to build a dedicated shop for welding and has a lot of close neighbors who wouldn't appreciate the smoke outdoors. And the Isle of Mann is pretty wet, between a third and a half the days it rains, depending on the time of year. Any sort of arc welding isn't something to do in the rain.
AFAICT, if you want to do home welding, the most versatile type is TIG, which will weld pretty much anything weldable. (Looking around, I discovered that bronze is a metal to be very cautious welding, because a lot of so-called bronze is actually brass, and you really don't want to be welding brass at home.)
Yes I understand about the USPS don’t get me started. It’s just ridiculous. ⚡️⚡️⚡️🇺🇸
11:31 - The bureaucracy is basically the same it was pre-Trump; what got involved was (clueless) _politics._
Tbh I REALLY don't mind these videos 😃 because you're just kinda chatting with us and doing some projects. It's really fun to just watch you crimping and the like.
Not a meat and two veg kinda guy? Have you gone straight? :o)
Adjustable wrench = Crescent Hammer.
- _I'm gonna be demonstrating how boring it is in real life working on the electronics…_
Eyyy, stop underestimating our interest, please!
In the compressor space......no one can hear you scream. ( like a girl ?)
Back in the 70's I worked in a shop that had 120V live test leads hanging on the bench. The "old guy" was always grabbing them and testing the "feel" and also trying to grab other guys if they came in range. Good times!
Stop telling people what to eat....(not you Clive)😌 please....
Ravioli with brown sauce is the best. I empty the can into a microwave pot, cook for 3 minutes, squeeze in some brown sauce. Job done. Tasty!
We installed an ioniser into the duct of a conference room where i worked, it came with a piece of circuit board with a neon and resistor to test if it was working, and it worked, though this was a commercial unit
I have just bought a double decker plate ioniser and will be doing a vid on it soon, i'll try the neon
SVseeker has done a lot of aluminium welding and he shows what equipment he uses, including a spool gun for the wire
You can easily hold a live wire without problems as long as you are wearing shoes and not touching anything else, wetting the finger may help to feel it, though i don't advise anyone doing it.
I used to work on HV and when I was an apprentice one of my mates was working with an old fitter doing bus bar cleaning. They opened a panel and the fitter looked inside and said “that’s funny I have never seen one of those before” and wiped what turned out to be a bus bar insulator which was still energised. That unfortunately was the end of the fitter. I won’t go into the full details but my mate needed counselling for years. That was over fifty years ago, and I still think of that incident.
Eat what ever you want Clive,everybody else does !..nobody should tell you what to eat !
You're right that there are a lot of technical people in the furry fandom. We have a LOT of people in software, computer/network engineering, electronics, etc. But really, we have furies from all industries and all walks of life all over the world: military from top brass (navy commander, air force lieutenant colonel) down to privates, police, EMTs, firefighters, blue collar factory grunts, teachers/professors, psychologists, accountants, comedians, musicians, actors, students. You name a profession, there's a furry who does it. I'm a pilot by education but work in pharmaceuticals.
Ya, an adjustable wrench seems to be universally known as a Shifter in the UK. I work in the oil industry at the other end of the British Isles from Clive and that's what we call it.
TIG welding Aluminium is not really that difficult. Your soldering skills will help, too.
Great video, thank you.
Any chance you'll work on an ebike motor, and discuss why at least some geared ebike motors run more efficiently up hills so that they use less power and run cooler?
I've got calculators that are older than me!!
Well said on food - sometimes I think it’s a complete inconvenience that we have to eat.
As BBC outside broadcasts used to say - don’t waste valuable eating time eating. 😂
Hello @bigclivedotcom after the lastest orwellian move by youtube(removing dislike count to please wokes and corps and elon musk fanboys) i'm leaving yt. See you on another platform, keep up th good job!
I have a variac that I had to modify exactly because it popped the breaker due to its inrush current. In a pinch I had a small lightbulb (recovered from a microwave) in series which I had to bypass manually, then I finally decided to make a more permanent modification adding an internal NTC (well spaced from other stuff) which I had actually managed to get as free sample
21:45 Computers have, for the most part, stopped increasing in cycle speed. We had to because the heat dissipation from driving the gates faster was getting entirely unsupportable. (When you're getting dies emitting heat at a rate comparable to the optical surface of some of the cooler stars, it's time to try something else.) The main way we get more effective computing power these days is mostly to add more processor cores. The computer I'm doing this on has 4 cores, and the newer computer I have has 6, and that was only because I didn't think I could use the really high-core-count processors effectively in the near future. (Currently, AMD lists their highest core count CPUs as having 64 cores, and Intel lists their highest at 72. The AMD CPUs are also listed as having a higher base clock speed, which is actually lower than the clock speed on either of my current computers. IIRC, this has to do with it becoming progressively more difficult to organize the signals on more complex PCUs with more cores as the core count goes up.)
Also each core tries harder and harder to execute multiple instructions at the same time.
@@0x8badf00d I think you have to program the software in a way it uses several cores in parallel. Something like threads and tasks stuff. This leads to a complete other paradigma not all programmers understood well these days xD
@@gunnark9823 No, I'm referring to superscalar processors (which has been a thing since at least the 90's). Each individual core or even individual hardware thread can execute multiple instructions simultaneously.
@@0x8badf00d IIRC, that innovation was the thing that caused the 486's to run so much faster than the 386's. Each stage in the execution pipeline can work on a different instruction, so a lot of the speed disadvantages of a multi-cycle execution pipeline disappeared.. Pentiums added branch prediction so that the more likely execution path would be started down, further optimizing the execution. There are also things like the ability to dynamically decide to execute some instructions out of sequence to further optimize execution speed.
It used to be that the much shorter execution pipelines on RISC chips made them able to perform logically equivalent operations faster than CISC chips could, but superscalar largely did away with that. Even if you build a superscalar RISC chip, the inherent nature of a RISC chip means it gains far less benefit from it than a CISC chip does. You also tend to start losing some of the advantages of RISC designs like lower power consumption if you start trying to add the kind of execution enhancement features used on modern CISC chips, and gain much less performance increase for the extra power and heat dissipation it costs you. For a device like a phone, with a sharply limited battery, lowered power consumption is more important than a modest speed boost. After all, people don't normally try to do intensive things on their phones. (Yes, Nokia came out with software that turned their phones into hand-held consoles. You might have noticed that most hand-held consoles have been fairly marginal systems financially for their creators. The Nokia phone software was the descendant of a catastrophically failed dedicated hardware console. People didn't much bother with NGage on the phones, either. I worked in Nokia's 3rd level device support while NGage was officially available, and nobody ever sent us cases about it. Not even from China, where phones are a much bigger part of the gaming market.)
@@evensgrey amd has a 128 core 256 thread epyc cpu
Please please can you make a music vu meter with addressable LEDs. I looked on your site for a DIY kit but, I can't see one. I have the cabochon LEDs that I want to make the vu meter. I'm happy to pay for the efforts!
My biggest fuck up was getting my wires crossed with a fairly large cooling system that should've had 24V DC and I put 240V AC instead. I was stood in front of the unit with about 20 people behind me all working on computers. I switched it on and it went BOOM exploded the PCB followed by darkness and 20 very annoyed people. 😮
Whoop double and triple I'd say.
Also there is the Stinger wire or so cold in the United States and some 3-phase systems.
Nowadays required to be orange.
Yeah normally Indian connection other than the wrong one you get your normal inspection voltage get hit with the Stinger if they say whoops double!
I've heard about power company accidentally connecting residential and other 110-220 services back then it was 110 yes.
Instead of 110-220.
220-240 connecting into the wrong system.
Heard about this a few times in my life at least.
And of course blowing almost anything and no place times multiple places at the same time Insurance of course gets involved!
Also ever heard of a hot neutral short in service entrance cables?
All heck breaks loose when this happens.
Heard about this more than once and also witnessed flat happened on time as well.
One person I know had this big I believe it was an oak tree where the overhead service pass through.
Overtime one of the hearts had chafed through Dulce Arsenal land on the tree.
And had drug through the insulation of 1 hot wires.
Modern Twisted Triplex cable.
With the bear neutral wire.
They had turned on the hallway light and the kitchen light came on or vice a versa.
Smoke was pouring from the brand new furnace do to the low-voltage Transformer cooking quite literally.
All kinds of weird stuff can happen when that happens.
The Timeless on a farm that I had stayed at previously.
Except this time was not due to overhead wiring buried cable.
Went down to the barn hit the light switch.
Hundred watt bulbs were very damn estimated about 24 volts.
Nothing was working properly.
Somebody was called in know this had been there for a thunderstorm.
They dug up the cable.
A portion of the cable was fused together in about the middle of the run in a mass.
The only person said I'm calling this lightening your insurance should cover everything!
Also one fuse was blown at the pole that service was split between barn and house two large shoes poles at Pole!
After electric meter!
Also on those yard lights.
Typically mercury vapor and sometimes heart for sodium.
The ones that are generally the responsibility of the power company when you have that sort of contract.
There are apparently connected straight to the incoming service entrance and before the meter.
I'm wondering if there is any internal fusing on these.
As far as I know there is not unless of course that is not the standard fixture that you would typically see but same design.
The leading Wireless would definitely not take a hundred amp fault or more!
Considering that is generally straight from the Transformer in some cases.
Kind of wondering if that could lead to a very big bang or fire.
I'm wondering if that's some of those videos you see on light pole like that if that's what has happened if something is going wrong internally!
Also squirrels have a tendency to use power lines as a highway system as could note.
I still remember as a little kid see one day outside just have to be looking up seeing this squirrel running across the line.
Next couple more months squirrel disappears in a big blue flash.
Gotten between high tension bushings or wiring going to them either one.
That area goes dark.
Quite literally had their tell there like there and so on most of which seem like it was just instantly vaporized whatever was left of that squirrel.
Of course it took out to cut out.
That was one of the first high-tension items in my car Shannon was a fuse cartridge!
I also collect glass porcelain and ceramic insulators and some other things as well.
I eventually got a proper cut out for the fuse cartridge!
Once I saw a birdhouse cutout still in operation and use or next to one somewhere I think the the yard like was the only thing still getting power since the meter had been long since pulled wouldn't think there would be any power going to to the security light anymore either.
The Transformer itself and just about everything else is just about rotted away it has been demanding and been there so long!
I don't think there was anyone bit of gray paint left on that one in terms of the Transformer either.
Wouldn't be surprised if it was a hundred percent PCB containing Transformer oil
Also once found an outlet for some reason was wired for 220 instead of 120.
Very possible wide have been originally intended for an electric heater possibly window air conditioner you're meant for something else the dedicated receptacle.
Either or potentially one of those old mostly receptacles such as a Crowfoot for otherwise could have been back in the day whenm was common for residential use possibly back when last current was permitted for lighting purposes hands 10 am 15 am receptacles ratings.
And that it was just replaced with a standard duplex unknowingly having a 220 feed.
Well the bone was quite break for a little bit until it blew out due to double the right voltage.
At first I thought it was just a bulb that have been knocked when removed or something like that.
Put in a known good bulb same thing very bright.
Grab my tool kit and multimeter sure enough 220 on a standard duplex receptacle ouchies
Hah. As a furry, can confirm: there is a furry in every workplace in existence. Mate, I want to commend you for your description of our fandom! That was honestly sorta wholesome in a way, compared to how we’re normally (and inaccurately) portrayed. And yes NASA, teachers, electricians, truck drivers, mechanics and heavy machinery operators,, a furry is there lol.
I blame all the crafting that goes into the...lifestyle? Hobby?
Anyway, yeah, too many furries build the furry stuff to not expect a crossover with the building/crafty type jobs.
A humanoid fetishism can not be that common... unless that isn't what a "furry" is at all? Enlighten us. Plex.
@@MichaelOfRohan Do you know how America has a gun fandom? Furries are like that, but with Zootopia animals.
@@MichaelOfRohan Your first mistake is thinking it's a fetish. Being a furry, a part of the furry fandom, simply means being someone who enjoys and appreciates anthropomorphic cartoon animal characters and the amazing artists behind them, no matter where they're found in cartoons, advertising, literature, and other media. That's what being a furry is in a nutshell: loving to think about the fantasy of "what if animals could walk and talk like us".
Wow you handwrote all the questions into your notebook!?
They were scattered through the comments.
well, you did make a video about 3-4 years ago about an electrode which so far has been considerd the go-to standard for alien technology as far as probes go :)
Clive, it would be cool to see you do videos on pinball/video game repairs..
Hi Clive, A Ne2 tube was used in the late 70's and early 80's by microwave appliance techs (my Father) as an initial test to see if the oven was powering up the magnetron. They had the neon in a plastic case,, kinda looked like a two pin molex connector , possibly with the legs of the bulb crimped in to hold it in place and then a clear plastic housing around the glass tube. no actual leads or wires protruded. When running the oven, the neon would glow and seemed to pulsate. Just a quick visual to help direct the trouble shooting.
Cheers
You should try one of those automatic wire strippers for those wires, would go a lot faster
Does anyone else find the clicking of a ratcheting tool like terminal crimpers soothing? Just me?
the answer to computer speed: you can count the gigahertz on your hand, and that has not changed for 10 years.. computers are faster in other ways.
Yes, a shifter! My dad is Scottish, and calls them a shifter :) He worked for Babcock in the nuke power stations there, as a fitter and turner.
I recently wanted to buy a book from The British Museum, the cost of the book was about US$40. Went to check out and the cost of shipping to US from London was going to be an additional $70. WTF. Didn't buy the book.
Doing well with the crimper Clive ;) I often preload too far by mistake, and then the only way to clear the ratchet is to close and waste the crimp :(
You can unlock it with the little lever between the handles if it's not too tight. I dread to think how many crimps I've done with those tools.
I have the non-ratchet tool (it was much cheaper!) which is fine for these small crimps, though it is slower because it takes two operations for each, but most ratchet types have a release lever somewhere.
You're right about calculators! I have several!
Anyone ever seen those pocket calculators possibly Casio that have the dot matrix screens versus 7 segment?
The ones if you put in a certain order of digits and operations...
In some cases turn the same sideways once you do this...
Yes I'm referring to the game Easter eggs on a calculator!
It just goes to show the computing power of a single-chip has increased exponentially over the years.
And once inside something you could do so much more than it is already doing!
And no this is not a graphing calculator it's just one with a dot matrix LCD.
As one might call a four banger or four function calculator!
Not an official download myself but I do know 1 or 2
Please brother, get one of those crimping pliers which take belts of crimps. My old boss had one which saved so much time when working on 0.5q to 2.5q wires.
One video you should do is a guide about which tools you should get first and differences between them for those who want to get started into fixing electronics.
I ship lots of electronics kits worldwide from the US. After brexit came into effect, the UK started forcing everyone outside the UK to charge and pay VAT on packages under something like $180. For packages over that the VAT was the responsibility of the buyer. I just stopped shipping orders under that amount to the UK, rather than create an account with the UK tax services, and going through all the shenanigans. It's a bummer.
Your comment makes we wonder if it was partly retaliation.
I'm so pleased I'm not the only person that hordes calculators and now starting to think that the 5 years of therapy have been a bit of a waste.
seems a foot powered crimpper would be useful
or air pneumatic ?
A workshop maybe! That would be a joy to behold, even though we would only see your hands and bench most of the time 😄
Hah Red Dwarf reference in your video, now I've seen it all.
Brexit didn't help mail, importing or exporting costs either
MichaelCthulu doesn't like food, either. I wonder why some tech people love food and other tech people would rather photosynthesize.
Photosynthetic? ( damnit spell correct thingy) cut the crap get a 13A socket
Silicone Heaven sounds like a Vegas strip club.
We use spanner more than wrench in the UK, set of spanners, adjustable spanner; although I think we call the handle parts of socket sets a wrench and hence a socket wrench! (People of the UK feel free to correct me)
We definitely say spanner in the UK.
Ahhh the cost of shipping... *Laughs in Australian*
In Danish it's a "svensknøgle" ~ "swedish key"
I'm looking forward to the next part of this video big Clive
re: engineers / electrician -> rough fingers reducing conductivity:
bass players have nicely calloused finger tips, too. ...still don't wanna tangle with the 650vdc plate voltage of my amp's power tubes!
As a fellow e+e engineer and ruiner of bass lines I have to whole heartedly agree
SVT by chance.
@@ProfessorMatic Yes indeed! SVT 2-Pro w J/J KT88 power tubes. ...shout-out to Eurotubes!
I have a great calculator collection, from my GCSE-era graphing calculator, to my 30p Tesco cheapy units and all the way back to some vintage units with an LED-display. But yes, I never intended to start a collection, I just can't bear to part with any of them!
That was a very relaxing half hour - thank you - and not one crimp messed up.
Maybe. I hope he tests them all by giving a firm tug on the wire.
I wouldnt be worried about the crimps making bad contact, id just fear the nick in the wire would cause an eventual break. In residential work it was well beaten that all nicked solid wire must be cut and restripped thats why I stopped using dikes to do it.. I finally got a break after years of avoiding strippers out of ego. I was adamant that a good electrician could strip most wires with most tools. 6 outlets and 2 tripped breakers later, I found the break, and opted for a set of greenlee strippers that xmas.
They never called back....
Sorry grandpa.... xD
If shipping to the US costs more, give the US folks an option to purchase. Whiners aside, an honest "this costs $n.nn to ship to US, sorry." would seem best. Let's people make their own informed decision. At least one Texan knows you don't unjustly disrespect. See you next video no matter what.
I've had the same when ordering from the US to the UK. I think some people are using the shipping cost to get more money.
Maybe one day things will get better. 🤔
Stay safe and have a great time.
Even calculating the cost is complex as it goes by weight and size/shape.
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Never send a hot air balloon made of depleted uranium by mail. 😁👍
Thanks Clive!
This is much more fun than watching paint dry. Not very much of course , but some ! 😆😅🤣🙃😊
A game I would love to see you play is rust.. Not the main game but a private server just to build a mad electrical system
Or satisfactory
It's not quite like real electrical work but definitely complex for a video game. A video I used to try learning misters flak ruclips.net/video/Jph8DZniYK4/видео.html
Either or potentially Minecraft and Redstone even though I don't play it as of yet that might be kind of close in terms of electronics will you could do.
People have literally build a full-scale model Computing as well plus just anything else you can imagine even building other games inside Minecraft
The superior aluminium weld:
GTAW/TIG (AC). ARGON SHIELDED. Parts must be oxide free prior to welding.
The guy who taught me welded "Containment" Vessels for long-term hazardous waste disposal. His proof of ABILITY: 24-inch weld; vertical UP; 22 gauge Aluminum. One porosity and you fail. Bead appearance: Stack of "coins", Max/min width: 1/8". Deviate and you fail.
A true ARTIST. His next job was high risk: laying/welding pipe in the Gulf of Mexico, @300 meters. Two weeks bottom time in a habitat. Two weeks off for residual outgassing. Got paid full-time 24/7 full month. He made a fortune in one year, then decided to teach for a living. Slightly LOWER risk factor. LOL
REMEMBER: Lower "lid" BEFORE striking Arc.
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well in production i'd use a rotary stripper and a crimp press, have it all done in 10mins. hand tools may take longer, some time later
I did a five year City & Guilds welding course which covered all welding. I specialised in Gas welding but TIG was best.
gentleman's welding as they called it.
You could speed up this process by mounting the crimper ,so your hands only had to place in the crimp and them the wire, maybe even a foot lever to squeeze it keeping your hands free
I was friends with an old electrician who had to lick his fingers to even feel 120v, could barely feel 220v dry, said 480v started to tingle, and 600 hurt like the dickens!
My worst shock was 480v across phases, standing on wet metal.
I am alive because I had insulating boots on, and the shock was across my knuckles after my thumb slipped off a motor starter overload reset button and I punched the wire lugs.
I also keep my left hand behind my back when open cabineting for just this type of situation lol
Astronaut food. That's what I think when I eat primula cheese straight from the tube.
Which is there correct way to eat it. As with Nutella and a spoon.
@@bigclivedotcom I'll add to that marmite and a spoon. It's funny how your taste buds harden as you get older, I used to find more than a smear of marmite far too strong for me as a kid ! I'm 55, similar to you I believe.
Aluminium isn't hard to weld, modern machines make it so much easier than it used to be. I'm qualified for TIG mild and stainless and just got a load of ALU and had at it, you'll pick it up no problem. Clean every bit of ALU to be welded thoroughly, even the filler rods.
Shipping overseas has gone up loads everywhere since Covid. Europe isnt' too bad, but anywhere further afield has roughly trebled in price, plus the cheaper couriers like Hermes and Landmark aren't sending to many countries.
Best way to ship to the USA is Royal Mail if the parcel is small enough, but still around £15 for tracked
some of the really big VFD‘s, motor modules, and speed controllers I see……will have several large in NTC‘s in parallel. They usually have full length leads to help dissipate heat, sometimes with contacts crimped to the end. Either that or attached directly to the screw contacts.
Sometimes I’ll see 2-4 side-by-side in the bigger Siemens and Allen Bradley drives. Not on a circuitboard…. but screwed right to the terminals.
I have noticed that the IT industry and navy actually have high concentrations of fur suiters. It is interesting. I made a half-fur suite once. It was a cross between a fur suite and a CATS costume. Full face makeup is annoying though.
I seen a video where this guy welded in aluminum soda can back together. That's got to be tough.
Hi Clive. They sell a brazing (soldering?) stick here (USA) to join aluminum. It works with a propane torch. I tried it and it worked well. I am nobody's welder, but I got good results. I tried it and tried it to failure, and it was very strong, though not quite as strong as the base metal.
Your story about the compressor reminds me of an event about 30 years ago; we were building radio cabins for a UOR for the MoD. The cabins were to be powered from 20kVA gensets, but we found they were stalling the generators even with the radio gear switched off. We suspected the transformers on the input of the cabin were causing the problem, so we needed to check the I, V and their phase relationship. I made sure the incoming supply was isolated by unplugging the 32A 3Ph supply; unfortunately there was no lockout facility, so we just coiled up the cable to ensure it was safely disconnected from the mains. I was working in the vault, having just hooked up 3 current probes and just finished connecting the last of the 3 voltage probes to the busbars when I heard the contactors pull in; I nearly shat myself as that's not a sound you want to hear whilst handling the incomer terminals! I subsequently found out that a technician spotted the 63A Commando connector sitting on the floor and decided, without checking, that is should be plugged in and the supply turned on!
Big Clive upload just as I'm about to start some tedious work in the kitchen? Nice.
13:00 Trying to maintain your dignity, nothing! I'm surprised you weren't having trouble maintaining your HEARTBEAT!
~11:00 have you considered having an individual (perhaps from Patreon?) in the USA handle your USA orders? I.e. either give them a small inventory, or send *that* individual, say, a week/months worth of orders for them to send out within the domestic postal service. Obviously count in paying that individual for their time, but it wouldn't be a lot of work (in theory), and you could, if sending say, 2 weeks worth of orders to them, then it's understood that it'll take awhile by the person buying it, and they might need to pay a little bit extra, but it'd be nice to get it.
Having done boring jobs I found that after a certain amount of time you zone out ... When the end of the day comes you snap out of it and all is well. So why am I writing this? I realised I was "doing the crimping job" and lapsed into the zone out mode. Should have "viewed this as a "radio" experience. Any way when Clive looks into his viewing stats he will see I've ducked out. However I will be back.
You want to talk expensive shipping? Getting anything sent from US sellers to Australia tends to attract ridiculous shipping charges. It's often not worth buying things from there due to the shipping cost. From the UK or Europe is generally not bad and from Asia usually pretty good.
That crimping tool works in a similar way to the ''Wurth'' tool used for automotive applications mostly , it curls the tags over in a very similar way . The ''Wurth'' range of connectors is very good , mostly all copper.
when you started talking about food it reminded me of 'Tomorrows world '' donkeys years ago with Raymond Baxter saying how in year xyz we would all be eating space food or just a few high protein or whatever pills . That was much the same as them saying on the same program that C.D's were indestructible . I can do the same as you with food , as long as it stops my stomach complaining i am not fussy , just throw something down there 😂😂
Oh the glamour of theatre life, just wondering what wonderful props we will get to repair and make work for this years panto. We have had to repair allsorts of dud props, animatronic goose heads, hydraulic flying horses to floating bodies that refuse to float. Bring it on.
Robert Murray Smith did some youtube videos with aluminium 'welding' rods he bought on ebay last year... they were actually brazing afaict but that'd probably be good enough for most purposes.
I grew up in West Texas where the wind blew constantly, stirring up the sand and creating lots of static electricity. This was perfect for siblings who liked to rub their feet on the carpet and zap the other on the ear lobe. It is also perfect for building up a charge in big metallic objects like, for instance, a bbq made from a 55-gallon barrel, and if you were to grab the wood covered handle to help pull yourself up so you could stand on something enabling you to reach the window (outside) and open it, nothing would happen. But if you were sneaking into said window after being out late you would need to put your hand on the pit and one on the aluminum window seal in order to hoist yourself in. This happened when I was about 14, my limbs locked, and for a few seconds/minutes(?) I could not move and it scared me. Eventually, it ebbed, and my legs moved so I fell. I still needed to get in, so after a few minutes I made the connection again only it was not scary and was rather pleasurable, the charge continued to wain until nothing could be felt.
Don't feel bad, We want Louis DeJoy fired as well! Unfortunately he can only be removed by a 9 person panel which is currently 4 Demo, 4 Repub and 1 Ind.
For a very clever intelligent person with an inquisitive brain, how can you sit there doing repetitive work?
It can be quite therapeutic to do bursts of repetitive work. There's also usually no choice when you have to make a batch of custom items.
@@bigclivedotcom I am not sure if you have persuaded yourself it is therapeutic as a way to get it done.