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.
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.
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!!!
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'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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.)
@@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.)
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
Hi Clive, the answer to the solid wire and crimp question is no, you should not use solid wires with crimp terminals. Typically crimped terminals are designed to have oxygen free environment between cable and terminal. Reason being is for corrosion/fretting/arcing etc. The exceptions to these are sprung/screw style contacts like poke in/terminal blocks and IDC contacts where they prefer solid core wire. I'm in the industry and these questions do come up once in a while, generally relating to quality issues!😆
* Obviously a connection is a connection, if you are not expecting the designed performance /reliability from it then fair enough- it 'still works', and could work nearly to spec for a long period, but more variables are involved. From a commercial perspective; they don't want things to fizzle and blow. You'd want to knuckle down variables and possibly belt and brace approach to connectivity because they're generally 'a low cost' from total cost of product but can be catastrophic if not done right (so many engineers get it wrong! So many engineers/buyers chase the '10% cheaper' and just ends up breaking the product....)
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.
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.
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 :)
Yes, checking that something is not live is quite important, changing a socket at my grans where one socket in the room is connected to a completely different fuse box, the slight tingle told me "this socket is still live!". The separate fuse boxes does have it's advantage (one just does the shower and the kitchen sockets) as you can use one set of sockets to power lighting when working on anything on the other fuse box. It also allowed me to use a table lamp to check a circuit is dead as I could plug it in to the socket to be replaced to prove that i9t was dead and then plug it into an extension powered by the other fuse box to confirm that the light works and as such I can guarantee the socket is dead.
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.
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?
"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.
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.
@@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. 😋
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.
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.
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. 😂
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”.
@@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.
Clive, what a coincidence, I just watched your video on making an array of red LEDs for christmas then you put them in your little bush. Calculators, if you own an old HP RPN calculator, you NEVER EVER, just ... "get rid of it". They are something to be revered, cherished, looked after and if you're like me, you augment your collection with more of them. Even better, get all the user and programming manuals to them and programme modules. My favorite is the HP-48GX. I aim to get more of them .... because.
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
No idea about the types of crimps used here. But certainly for CAT5 / CAT6 ethernet cables there are different crimp connectors available for solid vs stranded core cables. Apparently the difference is, those intended specifically for stranded have an additional tang that pierces straight down into the core.... right into the centre of the bundle of strands in the core.
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.
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!
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.
@@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.)
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 😂😂
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)
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 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.
that Crimping tool looks like mine which is made by Green Lee and far as solid wire yes it works look at the 1970s and 80s TV consoles they used both solid core and stranded with the their connectors !
Yeah welding Al was absolute hell for me. Loud, specialist compared to steel, and I never managed to get the hang of it which resulted in bad welds or fall-through nearly every time. Tricky to weld in small quantities for sure. Larger is slightly more forgiving but takes more power as it is its own heatsink.
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
I was doing a job at a railway workshop a few years ago, they had a wall rack of spanners, from "normal" size up to a monster about 3 feet long (I don't think I could lift it much less use it) it was marked on the rack as "Big Shifter"
When I was an apprentice someone told me a story of when he was an apprentice. Apparently a tradesman would like to have a bit of a joke with new apprentices. He would ask the apprentice to grab a wire and then ask if he felt anything. When the the apprentice said he didn't he'd day "ok then don't touch the other one because that's the live one". He of course knew it would be safe but enjoyed the joke.
I wish there were left-handed crimping tools. They are awkward to use. I'm surprised you're not using your IWISS crimper. I got a shock as I worked on an early model Otari MX5050 Mk.1 tape recorder. It was 240v and across my chest. I ended up in hospital for that. Unlike the later version, that bloody tape recorder didn't have any insulation shielding around the power switch.
Was just working in the mancave, as usual on my little CNC lathe, when my ears picked up the interest in trying Aluminium (and stainless) welding. I was nodding along until you said something like 'welding stainless is easier' while I agree with the base sentiment, I'd add that yes welding aluminium can be harder because of all the things you mentioned, welding stainless can be more time consuming, because of the prep : in a full penetration butt weld, the opposite side to the weld face (the root) has to be shielded from the atmosphere (air) or the weld seam will oxidise and form 'coke' thus rendering the weld either poor quality or in most instances useless. The air has to be either excluded using proprietary pastes and such or replaced using an inert gas shield (using jigs etc) As an ex welding engineer, and having travelled to a few countries to check the production methods of sub contractors, I can honestly say I've seen the worst to the best, certainly in stainless production. Some truly cringe worthy, and some beyond elegant. I've also seen both ends of the spectrum here in the U. K. And now back to my little CNC and your Q & A... Keep up the excellent work and videos please. To me, you are the Scottish version of Stephen Fry, certainly in the amazing way you explain your projects, interests and life experiences. I never grow tired of listening to either of you. No I am not suggesting you are gay, before I am trolled.
I am actually gay. But only in the most manly blue collar bear sense. The perils of stainless welding are still to be explored. It's not that long ago I found out about the perils of mixing stainless grades with their pesky cold molecular welding.
Here in Sweden, home of the spanner, we call it a skiftnyckel. Skift and shift are the same word etymologically so that might be the origin of the Shifter term. It might not just be a descriptive thing.
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.
@@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".
Weidmuller Stripax 9005 works amazing for stripping large batches of wires; I can confirm it plays well with small gauge solid wire. Saves the wrists over the traditional strippers for situations like this.
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!
Tig welding aluminum is tricky get it too hot, you end up with a puddle of metal. I noticed the shipping problem. I tried ordering the floating lights from a UK seller when ordering multiple ones each one multiplied the shipping.
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.
~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.
Yes ,find a weilding college/ shop , and the safety is built into the room , then you can focus on " what is the heat doing " it's cold when you start , a Hassel , and it's easy to under cut when you've been at it 5 mins ,as the metal mass is preheated..so you sit down , turn it up a tad ,weild a3016 for 5 mins ,wind it down a tad or two..oh and when ya stop wiggle it around an make a pool of lava steal..
Ratchet crimpers. One time, a guy I was working with decided to close a BNC crimper (the shield ring part) to the tip of his little finger. It became too tight and he couldn't remove it. My workmates and I told him the only way to get it off was to complete the full crimp action. Fair play to him, he did it, and it hurt him, he screamed like a little girl (always funny when a big butch 'roady' does that) Then we showed him the little release lever between the handles. Not sure he will ever forgive us for it, but we all had a great laugh at his expense and I'm fairly sure he was more careful of ratchet crimpers from that moment on.
Oh and don't get me started about the Bob Vila incident! But I do know one person that actually met the guys Under This Old House crew. Including Bob Vila and the other-verse at that time he was still on the show well prior to what happened in the end. He worked for where the window companies and did a window delivery to whether This Old House job sites! Which he said was one of the coolest deliveries he ever made remember sit to this day! It's not everyday opportunity. I even know two people that have met one of the winners of the miss American Pageant as well. And a few other things like that you just never know what life will bring your way or what the cat could drag in?
Do you ever get concerned about the safety/fire aspects of these projects or do you have good insurance for that? I found that quite relaxing! look forward to the next one.
Two things, you should make sure you do go on set to handle any problems that arise because you can charge by the hour and get some easy work, and the other is transformers contain mineral oil, if they were potted they would get very hot very quickly!
I’ve seen a lot of both. Many of the lower power units are potted in a variety of different materials. But definitely most of the high power units I’ve seen are in oil. I have a few high-voltage high current units in my lab at the moment…… that are submerged in a hermetically sealed isolated enclosure… in very dense dielectric oil. Meant to stop the high-voltage from arcing over. And it keeps everything cool. Very similar to transformers on x-ray machines
@@hullinstruments for sure, I can only comment on what I've seen here in this country, I'll have to look if I can find one covered in wax or plastic compound, but id worry about overheating
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.
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
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
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.
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!!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clive, your videos are always very interesting and love your wicked humour. Cheers
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
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!
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.
Adjustable wrench = Metric/Imperial fitsall
or in desperation = Imperial/Metric Nut Rounder
Portuguese call it an English wrench.
So soothing. I listen to you while doing my own boring jobs. I hardly need to see what you are doing. A kind of Big Clive radio show!
Do you know about the BigCliveLive channel?
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!
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.
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.
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.)
I love watching you work and talk it is so comforting
"... 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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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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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 love that such a technical person went to the effort of writing the comments out long hand.
It's easier to scribble them down and not print out every single question.
“You got a shock, didn’t you?” Oh that bit was excellent!
A workshop maybe! That would be a joy to behold, even though we would only see your hands and bench most of the time 😄
You should try one of those automatic wire strippers for those wires, would go a lot faster
Hi Clive, the answer to the solid wire and crimp question is no, you should not use solid wires with crimp terminals.
Typically crimped terminals are designed to have oxygen free environment between cable and terminal. Reason being is for corrosion/fretting/arcing etc.
The exceptions to these are sprung/screw style contacts like poke in/terminal blocks and IDC contacts where they prefer solid core wire.
I'm in the industry and these questions do come up once in a while, generally relating to quality issues!😆
* Obviously a connection is a connection, if you are not expecting the designed performance /reliability from it then fair enough- it 'still works', and could work nearly to spec for a long period, but more variables are involved.
From a commercial perspective; they don't want things to fizzle and blow. You'd want to knuckle down variables and possibly belt and brace approach to connectivity because they're generally 'a low cost' from total cost of product but can be catastrophic if not done right (so many engineers get it wrong! So many engineers/buyers chase the '10% cheaper' and just ends up breaking the product....)
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
Yes, checking that something is not live is quite important, changing a socket at my grans where one socket in the room is connected to a completely different fuse box, the slight tingle told me "this socket is still live!". The separate fuse boxes does have it's advantage (one just does the shower and the kitchen sockets) as you can use one set of sockets to power lighting when working on anything on the other fuse box.
It also allowed me to use a table lamp to check a circuit is dead as I could plug it in to the socket to be replaced to prove that i9t was dead and then plug it into an extension powered by the other fuse box to confirm that the light works and as such I can guarantee the socket is dead.
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.
Big Clive upload just as I'm about to start some tedious work in the kitchen? Nice.
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?
"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.
Clive, it would be cool to see you do videos on pinball/video game repairs..
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.
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.
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.
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. 😂
what a great narration voice, and YES the acoustic pads do help! a lot.
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
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.
Clive, what a coincidence, I just watched your video on making an array of red LEDs for christmas then you put them in your little bush. Calculators, if you own an old HP RPN calculator, you NEVER EVER, just ... "get rid of it". They are something to be revered, cherished, looked after and if you're like me, you augment your collection with more of them. Even better, get all the user and programming manuals to them and programme modules. My favorite is the HP-48GX. I aim to get more of them .... because.
But do you have the add on disc drive and toaster?...
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
Over here in Melbourne, Australia, we call them shifters too, short for shifting spanner (as the jaw shifts in and out)
No idea about the types of crimps used here. But certainly for CAT5 / CAT6 ethernet cables there are different crimp connectors available for solid vs stranded core cables. Apparently the difference is, those intended specifically for stranded have an additional tang that pierces straight down into the core.... right into the centre of the bundle of strands in the core.
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.
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!
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.)
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 😂😂
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.
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 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 looking forward to the next part of this video big Clive
Does anyone else find the clicking of a ratcheting tool like terminal crimpers soothing? Just me?
that Crimping tool looks like mine which is made by Green Lee and far as solid wire yes it works look at the 1970s and 80s TV consoles they used both solid core and stranded with the their connectors !
TIG welding Aluminium is not really that difficult. Your soldering skills will help, too.
Yeah welding Al was absolute hell for me. Loud, specialist compared to steel, and I never managed to get the hang of it which resulted in bad welds or fall-through nearly every time. Tricky to weld in small quantities for sure. Larger is slightly more forgiving but takes more power as it is its own heatsink.
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
I was doing a job at a railway workshop a few years ago, they had a wall rack of spanners, from "normal" size up to a monster about 3 feet long (I don't think I could lift it much less use it) it was marked on the rack as "Big Shifter"
At an ARE establishment they had wrenches up to 24"....
On a rack labeled MEDIUM...
When I was an apprentice someone told me a story of when he was an apprentice. Apparently a tradesman would like to have a bit of a joke with new apprentices. He would ask the apprentice to grab a wire and then ask if he felt anything. When the the apprentice said he didn't he'd day "ok then don't touch the other one because that's the live one". He of course knew it would be safe but enjoyed the joke.
I wish there were left-handed crimping tools. They are awkward to use. I'm surprised you're not using your IWISS crimper. I got a shock as I worked on an early model Otari MX5050 Mk.1 tape recorder. It was 240v and across my chest. I ended up in hospital for that. Unlike the later version, that bloody tape recorder didn't have any insulation shielding around the power switch.
Was just working in the mancave, as usual on my little CNC lathe, when my ears picked up the interest in trying Aluminium (and stainless) welding. I was nodding along until you said something like 'welding stainless is easier' while I agree with the base sentiment, I'd add that yes welding aluminium can be harder because of all the things you mentioned, welding stainless can be more time consuming, because of the prep : in a full penetration butt weld, the opposite side to the weld face (the root) has to be shielded from the atmosphere (air) or the weld seam will oxidise and form 'coke' thus rendering the weld either poor quality or in most instances useless. The air has to be either excluded using proprietary pastes and such or replaced using an inert gas shield (using jigs etc) As an ex welding engineer, and having travelled to a few countries to check the production methods of sub contractors, I can honestly say I've seen the worst to the best, certainly in stainless production. Some truly cringe worthy, and some beyond elegant. I've also seen both ends of the spectrum here in the U. K.
And now back to my little CNC and your Q & A... Keep up the excellent work and videos please. To me, you are the Scottish version of Stephen Fry, certainly in the amazing way you explain your projects, interests and life experiences. I never grow tired of listening to either of you.
No I am not suggesting you are gay, before I am trolled.
I am actually gay. But only in the most manly blue collar bear sense. The perils of stainless welding are still to be explored. It's not that long ago I found out about the perils of mixing stainless grades with their pesky cold molecular welding.
Here in Sweden, home of the spanner, we call it a skiftnyckel. Skift and shift are the same word etymologically so that might be the origin of the Shifter term. It might not just be a descriptive thing.
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".
Weidmuller Stripax 9005 works amazing for stripping large batches of wires; I can confirm it plays well with small gauge solid wire. Saves the wrists over the traditional strippers for situations like this.
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!
Tig welding aluminum is tricky get it too hot, you end up with a puddle of metal. I noticed the shipping problem. I tried ordering the floating lights from a UK seller when ordering multiple ones each one multiplied the shipping.
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.
~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.
seems a foot powered crimpper would be useful
or air pneumatic ?
Adjustable wrench = Crescent Hammer.
This is much more fun than watching paint dry. Not very much of course , but some ! 😆😅🤣🙃😊
Yes ,find a weilding college/ shop , and the safety is built into the room , then you can focus on " what is the heat doing " it's cold when you start , a Hassel , and it's easy to under cut when you've been at it 5 mins ,as the metal mass is preheated..so you sit down , turn it up a tad ,weild a3016 for 5 mins ,wind it down a tad or two..oh and when ya stop wiggle it around an make a pool of lava steal..
Yeah, I once got a tingle in my finger when I did something dumb with a three prong SPDT switch.
Thanks Clive!
I am also very technically inclined, but also a foodie. I enjoy canned pasta, but I really enjoy cooking elaborate feasts.
Keep up the good work Clive I enjoy your video's and the knowledge that you bring !
Ratchet crimpers. One time, a guy I was working with decided to close a BNC crimper (the shield ring part) to the tip of his little finger. It became too tight and he couldn't remove it. My workmates and I told him the only way to get it off was to complete the full crimp action. Fair play to him, he did it, and it hurt him, he screamed like a little girl (always funny when a big butch 'roady' does that) Then we showed him the little release lever between the handles. Not sure he will ever forgive us for it, but we all had a great laugh at his expense and I'm fairly sure he was more careful of ratchet crimpers from that moment on.
I'd totally watch an episode of this old Clive.
How about this old Tony?
What a Mayan long-running favorites even before RUclips was even imagined or the internet was a thing.
This Old House!
Oh and don't get me started about the Bob Vila incident!
But I do know one person that actually met the guys Under This Old House crew.
Including Bob Vila and the other-verse at that time he was still on the show well prior to what happened in the end.
He worked for where the window companies and did a window delivery to whether This Old House job sites!
Which he said was one of the coolest deliveries he ever made remember sit to this day!
It's not everyday opportunity.
I even know two people that have met one of the winners of the miss American Pageant as well.
And a few other things like that you just never know what life will bring your way or what the cat could drag in?
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.
Eat what ever you want Clive,everybody else does !..nobody should tell you what to eat !
Do you ever get concerned about the safety/fire aspects of these projects or do you have good insurance for that?
I found that quite relaxing! look forward to the next one.
I carry liability insurance associated with entertainment work, but also test things extensively before use.
@@bigclivedotcom I like how you used a microscope to really see the connection. That's the sort of thing that saves your ass one day.
Two things, you should make sure you do go on set to handle any problems that arise because you can charge by the hour and get some easy work, and the other is transformers contain mineral oil, if they were potted they would get very hot very quickly!
I’ve seen a lot of both. Many of the lower power units are potted in a variety of different materials. But definitely most of the high power units I’ve seen are in oil. I have a few high-voltage high current units in my lab at the moment…… that are submerged in a hermetically sealed isolated enclosure… in very dense dielectric oil. Meant to stop the high-voltage from arcing over. And it keeps everything cool. Very similar to transformers on x-ray machines
@@hullinstruments for sure, I can only comment on what I've seen here in this country, I'll have to look if I can find one covered in wax or plastic compound, but id worry about overheating
Australia, we use the term 'shifting spanner', or 'shifter'
Wow you handwrote all the questions into your notebook!?
They were scattered through the comments.
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.
These are my favorite video's. Let them come.
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
I seen a video where this guy welded in aluminum soda can back together. That's got to be tough.
Hah Red Dwarf reference in your video, now I've seen it all.
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