When soldering lots of pin headers like this, a quick way is to use a multi-way socket strip so you can just plug them on & off, and do a row at a time.
@@SeanBZA Yeah I didn't research the material properly before posting the comment. I thoguht you would just stuff the wire into the connector though so soldering wouldnt be a problem the nichromes properties in itseld would be though.
The bonnet is a hood in USA. After teaching mechanics for almost 12 years, I very much doubt many will be able to make modifications to electronic controllers other than swap in a complete replacement unit. Majority wanted to plug in a scanner to even the most basic 12v electrical systems and were often totally dismayed when told to use meter to check resistances or volt drop
That creates a gap for Eric O of SMA to do proper wiring repairs. The computer tells you that there is a fault, but not whether it is a faulty switch or ground, or relay or fuse.
Most car makers have gone to almost repair-proof construction along with Apple et. al.). Not that new a thing- I remember having to remove one front wheel of a 70s Pontiac to get to a couple of spark plugs. (At least I didn't have to pull the engine.) It's what these wannabe car mechanics saw growing up with swap-out-the-boards-until-it-works electronics so they expect cars to be the same. Eventually it will be. EDIT: Dammit Clive, you've got me doing it.
We could also mention "easy entry" to the industry? Or "Potential to progress to new levels within the company"? Anyone finding this annoying, I'm sorry if I pushed your buttons. (OK, I'm leaving .... I won't even bother getting my coat.....)
I’ve only had one encounter with an elevator repair man, but it left me having tremendous respect for the profession. I was helping a friend move a church pew up to a 12th floor apartment. My friend swore the pew would fit into the elevator, which it didn’t do. Said repair man happened to be in the building at the time and suggested that we take the pew up in top of the elevator car. I got to ride up with the pew to keep it out of the cables. It left me smiling for days because it was good fun and it kept us from having to hump the pew up 12 stories on the stairs.
Didn't it have the "Coffin" door? in the back of the lift a panel can open so you can fit a coffin in, should the worst happen. I had fell out with the woman I would love forever (when you're 19 that's every girlfriend) and I left her place and got in the lift, it had the somber swines with a coffin with the clotch over it, with the top coffin hatch open. so the coffin was upright, when the lift stopped you heard "Mr corpsy" thump against the coffin lid. I was not happy that night.
On the topic of safety bypasses, my first real job was loading stitcher hoppers at a printer/bindery. One fine evening the chugging beast of a stitcher decided to eat 1/10th of a cubic meter of glossy paper, requiring manual removal of the offending dead trees. I turned the safety key to the 'no zippy-zap chuggy-chug' position before getting arm deep in the human meat mincer and spent the next 15 minutes ruining the calibration by yanking ruined product and stapling wire out of the mechanisms. Moments after removing my hands from the death zone I heard the whir of the machine spinning up and marveled as the stitcher began to operate with the access panel open (safety #2 is a switch actuated by the door itself) and the power supposedly off. Turns out the mechanic in charge had entirely bypassed that particular safety key AND the safety switch on the door. Because of one asinine time-saving workaround I came within a second and a half of being called stumpy for the rest of my life at the ripe old age of 19. Screw that guy. Also, the safety stop for the trimming head (which weighs roughly a ton, give or take a few stone) was a 4"X4" lumber offcut because the braking mechanism had failed some years earlier. Very professional operation, that was. Double bonus points for one of the printers getting his left hand quarter-folded because they'd also disabled the safety on the access panel on that machine. You never forget the screams of a man who has been quarter-folded.
remind me of working in an engine shop. one time i was using a big horizontal grinder on some engine head. i see a small halogen lamp hanging from wires close to the metalwork. i laugh about it to some other guy and tell him the power must be off anyway (the light was off) as i twist the bulb around. then a big spark happen and the wires start to burn inside the metal flex tube and everything. i laughed as i walked away watching the whole machine start to smoke.
@@GeneCash In this case the only person with the authority to push the start button was the shift supervisor (the person who bypassed the safeties), and the lockout wiring was behind a locked panel that only he, the opposing shift supervisor, and the main office had keys for (to prevent anyone from disabling it, presumably). It was a bad situation overall. They ended up getting sued several times and were eventually legally forced into hiring an independent safety consultant due to being partially funded by the municipality, as their main business was printing the local newspaper. Not sure what happened to the person at fault for these incidents, but sometimes when the moon is at just the right level of twinkle I like to imagine that he fell into a sewer access due to an unmarked removed manhole cover and was never seen again.
@@Seegalgalguntijak Indeed I am. Please stop reading now if you're the sensitive sort. It's been around 20 years since this happened, but when you see the aftermath of a person's hand being turned into a bloody wrinkled flesh-balloon due to the worst kind of active negligence it leaves a permanent impression. The warehouse had a 10m ceiling and they had to rent an extended lift to swab the blood off of it, as the high RPM alignment rollers that fed the quarter-folder were set into a frame that was open on the top and bottom for servicing purposes. The injured party required amputation below the wrist, as the rollers pulped the bones and shredded the blood vessels and connective tissues in his hand beyond the limits of surgical repair before the automatic emergency stop engaged. That was not the first or last serious incident in that facility as a result of poor safety culture, lack of training and proper equipment maintenance, and a general disregard for sanity. It wasn't uncommon to spend the majority of a 12 hour shift sweeping the floor due to mechanical failure of at least one section of the production chain, and most of the injury accidents were the result of that single employee relying on half-arsed workarounds to bodge everything into a semblance of functionality as he was the only person qualified (on paper) to service the machines. The managerial staff also holds a significant portion of the blame, as multiple near misses and minor injury accidents were reported to both HR and middle management, but never properly addressed. I should have reported it to provincial OHS, but I was young and stupid and didn't realize the seriousness or future implications at the time. If you do stupid things that endanger other people to expedite your daily grind you should be remembered decades later for your ineptitude. That man's laziness had a terrible cost and if karma were a real thing falling into a sewer would be a fairly lenient compensation.
My brother aged 15, standing in an oil tank with a mop, wiping the sides down with a bit of hosepipe in his mouth going to the outside so he could breathe, Work experience apparently. my dad was not impressed, and went and had some words with the bloke that put him in the tank in the first place.
I remember building a break-away table for a production of “Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe”, and that was a pain to design and build. Turns out that I built it so well (with 2x4s and 3/4 ply) that it was more sturdy than any other table the scene shop had, so after the show they fixed the hinged part to make it the new super-rock solid scene shop table.
Ha! I did melt wax to have wilting leaves for Swan Lake. Ummm... worked great in rehearsal, worked out the timing for the cue etc. Didn't account for the heat from two full houses making the wax melt early; the leaves dropped about 30 seconds too early during the second session, looked weird with dancers and music being out of sync. Just looked like the prop tree broke lol. I should have just made it pretty instantaneous, but I was worried about LD leaving switch on for too long and starting fire.
That's when you use a capacitor to power the heating resistor. The capacitor being charged by a small resistor. That way if they leave the switch on, only a small amount of current is flowing. When they first push the switch, a large current flows from the capacitor, quickly melting the wax.
@@theotherwalt they don’t use a laugh track in that show, it’s in front of an audience. Same as Friends was. They just use the laughing from the first take and then edit it into the take they use in the show.
It is great and comforting how your length of solder takes on that knotted look exactly like mine does as the project progresses, after starting out very orderly.
Not gonna lie, I'd be tempted to wire up some exceedingly fine wire to a very large photo flash power supply to see if I could make DIY exploding bridgewires. Surely I'd be sacked after the first show, but my god what a show it'd be!
👍 for your description of service trades. People look at me like I have 3 heads when I tell them I'm in the car for 10 hours or more, driving 500 miles (~800 km) or more, every week, since about 2005. Last week I drove 1500 miles (~2400 km), though thankfully I had a company car for that run. If the worst thing you have to complain about is your commute... 🤷♂ That's what podcasts are for.
Hi Clive. A build video PLUS a Question and Answer session combined? NOT boring! You should consider doing more of them and longer ones. Will you be demonstrating the completed build? Yes I know the prototype was demonstrated, but the final version - as a reliability test? - would be nice.
Locksmith pinning tweezers might be useful for holding those resistors in place. (They're made for picking up lock pins, which aren't that much smaller than those resistors.)
The are tweezers for electronics industry, including special ones for handling ESD sensitive devices (not that such are required in this case). I handle 1x0.5mm components with these, barely...
@8:48 It's almost the same as Formula 1 mechanics and what they go through. Because each F1 car is dismantled, inspected between each race and equipped a certain way for certain tracks, i.e. different gear ratios for short tracks vs long tracks, it essentially means every time they race, they drive a newer, improved version of the previous car, and that every single car is a working _prototype._
Immediately brought back in my mind to an ancient episode of Who’s Line Is It Anyway (UK, of course) and a game of props, when someone holds up a mask made of bubblewrap and exclaims in exasperation “Look… Either The BBC believes in Doctor Who, or…"
Canadians tend to use British terms and spellings - except for automotive things. Probably the proximity to the USA and the overlap of the industry: lots of Canadian factories building cars for both countries, historically. So the big more-than-auto department store is Canadian Tire rather than Tyre, and cars have hoods and trunks rather than bonnets and boots. Canada-built cars are usually more reliable than US-built, too.
Goodness gracious Clive. 272-watt Beauty-and-the-Beast petals, and you made a whole bunch! I don't think you can fit the entire venue in the explosion containment pie dish. Certainly might be the most exciting rendition I've ever seen...
I don't consider myself to be a writing implement snob by any means, but your comment about the particular favourite pen resonated with me, as usually I'm perfectly happy using a BIC when at work/college, but at home I have a really nice ball point pen, it's one of these generic freebie ones that's branded by a company for promotional purposes, but it's entirely made of metal and takes a standard Parker cartridge/nib module, I've had it for probably 10-15 years! It's probably the most comfortable pen I've ever used as it's quite thick and fits my big hands/strange writing style very well. For applications that don't demand a pen (forms, docs etc) I much prefer writing with pencil, and I have a very nice Cross mechanical pencil that I've probably also had for over a decade! It takes 0.8mm lead.
Oh dear, when I saw this, I had to try what I would do to make those plug-in resistors with the material I had at hand. I tried a small piece of phenolic 2.54mm stripboard, soldered a 1206 SMD resistor and an angled KF2510 through-hole connector across two adjacent strips. This proved to be so much easier (and faster). It would also work with a straight KF2510 connector soldered SMD style on top of the two copper strips.
You mention mechanics working with hybrid and electric cars... You are correct there. Im a mechanic turned auto body tech. My first repair on a hybrid auto had one confusing component that vexed me greatly. It was a high voltage water heater. Needed to heat the coolant to make the cabin heat system work in cold climates. 🥶 A drawback to hybrids. The engines are small and always shutting off when not needed. But it can still be below freezing while you drive at 55. It was quite unexpected to find it there behind the front bumper. Smashed flat!😆
Nowadays, that's largely solved using a combination of heated seats and a small resistive element for windshield defrosting. Turns out to be the most efficient way to get heat other than using a heat pump.
Clive, please, next time, just create a temporary jig, using small scrap wood pieces, hot-glue and some silicone-sleeved clips. And to hold the connector, you use a contra-connector on a short solid-core wire. This footery was painful to watch, but still very entertaining.
I was also expecting mini molex plugs with a resistor stuffed in the end. You could have just used one of the deadly toadstool lights... you would have been done in 15 minutes :p
I have had the flouriscine dye injected into my veins for eye tests a few times. It can make you feel a little odd. And afterwards when you urinate, your pee is bright yellow in an odd way. The same stuff is used in spirit levels.
I particularly enjoyed repairs where no testing had taken place after a component had been replaced and then you come along hours (even days) later, turn the power on and there’s a big bang just an hour before production starts. Happy days.
I remember that happening when a sticky roller was replaced on a 30+ feet long conveyor belt in my old job. Within an hour, the new roller melted and almost caused a fire.
@@jimmyrustler8983 We had a funny one where contractors had worked on several power presses, carrying out motor and cable checks. When some of the gear started running it was going backwards. There was some head scratching going on until we worked out what was happening!
Omg I was tearing up xD "Oops, that was a rant..." and then 15 seconds later! xD This seems like the perfect project for your teensy tiny T-1000 or whatever USB iron. Tiny tip, low heat capacity, but you're just soldering tiny little wires together!
Feels like you could bend the second lead all the way, then solder the first lead and bend it until the second lead is in its place. That's what I'd do. And thanks for another calming session, much love!
I know that you're probably finished with all this by the time you read this, but here's an idea for next time. Leave out the all the plastic bits and plug the resistor straight into the connectors you crimped onto the wire. Then put a small sliver of card stock between the connectors to insulate them and hold it all together with a short piece of Green heat shrink tube.
1 Could you have used the other clip to hold on to the diode? 2 Are you going to have a circuit board to control when a specific pedal falls off? 3 Will we see the play? 4 Would insert plugs have been easier and faster?
I opened up a device and found a low voltage power supply module in it. I saw the failure described a few videos ago where the switchmode transformer melted its resin out. I had not seen it before so it was quite timely. There was a large quantity of unpleasant stuff oozed out. The power supply not only took in mains power to make lower voltage but then also took in mains power again as a reference into the same transformer. It was used in a fancy power bar that gave voltage and amperage on a display at the same time as smoothing the power. I will try poking at it until I fix it or see metal converted into light.
@@Okurka. Well, size 1206 fits perfectly on top of the pins. Done it before, just tried it again. Most 1206 resistors are reted for 250 mW, some even for 500 mW.
@@Okurka. O.K., right. Might depend on the construction. I tried it with both a 330 Ohm and a 200 Ohm 1206 resistor at 12V, a piece of paper and the usual paraffin/stearin candle wax. The 330 Ohm one was too slow, the 200 Ohm one worked quite well, the paper petals fell down after about 5 seconds.. The resistors also stick to the wax very well. After some minutes, they get up to about 175 °C, so I would not recommend to leave them powered on for too long.
@@NiHaoMike64 Thank you, PTCs are a great idea. If I would really need to make such a prop as shown Clive's video, I would try SMD PTCs. Unfortunately, all PTCs I currently have as SMD components are polyfuses. But they might also work for this application. The datasheet specifies up to 125 °C surface temperature in the tripped state. But the lowest rated 1206s I have at hand need at least 350 mA to trip.
You've got way more experience doing this intricate stuff than I do, but I would have used your spare alligator clip (yeah..I'm from the USA) to grab the body of the resistor and use its 'arm' to put a slight pressure on the leads that you want to solder.
Interesting that you mentioned sodium fluorescein. I work for an optometrist right now and it's also used to locate corneal abrasions and before doing a pressure check. Handy little chemical.
Elevator service is interesting, because you can have, in the same building, a lift which is all microprocessor controlled MRL, with the machine room being the top and bottom of the car, and right next to it is another lift made by the same company. That unit though has the most complex electronic part being a set of selenium rectifiers, that provide the juicy DC power for the controls, with the rest being a combination of paper wound relays, oil filled capacitors, that predate the era of PCB oil filling in capacitors, and massive power resistors with adjustable taps, for controlling things like time delays, motor start and the such. But both have a current certificate of fitness, and are legal to operate, even if the one was made 2 centuries ago. You will also have a set of service books for each, with details from the original install, including every single test and service that has been performed on that unit since it was new, each written by the technician who did it. Might be a dozen books for the old unit, but each is traceable to the original documents, including the lift ropes, with the copy of the test certificate for that batch of wire per rope, and with a full history as well.
When do you start using one of those pelletier effect electric cooler to make a fine cold beverage ? Perhaps then use a Sodastream to make it bubbly ? Electricity and beverages experiment all in one!!
Couldn't you have formed the resistors and put them directly into the female connector like you do with led leads.? Well I guess soldering to the male connector is a little more professional however. Either way it got us a 20+ min Clive video so I'm not upset. Thanks Big Clive.
I'm surprised that just bending the resistor legs like a vertical mount one (remember that?) and plugging the legs directly into the socket wouldn't work. Good memory of the resistor leg bender machine; used to use a manual one with the handle you turn, years ago.
The good thing about electronics' is there are so many new circuit ideas to keep you interested. The bad thing about electronics is there are so many circuits that you do over and over and over again.
I know you're already done with the job, and it was a one off thing, but if ya ever end up doing that again, try making your secondary bends, then tin BOTH leads, THEN fold them in, tin both leads of the connector, and then it's just a process of reflowing it all together!! 😅👍🤘
I love the way bigclive cusses in his hypnotic cadence. it sounds so polite. I feel like he can go what the feck on the evening news and no one will notice.
As a confirmed Fran devotee I'm with you both on healthy cynicism over technology. There appears to be a generation of forceful people pushing technologies, ideas and principles who seem never to have heard the old adage "just because you can, doesn't mean you should!". YT comments is in fact pretty much the closest I get to social media nowadays,.
Thanks Clive. I remember well the 2hrs drive to Harlow, working 7am - 6pm, then another 2 hrs drive home 7 days a week because my 'guvnor" wouldn't pay for local digs. Its also the reason I got out of the industry for 25 years! Crashing the van and getting a full on rant from the boss (just before I launched his drill and transformer towards his head) many have also helped me leave. 🤣🤣🤣
Did that for a short time, basically they assume you have no life of your own and when you burn out it's "on to the next sucker" and you're replaceable.
@@tncorgi92Your right. I realised that "your just a sparky and there's another just like you who doesn't mind the travelling" wasn't what I signed up for. At 22 social life is EVERYTHING! Money was nice though, I did (and do) miss that bit. 💰
That's why I left Hussmann. Interesting job, but ridiculous hours to the point I fell asleep at the wheel more than once and decided enough was enough.
You should have been an elevator mechanic. That job takes you straight to the top if you do it right. You get to bypass any glass cielings however if you fuck up you might get shafted. The job has its ups and downs.
Another way to do these resistors would be to bend one lead parallel along the body. That would give you more to hang on to so you don't overheat your fingers. You could also sleeve it with shrink tube if required.
There’s no way garages are going to allow technicians to play around with electric vehicles any more than the manufacturers recommend. The problems with liability will be too great.
Maybe not officially, but you know mechanics are going to explore a little bit on their own. There's always the "it was already broken when I found it" line just in case. (worked at an auto dealership and witnessed some unbelievable activities)
How about putting the resistor in one clip and the connector in another clip, then bringing them together? You could solder them without having to hold them.
I usually make a wood jig using tongue depressors, Popsicle sticks and CA glue if I have to make a bunch of parts. Clive is a bit wild in that he can both hold the parts and feed solder with one hand.
@@frankhage1734 Right hand holds the soldering iron, left hand becomes two mini pincers. Thumb and forefinger hold the important part (sometimes multiple parts), the ring and little finger feed in the solder. It's a skill that comes with practice but is invaluable. It may be old school, but once you've cracked it then it's faster than making a jig and is a tool that's always available.
@@georgeprout42 The problem with hand held is the high chance of moving the parts as the solder solidifies. Even though Clive is a master puppeteer of parts, he has the same problems. He's just smart enough to quickly recognize the failure and re-flow.
With how fiddly this is I suspect it might have been easier to use surface mount chip resistors here. 0805 resistors are just short enough you could insert them between the pins and have one metallized end butting right against each pin.
Clive, why don't you just plug thr resistors into the socket. The wax will keep the resistor in the socket, one lead of the resistor folded down the body of it, cutting both lega off to fit into the socket. Like how the upright resistors are fitted into a pcb. Just an idear it might work and save buying plugs and maybe save time? I used to visit ATT (Mar Bell) In Malmabury for BSI they made telecomms power supply's they had automatic equipment that would take components off the manufacturers bandages and put them on another for the automatic component placing machine to place them into a bare pcb. It was a facinating machine. Thanks for the video.
"The spikes in the solder. Which is similar to software, it's not really similar to software, God I have drunk so much wine." I laughed out loud and it's currently 4AM 😂
No wonder your ticker misses a few beats - Wine and drain tracer dye! Time to start looking after yourself my lad. . . . . . Oh, if only many could see what the few do for their entertainment, they might just show a tad more appreciation. Have you ever decorated a float for a village fête? - It's much the same thing really, weeks of planning, designing, prototyping and trialling, then the actual build for the event, and the public see it for about half to three quarters of an hour. Tips, and icebergs come to mind here!
15:25, people bypassing safety circuits on factory machines.. Morning crew figured out how to bypass a bypass switch in order to avoid getting written up for not doing their job. Basically, this switch disables the door safeties to satisfy production while also leaving the e-stop entirely functional, but to actuate the switch, they need to check out a key, so, the person now responsible for the machine will get written up if they don't affect a repair the next time first shift production goes on break (a repair consists of figuring out which switch is bad and replacing it, it's literally as easy as it sounds). Instead, they jump the bypass and bypass the safeties while also bypassing the e-stop just so they can leave it for the next guy (short version: they run a permanent signal to the safety relay coil to skip a faulty safety switch, which is not difficult to find and if you know which of the two circuits is faulty). Now, if I was level 5 or higher (I'm presently level 3), I would be allowed a multimeter and I would be allowed to dick with the wires in order to pull off a repair (which should take, at maximum, 10 minutes). Like, I have the schematics memorized at this point, but I can't do anything until the weekend when I can call the guy who built the safer bypass system over to have a go at it (he also memorized the schematics and has sort of been making a point to get me up to speed on the whole shebang). It only really pisses me off because the people on morning shift who do that shit are master electricians and have been working with the machines in this factory for no less than 4 years. Granted, I have had this tendency to binge watch bigclivedotcom for the last 6 years, but that's aside from the point.
"That's a bit sploshy, that, that's-- One of the things, when you don't use the flux, you get spikes in the software-- Eh, software?! Spikes in the software?! The spikes in the solder! Which is similar to software, it's not really similar to software, god I have drunk so much wine." 😂
A 1210 SMD resistor has a .12" long dimension, and a 1/4 watt dissipation rating. Dipping your .10" center 2 pin connectors in solder paste. balancing a resistor across the pins, and hitting them with a blast from your smt rework station air pencil should do the trick. Hood (us)=bonnet(uk) trunk(us) = boot (uk)
When doing soldering projects, one is meant to crimp or otherwise make mechanical connection, *before* soldering. It makes a better connection, and makes the soldering step much easier.
@@thedevilinthecircuit1414 Sure, he knows. But he does not do it, even if it would be easier over all. If this particular job was mine to do, I think I would take the resistors with full leads, and using some small needle-nose pliers, wrap the leads around the header pins, which would take about 5 seconds total, per resistor. Then soldering would be simple and quick as well.
Rant away. It's when you have a new boss that doesn't understand what he's gained, mainly building based mbile techs who then moans that we're not in the office, then moans when none of the work gets done because he wants in the office. He was moved on quickly when someone - not in our section - offered to break both his legs.
Maybe around 30 years ago, on Halloween, I needed to set off small flashpowder charges periodically. Both the flash, and subsequent cloud of smoke, was needed for the ambiance. I used 1/4W 1K carbon comp resistors, as the "squibs". The power source was the US 120VAC, and those little carbon comps flared up nicely, easily igniting the flashpowder.
More Q&A's please I really like them, helps me do exactly what you are doing (well almost) I can get on with building something ,whilst listening to "Story time with Clive" Keep up the great work, You are a RUclips tinkerer/Maker mascot ;-)
Maybe you could make a jig; a holder for both the resistor and connector, that lies flat on the bench. Then both pieces would be secured and your hands would be free for soldering.
When soldering lots of pin headers like this, a quick way is to use a multi-way socket strip so you can just plug them on & off, and do a row at a time.
Big Clive has no time for sensible answers like that 😂😂 Plus we would only get a 5min vid 😁😁
I would have thought it was easier to just plug the resistors into a connector or a suitable length of nichrome wire (in place of resistors).
Such short bits of nichrome would pass way to much current, I think?
Clive did do a separate video on this prop where he goes through several options.
@@rimmersbryggeri Problem is you need to spot weld the connections, as you cannot solder nichrome with standard solders.
@@SeanBZA Yeah I didn't research the material properly before posting the comment. I thoguht you would just stuff the wire into the connector though so soldering wouldnt be a problem the nichromes properties in itseld would be though.
The bonnet is a hood in USA.
After teaching mechanics for almost 12 years, I very much doubt many will be able to make modifications to electronic controllers other than swap in a complete replacement unit.
Majority wanted to plug in a scanner to even the most basic 12v electrical systems and were often totally dismayed when told to use meter to check resistances or volt drop
That creates a gap for Eric O of SMA to do proper wiring repairs. The computer tells you that there is a fault, but not whether it is a faulty switch or ground, or relay or fuse.
Most car makers have gone to almost repair-proof construction along with Apple et. al.).
Not that new a thing- I remember having to remove one front wheel of a 70s Pontiac to get to a couple of spark plugs. (At least I didn't have to pull the engine.)
It's what these wannabe car mechanics saw growing up with swap-out-the-boards-until-it-works electronics so they expect cars to be the same.
Eventually it will be.
EDIT: Dammit Clive, you've got me doing it.
I thought you meant like /the hood/, I was like ok, this is new information
You do mention elevator mechanics quite alot, but it's fine, it's definitely a job that has its ups and downs 😁😁
they promise you the elevator and give you the shaft.
@@zindi1138 You both are on fire, I better take the stairs!
I strongly dislike you
We could also mention "easy entry" to the industry?
Or
"Potential to progress to new levels within the company"?
Anyone finding this annoying, I'm sorry if I pushed your buttons.
(OK, I'm leaving .... I won't even bother getting my coat.....)
@@hellfireenclave Who pressed your buttons? 😄
I’ve only had one encounter with an elevator repair man, but it left me having tremendous respect for the profession. I was helping a friend move a church pew up to a 12th floor apartment. My friend swore the pew would fit into the elevator, which it didn’t do. Said repair man happened to be in the building at the time and suggested that we take the pew up in top of the elevator car. I got to ride up with the pew to keep it out of the cables. It left me smiling for days because it was good fun and it kept us from having to hump the pew up 12 stories on the stairs.
Didn't it have the "Coffin" door? in the back of the lift a panel can open so you can fit a coffin in, should the worst happen. I had fell out with the woman I would love forever (when you're 19 that's every girlfriend) and I left her place and got in the lift, it had the somber swines with a coffin with the clotch over it, with the top coffin hatch open. so the coffin was upright, when the lift stopped you heard "Mr corpsy" thump against the coffin lid. I was not happy that night.
@@blackcountryme kreepy... and awwkerrd...
On the topic of safety bypasses, my first real job was loading stitcher hoppers at a printer/bindery. One fine evening the chugging beast of a stitcher decided to eat 1/10th of a cubic meter of glossy paper, requiring manual removal of the offending dead trees. I turned the safety key to the 'no zippy-zap chuggy-chug' position before getting arm deep in the human meat mincer and spent the next 15 minutes ruining the calibration by yanking ruined product and stapling wire out of the mechanisms. Moments after removing my hands from the death zone I heard the whir of the machine spinning up and marveled as the stitcher began to operate with the access panel open (safety #2 is a switch actuated by the door itself) and the power supposedly off. Turns out the mechanic in charge had entirely bypassed that particular safety key AND the safety switch on the door. Because of one asinine time-saving workaround I came within a second and a half of being called stumpy for the rest of my life at the ripe old age of 19. Screw that guy.
Also, the safety stop for the trimming head (which weighs roughly a ton, give or take a few stone) was a 4"X4" lumber offcut because the braking mechanism had failed some years earlier. Very professional operation, that was. Double bonus points for one of the printers getting his left hand quarter-folded because they'd also disabled the safety on the access panel on that machine. You never forget the screams of a man who has been quarter-folded.
remind me of working in an engine shop. one time i was using a big horizontal grinder on some engine head. i see a small halogen lamp hanging from wires close to the metalwork. i laugh about it to some other guy and tell him the power must be off anyway (the light was off) as i twist the bulb around. then a big spark happen and the wires start to burn inside the metal flex tube and everything. i laughed as i walked away watching the whole machine start to smoke.
@@GeneCash In this case the only person with the authority to push the start button was the shift supervisor (the person who bypassed the safeties), and the lockout wiring was behind a locked panel that only he, the opposing shift supervisor, and the main office had keys for (to prevent anyone from disabling it, presumably). It was a bad situation overall. They ended up getting sued several times and were eventually legally forced into hiring an independent safety consultant due to being partially funded by the municipality, as their main business was printing the local newspaper. Not sure what happened to the person at fault for these incidents, but sometimes when the moon is at just the right level of twinkle I like to imagine that he fell into a sewer access due to an unmarked removed manhole cover and was never seen again.
@@stevemcqueen8584 You're good at holding a grudge! ;)
@@Seegalgalguntijak Indeed I am. Please stop reading now if you're the sensitive sort.
It's been around 20 years since this happened, but when you see the aftermath of a person's hand being turned into a bloody wrinkled flesh-balloon due to the worst kind of active negligence it leaves a permanent impression. The warehouse had a 10m ceiling and they had to rent an extended lift to swab the blood off of it, as the high RPM alignment rollers that fed the quarter-folder were set into a frame that was open on the top and bottom for servicing purposes. The injured party required amputation below the wrist, as the rollers pulped the bones and shredded the blood vessels and connective tissues in his hand beyond the limits of surgical repair before the automatic emergency stop engaged.
That was not the first or last serious incident in that facility as a result of poor safety culture, lack of training and proper equipment maintenance, and a general disregard for sanity. It wasn't uncommon to spend the majority of a 12 hour shift sweeping the floor due to mechanical failure of at least one section of the production chain, and most of the injury accidents were the result of that single employee relying on half-arsed workarounds to bodge everything into a semblance of functionality as he was the only person qualified (on paper) to service the machines. The managerial staff also holds a significant portion of the blame, as multiple near misses and minor injury accidents were reported to both HR and middle management, but never properly addressed. I should have reported it to provincial OHS, but I was young and stupid and didn't realize the seriousness or future implications at the time.
If you do stupid things that endanger other people to expedite your daily grind you should be remembered decades later for your ineptitude. That man's laziness had a terrible cost and if karma were a real thing falling into a sewer would be a fairly lenient compensation.
My brother aged 15, standing in an oil tank with a mop, wiping the sides down with a bit of hosepipe in his mouth going to the outside so he could breathe, Work experience apparently. my dad was not impressed, and went and had some words with the bloke that put him in the tank in the first place.
I remember building a break-away table for a production of “Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe”, and that was a pain to design and build.
Turns out that I built it so well (with 2x4s and 3/4 ply) that it was more sturdy than any other table the scene shop had, so after the show they fixed the hinged part to make it the new super-rock solid scene shop table.
The Lion, The Witch and the well made Table.
How amazingly ironic!
Ha! I did melt wax to have wilting leaves for Swan Lake. Ummm... worked great in rehearsal, worked out the timing for the cue etc. Didn't account for the heat from two full houses making the wax melt early; the leaves dropped about 30 seconds too early during the second session, looked weird with dancers and music being out of sync. Just looked like the prop tree broke lol. I should have just made it pretty instantaneous, but I was worried about LD leaving switch on for too long and starting fire.
That's when you use a capacitor to power the heating resistor. The capacitor being charged by a small resistor. That way if they leave the switch on, only a small amount of current is flowing. When they first push the switch, a large current flows from the capacitor, quickly melting the wax.
Haha I love how the Kink Palculator says an edited _"Sassy Squad"_ with an 'i'.
(4:37) "That is not lead vapor, Karens" made me chuckle.
As if heavy metals just float in vapor. 🤣
Yes, as if the melting point of something was also the exact same temperature point at which it also becomes a gas…
I just love these videos. Just put them on in the background for cleaning or working. The streams are also great for this. Thanks, Clive
Fun Fact: Clive was the lead elevator prop maker on set for ” The Big Bang Theory “
No, I don't think so, Clive is actually funny. Clive doesn't need a laugh track.
You mean the permanently broken one?
A real geek wouldn't live in that building more than a Month without fixing the elevator
@@theotherwalt they don’t use a laugh track in that show, it’s in front of an audience. Same as Friends was. They just use the laughing from the first take and then edit it into the take they use in the show.
Calling out Karen's at 04:40. Bridge burning was hilarious! You're a proper classy act Clive. I bloody love it.
It is great and comforting how your length of solder takes on that knotted look exactly like mine does as the project progresses, after starting out very orderly.
Not gonna lie, I'd be tempted to wire up some exceedingly fine wire to a very large photo flash power supply to see if I could make DIY exploding bridgewires. Surely I'd be sacked after the first show, but my god what a show it'd be!
👍 for your description of service trades. People look at me like I have 3 heads when I tell them I'm in the car for 10 hours or more, driving 500 miles (~800 km) or more, every week, since about 2005. Last week I drove 1500 miles (~2400 km), though thankfully I had a company car for that run. If the worst thing you have to complain about is your commute... 🤷♂ That's what podcasts are for.
Hi Clive. A build video PLUS a Question and Answer session combined? NOT boring! You should consider doing more of them and longer ones. Will you be demonstrating the completed build? Yes I know the prototype was demonstrated, but the final version - as a reliability test? - would be nice.
Locksmith pinning tweezers might be useful for holding those resistors in place. (They're made for picking up lock pins, which aren't that much smaller than those resistors.)
The are tweezers for electronics industry, including special ones for handling ESD sensitive devices (not that such are required in this case). I handle 1x0.5mm components with these, barely...
You going to show us a video of that component machine? It sounds really really interesting.
Have been missing a while Clive. Good to be back. Such a soothing voice.
@8:48 It's almost the same as Formula 1 mechanics and what they go through.
Because each F1 car is dismantled, inspected between each race and equipped a certain way for certain tracks, i.e. different gear ratios for short tracks vs long tracks, it essentially means every time they race, they drive a newer, improved version of the previous car, and that every single car is a working _prototype._
Dont know why it is so relaxing to watch a "ranting" boy from Isle of Man while he is fiddling with stuff ... However, worked out great. Cheers.
He's from the isle of man? I thought he was scottish?
@@oldtechnobodycaresabout He lives at the Isle of Man. But grown up in Scotland .
Clive I'm gutted that you didn't show us the resistor Gatling gun in action!
It's too big to fit under the camera in the normal location.
Immediately brought back in my mind to an ancient episode of Who’s Line Is It Anyway (UK, of course) and a game of props, when someone holds up a mask made of bubblewrap and exclaims in exasperation “Look… Either The BBC believes in Doctor Who, or…"
Canadians tend to use British terms and spellings - except for automotive things. Probably the proximity to the USA and the overlap of the industry: lots of Canadian factories building cars for both countries, historically. So the big more-than-auto department store is Canadian Tire rather than Tyre, and cars have hoods and trunks rather than bonnets and boots.
Canada-built cars are usually more reliable than US-built, too.
@ 19:03 made me imagine a flabby pink rubber horse in a roadside ditch being "rescued" by a group of men in hi-vis on a rainy November day 🤣
My mind's eye can't unsee that now...
A vibrating pink rubber horse.
Goodness gracious Clive. 272-watt Beauty-and-the-Beast petals, and you made a whole bunch! I don't think you can fit the entire venue in the explosion containment pie dish. Certainly might be the most exciting rendition I've ever seen...
I don't consider myself to be a writing implement snob by any means, but your comment about the particular favourite pen resonated with me, as usually I'm perfectly happy using a BIC when at work/college, but at home I have a really nice ball point pen, it's one of these generic freebie ones that's branded by a company for promotional purposes, but it's entirely made of metal and takes a standard Parker cartridge/nib module, I've had it for probably 10-15 years! It's probably the most comfortable pen I've ever used as it's quite thick and fits my big hands/strange writing style very well. For applications that don't demand a pen (forms, docs etc) I much prefer writing with pencil, and I have a very nice Cross mechanical pencil that I've probably also had for over a decade! It takes 0.8mm lead.
Oh dear, when I saw this, I had to try what I would do to make those plug-in resistors with the material I had at hand. I tried a small piece of phenolic 2.54mm stripboard, soldered a 1206 SMD resistor and an angled KF2510 through-hole connector across two adjacent strips. This proved to be so much easier (and faster). It would also work with a straight KF2510 connector soldered SMD style on top of the two copper strips.
You mention mechanics working with hybrid and electric cars...
You are correct there. Im a mechanic turned auto body tech.
My first repair on a hybrid auto had one confusing component that vexed me greatly.
It was a high voltage water heater. Needed to heat the coolant to make the cabin heat system work in cold climates. 🥶
A drawback to hybrids. The engines are small and always shutting off when not needed. But it can still be below freezing while you drive at 55.
It was quite unexpected to find it there behind the front bumper. Smashed flat!😆
Nowadays, that's largely solved using a combination of heated seats and a small resistive element for windshield defrosting. Turns out to be the most efficient way to get heat other than using a heat pump.
Clive, please, next time, just create a temporary jig, using small scrap wood pieces, hot-glue and some silicone-sleeved clips. And to hold the connector, you use a contra-connector on a short solid-core wire. This footery was painful to watch, but still very entertaining.
I was also expecting mini molex plugs with a resistor stuffed in the end. You could have just used one of the deadly toadstool lights... you would have been done in 15 minutes :p
I have had the flouriscine dye injected into my veins for eye tests a few times. It can make you feel a little odd. And afterwards when you urinate, your pee is bright yellow in an odd way. The same stuff is used in spirit levels.
I particularly enjoyed repairs where no testing had taken place after a component had been replaced and then you come along hours (even days) later, turn the power on and there’s a big bang just an hour before production starts. Happy days.
I remember that happening when a sticky roller was replaced on a 30+ feet long conveyor belt in my old job. Within an hour, the new roller melted and almost caused a fire.
@@jimmyrustler8983 We had a funny one where contractors had worked on several power presses, carrying out motor and cable checks. When some of the gear started running it was going backwards. There was some head scratching going on until we worked out what was happening!
Always happy to hear a rant about the bastard who bypasses the safety interlock for 'convenience', leading to some poor tiff losing a hand.
Clive is from the lost era where fingers were made with asbestos
Omg I was tearing up xD "Oops, that was a rant..." and then 15 seconds later! xD
This seems like the perfect project for your teensy tiny T-1000 or whatever USB iron. Tiny tip, low heat capacity, but you're just soldering tiny little wires together!
Feels like you could bend the second lead all the way, then solder the first lead and bend it until the second lead is in its place. That's what I'd do.
And thanks for another calming session, much love!
I've never worked in the same industry you have but still that bit about the last guy getting the blame is true for basically everything it seems.
Great to watch a skilful worker at such a tiny scale!! And the narrative....superb! Thanks
I know that you're probably finished with all this by the time you read this, but here's an idea for next time. Leave out the all the plastic bits and plug the resistor straight into the connectors you crimped onto the wire. Then put a small sliver of card stock between the connectors to insulate them and hold it all together with a short piece of Green heat shrink tube.
The rubber horse bit was rather more intriguing than i would have thought... Listened twice to that part...
My kid comes home from school and asks me “what does BBC mean?” I said British Broadcasting Corporation. My eyes shift left to right.
Coming from school, we all know what it is referring to 😏
Tell him if he says "BBC" 3 times in a mirror, Saville will appear.
Or Katie Price, depending on what BBC you're referring to.
1 Could you have used the other clip to hold on to the diode?
2 Are you going to have a circuit board to control when a specific pedal falls off?
3 Will we see the play?
4 Would insert plugs have been easier and faster?
I think it may be remotely controlled. I'm not sure where the play will happen.
Seems like your rants are spot on with mine from a career in industrial electronics in 'merica.
Heat shrink tube on the helping hands is my fave, once heated shrinks around the teeth for more bite. Cheers from the US PA Love the channel.
Also Thyssenkrupp built a great big test tower in Germany and had the presence of mind to put an observation deck on the top.
Your rant towards the end had me cracking up. The desk jockeys have no idea what goes on beyond the doors of the office. 100% can relate.
Honestly the flux vapor is a lot more irritating than lead.
Y'know, until the cumulative brain damage finally sets in.
Have a friend waft the fumes away with a Papa Johns pizza menu, always works for me. 👍
I opened up a device and found a low voltage power supply module in it. I saw the failure described a few videos ago where the switchmode transformer melted its resin out. I had not seen it before so it was quite timely. There was a large quantity of unpleasant stuff oozed out. The power supply not only took in mains power to make lower voltage but then also took in mains power again as a reference into the same transformer. It was used in a fancy power bar that gave voltage and amperage on a display at the same time as smoothing the power. I will try poking at it until I fix it or see metal converted into light.
"metal converted into light"
now this is the intelligent commentary I look for here
@@dimitar4y You are welcome! It is also a great way to start your day. Screw a morning run. Just tap something you swear was shut off. :p
Wow the rants from "Dark Lord Clive" are my new favorite thing
HMM, could you use a surface mount resistor across the connectors pins instead of the 1/8 watt conventional?
Came here to make the same comment but you beat me to it. I wonder if he simply doesn't have a stash of SMD components.
@@Okurka. Well, size 1206 fits perfectly on top of the pins. Done it before, just tried it again. Most 1206 resistors are reted for 250 mW, some even for 500 mW.
@@Okurka. O.K., right. Might depend on the construction. I tried it with both a 330 Ohm and a 200 Ohm 1206 resistor at 12V, a piece of paper and the usual paraffin/stearin candle wax. The 330 Ohm one was too slow, the 200 Ohm one worked quite well, the paper petals fell down after about 5 seconds.. The resistors also stick to the wax very well. After some minutes, they get up to about 175 °C, so I would not recommend to leave them powered on for too long.
@@ksjhi PTCs would probably be ideal, very fast warm up and self limiting.
@@NiHaoMike64 Thank you, PTCs are a great idea. If I would really need to make such a prop as shown Clive's video, I would try SMD PTCs. Unfortunately, all PTCs I currently have as SMD components are polyfuses. But they might also work for this application. The datasheet specifies up to 125 °C surface temperature in the tripped state. But the lowest rated 1206s I have at hand need at least 350 mA to trip.
You've got way more experience doing this intricate stuff than I do, but I would have used your spare alligator clip (yeah..I'm from the USA) to grab the body of the resistor and use its 'arm' to put a slight pressure on the leads that you want to solder.
Interesting that you mentioned sodium fluorescein. I work for an optometrist right now and it's also used to locate corneal abrasions and before doing a pressure check. Handy little chemical.
I've seen the little paper strips they use for that.
Elevator service is interesting, because you can have, in the same building, a lift which is all microprocessor controlled MRL, with the machine room being the top and bottom of the car, and right next to it is another lift made by the same company. That unit though has the most complex electronic part being a set of selenium rectifiers, that provide the juicy DC power for the controls, with the rest being a combination of paper wound relays, oil filled capacitors, that predate the era of PCB oil filling in capacitors, and massive power resistors with adjustable taps, for controlling things like time delays, motor start and the such.
But both have a current certificate of fitness, and are legal to operate, even if the one was made 2 centuries ago. You will also have a set of service books for each, with details from the original install, including every single test and service that has been performed on that unit since it was new, each written by the technician who did it. Might be a dozen books for the old unit, but each is traceable to the original documents, including the lift ropes, with the copy of the test certificate for that batch of wire per rope, and with a full history as well.
The main difference being that the old lift will outlast the new lift in the same way it outlived the previous two.
Loving the rants. You've earnt the right with all the shit you've had to put up with from big corparations. :)
Great video- so many subtle and not so subtle observations!
When do you start using one of those pelletier effect electric cooler to make a fine cold beverage ? Perhaps then use a Sodastream to make it bubbly ? Electricity and beverages experiment all in one!!
The ever Tempting *Clive & Ralfy Hour.* - tho the recipe for 'bubbling' may not be Ralfy's forte', no harm in trying.
Why are the resistors perpendicular to the plug when they could be parallel to the plug making them much easier to bend and hold???
One of the best “rants” / Q&A sessions ever.
Couldn't you have formed the resistors and put them directly into the female connector like you do with led leads.? Well I guess soldering to the male connector is a little more professional however. Either way it got us a 20+ min Clive video so I'm not upset. Thanks Big Clive.
Probably the best Q and A ever! Oh and what you call a boot we call a hood. Thanks for the great videos!!!
I'm surprised that just bending the resistor legs like a vertical mount one (remember that?) and plugging the legs directly into the socket wouldn't work. Good memory of the resistor leg bender machine; used to use a manual one with the handle you turn, years ago.
Rants, profanity and alcohol…. Absolutely brilliant. Love it.
The good thing about electronics' is there are so many new circuit ideas to keep you interested. The bad thing about electronics is there are so many circuits that you do over and over and over again.
2021, the year when clive realize helping hand has two hands :D
I know you're already done with the job, and it was a one off thing, but if ya ever end up doing that again, try making your secondary bends, then tin BOTH leads, THEN fold them in, tin both leads of the connector, and then it's just a process of reflowing it all together!! 😅👍🤘
I love the way bigclive cusses in his hypnotic cadence. it sounds so polite. I feel like he can go what the feck on the evening news and no one will notice.
As a confirmed Fran devotee I'm with you both on healthy cynicism over technology. There appears to be a generation of forceful people pushing technologies, ideas and principles who seem never to have heard the old adage "just because you can, doesn't mean you should!". YT comments is in fact pretty much the closest I get to social media nowadays,.
Thanks Clive. I remember well the 2hrs drive to Harlow, working 7am - 6pm, then another 2 hrs drive home 7 days a week because my 'guvnor" wouldn't pay for local digs. Its also the reason I got out of the industry for 25 years! Crashing the van and getting a full on rant from the boss (just before I launched his drill and transformer towards his head) many have also helped me leave. 🤣🤣🤣
Did that for a short time, basically they assume you have no life of your own and when you burn out it's "on to the next sucker" and you're replaceable.
@@tncorgi92Your right. I realised that "your just a sparky and there's another just like you who doesn't mind the travelling" wasn't what I signed up for. At 22 social life is EVERYTHING! Money was nice though, I did (and do) miss that bit. 💰
That's why I left Hussmann. Interesting job, but ridiculous hours to the point I fell asleep at the wheel more than once and decided enough was enough.
Every mechanic that worked in the shop I ran hated working on electrical systems. For complicated diagnosis, we called in an electrical/AC specialist.
Now you look at South Main Auto and it seems most of the problems ARE the electrical systems.
You should have been an elevator mechanic. That job takes you straight to the top if you do it right.
You get to bypass any glass cielings however if you fuck up you might get shafted.
The job has its ups and downs.
Engine access compartment lids - make that common usage
Practice rubber horses - this channel never disappoints
Another way to do these resistors would be to bend one lead parallel along the body. That would give you more to hang on to so you don't overheat your fingers. You could also sleeve it with shrink tube if required.
There’s no way garages are going to allow technicians to play around with electric vehicles any more than the manufacturers recommend. The problems with liability will be too great.
Maybe not officially, but you know mechanics are going to explore a little bit on their own. There's always the "it was already broken when I found it" line just in case. (worked at an auto dealership and witnessed some unbelievable activities)
These videos are a perfect salve for after those particularly abrasive days where you come home chuffed. This is Anti-Chuff™
Gotta love English where chuffed can mean both "very happy" and "very angry"...
Every time melts the solder I find my self trying to blow the smoke away 😂
Thanks for answering my question Clive!
How about putting the resistor in one clip and the connector in another clip, then bringing them together? You could solder them without having to hold them.
I usually make a wood jig using tongue depressors, Popsicle sticks and CA glue if I have to make a bunch of parts. Clive is a bit wild in that he can both hold the parts and feed solder with one hand.
@@frankhage1734 Right hand holds the soldering iron, left hand becomes two mini pincers. Thumb and forefinger hold the important part (sometimes multiple parts), the ring and little finger feed in the solder. It's a skill that comes with practice but is invaluable. It may be old school, but once you've cracked it then it's faster than making a jig and is a tool that's always available.
@@georgeprout42 The problem with hand held is the high chance of moving the parts as the solder solidifies. Even though Clive is a master puppeteer of parts, he has the same problems. He's just smart enough to quickly recognize the failure and re-flow.
With how fiddly this is I suspect it might have been easier to use surface mount chip resistors here. 0805 resistors are just short enough you could insert them between the pins and have one metallized end butting right against each pin.
This is why we love Big Clive
Clive, why don't you just plug thr resistors into the socket.
The wax will keep the resistor in the socket, one lead of the resistor folded down the body of it, cutting both lega off to fit into the socket.
Like how the upright resistors are fitted into a pcb.
Just an idear it might work and save buying plugs and maybe save time?
I used to visit ATT (Mar Bell)
In Malmabury for BSI they made telecomms power supply's they had automatic equipment that would take components off the manufacturers bandages and put them on another for the automatic component placing machine to place them into a bare pcb.
It was a facinating machine.
Thanks for the video.
"The spikes in the solder. Which is similar to software, it's not really similar to software, God I have drunk so much wine." I laughed out loud and it's currently 4AM 😂
No wonder your ticker misses a few beats - Wine and drain tracer dye! Time to start looking after yourself my lad. . . . . .
Oh, if only many could see what the few do for their entertainment, they might just show a tad more appreciation. Have you ever decorated a float for a village fête? - It's much the same thing really, weeks of planning, designing, prototyping and trialling, then the actual build for the event, and the public see it for about half to three quarters of an hour. Tips, and icebergs come to mind here!
15:25, people bypassing safety circuits on factory machines..
Morning crew figured out how to bypass a bypass switch in order to avoid getting written up for not doing their job. Basically, this switch disables the door safeties to satisfy production while also leaving the e-stop entirely functional, but to actuate the switch, they need to check out a key, so, the person now responsible for the machine will get written up if they don't affect a repair the next time first shift production goes on break (a repair consists of figuring out which switch is bad and replacing it, it's literally as easy as it sounds). Instead, they jump the bypass and bypass the safeties while also bypassing the e-stop just so they can leave it for the next guy (short version: they run a permanent signal to the safety relay coil to skip a faulty safety switch, which is not difficult to find and if you know which of the two circuits is faulty). Now, if I was level 5 or higher (I'm presently level 3), I would be allowed a multimeter and I would be allowed to dick with the wires in order to pull off a repair (which should take, at maximum, 10 minutes). Like, I have the schematics memorized at this point, but I can't do anything until the weekend when I can call the guy who built the safer bypass system over to have a go at it (he also memorized the schematics and has sort of been making a point to get me up to speed on the whole shebang).
It only really pisses me off because the people on morning shift who do that shit are master electricians and have been working with the machines in this factory for no less than 4 years. Granted, I have had this tendency to binge watch bigclivedotcom for the last 6 years, but that's aside from the point.
"That's a bit sploshy, that, that's-- One of the things, when you don't use the flux, you get spikes in the software-- Eh, software?! Spikes in the software?! The spikes in the solder! Which is similar to software, it's not really similar to software, god I have drunk so much wine." 😂
Welcome to the Nocturnal Tumescence Live Stream. Big Clive, you could take your soldering shtik on the road!
Great rant stream! I wish it was longer. Looking forward to more
You might enjoy my livestream channel BigCliveLive
A career as an elevator mechanic has its ups and downs!
This was enjoyable. I liked the mini-rants, livestream Clive crossing over into video Clive
A 1210 SMD resistor has a .12" long dimension, and a 1/4 watt dissipation rating.
Dipping your .10" center 2 pin connectors in solder paste. balancing a resistor across the pins, and hitting them with a blast from your smt rework station air pencil should do the trick.
Hood (us)=bonnet(uk)
trunk(us) = boot (uk)
i totally love the travel answer!!!
When doing soldering projects, one is meant to crimp or otherwise make mechanical connection, *before* soldering. It makes a better connection, and makes the soldering step much easier.
Big Clive knows this. But for prototyping and propmaking, that mechanical connection is an extra step.
@@thedevilinthecircuit1414 Sure, he knows. But he does not do it, even if it would be easier over all. If this particular job was mine to do, I think I would take the resistors with full leads, and using some small needle-nose pliers, wrap the leads around the header pins, which would take about 5 seconds total, per resistor. Then soldering would be simple and quick as well.
Rant away. It's when you have a new boss that doesn't understand what he's gained, mainly building based mbile techs who then moans that we're not in the office, then moans when none of the work gets done because he wants in the office. He was moved on quickly when someone - not in our section - offered to break both his legs.
Maybe around 30 years ago, on Halloween, I needed to set off small flashpowder charges periodically. Both the flash, and subsequent cloud of smoke, was needed for the ambiance. I used 1/4W 1K carbon comp resistors, as the "squibs". The power source was the US 120VAC, and those little carbon comps flared up nicely, easily igniting the flashpowder.
I have some videos showing 10 ohm resistors on 12V being used in the same way.
Those "helping hands" stands greatly benefit from having their base attached to something with a bit of weight to it and maybe a non-slip base.
More Q&A's please I really like them, helps me do exactly what you are doing (well almost) I can get on with building something ,whilst listening to "Story time with Clive" Keep up the great work, You are a RUclips tinkerer/Maker mascot ;-)
Get it out Clive - rant away. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
You should change to that highnosed artist voice from time to time. Makes one feel so "on the channel of our time" 🤣
Listening to things whilst doing repetitive work, thanks Clive. I just been assembling 2mm polystyrene squares onto a model pub front.
Keep in mind there is a live stream channel for long background rants. BigCliveLive
Maybe you could make a jig; a holder for both the resistor and connector, that lies flat on the bench. Then both pieces would be secured and your hands would be free for soldering.