Your comment is funny and provokes me in many ways: 1.My shop is relatively clean and organized already 2.I am not a genius 3.Women are not more organized than men are 4.Organization is not a requirement for being unstoppable 5.No person "needs" another specific person.
I really like that scope. Compared to modern DSOs, it's slow for math and signal processing and doesn't have a color screen, but the front panel response is better than most modern scopes, and is very easy to use with good controls and menus. I've gotten a lot of work done with this scope, and would be very reluctant to upgrade.
Hey Ben, that was quite a tour! Thank you for spending your time doing that. Funny, at about 10:30 I saw a stainless pot and some plastic buckets and thought "I wonder if he's a home brewer" - and then saw your stainless tank at the end. Awesome!
I agree with everyone saying that the shop "is organized." My work spaces look nearly identical (minus the amazing equipment) and I can tell some one over the phone with precise detail where to find anything - as long as no one else has tried to "clean." What is chaos to some is order to others. Love the shop - thanks for the tour!
The safety minded guy in me sees a few things to suggest for your enviable workspace. Mount your extinguisher by the exit. It'll always be in one spot near you escape. A fire rated chem cabinet or at least steel with doors. Finally, an eye wash station. Doesn't even need a drain. If you need it, you don't care about the puddle. Great vid!
Thanks. If you have access to a woodworking shop, you should check out Matthias Wandel on youtube. He does some incredible engineering with wood. Learning how to use tools is a huge part of becoming a good hands-on builder, so take every opportunity you can get to learn how tools work. Choose projects that make use of tools that you have not used before. Of course, using them safely is important too, so finding a mentor who can help get you started is a good plan as well.
I thought that was fascinating getting to see around your shop, Ben. So much interesting technology. Until this I had never considered the parts bins utility other than as storage, but the ability to move similar small components on mass from location to location seems so obvious now, and gives me new consideration of them. The table concept is fantastic. I noted that it made quite a bit of noise when you turned it to set the fluid in motion, so wondered if it was considered for retrofitting with quieter bearings, a motor drive, or some back lighting? Have you ever thought about motor control via some user action - disturbing a magnetic field, or covering a light sensor with a drink container?
Hey Ben! I love your shop! Thanks for the tour. Can you elaborate a little about your MRI business you mentioned in this video? Did you fix medical MRIs? I would love to see you build an MRI machine. Cheers!
Azmil K He has a couple videos of equipment he made for MRI research. He made a metal-free fiber optic mouse and also a joystick with force feedback powered by pneumatics entirely without metal.
Nice to see the bits usually only glimpsed in your background. I also was intrigued with your friend's tempering machine. I would be interested in liberating that from it's current disuse; please let me know if it is still available. I have had musings of building one for a while but never got beyond a scratchpad design. A chamber vacuum sealer is likely to come first. I have a very food oriented project theme lately.
There are no plans for my LN2 generator. I started by hacking the STI Superfilter, and discovered that it could be made into an LN2 generator. I planned it as I built it, like most of my projects. Ventilation is not particularly well-developed. Having a fume hood would sometimes be helpful.
K a few things. This is one awesome workshop. Do you have a fume hood or anything like that for doing chemical experiments or do you just do them outside? There's so much stuff in there and so many different bins how do you know where everything is? How long did it take you to acquire everything you have?
I've given serious thought to building a linear accelerator and also a thorium-based nuclear "energy amplifier". These are both pretty dangerous projects, though.
Hey Ben - Found this video around the time you first uploaded it and forgot to subscribe! I have lots of catching up to do - I have been looking for your channel for ages! Thanks for the great videos! Jake.
Amazing channel Ben, thanks for showing us your shop. Very inspiring to see the challenges you have succesfully taken on at home...supercitical CO2 extrc of caffeine, and making aerogels...very profesional methodolgy and beautiful setup
Ben, your shop is great! I envy your knowledge of the tools you use and the amount of cool things you have built simply because you love building them. I wish to someday have a similar amount of understanding of electrical and mechanical systems. While I am in engineering school, I do have access to a full woodworking shop at my parent's place. What small projects could I take on to increase my understanding of practical engineering concepts? What little things got you started, Ben?
How exactly do you run input/output peripherals within the intense magnetic field of an MRI..? I know why it's done, but I never really wondered how... 🤔 Is it just extreme insulation of the electronic components? Fiber optics?
that is an impressive work shop you have got there and some serious hobby. have you thought of trying to make carbon nano tubes or is that sort of heat and pressure to hard to reach in your workshop conditions.
what you are doing is called "negative rake" cutting. works for a lot of stuff but the speed and pressure have to be right to keep from melting the plastic.
. . . and I was sitting here, rather proud of my little Ikea Toolset, what with the Screwdriver with its many tips, the nifty little claw hammer, the Crescent Wrench. I really thought I had a nice thing going. Than I see the scanning electron Microscope. I hope that one day I am even half as skilled and well equipped as this man is.Nice shop though!
How much did you pay for the lights behind the welder (if you dont mind telling) im looking for some to use on my shows in my outdoor stage i would use them as work lights / house lights also how powerful are they?
Wow nice shop, put mine to shame, but where's your HAZMAT cabinet? Oh and I know how you feel about the horizontal band saw my 4"x6" is such a pain, always have to babysit it. I also have a G4003, not the smithing one though :-(. I work in Palo Alto and so if your nearby I'm selling some old RF equipment, etc.
you found using the compound miter saw for cutting plastic to not be so great - for cutting vinyl siding, a plywood 100+ tooth blade mounted backwards works amazing.. maybe the same for other plastics?
At around 14:17, you mentioned you had used game controllers in your MRI stuff. I was just wondering what exactly they were for? Were you making MRI-safe controllers?
Wow! I definitely want a shop like that when I am done with school and stuff.. dream world, I'd never leave it! lol But one thing I'm particularly interested in is the LN2 generator. Where did you get the plans for that, or did you just make them up yourself? I hope you do a video on it some day! It's something I've always wanted to make. Also, what do you do for ventilation of the shop, being that you seem to do a lot of work with chemicals in it?
"...and behind my homemade electron microscope I have a fully functioning Iron Man suit and arc reactor that I just made for fun." This has to be one of the best channels on RUclips!
Hey Ben, WOW! How long did it take to collect all your shop tools/machines? Really interesting, Cool table! :-) Thanks for sharing... Oh... P.S. When will you be doing another circuit tut?
This is way more organized then my workshop would be... Currently, I have taken over the entire back room and most of the living room in my apartment...
Hey Ben what do you do for living. You have a dream setup. Lets pray to God that everyone who dreams a setup like yours get it on time:) Thanks for opening the doors of your lab and let us in.
Such a cool shop. Do you ever work with robotics? I think you could make some cool quad rotor helicopter mods for RC ones. They sell one for like called AR Drone 2.0 with a 720p front facing camera and a downward facing lower resolution for positioning. You can view in HD while flying via wireless on any android or iOS tablet or smartphone. It's very stable and only 299$ I think you could do something cool experiments or modifications to it. Just a thought, I really wanna pick one up.
Unsatisfying. On single phase it will not start. On two phase it might start but will have a small fraction of the rated power available. In the USA the 230 V two phase is really just center-neutral single phase so it is no benefit for poly-phase motor starting. With a rotary converter you use a capacitor start and/or run configuration on a single phase motor to turn a 3 phase generator or you use a split phase arrangement (sort of like capacitor run motor) to power a three phase motor and use the motor windings as a rotating transformer to extract three phases from the windings. What with no free lunches the single phase has to provide all the power you take out on three phases (plus losses) to the supply currents can be very high if you have a big load. While these may be big and noisy compared to a 1phase to 3 phase variable speed drive/motor controller they can be cheaper to make than pay for a VFD and more robust when it comes to overload.
can we get a "Tour of Ben's shop 2013" please? It's been almost a year and I think it would be interesting to see what has changed, especially with you water temperature regulator setup. That is if much has changed.
Quick note for the guys who bought the chocolate thingy... never try to clean the molten chocolate off your skin with water... it will transform into concrete
I love what you do.i lived in the area since the early 80's and tried to do something similar. How do you keep from having "collectors" from labling you a hoarder, kicking you out of the area and "cleaning up your property"? I've been meaning to make it to a Maker Faire but had to put out fires as my stuff dwindled. I'm setting in Michigan separated from most of my stuff. I used to work at HSC Electronics and I see that they closed. There ain't no life nowhere. This is worse than a tornado. I can't believe the violence. I'm 60 and spent my life collecting parts, making tool and people come along and rip it all away. I'm smart and talented but I lucky enough to have an unfurnished house to exist in. I have a Droid but try to submit a resume on a website written for a computer. I'm just getting too fat for the clothes that I still have. It's 7 degrees outside. I came to California in the early 80's and just missed getting in on the ground floor. I solved a lot of problems for quite a few people but didn't really get compensated for it. I guess if I had a question, it would be, how? Just, how? People love the comfort of living today but they seem to disdain the technologies to get there.
Best of luck to you man, fingers crossed that by the time this reply finds you things have begun to turn around for you. It sucks when smart people get used up and spit out by the system. Truly wish you the best.
I love the shop but I don't even want to know your PG&E Bill. Maybe you get a discounted rate for the 100amp service? Curious to know how much power some of the stuff in there uses, especially the electron microscope set up (with all the pumps and especially the water chiller) or even the LN2 generator.
Hello! Been following your excellent channel for a while! I am right now in the process of learning to weld stainless. For, you guessed it, beer brewing! Any tips or lessons learned you can share? Planning to make a brewing vessel pretty smiliar to yours. Or better yet, make a video about it! Keep up the awesome!
Search my blog for "welding stainless" . You can also search for "fermenter". I haven't done any videos about welding stainless steel, but that might be a good idea soon. Good luck!
and another one you might want to check out his work is Robert Murray-Smith, can not post a link here but if you search for his name, and homemade microwave kiln or anything related to graphene I am sure he will be at the top of the search pile ;)
A domestic fridge should be able to get to -5degC in the ice compartment. A domestic freezer should be able to hold -20degC if it has good insulation. They are designed with very little extra capacity so even if you changed the thermostat setting it will not be able to go far below the design temperature without changes to the plumbing. An important consideration is to remove heat leaks with added insulation. Remember some modern units use the outside metal as a heat sink so putting extra insulation outside on such units will cause them to work far worse, add it inside but make sure the cooling/evaporator coils/pipes are inside your added insulation. Some fridges have door frame heaters, either electric or using a condenser line and these are also a heat leak.
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"and over there is my intergalactic spaceship. built it myself... let me show you some of the different lengths of wire I used"
Just wanted to say you are a cool dude, your personality and shop inspire me greatly.
Your comment is funny and provokes me in many ways: 1.My shop is relatively clean and organized already 2.I am not a genius 3.Women are not more organized than men are 4.Organization is not a requirement for being unstoppable 5.No person "needs" another specific person.
cool. I often looked at all the stuff in the background of your videos!
I like how he just casually says "there's the scanning electron microscope"..... You know nothing special.
It's like a paradise for engineers, I loved it!
2017 edition, please? Would be a quick and easy video, too, and shop tours are massively popular...
Yeah, a good Idea
2018 version pls!
2019 edition please
@@looklikemyles 2020?
Awesome shop and collection of tools! My ultimate goal in life has been to have a shop very much like yours.
That coffee table is so awesome! I don't know how you still didn't fix it, it look so great.
I really like that scope. Compared to modern DSOs, it's slow for math and signal processing and doesn't have a color screen, but the front panel response is better than most modern scopes, and is very easy to use with good controls and menus. I've gotten a lot of work done with this scope, and would be very reluctant to upgrade.
I just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your videos. I always look forward to your new ones. Thanks for doing this.
Hey Ben, that was quite a tour! Thank you for spending your time doing that. Funny, at about 10:30 I saw a stainless pot and some plastic buckets and thought "I wonder if he's a home brewer" - and then saw your stainless tank at the end. Awesome!
I agree with everyone saying that the shop "is organized." My work spaces look nearly identical (minus the amazing equipment) and I can tell some one over the phone with precise detail where to find anything - as long as no one else has tried to "clean." What is chaos to some is order to others. Love the shop - thanks for the tour!
The safety minded guy in me sees a few things to suggest for your enviable workspace. Mount your extinguisher by the exit. It'll always be in one spot near you escape. A fire rated chem cabinet or at least steel with doors. Finally, an eye wash station. Doesn't even need a drain. If you need it, you don't care about the puddle. Great vid!
That's a great shop you got there! Thanks for sharing! I dream about a place like this for decades. Still can't afford even a simple garage.
Nice tapping tool. Never seen one of those before. I can't tap straight either.
Thanks. If you have access to a woodworking shop, you should check out Matthias Wandel on youtube. He does some incredible engineering with wood. Learning how to use tools is a huge part of becoming a good hands-on builder, so take every opportunity you can get to learn how tools work. Choose projects that make use of tools that you have not used before. Of course, using them safely is important too, so finding a mentor who can help get you started is a good plan as well.
your balance between keeping stuff that is useful from going into hoarder mode seems to be strong... more so than myself
I thought that was fascinating getting to see around your shop, Ben. So much interesting technology. Until this I had never considered the parts bins utility other than as storage, but the ability to move similar small components on mass from location to location seems so obvious now, and gives me new consideration of them. The table concept is fantastic. I noted that it made quite a bit of noise when you turned it to set the fluid in motion, so wondered if it was considered for retrofitting with quieter bearings, a motor drive, or some back lighting? Have you ever thought about motor control via some user action - disturbing a magnetic field, or covering a light sensor with a drink container?
Hey Ben! I love your shop! Thanks for the tour. Can you elaborate a little about your MRI business you mentioned in this video? Did you fix medical MRIs? I would love to see you build an MRI machine. Cheers!
Azmil K He has a couple videos of equipment he made for MRI research. He made a metal-free fiber optic mouse and also a joystick with force feedback powered by pneumatics entirely without metal.
Nice to see the bits usually only glimpsed in your background. I also was intrigued with your friend's tempering machine. I would be interested in liberating that from it's current disuse; please let me know if it is still available. I have had musings of building one for a while but never got beyond a scratchpad design. A chamber vacuum sealer is likely to come first. I have a very food oriented project theme lately.
Cool. Now I know what to take when I break in!
I don't mind long videos at all. I like watching your stuff.
Nicely equipped shop you have there, too. :)
Ben is way too modest. I am envious.
It's a pretty simple thing, but I really appreciate how good you are at holding a camera still.
There are no plans for my LN2 generator. I started by hacking the STI Superfilter, and discovered that it could be made into an LN2 generator. I planned it as I built it, like most of my projects. Ventilation is not particularly well-developed. Having a fume hood would sometimes be helpful.
K a few things. This is one awesome workshop. Do you have a fume hood or anything like that for doing chemical experiments or do you just do them outside? There's so much stuff in there and so many different bins how do you know where everything is? How long did it take you to acquire everything you have?
I've given serious thought to building a linear accelerator and also a thorium-based nuclear "energy amplifier". These are both pretty dangerous projects, though.
A nice, well stocked shop. Excellent tour!
Hey Ben -
Found this video around the time you first uploaded it and forgot to subscribe! I have lots of catching up to do - I have been looking for your channel for ages!
Thanks for the great videos!
Jake.
No, unfortunately. I built that project before I started making videos. I'll have to revisit it at some time.
Amazing channel Ben, thanks for showing us your shop. Very inspiring to see the challenges you have succesfully taken on at home...supercitical CO2 extrc of caffeine, and making aerogels...very profesional methodolgy and beautiful setup
Next step...Mars. You'll send something there soon. What a shop! Thumbs up
Do you adopt adults?
'The blade is dull .... ' .. 'here's a machine I bought to sharpen blades' ..
I feel your pain, Ben. I have many yak-shaving projects too :).
Ben, your shop is great! I envy your knowledge of the tools you use and the amount of cool things you have built simply because you love building them.
I wish to someday have a similar amount of understanding of electrical and mechanical systems. While I am in engineering school, I do have access to a full woodworking shop at my parent's place. What small projects could I take on to increase my understanding of practical engineering concepts? What little things got you started, Ben?
How exactly do you run input/output peripherals within the intense magnetic field of an MRI..? I know why it's done, but I never really wondered how... 🤔 Is it just extreme insulation of the electronic components? Fiber optics?
For your electronics workbench, you keep a limited stock as opposed to trying to stock everything. What sorts of things do you keep on hand?
Haha wow I'm jealous, awesome shop. +1 on those coloured bins, they're great.
Yeah! You had me. It's not impossible, but VERY inspirational.
that is an impressive work shop you have got there and some serious hobby. have you thought of trying to make carbon nano tubes or is that sort of heat and pressure to hard to reach in your workshop conditions.
what you are doing is called "negative rake" cutting. works for a lot of stuff but the speed and pressure have to be right to keep from melting the plastic.
Does the stainless steel react with the beer in some undesirable way? Something about metal ions? I avoid stainless travel mugs etc for that reason.
. . . and I was sitting here, rather proud of my little Ikea Toolset, what with the Screwdriver with its many tips, the nifty little claw hammer, the Crescent Wrench. I really thought I had a nice thing going. Than I see the scanning electron Microscope. I hope that one day I am even half as skilled and well equipped as this man is.Nice shop though!
I don't think you realize how awesome that coffee table is!
A rotating rheoscopic fluid coffee table... So you never have to strain yourself when reaching for a beer! 😄 I think I need one!
How much did you pay for the lights behind the welder (if you dont mind telling) im looking for some to use on my shows in my outdoor stage i would use them as work lights / house lights
also how powerful are they?
I wonder if your neighbours ever ask to borrow any tools haha..
Wow nice shop, put mine to shame, but where's your HAZMAT cabinet? Oh and I know how you feel about the horizontal band saw my 4"x6" is such a pain, always have to babysit it. I also have a G4003, not the smithing one though :-(. I work in Palo Alto and so if your nearby I'm selling some old RF equipment, etc.
'Scopes.....I too, like the old analog CRT scopes...you don't lose any signal display due to losing the first count like on a newer digital unit...
you found using the compound miter saw for cutting plastic to not be so great - for cutting vinyl siding, a plywood 100+ tooth blade mounted backwards works amazing.. maybe the same for other plastics?
I'm guessing your lathe is the gunsmith edition because you can gun drill with it?
Would love to see a new shop tour, see how things have changed!
At around 14:17, you mentioned you had used game controllers in your MRI stuff. I was just wondering what exactly they were for? Were you making MRI-safe controllers?
Wow! I definitely want a shop like that when I am done with school and stuff.. dream world, I'd never leave it! lol But one thing I'm particularly interested in is the LN2 generator. Where did you get the plans for that, or did you just make them up yourself? I hope you do a video on it some day! It's something I've always wanted to make. Also, what do you do for ventilation of the shop, being that you seem to do a lot of work with chemicals in it?
I'm surprised there wasn't an 3D printer I know this was four years ago but I figured you would have built a RepRap or something similar.
You cleaned it up for this video :) Great shop! I want to make something similar in my garage. Thank you for the tour.
Incredible shop. Would love to hear more about the MRI electronics you keep mentioning ;)
Ben, please, please, PLEASE do a video for that table!!! freakin amazing!!
I'd like to know about some of the MRI products you built, how it works, why it wasn't available on the market already, etc.
Great stuff - reminds me of my own shop many years ago except yours is way better organized! :)
"...and behind my homemade electron microscope I have a fully functioning Iron Man suit and arc reactor that I just made for fun." This has to be one of the best channels on RUclips!
Hey Ben, WOW! How long did it take to collect all your shop tools/machines? Really interesting, Cool table! :-)
Thanks for sharing... Oh...
P.S. When will you be doing another circuit tut?
I would also like to see an update. Also curious if you support these projects just based in RUclips revenues if you’re willing to discuss.
What did you call the liquid inside your spinning coffee table? Looks a bit like shampoo, but what is it?
Great shop. AWESOME coffee table!
This is way more organized then my workshop would be... Currently, I have taken over the entire back room and most of the living room in my apartment...
That's a neat coffee table! Can you do a video on it going into more detail how the rheoscopic fluid works?
Hey Ben what do you do for living. You have a dream setup. Lets pray to God that everyone who dreams a setup like yours get it on time:) Thanks for opening the doors of your lab and let us in.
very nice looking lathe, whats your bed way wear like?
Such a cool shop. Do you ever work with robotics? I think you could make some cool quad rotor helicopter mods for RC ones. They sell one for like called AR Drone 2.0 with a 720p front facing camera and a downward facing lower resolution for positioning. You can view in HD while flying via wireless on any android or iOS tablet or smartphone. It's very stable and only 299$ I think you could do something cool experiments or modifications to it.
Just a thought, I really wanna pick one up.
You seem to be talking about MRI business in past tense. I'm just curious about what you are doing now?
What would it be like if you tried to run a 3-phase motor on only 2 of the phases or even 1 phase?
Unsatisfying. On single phase it will not start. On two phase it might start but will have a small fraction of the rated power available. In the USA the 230 V two phase is really just center-neutral single phase so it is no benefit for poly-phase motor starting. With a rotary converter you use a capacitor start and/or run configuration on a single phase motor to turn a 3 phase generator or you use a split phase arrangement (sort of like capacitor run motor) to power a three phase motor and use the motor windings as a rotating transformer to extract three phases from the windings.
What with no free lunches the single phase has to provide all the power you take out on three phases (plus losses) to the supply currents can be very high if you have a big load. While these may be big and noisy compared to a 1phase to 3 phase variable speed drive/motor controller they can be cheaper to make than pay for a VFD and more robust when it comes to overload.
Nice setup!! Do you have any videos on the liquid nitrogen generator?
I have three wavetek 164 with service manuals. Still works great ;-)
That LeCroy scope is quite possibly the best 500MHz scope ever made...
love my Wavetek stuff, that's a beautiful generator you have
Use a bees wax block on the compound mitre saw blade for plastic and alloy stops the blade gumming up and jamming.
Super capacitor project, bicycle regenerative braking system. The electric bike communities say it's more to save parts wear, than to recover energy.
Great video. Super jealous. I thought you were describing those tools as 'grizzly' as in 'well-used'. Took me a while to realise it's a brand. -_-
can we get a "Tour of Ben's shop 2013" please? It's been almost a year and I think it would be interesting to see what has changed, especially with you water temperature regulator setup. That is if much has changed.
Quick note for the guys who bought the chocolate thingy... never try to clean the molten chocolate off your skin with water... it will transform into concrete
I love what you do.i lived in the area since the early 80's and tried to do something similar. How do you keep from having "collectors" from labling you a hoarder, kicking you out of the area and "cleaning up your property"?
I've been meaning to make it to a Maker Faire but had to put out fires as my stuff dwindled. I'm setting in Michigan separated from most of my stuff. I used to work at HSC Electronics and I see that they closed. There ain't no life nowhere. This is worse than a tornado. I can't believe the violence.
I'm 60 and spent my life collecting parts, making tool and people come along and rip it all away.
I'm smart and talented but I lucky enough to have an unfurnished house to exist in. I have a Droid but try to submit a resume on a website written for a computer. I'm just getting too fat for the clothes that I still have.
It's 7 degrees outside. I came to California in the early 80's and just missed getting in on the ground floor. I solved a lot of problems for quite a few people but didn't really get compensated for it.
I guess if I had a question, it would be, how? Just, how?
People love the comfort of living today but they seem to disdain the technologies to get there.
Best of luck to you man, fingers crossed that by the time this reply finds you things have begun to turn around for you. It sucks when smart people get used up and spit out by the system. Truly wish you the best.
Luv the tetronix oscilloscope 👍
I am looking for some shelves and bins. I would like to know where your got yours.
its videos like this that will slowly change American roles models from jersey shore punks to science geeks 0_o keep it up!
Loved it, although lots of the tools are new to me.
Where's the place where you and your pals discuss vegetables under high pressure? :)
Love you bkraz keep making awesome science vids!
Really nice shop, sir!
I love the shop but I don't even want to know your PG&E Bill. Maybe you get a discounted rate for the 100amp service? Curious to know how much power some of the stuff in there uses, especially the electron microscope set up (with all the pumps and especially the water chiller) or even the LN2 generator.
Damn, that shop is a dream...
Could you post a video showing how you built your LN2 generator?
so what do you do now ben? you always refer to the mri business in past tense.
we call them "LIN BINS" in the UK just a bit of trivia there !
I am jealous! I want a shop that looks like this someday!
Hello! Been following your excellent channel for a while! I am right now in the process of learning to weld stainless. For, you guessed it, beer brewing! Any tips or lessons learned you can share? Planning to make a brewing vessel pretty smiliar to yours.
Or better yet, make a video about it!
Keep up the awesome!
Search my blog for "welding stainless" . You can also search for "fermenter". I haven't done any videos about welding stainless steel, but that might be a good idea soon. Good luck!
You sir just got yourself another subscriber!
and another one you might want to check out his work is Robert Murray-Smith, can not post a link here but if you search for his name, and homemade microwave kiln or anything related to graphene I am sure he will be at the top of the search pile ;)
Can we modify home refrigerator to archiving temp below 0 or -10 C or not ?????
A domestic fridge should be able to get to -5degC in the ice compartment. A domestic freezer should be able to hold -20degC if it has good insulation. They are designed with very little extra capacity so even if you changed the thermostat setting it will not be able to go far below the design temperature without changes to the plumbing. An important consideration is to remove heat leaks with added insulation. Remember some modern units use the outside metal as a heat sink so putting extra insulation outside on such units will cause them to work far worse, add it inside but make sure the cooling/evaporator coils/pipes are inside your added insulation. Some fridges have door frame heaters, either electric or using a condenser line and these are also a heat leak.
My aunt may have made part of that techtronics o-scope. Cool