Breaking a drinking lucky bird completely.
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2019
- I had other plans for this device, but it turns out that the glass is very thin.
Note that this novelty device is not really suitable as a child's toy as the glass is easy to break and it contains a fairly aggressive solvent.
This video is an explanation of how these toys work, and a sudden random tangent into refrigeration technology too.
Here's a search link for eBay if you want one. :-
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Target price is sub $5.
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"I've destroyed everything"
Meeting your audience's expectations like a boss
the poignant delivery speaks volumes of a life lived with few regrets
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Make a huge one bolt it to a generator
homers one stopped working because its head didnt get wet
The bird or Clive?
Forgot about that episode!
@@seannot-telling9806 Yes.
Clive: "Oh, look how cool this is."
Also Clive: Immediately breaks it.
Hard not to break things with those big old highland bear paws.
It would not be his first!!
"Excellent" 👌
Puppy strangler hands...
- "Look at that funny bird", me to little niece
- Clive breaks bird face off
- Crying niece, angry sister
They must be taught that the world is a harsh place.
Tell her it was self defense, the bird or your niece ( A la south park 'its coming straight for us ned!')
@@sexyredtablet6599 "It is dangerous, and now we must deal with it".
@@bigclivedotcom hear in the USA i rendered reading about something kind of similar except more morbid.
This realey happend!!!!!
Not CNN.
squeamish peaple DO NOT read this comet!!!
I read somewhere that a teacher had literally eaten the class pet hamster.
To show about cruelty in the world basically.
I don't rember all the detals.
but they wear probley early grade school probley.
A am shur that that he was fired.
But hue in thear right mind would do that.
Let alone in frunt of kids!!!!!
@@bigclivedotcom I approve :3
'Mmmmm!' says Clive smelling a random unidentified solvent :DDD
I remember my first lesson of “wafting” in chemistry class. You’re apparently supposed to wave your hands to direct the vapor towards your nose. Instead I stuck my nose over the beaker and took a whiff. At least that’s what they told me when I regained consciousness.
My favourites in the lab were bromine, fuming nitric acid and benzine - After that main course, I used to recover by sniffing Limonene, aaahhh - sheer bliss. Fifty years later, I'm still alive.
@@and7barton limonene, huh? Scary stuff! Did you know they tested it for rocket fuel? One of my favorite passages from Ignition! describes that.
I didn't know that. I worked in the chemistry lab at what used to be "West Ham College of Technology". I recall, there was a big fridge in the lab where they used to store volatile (and often highly toxic) chemicals. We used to store our cans of drink in there, next to this stuff. That and playing with mercury etc. These days there would be an uproar about such a casual attitude.
Random, unidentified solvent from a Chinese manufacturer.
I always wanted one of these as a kid to see how they worked - I have just bought one because now I know how they work and I am 60 and I can buy one anyway! Ha the joys of retirement!
"I don't think the beak is glass"... sitting here watching and laughing waiting for it to break regardless.
RIP last known survivor of the nostromo crew.
This.
Very.
Nice
I’m dipping my beak into some alcohol while watching this video. Damn I feel like the bird.
Interesting that you took the time to talk about the refrigeration cycle in relation to this toy. Apparently some of the vintage drinking birds used trichlorofluoromethane - a.k.a. R-11, Freon, etc.
Maybe that's why one of my old friends said there freon in the old bubble light tubes?
Instead of methylene chloride?
Lets make a power plant with a 100m high drinking bird standing in the ocean and driving a generator. ;-) I am sure there are people that will buy my shares of the "Free Bird Energy Company"! I will make my birds look like Clive with a long beard. ;-)
der Birnodin There are better ways of using the temperature gradient in the deep ocean to generate power.
Hol on! Would it theoretically be possible to link up thousands of these to tiny generators to make free electricity? I know it's not practice but could it be done?
loxxxton poxxxton That's called a Rube Goldberg contraption. Google it...
Shut up and take my money! 😂
Seriously though, Drinking Clives would be awesome, give em a vodka soda and watch em go.
@@TheLoxxxton perpetual motion can not produce energy.
Those bubble lamps take me back! I remember my parents had a Christmas tree filled with those bubble lamps and after a few minutes of turning the lights on, those bubble lamps started bubbling, creating a mesmerizing effect.
@AA7YA For me, it was grandparents. As I recall (LONG time ago), it was a ceramic tree with the bubble lamps on it. LOVED 'em and still do.
"As long as the head is wet, it will work " Classic Clive 👍
It's drinking the water!
This is the greatest invention in the world! You'll make a million dollars!
In or around 1968 I took the hat off my aunt's drinking bird, with an identical result :)
Oppose!
@@aaronbrandenburg2441 Stoopit autocorrupt! IKWYM :D
You look like bigclive cause of your beard 😂
@@Purple431 Why thank you! :)
Sets fire to chlorinated solvent: "Yeah, this smells kinda toxic"
Holy moly. That introduction voice nearly sounded as pleasing and sooothing as "the engineer guy" when he explained the bird.
Wow, Clive's so mellow I didn't expect him to tear the face off of a bird....
A glass one at that.
Lol.
The Engineer Guy has a video on how these things work. They're incredibly clever
He did a beautiful video. He did make one error that made me smile. At 7:45 [ruclips.net/video/UCKC-QVcVn0/видео.html ] he uses heat to drive the process, but he has the metal bracket/pivot turned backward. This biases the weight of the bird backward, and is the real reason he had to add a bit of clay to the nose as a counterweight. He supposes, incorrectly, that the weight of water in the nose had served that purpose.
"Smell that solvent" I miss the 80's.
Like the old proper Creosote, I used to love the smell of that!
Bill Halt lol yeah it sounds like a game show
I read this comment as he said it hahaha.
The trick is meth
@@AquaticSCP how? meth isn't a solvent, but a common process of making it uses p2p due to it being a nonpolar solvent.
I had one of those as a kid (many decades ago) and I was always fascinated by it - thanks for showing the science behind it!
OH GOD! You ripped his face off!
And I was just getting to like him with his fancy top hat
Big Clive sure said oh and I bursted it again.
Or something similar.
I am surprised he didn't you say I'm a wind-up bursting it like he often does.
Oh by the way I just remembered something someone a long time ago even though it was wrong which I learned later years and years ago.
Told me that bubble lights contain freeon!
which as you know is incorrect!
All so does eney one know what is the fluid in lava lamps.
And allso what fluid is in an Galileo thermometer.
I do know that it's varey nasty stuff due to what it said on the slip in the package about opening Windows and getting out of the area if it ever would break.
All so have anyone ever seen thoes old so called fire extinguisher grenades
That had carbon tetrachloride in galas bottle?
One time maybe twice I have seen them in Old homes near heating system boilers and old furnaces in Brackets above near the ceiling.
All so I remder that I was in a realey old building onese and I saw large glass containers up high at roofe level
And I asked what they wore and some one told me that.
That if there wear to be a fire they would be released by a fusible link.
and fall to the floor and Brake.
and put out the fire
Can't remder how big thay wore but at least a got or so??
I think that in the proses that faucet Jean gas perhaps was released and the combustion process.
All so it was therapy extinguishing agent would consume all the oxygen run the fire and sniff it out.
But in actuality it actually chemically interfere with the combustion process stuffing it out.
All so I was in a varey old home and I saw sumthing quite interesting for a fire extinguishing sprinkler system.
In the basement where the water comes in thear was a group of valves with long levers that had weights attached so that when the weights would drop it would open the water valves.
And attached to that was Jack chain.
That Ram through police and guides through holes in the walls Joyce and Floors Etc and periodically be interrupted by fusible links.
And eatch valve's connected to one pipe which would lead to nozzles that were round holes in them the as sprinkler heads.
Speaking of old fire sprinkler heads.
I have seen a fue old ones that were roughly pear-shaped.
Nabey 6 or so inches plus high.
That were sealed had some l liquid in them that would expand or boil or break down and generate gas and break that glass releasing the water.
All so th a glass was toxic.
Eney on know do you think about these things please comment I would appreciate it.
The old ones certainly contained Freon 11 (trichlorofluoromethane).
We called these drinky drinky birds in my house, because that's what I called them as a child when my father randomly acquired one. I still call them that in my head. And sometimes out loud. Look at the drinky drinky bird!
In case you were wondering, the Noma glass tubes explode if heated over a candle. The bubbling only goes up to "moderately vigorous", so there's little warning before detonation. Bonus fact: one piece of glass went into my eyelid about 3mm from my eye! Awesome Christmas Eve emergency room experience that was. Very unique.
Have you ever heard of some I accidentally stepping on glass Christmas ball ornament in bare feet ain't going to emergency room warfriends told me that it happened one time but it was several weeks before Christmas when they're decorating a tree it may have been broken already but I can't remember.
All s wonce my father when we had alright put the lights on the tree mini lights we had noticed there was a branch sticking Domo as out of place he was going to cut off you know how the wiring on me lights are green he used lopping shears to cut off the branch and did not see the Christmas light wiring which he proceeded to to cut accidentally no circuit breaker tripping but it did blow blow fuses and light set after of course healing about half the lights on the tree or so believe it or not he asked if I could splice that's white set to get working I said as long as I can properly splice will solder and heat shrink and delights it would be destroyed once the tree was taking down.
120 volt lights with too 3 amp fuses in the plug end to end connection plugs probley 4 strings of lights.
The hardest part was returning witch of the wires were which and working on it due to the tree already being fully decorated otherwise we'll take the lights off and got another set. For safety mainly.
PLEASE DONT DO THIS!!!!
All so if I mixed up the wires eather I would blow out blues in that set or blow the fuses agen dew to a short circuit both not good but it did work in the end.
Oh by the way one time before don't know how long before the Christmas Eve service I had to repair the pipe organ at church 1 year.
It was different years meney year apart I was probley nabey 15 when I fixed the pipe orgen that time.
Not the onley time that we litrley all most ha a silent night as a matter of fact he was gitting the electronic key bord set up in case it could not be fixed in time more than once.
All so one time they and my father wear reinstalling the repared orgen blower with minits to spare on Christmas wave for the servese.
I did more than a fue emergency repares on the church orgen he has played over the years.
Once I even had to repair this all state logic system I had to troubleshoot and swap out the driver card 4 the slider chest combination action that drove the solenoids so my computer repair and troubleshooting Electronics troubleshooting paid off and yes it was standing sensitive I want up grounding myself Vaya a hundred foot extension cord anti static wrist strap.
I could have done a lot more damaged if I had not used to anti-static wrist strap.
The replacement part was over night shaped fedx??
My grandmother had one of these 65 years ago. ..
Thanks for sharing your videos.
Hey, Clive, what's your experience with Stirling/Rankin cycle run by a motor to create cooling (or heat)?
I’ve had one of these about 8 years. It’s never worked properly. After watching this video, I spun it around on the pivot and it’s fixed. Thank you!! 👍🏾
If you search for drinking bird the Wikipedia article has an image very similar to this one. There are long explanations of how it works, but it is much more satisfying to listen to Clive's mellow version.
I remember a movie where they used that bird in a improvised detonation device to set of a bomb, that was pretty awesome.
@@mjhartlebury yes, thats the one. Been a long time for me too but i always found that bird very interesting as a youngster
Also made an appearance in Ridley Scott's Alien
Fair description of the vapour compression refrigeration cycle Clive, keep up the great work👍
*deeply huffing dcm and broken glass* "yeah we don't need no health and safety"
Nothing like being a little "tipsy"😋
Well Mr Clive. You've done it again... Not a dull moment and featuring something I've always been fascinated by. I want this video played at my funeral..Good work! ;)
Came for the drinky bird, stayed for the surprisingly excellent surprise description of how AC works.
Yes, those fumes when burned contain lots of free chlorine gas, deadly stuff. Methylene Chloride is restricted to specific industrial uses in the US. I couldn't find "Drinking Birds" on the list of approved uses. It is no longer allowed in any homeowner paint strippers and only for a few industrial paint stripping applications. Exposure limits for workers is set at about 25PPM, but I think that's just a guess on EPA's part. China ships lots of things w/o regard to regulations or safety so be careful.
I used to be a technical supervisor at Carpenters ( In UK biut it's a massive american operation ) To wash isocyanate and polyol off my hands , I always used Methelyne Chloride as water, at the time, all it did was make the skin on my hands very dry !
@@ChrisColeman1962 American firm but not in the US so they DGAF.
I had an antique bottle of the stuff I used for cleaning model railroad tracks. I remember what it smells like, mild by solvent standards.
I think that anyone that would watch Clive's Channel.
Would know about the Chinese product issues right.
Speaking of which.
Doller tree story time.
I remember quite a while back.
I was picking up some devices that had led lighting in them from Dollar Tree.
For projects AKA hacking.
To my surprise they did not have alkaline button cells in them.
Mercury batteries!
Aka Mercury oxide batteries!
I am in the USA.
And that battery type has been banned here for years.
And later on I wend to get more of the same products for other projects.
And I realised that that thay now had alkaline button cells in them now.
Note I did keep the Mercury batteries and did not use them.
They are now being used as voltage references.
Note I have attached label with a notice that a Mercury battery is contained within my project for future reference in case I forgot so I can properly dispose of the battery.
Also here in the US we cannot dispose of any type of rechargeable battery at all in household or other garbage it is illegal in its entirety.
O by the way.
Those darn free LED items...
No Doubt.
Made in China.
Of course not surprised in the least.
Allso speaking of mercury batteries.
At one time they used to be used for voltage references as I had in that project such as like meters and other instruments.
It is possible to to use lithium cells in some cases with modifications.
Also does anyone remember the old smoke detectors that used that Marge battery the big round one that was the Mercury battery.
It was a specialty battery.
If if I remember correctly it hand 9 volt battery snaps on either end.
There was something intriguing about that battery I found out on Wikipedia.
Because due to the fact that in that type of application.
you would need to know when the battery was getting to the end of its life.
And because that mercury battery voltage is pretty much stable to the end of life.
Which would actually be a pro in this application due to the fact you cannot give a warning when the battery is almost dead.
So what was doing was one cell in the battery was of a lower capacity than the rest.
So voltage would deliberately drop near the end of life of the battery.
now that is clever.
@@aaronbrandenburg2441 The battery you mention with one bad cell was used by BMW in some cars as a timing device. With a very small load the battery decayed at a predictable rate. When the battery voltage dropped it would trigger the computer to indicate the pollution control system of the engine needed service.
I only know this because at the time I had access to those batteries. Mechanics from the local BMW dealership would come to me for batteries because the ones from BMW were exceedingly expensive.
I have wondered since I was a child as to how these things worked! Some 45 years later, answered by Clive! Thanks buddy!! 😁
I once had one of these (with red coloured fluid) fall off the kitchen counter onto the vinyl flooring below, breaking the glass bird. Even though we wiped up the resulting mess immediately, the fluid left a permanent stain on the vinyl. No solvent or household cleaning product would remove or even lighten the stain. The solution to the problem was to replace the flooring. It was a very expensive repair!
Cheaper solution: buy more drinking birds and break them on other parts of the floor until it's all stained the same colour.
bdf2718: what a brilliant idea. Why didn't I think of that?
Hey I I remember what it said in the American Science & Surplus catalog about this.
Caution the liquid inside the bird hit a stain.
And is fragile.
Mint to be looked at but not fondled.
may not be suitable for young children.
I am not being dirty or anything here but that is the actual wording from the catalog.
Haven't seen one of these birds in 40 years. I'm buying one.
It was show in the first Alien movie. 40 years ago.
Methylene chloride can be used as a very effective paint remover. I remember my sister-in-law using it in my ex-wife’s old house. The foam on her headphones dissolved just from the fumes.
yep, methylene chloride IS used in many paint strippers
All so in some cuntreys it has been banned and paint strippers for safety reasons.
Look up Miss lead chloride....
Edited at this point LOL
Should have read methylene chloride on Wikipedia.
sorry don't have the link handy.
That's what you get some times when you use Google for voice recognition.
LOL.
Also one time when I did a comment somebody,
And didn't catch a few mistakes.
Somebody commented that looks like someone's using voice recognition.
And I call me back and said yep guilty as charged LOL.
See what I mean it hap
Hpened again lol.
So much for Google voice recognition huh!
Lol.
"And here it is in readiness assuming the position" quite a way with words. :)
One of my earliest memories is these boiling lights on the X-mas tree in the 1950s. Very bright and hot. I still use them because they are overwhelmingly nostalgic.
Clive, I have 2 coming and was going to send you one, but you have pre-empted me.
Your description of it's operation is more than a little scanty.
It would probably be better described as a Liquid Piston Stirling engine.
Thus, there is both a hot (Bottom) end and a cold (Top) end, and the lower gas pressure on the cold end causes the liquid to rise up the tube and fill the top reservoir until the "Duck" overbalances and tips up. at which point the bottom end of the vertical tube clears the liquid level in the lower chamber.
In this state, with the tube horizontal, the liquid is able to flow back to the "bottom" (Hot) reservoir in the bottom half of the now horizontal capillary tube, whilst the gas is permitted to flow over the top of the returning liquid to the "top" (Cold) reservoir. Once the swap of liquid and gas is compete, the duck reverts back to a vertical position and the cycle recommences.
Michael McNamee Good description. Clive is not a thermodynamics expert.
@@gordonrichardson2972 : Neither am I. However, both these things and Stirling engines have facinated me for a lifetime, and understanding one gives one an insight into the other. (I am a process control engineer)
Michael McNamee There is a lengthy article on Wikipedia, for those who want further details.
It's not a Stirling engine. What differentiates a Stirling engine from a steam engine is that the Stirling engine doesn't rely on phase change between liquid and gaseous phases. The working fluid remains gaseous at all times. There would be no reason for choosing a low vapour point fluid here unless it relies on phase change, which it does. It fits in a broader category of "steam engines" if you're okay with calling some other vapour "steam". So Clive's link to phase change heat pumps in fridges was pertinent.
@@raykent3211 I Stand corrected. Engage brain before fingers. As Clive (and yourself correctly say, there is a phase change. The methylene chloride condenses on the glass of the "cold" end and the resultant liquid runs down the inside of the glass to the top of the liquid level, thus reducing the volume in this end and causing the liquid to rise up the tube. When Clive broke the glass, and heated the bottom with his hand to no effect, I should have realised what was happening.
Incidentally, I once had the misfortune to breathe in a cloud of Methylene Chloride. The agony of the next 5 minutes will stay with me till death, which damn nearly happened at the time.
I had one from Edmund Scientific as a boy (originally a seller of surplus optics, later mostly a seller of science toys). Mine had a metal tube (aluminium I think) rather than glass: sturdier, no danger of kids getting hurt by broken glass. Just bought one nearly identical to yours last year, and I have it running more often than not.
Apparently invented in China, so it’s kind of suitable they’re all made there now...
I still get the Edmund Scientific catalog
Thanks for the link Clive they came in a week.
I tried mine on rubbing alcohol after a water test. Interesting speed up with the faster evaporation
I started working from home and immediately got one of these to help me out.
At first glance I read title as "Drinking a breaking lucky bird completely." My brain is now wired for Big Clive's lack of boundaries.
Awesome Clive. Once again you have shown us how we shouldn't take this stuff apart!! 🙂
After this vid reminded me that they exist, I bought one and have had it running more or less continuously on my night stand since. The primary issues are distilled water must be used to prevent mineral buildup in the fuzz (~2 gal/yr, cheap), the pivot surface in the stand gets a groove worn in it (I suggest making sure the metal is deburred and perhaps a touch of oil), and eventually the fuzz stops wicking well enough to keep up with evaporation, as you've suggested. I fixed that problem with a bit of cotton yarn wrapped around the base of the beak and back around the back of the head. Only other issue is some days the head gets a little overwatered and a drip periodically runs down and gets dripped off the other end, a small dish will catch it.
Let's see it drinking a "Dark And Stormy" ;-))
No. It might get drunk and attack me.
Ha, Ha I think not you reaped your revenge on it. Love your videos and this one was one of the best of when thing don't go to plan.
@@iandawkins2182 yep.
@@bigclivedotcom lol.
@@bigclivedotcom hey big Clive you should do a playlist of where things do not go to plan or letting the magic smoke out or portable explosion containment pie dish use videos xcetera in other words the best moments when something goes wrong video playlist or something like that I think you'd get a lot of views on playlist like that or just even the funniest video playlist I think would steal a lot of use please consider I know I would like every single one of them more than once if I could.
You planned on taking it to bits, just not so quickly..
There's a ton of non-chlorinated methylene chloride substitutes out there these days. (To protect the ozone layer - and damage something else?) Years ago I worked at a CATV filter (trap) manufacturer and we used it as a flushing solvent for the 2 part urethane foam mixer. The foam was the potting material used in the filter housing to weatherproof and hold the coils i place.
It was indeed handy to have drums of the stuff about for machine cleaning etc. I kind of miss having a bottle handy for odd jobs, now use MEK or Lacquer Thinnner. It was best kept from flames as the vapor breaks down into some nasty gases. That's why it was outlawed as a fire extinguishing agent years ago. I guess it's pretty heavily regulated now, (like freon) and recovery condensers are required in industrial applications like our foam machine purge.
Good show.
Oh good. I was wondering how to break those.
I have absolutely loved those birds ever since seeing one in the 1973 movie "Sleeper", written by H. G. Wells, and directed by & starring Woody Allen.
There was one of these on a shelf in the 2nd year Chemistry Laboratory in Maynooth College in the 1970's when I was a student there.
The Chemistry Lecturer explained the principle of operation to us.
We also had a Potato powered digital clock on the same shelf. It used copper and zinc electrodes. It was supposed to be lemon powered but we had 2 potatoes.
In those days the laboratory was open 24/7 and we cane in whenever it was convenient for us and these times rarely coincided with scheduled class times.
I've used the stuff as a plastic welding solvent. It's toxicity is actually quite low and its pretty safe for uses such as that, and degreasing too.
I've always used MEK(Methyl Ethyl Ketone) as plastic welding solvent, I imagine that Methylene Chloride should work similarly.
Low, but it's quite volatile, so rather a lot can end up in the air, more than you'd expect from the smell, that plus the fact it's metabolized into carbon monoxide make it a bad idea to use this stuff in an enclosed space.
People have died from doing this as their job, likely in larger quantities than you, but even small amounts of CO exposure are probably not going to be fun - make sure to open a window, or do it outside even
@@m.k.8158 mek and Lego blocks.. good stuff
@@m.k.8158 MEK is best for ABS/'rigid' polystyrene plastics, but methylene chloride may well work, certainly the now banned trichloroethane did (i still have some left 😉)
acetone as well may work on some plastics
I didn't know they still sold them birds! I had one when I was a kid, quite a big one. I think it fell off the table and broke. Speaking of bubble lamps, I am so glad you showed that red one. It explains a recent visual effect I saw in a repeat of a program called 'Quantum Leap'. It was an episode about a scientist trying to make a time machine who also doubled as a TV celebrity space man set in the 60's. In his lab you could clearly see a row of glass tubes full of couloured liquid sealed at the top like your red one, only bigger, bubbling away illuminated from the bottom. They were in a black box with just the tops visible. They must have been bubble tubes! Thank you for clearing that mystery for me :D
Thank you for sparing me from having to come over to break your things.
Love how he breaks the bird within moments of “reverse engineering” the thing.
That bird's luck ran out
Instead of letting out the Magic Smoke.
You know the magic spoke that makes it work.
and when you let out went out let out. The blue Magic Smoke it don't work no more.
Oops.
I have done that more than once.
Haven't we all.
He let out the magic vacuum.
scratch that that neutralized the magic vacuum with the outside air he let in. LOL.
Wow they still make those things. I've not seen one since i was a kid
@12 Volts Hey thanks for that. I've ordered 3 be great for xmas presents. all the best to you :)
You should look at the trans Alaska pipeline. They use heat pipes along the permafrost sections in the supports to keep it from melting. You can find the same very large heat pipes along at Thule AFB Greenland supporting the Upgraded Early Warning Radar UEWR
Interesting.
All so thay have also Prue typed quote unquote water cooling that does not use a fan or a pump or fan is optional that works the same way who master I think check on Linus Tech tips on RUclips sorry don't have a WinCo Vacaville didn't save the video
Hi Clive you know what idea I had but never came to do it on those drinking birds was to stick magnets on the legs, stick a circuit on consisting of a LED and a coil and maybe a small capacitor on and see if it'll work.
When I was young my mum threw mine away due to “safety scares” I was so upset 😭
You should compensate by buying another one.
What safety scares?
@@joshbacon8241 These are all made by Satan™
@@joshbacon8241 There's glass surrounding a "chemical" and since glass is easily broken, that means that the "chemicals" enclosed by the glass can come in contact with children. And as any ignorant person knows, any contact with any chemical is dangerous.
Modern day safety scares sell for huge profit. Fear mongering is a huge industry growing bigger by the day. Creating cost barriers to everything. Construction workers need to pass HNS, electricians now need to do Part P. Drivers need insurance AND a driving license, regardless of their history or skill. Certain chemicals and materials are banned for export and import from and to some countries, some are tightly regulated, and for some you just need to pay to be allowed to use. And this will only spread further. Education is moving in the same direction, knowledge is "dangerous", so you need to pay to obtain it, and it's so watered down and censored, that you don't get much, but you need it to get employed anywhere, regardless of your skill, because employers have been scared by business classes of potential loss of revenue or "safety/security concerns" about "untrained employees". So on and so forth. Freedom is being stripped away for "safety" reasons. It's little by little, like an erosion, before everything comes crashing down. But you wouldn't care what I'm talking about, not until it's too late.
I had a few that looked like Wood Peckers when I was a kid here in America, We, and by proxy I always called it The Rocking Bird, as it rocked back, and forth.
I also Heard Water Pecker, and names of the sort. I loved them back in the day, they kinda perplexed me. I know what they are now, but still I was always curious as a kid of how it worked, kinda like I was with a Newton's Cradle, those never ceased to wow my curiosity.
You won't believe it- but aside from a diff box, that exact bird was being sold at a science museum gift shop. Went with kid's class on a 'field trip' yesterday. Long story.
You got it right. Cold side is the evaporator. I always mix them up, because water condenses on the cold side (evaporator) while it's running.
Ensign Drinking Bird: The most valuable crew member
Clive I sure enjoy your videos and yes refrigeration is very interesting and yes I have some those Christmas lights
Great tutorial triggered by a deceptively simple object. Really liked this vid.
So your saying pressure equels volume times temperature, or proving it? Thanks
methylene chloride was used in those GE "monitor top" refrigerators as its refrigerant. It's also used in those cool 'hand boilers' that they used to sell in the gift shops of museums. They were similar to the drinking bird, but had a tube that'd go up to the top in a spiral, and the heat of your hand would cause it to boil and push it up the tube.
Monitor Tops used SO2 or Methyl Formate.
I'm sure there was one of these on the table in Alien just before the crew are woken up from their cryosleep
My Drinking Bird always had red liquid, red hat and red feather. none of this ''choice'' in my day
I rendered they had these through the Edmund Scientific catalog at what time when they were still around.
As unturned of seling the soil stuf and stuff for projects and stuff and surplus.
All thoe the best surplus compeney for this.
and probley the oldest is American Science & Surplus.
which is still in businessby the way.
if anyone's heard them.
I used to order from them all the time as a kid it later on.
And ellectronects gold mine.
I don't know if thay as still arond.
Agen I live in the USA.
Will sniffing this solvent become the new youth craze?
You’ll know who’s been doing this if they’re stood by a puddle dipping their nose.
awesome, I bought a gallon of the stuff (mostly pure) as weld-on number 3 though you can get fairly pure (over 80%) in other numbered versions for welding plastic, specifically nylon and polycarbonate for 3D printed items XD Glad there is more discussion around it, :)
I remember these a neighbor had them (many of them) always wounded how they work. Never seen one in decades
Isopropyl alcohol was also used to clean tape heads in the distant past - the earbud reminded me of that! lol
Thank you for the glue trick our feathers have gotten ratty. After six months in strong sunlight, the colored liquids all bleach out nearly clear. And because mold grows on the heads, you must wash them from time to time, and add vinegar to the water to discourage this. Not the simple perpetual motion art that it seems!
Oh Clive you big meany!! Now the rocking bird toy is broken. WTH!!!!
🙊🙉🙈💥
But I liked it, so another is on its way.
@@bigclivedotcomYay!!! Well then all righty!! Since there'll be penance for the transgression then I'll give you a big smack kissy kiss once replacement arrives
Cheers
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Take care if you are thinking of sealing methylene chloride (Dichloromethane) in the tube. Methylene chloride does not burn, so may have other ingredients - including the blue dye. The decomposition products are nasty! Even at low concentrations. It is an excellent de-greaser though! It will rot rubber seals - they will expand and become soft. I used to to use it to remove the bitumen from asphalt to test it. We used tens of litres of the stuff. It was recovered in a still.
Dichloromethane, also known as Carrene, was itself actually used in refrigeration, notable applications include the Grunow fridges of the 1930s and Carrier's centrifugal chillers. Too bad about the toxicity, that sweet chlorocarbon smell is so pleasant and reminds me of a more optimistic era...
Methyl Chloride being used as an air conditioning refrigerant was suspected to have caused the Coconut Grove nightclub fire in Boston that killed almost 500 people in the early 1940s.
Methyl chloride/chloromethane only has one chlorine and is a flammable gas, whereas dichloromethane is nonflammable and liquid at room temperature.
big clive invents perpetual energy- 2019
its not methane chloride its Methylene dichloride aka DMC aka dichloromethane. love your videos
"Let's light it and see if noxious fumes come off." Excellent.
I had a liter bottle of dichloromethane around, because it works very well to glue (or rather weld) many different plastics, especially acrylic, where you can get invisible joints if prepared well. I used maybe 50ml of it. All the rest evaporared by itself out of the closed bottle over a year. And that was in a cool basement room. Yes, it really likes to boil off.
Yeah. Once you've broken the seal on the container it does gradually disappear.
Internet man murders innocent drinking bird. More at 11.
Go pass go collect 200 drinking birds and go straight back home.
That's It! We need to go to Chic-fil-a to discuss the solution to this situation over lunch.
I have 4 or 5 of the bubble lamp tubes. They are from a set of xmas lights we had when I was a kid. The filament bulbs that the set used were very strange. They had a flat top for the tube to sit on. Couldn't find replacements so eventually the light string was useless. Only kept the tubes in the end. Mine don't have salt in though. They have a little glass tube that's closed at the top, but open at the bottom and is free to move up and down slightly. Great little effect though
Some do have the little slug of glass in the bottom and others have flakes of pumice for smaller bubbles. Although the lamps usually get quite hot they require very little heat to make them bubble.
Oh wow, very cool. I never knew how these worked.
great video on the bird I have always liked retro bubble lights (1960s Pifco ) I have bought sets from America 110 volt and used a voltage dropper on them they are not available in the uk anymore I would be very interested to see how you convert the birds tube or a bubble tube to work of led and a resistor or is there a led that gets hot
Very cool and informative video Big Clive
Love your videos, 1 question being an avid recycler, do you ever use the other side of the pad as the doodles didn't seem to show through and it's a waste of half a pad if you don't ?
I don't. It does show through.
Loved the A/C class in the middle of the video
Endless energy machine confirmed.
very educational, thanks Clive
Nice video on Dippy bird, and the Blue liquid is Dichloromothane buddy 🙂.
@bigclive I have a 5 usb charging unit that failed with smoke! Could I send it in to you?
Clive could you sometime (if you haven't done it already) explain the difference in the workings between a RCD and a RCBOn
Regards
An RCBO is a device that combines the function of an ordinary overcurrent breaker (MCB) and an RCD. It has a detection circuit and tiny solenoid that can trip the breaker if leakage is detected. The overcurrent breaker works the normal way with a thermal trip and a large solenoid trip to detect low or high overloads.
@bigclivedotcom have you seen Aldi’s remote controlled colour change LED hallowe’en light? Might be worth a look.
Pharmacies may also hold Isopropyl Alcohol. Here in Norway it's sold as "equipment disinfecter", and is hard to get anywhere else (especially to a reasonable price).
"Got an infection in your equipment? Ask your pharmacist for help 😷"
Were did you get that bubble lamp
I, too, remember these as a child. Wondered how they work.
These things contain DIhloromethane. The bubbles are the solvent starting to boil. Hard to get except in paint stripper and even in that it is being replaced by organic solvents.