That quote is terrible in a factual way. Wearing 8 condoms would INCREASE the necessity of birth control due to the fact of something called FRICTION. TL;DR / PSA DON'T USE MORE THAN ONE CONDOM AT A TIME!!!! Edit: Inb4 "Lol dude like anyone here would ever need a condom" - comments
@@Tom_Nguyen. Simply put, ECC memory has bits dedicated to identifying if a bit flip (0 swapped with 1) has happened. They compare that process to birth control since it identifies the error AFTER it happens. Preventing a bit flip by surrounding the pc with excessive amounts of lead is compared to wearing 8 condoms since it prevents the error from happening in the first place.
it never needed to be as much s they started with,, though the dust they were making should have required respirators and a hepa filter in a sealed room, followed by a whipedown of every surface and vacuum of any remaining dust bits
@@Rick-vm8bl Roofers use a lead that's covered in a protective material like a form of rubber (EPDM). It protects the roofers and more importantly protects the owner of the home drinking any rain water that runs off it.
@@legionof0ne441Who said it is lead dust? After a quick google search there is nothing said about using masks, only that you should use gloves and not touch any of your body parts after exposure and instantly wash your hands after working with it, also about requirements for working with lead that should be provided to employees, there is only face shield mention not a gas mask or something similar.
"there is no safe level of lead exposure" in 7th or 8th grade (2002-2004), we made homemade lead acid batteries in science class, the teacher went around and put a 1 foot strip of lead foil on everyone's desk
PSA for people who got the short end of the stick in SexEd: More than one condom is actually counterproductive. The friction between them makes them more likely to tear.
also make sure to get a condom that fits, different brands and sizes may make them prone to slipping off depending on your shape. don't think with your ego here...
Technically, tungsten is an even better radiation blocker than lead. Prusa is testing a Tungsten filament, might be the next thing you guys try. A tungsten filament 3D printed case.
Can't put a lot of tungsten in there as there is no way any 3d printer will melt it. Tungsten's melting point is absurdly high compared to just about anything iirc. That's why it was used in lightbulbs.
Nuclear engineer here, love the vid idea btw and would love more electronics vs nuclear env vids! Just an unsolicited FYI and maybe a PSA since i love nuclear and maybe we all one day need some knowledge of this stuff
exactly, the only real danger for them is lead dust, 0% detectable skin absorption is possible for them otherwise in an air conditioned location ending in a metallic lead pc case with no chemical dissolution
Nah, they avoided the dust making things such as drilling or cutting with power tools. They should be fine. Lead is very soft - it doesn't start spalling dust just because you hit it with a hammer.
@@Steamrick Lead, like pretty much all metals, oxidizes when exposed to air. Just having the lead sheet in the open without inert gas covering it does create PbO. And that can be stirred up as dust simply by handling it. That's not... a whole lotta - But still lead dust. They should've worn masks to be save. Mucosa is a lot more permeable than skin itself. Protecting yourself from breathing something in should always be your top priority. Also, neither work gloves nor nitrile gloves do anything against a physical breach - aka getting stabbed by splinters from cutting. They limit the chance a little at best. Nitrile gloves are also only rated save for handling of powders and liquids only with very specific handling times as the materials do diffuse through them, albeit slowly. The best decision would've been - as safety said - not handling the lead completely.
Bethesda: Hey can you build something cool related to Fallout76? Linus: Yeah we can wrap a PC in lead sheet! Hacksmith: We're gonna build real working Power Armor! xD
Keep going James, I watched your full interview with Jon, I just want to say you got this and at the end of the day your mental health is what is most important so whatever decision has to be made to keep you sane, just do it.
Its disappointing they didn't think to try a few sheets of lead with spacers to make alternating baffles to allow airflow but still allow airflow. Basically the same concept they used with plywood to silence the PC back in early August.
Wow, as a chemist, I like that you guys went overboard with protective measures, but when I worked for a major electrical contractor, we had to handle sheets of lead for an x-ray room in a hospital, and there were no special precautions 😂 is that what’s wrong with me? Metallic lead isn’t readily absorbed into your body, but let oxides/salts are, good on Alex pointing that out. You could drill it just fine drills make big chips not powdery dust. Don’t sand it or grind it and you’re fine. As long as you wash your hands after handling it, you’re fine.
@@BritishBoy specially considering that even though they were handling metalic lead, in contact with your skin and SWEAT, it probably wouldn't take long to oxides to start forming
Similar with mercury. You can touch mercury without getting poisoned. Due to maybe little absorbtion through skin I personally would wear gloves, especially for long work duration.
@@limonadenzitrone9976 yep, been watching Cody’s lab do it for years with minimal protection equipment, just mindfulness. If we substitute mindfulness with safety equipment, it costs a whole lot more, and accidents will still happen but they will be worse accidents lol
Medical Physicist here. Great, your computer is protected from photons (not really those are super low energy so it needs to be thicker), but they aren't the problem! The real danger is neutrons! When treating people with pacemakers we really only worry about neutrons messing up their ticker's computers. Lead is a terrible shield for neutrons. You need something with lots of light atoms like water or boronated polyethylene. The boron does a cool neutron capture thing and the polyethelene would be easier to work with. Also, I think y'all have covered why older tech is used on the space station, larger transistors are more difficult for radiation to mess with. Should have used the oldest hardware that could run 76.
Would mineral oil work? Would mineral oil aquarium PC work well for this? In general I too thought that safer and more interesting method would be to surround it with water that could be used as a huge coolant reservoir.
This reminds me of my nuclear physics lab safety talk. The part for lead was basically: here are all the bad things about lead. However, it's encased, and the worst thing that could happen is dropping the lead bricks on your foot. But we have to tell you the bad things because of regulations. Probably the most dangerous thing they did in this video was weighing the computer while holding it. You don't want 45kg/90 lb hitting your feet.
The problem with your argument, though, is that the lead that they are working with isn't encased. It's straight up raw exposed lead. That it was covered with lead oxide dust, and that there weren't wearing respirators while working with the lead almost left me white knuckled. Then after that I saw that they eventually rolled up their sleeves a little when doing the cutting. That means that they used their lead dust covered hands to push the sleeve up, potentially smearing the lead dust all over their forearms. If i were them i would seriously have done a blood lead test before-hand to get a baseline, and then done another one after the shoot was over to make that there was no increase. People don't realize how much they touch other things with their hands after handling contaminated stuff. Not having the suits on when they were doing the testing, but the green gloves only, was another "eeek" moment. All they have to do is touch the lead with the gloves, then touch their clothes with the gloves as they hem and haw about things, or touch a bunch of other stuff while wearing the gloves, and whalla! Contamination of everything in the room and increase exposure to everyone who ever handles it afterwards. If i were the company safety officer I would have been all over everyone involved with the video like white on rice making sure they were fully suited, *with respirators*, every time they worked on, handled, or were in the same room as the stupid thing. Here is hoping for the health of everyone involved! Also, if you don't have a company safety compliance officer you should hire one. If you already have one, and they were aware of the video and didn't do this, fire them and hire one that actually takes your safety as seriously as they should.
Fukushima shouldn't be on that list. Radiation levels outside of the power plant are now tied with the background radiation of London England. Its probably no risk in other locations you listed too. Outside of a nuclear plant of uranium mine, you're basically going to be fine.
Nuclear power plants have very low radiation levels. In fact, the west found out about Chornobyl because nuclear power plant workers had less radiation going out that into the power plant (they get measured for contamination both times).
Can't talk about other places, but since Karachay is only 6 hours away, I know that it had been used as a place to store nuclear waste between the 1950s and 1980s. The government spent 17bn rub to basically fill it up with stuff years back though, so should be technically safe now, although I'm not sure if you can call it a lake anymore.
I love how theyre trying to be safe when handling the lead, but then once it built, they're touching all over it and all over the monitor, desk, equipment
The plastic suit was most likely because of the sheer volume of lead in the sheet, and to be able to safely use tools like a hammer without covering your pants in it. When you're not actively working with it, gloves are sufficient. You may also notice when Linus didn't have gloves on, he was hovering his hands near it and not actually touching it.
When Alex was explaining the dangers of lead, I was already wondering whether this was a smart idea for Linus and Alex to do. Then I got to 14:13 and read: "Do not hammer lead contaminated nails towards your groin."
alex was wrong, lead in metallic form in large chunks is mostly safe, consumption is the issue, any lead that ENTERS the body is bad, a hunk that you rarely handle won't even make a dent over background radiation damage
@@johnthefactfddict3281 I was looking for someone pointing this out. I'm a bricklayer and we still use lead in house roofs during construction regularly. Apart from destroying my back while moving the stuff around, it has never been an issue. Also we cut it with a standard box cutter. Run the blade through a few times and then pull apart with ease. So weird seeing people take all these precautions for a material i handle half naked and bare handed
@@InitialDreadly exactly, like most substances that are "toxic"(radiation is a different beast) the FORM MATTERS metallic mercury is also fairly safe(as long as you have no open wounds) that is why the fear over CFL's was stupid, just sweep up the glass and the almost unnoticed mercury will not harm you as it is metallic, though there is a form that means instant death sentence on contact lead is so similar, people are pushing for ROHS, yet lead is not actually hazardous at all in solder, it actually is more durable and has less toxic flux too, making it safer to work with on electronics sure you shouldn't use lead solder in plumbing anymore, but for a PCB that probably has less solder than a single fixture in your house(all the elbow and T joints to plumb a sink with dishwasher and icemaker uses probably 10x the lead solder than a single motherboard) it is literally stupid to use non-lead solder as non-lead solder is more brittle and ages poorly in fact I fixed an old clapper before the age of ROHS and all that was bad was a resistor and the dropper capacitor, found a similar capacitor with the correct rating and one of my spare 1/4w resistors of roughly the right value and it lived if that had been ROHS certified half the joints would have been cracked by that age, requiringa full reflow of almost everything just to fix it, and most would not have done so and just tossed it tldr, metallic lead in large chunks=100% safe, lead dust or chemically altered lead=scary
If i've learned one thing from watching LTT for the past 5 years, it's never to leave Alex, Linus and Jake without adult supervision because they are just toddlers in bigger bodies
@@RogueMandoGaming That's why in the speeded-up footage you can see Sebastien and Tynan (once in civies and once suited up) supervising them. Tynan is a member of the Safety Committee and probably the person who was most wary of the safety risks.
2:43 The claim “Over 100 is bad for you” is misleading. For context, background radiation is often 10-50 CPM, while levels above 10,000 CPM (about 100 μSv/h) could be dangerous with prolonged exposure. Risk depends on dose rate, exposure time, and device calibration, not just CPM alone. Edit: I went down a little bit little rabbit rabbit hole, then researching this added some more information in the comments if anyone’s interested :-)
For those who want a little more detail: The counter in the image shows 502,009 CPM, which converts to ~3,258 µSv/h if we assume X-ray radiation and use a calibration factor of ~0.0065 µSv/h per CPM. For direct exposure to an individual, this means about 15 hours of exposure would result in 50 mSv, which is the maximum recommended short-term dose for occupational exposure. At this level, long-term exposure would be unsafe, as 48 hours would lead to 156 mSv-far above safe limits. While short-term exposure like this isn’t acutely dangerous, repeated or prolonged exposure increases the risk of long-term effects like cancer.
Just to clarify: Guidelines like those from the ICRP set the maximum annual dose at 50 mSv for occupational workers to minimize all forms of risk. However, this isn’t a hard limit where things suddenly become acutely dangerous-it’s a precautionary measure to prevent long-term harm. For direct exposure to an individual, a dose of 50 mSv (e.g., 15 hours at the level in the image) would likely not cause immediate harm, as the body can recover over time. That said, repeated exposures at this level could push risks closer to long-term damage thresholds, so minimizing exposure is always best.
Handling lead sheets like that is still fairly commonplace with plumbers for shower pans in some jurisdictions. You could also achieve equal protection with thicker aluminum or steel
They are always talking about booting the PC before putting the side panels back on, but forget to boot it before wrapping it with 90lbs of lead. I love this channel.
Lead contamination at a shooting range? Yeah if it dates back two centuries ago. But fun fact, we tested trees on the main highway into Sydney and found massive lead concentrations from car exhaust dating back to the 1970s, so it's definitely still in the environment. Would think places that stored lead acid batteries are the worse places for it.
Not to be that guy but lead is only sufficient at stopping certain types of radiation. Assuming the lead is thick enough, it will not stop neutron emitters. Concrete is better suited for the job as the water contained in it slows the neutrons enough to be stopped. It’s why we use lead lined concrete while doing calibrations in my profession. Concrete alone would not shield enough because we are dealing with Cs137 and AmBe241 that emit different radiation
@@DudokX Actually yes, water is a very good form of shielding. You can safely swim in a reactor pool so long as you don’t dive down close to the sources. A water jacket with a lead lined case would work exceptionally well at blocking radiation, and potentially any useful radio signals 🤣
Honestly would have never thought about lead poisoning working with lead. Its so common in the uk, you just go to your local builders merchants & buy it. A lot of church roofs use to be made from lead, they only stopped because people would steal the roof to weigh it in
It's not *that* dangerous in solid form, like most industrial materials and chemicals are going to be harmful if you ingest or inhale them, the only thing unique about lead was that it was so prevalent in materials that would commonly be ingested, either directly (water pipes) or indirectly (paint flakes through dust)
yeah look how little was required for linus to handle this, realistically as long as it isn't some process that makes it into airborne dust particles, it has a VERY low chance to harm you. unlike something like asbestos that would just let off particulates even by existing so its banned and you gotta use the full hazmat when handling it. a lot of our life to life also has some lead in it, even if we weren't an industrialized species, its just how prevalent it was in things that would decay and mix with our common life that was eventually decided to just, stop using it so much.
@@TheStatisticalPizza Lead naturally forms microparticles that contaminate the environment. Environmental contaminants can cause lead compounds to form which are soluble in water. Lead is completely unsafe for use in any exposed fashion. Asbestos is completely safe when used in compacted, sealed forms that aren't exposed to the environment. The problem with asbestos is a lot of the insulation is fluffed up meaning it's always giving off small particles.
For context of the radiation in the Lumafield looked like it showed over 3280µSv/h, or 3.28 mSv/h. According to XKCD's handy dandy radiation chart, the average background radiation you receive in the course of a year is around 4mSv, so an hour in there is about 300 days worth of background radiation. It's also equivalent to over 82 flights from NY to LA, 657 dental x-rays, 164 chest x-rays or about 2 head CT-scans. Edit: May have been wrong thinking it said mSv/h at first, which would be a lot deadlier. 2Sv (2000mSv) is "Severe radiation poisoning, in some cases fatal". and 4Sv is "Usually fatal radiation poisoning, survival occasionally possible with prompt treatment".
I might be crazy, but to me the read out looks a lot closer microSv (idk how to do the fancy u character), not mSv, which if true changes this from "oh you could/would be dead in an hour of continuous exposure" to "eh, don't live in there." I'm not familiar with CA specifically, but legal issues of owning something pushing 3.3Sv and .0033Sv I would assume are DRASTICALLY different as well.
Also the bottom display looks to be in mR/h which is what I'm normally using anyways, and if it is, it wouldn't be reading just over 320 if the other reading is 3280mSv, it would be 328000
@@mortontony1 You may be right, that looks like mR/h which aren't exacty 10% of µSv/h but close enough, and would definitely be a lot more if that read mSv/h and not µSv/h. I'll edit my initial comment. A shame as that'll probably un-pin it, but I'd rather not be pinned as being wrong XD
@@Efreeti Honestly I think your comment should be extra-pinned because of it, not un-pinned. There's an insane amount of fear behind this kind of stuff when there really doesn't need to be. It's scary that it's invisible and will kill you, but so is heat, cold, electricity, and gas but everyone accepts them because they've been normalized. They just need to be respected for the forces that they are. I work in the industry and I'd 100% rather sit in their machine for an hour over hanging out while they're dealing with the lead stuff.
@@mortontony1 That's fair! I think a pinned comment needs to be re-pinned after an edit though, that's why. Makes sense when you think about it, I could have gotten pinned then edited in an advertisement, or plea for people to donate to help me out financially or something like that XD
I'm speachless at the level of precautions you guys took. I remember from childhood lead was used in fishing a lot to hold the bait down. Everyone handled it without a second thought. It was also used for wheel weights and thats when i first held it and was surprised by the weight. My neighbour, an 80 year old is still using lead for his fishing gear and he readily drills it to hook it to a line. Lead is definitely bad but that safety manuscript treats it like it's nuclear fuel.
I am fuming that they believed they needed that protection, and told others that they were correct at all rather than being overly safe because youtube snowflakeyness metallic lead that isn't inserted into the body(which large hunks on skin briefly simply won't happen in detectable amounts) is 100% safe
@@johnthefactfddict3281 having seen the sort of stupidity people copy on youtube and others. id rather them copy overprotectiveness than carelessness. you can always tone down protective gear with experience. you cant cure lead damage.
I like how you guys explained all of the harmful effects of lead poisoning and are acting like the solid chunk of lead is the dangerous bit, while also not wearing anything to protect you from inhaling the ACTUALLY dangerous lead dust.....
Yeah, crazy. The only real danger here was the lead oxide that was already on the surface of it. Unless they were planning on snacking on the lead during break time.
They shouldn't presume what the manufacturer did you get them the product. They could have lead dust all over that thing before they wrapped it up and delivered it...
Genuinely loved see how you put it together, I knew lead was malleable but i thought it was malleable "compared to other metal" not a "you can just unroll a sheet of it with your bare hands" kind of way
Radiation is also a great concern in space flight. I wrote my bachelor thesis on mitigation techniques for radiation effects on electronics. Its such a complex topics. So many different things affect the sensitivity to radiation. Great you made a video on this topic, even though it barely scratched the surface. Still definitely a funny clip.
18:40 the fact that people don't close side panels before booting the computer because it's bad luck but these guys wore hazmat suits, encased the system in lead and nailed it shut before ever booting it is just so damn funny
The range that I frequent has a pretty modern ventilation system, pulling the air away from the shooter down the range also has sensors that if the particulars in the air get over a certain threshold, we need to evacuate the range till it resets
So can you not just buy lead rolls in Canada? This is what we use in the UK to seal the gap where the roof meets the wall and the wall is taller than the roof. You can buy it in any construction shop here.
Yeah, constant exposure to lead dust and you might be unlucky, but if your just cutting or drilling it, and not sanding or gritting it, then you’re totally fine so long as you wash your hands - I have some of my dads old solid lead starwars medallions from the 80’s - the kind of toy you would imagine a kid putting bite marks in, now that is dangerous!
Tin snip's handles come in three colors, red, green, and yellow. The colors actually mean something, they're related to if you want to do a left hand curve, a straight cut, or a right hand curve. And also the way you hold the snips in your hands matter (there is indeed a correct up-side, and incorrect opposite way). Yellow handled ones would've been the correct choice here, for making straight cuts.
they didn't even need to be that careful, the lead was certainly not in an absorbable form and the exposure was so limited as to be undetectable, any dust they were exposed too without respirative gear and any lingering dust for more than a few hours on skin would be the only real danger
you could wrap yourself naked in a lead blanket and be fine. Its nowhere near as absorbable as they seem to think. Heck look up lead flashing, you can go into a DIY shop and buy it yourself. They went massive OTT.
@@_Billy exactly, low skin absorption risk sure given that they were beating on it the small amounts of lead-oxide dust would have required a mask, but probably a surgical mask alone with a cleanup of the room and tools with nothing more than a wet cloth would have been safe have they never heard of people casting and loading their own ammunition? these types handle custom melted lead from blocks to bullets what about those videos of extractions from car batteries? those guys use a cast iron pan to make lead muffins for later use and finally nile-red, that guy used lead-oxide specifically for a reaction, his PPE? a simple mask and vent hood most lead that is in metallic form is about the safest "toxic" material you can get just don't let the lead reach the inside of your body and you are safe, the toxic chemicals required to make it absorb through skin are way more dangerous than the lead itself in fact literally 100% of all lead poisoning is non-metallic or non-touch contamination(ie dissolved in something consumed or inhaled dust) I feel like I should take a lead brick with me to them and make them think it is steel or something, then pull the rug and tell them it was lead, and that they are no more poisoned than they would be if it was steel
One important safety note: lead is not effective for all types of radiation and can actually make things much worse if you don't know what type of rads you're trying to shield. For example, radiation from very high energy electrons (Beta radiation) hitting lead will create Bremsstrahlung, which is a type of radiation that is much more dangerous to us than the original beta radiation. Additionally, it can give a false sense of safety when dealing with neutron radiation, as it doesn't do much against that form.
@@JorgenKremer correct, and you can take extreme doses before alpha radiation gets dangerous to humans, but I admittedly have no clue what it does to electronics. Edit: oh I now see why you started about alpha radiation haha. In my original comment I wanted to type Neutron radiation, but somehow I ended up typing Alpha radiation. I probably read the word "alpha" somewhere while typing that.
@@wtfdingesif the alpha gets into your body it's actually way worse than gamma or beta since it has a lot more energy. As long as it's outside a few inches of air will stop any amount
I met a guy that worked for the printing press when it was still lead based. He still has lead in his blood to this day. Also has some marks around his arms (mostly hands) that almost look like smudged dot tattoos. His wife said they used to be much bigger. He said at one point (~80s) he got studied because of the high levels (and him still being alive).
I’m genuinely concerned for Linus because he didn’t wrap the computer in the plastic better when he was weighing it I pretty sure I saw his arm touch the lead At 17:14
6:10 When I was in boot camp (US Navy), we used a special copper alloy for the bullets in our weapon training. There was so much lead in the air that the *families* of the staff were getting sick.
probably because of prolonged handling in hot places where sweat would cause accelerated absorption above detectable minimums the exposure for making a single PC case and then rare shifting it around would not have any effect on a human, just don't let the cat near it because rubbing and sleeping on it and maybe licking it could be common
Actualy in Chornobyl radiation levels is fine. But in Pripiat it is quite high. Once i taken photo of inside the scoop, which was used to clear reactors roof after disaster. My phone was completely fine with it)
2:45 what worries me more than the number on the Geiger counter is the visible grey dots on the screen caused by the radiation interference with the camera
@@Sirfrancior you say that as if glass has amazing radiation shielding properties. While there is specialized glass that has some, it's nowhere near as good as a solid plate of lead.
7:00 I have to suit up at work to handle acid. Doubling up on gloves is a good idea like you did but cut a thumb hole in the suit then put the 2nd pair of gloves on. This keeps your wrists covered and keeps debris from going down into your suit and off your arms.
Thank you, editor, for the disclaimer on Linus. Watching him hammer a nail on his lap was making parts of me clench that I don't think I can mention in the RUclips comments section.
@@fygodxy And TIL that it boils down to a difference in Ukranian v. Russian transliteration. Chernobyl - with an E - is the Russian version, while Chornobyl - with an O - is Ukranian. As of the date of the incident, the power plant was under Russian control, so to my knowledge it's still the ChErnobyl exclusion zone... but since Ukraine gained independence five years after the incident, the town the exclusion zone is within is known as ChOrnobyl. Which makes the spelling in the video technically correct. The best kind of correct.
@@sctjkc01 common misconception to state that "ussr === russia". modern russia wants everybody to think that. but no it is not true. Ukrainian Chornobyl never was under "russian" control. it was under ussr control. russia was just a part of ussr. yes big one but it was just a part.
It kinda looked like for a frame at 17:14 that Linus’s skin touched the lead, not entirely sure, but it seemed there was no plastic covering where he had his arm
solid lead isn't particularly hazardous until you ingest or inhale it. if it was organic lead (like tetraethyl lead) you'd have actual reason for concern.
It's good to be concerned about it, but most of the hazard warning they gave at the start of the video is legal / regulatory. The worst place to get lead is on your mucous membranes. That's why when you get it on your hands and then touch your face, eyes, nose or lips, you should start to get concerned. If it did touch his arm and then washed off with hot water soon after, he likely didn't receive and noticeable amount of lead.
The fun thing about lead is that it, other than stopping radiation, is really not necessary anywhere anymore. Used to be common to use lead around windows and roofs (especially flat roofs) but there are replacements for that now that work even better AND are cheaper
Good news: Didn't die of radiation poisoning
Bad news: Died of lead poisoning
Good news: Didn't die of radiation poisoning
Bad news: Died of bad game development
Beat me to it :D
you can only die from it if you eat it
@@Crimin4L you're the kind of guy to call cyberpunk, fallout 76, no man's sky, jedi survivor, etc bad games in 2024
Ffs, don't lick the lead!
"You don't need birth control when you're wearing 8 condoms. Bring in the lead."
That one's ending in the LTT quotes book.
Legendary!
I don't get it
@@sunbleachedangel I'm not native and i don't understand too
Can someone explain?
That quote is terrible in a factual way. Wearing 8 condoms would INCREASE the necessity of birth control due to the fact of something called FRICTION.
TL;DR / PSA
DON'T USE MORE THAN ONE CONDOM AT A TIME!!!!
Edit:
Inb4 "Lol dude like anyone here would ever need a condom" - comments
@@Tom_Nguyen. Simply put, ECC memory has bits dedicated to identifying if a bit flip (0 swapped with 1) has happened. They compare that process to birth control since it identifies the error AFTER it happens.
Preventing a bit flip by surrounding the pc with excessive amounts of lead is compared to wearing 8 condoms since it prevents the error from happening in the first place.
14:11 "DO NOT HAMMER LEAD CONTAMINATED NAILS TOWARD YOUR GROIN"
What am I gonna do all day now???
Weekend ruined, thanks.
Well excuuUuuuUUuuuuUUSe me for trying to have a good time
Well try and stop me then
I came here to write this. You sir/mam, are a gentleperson and a scholar
Fallout 76 sponsoring a video in 2024 was not on my bingo card
same
They are down bad dawg
What is happening?
Imagine flopping a video game so hard, you're still trying to recover the losses 6 years later.
Probably went out of their way to get the sponsor.
Love how the safety precautions decreased every scene
it never needed to be as much s they started with,, though the dust they were making should have required respirators and a hepa filter in a sealed room, followed by a whipedown of every surface and vacuum of any remaining dust bits
just like real life!
Was way OTT anyway. Roofers use lead flashing all day and dont wear any protection, unless you're licking it you're fine.
@@Rick-vm8blright that's a problem though they should be wearing protection
@@Rick-vm8bl Roofers use a lead that's covered in a protective material like a form of rubber (EPDM). It protects the roofers and more importantly protects the owner of the home drinking any rain water that runs off it.
9:34 "That's a feature, not a bug" that's what Bethesda said.
That's basically their motto at this point
So how did you get lead poisoning? Oh, I was building a radiation proof computer 😂
I love all the PPE except a mask or respirator.
"Dust in the air is bad and this is covered in dust, lemme get my face right down here next to it."
wrong, from breating in the dust from shaping a computer case, not from simply picking up a hunk of metallic lead
Imagine exposing yourself to these amounts of lead and lead oxide over one of the worst products Bethesda has ever made.
@@lostskull7467Buddy, they aren't doing this for a game, they were sponsored, they got money, probably a lot of it.
@@legionof0ne441Who said it is lead dust? After a quick google search there is nothing said about using masks, only that you should use gloves and not touch any of your body parts after exposure and instantly wash your hands after working with it, also about requirements for working with lead that should be provided to employees, there is only face shield mention not a gas mask or something similar.
"there is no safe level of lead exposure"
in 7th or 8th grade (2002-2004), we made homemade lead acid batteries in science class, the teacher went around and put a 1 foot strip of lead foil on everyone's desk
Our teacher just handed us a chunk of asbestos... in 2014
@@mastaw I purchased and installed an asbestos cement exhaust gasket for my car just today.
Yeah I used to play with lead when I was younger, thought the malleability was cool🤦♂️
@@mastawtiger's eye is asbestos. You can buy it in a lot of stores.
@@mastaw Asbestos is not that dangeroues, the dust is.
Fun fact:
The graph of aggravated assault rate (1970 - 2007) follow very closely to the graph of lead in the air (1950- 1990) shifted by 20 years
Correlation doesn't mean causality. The consumption of ice cream also follows the graph of drownings.
Correlation doesn't mean causality, worthless stat.
@@AlTheEngineer it’s a fun fact
This pc would go perfect with my habit of eating uranium!
i play with the demon core on my spare time so its perfect for me too
I ate uranium when I was 15, was a life long dream of mine, it was awesome
@@xtrapnation I had to stop because it’s too calorie dense for my diet
Wow i wanna try
Are gun bullets still made of lead?
PSA for people who got the short end of the stick in SexEd:
More than one condom is actually counterproductive. The friction between them makes them more likely to tear.
But if you had 8...
yeah but the chance of all 8 of them tearing is still less than 1 of them tearing bud
also make sure to get a condom that fits, different brands and sizes may make them prone to slipping off depending on your shape. don't think with your ego here...
Go slow.
works fine with a little thermal paste
16:22 for all the other people in the world - linus is 79.02kg.
@@mrrolandlawrence doing the lord's work 😀
@@ThisHandleIsTakenTooToo thank you. heaven went metric some years ago.
Fully clothed.
@@mrrolandlawrence my 14 year old little brother weight more 😂
For the british, how much is that in stone?
Technically, tungsten is an even better radiation blocker than lead. Prusa is testing a Tungsten filament, might be the next thing you guys try. A tungsten filament 3D printed case.
we thought this was heavy, this guys just introduced the 2 ton PC case
Tungsten metal filled filament?
@@AG3n3ricHuman Imagine how tiny a 1kg spool would be...
So I need a lead suit and a tungsten foil helmet?
Can't put a lot of tungsten in there as there is no way any 3d printer will melt it. Tungsten's melting point is absurdly high compared to just about anything iirc. That's why it was used in lightbulbs.
"May cause infertility" Proceeds to hammer contaminated nail towards his groin... You don't say
Vasectomy at home I guess😂
@@dominic.m.i. he already got a vasectomy a few years back
2nd Vasectomy
@@dominic.m.i.funnily enough he already got a vasectomy
Finalizing his vasectomy
Nuclear engineer here, love the vid idea btw and would love more electronics vs nuclear env vids! Just an unsolicited FYI and maybe a PSA since i love nuclear and maybe we all one day need some knowledge of this stuff
"the important thing is not to stir up dust"
proceeds to slap, spank, hammer, stomp and otherwise stir up dust
exactly, the only real danger for them is lead dust, 0% detectable skin absorption is possible for them otherwise in an air conditioned location ending in a metallic lead pc case with no chemical dissolution
Yeah..no dust masks during the entire construction had me cringing
Nah, they avoided the dust making things such as drilling or cutting with power tools. They should be fine. Lead is very soft - it doesn't start spalling dust just because you hit it with a hammer.
@@Steamrick Lead, like pretty much all metals, oxidizes when exposed to air. Just having the lead sheet in the open without inert gas covering it does create PbO. And that can be stirred up as dust simply by handling it. That's not... a whole lotta - But still lead dust. They should've worn masks to be save. Mucosa is a lot more permeable than skin itself. Protecting yourself from breathing something in should always be your top priority.
Also, neither work gloves nor nitrile gloves do anything against a physical breach - aka getting stabbed by splinters from cutting. They limit the chance a little at best. Nitrile gloves are also only rated save for handling of powders and liquids only with very specific handling times as the materials do diffuse through them, albeit slowly.
The best decision would've been - as safety said - not handling the lead completely.
Bethesda: Hey can you build something cool related to Fallout76?
Linus: Yeah we can wrap a PC in lead sheet!
Hacksmith: We're gonna build real working Power Armor!
xD
Canada over here flexing
@hacksmith love the content! But how long did that take, that sounds like a lot of work!
Keep going James, I watched your full interview with Jon, I just want to say you got this and at the end of the day your mental health is what is most important so whatever decision has to be made to keep you sane, just do it.
@@T15A20 They probably took a lot of parts from other projects, like the ones related to IronMan's armor.
#HumbleBrag 😂
Its disappointing they didn't think to try a few sheets of lead with spacers to make alternating baffles to allow airflow but still allow airflow. Basically the same concept they used with plywood to silence the PC back in early August.
14:10 "DO NOT HAMMER LEAD CONTAMINATED NAILS TOWARD YOUR GROIN"
Darn, I was wanting to try that at home
I get linus isn't exact a role model of safety but my jaw was dropped as he was doing that 😭
@@TheLegendOfLameI was just mindlessly watching, and the message on screen made me consciously shake my head.
Well there goes my plans for the day
This might actually be a new low for Linus in terms of self-endangerement, and that's saying something.
by that time i am pretty sure Dbrand will be still around selling radiation-proof skins and giving sponsors to LTT
For dying his hair with UV reactive glow in the dark pigment
And Linus is just a brain in a tank at the top of some skyscraper like Mr House.
Pip boy skins.
dbrand are robots, right? so very likley they would be fine so long as the EMP waves don't get them.
19:12 That look on both of them and the warning siren was perfect! Thanks for the solid laugh.
Wow, as a chemist, I like that you guys went overboard with protective measures, but when I worked for a major electrical contractor, we had to handle sheets of lead for an x-ray room in a hospital, and there were no special precautions 😂 is that what’s wrong with me? Metallic lead isn’t readily absorbed into your body, but let oxides/salts are, good on Alex pointing that out. You could drill it just fine drills make big chips not powdery dust. Don’t sand it or grind it and you’re fine. As long as you wash your hands after handling it, you’re fine.
@@brentdennard6722 probably not a bad idea to wear some gloves though too! Especially if you have any cuts or scrapes on your hands 👍
@@BritishBoy
Mercury is worse than lead.
@@BritishBoy specially considering that even though they were handling metalic lead, in contact with your skin and SWEAT, it probably wouldn't take long to oxides to start forming
Similar with mercury. You can touch mercury without getting poisoned. Due to maybe little absorbtion through skin I personally would wear gloves, especially for long work duration.
@@limonadenzitrone9976 yep, been watching Cody’s lab do it for years with minimal protection equipment, just mindfulness. If we substitute mindfulness with safety equipment, it costs a whole lot more, and accidents will still happen but they will be worse accidents lol
Medical Physicist here. Great, your computer is protected from photons (not really those are super low energy so it needs to be thicker), but they aren't the problem! The real danger is neutrons! When treating people with pacemakers we really only worry about neutrons messing up their ticker's computers. Lead is a terrible shield for neutrons. You need something with lots of light atoms like water or boronated polyethylene. The boron does a cool neutron capture thing and the polyethelene would be easier to work with. Also, I think y'all have covered why older tech is used on the space station, larger transistors are more difficult for radiation to mess with. Should have used the oldest hardware that could run 76.
So you’re saying I should just build my fallout shelter at the bottom of the ocean?
@@jessiethedude The *middle* of the ocean is the safest because there could be natural radionuclides on the bottom :]
well you cal also use a really hydrogenate material like water or concrete although you would need a massive amount of it
Would mineral oil work? Would mineral oil aquarium PC work well for this?
In general I too thought that safer and more interesting method would be to surround it with water that could be used as a huge coolant reservoir.
Well you could cover it in atleast two meters of water that should block most neutrons and gamma rays
World being nuked: "Hey, PC is still working! But... sh**** only always online games in my library..." :D
oh noooo
This reminds me of my nuclear physics lab safety talk. The part for lead was basically: here are all the bad things about lead. However, it's encased, and the worst thing that could happen is dropping the lead bricks on your foot. But we have to tell you the bad things because of regulations.
Probably the most dangerous thing they did in this video was weighing the computer while holding it. You don't want 45kg/90 lb hitting your feet.
Yeah. He should have those boots with tips of iron.
The problem with your argument, though, is that the lead that they are working with isn't encased. It's straight up raw exposed lead. That it was covered with lead oxide dust, and that there weren't wearing respirators while working with the lead almost left me white knuckled. Then after that I saw that they eventually rolled up their sleeves a little when doing the cutting. That means that they used their lead dust covered hands to push the sleeve up, potentially smearing the lead dust all over their forearms. If i were them i would seriously have done a blood lead test before-hand to get a baseline, and then done another one after the shoot was over to make that there was no increase.
People don't realize how much they touch other things with their hands after handling contaminated stuff. Not having the suits on when they were doing the testing, but the green gloves only, was another "eeek" moment. All they have to do is touch the lead with the gloves, then touch their clothes with the gloves as they hem and haw about things, or touch a bunch of other stuff while wearing the gloves, and whalla! Contamination of everything in the room and increase exposure to everyone who ever handles it afterwards.
If i were the company safety officer I would have been all over everyone involved with the video like white on rice making sure they were fully suited, *with respirators*, every time they worked on, handled, or were in the same room as the stupid thing. Here is hoping for the health of everyone involved! Also, if you don't have a company safety compliance officer you should hire one. If you already have one, and they were aware of the video and didn't do this, fire them and hire one that actually takes your safety as seriously as they should.
Fukushima shouldn't be on that list. Radiation levels outside of the power plant are now tied with the background radiation of London England. Its probably no risk in other locations you listed too.
Outside of a nuclear plant of uranium mine, you're basically going to be fine.
Yeah, my understanding is they've had a lot of issues with people assuming that, and it isn't great to propagate the myth.
Nuclear power plants have very low radiation levels. In fact, the west found out about Chornobyl because nuclear power plant workers had less radiation going out that into the power plant (they get measured for contamination both times).
Many news outlets pulling out from japan and back to their base received more radiation then if they didn't.
Can't talk about other places, but since Karachay is only 6 hours away, I know that it had been used as a place to store nuclear waste between the 1950s and 1980s. The government spent 17bn rub to basically fill it up with stuff years back though, so should be technically safe now, although I'm not sure if you can call it a lake anymore.
@@diegosanchez894 It depends. The Chinese plants leak more radiation yearly to the sea than Fukushima did during the disaster.
I can't believe Linus exploded a nuclear bomb just for an RUclips video.
I love how theyre trying to be safe when handling the lead, but then once it built, they're touching all over it and all over the monitor, desk, equipment
The plastic suit was most likely because of the sheer volume of lead in the sheet, and to be able to safely use tools like a hammer without covering your pants in it. When you're not actively working with it, gloves are sufficient. You may also notice when Linus didn't have gloves on, he was hovering his hands near it and not actually touching it.
When Alex was explaining the dangers of lead, I was already wondering whether this was a smart idea for Linus and Alex to do. Then I got to 14:13 and read: "Do not hammer lead contaminated nails towards your groin."
alex was wrong, lead in metallic form in large chunks is mostly safe, consumption is the issue, any lead that ENTERS the body is bad, a hunk that you rarely handle won't even make a dent over background radiation damage
@@johnthefactfddict3281 I was looking for someone pointing this out. I'm a bricklayer and we still use lead in house roofs during construction regularly. Apart from destroying my back while moving the stuff around, it has never been an issue. Also we cut it with a standard box cutter. Run the blade through a few times and then pull apart with ease. So weird seeing people take all these precautions for a material i handle half naked and bare handed
@@InitialDreadly exactly, like most substances that are "toxic"(radiation is a different beast) the FORM MATTERS
metallic mercury is also fairly safe(as long as you have no open wounds)
that is why the fear over CFL's was stupid, just sweep up the glass and the almost unnoticed mercury will not harm you as it is metallic, though there is a form that means instant death sentence on contact
lead is so similar, people are pushing for ROHS, yet lead is not actually hazardous at all in solder, it actually is more durable and has less toxic flux too, making it safer to work with on electronics
sure you shouldn't use lead solder in plumbing anymore, but for a PCB that probably has less solder than a single fixture in your house(all the elbow and T joints to plumb a sink with dishwasher and icemaker uses probably 10x the lead solder than a single motherboard) it is literally stupid to use non-lead solder as non-lead solder is more brittle and ages poorly
in fact I fixed an old clapper before the age of ROHS and all that was bad was a resistor and the dropper capacitor, found a similar capacitor with the correct rating and one of my spare 1/4w resistors of roughly the right value and it lived
if that had been ROHS certified half the joints would have been cracked by that age, requiringa full reflow of almost everything just to fix it, and most would not have done so and just tossed it
tldr, metallic lead in large chunks=100% safe, lead dust or chemically altered lead=scary
If i've learned one thing from watching LTT for the past 5 years, it's never to leave Alex, Linus and Jake without adult supervision because they are just toddlers in bigger bodies
@@RogueMandoGaming That's why in the speeded-up footage you can see Sebastien and Tynan (once in civies and once suited up) supervising them. Tynan is a member of the Safety Committee and probably the person who was most wary of the safety risks.
2:43 The claim “Over 100 is bad for you” is misleading. For context, background radiation is often 10-50 CPM, while levels above 10,000 CPM (about 100 μSv/h) could be dangerous with prolonged exposure. Risk depends on dose rate, exposure time, and device calibration, not just CPM alone.
Edit: I went down a little bit little rabbit rabbit hole, then researching this added some more information in the comments if anyone’s interested :-)
For those who want a little more detail: The counter in the image shows 502,009 CPM, which converts to ~3,258 µSv/h if we assume X-ray radiation and use a calibration factor of ~0.0065 µSv/h per CPM. For direct exposure to an individual, this means about 15 hours of exposure would result in 50 mSv, which is the maximum recommended short-term dose for occupational exposure. At this level, long-term exposure would be unsafe, as 48 hours would lead to 156 mSv-far above safe limits. While short-term exposure like this isn’t acutely dangerous, repeated or prolonged exposure increases the risk of long-term effects like cancer.
Just to clarify: Guidelines like those from the ICRP set the maximum annual dose at 50 mSv for occupational workers to minimize all forms of risk. However, this isn’t a hard limit where things suddenly become acutely dangerous-it’s a precautionary measure to prevent long-term harm. For direct exposure to an individual, a dose of 50 mSv (e.g., 15 hours at the level in the image) would likely not cause immediate harm, as the body can recover over time. That said, repeated exposures at this level could push risks closer to long-term damage thresholds, so minimizing exposure is always best.
Handling lead sheets like that is still fairly commonplace with plumbers for shower pans in some jurisdictions. You could also achieve equal protection with thicker aluminum or steel
Also melting it to seal cast iron pipes, it is also used in the. Roofing industry , most castles in Europe are covered in it
They are always talking about booting the PC before putting the side panels back on, but forget to boot it before wrapping it with 90lbs of lead. I love this channel.
Lead contamination at a shooting range? Yeah if it dates back two centuries ago. But fun fact, we tested trees on the main highway into Sydney and found massive lead concentrations from car exhaust dating back to the 1970s, so it's definitely still in the environment. Would think places that stored lead acid batteries are the worse places for it.
13:48
Someone please make a meme out of the part where Linus says "memes aside though" while almost hammering a nail into his leg. 😂
A screenshot is the meme
Not to be that guy but lead is only sufficient at stopping certain types of radiation. Assuming the lead is thick enough, it will not stop neutron emitters. Concrete is better suited for the job as the water contained in it slows the neutrons enough to be stopped. It’s why we use lead lined concrete while doing calibrations in my profession. Concrete alone would not shield enough because we are dealing with Cs137 and AmBe241 that emit different radiation
So concrete PC next?
So what you're saying is, part 2 is dunking it top side down into a tub of concrete and letting it solidify
So technically, a lead "tank" around the pc filled with water would be pretty good shielding?
@@DudokX Actually yes, water is a very good form of shielding. You can safely swim in a reactor pool so long as you don’t dive down close to the sources. A water jacket with a lead lined case would work exceptionally well at blocking radiation, and potentially any useful radio signals 🤣
@@SinisterSlay1 Thermal mass would certainly increase. Don’t know how happy a GPU would be if its fans were cemented in place
I love the videos featuring one of alex' crazy builds. The mad scientist energy is strong and it's amazing to watch.
The intro made my ears feel clogged.
@@MyBrokenStuff man
19:00 did you guys use your contaminated gloves on all the peripherals then just rawdog them the next day with bare hands?
Seemingly so. Although it's possible the peripherals were cleaned before the next day.
Only 9 minutes into the video and Linus instantly proves that the double layer gloves thing was a good idea.
Honestly would have never thought about lead poisoning working with lead. Its so common in the uk, you just go to your local builders merchants & buy it. A lot of church roofs use to be made from lead, they only stopped because people would steal the roof to weigh it in
If you didn't use so much lead back then, you may have realized now just how toxic it is.
It's not *that* dangerous in solid form, like most industrial materials and chemicals are going to be harmful if you ingest or inhale them, the only thing unique about lead was that it was so prevalent in materials that would commonly be ingested, either directly (water pipes) or indirectly (paint flakes through dust)
exactly, just don't breathe dust or consume/touch anything that would carry the lead into your body(chemical dissolution or a cup made of lead)
yeah look how little was required for linus to handle this, realistically as long as it isn't some process that makes it into airborne dust particles, it has a VERY low chance to harm you. unlike something like asbestos that would just let off particulates even by existing so its banned and you gotta use the full hazmat when handling it.
a lot of our life to life also has some lead in it, even if we weren't an industrialized species, its just how prevalent it was in things that would decay and mix with our common life that was eventually decided to just, stop using it so much.
@@TheStatisticalPizza Lead naturally forms microparticles that contaminate the environment. Environmental contaminants can cause lead compounds to form which are soluble in water. Lead is completely unsafe for use in any exposed fashion.
Asbestos is completely safe when used in compacted, sealed forms that aren't exposed to the environment. The problem with asbestos is a lot of the insulation is fluffed up meaning it's always giving off small particles.
For context of the radiation in the Lumafield looked like it showed over 3280µSv/h, or 3.28 mSv/h. According to XKCD's handy dandy radiation chart, the average background radiation you receive in the course of a year is around 4mSv, so an hour in there is about 300 days worth of background radiation. It's also equivalent to over 82 flights from NY to LA, 657 dental x-rays, 164 chest x-rays or about 2 head CT-scans.
Edit: May have been wrong thinking it said mSv/h at first, which would be a lot deadlier. 2Sv (2000mSv) is "Severe radiation poisoning, in some cases fatal". and 4Sv is "Usually fatal radiation poisoning, survival occasionally possible with prompt treatment".
I might be crazy, but to me the read out looks a lot closer microSv (idk how to do the fancy u character), not mSv, which if true changes this from "oh you could/would be dead in an hour of continuous exposure" to "eh, don't live in there." I'm not familiar with CA specifically, but legal issues of owning something pushing 3.3Sv and .0033Sv I would assume are DRASTICALLY different as well.
Also the bottom display looks to be in mR/h which is what I'm normally using anyways, and if it is, it wouldn't be reading just over 320 if the other reading is 3280mSv, it would be 328000
@@mortontony1 You may be right, that looks like mR/h which aren't exacty 10% of µSv/h but close enough, and would definitely be a lot more if that read mSv/h and not µSv/h. I'll edit my initial comment. A shame as that'll probably un-pin it, but I'd rather not be pinned as being wrong XD
@@Efreeti Honestly I think your comment should be extra-pinned because of it, not un-pinned. There's an insane amount of fear behind this kind of stuff when there really doesn't need to be. It's scary that it's invisible and will kill you, but so is heat, cold, electricity, and gas but everyone accepts them because they've been normalized. They just need to be respected for the forces that they are. I work in the industry and I'd 100% rather sit in their machine for an hour over hanging out while they're dealing with the lead stuff.
@@mortontony1 That's fair! I think a pinned comment needs to be re-pinned after an edit though, that's why. Makes sense when you think about it, I could have gotten pinned then edited in an advertisement, or plea for people to donate to help me out financially or something like that XD
Videos with Alex are always great. The perfect level of jank
I'm speachless at the level of precautions you guys took. I remember from childhood lead was used in fishing a lot to hold the bait down. Everyone handled it without a second thought. It was also used for wheel weights and thats when i first held it and was surprised by the weight. My neighbour, an 80 year old is still using lead for his fishing gear and he readily drills it to hook it to a line. Lead is definitely bad but that safety manuscript treats it like it's nuclear fuel.
haha i still use them too, a friends dad just bites them when they arent clamping correctly.
They are in Canada what do you expect
cause it isreally rreally bad
I am fuming that they believed they needed that protection, and told others that they were correct at all rather than being overly safe because youtube snowflakeyness
metallic lead that isn't inserted into the body(which large hunks on skin briefly simply won't happen in detectable amounts) is 100% safe
@@johnthefactfddict3281 having seen the sort of stupidity people copy on youtube and others. id rather them copy overprotectiveness than carelessness. you can always tone down protective gear with experience. you cant cure lead damage.
I like how you guys explained all of the harmful effects of lead poisoning and are acting like the solid chunk of lead is the dangerous bit, while also not wearing anything to protect you from inhaling the ACTUALLY dangerous lead dust.....
@@TheMohawkNinja for real
Yeah, crazy. The only real danger here was the lead oxide that was already on the surface of it. Unless they were planning on snacking on the lead during break time.
It's the same as asbestos.... Asbestos is absolutely fine... Until you cut it or break it, people go ape shit when they find it like the devils risen
yep i was like uhm where are the respos
They shouldn't presume what the manufacturer did you get them the product. They could have lead dust all over that thing before they wrapped it up and delivered it...
Linus and Alex being mad scientists are my favorite videos, thanks for the upload!
I love how they wore gloves while using the keyboard the first time and got lead on it. Then, the next day, they just played on it without gloves.
3:21 the one piece is real!
i knew it lol
Genuinely loved see how you put it together, I knew lead was malleable but i thought it was malleable "compared to other metal" not a "you can just unroll a sheet of it with your bare hands" kind of way
"Lead poisoning can. . ."
Remembers when I used to melt lead to make fishing sinkers. No gloves required, just a camp stove, an iron pot, and a mold.
And some of that lead is still with you today...
(Same here -- I didn't fish, but I did handle lead a few times when I was a kid a long time ago.)
I just made a comment about how i used to bite the little lead fishing weights onto the lines when i was younger lol
@@tech-garage1527how the hell else are ya supposed to do it 😂 Thats how I learned!
Same.. LOL.. Still use lead weights for fishing even this week.
@@feralkitty33 Same.. LOL
the bit at 4:13 is WIIILD
Radiation is also a great concern in space flight. I wrote my bachelor thesis on mitigation techniques for radiation effects on electronics. Its such a complex topics. So many different things affect the sensitivity to radiation. Great you made a video on this topic, even though it barely scratched the surface. Still definitely a funny clip.
19:08 *Linus.exe stopped working*
I thing Linus Got the blue screen of death now and needs to be restarted
The Linus was too stunned to speak.
18:40 the fact that people don't close side panels before booting the computer because it's bad luck but these guys wore hazmat suits, encased the system in lead and nailed it shut before ever booting it is just so damn funny
We tested it first! But encasing a PC in lead and hammering unsurprisingly isn't great for reliability.
13:47 that nail heading for the leg if he's not careful :o
14:12 thank god!
The range that I frequent has a pretty modern ventilation system, pulling the air away from the shooter down the range also has sensors that if the particulars in the air get over a certain threshold, we need to evacuate the range till it resets
That's really cool.
So can you not just buy lead rolls in Canada? This is what we use in the UK to seal the gap where the roof meets the wall and the wall is taller than the roof. You can buy it in any construction shop here.
Holy shit
as they were talking about the dangers of lead, i was just here thinking hol up dont we use that as flashing on our roofs? lol
Yeah, constant exposure to lead dust and you might be unlucky, but if your just cutting or drilling it, and not sanding or gritting it, then you’re totally fine so long as you wash your hands - I have some of my dads old solid lead starwars medallions from the 80’s - the kind of toy you would imagine a kid putting bite marks in, now that is dangerous!
I'm pretty sure we use aluminum for that in North America.
@@VitalVampyr Probably zinc most roof flashing has been replaced with zinc rather than lead now
Tin snip's handles come in three colors, red, green, and yellow. The colors actually mean something, they're related to if you want to do a left hand curve, a straight cut, or a right hand curve. And also the way you hold the snips in your hands matter (there is indeed a correct up-side, and incorrect opposite way). Yellow handled ones would've been the correct choice here, for making straight cuts.
my eyes went big when linus started hammering a nail through the lead sheet on his lap
I really need this for my computer. Nuclear Radiation destroyes my pc on a daily basis 😔
where do you live, chernobyl? 😂
Is Bip radioactive?
The Counter is off the charts, this must be where Geiger buried his treasure!
You could also try 3D printing a shield with Prusa's Tungsten filament
Applications like this are exactly what that was designed for
I hope they were cautious of their wrists being exposed. Put on all those gloves and gear and didn't tape up their wrists.
Wearing gloves at the end but touching everything 😂
they didn't even need to be that careful, the lead was certainly not in an absorbable form and the exposure was so limited as to be undetectable, any dust they were exposed too without respirative gear and any lingering dust for more than a few hours on skin would be the only real danger
you could wrap yourself naked in a lead blanket and be fine. Its nowhere near as absorbable as they seem to think. Heck look up lead flashing, you can go into a DIY shop and buy it yourself. They went massive OTT.
@@_Billy exactly, low skin absorption risk
sure given that they were beating on it the small amounts of lead-oxide dust would have required a mask, but probably a surgical mask alone with a cleanup of the room and tools with nothing more than a wet cloth would have been safe
have they never heard of people casting and loading their own ammunition? these types handle custom melted lead from blocks to bullets
what about those videos of extractions from car batteries? those guys use a cast iron pan to make lead muffins for later use
and finally nile-red, that guy used lead-oxide specifically for a reaction, his PPE? a simple mask and vent hood
most lead that is in metallic form is about the safest "toxic" material you can get
just don't let the lead reach the inside of your body and you are safe, the toxic chemicals required to make it absorb through skin are way more dangerous than the lead itself
in fact literally 100% of all lead poisoning is non-metallic or non-touch contamination(ie dissolved in something consumed or inhaled dust)
I feel like I should take a lead brick with me to them and make them think it is steel or something, then pull the rug and tell them it was lead, and that they are no more poisoned than they would be if it was steel
Must say I enjoy videos that feature Alex. Always brings humour with a very large dollop of 200IQ with him.
5:23 Linus looks way too concerned 😂
One important safety note: lead is not effective for all types of radiation and can actually make things much worse if you don't know what type of rads you're trying to shield. For example, radiation from very high energy electrons (Beta radiation) hitting lead will create Bremsstrahlung, which is a type of radiation that is much more dangerous to us than the original beta radiation.
Additionally, it can give a false sense of safety when dealing with neutron radiation, as it doesn't do much against that form.
@@wtfdinges But a sheet of paper can block Alpha radiation. Gamma rays would penetrate this thin sheet of lead easily.
@@JorgenKremer correct, and you can take extreme doses before alpha radiation gets dangerous to humans, but I admittedly have no clue what it does to electronics.
Edit: oh I now see why you started about alpha radiation haha. In my original comment I wanted to type Neutron radiation, but somehow I ended up typing Alpha radiation. I probably read the word "alpha" somewhere while typing that.
@@wtfdingesif the alpha gets into your body it's actually way worse than gamma or beta since it has a lot more energy. As long as it's outside a few inches of air will stop any amount
So you’re saying I should just build a shelter at the bottom of the ocean?
@@jessiethedude Yes, that's way safer
19:11 might be the best moment in LTT history. The juxtaposition of this video vs fixing CPUs.
4:36 you can see the emotional rollercoaster in real time
"You don't need birth control when you're wearing 8 condoms" Now that's a Tech Tip!
its a tip tip
Or you get lead poisoning 🤣
As a 76 player I gotta say I love this sponsorship. Also 76 runs well on my 1660 or 4080
tip...cut Lead with a Stanley knife and a metal ruler to guide it. Do a few runs, perfect straight cut! Love fallout...played them all :D
8:26 I was on the same page. I was thinking there HAS to be a better way to cut the lead, like tin snips. 😂
Probably easier to create a room to store the pc in than cover the whole case.
16:45 Linus nominated to the strongest man competition!
I met a guy that worked for the printing press when it was still lead based. He still has lead in his blood to this day. Also has some marks around his arms (mostly hands) that almost look like smudged dot tattoos. His wife said they used to be much bigger.
He said at one point (~80s) he got studied because of the high levels (and him still being alive).
I’m genuinely concerned for Linus because he didn’t wrap the computer in the plastic better when he was weighing it I pretty sure I saw his arm touch the lead
At 17:14
6:10 When I was in boot camp (US Navy), we used a special copper alloy for the bullets in our weapon training. There was so much lead in the air that the *families* of the staff were getting sick.
probably because of prolonged handling in hot places where sweat would cause accelerated absorption above detectable minimums
the exposure for making a single PC case and then rare shifting it around would not have any effect on a human, just don't let the cat near it because rubbing and sleeping on it and maybe licking it could be common
"Do not hammer lead contaminated nails toward your groin" I laughed out loud
The constantly exposed wrists, and no face mask, while handling the lead has given me enough anxiety to power a small town
This is by far the most irresponsible thing I've ever seen you guys do.
I love it
3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible
"We don't know, the dosimeter fused at 200 roentgen."
Playing 76 since 2021 every single day and also watching LTT every single day. Never expected that combo ❤
Having LTT explain nuclear physics to me, a nuclear engineer, is quite funny.
He's not explaining it to you, he's explaining it to people who don't know anything about radiation (AKA the majority of his audience).
@@awesomeferret oh okay that makes sense now thank you :)
Actualy in Chornobyl radiation levels is fine. But in Pripiat it is quite high. Once i taken photo of inside the scoop, which was used to clear reactors roof after disaster. My phone was completely fine with it)
I exactly know what scoop you are talking about ;-)
How much did you touch while wearing the contaminated gloves?
2:45 what worries me more than the number on the Geiger counter is the visible grey dots on the screen caused by the radiation interference with the camera
@@MarginallyAddicted i dont believe the camera was inside with it
Camera was still exposed because the counter had to have a way to "see" the radiation
@@joshuacheung6518 glass didint exist until 1902:
Mfs before 1902:
@@Sirfrancior you say that as if glass has amazing radiation shielding properties.
While there is specialized glass that has some, it's nowhere near as good as a solid plate of lead.
7:00 I have to suit up at work to handle acid. Doubling up on gloves is a good idea like you did but cut a thumb hole in the suit then put the 2nd pair of gloves on. This keeps your wrists covered and keeps debris from going down into your suit and off your arms.
😱 The lengths you guys go to test durability are absolutely wild. I never thought I'd see the day where a PC is built to survive a nuclear bomb.
Thank you, editor, for the disclaimer on Linus. Watching him hammer a nail on his lap was making parts of me clench that I don't think I can mention in the RUclips comments section.
The Chernobyl PC!
it's Chornobyl. Thanks to the editor for correct spelling 👍
@@fygodxy And TIL that it boils down to a difference in Ukranian v. Russian transliteration. Chernobyl - with an E - is the Russian version, while Chornobyl - with an O - is Ukranian.
As of the date of the incident, the power plant was under Russian control, so to my knowledge it's still the ChErnobyl exclusion zone... but since Ukraine gained independence five years after the incident, the town the exclusion zone is within is known as ChOrnobyl.
Which makes the spelling in the video technically correct. The best kind of correct.
@@sctjkc01 I agree with you. But it was Chernobyl long long before "ʳusia"(ussian Empire/USSR) existed and I hope that it will be Chornobyl for good
@@sctjkc01 common misconception to state that "ussr === russia". modern russia wants everybody to think that. but no it is not true.
Ukrainian Chornobyl never was under "russian" control. it was under ussr control. russia was just a part of ussr. yes big one but it was just a part.
This was actually one of the vest project ideas. Actually really interesting!
As somebody who has given Fallout 76 a second chance earlier this year, I was pleasently suprised. Spent about 300 hours in it this year.
4:20 This his hilarious!
16:51 Linus already got that Dad strength!
THATS WHAT SHE SAID 13:16
Hehhehehehehe
8:45 We all thought he wanted you to cut it by punching as many holes in it as possible...
Your profile pic in small looks like a G80 M3 lol
As a Sheet Metal Worker, watching Linus and Alex attempt to work lead plate was hilarious. Thanks for the laugh today boys, I needed it.
It kinda looked like for a frame at 17:14 that Linus’s skin touched the lead, not entirely sure, but it seemed there was no plastic covering where he had his arm
solid lead isn't particularly hazardous until you ingest or inhale it. if it was organic lead (like tetraethyl lead) you'd have actual reason for concern.
@@Pan_Galactic_Gargle_Blaster oh, thanks for clearing my concern
It's good to be concerned about it, but most of the hazard warning they gave at the start of the video is legal / regulatory. The worst place to get lead is on your mucous membranes. That's why when you get it on your hands and then touch your face, eyes, nose or lips, you should start to get concerned. If it did touch his arm and then washed off with hot water soon after, he likely didn't receive and noticeable amount of lead.
"Do not hammer lead contaminated nails toward your groin"… And now you know… Thanks for an unexpected PSA…
The fun thing about lead is that it, other than stopping radiation, is really not necessary anywhere anymore. Used to be common to use lead around windows and roofs (especially flat roofs) but there are replacements for that now that work even better AND are cheaper
1:04 why is linus using an original star wars storm trooper blaster like one of those hand pointy things you buy at scholastic book fair?
Because why shouldn’t he?
Uh oh, fun police
It probably goes with his bespoke storm trooper armour.