Q&A while making prop stuff Part-1
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- Answering questions from the comments on the recent Q&A videos while showcasing the glamorous world of prop-making.
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Wow - 20 wire pairs per bunch, 20 bunches = 400 petals. The assistant who has to stick all 400 petals back on after each show is really going to thank you!!!
"... if I get the new shop I've been looking at, with more space and less stuff to go on fire next to it..."
🤣🤣🤣
Clive I just wanted to say thanks, your soothing, friendly voice helps take my mind off whatever horrors are sure to await me in dream land as I fall asleep.
Even my dog can dream to Clive's voice.
I worked on a few productions, you're right about building props you dont need to be on hand for. 12+ hours of not much, punctuated by short bursts of frenetic activity.
You should checkout 6061 here on YT. Loads of cool projects i alu/welding.
When I have to do repetitive cable work (like making 100 BNC cables) I listen to BigClive videos. The boss can't complain since it is work related.
Clive, your videos are always very interesting and love your wicked humour. Cheers
Would love to see an update to your Soldering 101. How you feel about USB powered irons and maybe some surface mount tips.
All in one vid :)
Keep up the good work chief, you're doing Scotland proud.
I'm pretty happy with the Pinecil. Would love to hear his opinion
Years ago I got poked pretty good by a 277/480v line that was supposed to have been turned off. That was the day I learned the guy working on the wiring should be the guy that verifies the circuit is actually off.
Back in the 70's I worked in a shop that had 120V live test leads hanging on the bench. The "old guy" was always grabbing them and testing the "feel" and also trying to grab other guys if they came in range. Good times!
I've been pondering the issue of the falling petals, and I think the best thing would be to glue the last petal on (just in case the wax wants to melt too early), and use pyro for that last petal, just for dramatic impact.
lol.
Tbh I REALLY don't mind these videos 😃 because you're just kinda chatting with us and doing some projects. It's really fun to just watch you crimping and the like.
Ravioli with brown sauce is the best. I empty the can into a microwave pot, cook for 3 minutes, squeeze in some brown sauce. Job done. Tasty!
I used to work on HV and when I was an apprentice one of my mates was working with an old fitter doing bus bar cleaning. They opened a panel and the fitter looked inside and said “that’s funny I have never seen one of those before” and wiped what turned out to be a bus bar insulator which was still energised. That unfortunately was the end of the fitter. I won’t go into the full details but my mate needed counselling for years. That was over fifty years ago, and I still think of that incident.
That was a very relaxing half hour - thank you - and not one crimp messed up.
Maybe. I hope he tests them all by giving a firm tug on the wire.
So soothing. I listen to you while doing my own boring jobs. I hardly need to see what you are doing. A kind of Big Clive radio show!
Do you know about the BigCliveLive channel?
Adjustable wrench = Metric/Imperial fitsall
or in desperation = Imperial/Metric Nut Rounder
Portuguese call it an English wrench.
Hi Clive, A Ne2 tube was used in the late 70's and early 80's by microwave appliance techs (my Father) as an initial test to see if the oven was powering up the magnetron. They had the neon in a plastic case,, kinda looked like a two pin molex connector , possibly with the legs of the bulb crimped in to hold it in place and then a clear plastic housing around the glass tube. no actual leads or wires protruded. When running the oven, the neon would glow and seemed to pulsate. Just a quick visual to help direct the trouble shooting.
Cheers
You're right that there are a lot of technical people in the furry fandom. We have a LOT of people in software, computer/network engineering, electronics, etc. But really, we have furies from all industries and all walks of life all over the world: military from top brass (navy commander, air force lieutenant colonel) down to privates, police, EMTs, firefighters, blue collar factory grunts, teachers/professors, psychologists, accountants, comedians, musicians, actors, students. You name a profession, there's a furry who does it. I'm a pilot by education but work in pharmaceuticals.
Well said on food - sometimes I think it’s a complete inconvenience that we have to eat.
As BBC outside broadcasts used to say - don’t waste valuable eating time eating. 😂
"Bachelor Chow" needs to be a thing. I don't like having to spend more time dealing with food than it takes to eat it. To me, gathering and preparing it is just a nuisance. I get that some people actually enjoy spending chunks of their day fiddling with food. I'm just not one of them.
There's always Soylent.
@@tim1724 I was an early adopter, but I can't really justify the cost.
I usually do something like a box of macaroni and cheese (or pasta and sauce) with a protein and a vegetable mixed in for my iteration of 'bachelor chow'. It's a one-pot meal that usually gets me 1 serving and two- three meals for leftovers (which refridgerate/freeze nicely, and reheat fairly well in a microwave.) YMMV, of course.
I've a dish I've personally dubbed "bachelor chow". Basically chuck a tin of your favorite "cream of" soup into a saucepan according to package directions, add a packet of instant ramen with seasoning packet, bung it on mid low heat and let it sit until good and goopy or you get bored of doing whatever else you feel like. Decent taste, about a meal's worth of calories, and your day's sodium intake in one go.
@@brianargo4595 "Saucepan?" I have an old pizza box I could sorta fold up... I think my stove uses gas though so that probably wouldn't work very well.
“You got a shock, didn’t you?” Oh that bit was excellent!
A workshop maybe! That would be a joy to behold, even though we would only see your hands and bench most of the time 😄
Your story about the compressor reminds me of an event about 30 years ago; we were building radio cabins for a UOR for the MoD. The cabins were to be powered from 20kVA gensets, but we found they were stalling the generators even with the radio gear switched off. We suspected the transformers on the input of the cabin were causing the problem, so we needed to check the I, V and their phase relationship. I made sure the incoming supply was isolated by unplugging the 32A 3Ph supply; unfortunately there was no lockout facility, so we just coiled up the cable to ensure it was safely disconnected from the mains. I was working in the vault, having just hooked up 3 current probes and just finished connecting the last of the 3 voltage probes to the busbars when I heard the contactors pull in; I nearly shat myself as that's not a sound you want to hear whilst handling the incomer terminals! I subsequently found out that a technician spotted the 63A Commando connector sitting on the floor and decided, without checking, that is should be plugged in and the supply turned on!
A”shifter” - very close to the Swedish name for an adjustable wrench: “skiftnyckel” = shift key.
Yep. We call them shifters too - shifting spanner
The funny thing is that in Dutch they are both called ”bahco” (after the Swedish brand) and/or "engelse sleutel" (= english spanner / wrench )!
The Dutch word ”sleutel” has exactly the same meaning as ”nyckel” has in Swedish, it can either be a key (to open a door/lock) or a spanner / wrench ( the tool) so I thing that ”shift spanner” is a better literal English translation of the Swedish word ”shiftnyckel”.
@@martinmanuel6228 My Papa calls it "That fuckin thing there" like all his tools.
@@Acamperfull and in Denmark they are called ‘svensknøgle’ = Swedish key :)
@@Acamperfull In Germany we call an adjustable wrench an "Engländer" (englishman) too. It is said that this is because you used them mostly for all those weird nuts and bolts found in english/american machines and automobiles.
I love watching you work and talk it is so comforting
Clive, lots of technically inclined people also enjoy making homemade food.
Thanks Clive!
I grew up in West Texas where the wind blew constantly, stirring up the sand and creating lots of static electricity. This was perfect for siblings who liked to rub their feet on the carpet and zap the other on the ear lobe. It is also perfect for building up a charge in big metallic objects like, for instance, a bbq made from a 55-gallon barrel, and if you were to grab the wood covered handle to help pull yourself up so you could stand on something enabling you to reach the window (outside) and open it, nothing would happen. But if you were sneaking into said window after being out late you would need to put your hand on the pit and one on the aluminum window seal in order to hoist yourself in. This happened when I was about 14, my limbs locked, and for a few seconds/minutes(?) I could not move and it scared me. Eventually, it ebbed, and my legs moved so I fell. I still needed to get in, so after a few minutes I made the connection again only it was not scary and was rather pleasurable, the charge continued to wain until nothing could be felt.
As someone who's learning welding at tech school, I would highly recommend going a similar route. If you decide later on that you hate doing it, at least you didn't buy any of the machines...
You'll probably also have a much better idea of what machine you actually should buy if you decide to go on with it. This is particularly important for machines that need gas cylinders, as those are probably going to cost like a BASTARD to get out on the Isle of Mann. They're hazardous cargo, so they're not something you can just hop on the ferry with. (I think this might leave stick welding as the only viable form unless you've got the money for regular hazardous cargo shipments.)
@@evensgrey flux-core in a MIG machine would also avoid gas tanks.
@@EmyrDerfel Looking at the process and requirements, it doesn't look like a good choice for a beginner. You also need to either do it outdoors or in a suitably ventilated shop due to the smoke it tends to produce. I get the impression Clive doesn't really have a lot of space to build a dedicated shop for welding and has a lot of close neighbors who wouldn't appreciate the smoke outdoors. And the Isle of Mann is pretty wet, between a third and a half the days it rains, depending on the time of year. Any sort of arc welding isn't something to do in the rain.
AFAICT, if you want to do home welding, the most versatile type is TIG, which will weld pretty much anything weldable. (Looking around, I discovered that bronze is a metal to be very cautious welding, because a lot of so-called bronze is actually brass, and you really don't want to be welding brass at home.)
I'm looking forward to the next part of this video big Clive
Yes, a shifter! My dad is Scottish, and calls them a shifter :) He worked for Babcock in the nuke power stations there, as a fitter and turner.
Eat what ever you want Clive,everybody else does !..nobody should tell you what to eat !
I made some light sabers for a panto a LOOONG time ago...Locked up in my little inventing room deep in the bowels of the theatre, I used some low voltage cold cathode tubes with inverters powered by 9v batteries, each inverter was housed in a toilet roll tube with a momentary contact switch to turn the circuit on (and a thin insulated wire to the far end of the tube from the inverter)...(goodies had blue tubes, and bad guys had pink ones).the beautiful thing about it was that the inverter wasn't quite powerful enough to light the tubes, so the user had to swipe the tube to start it..it did look really cool when on stage (although the actors had to be extremely careful not to break the tubes.
we managed to last the whole panto season only having broken 3 of the tubes... I miss doing theatrical effects!
“My FIRST major electric shock”. Sorry, but that is just funny. 🤣
One video you should do is a guide about which tools you should get first and differences between them for those who want to get started into fixing electronics.
what a great narration voice, and YES the acoustic pads do help! a lot.
I love that such a technical person went to the effort of writing the comments out long hand.
It's easier to scribble them down and not print out every single question.
Keep up the good work Clive I enjoy your video's and the knowledge that you bring !
Ya, an adjustable wrench seems to be universally known as a Shifter in the UK. I work in the oil industry at the other end of the British Isles from Clive and that's what we call it.
Big Clive upload just as I'm about to start some tedious work in the kitchen? Nice.
Around 5Ghz (ignoring crazy overclocks) has been the basic limit on processors for like 10 years now. Seems they have switched to adding more cores, and making the chips more efficient.
The biggest gains in the last ten years or so have been in a different type of efficiency; that is, more work per clock, instead of less power. Luckily this means it uses less power as well, win win.
Big improvements were made on branch prediction, too. But graphics processing mostly need not to branch, so it runs way faster than common business logic.
We installed an ioniser into the duct of a conference room where i worked, it came with a piece of circuit board with a neon and resistor to test if it was working, and it worked, though this was a commercial unit
I have just bought a double decker plate ioniser and will be doing a vid on it soon, i'll try the neon
SVseeker has done a lot of aluminium welding and he shows what equipment he uses, including a spool gun for the wire
You can easily hold a live wire without problems as long as you are wearing shoes and not touching anything else, wetting the finger may help to feel it, though i don't advise anyone doing it.
When I was an apprentice someone told me a story of when he was an apprentice. Apparently a tradesman would like to have a bit of a joke with new apprentices. He would ask the apprentice to grab a wire and then ask if he felt anything. When the the apprentice said he didn't he'd day "ok then don't touch the other one because that's the live one". He of course knew it would be safe but enjoyed the joke.
Great video as always, well I'm half way through so imma keep watching
These are my favorite video's. Let them come.
Hi Clive, the answer to the solid wire and crimp question is no, you should not use solid wires with crimp terminals.
Typically crimped terminals are designed to have oxygen free environment between cable and terminal. Reason being is for corrosion/fretting/arcing etc.
The exceptions to these are sprung/screw style contacts like poke in/terminal blocks and IDC contacts where they prefer solid core wire.
I'm in the industry and these questions do come up once in a while, generally relating to quality issues!😆
* Obviously a connection is a connection, if you are not expecting the designed performance /reliability from it then fair enough- it 'still works', and could work nearly to spec for a long period, but more variables are involved.
From a commercial perspective; they don't want things to fizzle and blow. You'd want to knuckle down variables and possibly belt and brace approach to connectivity because they're generally 'a low cost' from total cost of product but can be catastrophic if not done right (so many engineers get it wrong! So many engineers/buyers chase the '10% cheaper' and just ends up breaking the product....)
Ratchet crimpers. One time, a guy I was working with decided to close a BNC crimper (the shield ring part) to the tip of his little finger. It became too tight and he couldn't remove it. My workmates and I told him the only way to get it off was to complete the full crimp action. Fair play to him, he did it, and it hurt him, he screamed like a little girl (always funny when a big butch 'roady' does that) Then we showed him the little release lever between the handles. Not sure he will ever forgive us for it, but we all had a great laugh at his expense and I'm fairly sure he was more careful of ratchet crimpers from that moment on.
This is much more fun than watching paint dry. Not very much of course , but some ! 😆😅🤣🙃😊
well, you did make a video about 3-4 years ago about an electrode which so far has been considerd the go-to standard for alien technology as far as probes go :)
Yes, checking that something is not live is quite important, changing a socket at my grans where one socket in the room is connected to a completely different fuse box, the slight tingle told me "this socket is still live!". The separate fuse boxes does have it's advantage (one just does the shower and the kitchen sockets) as you can use one set of sockets to power lighting when working on anything on the other fuse box.
It also allowed me to use a table lamp to check a circuit is dead as I could plug it in to the socket to be replaced to prove that i9t was dead and then plug it into an extension powered by the other fuse box to confirm that the light works and as such I can guarantee the socket is dead.
I have a variac that I had to modify exactly because it popped the breaker due to its inrush current. In a pinch I had a small lightbulb (recovered from a microwave) in series which I had to bypass manually, then I finally decided to make a more permanent modification adding an internal NTC (well spaced from other stuff) which I had actually managed to get as free sample
Does anyone else find the clicking of a ratcheting tool like terminal crimpers soothing? Just me?
I'm so pleased I'm not the only person that hordes calculators and now starting to think that the 5 years of therapy have been a bit of a waste.
That crimping tool works in a similar way to the ''Wurth'' tool used for automotive applications mostly , it curls the tags over in a very similar way . The ''Wurth'' range of connectors is very good , mostly all copper.
when you started talking about food it reminded me of 'Tomorrows world '' donkeys years ago with Raymond Baxter saying how in year xyz we would all be eating space food or just a few high protein or whatever pills . That was much the same as them saying on the same program that C.D's were indestructible . I can do the same as you with food , as long as it stops my stomach complaining i am not fussy , just throw something down there 😂😂
You should try one of those automatic wire strippers for those wires, would go a lot faster
Hi Clive. They sell a brazing (soldering?) stick here (USA) to join aluminum. It works with a propane torch. I tried it and it worked well. I am nobody's welder, but I got good results. I tried it and tried it to failure, and it was very strong, though not quite as strong as the base metal.
I was friends with an old electrician who had to lick his fingers to even feel 120v, could barely feel 220v dry, said 480v started to tingle, and 600 hurt like the dickens!
My worst shock was 480v across phases, standing on wet metal.
I am alive because I had insulating boots on, and the shock was across my knuckles after my thumb slipped off a motor starter overload reset button and I punched the wire lugs.
I also keep my left hand behind my back when open cabineting for just this type of situation lol
Hah Red Dwarf reference in your video, now I've seen it all.
Happy to see that I'm not the only one ! Cheerz Clive ;)
Tools ,,,thanks Big C!
Clive, what a coincidence, I just watched your video on making an array of red LEDs for christmas then you put them in your little bush. Calculators, if you own an old HP RPN calculator, you NEVER EVER, just ... "get rid of it". They are something to be revered, cherished, looked after and if you're like me, you augment your collection with more of them. Even better, get all the user and programming manuals to them and programme modules. My favorite is the HP-48GX. I aim to get more of them .... because.
But do you have the add on disc drive and toaster?...
I would be willing to pay the increased US shipping rate if you were to start your shop up again.
wow i just looked up the shipping it's nuts, 2 kilos is pushing £30 tracked but you might be surprised what people will pay
Clive, it would be cool to see you do videos on pinball/video game repairs..
In relation to the adjustable wrench question, I was wondering if you use a metric or imperial adjustable?
It's metric. It only does millimeters.
@@bigclivedotcom Try to get a "fractional metric" one next time - they can do one tenth of a millimeter in precision and that is close enough for the odd imperial nuts you will come across in daily life. They are slightly more expensive due to the higher precision needed, but I found it worthwhile.
On the other side of the pond: sorry guys, the 1/16th of an inch "high precision" imperial shifters just don't cut it. Try to get a dual- (metric/imperial) or triple-system (metric/imperial/traditional japanese) artisanal hand crafted one from Japan. They are horribly expensive though.
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Get yourself the Whitworth style of nut fucker. Good for everything except nail extraction.
You're right about calculators! I have several!
Anyone ever seen those pocket calculators possibly Casio that have the dot matrix screens versus 7 segment?
The ones if you put in a certain order of digits and operations...
In some cases turn the same sideways once you do this...
Yes I'm referring to the game Easter eggs on a calculator!
It just goes to show the computing power of a single-chip has increased exponentially over the years.
And once inside something you could do so much more than it is already doing!
And no this is not a graphing calculator it's just one with a dot matrix LCD.
As one might call a four banger or four function calculator!
Not an official download myself but I do know 1 or 2
Thanks for answering! 😁
I am also very technically inclined, but also a foodie. I enjoy canned pasta, but I really enjoy cooking elaborate feasts.
Doing well with the crimper Clive ;) I often preload too far by mistake, and then the only way to clear the ratchet is to close and waste the crimp :(
You can unlock it with the little lever between the handles if it's not too tight. I dread to think how many crimps I've done with those tools.
I have the non-ratchet tool (it was much cheaper!) which is fine for these small crimps, though it is slower because it takes two operations for each, but most ratchet types have a release lever somewhere.
I ship lots of electronics kits worldwide from the US. After brexit came into effect, the UK started forcing everyone outside the UK to charge and pay VAT on packages under something like $180. For packages over that the VAT was the responsibility of the buyer. I just stopped shipping orders under that amount to the UK, rather than create an account with the UK tax services, and going through all the shenanigans. It's a bummer.
Your comment makes we wonder if it was partly retaliation.
I did a five year City & Guilds welding course which covered all welding. I specialised in Gas welding but TIG was best.
gentleman's welding as they called it.
some of the really big VFD‘s, motor modules, and speed controllers I see……will have several large in NTC‘s in parallel. They usually have full length leads to help dissipate heat, sometimes with contacts crimped to the end. Either that or attached directly to the screw contacts.
Sometimes I’ll see 2-4 side-by-side in the bigger Siemens and Allen Bradley drives. Not on a circuitboard…. but screwed right to the terminals.
Adjustable wrench = Crescent Hammer.
Love the music in video games.
13:00 Trying to maintain your dignity, nothing! I'm surprised you weren't having trouble maintaining your HEARTBEAT!
21:45 Computers have, for the most part, stopped increasing in cycle speed. We had to because the heat dissipation from driving the gates faster was getting entirely unsupportable. (When you're getting dies emitting heat at a rate comparable to the optical surface of some of the cooler stars, it's time to try something else.) The main way we get more effective computing power these days is mostly to add more processor cores. The computer I'm doing this on has 4 cores, and the newer computer I have has 6, and that was only because I didn't think I could use the really high-core-count processors effectively in the near future. (Currently, AMD lists their highest core count CPUs as having 64 cores, and Intel lists their highest at 72. The AMD CPUs are also listed as having a higher base clock speed, which is actually lower than the clock speed on either of my current computers. IIRC, this has to do with it becoming progressively more difficult to organize the signals on more complex PCUs with more cores as the core count goes up.)
Also each core tries harder and harder to execute multiple instructions at the same time.
@@0x8badf00d I think you have to program the software in a way it uses several cores in parallel. Something like threads and tasks stuff. This leads to a complete other paradigma not all programmers understood well these days xD
@@gunnark9823 No, I'm referring to superscalar processors (which has been a thing since at least the 90's). Each individual core or even individual hardware thread can execute multiple instructions simultaneously.
@@0x8badf00d IIRC, that innovation was the thing that caused the 486's to run so much faster than the 386's. Each stage in the execution pipeline can work on a different instruction, so a lot of the speed disadvantages of a multi-cycle execution pipeline disappeared.. Pentiums added branch prediction so that the more likely execution path would be started down, further optimizing the execution. There are also things like the ability to dynamically decide to execute some instructions out of sequence to further optimize execution speed.
It used to be that the much shorter execution pipelines on RISC chips made them able to perform logically equivalent operations faster than CISC chips could, but superscalar largely did away with that. Even if you build a superscalar RISC chip, the inherent nature of a RISC chip means it gains far less benefit from it than a CISC chip does. You also tend to start losing some of the advantages of RISC designs like lower power consumption if you start trying to add the kind of execution enhancement features used on modern CISC chips, and gain much less performance increase for the extra power and heat dissipation it costs you. For a device like a phone, with a sharply limited battery, lowered power consumption is more important than a modest speed boost. After all, people don't normally try to do intensive things on their phones. (Yes, Nokia came out with software that turned their phones into hand-held consoles. You might have noticed that most hand-held consoles have been fairly marginal systems financially for their creators. The Nokia phone software was the descendant of a catastrophically failed dedicated hardware console. People didn't much bother with NGage on the phones, either. I worked in Nokia's 3rd level device support while NGage was officially available, and nobody ever sent us cases about it. Not even from China, where phones are a much bigger part of the gaming market.)
@@evensgrey amd has a 128 core 256 thread epyc cpu
Please brother, get one of those crimping pliers which take belts of crimps. My old boss had one which saved so much time when working on 0.5q to 2.5q wires.
14:30 an semi-minor addendum to this: most furries do not own a fursuit, myself included, primarily due to the cost, usually in the high hundreds to mid thousands, though some just choose not to. and yes from experience, most other furries i have met are on the spectrum, and usually study and work in a technical industry, or are wanting to rather than their current occupation, and a substantial portion are also part of lgbt+ too, myself included too. this isnt criticism, just more information that you may not have known.
God, hearing Clive talk about furries with such respect, that was bliss for the ears and the soul.
@@jackpijjin4088 yeah it was quite a relief to hear them not just jump straight to usual sexual/fetish parts of it that are so frequently the main talking point whenever furries are mentioned
@@ThePiGuy24 for real though. Furries are no worse than anybody else who dresses up for a convention.
Plus, from what I understand, Clive probably understands about a community being judged by outsiders. (Like when he mentioned Burly nightclub.)
Great video, thank you.
Any chance you'll work on an ebike motor, and discuss why at least some geared ebike motors run more efficiently up hills so that they use less power and run cooler?
Lock out tag out !
But only when needed.
Wow you handwrote all the questions into your notebook!?
They were scattered through the comments.
Yes ,find a weilding college/ shop , and the safety is built into the room , then you can focus on " what is the heat doing " it's cold when you start , a Hassel , and it's easy to under cut when you've been at it 5 mins ,as the metal mass is preheated..so you sit down , turn it up a tad ,weild a3016 for 5 mins ,wind it down a tad or two..oh and when ya stop wiggle it around an make a pool of lava steal..
No idea about the types of crimps used here. But certainly for CAT5 / CAT6 ethernet cables there are different crimp connectors available for solid vs stranded core cables. Apparently the difference is, those intended specifically for stranded have an additional tang that pierces straight down into the core.... right into the centre of the bundle of strands in the core.
Oh the glamour of theatre life, just wondering what wonderful props we will get to repair and make work for this years panto. We have had to repair allsorts of dud props, animatronic goose heads, hydraulic flying horses to floating bodies that refuse to float. Bring it on.
Over here in Melbourne, Australia, we call them shifters too, short for shifting spanner (as the jaw shifts in and out)
The superior aluminium weld:
GTAW/TIG (AC). ARGON SHIELDED. Parts must be oxide free prior to welding.
The guy who taught me welded "Containment" Vessels for long-term hazardous waste disposal. His proof of ABILITY: 24-inch weld; vertical UP; 22 gauge Aluminum. One porosity and you fail. Bead appearance: Stack of "coins", Max/min width: 1/8". Deviate and you fail.
A true ARTIST. His next job was high risk: laying/welding pipe in the Gulf of Mexico, @300 meters. Two weeks bottom time in a habitat. Two weeks off for residual outgassing. Got paid full-time 24/7 full month. He made a fortune in one year, then decided to teach for a living. Slightly LOWER risk factor. LOL
REMEMBER: Lower "lid" BEFORE striking Arc.
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"Shifter" == "Shifting Spanner" - named as such because one of the jaws shifts to fit the nut :)
Yeah welding Al was absolute hell for me. Loud, specialist compared to steel, and I never managed to get the hang of it which resulted in bad welds or fall-through nearly every time. Tricky to weld in small quantities for sure. Larger is slightly more forgiving but takes more power as it is its own heatsink.
We use spanner more than wrench in the UK, set of spanners, adjustable spanner; although I think we call the handle parts of socket sets a wrench and hence a socket wrench! (People of the UK feel free to correct me)
We definitely say spanner in the UK.
Was just working in the mancave, as usual on my little CNC lathe, when my ears picked up the interest in trying Aluminium (and stainless) welding. I was nodding along until you said something like 'welding stainless is easier' while I agree with the base sentiment, I'd add that yes welding aluminium can be harder because of all the things you mentioned, welding stainless can be more time consuming, because of the prep : in a full penetration butt weld, the opposite side to the weld face (the root) has to be shielded from the atmosphere (air) or the weld seam will oxidise and form 'coke' thus rendering the weld either poor quality or in most instances useless. The air has to be either excluded using proprietary pastes and such or replaced using an inert gas shield (using jigs etc) As an ex welding engineer, and having travelled to a few countries to check the production methods of sub contractors, I can honestly say I've seen the worst to the best, certainly in stainless production. Some truly cringe worthy, and some beyond elegant. I've also seen both ends of the spectrum here in the U. K.
And now back to my little CNC and your Q & A... Keep up the excellent work and videos please. To me, you are the Scottish version of Stephen Fry, certainly in the amazing way you explain your projects, interests and life experiences. I never grow tired of listening to either of you.
No I am not suggesting you are gay, before I am trolled.
I am actually gay. But only in the most manly blue collar bear sense. The perils of stainless welding are still to be explored. It's not that long ago I found out about the perils of mixing stainless grades with their pesky cold molecular welding.
I have a great calculator collection, from my GCSE-era graphing calculator, to my 30p Tesco cheapy units and all the way back to some vintage units with an LED-display. But yes, I never intended to start a collection, I just can't bear to part with any of them!
Shipping overseas has gone up loads everywhere since Covid. Europe isnt' too bad, but anywhere further afield has roughly trebled in price, plus the cheaper couriers like Hermes and Landmark aren't sending to many countries.
Best way to ship to the USA is Royal Mail if the parcel is small enough, but still around £15 for tracked
Silicone Heaven sounds like a Vegas strip club.
That flew by. Thx
that Crimping tool looks like mine which is made by Green Lee and far as solid wire yes it works look at the 1970s and 80s TV consoles they used both solid core and stranded with the their connectors !
Robert Murray Smith did some youtube videos with aluminium 'welding' rods he bought on ebay last year... they were actually brazing afaict but that'd probably be good enough for most purposes.
Australia, we use the term 'shifting spanner', or 'shifter'
Weidmuller Stripax 9005 works amazing for stripping large batches of wires; I can confirm it plays well with small gauge solid wire. Saves the wrists over the traditional strippers for situations like this.
well in production i'd use a rotary stripper and a crimp press, have it all done in 10mins. hand tools may take longer, some time later
~11:00 have you considered having an individual (perhaps from Patreon?) in the USA handle your USA orders? I.e. either give them a small inventory, or send *that* individual, say, a week/months worth of orders for them to send out within the domestic postal service. Obviously count in paying that individual for their time, but it wouldn't be a lot of work (in theory), and you could, if sending say, 2 weeks worth of orders to them, then it's understood that it'll take awhile by the person buying it, and they might need to pay a little bit extra, but it'd be nice to get it.
Hah. As a furry, can confirm: there is a furry in every workplace in existence. Mate, I want to commend you for your description of our fandom! That was honestly sorta wholesome in a way, compared to how we’re normally (and inaccurately) portrayed. And yes NASA, teachers, electricians, truck drivers, mechanics and heavy machinery operators,, a furry is there lol.
I blame all the crafting that goes into the...lifestyle? Hobby?
Anyway, yeah, too many furries build the furry stuff to not expect a crossover with the building/crafty type jobs.
A humanoid fetishism can not be that common... unless that isn't what a "furry" is at all? Enlighten us. Plex.
@@MichaelOfRohan Do you know how America has a gun fandom? Furries are like that, but with Zootopia animals.
@@MichaelOfRohan Your first mistake is thinking it's a fetish. Being a furry, a part of the furry fandom, simply means being someone who enjoys and appreciates anthropomorphic cartoon animal characters and the amazing artists behind them, no matter where they're found in cartoons, advertising, literature, and other media. That's what being a furry is in a nutshell: loving to think about the fantasy of "what if animals could walk and talk like us".