as a chemist and avid hydrogen producer I am mortally horrified xD The small jets of high molarity NaOH comming of that pressure vessel is probably hot and caustic enough to melt through 40 eyeballs and lobotomize you aswell lmao
Ralph and Clive are unknown celebrities to most of the isle of man’s 🇮🇲 population…..glad to say I’m friends with Clive, he’s a very clever guy, and very down to earth….👍🇮🇲
Ah I believe the same poet penned the sequel to your poem as well. “here I sit in this stinky vapor. The jerk before me used all the paper. Boss is coming, mustn’t linger. Lookout a$$hole… here comes the finger.”
Must reply and add Here I sit with cheeks a flexing I just sh$? another Texan. And for the true poets... Here we sit. Bla bla bla... Farted ...those who write on bathroom walls roll their sh-$ In little balls And those who read these words of wit Eat those little balls of sh&$! And to some worldly advise once read in a truck stop outhouse... Please don't throw toothpicks on the floor Did you know that crabs can polevault six feet???? Ta-Da
As a boy I made hydrogen using NaOH in water with scrap aluminum. Nasty reaction, exothermic, and caustic stuff everywhere. Now as an old geezer I wear hearing aids using 312-size zinc-air cells and never thought that those can produce hydrogen….
I work more on the electro-mechanical side of things and didn't even know about the inaccuracy of pressure gauges at their lower limits till you mentioned it. Had to look up Hooke's law. It'd be interesting if you could demo that in a video by having several different ranged gauges on a singe tank, and vary the pressure to show these differences in a direct side by side comparison.
@@diegopicadidot8948 yes a Guage will break from over pressure. Well not so much break as much as they will lose their calibration and will need recalibrated. It depends on the degree of over pressure it is subjected to.
@@erupp5975 you mean removing the needle and place it back at 0 ? :-) The boudon tube will just bend a little and does not springery sprung back again.
@@mauricevandoeselaar it depends on the type of Guage it is. Guage for different mediums have different methods of adjustment. Guage used for measuring gasses usually have adjustment screws on the face and Guage used for liquids usually have a locking knob that can be turned to adjust the needle location. Sometimes its just as simple as opening a vent to release pressure inside the Guage if there is a temperature/pressure variation cause. Any Guage should be checked against a master Guage to verify its functioning correctly. Most can be rebuilt if there is any damaged parts causing bad readings. So don't just throw one away if its out of whack.
Ave knows this but for those who don’t, use a gauge range at 50% target. Ie if your system is around 50 psi, 0-100 psi gauge is required. It measures accurately. 0-20, 80-100 is getting error built in due to a few factors. In other words, don’t use a hydraulic gauge 0-3000 on your well pump. You won’t see a pressure. In enginerding, it’s called 50% full scale accuracy (FSA). If you can’t figure out what range to use for your application, here is a colouring book for Christmas… lol
The full poem, as read in a downtown Vancouver public shitter circa 1977, is as follows: "Here I sit, broken-hearted, Paid a dime and only farted. It was next time I took a chance, Saved my dime - and shit my pants." A truly exquisite work of art.
holy hell, i dont want to go throwing around words like pipe accelerator, but pieces of that plumbing might get going a little too fast if you're not careful. seriously though, please be careful you're the only one what speaks canadian on this platform and none of us can afford to come to the funeral.
i have fond memories of making hydrogen in highschool science class. filling test tubes with calcium carbonate and adding sulfuric acid (the 18 molar kind). one time the stopper blew off and sprayed us with acid. sone clothes were ruined but good times were had by all. this was the 80's so they still let the kids play with acid and chromate compounds.
In the 60's and 70's we played with mercury all the time too. Splash it around and push the puddles back together. Ahh the memories. Never did get a taste for lead paint though.
I have no idea what you just did, but it was very interesting. P.S. Make sure you have a photo ready for publication so, after your demise, we can have our collective itch scratched.
Yeah ever since I seen a buddies eyebrows and eyelashes get singed off in a hydrogen explosion from fast charging lowrider batteries in a non vented trunk I..... Well..... Well I'll let you play with the hydrogen on the other side of my computer
You’ll be driving a car with a pressurised hydrogen tank soon anyway, either for its gas in an ICE car, or as a generator medium in charging EV batteries, probably via some form of turbine
As usual, being a wood elf, I have no f*cking idea what is going on but I will just sit at the back of the class, picking my nose and farting, hoping by the power of osmosis, I get just a little bit smarter.
Never seen a 2 way check valve? Used them many times in O&G wellheads. 2 piece metal float you install in the valve body. Test your equipment from the top, then bleed pressure, screw in to off-seat float and pull it under well pressure.
Used to have fun as a kid with sodium hydroxide (lye) (caustic soda) aluminum and pressure vessels. Aluminum co2 containers worked well, as did fire extinguishers. Still have a couple scars to show for it.
Drano drain cleaner (the granular type) uses aluminum metal and sodium hydroxide. Stick it down a drain and wait for the hydrogen to be evolved. Convenient, all-in-one solution.
Last time I had an Uncle try to teach me something I couldn't sit down for week! Thankfully this a lot less painful and I actually learned something this time.
I used to make cold process soap. When I made the "lye solution" I had to use mostly ice for the water by weight. Kind of a guessing game as to what the end temperature would be. As it reacted it would be a bit exciting and Working outside in the winter helped. Not to mention lye under the fingernail ..Sucked! Vinegar was my best friend doing this.(Yes, I know.. Totally Sketchy) btw.. I used saponification tables and all that for the ratios......
This made me chuckle, in the chemical industry when they pressure "test" valves with nitrogen, they pass (the test) but on a hydrogen line, they pass, out of every single orifice! Hydrogen will find any leak, even through Teflon. The enginerds found this out at my place when they cheaped out and bought the cheapest valves they could. Dealing with 40 bars of h2? Lasted but a week. And when the cheap relief valve lifted, it went off like a cannon, only an inch line but jeeeez. How do you make a team of engineers run like hell? Used their stash of cheap valves during breakdown shutdowns, and had to rethink to tight shut gate valves. Yet the plant the h2 comes from, (outside contractor on site) deals with it at 250 bars doesn't have issues. Cmon guys, operator (me) says ask them what they use, nah, don't listen to that guy, he hasn't got a degree.
I am the man who made a caustic cleaning tank for his electroplating setup, and thought it would be fine to use aluminium to make the shaft for the plastic stirrer. And I've got a degree in chemistry, too. Many faces were palmed (later) that day 😂
@AvE - here's your crude pun for the day: What happens when you put the batteries in backwards in the Energizer bunny? He just keeps coming, and coming, and coming, and coming, and coming...
Due to that fact you are a very intelligent man. I would love to see you do a video on solar vacuum tube collector water heaters. The world needs more intelligent people like you. Keep up the good work.
Before it starts, your face!😂 Love your channel, old timey back when men were men n women proud of it lol, been watching Jay Leno's garage, love his old steam vehicles n he says that lol
When I saw the small scooper tool, my eyes immediately went to the label "lye" (I worked in a lab as a grad student, so I can read). Good plan, I thought, nasty stuff. Next it's being poured nilly willy and shooting around all wet under pressure. When I was 8 and my brother was 10- we made a bomb by cutting open a brick or firecrackers, collecting the powder, and wrapping it in layers of tape and paper. It was the 70s, I grew out of it. You, my friend..... edit: I might have mistaken, think we were 9 and 11. Texas took a year to change us Yankee kids. Thanks for moving us back home, Mom.
I did the same thing with fire crackers, a prescription bottle, and cotton wadding. Threaded a few of the fc fuses together to give me enough time to get away then...BooM. Much fun being a free range kid. 😁
Oh snap, took me a couple seconds at the beginning to realize who you were talking about, I friggin LOVE Ralphe!!!!!!! If you like scotch and whisky I highly recommend!
Could you do a video teaching a young buck like me a thing or two about allen wrenches, specifically the finishes on the steel. I've been looking for big industrial allen wrenches but most only have a black oxide finish, which I find less resistant to corrosion.
I see what you're going for. Two years later we're gonna get a video of you chucking some poor bloke off your zeppelin as you tell the other passengers "NO TICKET".
4:00 That moment four minutes in when the recipe for hydrogen battery 🔋 feels like it's actually the recipe for tactical hydrogen bomb lol. great demonstration thanks
We used to do this as kids, but, not with pipes. We'd put the lye/water in a soda bottle. Put in some Al foil and then put a balloon over the opening. FIll it up, Tie it off and let them float away. Or, touch them with a lighter and hear the bang! Later on in a lab we would use He to find leaks in high vacuum systems. No, not H. We had too many heat sources. Didn't want to see the 'bell jars' explode :)
I absolutely love doing an experiment like this. You never know what you're going to get and sometimes you are pleasantly surprised, even if it is a little risky. But there's still nothing like throwing a few ounces of sodium in water. 😜
as a chemist and avid hydrogen producer I am mortally horrified xD The small jets of high molarity NaOH comming of that pressure vessel is probably hot and caustic enough to melt through 40 eyeballs and lobotomize you aswell lmao
Small children and fools...
@@arduinoversusevil2025 which are you?
@@arduinoversusevil2025 which are you?
@@Linusgump AvE acts the fool, so that we don't have to.
@@gigaherz_ 🤣🤣🤣
This felt an awful lot like learning. I'm always a little nervous when my uncle wants to teach me something.
Didn't walk right for 2 days last time my uncle taught me somethin' 😳🥴😢
Still better than asking you to sit on his lap.
Did YOUR Uncle No Pockets ask YOU to count the change in his pocket too?
Dont worry this is uncle bumblefuck not uncle twizlerdiddler
@@mikemitchell9157 I don't know - the name 'bumblefuck' sounds mighty suspicious to us Brits...
Makes me wonder if there was a moment when the Chernobyl engineers were tapping their gauges thinking “I hope there’s a god damn spring in this thing”
Nyet Blyad Panik!
So much x-ray being emitted, they could likely SEE that.
I believe that is almost exactly what happened..
On this episode of AvE we learn to accidentally make IEDs.
1:50
Ain't nothin like a little bump of sodium hydroxide to give you coke nose faster than coke will.
Underrated comment.
Be looking like Artie Lang in no time!
That's actually horrifying to think about. Ouch!
You lye!
Ralph and Clive are unknown celebrities to most of the isle of man’s 🇮🇲 population…..glad to say I’m friends with Clive, he’s a very clever guy, and very down to earth….👍🇮🇲
Clive is awesome. His was one of the first channels I subscribed to.
@@fuzzybobbles same here !
@@fuzzybobbles my comment inspired Big Clive's jelly baby video
@@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154 Likewise. The beard of knowledge!
You fool! Since we know you it's like we second-hand know Clive!
Ah I believe the same poet penned the sequel to your poem as well.
“here I sit in this stinky vapor. The jerk before me used all the paper.
Boss is coming,
mustn’t linger.
Lookout a$$hole…
here comes the finger.”
Must reply and add
Here I sit with cheeks a flexing
I just sh$? another Texan.
And for the true poets...
Here we sit. Bla bla bla...
Farted ...those who write on bathroom walls roll their sh-$
In little balls
And those who read these words of wit
Eat those little balls of sh&$!
And to some worldly advise once read in a truck stop outhouse...
Please don't throw toothpicks on the floor
Did you know that crabs can polevault six feet????
Ta-Da
OMFG
I learn lots of good stuff on this channel.
Here I sit, all hope departed,
Tried to shit but only farted.
Earlier I took my chance
tried to fart but shat my pants.
This dude is a overloading book of everything interesting.
Most interesting man alive
Make a beer commercial saga out of him!
As a boy I made hydrogen using NaOH in water with scrap aluminum. Nasty reaction, exothermic, and caustic stuff everywhere. Now as an old geezer I wear hearing aids using 312-size zinc-air cells and never thought that those can produce hydrogen….
Oh the joy brought by the appearance of a little green and yellow McMaster Carr baggy!
My personal experience is that whiskey is a check valve for 3-ways.
I work more on the electro-mechanical side of things and didn't even know about the inaccuracy of pressure gauges at their lower limits till you mentioned it. Had to look up Hooke's law.
It'd be interesting if you could demo that in a video by having several different ranged gauges on a singe tank, and vary the pressure to show these differences in a direct side by side comparison.
Pretty much every electro-mechanical gauge is garbage below 20% of full range.
@@diegopicadidot8948 yes a Guage will break from over pressure. Well not so much break as much as they will lose their calibration and will need recalibrated. It depends on the degree of over pressure it is subjected to.
@@erupp5975 you mean removing the needle and place it back at 0 ? :-)
The boudon tube will just bend a little and does not springery sprung back again.
@@mauricevandoeselaar it depends on the type of Guage it is. Guage for different mediums have different methods of adjustment. Guage used for measuring gasses usually have adjustment screws on the face and Guage used for liquids usually have a locking knob that can be turned to adjust the needle location. Sometimes its just as simple as opening a vent to release pressure inside the Guage if there is a temperature/pressure variation cause. Any Guage should be checked against a master Guage to verify its functioning correctly. Most can be rebuilt if there is any damaged parts causing bad readings. So don't just throw one away if its out of whack.
Ave knows this but for those who don’t, use a gauge range at 50% target. Ie if your system is around 50 psi, 0-100 psi gauge is required. It measures accurately. 0-20, 80-100 is getting error built in due to a few factors. In other words, don’t use a hydraulic gauge 0-3000 on your well pump. You won’t see a pressure. In enginerding, it’s called 50% full scale accuracy (FSA). If you can’t figure out what range to use for your application, here is a colouring book for Christmas… lol
Hmm, looking forwards to future hydrogen related bumblefuckery.
Fantastical idea! Lindseed oil sealed cotton Zeplin mit hydrogen boom-boom! Thank you kind masked stranger!
Always enjoy seeing my fave TH-camrs collaborating. But still waiting for the Ave version of BigClives Fanny Flamebeaux video. YAY!!
That is amazing.... and definitely rear puckering. You always come up with some interesting experiments and teach in fascinating ways. Thank you sir!
The full poem, as read in a downtown Vancouver public shitter circa 1977, is as follows:
"Here I sit, broken-hearted,
Paid a dime and only farted.
It was next time I took a chance,
Saved my dime - and shit my pants." A truly exquisite work of art.
Really great to see ya posting stuff again hands down the BEST TH-cam channel PERIOD! Thank you for all the great videos and shirts … and stickers lol
holy hell, i dont want to go throwing around words like pipe accelerator, but pieces of that plumbing might get going a little too fast if you're not careful. seriously though, please be careful you're the only one what speaks canadian on this platform and none of us can afford to come to the funeral.
Uncle B builds batteries after church and few beers
Is there any other way?
i have fond memories of making hydrogen in highschool science class. filling test tubes with calcium carbonate and adding sulfuric acid (the 18 molar kind). one time the stopper blew off and sprayed us with acid. sone clothes were ruined but good times were had by all. this was the 80's so they still let the kids play with acid and chromate compounds.
In the 60's and 70's we played with mercury all the time too. Splash it around and push the puddles back together. Ahh the memories. Never did get a taste for lead paint though.
@@sandersrk i've never understood why kids chewed paint chips (i don't mean babies--they'll chew just about anything). nothing tasty about it.
I have no idea what you just did, but it was very interesting. P.S. Make sure you have a photo ready for publication so, after your demise, we can have our collective itch scratched.
I knew you knew Clive years ago when he proudly displayed his Candinadian Copperous AvE Unisex stimulation hammer.
Yeah ever since I seen a buddies eyebrows and eyelashes get singed off in a hydrogen explosion from fast charging lowrider batteries in a non vented trunk I..... Well..... Well I'll let you play with the hydrogen on the other side of my computer
You don't need any of that stuff anyways just get a little more dust and Perticles in you're eyes till you're eye brows grow back 😂
You’ll be driving a car with a pressurised hydrogen tank soon anyway, either for its gas in an ICE car, or as a generator medium in charging EV batteries, probably via some form of turbine
Every car battery turns into a hydrogen battery if you apply enough current
As usual, being a wood elf, I have no f*cking idea what is going on but I will just sit at the back of the class, picking my nose and farting, hoping by the power of osmosis, I get just a little bit smarter.
Love the testing Ave
Never seen a 2 way check valve? Used them many times in O&G wellheads. 2 piece metal float you install in the valve body. Test your equipment from the top, then bleed pressure, screw in to off-seat float and pull it under well pressure.
Used to have fun as a kid with sodium hydroxide (lye) (caustic soda) aluminum and pressure vessels. Aluminum co2 containers worked well, as did fire extinguishers. Still have a couple scars to show for it.
Drano drain cleaner (the granular type) uses aluminum metal and sodium hydroxide. Stick it down a drain and wait for the hydrogen to be evolved. Convenient, all-in-one solution.
@@tubastuff add some washing liquid, it's like a chain of fire crackers.
@@tubastuff What happens if you mix it with nitric acid?
@@BillyWitchDoctorDotCom Depending on the molarity of the HNO₃, it could be pretty violent. Why on earth would one want to do that?
@@tubastuff clogged shitter ?
Funnels…..who needs ‘em
2:34 nice hiss.
Last time I had an Uncle try to teach me something I couldn't sit down for week! Thankfully this a lot less painful and I actually learned something this time.
Greetings from Reno, Nevada.
I used to make cold process soap. When I made the "lye solution" I had to use mostly ice for the water by weight. Kind of a guessing game as to what the end temperature would be. As it reacted it would be a bit exciting and Working outside in the winter helped. Not to mention lye under the fingernail ..Sucked! Vinegar was my best friend doing this.(Yes, I know.. Totally Sketchy) btw.. I used saponification tables and all that for the ratios......
I genuinely love this man.
Well, I'll be damned! AvE and Big Clive in a hands-across-the-sea kinda thing. Rock on, gentlemen, rock on.
This made me chuckle, in the chemical industry when they pressure "test" valves with nitrogen, they pass (the test) but on a hydrogen line, they pass, out of every single orifice! Hydrogen will find any leak, even through Teflon. The enginerds found this out at my place when they cheaped out and bought the cheapest valves they could. Dealing with 40 bars of h2? Lasted but a week. And when the cheap relief valve lifted, it went off like a cannon, only an inch line but jeeeez. How do you make a team of engineers run like hell? Used their stash of cheap valves during breakdown shutdowns, and had to rethink to tight shut gate valves. Yet the plant the h2 comes from, (outside contractor on site) deals with it at 250 bars doesn't have issues. Cmon guys, operator (me) says ask them what they use, nah, don't listen to that guy, he hasn't got a degree.
Enginerds rarely listen to the operator. You know, guy who stares at the machine long enough that he can diagnose a problem by hearing.
@@sparkythawelder I've worn out my T shart with "I told you so" on it. They just get the Jeremy Clarkson smug face now.
Gonna need the safety squints for this one..
I am the man who made a caustic cleaning tank for his electroplating setup, and thought it would be fine to use aluminium to make the shaft for the plastic stirrer. And I've got a degree in chemistry, too. Many faces were palmed (later) that day 😂
At least it wasn't magnesium.
hindenburg or bust
Is that, a Speak 'n Spell??
@AvE - here's your crude pun for the day:
What happens when you put the batteries in backwards in the Energizer bunny?
He just keeps coming, and coming, and coming, and coming, and coming...
My favourite canuck. Cheers bud
Ooh I think we need a video on a 3 way hydraulic logic gate!
i 2nd that!
Cool. Good luck. 👍
Due to that fact you are a very intelligent man. I would love to see you do a video on solar vacuum tube collector water heaters.
The world needs more intelligent people like you. Keep up the good work.
I've been looking into this lately. Would love to see that. IDK if it's related to his normal content, but it's all random so eh.
What's that adjustable wrench to the right in the video....with the box-end 12-pt. wrench at the handle end? That's cool, never seen one before!
This is the only channel where i actually need CC captions.
Quick question. Making hydraulic fittings braised or silver solder?
Are joints clockwise to tighten in the Canada's?
...or normal like us?
Australia
Before it starts, your face!😂 Love your channel, old timey back when men were men n women proud of it lol, been watching Jay Leno's garage, love his old steam vehicles n he says that lol
When I saw the small scooper tool, my eyes immediately went to the label "lye" (I worked in a lab as a grad student, so I can read). Good plan, I thought, nasty stuff. Next it's being poured nilly willy and shooting around all wet under pressure. When I was 8 and my brother was 10- we made a bomb by cutting open a brick or firecrackers, collecting the powder, and wrapping it in layers of tape and paper. It was the 70s, I grew out of it. You, my friend.....
edit: I might have mistaken, think we were 9 and 11. Texas took a year to change us Yankee kids. Thanks for moving us back home, Mom.
I did the same thing with fire crackers, a prescription bottle, and cotton wadding. Threaded a few of the fc fuses together to give me enough time to get away then...BooM. Much fun being a free range kid. 😁
Ayoye tabarnak 🤣🤣🤣 jadore tes vidio mec 🤙
Non linked but how are them felo screwdrivers holding up after some time in hand?
Use the lye and aluminum to inflate balloons which can be detonated later.
Or pump it into a pressure vessel and use that to win a Darwin award!!
Mix equally with oxygen and use a HV spark in rhe centre to remove any nearby glass.
Tech Ingredients made a great video about this.
Oh snap, took me a couple seconds at the beginning to realize who you were talking about, I friggin LOVE Ralphe!!!!!!! If you like scotch and whisky I highly recommend!
thought it was about to explode
So did I!
Maybe because it was?
Thank you for the entertainment sir!
Love it, keep up the great work
2 minutes and 10 comments, 170 likes, and nearly 600 views, you sir are a legend...
Add a valve and nozzle to make a rocket for the Chickadee Enginerding channel
Ave and Big Clive in the same shop, the possibilities!
Impressive
Does Canaderp have their own version of the ATF? ;)
You should be awarded an honorary PhD in Bumble-Fcukery. Chapeau!
Correction, "batteria".
Since hydrogen isnt as efficent as gasoline, would the accessibility of water make hydro powered mechanics a more viable option?
A hydrogen series full of hydrogen experiments would be awesome 👍😎
Are you ok dude? Miss your vids in my scrolling.
Every video I watch is a life lesson on something with this dude. Just ordered my green grid solely because of AvE.
Could you do a video teaching a young buck like me a thing or two about allen wrenches, specifically the finishes on the steel. I've been looking for big industrial allen wrenches but most only have a black oxide finish, which I find less resistant to corrosion.
Watching you put teflon tape on was painful
AvE and Ralfie in the same video? An interesting idea. 😆👍
Cool video!! Still got the going to church shirt on !!
Safety first.
Next up, cold fusion!
I've missed you so much I've been off the internet since August 2021 just now trying to rebuild my viewing collection and knowledge builders.
@cas curse truth be told I'm probably the worst one here I miss the info so much that as soon as I got back online I've done nothing but binge
Whoa, was that a whole metric poo-ton of sodium hydroxide?
I used potassium hydroxide
I see what you're going for. Two years later we're gonna get a video of you chucking some poor bloke off your zeppelin as you tell the other passengers "NO TICKET".
Heck, I got a pucker factor by watching that... Well, thanks for your sacrifice to science!
well nice knowing you
Green hydrogen at home? Can you do it on a scale large enough safely enough to be useful?
Hey, I remember those screwdrivers! :^)
AvE casually uploads a video of making a pipe bomb.
Opening a McMaster bag makes it Christmas every time
Ralfy is a legend. as are you sir
I like reading the TH-cam transcripts while you talk
4:00 That moment four minutes in when the recipe for hydrogen battery 🔋 feels like it's actually the recipe for tactical hydrogen bomb lol.
great demonstration thanks
Surprised there's not a Liveleak watermark in the top corner of this video.
AvE 3 weeks my guy no new Vijao right after u start playing with pressurized hydrogen. Worries me. Hope all is well!
We used to do this as kids, but, not with pipes. We'd put the lye/water in a soda bottle. Put in some Al foil and then put a balloon over the opening. FIll it up, Tie it off and let them float away. Or, touch them with a lighter and hear the bang!
Later on in a lab we would use He to find leaks in high vacuum systems. No, not H. We had too many heat sources. Didn't want to see the 'bell jars' explode :)
Waiting for your collaboration with James Hoffman
By the end all i could think was, "That's what she said"
huh... never thought i'd hear ralfy mentioned here.
Love the "description"
I absolutely love doing an experiment like this. You never know what you're going to get and sometimes you are pleasantly surprised, even if it is a little risky. But there's still nothing like throwing a few ounces of sodium in water. 😜
I thought the potato vision was back, then realized my internet was slow.
No idea you knew Clive that's cool.
I'm in Australia so just another beater who also watches Clive's channel.
Love ya pops
How is your methane generation...?