Random stuff on my bench.
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- A non standard video. Just a ramble about stuff on my bench before I tidy it up.
The rosin dissolved quickly in the bottle of flux. I'm suddenly realising that it's probably just a bottle of isopropanol with a small chunk or rosin dissolved in it. Now I'm tempted to see what effect different ratios of resin in isopropanol have.
I was a bit reckless with plugging in that rope light without knowing the polarity. Some LEDs don't take reverse polarity at a high voltage very well. The correct approach would have been to examine the LEDs through the tubing and try to work out polarity that way.
The PTC fuses are usually just intended for low voltage. You do get versions for mains voltage, but they often have peak current restrictions. The primary advantage of these devices is that if a fault occurs they will trip, but then reset when power is removed and they cool down.
I have since built my custom audio lead and it works fine.
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Feels like this video is as much a raw view on Clive's desk as it is directly into his brain. It's all over the place. Brilliant ❤️
Is there really any difference between bench/desk and brain?
The flux at the end was the perfect example.
Always comes full circle, but the circle is a tangled, jumbled pile of intelligent side tracks
It's good to know that I'm not the only one with bits and pieces of half a dozen different projects cluttering my bench leaving about three square inches free.
AFAIK RA and RMA fluxes are much more common than type R, which is basically just rosin. The RA and RMA have additional active ingredients that are more corrosive than the rosin.
You, a buffoon: "Hot sandwich"
Me, an intellectual: "THERMOPASTY"
• Heavy flux:
Ideal for tinning wires and heavy de-soldering jobs
60ml of solvent - 6 grams of rosin
• Medium flux
Suited for most applications
60ml of solvent - 4 grams of rosin
• Light flux
Used mostly in drag-soldering:
60ml of solvent - 2 grams of rosin
Now you're telling me? :D When I started soldering I bought a tin of rosin from the same company as in the video and being totally inexperienced decided to make a saturated solution. It's not as thick as honey and it still works, but the smoke is very thick, and it leaves tons of residue.
hey Fred I spotted you :)
@@maicod Hi, I hope you're not stalking me:-)
@@fredflintstone1 LOL I've been following Clive for ages :)
@@maicod HA HA!! yes he is good fun
Yea... 👍 Do some more of these Clive. The Rosin raw materials were of interest, until now I had no idea what it consisted of!
I agree I was intrigued to know that flux is basically pine resin! Did you buy the resin to make your own flux Clive or do you use a proprietary flux pen?
So that's how electric violins work...
So bit the bullet and joined you lot behind the scenes.
Clive I like the idea of post bag videos. 👍🏻
Thought you were going to offer us all a pineapple chunk each😂😂
It does look tasty 😋
Hint: Colophonium is used by all violinists and other string instrument players. When their rosin cake wears off and cracks they often discard pieces which can make a year's supply of flux for me.
Mailbag videos seem to be very popular right now. Sadly, mine would consist of three bits of junk mail for my mother in law, and a gas bill.
I have a storage unit full of fun stuff to disassemble that I have accumulated over the years of working and cruising the surplus stores... Maybe I'll start uploading more often...
@@AlecKristi or if you feel that you need some help in that regard, feel free to send some interesting things you got to our big daddy Clive. Thank you!
Now days I just get bill's and junk mail... LOL
LLAP
@@BrucesWorldofStuff I'm thinking of setting up a zapper trap; I might even call it AdBlock for this reason.
@@jkobain Lol :-D
And this is how it looks like when Father Christmas delivers presents for himself.
Focking 11/11! XD
Great idea Clive “what’s on my bench” videos, it’s interesting to see. Hope this is a regular thing 👍
Love looking at random stuff
Never seen so much MDMA in my life
Lol.
we all wish... disco crystals.
The Ashens of electricians, LOVE IT
Those chunks of Pine resin looked sooo much like Crystalized Ginger, yum, otherwise that bench X 50 = Garage.... :=(
i like that the pink antistatic bags say "pink antistatic bag" on them
Many electronic components are manufactured in UV-free areas which are illuminated with yellow filtered light. Believe me, in such areas, you need to be told which bags are pink!
That is the most absolutely fabulous calculator I have ever seen!
All the better for having 10 digits instead of just 8. Much easier when typing in computations involving uF or uA.
10:50 - "just like the Chinesey ones", sees label on box - "made in China"...
I know with some channels, people complain they don't like the "mailbag" type videos (well, nobody's forcing them to watch, are they?!?), but I quite like them, seeing what people are receiving whether it's fans sending stuff n or stuff they've bought to work on projects, it's a nice little insight into the workings of the creator... :)
We made this type of flux at home with my granddad, probably as an exercise, but the resulting product was of good quality despite very crude processing. We gathered some fresh pine resin and heated it for an hour or so, to let all water evaporate from the resin. Then we skimmed the impurities and poured the resin into metal cans. It looked quite similar to what the seller have sent you. I still have some of it after 30 years.
I remember using the yellow Antex soldering irons in secondary school. That was nearly 20 years ago, but now I'm at college retraining as an electrician, and they've got the Antex ones there too. Brings back memories seeing those again. My go-to iron at home is a Henley Solon which my dad bought in the 1960s. I've got a cheap B&Q one too which is horrible.
My last Electronic Repairman was a gentleman named Louis, who had been fixing radios since about 1934. He REFUSED to deal with anything smaller than "real radios", meaning only full sized tubes and huge capacitors. Gave great advice, too - he told me to run everything at least one hour per month, to keep the capacitors from drying up. Has worked so far (30+ years) - the 1936 Zenith he fixed still has no hum & picks up the BBC with my attic antenna
Interesting about the pine sap being flux. I never would have thought of that!
Thanks Big Clive!
I've just read the label on my vial of liquid flux, and it actually does use IPA as a solvent. Always thought there was simply the other, much safer alcohol.
Oh, and for a good amount of time I was taught to use raw pine resin for soldering, little did I know how it actually works, but you opened my eyes, I'm happier now!
Thanks!
I'm going to rummage about in the remnant pine plantation down the road and scrounge some resin off the trees. Free flux!!!
That rectangle block of resin reminds me of the rosin we use to mantain violin bow strings. Come to think of it, its likely the same thing.
I think it is.
Ooohh, a video called "stuff that's on my bench".
I'll watch that!
Because, it's "random"
Rosin dissolves slowly, give it 24h and you're golden :)
B-but... It's already golden.
@@Kineth1 It'll be golden, but less so :)
I'd be interested in seeing how you build the new light fixture.
Thanks Clive. That did definitely make for an interesting video.👍😊
I applied something that looks very similar to my joint also.
Videos I will always show up for: Clive doing science on food and drink, Clive doing projects, Clive showing us what random crap he has.
That's basically this whole channel, right?
@Joachim Shekelberg it's either somewhere among the random crap he has and Clive himself. Especially when you can see him smiling.
This is the exact content I want from you
Stick a amber LED inside a resin chunk?
6:30 I use that Kalafonia rosin flux for almost 2 years, it works really great in combination with leaded solder, the solder joints are very shiny like a mirror.
After soldering you can remove the flux residue with Isopropanol, but that's only for esthetics, because this rosin flux is a very good isolator.
The bottle is indeed Isopropanol, i have bought out of curiosity the liquid RF800 SMD Flux from the same Polish brand Termopasty , and that bottle smells like Isopropanol.
There's barely any liquid in that flux bottle - Louis Rossmann would use twice that on one job...
Those PTCs were used by Mordaunt Short in the 1980s as "Positec" speaker protection devices. I've just re-capped my MS10 speakers and removed the old PTCs at the same time.
I love those Phoenix terminal blocks. Very robust, dependable, and at a fair price.
I love the colophony, nothing beats colophony, and the smell is just divine!
Oh man, yes, pine rosin is some darn useful stuff! I've used it for troublesome antique radio dial cords that had a tendency to slip when tuning; gives it just enough tackiness to grip the tuning gang, without gumming up anything else.
Now you've made me realise that may have been what they used on belts in old machine shops.
As "random shit on my bench right now" this vid was great. Like a mail unboxing without the boxes. Good to see what other people order on a whim - can save a lot of money and wasted time.
I'e used rosin in IPA for 30 years, you can make a paste by dissolving in just enough IPA at normal Non-BigClive room temp (20 degrees) then allowing to partlly evaporate to concentrate it. Add a bit of concentrated liquid flux to a very tiny bit of Vaseline (yes, of all things) to make a thin paste. If it's concentrated enough the flux will burn off the Vaseline and it doesn't seem to affect the joint.
I was taught this by an old sea dog for soldering to in-service tarnished copper used in more exposed areas on oil rigs.
Clean well (swab repeatedly with plenty of IPA) because leftover flux like this is a absolute f-ing corrosion magnet.
PS: you have a very tidy bench compared to mine
I do wonder what the gel flux is based on.
I always learn the neatest things from each of your videos. I never knew the deal with solid flux or that the liquid stuff as just dissolved in alcohol.
Don't put the pine resin out in a candy dish!😆 It looks so much like candy!
Forbidden Candy
It would last a long while, and not fattening.
right I was thinking "are those bags of candied ginger?" haha
I used to play double bass, and when I got a fresh block of rosin for the bow I always wanted to eat it...
I thought it was candy at first.
I never knew about the solder containing flux, until a few years ago. Back in the days, this resin was the ONLY flux I ever used. Still have it. You can also use aspirin, as flux, but it stings your nose like hell and leaves a dark residue (also kinda eats away at your soldering iron).
Oh, the same resin is used for violin bows (?) to make them slide better on the strings, afaik.
Cheers and thanks for sharing.
I bought that same soldering iron stands to use with my TS-80 iron. (I was tired of just laying i the iron on my desk.) The stand is great for the price. The one catch was that the TS-80 is narrow and would slide down into the metal tube. But squashing the tube in a strategic location fixed that easily. I recommend it highly.
Well, I thought only MY desk looked like that ...
Big Clive Haul videos, truly the first hint that 2021 might just be a better year after all
A very enjoyable 'mailbag' type ramble, I love videos like this.
Soldering iron stand with a built in cheese grater - genius!
Your voice helped me feel better when I felt a little sick today. Thanks
The tree rosin looks like candy in those bags
Your electronics videos are the best man.
"Is this stuff gonna crack and fracture?" It already did, Clive. I did the same to a freshly purchased container of colophony, it did the same thing. It had looked so beautiful before, as one almost golden brown piece of resin; I was rather disappointed to have a cracked piece of colophony now, might put it into the oven and *slowly* heat it up to melt it back together into one piece. Or I might just keep it that way, don't know yet.
Enjoyed that. Cheers.
The small bottle with colophony in alcohol reminds me of my first printed circuits which were drawn directly with a pen or a fine brush onto the copper and etched with any stuff including nitric acid, ammonium per sulfate, iron rich chloride. I was surprised how little resin was needed to protect the copper and it was very practical as the etch resist had not to be removed but served afterwards as soldering flux.
My bench looks like that, all of the time.
But most of the stuff on it is old junk, kept for use in some future project, some day.
I should just throw it all out, to make room for new and exciting things.
But I can't. I love my old junk.
Here, have a hug.
Why don't you just put together a junk box? You get bench space today and your junk is all safe for tomorrow.
@@eDoc2020 no, it's now or never: you _can_ move around *and* remember where you put a thing (every thing) while you're seeing them; while you can't recall where you put it all after moving them into boxes.
Trust me, you'll end up sorting it all, buying a cupboard or/and a lot of boxes, spend several days in a row and find suitable places for every piece of sheet you got, or you'll end up wasting even more time trying to find every stuff you need, every time.
@@jkobain I can't even remember where things are half the time when they're right in front of me. The only sure way to find something is to stop needing it.
@@eDoc2020 lol, I think I see what you're talking about.
The only problem with finding things where you normally put them is someone around who finds a ‚better‘ place for them after a while.
I actually ordered some resin to try the same thing like you. I ordered mine from the Ukraine.
I bought a block of Violin Rosin for cleaning garbage off my soldering iron tips, so worth it. The only time I bought cheap Chinese solder it had synthetic flux, every time it was used it smelled like burnt plastic.
Also I have that same stand, the ceramic holder cracked.
I enjoyed this! you doing one of these now and then might be nice
Seeing those chunks of rosin reminded me of when I worked in the lino' factory in Kirkcaldy. Used to have great metal drums of rosin - like oil barrels - imported from Canada IIRC. Part of the job was smashing open the drums and breaking up the contents (with an axe), weighing batches and tipping it through a hole in the floor into a great cauldron, where it was cooked up (with other ingredients like wood flour, ground cork and oxidised oils) to make the goo ("cement") that bound the other ingredients together to make the old-fashioned Lino. I worked (vac. job) in the "cement hoose" - now long gone.
I'd guess that you ended up covered in resin dust.
Some resin dust - but worse was the stoor used to stop the cement sticking. When a batch was cooked, it was squeezed through rollers to get rid of any lumps, then tipped onto the floor , where it spread out to a thick sheet (about 6' x 9' x 3"). When it had cooled a bit and hardened, we had to cut it into slabs with spades and load it onto a trailer for transport to the next bit of the processing. The floor, the tools an we were all covered in this white stoor (could've been sodium stearate powder?) to stop it sticking to everything. (Buggeration! I could write a book!)
"easier and cheaper to buy more"
Read the specification for the PTC self resetting fuse, you must ensure you don't exceed it's max fault current amps. Also it's resistance increases from new, everytime it trips, up to a maximum specified resistance. I used them to protect output discretes, and servo amplifier using H bridge transistors. It made things output short circuit protected, as the customer like to build wiring harnesses with shorts in them.
Here in the US the nanny's have taken a lot of the lead out of solder A bit ago A friend needed my pick up A man had died and left my buddy is wood working tools I went over and as we were getting them out turns out the guy was a ham operator had a bunch of older tube type equipment I offered to buy it he would get back to me in one box was a old 10 LB roll of solder from the 50s ! good stuff is not rosen core it solid have to use flux but its so much better than the new type .
I love bench stuff and fairy light season
I still love my Antex soldering irons, I have three. Also I always use 60/40 tin/lead cored solder.
For the audio lead thing, wouldn't it be better to buy moulded cables and chop as required - rewireable jacks are always horrible and flimsy
Not if you buy Amphenol ks3p connectors. High quality materials and good strain relief is the key.
The cables in 4 pin Jack plugs are really flimsy. I wanted something beefier. It didn't have to be pretty, so I used a couple of layers of clear heat shrink as a cover.
@@BigClive Aliexpress has 3/4 pole with inbuilt terminal blocks. Last week fixed some '80s Sony DR-S5s which I'm listening through now!
For 3.5mm: Neutrik NYS 231 (for big cables, in the LL varient)
For 6.3 mm: Neutrik NP3-X. Have used Hicon (= Sommer Cable) HI-J63SA04 too, can't comment on long term for those.
@Matt Quinn Yeah, I would be worried about the cable pulling the phone apart more than the connector breaking.
This reminds me of myself when I suddenly receive a bunch of stuff I for who knows what reason decided to order from China.
And it's especially good to have a couple of kits (yes, they tend to call them suites, or even suits!) you can solder in silence when you're tired from the whole world.
Where did you purchase the LED Neon effect tape from? Also love that those antistatic bags are in your colour of choice
@@Okurka. I've watched that video 3 times and still not tired of it, the guy's brilliant.
Loved this show reminds me when I used to buy all things electronic. Nice
I'm 50, and I've been soldering stuff since I was probably ten. I live in the deep south surrounded by pine trees. Today I learn- rosin core solder...
6:32 Cue czech accent: "...and more rosin, as always."
- Off korrs! ©
Love their videos.
Iseeala
I've got a couple of tins of Polish flux made by Thermopasty kicking about somewhere. It's pretty good.
I agree with you Clive the quality of Antex soldering irons today. Not nearly as good as they used to be. The bits are very poor and prone to corrosion, even with light usage. They're not that cheap too!
Soldering iron tips rotting away withing days. I had that experience with 10 pack from china, the one that came with the iron itself lasted me for a year. The cheap 10 pack lasted for 2 months.
But since I upgraded to the T12 iron
I bought my first Antex iron in 1968, and supplemented ( NOT replaced ) it with a new Antex iron last year.
I have that exact soldering iron stand. Just different label on it. It’s a fantastic stand. I use it with a KSGER soldering station. Uses the Hakko style tips. Bought it from Aliexpress for just 60€ or so. Excellent iron.
Ahhhh the "Random shite on my bench" vidya, we've all been waiting for this.
Hopefully there's a follow-up
2. Random shite under the bench
B. All the different types of alcohol about the place
3. What's in those tiny boxes behind you
E...........🤔 I haven't had a drink to drop.
I think that dusk sensor was a replacement part that mates with the base using a twist on twist off action. If you look at the underside surrounding the centre screw you were thinking maybe it was for the metal bracket, you will see three mushroom headed plastic pins which mate and lock into the base.
It's a complete unit. I've since taken it apart and just released the video on Patreon. In summary - very simple inside and actually a nice case for other projects. But not suited to use as is without an additional transparent case.
I also loooove the smell of hitting a block of flux with the iron. But you gotta treat it like you treat solvent based paint. Daily multiple hour exposure to rosin flux is genuinely bad - it has caused asthma in numerous workers in the time before fume extraction.
So i tend to maaaaybe hit the flux block once a month on purpose to enjoy the smell...
Reminds me of when the first thing i did coming home from school was turning on my soldering iron.
"I'm gonna give this a shake off-camera."
;)
those surface mount polyfuses the provide "fusing" for the +5v rail on parking sensor controllers in cars. when the sensors go bad they sometimes short out., cooking these fuses over time. that and they are also used as a last resort over current protection in electric parking brake assembly's for the motor drive. If anyone reading this is into automotive stuff, always pop open a unit and check for polyfuses can save you a fortune.
B&M sell rope lights, but the control box is stupid and doesn’t remember the last setting, and the first setting in the sequence is “epilepsy mode”. Fortunately the control box is so dumb you can cut it off and wire the rope straight to the mains as all it does is switches the string of LEDs on and off using PWM.
I have previously commented about dusk sensors, sold in South Africa under the Majortech brand name. We also get them with those silly little wires. My solution was to join up a long enough lead and seal the joint with (what I call) rubber tape, That stuff survives years and years in the blazing sun, so in the shadowed little spot my connection sits I have not had any problem with water ingress. Rubber tape is really excellent at keeping things dry, we used to use the stuff all the time at Telkom to waterproof overhead and underground cable joints. Some call it self vulcanising tape...
Clive, you can chew the resin for joint pain. It's not toxic.
I made flux from my pine trees in my back yard. It smells the way flux should smell like it use to back in the 70s 80s.
I think the blue and white light is mounted vertically on a pipe, I think the curve in the bracket is a giveaway. It covers the wires from rain
The flux looks yummy.
That colophony stuff is why my lungs are sensitised to rosin cored solders and why I breath out when you are soldering on screen. I still have the same 15 Watt Antex from 40 years ago, granted I don't use it as much as you do. It's had 1 new cord (longer), 3 new elements (including 18Watt upgrade), and endless bits.
I think the dusk sensor is supposed to go on top of a street light pole above the light. In many places double insulation is not required on pole installations because it's considered out of reach. Saw similar dusk sensors in Thailand and China a lot.
We used to use CPC at work. The quality of some of their stuff is dubious at best. They weren't called Cheap Plastic Components for nothing.
Nice! Always good to see a pile of things! One piece of advice on the Pine resin - grind up the resin into piece or into dust. You can use a small coffee grinder or maybe put a chunk into a plastic bag and smash it with a hammer. When you mix it with your alcohol (or some other solvent) it will dissolve better and quicker. I do something similar when dissolving shellac flakes for wood finishing. As for that soldering stand, that appears to be very similar to one I picked up some time ago (ECG Soldering Stand) and did not like. To me that tube seems to be a problem and I ended up not using the stand since, as you noticed, the iron touches and will bleed off heat. Also in my case my iron was longer and would hit the bottom of the stand.
Forgot to include this - here's the link to my crappy review: th-cam.com/video/zNQZk9uYoxQ/w-d-xo.html
I miss Tandy electronics, still going in America under RadioShack, there stuff was quality, makes including Genexia, Archer, Micronta. Then came Maplins, not as good as Tandy. Now we don't have Maplins but still have RS stores, Radio spares, they have been going for years, in some places you can still find an old style electronics shop but there thin on the ground now. It's either use the small shops if you can find them or buy on line. How things have changed since the old days.
Good to see you making flux.
I bought a rosin bag for baseball pitchers and it had enough in it to last a few lifetimes.
I love postbag videos
Sainsbury's are selling a christmas candle with some leds in them that light up instantly when the candle is lit. Might be something to look at
Break up the rosin before you put it in the Isopropyl, it will dissolve quicker. I love my needle bottle of homemade flux. I have that same soldering Iron stand. The first thing I did was pop the holder off and shorten the metal tub so that it didn't come in contact with the tip. I haven't had any issue with it.
I also use (activated) rosin in IPA in a squeeze bottle as flux. It works a treat. The only downside is that the resin residue is a bit tricky to clean off afterwards (ethanol and dish detergent seem to do the trick though). But it's really cheap. You can probably get a life-time supply of flux for like 10 Euro or thereabouts.
Oh, and once you have it mixed up, don't forget to put it in the Sodastream. For science! :p
We also use that rosin for violin bows.
Whenever I dissolve rosin into alcohol, it’s best to use the purest alcohol possible… And you can also put it in a blender first to pulverize it into powder. But still it will take a while to completely dissolve. Sometimes days or weeks especially if you use large chunks. May want to strain it before using it in a squeeze bottle for soldering