The video you did putting the pinball into the block was the very first video of yours that I watched. That's the one that made me subscribe. Thanks for that :)
Thanks. I've taken a lot of heat over the years for using that word. It's as if people didn't already realize that the impossible was, by definition, not possible. I think that well is pretty much dry now, anyhow.
Pockets I am going to do the maxwell house illusion container you have sitting on the bench . I am going to write the word Illusion on tape and apply it to the container but I will let the coffee in just to arouse curiosity maybe when it is empty I will get springy worms lol . Excellent work on explaining the star and doing it.
Can you try to make a hole at the top of the wooden casing so that you can plug it in while its standing up straight. You could then hang it in a shed or workplace.
I've made about forty golf balls in a smaller cage...worked fine. My first attempt at the light bulb with indicated block dimentions and Forstner diameter bit resulted in broken glass all over the floor and cracked block. I have made a second block 3 1/8 x3 1/8 square using a 3 1/4" Forsner bit, wood is poplar, in boiling water 15min. Sides do not bow evenly, bulb goes in some holes but not others, cracking imminet. I'm hoping pocket83 will comment...
Hi! You might be using bulbs that are thinner than what was used for the video. Poplar is certainly comparable to what I used, so I'd guess it's the bulb that's giving you trouble. Maybe try looking around for the super-cheap bulbs at a dollar store.
@@pocket83squared I am using a std LED bulb which seems pretty robust. Changing the block and bit size was done to reduce the interferance (now about 1/8" ) that has to be overcome. My concern is twofold: extreme vice presure required, and sides do not bow evenly. Am I overlooking something?
@@stevewenger7428 Let me offer the easier and more obvious (possible) solution first: Find the correct balance. If you reduce the thickness of the cage enough, eventually the 'pillars' will become flexible. The goal is thus to find the threshold, the tipping point, where you preserve maximum thickness and still get it to go. The trick is to push the materials to their limit. Outside of that, some further refinement? OK, maybe we're not thinking about the grain enough. The best piece of wood for this sort of thing will be one with a straight, uniform grain. Consider that if the pillars of the cage have different properties, they'll of course bend differently under identical stresses/loads. Rather than just applying a constant, uniform force, let's instead assume that we want to be able to control and direct the force that's being applied. In theory, if one pillar starts to bend earlier than does another, it would be possible to even the force out by pressing down on the cage at different rates. Instead of the vice, you might try bar-clamping a large board to your work bench, and then tighten each of its ends appropriately. Such a setup would give you a big vise that has non-parallel jaws. It would even be possible to establish multi-axis, pinpoint control by adding a steel plate and more clamps!
@@pocket83squared Thanks for the suggestion; I've thought of this but wasn't sure how to deal with it. Please explain your steel plate idea.. I'll look for thinner, cheaper light bulbs, but GEN3 attempt will definately incorporate your suggestion with bar clamps. Since I only need to enlarge one opening to insert the bulb, bar clamps with fifferant pressures just might be the answer. The bulb in a block is just too cool to abandon; besides, I have 16 more blocks availabel from the poplar board I sawed to began with (grain runs along the long axis of the bloc).
Do you mean like the helix I was talking about? I've thought about it. A "real" Penrose triangle would make a great video. The parts would be too long to boil, though.
I'd recommend an LED lightbulb. Less likely to break, you can plug it in without worry about the heat, and it'll be at least 20 years before it goes out. You can also get fancy types that look like edison bulbs.
Sure, but I try to space them out. Like, for example, I haven't done a build for a bit, so that's next. And then maybe a toy, and then maybe some math. If I do too much of one, I lose even more interest- at least, that's my working theory- variety with a spritz of unpredictability.
Awesome idea! It'd be cool to make a lamp out of it by drilling a hole in the bottom and providing the power through there. Maybe a LED bulb would be better to avoid the heat damaging the wood.
You should make a video on how to make homemade 3d glasses, I managed to make a very bad prototype using a piece of blue glass from a cup and a smoothed out see-through candy wrapper...
I have only watch 2 of your videos so far this one and the one with the 4 pols in between the 2 pieces of wood with the ring puzzle. Anyways you are a very impressive individual and very talented. I throughly enjoy what you do. I found it smart and funny in the other videos description where you let the trolls have it in the most intelligent manner. Also the codes you flash on the screen for a tenth of a second in each video are probably my favorite thing about these videos. And the reason I am commenting. I hardly even comment but the "don't forget to drink your ovaltine" was freaking epic. Do all your videos have a subliminal code puzzle? Anyways keep up the good work. I wish I could hang out with you and build some stuff with you. You have inspired me to start making some junk in my garage.
That Secret Time frame was fun, but the hard part was getting the viewer stopped on that frame. But really, couldn't you have come up with a more interesting message?
It's going to be a butt to change that lightbulb. I would use an LED one if I was going to make a light (though it would not be as fun as the older bulbs)
The video you did putting the pinball into the block was the very first video of yours that I watched. That's the one that made me subscribe. Thanks for that :)
Same
@@giin97 Same
I missed your videos. Glad to see you back.
Impressed as always. I'm also gald that you still make videos. You deserve better than the youtube trolls.
Hi Doug & Sofia, bit late but we just watched your "live " show, Really enjoyed it, many thanks 😅 UK
I think you may have dialed the wrong number.
Dude so glad you started making videos again I always enjoy them.
Ken
Neat :) I had seen the ball bearing one but using a light bulb elevates it to a whole new level. Thanks for sharing.
Why cant there be more good channels with humour like this one
Dude you are so legit don't stop what you do
Good to see you back pocket!! Well done!
Thanks, but why does everyone keep saying that? I've been out on good behavior for quite awhile now.
+pocket83 been meaning to say it for a few videos now...
Oh! Well, thanks. It's nice to be here!
You always come up with the most unique videos. Thanks again.
Clever title :)
Thanks. I've taken a lot of heat over the years for using that word. It's as if people didn't already realize that the impossible was, by definition, not possible. I think that well is pretty much dry now, anyhow.
+pocket83 i actully read is as impossible
+Arjen Hartink - Me too.
That's awesome!
The video quality has really stepped up recently. Great job as usual!
Pockets I am going to do the maxwell house illusion container you have sitting on the bench . I am going to write the word Illusion on tape and apply it to the container but I will let the coffee in just to arouse curiosity maybe when it is empty I will get springy worms lol . Excellent work on explaining the star and doing it.
Ha. There actually are illusion cubes in that can. But I'm pretty far from releasing that video. Let's just allow the curiosity to build for a bit!
excellent though !
I'm contemplating using your inspirational quote around 7/10 of the way through he video as my senior quote.
Excellent video! I will have to try that.
Do read the descriptidee-do if you do.
Was hoping you would show the actual insertion of the lightbulb in that block
It's very slow going and it takes concentration. I also didn't want to make another one. Videos are lots of work, so corners get cut sometimes. Sorry.
+pocket83 No worries, still a good video and thanks for making it!
excellent video as usual.
I liked the video just because of the inspirational quote in the middle of it.
That golf ball file though... :D
your humor slays me
Cool explanation! took me a while to stop the video in the right spot xD
Can you try to make a hole at the top of the wooden casing so that you can plug it in while its standing up straight. You could then hang it in a shed or workplace.
No other TH-cam channel has made me search for half an hour trying to find 3D glasses that went with a toy I had 10 years ago
This was pretty cool, keep up the good work.
I really liked this video :) I did enjoy it.
Great. I wasn't sure about the _more explain, less build_ format.
sweet
Keep on trucking ! (from France)
I've made about forty golf balls in a smaller cage...worked fine. My first attempt at the light bulb with indicated block dimentions and Forstner diameter bit resulted in broken glass all over the floor and cracked block. I have made a second block 3 1/8 x3 1/8 square using a 3 1/4" Forsner bit, wood is poplar, in boiling water 15min. Sides do not bow evenly, bulb goes in some holes but not others, cracking imminet. I'm hoping pocket83 will comment...
Hi! You might be using bulbs that are thinner than what was used for the video. Poplar is certainly comparable to what I used, so I'd guess it's the bulb that's giving you trouble. Maybe try looking around for the super-cheap bulbs at a dollar store.
@@pocket83squared I am using a std LED bulb which seems pretty robust. Changing the block and bit size was done to reduce the interferance (now about 1/8" ) that has to be overcome. My concern is twofold: extreme vice presure required, and sides do not bow evenly. Am I overlooking something?
@@stevewenger7428 Let me offer the easier and more obvious (possible) solution first: Find the correct balance. If you reduce the thickness of the cage enough, eventually the 'pillars' will become flexible. The goal is thus to find the threshold, the tipping point, where you preserve maximum thickness and still get it to go. The trick is to push the materials to their limit.
Outside of that, some further refinement?
OK, maybe we're not thinking about the grain enough. The best piece of wood for this sort of thing will be one with a straight, uniform grain. Consider that if the pillars of the cage have different properties, they'll of course bend differently under identical stresses/loads. Rather than just applying a constant, uniform force, let's instead assume that we want to be able to control and direct the force that's being applied.
In theory, if one pillar starts to bend earlier than does another, it would be possible to even the force out by pressing down on the cage at different rates. Instead of the vice, you might try bar-clamping a large board to your work bench, and then tighten each of its ends appropriately. Such a setup would give you a big vise that has non-parallel jaws. It would even be possible to establish multi-axis, pinpoint control by adding a steel plate and more clamps!
@@pocket83squared Thanks for the suggestion; I've thought of this but wasn't sure how to deal with it. Please explain your steel plate idea.. I'll look for thinner, cheaper light bulbs, but GEN3 attempt will definately incorporate your suggestion with bar clamps. Since I only need to enlarge one opening to insert the bulb, bar clamps with fifferant pressures just might be the answer. The bulb in a block is just too cool to abandon; besides, I have 16 more blocks availabel from the poplar board I sawed to began with (grain runs along the long axis of the bloc).
Awesome channel
Watching this video fills you with determination....
That quote is definitely my life motto now
*but how do you get it out*
using the techniques you mentioned to morph the word is it possible to recreat an impossible shape a penrose triangle maybe?
Do you mean like the helix I was talking about? I've thought about it. A "real" Penrose triangle would make a great video. The parts would be too long to boil, though.
+pocket83 Well whatever it is, looking forward to your future projrcts!
Nice
I'd recommend an LED lightbulb. Less likely to break, you can plug it in without worry about the heat, and it'll be at least 20 years before it goes out. You can also get fancy types that look like edison bulbs.
Glad to see a new puzzle video! A toy or game for the next one?
Sure, but I try to space them out. Like, for example, I haven't done a build for a bit, so that's next. And then maybe a toy, and then maybe some math. If I do too much of one, I lose even more interest- at least, that's my working theory- variety with a spritz of unpredictability.
I really like your Videos!greetings from germany 😉
really cool stuff... and i knew how the vise was used for the lightbulb trick.. lol.. awesome stuff tho.. your a master with wood i can see..
Goddamn, I already love this channel tbh
WHAT KIND OF WOOD IS THE BEST TO USE ???
illuminating
Amazing channel bro please keep it coming
I love your hidden title cards
Just Great!!!
Awesome idea! It'd be cool to make a lamp out of it by drilling a hole in the bottom and providing the power through there. Maybe a LED bulb would be better to avoid the heat damaging the wood.
Agreed. I still may drill holes in the top and bottom, but I wanted to film this first.
4:35 WHO!! Designed the US mains standard that allows you to, without effort, touch a hot part like that?!?
What type of wood is compatible/necessary for the "bending" requirement?
Haha Thumbs up for that bright idea pun.
2:29 it say's: Nobody cares that you were clever enough to crack this code without using 3D glases. Really?
anybody else saw the code in 2:29?
Ka Cheung Fu Moto z force has an invert colors option. It popped the message out clearly, but nobody cares..
2:30
You should make a video on how to make homemade 3d glasses, I managed to make a very bad prototype using a piece of blue glass from a cup and a smoothed out see-through candy wrapper...
Could you not just use clamps while the bulb is still in boiling water?
Sure. If you like twisting clamps that are submerged in boiling water, which I do not.
how? wow! I never would have thought
Clever product placement
Pretty cool idea ! How did you make the mirror thing on your drill press ?
It's just one of those little convex truck mirrors (you could probably find one for around a buck). I epoxied a magnet to it.
Thank you !
nice Video
I had guessed you used clamps set in ‘spreader mode’ but they probably would have taken too much space.
"Pretty bright idea" that one was great
Nice relaxing videos to watch just before bed.
hehe you're cool fig man
I have only watch 2 of your videos so far this one and the one with the 4 pols in between the 2 pieces of wood with the ring puzzle. Anyways you are a very impressive individual and very talented. I throughly enjoy what you do. I found it smart and funny in the other videos description where you let the trolls have it in the most intelligent manner. Also the codes you flash on the screen for a tenth of a second in each video are probably my favorite thing about these videos. And the reason I am commenting. I hardly even comment but the "don't forget to drink your ovaltine" was freaking epic. Do all your videos have a subliminal code puzzle? Anyways keep up the good work. I wish I could hang out with you and build some stuff with you. You have inspired me to start making some junk in my garage.
You could use one of those "Magic light bulbs" which have batteries inside and light up when you hold the base, but they look like regular lightbulbs
Why don't you just freeze the lightbulb? ;)
Joking aside, I absolutely love the video and the solution! Keep it up!
HEY!
lol. Thanks.
pocket83 you based in America or UK and do you not sell these items
secret time is on 2:29
amazing
I'm going to do this with an egg!
+Savvas Papasavva boil the wood. Insert fresh egg. keep it in fridge. boil all together when hungry. extract boiled egg. nobody will steal your eggs!!
+Cactus! workshop or they could just steal the whole thing and bust the egg open while it's trapped still xD
+Savvas Papasavva boil the egg, insert fresh wood.
+Savvas Papasavva Don't forget to share....I enjoy both of you guys videos because of the calm tone of voice ya'll have. Relaxes me as well. Thanks.
Also with the helix idea, try and put a fluorescent lightbulb in the middle instead. You know the spiraly ones:)
That would be awesome to make a lamp stand with that.
If you put some gels or lamp paper on the sides of the cage, and it'd probably make a neat little lamp.
Nice!
Nice!!
man ur awesome honestly >3 i fell in love with ur vids keep going man
+uchiha sami Thanks!
love the illusion cubes lol
Yes, a new video! :D
What is the boiling point of wood?
In centigrade, it's just potato. That's why Imperial often seems so much more complicated.
+pocket83 Cool, Thanks!Tomato(°F) = Potato(°C) × 1.8 + 32
Arrghh! Stupid conversions!
That Secret Time frame was fun, but the hard part was getting the viewer stopped on that frame. But really, couldn't you have come up with a more interesting message?
macsnafu yea
2:30
It's going to be a butt to change that lightbulb. I would use an LED one if I was going to make a light (though it would not be as fun as the older bulbs)
I suggest to anyone wanting to put a finish on this to try putting the light bulb in a zip lock bag
hmm, with an LED bulb and installing a socket at the bottom that would make a neat lamp
Robert Cornelius thus the point of using a low heat, low powered led bulb. (Well made ones will last a very long time)
3:35 Lol, brilliant
anything is possible!
I do, I do...enjoy.
Or you can put a little water on the wood and wait till it will expend
You should totally turn that into a lamp. Cover the faces with paper and drill a hole in the bottom.
This would be cool with a battery powered LED bulb, too.
did anybody see the secret mess sage?
No one puts Lightbulbs in a cage.. are you crazy?!?
ok your challenge is to give someone that and tell them to change the lightbulb
damm as transitions
Why do you sound so aggressive when you talk! Lol. Good video.
I was proud for myself when I figured it out though :(
just put a light bulb seed in the middle and let it grow, ez
Well a great way to take the light bulb out is to throw it
but I did it without them
the more you know!
Am i the only one hear his voice like Teery in Batman Beyond? It was similar
nooice
i think i hear a slight Pittsburgh accent... yes?
The more you know
I CARE!!!
Lmao that message though
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