It's not often PhDs in inorganic chemistry have a chance to shine, but I'll take what I can get. Here is what is happening: Under normal conditions, there are 3 reactions: Zn+4OH- > Zn(OH)4^2-, + 2e- (Anode) Zn(OH)4^2- > ZnO +H2O +2OH- (electrolyte) 1/2 O2 + H2O +2 e- > 2OH- (Cathode) Total - 2 Zn + O2 > 2ZnO There is always a parasitic reaction pathway which generates hydrogen gas (see below). In order to minimize this, they use construction methods and additives such as mercury amalgam. The parasitic reaction is below: Zn+4OH- > Zn(OH)4^2 + 2e (as above at anode) 2H2O +2e- - H2 +2OH- (side reaction) Total = Zn +2H2O > Zn(OH)2 + H2 (hydrogen generating reaction) Under normal operation, oxygen is present, allowing the top cathode reaction to proceed, where the overall reaction involves the oxidation of Zinc by oxygen to produce Zinc Oxide. Without oxygen, the reaction will proceed without the Cathode reaction, resulting in the oxidation of Zinc by water (under basic conditions), producing Hydrogen gas and Zinc(+2) hydroxide. These are competing pathways, removing the oxygen forces the Zn to prefer the parasitic reaction that generates hydrogen gas. The source of the hydrogen gas is the half cell of the oxidation of zinc, and reduction of water to produce hydrogen. This explains why no oxygen is being generated.
Did anyone notice the old Speak and Spell casually laying on top of the dead string trimmer carcass? Now we know the secret to AVE's astoundingly diverse vocabulary!
Amazing... It Verks! The Murphy's law on projects is that if you WANT it to chooch it WON'T excepting in the case when you're not expecting it to work, then it will... and depending on the potential for damage the greater the chooch factor it has. Best not to ask how one knows these things, we'll never admit it anyways.
As we get older we don't like change, we want continuity and familiar things. I have been watching for years with barely a clue what is going on. I have even studied electronics to try to keep up with from the back of the class. As usual, I haven't a clue what is going on, ( I barely understood the language) but I enjoyed every minute. Continuity, perfect.
I went searching for a device for my sandblaster cabinet so I could get the blast media knocked down in the hopper. My internet history of the search for an vibrator still stalks me. You would have thought adding descriptors like industrial, pneumatic, heavy duty, powerful, etc... would have help me, but I think that just made it worse.
the google, and derivative, search engines have been "optimized" beyond any esoteric usage. used to be able to find any bit of obscure knowledge with correct terms and modifiers, but now the best luck is adding "reddit" to the end of a search term, google has helpfully started auto adding that when I click back into the search bar after glancing at the initial results.
You will sometimes see a familar much chooched hammer in the background of Big Clives videos, a present from a wisend old man with too many tools and not enough time.
Just wanna mention how much I appreciate you turning down the audio for the power tools. Generally I only enjoy the decibels when I'm actually earning a living with them.
I received a baby knipex myself when I worked solar for a summer, and they are indeed the bees knees. They replaced my felco number 8s as my primary side arm.
One day my kids will inherit my Knipex pliers. Maybe a bit dirty, but I doubt they will show any signs of wear. The baby size are perfect. They can fit in the pocket all day and get stuff loose they have no business doing at that size.
@@arduinoversusevil2025 as simple as a pink hammer. But, since it's ephemeralized to the minimum and so weasel-and-fox-had-offspring-smart enginerded... Can it be refilled and reused? I wonder how the mystery unfolds
The pipe is just warming up and causing internal expansion - for the grease to come out that fast. No doubt over time the cell will push it out, albeit a LOT slower.
Seems that TH-cam is very touchy about mentioning those devices that have a long hole at the business end, and are used to intimidate, infirm, or unalive different things.
Thanks, great as always! Also, always thought it was cadmium plating on stuff, and zinc = galvanized for trash cans, boat trailers & water pipes. Also, also, made a zinc hammer long ago, harder then lead & much less expensive then brass/copper. Again, THANKS
Don't discount the impact of porn on technology. The printing press, photography, movies, secure online payments, and high-efficiency video encoding were all invented or heavily boosted by people's desire to see other people nekkid. Necessity is the mother of invention, but porn is the father.
I watched Big Clive explain the self lubricator - I was in wonderment. This experiment just got me thinkin' "I'm glad he's doin' this, so's I don't hafta." Thanks.
When I was a kid we would do this to make hydrogen gas for balloons. We’d put the lye and water in a soda bottle and strips of aluminum foil. The bottles would get crazy hot though and would break over time. To solve that we moved the operation to the river so we could “water cool” the whole contraption.
At 1/4 speed, you sound sloshed. Sloshed as in insanely inebriated. Missed that single frame you threw in at the beginning, but got a good chuckle slowing it down trying to look.
I work in a qc lab for a large chemical company and since we have unfettered access to all sorts of stuff me and the cohorts love doing experiments like this!
I feel like a 6 year old boy... not feeling a 6 year old boy... I just member rapping a nail with 24 gauge wire and hooking it to an old brick style 6v battry... was so cool 😎. Left it sitting next to the Kleenex type box 📦... Hold me low, she started a feir 🔥. Best ass beaten I ever be-got. 🤣🤣🤣😊👍 A total gem 💎 ✨ 💖
Lol, i used to pinch flashing roadwork lights when i was a kid. A for the flasher circuit for my gocart/box cart and B for the 6v bricks for my dads fishing light.
Great Video. The empty grease gun comment made me feel like I was not the only one. Thanks for that. Not sure if Canadians celebrate anything related to the 4th of July, hopefully you get some time off. Thanks again, Sir.
At my work we used 12N HCl to oxidatize aluminimim into hindenburg filler and the fuming hcl dissolved half the surface of the fume hood so we tossed out the hood and planned on switching to lye but that makes the H tutu and pn the account the lab was no longer ventilated we just walked away from the whole process and contracted it out to Mexico. (Texas to be precise) With that fuming hcl you need safety squints but for your nose
These "grenades" , as known by the tower climbing grease monkeys which I am apart of, are used heavily in windturbines and smell like wet farts when you take the batteria's out. They also are a pain in the ass when the little bastard break of the threads and go sailing through the spinning induction oven.
40 years ago i attached graphite to my flyback transformer. really cool sparks until it stuck to a makeshift chassis. i remember it getting bright red then exploding sending 1 tiny red hot graphite shard onto my arm. never did that again.
The battery was home made and full chooch, the genius in the one clive dissembled was preset feed rates according to the slide contact and voltage. The simplest stuff is often the most incredible
Ave, hopefully this finds you well. I've got a request which seems right down your alley. Specifically, I'm wondering about torque vs bolt load when using anti seize. Maybe throw in other lubricants. Thx
Omg you said something ive said so many times.... I didn't think it would actually work lol.... my latest project include a homebuild AmBe source neutron gun and a farnsworth fusor.
guess i pulled a fancy hydrogen self feed grease gun out of the bargain bin and didn't realize my luck, still leaks where ever i leave it like the day i got it
Hope ya good. Any chance you could rip apart the new dewalt battery plaster mixer. See how good it really is. It has no high or low gear box so i assume its all down to chip running the amps. I myself run a refina mixer and can easily fix and that my friend is because of your videos. Regards scott from keighley England . Keighley pronounce (keith-ley) Many thanks
It's not often PhDs in inorganic chemistry have a chance to shine, but I'll take what I can get.
Here is what is happening:
Under normal conditions, there are 3 reactions:
Zn+4OH- > Zn(OH)4^2-, + 2e- (Anode)
Zn(OH)4^2- > ZnO +H2O +2OH- (electrolyte)
1/2 O2 + H2O +2 e- > 2OH- (Cathode)
Total - 2 Zn + O2 > 2ZnO
There is always a parasitic reaction pathway which generates hydrogen gas (see below). In order to minimize this, they use construction methods and additives such as mercury amalgam. The parasitic reaction is below:
Zn+4OH- > Zn(OH)4^2 + 2e (as above at anode)
2H2O +2e- - H2 +2OH- (side reaction)
Total = Zn +2H2O > Zn(OH)2 + H2 (hydrogen generating reaction)
Under normal operation, oxygen is present, allowing the top cathode reaction to proceed, where the overall reaction involves the oxidation of Zinc by oxygen to produce Zinc Oxide. Without oxygen, the reaction will proceed without the Cathode reaction, resulting in the oxidation of Zinc by water (under basic conditions), producing Hydrogen gas and Zinc(+2) hydroxide. These are competing pathways, removing the oxygen forces the Zn to prefer the parasitic reaction that generates hydrogen gas.
The source of the hydrogen gas is the half cell of the oxidation of zinc, and reduction of water to produce hydrogen. This explains why no oxygen is being generated.
I wouldn't mind having some conversations with an io-chem person.
Don't let the lack of shine keep ya down.
sounds right, xt0(z)yg -> 023cubed
yup thats it
💡Add a pressure gauge and stop it up to demonstrate maximum pressure. Don't forget the safety enclosure. 🤯
Thanks for taking the time to write that up. Very interesting!
And shine you did good sir! Thanks!
My experiments are ongoing, and so far that mystical hearing aid zinc-air battery is yielding great results.
very interesting stuff Clive and AvE, would be interesting to see more collabs between you guys :)
You will have to speak up, I can't hear you. There appears to be a shortage of hearing aid batteries, the pharmacy keeps selling out.
Now you got people throwing batteries into every job.
Work even better when 02 and a flame are introduced! ;-)
You know you've really made it on yt when you get a mention on an Ave video!! Well done Sir. Legends, both.
"I didn't think it'd actually work..." pretty much sums up most of my projects.
sounds like my wife in the bedroom
@@SupremeRuleroftheWorld mine usually says, “i told you it wouldn’t work, and don’t ask again."
@@stansmith2901 better to be told don’t ask again then to be told, now call a professional to finish the job.
Thats exactly why we keep going and making more stuff 🤣
Found the name of my adult tape 😂
Sodium hydroxide says he - That's a lye says I.
Did anyone notice the old Speak and Spell casually laying on top of the dead string trimmer carcass? Now we know the secret to AVE's astoundingly diverse vocabulary!
AvE, Big Clive and This Old Tony all make life more agreeable, entertaining and educational. Long may they all continue.
We need to feed the sharks certain politicians and put these three men in charge.
Take a look at Jeremy Fielding as well - Makes homebrew shop machinery out of plywood and treadmill motors!
Amazing... It Verks! The Murphy's law on projects is that if you WANT it to chooch it WON'T excepting in the case when you're not expecting it to work, then it will... and depending on the potential for damage the greater the chooch factor it has. Best not to ask how one knows these things, we'll never admit it anyways.
Weve all heard of murphys law but have you ever heard of coles law?
@@robertgemski6524 Sounds edible.
Release the shmoo . . . Very very slowly.
Still using my 87 dash nothing, vintage Fluke. 30 some years old and going strong.
As we get older we don't like change, we want continuity and familiar things.
I have been watching for years with barely a clue what is going on. I have even studied electronics to try to keep up with from the back of the class.
As usual, I haven't a clue what is going on, ( I barely understood the language) but I enjoyed every minute. Continuity, perfect.
Battery make electricity
This battery release hydrogen when do power
With no place for gas go, push grease out hole
I hereby positivly charge you with having maximum potential to suck seed.
Watch the Big Clive video he's referring to -- it'll all make sense.
@@Nevir202
That would make sense, I mostly heard, screw, pipe, nipple, barista, the important words.
@@Nevir202 Finally dialog us INT 1 can understand
"I'm gonna make a grease gun... Anybody seen my grease gun so I can fill my grease gun with grease?" Sounds like my world...
I went searching for a device for my sandblaster cabinet so I could get the blast media knocked down in the hopper. My internet history of the search for an vibrator still stalks me. You would have thought adding descriptors like industrial, pneumatic, heavy duty, powerful, etc... would have help me, but I think that just made it worse.
Never underestimate the sex-toy industry.
Orbital.
the google, and derivative, search engines have been "optimized" beyond any esoteric usage. used to be able to find any bit of obscure knowledge with correct terms and modifiers, but now the best luck is adding "reddit" to the end of a search term, google has helpfully started auto adding that when I click back into the search bar after glancing at the initial results.
@@bigclivedotcom They built the internet to what it is today!
Funnily enough, “hopper vibrator” brings useful results… Rampant Rabbit sellers suck at SEO!
Why am I not surprised you know Big Clive! Also one of my favorite time killers...
You will sometimes see a familar much chooched hammer in the background of Big Clives videos, a present from a wisend old man with too many tools and not enough time.
"He didn't give me much warning on that one" 😂
You had me at "vibrating massaging urethral expanders."
Just wanna mention how much I appreciate you turning down the audio for the power tools. Generally I only enjoy the decibels when I'm actually earning a living with them.
Hear, hear!
‘wot??’
etc.!
Those Knipex are awesome! Me and my whole team have a baby pair in our pockets and the shit it gets us out of is incredible!
I call them my "Angry pliers" for when I need to beat the shit outta someting cause it rounded off. Just about my favorite tool in her box.
That Cobra XS saved me quite a few trips around the shop and the house.
it is the most useful multitool I own
I received a baby knipex myself when I worked solar for a summer, and they are indeed the bees knees. They replaced my felco number 8s as my primary side arm.
One day my kids will inherit my Knipex pliers. Maybe a bit dirty, but I doubt they will show any signs of wear. The baby size are perfect. They can fit in the pocket all day and get stuff loose they have no business doing at that size.
Armed with this knowledge I can already envision the awkward conversation that I'll have with the ER doc regarding my xray.
"Hi doc, I chooched my cooch again, ya got them long nose knipex handy?"
IT REMINDS ME OF THE GOOD OLE DAYS WHEN I STILL HAD MY PROSTATE GLAND.
I love when my favorite youtubers interact. BigClive and AvE are on my top 12 draft for the apocalypse team for sure.
" i didnt think it would actually work". the sentence uttered by ever soon to be father on earth
Your teardown of an automagic greaser years ago is pretty much the same thing, eh? It's what I turn to when I tell anyone about brilliant engineering.
This one is even simpler!
@@arduinoversusevil2025 as simple as a pink hammer. But, since it's ephemeralized to the minimum and so weasel-and-fox-had-offspring-smart enginerded... Can it be refilled and reused? I wonder how the mystery unfolds
It's AvE's original video that inspired exploration of these ones.
it's not my first time here with old ave so that's not the first time I've seen him shoot schmoo all over his bench
Mate keep uploading content like that. Its always fun and u learn everytime something new.
This moment I realized I’m not the only one that watches AvE and BigClive
There are dozens of us.
So, the battery farts to release the schmoo.
Only a guy could make that up...
Been waiting for this video. Knew when Big Clive did it that you were gonna do one. Thanks!
I bought a pair of knipex multigrips in 1994. Loved them so much, bought another pair. They just won't die! Got me out of many a jam
The pipe is just warming up and causing internal expansion - for the grease to come out that fast. No doubt over time the cell will push it out, albeit a LOT slower.
Ah, grease guns... I've never owned one that either just didn't work for reasons inexplicable or decided to explode while in mid-use.
Every second case of grease you buy a new grease gun.
Seems that TH-cam is very touchy about mentioning those devices that have a long hole at the business end, and are used to intimidate, infirm, or unalive different things.
Thanks, great as always! Also, always thought it was cadmium plating on stuff, and zinc = galvanized for trash cans, boat trailers & water pipes. Also, also, made a zinc hammer long ago, harder then lead & much less expensive then brass/copper. Again, THANKS
Great to see you collab with BigClive
It is good to see that Prudence is still employed.
"Squirting up a hell of a mess"
I should call her.
Love the Mike Rowe Safety Third plug.
I'm glad you demonstrate making home made batteries as much as you do. It puts ideas in the youngster's heads other than internet porn.
Don't discount the impact of porn on technology. The printing press, photography, movies, secure online payments, and high-efficiency video encoding were all invented or heavily boosted by people's desire to see other people nekkid.
Necessity is the mother of invention, but porn is the father.
Stick a couple of those in your away bag ready for you next flight!
Haha i am an engineer for skf. This makes me happy as I'm wearing my 'focus you fack' tshart as I watch this. I, by proxy, feel famous.
I can respect safety third and the gentleman that coined the phrase.
I watched Big Clive explain the self lubricator - I was in wonderment. This experiment just got me thinkin' "I'm glad he's doin' this, so's I don't hafta." Thanks.
When I was a kid we would do this to make hydrogen gas for balloons. We’d put the lye and water in a soda bottle and strips of aluminum foil. The bottles would get crazy hot though and would break over time. To solve that we moved the operation to the river so we could “water cool” the whole contraption.
DEFINITELY still the best Education-Channel on this App 😜👍
Six minutes in we’re talking about pipes and sealing holes I’m not sure where this is going but demonetization is probably nowhere near it.
Your inappropriate shop talk is legendary🤣 It can't be learned..only thought lol
O I love it. they are getting together and breading!
At 1/4 speed, you sound sloshed. Sloshed as in insanely inebriated. Missed that single frame you threw in at the beginning, but got a good chuckle slowing it down trying to look.
The gas pressure helps with the release... Don't blow out your o ring
"Galvanic reaction" I think is the term of the day boys and girls. Cheers 🍻
"unreasonable force" is the most reasonable this I can think of.
Framing, you Fack! We'll forgive you on the account of that you Canadians might have Cabin Fever in a later time frame than us.
Now that you have a hydrogen grease gun, you can use it to make another hydrogen grease gun.
Safety third, the very words that got me kicked off the Safety Committee at work
It's verking! Well that can't be right, twas I who made it!
I work in a qc lab for a large chemical company and since we have unfettered access to all sorts of stuff me and the cohorts love doing experiments like this!
I feel like a 6 year old boy... not feeling a 6 year old boy... I just member rapping a nail with 24 gauge wire and hooking it to an old brick style 6v battry... was so cool 😎. Left it sitting next to the Kleenex type box 📦... Hold me low, she started a feir 🔥. Best ass beaten I ever be-got. 🤣🤣🤣😊👍 A total gem 💎 ✨ 💖
Lol, i used to pinch flashing roadwork lights when i was a kid. A for the flasher circuit for my gocart/box cart and B for the 6v bricks for my dads fishing light.
Nice job!! It take a special kind of person to ingeniusify some basic pipe fittings into an automatic greaser!! LOL!! Who'd-a-thunk-it!?
I found that same model Leatherman on the ground while playing Frisbee Golf and still feel like I payed to much for it.
So many guys in industry dont know about these in gearboxes so was cool to see someone talk about them.
Ralf is awesome too.
You could use a resistor to connect the + and - on the cell and thus control the rate of discharge to control the schmoo
Great Video. The empty grease gun comment made me feel like I was not the only one. Thanks for that. Not sure if Canadians celebrate anything related to the 4th of July, hopefully you get some time off. Thanks again, Sir.
We celebrate Canada Day on July 1st
@@MarkRose1337 yes and we celebrate Canada day and light candles in honor of our queen and savior Trudy.
@@MarkRose1337 I celebrate grease gun full day - That's once a decade thereabouts.
As soon as I heard big Clive mention "schmoo" I knew you were going to be all over it.
At my work we used 12N HCl to oxidatize aluminimim into hindenburg filler and the fuming hcl dissolved half the surface of the fume hood so we tossed out the hood and planned on switching to lye but that makes the H tutu and pn the account the lab was no longer ventilated we just walked away from the whole process and contracted it out to Mexico. (Texas to be precise)
With that fuming hcl you need safety squints but for your nose
Save >90% in duckets, yet still more likely to forgetbout it. Needs a touchdown alert of some sort, better then...
These "grenades" , as known by the tower climbing grease monkeys which I am apart of, are used heavily in windturbines and smell like wet farts when you take the batteria's out. They also are a pain in the ass when the little bastard break of the threads and go sailing through the spinning induction oven.
Holy hell, didn't think it would actually work? Line of the show!!
LOL from Portland, can confirm.
You got me into Knipex, and either you or Wranglerstar got me into Wera. Never looked back.
wranglerstar is a sell out, dont you mean project farm?
@@MrFransie85 Translation: "Waaaaaa. I'm still punching a clock and he's making money on his own time. Waaaaaa."
Uses science and logic to figure something out, builds it and then follows it up with "I didn't think it'd actually work!"
1.5v alkaline battery, bit of wire and a pencil makes for a handy dandy makeshift soldering iron.
40 years ago i attached graphite to my flyback transformer. really cool sparks until it stuck to a makeshift chassis. i remember it getting bright red then exploding sending 1 tiny red hot graphite shard onto my arm. never did that again.
@@frodowiz 4
35 years ago it thought i would charge an AA with 240 mains. Never done that again either.
Surely more would come out during the day when it heats up. Also I thought keeping in the h² was tricky.
Keeping it in over a year is tricky. Keeping it in for an hour is much easier.
@@arthurmoore9488 The one Big Clive had could be set to 12 months so they must have figured it out.
@@TurinTuramber
Difficult: maybe idk
Impossible: obviously not
The battery was home made and full chooch, the genius in the one clive dissembled was preset feed rates according to the slide contact and voltage.
The simplest stuff is often the most incredible
@@TurinTuramber Experience say yes, they figured it out.
Slow Mo Smooo !!
Told you before you are def a Knipex fan-boy, much like myself. Kindest regards from Bonnie Scotland. Joe.
Video ended too abruptly. Don’t know what to put in my vice.
He didn’t tell ya cause he showed ya
So he did. The symbolism in such fine literature has always eluded me.
Educational for sure
That's just nuckin futz there king of town pump. Such a simple enginerd design.
Ah my two favourite TH-cam legends!
Those pliers are a godsent for fixing any terex magnetic sensor . Right wrench for any washer 🤪
I'm amazed that a fabricobled version actually worked the first time.
Ave, hopefully this finds you well. I've got a request which seems right down your alley. Specifically, I'm wondering about torque vs bolt load when using anti seize. Maybe throw in other lubricants. Thx
You make me feel like I'm a genius and a moron at the same time.
Bravo, normally I am just one
@7:20 Same color, consistency, and speed of material coming out of me. Guess it's time for a checkup.
Excellent.
love that one frame flash at 9 seconds lmao
A solution looking for a problem…
More stories from out in the field please. Maybe another by the fire hour special if you really want to treat us? :)
Ive heard you can use a potato as a battery..maybe you could power an electric grease gun if you put enough of them in series 😂
If you put a potato into your shorts, it drives women wild. IMPORTANT: the potato goes in front. Don't ask me how I know.
That's a sad waste of potatoes... the Polish, the Finnish, and even the French know what potatoes are good for....
Omg you said something ive said so many times.... I didn't think it would actually work lol.... my latest project include a homebuild AmBe source neutron gun and a farnsworth fusor.
Beautiful vise ! What brand ??
Big Clive and AvE. 2 of my favorites
guess i pulled a fancy hydrogen self feed grease gun out of the bargain bin and didn't realize my luck, still leaks where ever i leave it like the day i got it
wow, a speak and spell. loved that thing.
" On Today's episode AvE invents a grease gun "
Brilliant Sir AvE .
Need to add a fitting to test pressure output
Used my wife’s iPhone to “slo-mo“ my iphone at 0:08. Thought I found an Easter egg. But, just a single frame of a hand holding a bottle. Darn..
Hope ya good.
Any chance you could rip apart the new dewalt battery plaster mixer. See how good it really is.
It has no high or low gear box so i assume its all down to chip running the amps.
I myself run a refina mixer and can easily fix and that my friend is because of your videos.
Regards scott from keighley England .
Keighley pronounce (keith-ley)
Many thanks
I think you might be just a couple steps away from angering the hydrocarbon people
Like a German nun, you got that pipe connection guttentight
Brilliant