Thanks John. Saturday I helped my son assemble his 50 ton Dake. While we worked I kept smiling and saying everybody loves the Dake. Catch you next time.
Fantastic information on the tape. I like the old my radiators we had those when I was a kid along with the push button light switches. Great show John
I can remember my father having to bleed the radiators and how hot they could get. Wonderful job with the lamp. Way to go Lucky! Thanks, Scout for another great show! 😄👍
I can't believe I am officially labeled "friend of the show" now. You have no idea how tickled I am to officially be in that club! BTW Kapton tape and the generic versions also have another amazing property and that is their electrical insulation property. While not necessarily great for taping up splices, it is great as a sort of liner for things when you want to make sure a circuit board or stray wire doesn't accidentally short out against a case or something. Thanks again for the great videos. I had no idea what those things were on the side of radiators, now I know. Thanks for taking the time to do the cut-away.
Interesting as usual. My ancient primary school had steam heat. I remember it knocked and banged and hissed alot. Thanks for the tutorial on how vintage steam systems work. I never heard of Kapton tape. Your test was amazing. New year is hardly over and I'm already learning.
Based on your show last time, John, I took apart my blow dryer to clean it out because it wasn’t working like it was when it was new. Of course it was clogged up with dust and debris. I cleaned it the best I could, and putting it back together was a new kind of hell. It was an expensive fancy blow dryer. My wife had bought. When I turned it on, it immediately kicked a breaker. I pulled it apart again. Tried to get it back right but to no avail. My wife wasn’t too happy with me, but I bought her a new fancy one. I definitely learned a lesson here. Don’t take the extremely fancy ones apart. It’s not the first project I have screwed up, and it definitely won’t be the last.
Another great video !!! The segments on the steam heat from radiators, and the pantry containing the refrigerator, took me directly back to my childhood. My Grandmother's house had both of these features. It also had the most beautiful glass doorknobs...... In closing, I will offer (perhaps) the most unusual "use" for Kapton tape. It can be used to change the clear lens of driving lights, or clear fog lights on a vehicle, to amber. Works well.....
Mike- When I bought my house I went to get a new valve at an old hardware store and the owner asked what size? I was then given a quick tutorial about valves and wound up changing every valve in my house to get it properly balanced. Now I have it just right. 😃👍
Great video John. Informative as ever. I noted the image of the Pentax K1000. That was my first quality camera. Very basic but great construction. I bought it while an apprentice in the shipyard. Helped by a win on the football coupon. 😃
I heard you say that about the tape when you took the dryer apart, but I figured you knew what it was. I use it alot in hobbys, like after soldering in electronic boards in locomotives,wrap capton tape around it to isolate it from the lead frame for no shorts. Ya gotta love a good pantry.
Having a house that was built in 1962, I have several of those fixtures at the bottom and top of the staircases. I had to laugh when you were talking about the screws backing out and falling and trying to juggle everything. I always left one of the screws in just a bit so you had something to rest it on putting it back together. I like the globe also. Thanks for sharing.
How cool is that tape. The only problem is that over the years, your channel is costing me a lot of money.😲 Have a Jesus filled day everyone Greg in Michigan
One of the uses for Kapton tape is in model railroading. Locomotives are now chock full of electronics and the tape is used to insulate and protect the circuit boards
Every time I work on a light fixture with those screws I think, “Why didn’t bring some lube and a file for these screws?” (To burr the screw end to make it captive). Next thought? Maybe next time. Never happens. Thanks for the fun.
Ah that good old Kapton tape brings back memories of my favorite job 👍 we used a lot of that stuff back in the day both for hot applications and cryogenic cold applications as well.
My Dad use to take out those cast radiators in the 60's as people were getting away from that type of heat. He used to scrap them in the winter up here in Canada. But never in the summer. The reason was, he would fill them with water and wait for them to freeze to increase the weight at the scrapyard.
My Pixel 9 has a raised area that holds the lenses. I think it is to allow focal length for the multiple lenses. I bought a Discover Innovation Case for my phone. I always had Otter Cases before because IT swore by them for the company phones. The difference is the DI case has a shutter that covers the lenses. Between that and the heavy duty case I have been very happy with the phones protection.
Dave- I too use the Otterbox but that shutter sounds fantastic! I know you were into photography also and a clean lens is everything in this game of ours! 😂👍
Thanks John, that was another fun and varied episode, interesting stuff that heat resistant tape, I'm sure some uses will come to mind so I'm glad I know about it now. I do love a traditional walk in pantry, both pairs of grandparents had one, in fact my Dad used to be put in the pantry in his high chair during air raids during the war apparently ! When we were first married my wife and I stayed in a remote shepherds cottage in Scotland that had a walk in pantry, the shelves and worktop were made of slate and the floor was flagstones that had a stream diverted to run underneath to keep it cool, even in the summer it was really very cool and of course free to run !
David Malawey has a great video, titled "More than you ever wanted to know about tape", about different kinds of tapes and its uses. I learned about kapton from AvE. The lamp turned out great, you got to love that plastex!
Mike- It’s 23 degrees here tonight and windy- He’s in his safe warm home, belly full and a wheel to run on. I would have to agree with you about winning the mouse lottery! 🐭
Happy First Monday John, I’ve been getting myself educated on Powder Coating for my shop. I’m going to make a spray Booth from 2” PVC piping and some of that corrugated plastic cardboard as the inner walls and ceiling. I’m plan two 20” window fans and furnace filters on 2x4 framing to keep the overspray and powder. In powder coating you use the heat proof tape for masking surfaces, since the powder needs 400 degrees to flow. We had a butlers pantry in our CT house when we lived in Waterbury. Our house was built in 1913. Those radiators are worth their weight in gold. I thought We had a bad one and when I tried to find a replacement, I was in shock. Hard to find vintage ones as well. Nothing better than cast iron radiators. Our system was hot water, not steam. We used the supply valves to regulate the temps. Took a bit at first, but once dialed in you were golden. Nice vintage light fixture. Great start of the new year. I didn’t comment on your previous video with the shrink wrap. But very cool to show folks how to make simple templates from card stock or folders. I do the same. Great to see Lucky is out and about. Just don’t get sappy again about him being lonley. 🤪 Best Regards, John
I couldn't believe when your video popped up. I was just looking at and bought some Kapton tape yesterday for some lithium battery packs I make. I love the poor mans flea market. I can't wait for your next video to come on every week 3x. Keep up the great work work.
My grandparents had steam heat in their home and I always wondered how it worked. Thanks for explaining it here, much appreciated. Always grateful for your show. Happy New Year to you, Scout.
For a split second..I had dejavu and thought back tk your last mouse adventure where you had. What 29 something babies😅 i think lucky needs a buddy 🤠👍 light came out nice!
Lucky was named appropriately being rescued from the playful kitty. I too have dropped and lost many a thumb screw... very frustrating! I have never seen a Radiator air Vent Cutaway before. However, I have seen several hidden compartments behind kitchen cupboards that had false backs for access to a box between the studs that was used as cold storage.
Another good show John!! Kapton tape tap sounds interesting! I’m surprised Lucky doesn’t have some play mates yet. That’s good for you, bad for Lucky. Thank You for sharing John
The windowsill fridge is wildly popular in the colder countries in Europe. They don't have a box, but they have ornate wrought iron window surrounds with a larger platform at the bottom for your perishables. Naturally, they don't work on the first floor windows cause some body would help themselves to your groceries.
IIRC the tape can be used to cover areas you don't want polished when using a buffer, similar to the way you use a soda can strip to protect when using a wire wheel.
One of the channels I follow is called "Nekkid Watchmaker" great guy, good zone-out type videos. Anyway, he uses that tape to cover parts of watch cases/parts when polishing on his buffing machine because it resists the heat generated by buffing!
Never knew about that moderator valve in old radiator systems, or maybe I forgot about it from engineering studies, but the thought did cross my mind that the lower levels would get the bulk of heat than the uppers. The Kapton tape knock off was surprising and at a reasonable price too. Dupont is one US company that brought out some very usefull (and not usefull) products back in the day. Don't know what they do nowadays, or who owns them, but they were into their chemicals in a big way.🐞
Great show, again, ScoutCrafter. The pantry and a window were important if you had such a thing. I'm so fortunate, I have a nice unheated sun room that I use as a cooler all through winter. So handy! I'm glad that little Lucky mouse chirped up. I've got hot water cast iron radiators throughout my old house. I love them. All the best.
Great Monday mosh video! I am familiar with Kapton but not in a positive way. It had been extensively used, as you mentioned, in aircraft applications as wiring insulation, but it was found to become brittle over time. This would result in cracks in the insulation that could potentially cause arcing. There were apparently several aircraft fires caused by this arcing, most famously a MD-11 that crashed into the Atlantic in the late 90's due to faulty Kapton insulated wiring in the entertainment system, and its use has since been discontinued. I was involved with an Air Force program that required removal of all Kapton wiring from aircraft that we were maintaining.
So many cool topics! Those screws drive me bonkers! I was in the back row, 2nd from left in the fan club photo...unfortunately I bent down to pick up a screw knob just when they snapped the photo.
Hi Scout, you had me laughing with the iPhone because years ago I was complaining to my son about how the photos I took with my new iPhone never seemed to be clear. He took a look and peeled off the protective piece of plastic over the lens. Doh!
Check out the iPhone cases that have a sliding camera protector. I use one on my iPhone and almost never get any scratches or smudges on the camera unless I touch the camera when it’s open on accident. It has a little recessed area that the camera lenses sit in and a sliding cover on a track. Great video!
Thats Apple for ya. Great video, John. And no 50/50 was used! You need to publish a list of all your 50/50 recipes, because every time I see you use some, you give a different list of ingredients! 😂 Lucky is very lucky he was found by you and not some reptile owner. 👍🍻
Had steam heat when I was a kid...I lived in a row home in Philly and when the coal truck would make a delivery we would grab a lump and write all over the sidewalks...😇...🖖
I have a roll of capton tape I purchased for use in 3D printer such as insulating the hot end connections. Also good to insulate wire in home-made pyrography pen/burner. Dave.
The military and NASA used to use Kapton insulated wiring until it was discovered that Kapton was flammable in the presence of electrical arcing or abrasion. Kapton wiring fires caused several aircraft crashes.
@@ScoutCrafter Not sure what you mean about not being used correctly. They also discovered that if you shot a Kapton wiring bundle carrying current that it would combust in a chain reaction. Not good for military planes that might take ground fire or shrapnel from anti-aircraft fire.
I wonder if toothpaste would have worked in place of Plastx... We used to use toothpaste on our motorcycle helmet face shields... Being a very mild abrasive it worked very well.. Another great video S.C.. Take care my friend and see you Wednesday....
Lucky is an invasive specie as are the common rat. There are species native to the US but they don't want anything to do with people. The ones that came in on ships want to be around people for food. We had a pantry in the house I spent my shool years in. It was big and if people ever build their own house they should put a pantry in. This was big enough so there were no kitchen cabinets. Beautiful design that is forgotten and easier to clean. It had glass doors for dishes, large wooden ones for pans and another set of plain doors for groceries. Canned goods from the garden were in a special area in the basement. Pantry was about the size of a hallway. 9 foot ceiling so the cabinents went down one wall floor to ceiling. The other side still had a hand pump although not used. The rest of the wall you could hang pot,s and pans if you wanted. It had a narrow counter for stacking stuff on to put away. Probably used for meat and vegatable processing in the old days. Underneath you could store your weeks worth of root vegetables. Just out around the corner in the kitchen was the big hanging porcelain kitchen sink. All nice and handy.
I have an iPhone 14 and my case does stick out farther than the lenses. Only a maniac carries an iPhone without a case. I gotta say the photo quality on the new phones is worth it.
I have an Otterbox case one of the larger cases and it is about a 16th of an inch thicker than the lenses however the lenses are fingerprint magnets. They should have a sliding door that protects them. 😃👍
I've always wondered if you could turn a radiator into an oil filled electric radiator with the parts from one. It would take a while to heat up but should still put out the same amount of heat.
HA!! I watched a video from a guy in FLORIDA who repairs stuff A LOT, who must have had a smudgy lens! Why do I suspect you watched him too?? HMMMMMMMMMMM?
Never ceases to surprise me with the things I learn about that I’ve seen but never got curious enough to follow up with some research (tape in this case). Nice tutorial on the radiator valves, thanks for the video, always learn and enjoy.
Do you want to laugh. My parents had a two family house and the upstairs tenant always complained that it was so cold up there and my mother couldn’t understand why. She turned off the radiator in the living room where the thermostat was and raised the heat high so the tenant would have heat but it didn’t work. The tenant was still cold. I don’t think my parents ever knew about the different valves.
Frank- Yes it’s very common! Many times people would have a bad valve go to a hardware store and buy another not knowing there was different ones! When I finally bought this house I changed all the valves in the radiators and made sure the upstairs got warm before my downstairs turned off the thermostat. 😃👍
It's funny that you mentioned cellophane tape along with the Kapton tape. The DuPont plant that I work at in Tonawanda NY is the " American birthplace" of cellophane. It was originally invented in France but our plant developed the process to manufacture it on a large scale with better quality. Thanks for another informative video. Glad to see Lucky is doing well. BTW - what is this s.o.l you speak of ? 🤔
Jeff- I know DuPont had their share of dilemmas however I grew up with DuPont products and was always a big fan. Their number 7 automotive line of cleaners, waxes and polishes were a staple in my home. 😃👍. As for SOL it means “💩 Out of Luck”. 😂👍
@ScoutCrafter. back in the early 80's, I had a supervisor that was a former salesman. He gave each of us a bucket full of DuPont automotife care poducts including a can of No7 polish. I might actually have it somewhere. BTW, I knew that about SOL , just trying to have fun.
I always like your voice over when (in my opinion) you are correcting or editing your video and you did not like what you were saying or wanted to improve on it.
Lucky the mouse needs a girlfriend; like that last pair of mice you accidentally played match maker for. I'm sure she could cure his depression. 🥰 🐁🐁🐁🐁🐁 🤣🤣
A nice bakelite handset from Western Electric on your Ma Bell land line will last for generations, trouble free - and you dont need a pin number or password or have to re-learn a new system and "download apps". It is unusual (my experience) for a cell phone to last 2 full years. Regarded as disposable, nowadays they dont even open up to replace the hard-wired battery. Typically, owners are tempted or shamed into buying a new replacement every year - and a new "contract" at a higher price.
AI Overview Learn more No, you should not clean a cell phone camera lens with alcohol, as it can potentially damage the special coatings on the lens and is best to use a dedicated lens cleaning solution designed for camera optics instead; using a soft microfiber cloth lightly dampened with a small amount of specialized lens cleaner is the recommended method.
Jeff- All manufacturers will always tell you to use a soft microfiber or damp cloth- That’s the safest way to protect your phone however it doesn’t work well. Hand oils and smudges aren’t easily removed and can build up over time. Isopropyl alcohol is the most readily available in expensive and efficient cleaner for all types of lenses and the main ingredient to most lens cleaners is isopropyl alcohol followed by distilled water. 😃👍
John, love you buddy, but clearly you know little about modern phone engineering. The thicker lenses were implemented in response to customer demand for better lenses as well as fierce competition. The physics involved required longer lenses. They could have given you a thicker phone that made the lenses recessed, but no one would have purchased the iPhone Chubby. The lenses are made out of synthetic sapphire, so unlike all the camera lenses you and I grew up, they are very difficult to scratch in normal use. So a shirt corner works just right. Apple actually will void the warranty if you use alcohol on them as it can break down the coating. So no maniac was involved in the iPhone design, only in the making of this video!😜.
Marc- It’s a flawed and compromised design. The lenses are protrusive and it’s unavoidable touching them with your oily dirty hands- There are thousands of videos shot everyday with foggy, cloudy and hazy results due to the lens protectors being dirty. I’ve yet to meet anyone happy with their new phones. 😃👍
@How would you have designed them, give the constraints of physics on the lenses? Just one all purpose lens? A hump to cover the lenses? Calling something bad design infers there were viable design alternatives to ameliorate what you feel doesn’t work.
Great show today John very interesting I’m learning every day Fantastic stuff I set a goal to learn something new every day God bless take care 🇺🇸🇳🇿🗽🪖🦅🦔🐝🐕🌟🇮🇱45-47DJT
Thanks John. Saturday I helped my son assemble his 50 ton Dake. While we worked I kept smiling and saying everybody loves the Dake. Catch you next time.
That is one impressive press! 😃👍
Fantastic information on the tape. I like the old my radiators we had those when I was a kid along with the push button light switches. Great show John
I can remember my father having to bleed the radiators and how hot they could get. Wonderful job with the lamp. Way to go Lucky! Thanks, Scout for another great show! 😄👍
I can't believe I am officially labeled "friend of the show" now. You have no idea how tickled I am to officially be in that club! BTW Kapton tape and the generic versions also have another amazing property and that is their electrical insulation property. While not necessarily great for taping up splices, it is great as a sort of liner for things when you want to make sure a circuit board or stray wire doesn't accidentally short out against a case or something. Thanks again for the great videos. I had no idea what those things were on the side of radiators, now I know. Thanks for taking the time to do the cut-away.
Jeff! Thanks again for letting us all know about this great product. Now we are all racking our heads trying to think of uses for this stuff. 😂👍
Hey Mom, look I'm on "the TH-cam!"😂
Interesting as usual. My ancient primary school had steam heat. I remember it knocked and banged and hissed alot. Thanks for the tutorial on how vintage steam systems work. I never heard of Kapton tape. Your test was amazing. New year is hardly over and I'm already learning.
Based on your show last time, John, I took apart my blow dryer to clean it out because it wasn’t working like it was when it was new. Of course it was clogged up with dust and debris. I cleaned it the best I could, and putting it back together was a new kind of hell. It was an expensive fancy blow dryer. My wife had bought. When I turned it on, it immediately kicked a breaker. I pulled it apart again. Tried to get it back right but to no avail. My wife wasn’t too happy with me, but I bought her a new fancy one. I definitely learned a lesson here. Don’t take the extremely fancy ones apart. It’s not the first project I have screwed up, and it definitely won’t be the last.
John- Believe me I have been there many times. The new dryers are only meant to last a few years before breaking like most appliances. 😃👍
Always learning on your show. The tape is something else. I can’t think of a use in my projects but it’s very interesting. Thank You
Jess we are all racking our brains trying to think of a use for it!! 😂👍
Another great video !!! The segments on the steam heat from radiators, and the pantry containing the refrigerator, took me directly back to my childhood. My Grandmother's house had both of these features. It also had the most beautiful glass doorknobs...... In closing, I will offer (perhaps) the most unusual "use" for Kapton tape. It can be used to change the clear lens of driving lights, or clear fog lights on a vehicle, to amber. Works well.....
Great video. When we lived in the Bronx we had radiators all throughout. I never knew about the valves being different sizes.
Mike- When I bought my house I went to get a new valve at an old hardware store and the owner asked what size? I was then given a quick tutorial about valves and wound up changing every valve in my house to get it properly balanced. Now I have it just right. 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter Wow. I wish I knew. Looking back i wonder if a simple valve change would have solved some of our issues. Oh well . Live and learn.
Great video John. Informative as ever.
I noted the image of the Pentax K1000. That was my first quality camera. Very basic but great construction. I bought it while an apprentice in the shipyard. Helped by a win on the football coupon. 😃
The K1000 was a fantastic camera and the first one I bought when I was heavy into photography. I still have it! Awesome camera! 😃👍
I learned more using that manual camera than any other. Loved it. You had to think about every exposure.
I love that you rescued Lucky. It's funny how they just know how to go off on those wheels.
Thanks for the cleaning tip in the so clawed brass fixture I messed up a few before
Larry- Me too! That coating is thin and not very durable, outside or anywhere the climate varies they rust. 😂👍
I heard you say that about the tape when you took the dryer apart, but I figured you knew what it was. I use it alot in hobbys, like after soldering in electronic boards in locomotives,wrap capton tape around it to isolate it from the lead frame for no shorts. Ya gotta love a good pantry.
The steam heat explained was interesting. Thank you sir.
Having a house that was built in 1962, I have several of those fixtures at the bottom and top of the staircases. I had to laugh when you were talking about the screws backing out and falling and trying to juggle everything. I always left one of the screws in just a bit so you had something to rest it on putting it back together. I like the globe also.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice job on the light, it looks great! I have some heat tape I use for masking off powder coat. It will handle the temps for baking the coatings.
Powder coating is just awesome! I would like to get a dedicated setup one day. 😃👍
How cool is that tape. The only problem is that over the years, your channel is costing me a lot of money.😲
Have a Jesus filled day everyone
Greg in Michigan
😂😂😂😂
One of the uses for Kapton tape is in model railroading. Locomotives are now chock full of electronics and the tape is used to insulate and protect the circuit boards
Every time I work on a light fixture with those screws I think, “Why didn’t bring some lube and a file for these screws?” (To burr the screw end to make it captive). Next thought? Maybe next time. Never happens. Thanks for the fun.
Loved the pantry light. I don't know about the window boxes but I do now.
that story about, your boy "Lucky" made my day brighter, thxs for sharing...
Tom- I know you love animals and probably grew up around them. 😃👍
Ah that good old Kapton tape brings back memories of my favorite job 👍 we used a lot of that stuff back in the day both for hot applications and cryogenic cold applications as well.
Ken- Great stuff isn’t it!?
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Everyone’s favorite…..the plastic finger pointer! Great show
My Dad use to take out those cast radiators in the 60's as people were getting away from that type of heat. He used to scrap them in the winter up here in Canada. But never in the summer. The reason was, he would fill them with water and wait for them to freeze to increase the weight at the scrapyard.
😂😂😂.
My Pixel 9 has a raised area that holds the lenses. I think it is to allow focal length for the multiple lenses.
I bought a Discover Innovation Case for my phone. I always had Otter Cases before because IT swore by them for the company phones.
The difference is the DI case has a shutter that covers the lenses. Between that and the heavy duty case I have been very happy with the phones protection.
Dave- I too use the Otterbox but that shutter sounds fantastic! I know you were into photography also and a clean lens is everything in this game of ours! 😂👍
Captain Kapton, what kind of maniac does not understand radiators. Nice video.
Thanks John, that was another fun and varied episode, interesting stuff that heat resistant tape, I'm sure some uses will come to mind so I'm glad I know about it now.
I do love a traditional walk in pantry, both pairs of grandparents had one, in fact my Dad used to be put in the pantry in his high chair during air raids during the war apparently ! When we were first married my wife and I stayed in a remote shepherds cottage in Scotland that had a walk in pantry, the shelves and worktop were made of slate and the floor was flagstones that had a stream diverted to run underneath to keep it cool, even in the summer it was really very cool and of course free to run !
David Malawey has a great video, titled "More than you ever wanted to know about tape", about different kinds of tapes and its uses. I learned about kapton from AvE. The lamp turned out great, you got to love that plastex!
I’m still amazed how it held up to heat! 😂👍
I remember steam heat growing up …77.. the best sound in the morning before school.😊😊
Lucky is a risky name. In this little guy’s world I think he won the lottery. 😊
Mike- It’s 23 degrees here tonight and windy- He’s in his safe warm home, belly full and a wheel to run on. I would have to agree with you about winning the mouse lottery! 🐭
Lucky just getting over his Pipe's induced PTSD. 🐈🐈⬛
Yes! It really must be quite traumatic! 😂👍
And now,, I'm racking my brain for a use for that tape,,
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Me too! 😂👍
Great video for after a long day in the snow. Enjoyed very much
Hello John , thanks for the tape tip 👍 the picture of the fan club 😂😂😂 is awesome 👍👍
Happy First Monday John,
I’ve been getting myself educated on Powder Coating for my shop. I’m going to make a spray Booth from 2” PVC piping and some of that corrugated plastic cardboard as the inner walls and ceiling. I’m plan two 20” window fans and furnace filters on 2x4 framing to keep the overspray and powder. In powder coating you use the heat proof tape for masking surfaces, since the powder needs 400 degrees to flow. We had a butlers pantry in our CT house when we lived in Waterbury. Our house was built in 1913. Those radiators are worth their weight in gold. I thought We had a bad one and when I tried to find a replacement, I was in shock. Hard to find vintage ones as well. Nothing better than cast iron radiators. Our system was hot water, not steam. We used the supply valves to regulate the temps. Took a bit at first, but once dialed in you were golden. Nice vintage light fixture. Great start of the new year. I didn’t comment on your previous video with the shrink wrap. But very cool to show folks how to make simple templates from card stock or folders. I do the same. Great to see Lucky is out and about. Just don’t get sappy again about him being lonley. 🤪
Best Regards,
John
Hi John- I bet the powder coating setup will be a real upgrade to your projects! 😃👍
That was a great Mosh! I wondered what the tape was but now I know. Thanks for sharing this.
I couldn't believe when your video popped up. I was just looking at and bought some Kapton tape yesterday for some lithium battery packs I make. I love the poor mans flea market. I can't wait for your next video to come on every week 3x. Keep up the great work work.
My grandparents had steam heat in their home and I always wondered how it worked. Thanks for explaining it here, much appreciated. Always grateful for your show. Happy New Year to you, Scout.
Very educational today, from the radiator valve to the high heat tape, I'm learning a lot! Thanks!
Kapton tape is indispensable when fixing some electronics.
Hi John. We had a icebox when I was a we lad .that was a different life back then. Such a different way of life. Very interesting video again. 👍👍❤🙏...
For a split second..I had dejavu and thought back tk your last mouse adventure where you had. What 29 something babies😅 i think lucky needs a buddy 🤠👍 light came out nice!
36! 🫣. I’m not doing that again! 😂😂😂
@ScoutCrafter 😳😅😅😅😅😳
I've used that high temp tape when powder coating car parts. You can leave it on in the oven to cure the paint.
Excellent!!! we have been racking our heads trying to figure out a good use for the stuff! 😂👍
Lucky was named appropriately being rescued from the playful kitty. I too have dropped and lost many a thumb screw... very frustrating! I have never seen a Radiator air Vent Cutaway before. However, I have seen several hidden compartments behind kitchen cupboards that had false backs for access to a box between the studs that was used as cold storage.
Another good show John!! Kapton tape tap sounds interesting! I’m surprised Lucky doesn’t have some play mates yet. That’s good for you, bad for Lucky. Thank You for sharing John
The windowsill fridge is wildly popular in the colder countries in Europe. They don't have a box, but they have ornate wrought iron window surrounds with a larger platform at the bottom for your perishables. Naturally, they don't work on the first floor windows cause some body would help themselves to your groceries.
That idea is still useful today. 😃👍
IIRC the tape can be used to cover areas you don't want polished when using a buffer, similar to the way you use a soda can strip to protect when using a wire wheel.
One of the channels I follow is called "Nekkid Watchmaker" great guy, good zone-out type videos. Anyway, he uses that tape to cover parts of watch cases/parts when polishing on his buffing machine because it resists the heat generated by buffing!
Great to know! 😃👍
Never knew about that moderator valve in old radiator systems, or maybe I forgot about it from engineering studies, but the thought did cross my mind that the lower levels would get the bulk of heat than the uppers. The Kapton tape knock off was surprising and at a reasonable price too. Dupont is one US company that brought out some very usefull (and not usefull) products back in the day. Don't know what they do nowadays, or who owns them, but they were into their chemicals in a big way.🐞
Yes! My favorite was their number 7 line of automotive polishes. 😃👍
That wasn't "NICE' it was 'NCE'. Chinese for No Can Exceed! Glad to see Lucky living his best life.😊
I think the Smithsonian Institution has less historic lubricants and classic shop chemicals than Scoutcrafter! I’m loving it!
Great show, again, ScoutCrafter. The pantry and a window were important if you had such a thing. I'm so fortunate, I have a nice unheated sun room that I use as a cooler all through winter. So handy! I'm glad that little Lucky mouse chirped up.
I've got hot water cast iron radiators throughout my old house. I love them. All the best.
Great Monday mosh video! I am familiar with Kapton but not in a positive way. It had been extensively used, as you mentioned, in aircraft applications as wiring insulation, but it was found to become brittle over time. This would result in cracks in the insulation that could potentially cause arcing. There were apparently several aircraft fires caused by this arcing, most famously a MD-11 that crashed into the Atlantic in the late 90's due to faulty Kapton insulated wiring in the entertainment system, and its use has since been discontinued. I was involved with an Air Force program that required removal of all Kapton wiring from aircraft that we were maintaining.
Joe- Yes I read that but they say that it wasn’t used in the correct manner. I guess it’s all about limitations and proper conditions. 😃👍
Uncle Bob is going to love this new tape!!!!!!! That old A-hole is so hard to buy presents for!
So many cool topics! Those screws drive me bonkers! I was in the back row, 2nd from left in the fan club photo...unfortunately I bent down to pick up a screw knob just when they snapped the photo.
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Hi Scout, you had me laughing with the iPhone because years ago I was complaining to my son about how the photos I took with my new iPhone never seemed to be clear. He took a look and peeled off the protective piece of plastic over the lens. Doh!
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Nice lamp! I've gotten a 1960s ceiling lamp out of the trash once, still looking for a good place for it. I'd love a pantry!
There are people who go to homes about to be demolished and grab all that great stuff- they call themselves architectural salvage. 😃👍
Check out the iPhone cases that have a sliding camera protector. I use one on my iPhone and almost never get any scratches or smudges on the camera unless I touch the camera when it’s open on accident. It has a little recessed area that the camera lenses sit in and a sliding cover on a track. Great video!
No way!!! I have been saying that there should be a sliding cover over the lenses! That’s awesome ! I use a Otterbox because I’m very clumsy. 🫣😂👍
Thats Apple for ya. Great video, John. And no 50/50 was used! You need to publish a list of all your 50/50 recipes, because every time I see you use some, you give a different list of ingredients! 😂 Lucky is very lucky he was found by you and not some reptile owner. 👍🍻
I never understood keeping snakes as pets. 🤔🫣😂
fascinating about the tape!!!
Some friends had a cardboard box on the fireescape outside their dorm rooms at Hillsdale "College Mauck Hall. Cold beer on demand.
Yeah, they save on the cost of the refrigerator, and electricity. But that's equally offset by the expense of the beer! 😀
8-32 is also the same thread as typically used to attach pulls on cabinet drawers and doors, in case you ever need a replacement.
Tony- The prices of cabinet hardware has tripled over the last few years! 🫣😂👍
Had steam heat when I was a kid...I lived in a row home in Philly and when the coal truck would make a delivery we would grab a lump and write all over the sidewalks...😇...🖖
Good times! Hard to believe that was normal 100 years ago. 😃👍
Well John, " what da ya know", that tape IS amazing! I thought NASA only had access to it...
I have a roll of capton tape I purchased for use in 3D printer such as insulating the hot end connections. Also good to insulate wire in home-made pyrography pen/burner.
Dave.
The military and NASA used to use Kapton insulated wiring until it was discovered that Kapton was flammable in the presence of electrical arcing or abrasion. Kapton wiring fires caused several aircraft crashes.
Yes I read that but from what they say it wasn’t being used correctly. 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter Not sure what you mean about not being used correctly. They also discovered that if you shot a Kapton wiring bundle carrying current that it would combust in a chain reaction. Not good for military planes that might take ground fire or shrapnel from anti-aircraft fire.
I agree, Kapton tape is no longer allowed on military aircraft and is specifically prohibited in procurement specifications. Its toxic when it burns.
I wonder if toothpaste would have worked in place of Plastx...
We used to use toothpaste on our motorcycle helmet face shields... Being a very mild abrasive it worked very well..
Another great video S.C.. Take care my friend and see you Wednesday....
Toothpaste does work! I’ve had excellent results with PlastX and it’s a must have for the shop. 😃👍
we use that tape when we heat press cups or shirts
Very cool experiment.
Lucky is an invasive specie as are the common rat. There are species native to the US but they don't want anything to do with people. The ones that came in on ships want to be around people for food. We had a pantry in the house I spent my shool years in. It was big and if people ever build their own house they should put a pantry in. This was big enough so there were no kitchen cabinets. Beautiful design that is forgotten and easier to clean. It had glass doors for dishes, large wooden ones for pans and another set of plain doors for groceries. Canned goods from the garden were in a special area in the basement. Pantry was about the size of a hallway. 9 foot ceiling so the cabinents went down one wall floor to ceiling. The other side still had a hand pump although not used. The rest of the wall you could hang pot,s and pans if you wanted. It had a narrow counter for stacking stuff on to put away. Probably used for meat and vegatable processing in the old days. Underneath you could store your weeks worth of root vegetables. Just out around the corner in the kitchen was the big hanging porcelain kitchen sink. All nice and handy.
Pantry’s gave way to kitchen cabinets. 😂👍
Interesting stuff! 😊😊😊
I have an iPhone 14 and my case does stick out farther than the lenses. Only a maniac carries an iPhone without a case. I gotta say the photo quality on the new phones is worth it.
I have an Otterbox case one of the larger cases and it is about a 16th of an inch thicker than the lenses however the lenses are fingerprint magnets. They should have a sliding door that protects them. 😃👍
I've always wondered if you could turn a radiator into an oil filled electric radiator with the parts from one. It would take a while to heat up but should still put out the same amount of heat.
Those oil filled radiators do work! I have one just in case. 😃👍
I do like the vintage ceiling light. I may have heard of the window box but i am uncertain. I know of someone who did know of those.
WOO HOO!!! IT's OBI WON time with a cup of joe and a chocolate granola bar!!
HA!! I watched a video from a guy in FLORIDA who repairs stuff A LOT, who must have had a smudgy lens! Why do I suspect you watched him too?? HMMMMMMMMMMM?
Never ceases to surprise me with the things I learn about that I’ve seen but never got curious enough to follow up with some research (tape in this case). Nice tutorial on the radiator valves, thanks for the video, always learn and enjoy.
I can hear Chuck screaming for you to "Flitz it!"
My steam radiators don’t have them. I have what’s called a two pipe system. The radiators recover the steam and recycles the condensation.
Cliff I have yet to see a two pipe system. I wonder if they were more efficient. Thanks! 😃👍
@ they have a thermostat inside the return valve similar to a car thermostat.
Conclusion --- NASA is paying way too much for Kapton tape.
Yes but you know there is some overseas seller selling orange cellophane tape and calling it Kapton. 🫣😂👍
Great success
Yes it is John, it took 2 men and a boy and we didn’t have the boy. I would have sent a picture but couldn’t figure it out.
Do you want to laugh. My parents had a two family house and the upstairs tenant always complained that it was so cold up there and my mother couldn’t understand why. She turned off the radiator in the living room where the thermostat was and raised the heat high so the tenant would have heat but it didn’t work. The tenant was still cold. I don’t think my parents ever knew about the different valves.
Frank- Yes it’s very common! Many times people would have a bad valve go to a hardware store and buy another not knowing there was different ones! When I finally bought this house I changed all the valves in the radiators and made sure the upstairs got warm before my downstairs turned off the thermostat. 😃👍
It's funny that you mentioned cellophane tape along with the Kapton tape. The DuPont plant that I work at in Tonawanda NY is the " American birthplace" of cellophane. It was originally invented in France but our plant developed the process to manufacture it on a large scale with better quality. Thanks for another informative video. Glad to see Lucky is doing well. BTW - what is this s.o.l you speak of ? 🤔
Jeff- I know DuPont had their share of dilemmas however I grew up with DuPont products and was always a big fan. Their number 7 automotive line of cleaners, waxes and polishes were a staple in my home. 😃👍. As for SOL it means “💩 Out of Luck”. 😂👍
@ScoutCrafter. back in the early 80's, I had a supervisor that was a former salesman. He gave each of us a bucket full of DuPont automotife care poducts including a can of No7 polish. I might actually have it somewhere. BTW, I knew that about SOL , just trying to have fun.
It probably said "rice" not "nice" up to 270 degrees C ;)
Thanks for the video. Did you go to the tool swap in Bethany Connecticut Saturday??
No I have officially stopped buying tools! 🫣😂👍
The next meet however is Jacktown on the 18th! 😃👍
Did the squeaky mouse get the cheese??
Yes! He prefers Yellow cheese! 😂👍
I always like your voice over when (in my opinion) you are correcting or editing your video and you did not like what you were saying or wanted to improve on it.
It’s funny my buddy Andy used to be an audio engineer and he always goofs on me everytime I do a voiceover! 😂😂😂👍
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Lucky the mouse needs a girlfriend; like that last pair of mice you accidentally played match maker for. I'm sure she could cure his depression. 🥰 🐁🐁🐁🐁🐁 🤣🤣
Oh no! Last time I had 36 mice before the spring! 🫣😂👍
If Nasa pays all that for tape , i don't want to know how much they pay for toilets
As an aside, and by method, I have never owned and have never used a cell phone.
A nice bakelite handset from Western Electric on your Ma Bell land line will last for generations, trouble free - and you dont need a pin number or password or have to re-learn a new system and "download apps". It is unusual (my experience) for a cell phone to last 2 full years. Regarded as disposable, nowadays they dont even open up to replace the hard-wired battery. Typically, owners are tempted or shamed into buying a new replacement every year - and a new "contract" at a higher price.
Wow! I held out for years until my sister bought me one. Now I’m lost without one. 🫣😂👍
You disappoint me using an iphone bro
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No, you should not clean a cell phone camera lens with alcohol, as it can potentially damage the special coatings on the lens and is best to use a dedicated lens cleaning solution designed for camera optics instead; using a soft microfiber cloth lightly dampened with a small amount of specialized lens cleaner is the recommended method.
Jeff- All manufacturers will always tell you to use a soft microfiber or damp cloth- That’s the safest way to protect your phone however it doesn’t work well. Hand oils and smudges aren’t easily removed and can build up over time. Isopropyl alcohol is the most readily available in expensive and efficient cleaner for all types of lenses and the main ingredient to most lens cleaners is isopropyl alcohol followed by distilled water. 😃👍
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John, love you buddy, but clearly you know little about modern phone engineering. The thicker lenses were implemented in response to customer demand for better lenses as well as fierce competition. The physics involved required longer lenses. They could have given you a thicker phone that made the lenses recessed, but no one would have purchased the iPhone Chubby. The lenses are made out of synthetic sapphire, so unlike all the camera lenses you and I grew up, they are very difficult to scratch in normal use. So a shirt corner works just right. Apple actually will void the warranty if you use alcohol on them as it can break down the coating. So no maniac was involved in the iPhone design, only in the making of this video!😜.
Marc- It’s a flawed and compromised design. The lenses are protrusive and it’s unavoidable touching them with your oily dirty hands- There are thousands of videos shot everyday with foggy, cloudy and hazy results due to the lens protectors being dirty. I’ve yet to meet anyone happy with their new phones. 😃👍
@How would you have designed them, give the constraints of physics on the lenses? Just one all purpose lens? A hump to cover the lenses? Calling something bad design infers there were viable design alternatives to ameliorate what you feel doesn’t work.
Great show today John very interesting I’m learning every day
Fantastic stuff I set a goal to learn something new every day
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