I absolutely love this man, if we had educators of this calibur in the U.S., the overall economy of the country wouldn't weaken to the state of today. His enthusiasm for chemistry, science, engineering, and problem solving rivals my own. My 12 yr old son binge watches Andrew as he is facinated with chemistry and engineering as well. I adore his teaching style, and the way he dives into all aspects of the lesson he is teaching. Brilliant.
I don't expect belly laughs from a video on fixing leaking taps - except when the brilliant Prof. Szydlo is teaching. Another instructive and delightful video!
That is one of the best remote teaching lessons, I've ever seen! I was hooked throughout, chemistry, plumbing, engineering even regional accents! One of the best!
OMG .... This is GOLDEN ........ Honestly i think i could quite happily watch prof Szydlo eating his breakfast eggs and explained why Sodium chloride tastes salty. BRAVO good sir BRAVO.
I have tears of sheer joy watching this. Such old school enthusiasm !! Such a joy to watch Professor Szydlo it is. His personality, expressions and interest in anything that he explains, is so so infective. God Bless you Professor. My love and prayers for you and your family.
So I am a 40 year old man laying in bed at almost 1 am having just watched a chemistry lesson for children about incredibly mundane and boring chemical reactions and I was hooked until the last second. Most enjoyable thing I’ve watched in weeks. Thanks for being amazing.
His curiosity and amazement at things in life that most people don't even think twice about, makes Szydlo an entertaining person to follow, you never know what he's going to be intrigued by next. His enthusiasm and energy is infectious, definitely one of my favorites on Ri!
Andrew, you have definitely quickly become my favourite scientist of our times! Very enthusiastic but especially because you investigate everything to the very basic understanding of the core foundations of what you look at. This is where the answers to everything are hidden!! I love that you take something simple and can easily explain an insane amount of knowledge of the foundational knowledge. Discussing practical applied knowledge like this will help get people more interested in chemistry. Things that people can use in everyday life and improve lives even if in a simple way. Finding a way to implant that scientific curiosity in others. By the way the greased string is called “packing” and compression fittings aren’t used in automotive applications because they are prone to failure under high pressure and illegal in braking systems, it’s a safety thing. Old cars had them but now use safer flared fittings and flanges mostly. It’s typically easier to just replace faucets but in cases of bathroom shower valves opening them up and fixing them is usually better than opening the walls when the old timers didn’t put in access panels loll. It’s amazing how much you learn when you try to learn everything and do everything yourself. Not because you want to save money but because you want to learn everything. Then how much knowledge transfers seamlessly from one field to another to another and eventually you find everything is connected. Like magnetism and electricity. Like a speaker if you reverse the function you get a microphone and if you reverse the function you also get a electric generator. Reverse the function of an electric motor and you get a different kind of electric generator. The more fields of knowledge you discover the more knowledge you will find of things that should have been discovered but the knowledge was separated by different “fields of expertise”. There is great knowledge in everything and too many very smart people ignore the obvious in favour of finding greatness beyond the horizon but don’t understand the great knowledge that already has been found. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!
I am an American about 60 years old now and I absolutely love watching all of your videos. I absolutely understand and learn from every video that you are sharing with the world. I would like to extend a very sincere thank you from Phoenix Arizona. Please keep the videos coming. ❤️🇺🇸
I miss the RI Christmas lectures on BBC2, they were a tradition in my house and always a great pleasure to watch. I'm so pleased I found the RI and Andrew on UA-cam.
We're still going strong! They did move us to BBC4, but we're still an annual tradition. This year it may look a whole lot different, but if you'd like to take a trip down memory lane, most of the past lectures are up in our online archive - www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch
Thank you Sir, that was fun! I love your fast paced commentary, your wonderful manners and complete honesty. I'm sure I would enjoy working with you on any project sharing our vastly different empirical knowledge. Oh if the world had more teachers like you!
Welcome to the "Guys Named Joe" club. Our president wanted to welcome you personally, but he was afraid it would place him on either end of the bell curve.
Mr Szydlo...and not forgetting Oscar...his enthusiasm leaves me breathless. So many great quotes from this session too !! How I wish he had taught me chemistry.
Yet another great basement chemistry lesson. Hard not to love this guy. Tip. When I de-Calc my coffee machine I just use a cup of household vinegar. Works just as well as the expensive special stuff. Also good for the shower tiles etc.
Very good job! Having been a professional plumber (in the US) I can tell you that this was an excellent lesson. And, I do understand why you would not call a plumber... the same reason I would never call a chemist to solve my various pest control and home maintenance and cleaning problems.
I got the biggest chuckle watching this! Awesome. Enjoyed the British names for common plumbing items: spanners/wrenches, lever valve / ball valve, head piece / crown and stem, etc....Looked like a 1/2" globe valve he was working on and a faucet isolation valve. LoL...plumbing is all about adapters...you can adapt almost anything to anything else...(I worked in the plumbing section of a hardware store for 3 years).
i enjoy everything about the video, even when Szydlo would need to look to his left to remember "Head-Gear Assembly" and maybe other notes he might have. He is doing his best to not be too obvious and it makes me chuckle. I really enjoy his videos. keep it up good sir.
I love the enthusiasm, but I must admit I'd love to see you turn a new "joystick" for that original expensive tap out of brass stock on the Myford in the background, then show us how to chrome plate it.
I've always wondered if there is a better way to remove lime scale then adding salt to water. Perhaps Sir could explain water softening? Or alternatives!
HCL (hydrochloric acid) in an impure form is available also known as muriatic acid 31.4%. Always add acid to water. Never pour water into acid it can "bump" like water droplets on hot grease.
This was an interesting lecture. Just a random comment on how to even improve this video is to have a close shot of the dishes. Or have multiple camera angles on the dishes.
In Texas USA, I had a tub tap that water stopped coming though, so the tap was turned in the 'on' position. One day the pipes burst under the house. Hard flakes of hard water had settled on the screen over the tap opening, thus making it build up pressure and with the tap left on 'open'. Cost a bit people for such an easy fix. Unscrew the end of the tap and take it off and clean it out every few years. Once a year maybe, but water is coming out well so if it slows check it out.
I have a love-hate relationship with plumbing, lol. I haven't had such a great laugh at your plight (sorry). I just love your lectures. Oh, I'm in the US.
if faraday could write an essay on "a candle" Szydlo could write one on a "spanner", brillant Andrew....your a joy to watch and listern too Sir, our modern day "Merlin"....wish you were my neighbour....i'd be permently visiting....and thanks to "Oscar" the face behind the camera, and long suffering son...and not forgetting she who must be obeyed aka "The Boss"....she who buys expensive taps......Please Andrew, more,more, Dear Sir.....best regards.. "the average person hasnt a clue about anything", ..."Trouble getting the undercarriage back on" .....Bomber Command look out.....Szydlo's about.....the Royal Institutions National Treasure....
I can't help but liken listening to Szydlo to listening to Ludwig von Drake (the Disney character) try and explain chemistry... This isn't in any capacity a bad thing. I'm loving watching this, and I don't even have a Leaky tap! XD
:) lots % ,i remmember we used HCl to clean stone bricks from cement and been good for limescale as well just one down thing it been eating nickel plating down to copper
Man I love Szydlo, always a treat to see a video of his pop up.
This man is so awesome... Calls his wife Boss, eats acids for lunch and present chemistry with such passion.. I'm glad I discovered this channel :)
I absolutely love this man, if we had educators of this calibur in the U.S., the overall economy of the country wouldn't weaken to the state of today. His enthusiasm for chemistry, science, engineering, and problem solving rivals my own. My 12 yr old son binge watches Andrew as he is facinated with chemistry and engineering as well. I adore his teaching style, and the way he dives into all aspects of the lesson he is teaching. Brilliant.
I'm sure he could do a lecture on the chemistry of paint drying and make it interesting. Another great video, cant wait for next week's installment
Paint drying IS interesting in terms of the chemistry involved!
That actually isn’t a bad idea.
There's a lot to say about that indeed!!!
this guy makes chemistry so interesting and exciting.
@neil u it's a contagious enthusiasm that makes me want to learn more.
This guy really gives you an appreciation for what we have.
I don't expect belly laughs from a video on fixing leaking taps - except when the brilliant Prof. Szydlo is teaching. Another instructive and delightful video!
Szydlo, never change. You're an absolute legend.
No fahmudeen M.r is the one of legend in world
That is one of the best remote teaching lessons, I've ever seen! I was hooked throughout, chemistry, plumbing, engineering even regional accents! One of the best!
OMG .... This is GOLDEN ........ Honestly i think i could quite happily watch prof Szydlo eating his breakfast eggs and explained why Sodium chloride tastes salty.
BRAVO good sir BRAVO.
I have tears of sheer joy watching this. Such old school enthusiasm !! Such a joy to watch Professor Szydlo it is. His personality, expressions and interest in anything that he explains, is so so infective. God Bless you Professor. My love and prayers for you and your family.
So I am a 40 year old man laying in bed at almost 1 am having just watched a chemistry lesson for children about incredibly mundane and boring chemical reactions and I was hooked until the last second. Most enjoyable thing I’ve watched in weeks. Thanks for being amazing.
32 year old, watching at 2:30am reporting in.
His curiosity and amazement at things in life that most people don't even think twice about, makes Szydlo an entertaining person to follow, you never know what he's going to be intrigued by next.
His enthusiasm and energy is infectious, definitely one of my favorites on Ri!
I do enjoy hearing him talking, such enthusiasm and eccentricity, proper man of science... :D
Andrew, you have definitely quickly become my favourite scientist of our times! Very enthusiastic but especially because you investigate everything to the very basic understanding of the core foundations of what you look at. This is where the answers to everything are hidden!! I love that you take something simple and can easily explain an insane amount of knowledge of the foundational knowledge. Discussing practical applied knowledge like this will help get people more interested in chemistry. Things that people can use in everyday life and improve lives even if in a simple way. Finding a way to implant that scientific curiosity in others.
By the way the greased string is called “packing” and compression fittings aren’t used in automotive applications because they are prone to failure under high pressure and illegal in braking systems, it’s a safety thing. Old cars had them but now use safer flared fittings and flanges mostly. It’s typically easier to just replace faucets but in cases of bathroom shower valves opening them up and fixing them is usually better than opening the walls when the old timers didn’t put in access panels loll.
It’s amazing how much you learn when you try to learn everything and do everything yourself. Not because you want to save money but because you want to learn everything. Then how much knowledge transfers seamlessly from one field to another to another and eventually you find everything is connected. Like magnetism and electricity. Like a speaker if you reverse the function you get a microphone and if you reverse the function you also get a electric generator. Reverse the function of an electric motor and you get a different kind of electric generator. The more fields of knowledge you discover the more knowledge you will find of things that should have been discovered but the knowledge was separated by different “fields of expertise”. There is great knowledge in everything and too many very smart people ignore the obvious in favour of finding greatness beyond the horizon but don’t understand the great knowledge that already has been found.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!!
What a wonderful video. Great presentation and superb presenter. Very useful and enjoyable, thanks.
Brilliant. Whatever he does, this man's style is always as spellbinding and entertaining as it is informative.
I am an American about 60 years old now and I absolutely love watching all of your videos. I absolutely understand and learn from every video that you are sharing with the world. I would like to extend a very sincere thank you from Phoenix Arizona. Please keep the videos coming. ❤️🇺🇸
I miss the RI Christmas lectures on BBC2, they were a tradition in my house and always a great pleasure to watch. I'm so pleased I found the RI and Andrew on UA-cam.
We're still going strong! They did move us to BBC4, but we're still an annual tradition. This year it may look a whole lot different, but if you'd like to take a trip down memory lane, most of the past lectures are up in our online archive - www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch
I love how he combines chemistry with surprise at how much things cost :D
There's no... surprise.. there... Lol ???
I love this professor's teaching method. My wife even watches now.
This guy is just brilliant, I could listen for hours. 👍
This wonderful teacher makes me miss my Father, he would explain things just like this. Thank you, Sir.
Thank you Sir, that was fun! I love your fast paced commentary, your wonderful manners and complete honesty. I'm sure I would enjoy working with you on any project sharing our vastly different empirical knowledge. Oh if the world had more teachers like you!
"To the average person, who doesn't have a clue about anything"
I got the feeling he was talking about me, personally.
Welcome to the "Guys Named Joe" club. Our president wanted to welcome you personally, but he was afraid it would place him on either end of the bell curve.
Szydio: "waiting for darker times..."
Now there is a man of Infinite Positivity! :)
Hat off to Mr. Andrew. Every video of his is much better than most of talkshows and education comes free. ** Applaud **
It's like an assembly line. They keep cranking out Andrew's videos. Good job, crew!
We can take very little credit, it's all Andrew and Oscar!
Mr Szydlo...and not forgetting Oscar...his enthusiasm leaves me breathless. So many great quotes from this session too !! How I wish he had taught me chemistry.
When a chemistry professor calls his wife boss, then you know he could mitigate any damage.
The man is brilliantly eccentric! It takes a certain tallent to make subjects like this interesting! Cracking video.
Could watch Andrew all day. Reminiscent of Fred Dibnah, Magnus Pyke, et al; old school.
Poor Terry the plumber wont be able to afford to feed his family after this.
If he charges £300 just to turn up at your door, I'm sure he's doing OK.
BUT....this was chemistry in the best way you can present it. With humour and enthousiasm. Love it
Good sir, you've made the mundane tasks of fixing leaking taps and polishing various things exciting.
Yet another great basement chemistry lesson. Hard not to love this guy.
Tip. When I de-Calc my coffee machine I just use a cup of household vinegar. Works just as well as the expensive special stuff. Also good for the shower tiles etc.
Very good job! Having been a professional plumber (in the US) I can tell you that this was an excellent lesson. And, I do understand why you would not call a plumber... the same reason I would never call a chemist to solve my various pest control and home maintenance and cleaning problems.
"...and I'll have a sniff of this if you don't mind *sniff sniff sniff sniff* AH! Very reasonable!" My new favourite quote from this channel!
I got the biggest chuckle watching this! Awesome. Enjoyed the British names for common plumbing items: spanners/wrenches, lever valve / ball valve, head piece / crown and stem, etc....Looked like a 1/2" globe valve he was working on and a faucet isolation valve. LoL...plumbing is all about adapters...you can adapt almost anything to anything else...(I worked in the plumbing section of a hardware store for 3 years).
Now "Sniffing Chemicals" with Andrew :D Great video as always.
I love this guy. He cracks me up, but also educates me! ❤
i enjoy everything about the video, even when Szydlo would need to look to his left to remember "Head-Gear Assembly" and maybe other notes he might have. He is doing his best to not be too obvious and it makes me chuckle. I really enjoy his videos. keep it up good sir.
Great video. Educational and practical. Please continue to make more of them.
I had the same problem, I replaced the head assembly with a ceramic version, no more washers, ever. Research is key.
Ever, you think? Heheh... Just give it time... It WILL fail. I assure you, it will fail.
I love the enthusiasm, but I must admit I'd love to see you turn a new "joystick" for that original expensive tap out of brass stock on the Myford in the background, then show us how to chrome plate it.
Andrew Szydlo looks like a very intelligent and artistic child. Totally love it!
Andrew Szydlo → always a great session!
I love watching this guy and his son...he makes learning fun and energizing!
I've always wondered if there is a better way to remove lime scale then adding salt to water. Perhaps Sir could explain water softening? Or alternatives!
No matter where he is he makes chemistry interesting! He also calls the wife "boss" legend!
Szydlo you are brilliant 👌 Can't wait for next one. Thanks.
This is what happens when you lock up an active mind indoors and forget to put away the caffeine :D
yesss more Szydlo!
Rebuilding engines is easy and enjoyable, plumbing is not. Thanks Dr. Szydlo and Oscar for another video.
Such an interesting man. Your RI lectures are a joy.
Thank you
He is so dedicated in his work that he keeps posting regularly.
Live long
My man is a worker for sure
Lovely video. Enjoyed every frame of it!
"Doesn't look brilliant, doesn't look new. But by gum he does function well." -- The Boss about Szydlo
Szydlo is a Hero
Mandatory meme:
Royal Institution: We present "Chemistry with Dr Szydlow"
Szydlo: I bought some spanners
Royal Institution: ...
Absolutely wonderful!
This man is a lockdown legend!
Szydlo,I love your videos! I hope you continue to make more.
Thanks for the great video prof. szydlo
A very nice and interesting video indeed, BUT as a chemistry student I just have to ask, where are the safety glasses?
Who can dislike this man ?
He is the most aggressively polite person I have ever encountered.
Quarantine drinking game. Take a sip everytime he says"actually"
You must be new to the professors videos. We drink when he gets distracted or switches topics unexpectedly
@@RedScaledKnight1 💕🤣 does he know he's lost track? He reminds me of such professors that go off on tangents I've had in the past.
@@RedScaledKnight1 I drink at y voala 😁 also
@@sacredweeds voila?
Just don't drink sanitizers: since you made it to this video, you're not hopeless.
I love this guy!
HCL (hydrochloric acid) in an impure form is available also known as muriatic acid 31.4%. Always add acid to water. Never pour water into acid it can "bump" like water droplets on hot grease.
Stetson wrench? Stilson perhaps. Wonderful stuff.
Citric acid... Works a treat. Cheap as chips and safe
Or acetic acid (vinegar essence). You have to rinse the kettle a few times or your tea tastes funny, but other than that it's my go-to.
No gloves, no goggles. Just an impenetrable shield of enthusiasm and fun.
please, more videos like this
Greetings, for sensitive materials on the vice try using soft wood, bicycle tire or even an piece of cloth
If a man says he'll do something he will do it, and you don't have to nag him every six months!
I don't bother nagging, do it myself!
I know right...I mean how many times do we need to be told before they get the idea we don't need to be told...Ummm...no wait...
This was an interesting lecture. Just a random comment on how to even improve this video is to have a close shot of the dishes. Or have multiple camera angles on the dishes.
33:20 perfect London Accent!
I'd like to upvote this comment more than once :)
Not sure if thats still chemistry or a plumbing tutorial... Love it anyway :D
Why not both?
If I could give this two thumbs up, I would.
In Texas USA, I had a tub tap that water stopped coming though, so the tap was turned in the 'on' position. One day the pipes burst under the house. Hard flakes of hard water had settled on the screen over the tap opening, thus making it build up pressure and with the tap left on 'open'. Cost a bit people for such an easy fix. Unscrew the end of the tap and take it off and clean it out every few years. Once a year maybe, but water is coming out well so if it slows check it out.
This felt like an episode of sunny. 13:37 sniffing rust removers LOL
I have a love-hate relationship with plumbing, lol. I haven't had such a great laugh at your plight (sorry). I just love your lectures. Oh, I'm in the US.
2:49 heyyy hey hey, I didn’t realise this was going to turn into some advert! Haha this guy is awesome!!
I was waiting for "But wait! There's more!" Lol
Love it!
if faraday could write an essay on "a candle" Szydlo could write one on a "spanner", brillant Andrew....your a joy to watch and listern too Sir, our modern day "Merlin"....wish you were my neighbour....i'd be permently visiting....and thanks to "Oscar" the face behind the camera, and long suffering son...and not forgetting she who must be obeyed aka "The Boss"....she who buys expensive taps......Please Andrew, more,more, Dear Sir.....best regards.. "the average person hasnt a clue about anything", ..."Trouble getting the undercarriage back on" .....Bomber Command look out.....Szydlo's about.....the Royal Institutions National Treasure....
Love u Andrew syzdlo
Huh. I've never heard spirit of salts before. It's called muratic or hydrochloric acid in the US.
Great vid
Love you guy's!
Gather Oscar is the grandson on holiday helping grandpa film this amazing chemistry lecture😉
very good
I can't help but liken listening to Szydlo to listening to Ludwig von Drake (the Disney character) try and explain chemistry... This isn't in any capacity a bad thing.
I'm loving watching this, and I don't even have a Leaky tap! XD
Well if Mr. Szydlo even decides to stop educating he have a bright career in marketing of tools
Look over your shoulder when you go home tonight!!!
Terry the plumber is waitin' for you outside...
!!!LOL!!!
;-)
Great video. I know the how to of plumbing I just cannot get into the tight spaces under the sinks anymore! Poor me. lol
Did the tabs get fixed in the end?
:) lots % ,i remmember we used HCl to clean stone bricks from cement and been good for limescale as well just one down thing it been eating nickel plating down to copper
No, no. A system with 5 /16th measurements makes perfect sense.
I love ho the chemistry lesson turned into diy. And an Ebay ad.