I received one of those stand alone heat guns many yeas ago after borrowing one from my neighbor to strip the linoleum off the counter top in our old house, shortly after purchasing it. The heat gun worked so well, I told my wife I loved it, and on my next birthday, I was presented with a nice cased set, came with add on tips, in fact it has the one you use all the time. It sits in it's case in the back room, unused to this day because I was injured shortly after, and have never got back in the back room to do any work. Over the years things kept getting packed back there for storage till today when you can't eve walk in the damn place except for one narrow passage to my old office chair. I hope to one day clear it out so I can try and get back there to use it, as everyone keeps telling me I am crazy building projects and rebuilding laptops whilst sitting in my electric recliner, they seem to fear I will drop some solder down the chair and set myself ablaze. Hasen't happened yet, but I do have a lot of shirts with burn holes in them where solder has somehow dripped on them. One day though, when I don't have anything else on my agenda, I will tackel that back room and get rid of all the shit back there that isn't even mine, then, perhaps I can once again try to get back to my workbench and do the work right. It has, however made me very dexterous with my hands, which used to shake like a damn leaf, the soldering has somehow made them steady once again. Funny how that works. Perhaps soldering is good therapy.
I showed my doctor the kit watch that I assembled all SMD tiny parts, he was amazed that I was able to do that a he is treating me for the shaking problem, as well as a ton of other crap. I think that's why I love building these kits and learning more even at my ever increasing age (be 68 next month, damn I am getting OLD)
I've been doing electronics off-and-on for 4 decades. Taken "How to Solder" courses as refreshers. This is the first time anyone has mentioned putting flux on the desoldering wick and the pads, helps to remove the solder from the pads. Promptly tried it. Wow! Fast and clean.
When you twist 2 (or more) wires together like this, you are also twisting the wires at the same time. If you have a geared spindle for each wire, driven by a gear concentric with the main shaft where the centre gear does not turn. In this way, as you twist the wires together they are automatically twisted in the opposite direction. This solves the unraveling problem.
Yes, exactly the same principle. Rope factories do the same thing, but with very long rooms. I think there is one with a room about a mile long. Ideally, the source spools are attached to the outer gears for continuous production, up to the length on the spool but for producing ropes the spools would have to be enormous so that doesn't work. Clive said the wire was 7 core, they will have been produced in exactly the same way but with 7 heads.
My neighbor is a rope twister by profession, he's 97, though. They worked beside the river, in good weather only, and with roundabout a quarter mile long pieces (land miles = max 400 m), drilling them on a device like You described it.
I have to admit, I've fallen asleep while watching your videos, however shortly after I was woke up by my cell phone hitting me in the dam forehead. Also it was my way of unwinding after a very long day. It helped me fall asleep. Yes I watched the video again. While I was rested the next morning.
TheChloeRed I feel asleep not from lack of content or anything negative, I dig Clive and his videos but his voice is relaxing, at least I find it relaxing.
Ah, I find Clive's voice has enough variance and parts that are energetic to keep me awake and interested in wanting to see what the outcome is - sort of like a good book I can't put down and sleep.
I've fallen asleep to Clive before. You're right though. It's not from being bored or anything negative. I've watched hundreds of his videos through to the end. It's just he has such a comforting voice.
Traditionally a gargoyle is a water spout (you can remember this with 'gargle' ), the similar ones that are not a water spout are grotesques. What you have there looks like a griffin, but if it was on a church (usually just the head/shoulders) would be a grotesque. For twisting wires i just use a cup hook in the drill, as long as the wires are at the same tension (keep it tight), it's not a problem, once twisted, i reverse the drill a little to prevent the tangle When i solder connectors that might melt, i grip the pins with the croc clips, as long as the iron is hot enough, it solders fine.
To add to the exactness and pedantry: because language is a changing thing and people have been calling the statues without water spout "gargoyles" as well, the meaning of the word "gargoyle" has expanded to also cover what would traditionally be called "grotesques". While you are correct about the traditional difference, calling a "grotesque" a "gargoyle" wouldn't be considered wrong by modern dictionaries.
@@daanwilmer "the meaning of the word "gargoyle" has expanded" - That is a very diplomatic way of saying "lazy people with lower priorities for intellectual matters found misusing one word for something superficially similar but different acceptable and tolerated with such widespread fervour that it began to make less disinterested people sound stuffy". After all, you cannot have "gargoyle" expanding without "grotesque" diminishing.
Just want to say bigclive that I love your videos. I took a few classes in college to try to learn electrical work and just never really picked it up. I only passed well enough to complete the requirements for computer work. Your videos are just in that sweet spot for me where I understand most of what you are talking about, and still learn quite a bit. Keep up the great videos!
I've done this exact thing before. Someone gave me a hollow composite garden sculpture of a squirrel. I dremeled out the eyes and illuminated them. The method I used was simple: Start with diffused red LEDs and arrange them inside the statue such that they are centered in, but about 5mm behind where the eye surface should be. I affixed them from the inside with clay or blutack (i don't remember which) At this point, I used clear acrylic latex caulk (the kind that cures semi-translucent). I used a small spatula and filled the eye cavity with the caulking, making sure to encapsulate the LED. The exterior surface is simply sculpted to form the convex corneal surface. In this way, the entire eye glows uniformly at a wide range of angles, it still looks good during the day, and it's entirely waterproof. In retrospect, using silicone would probably be better for outdoor use.
Thank you ~so much~ for showing prop work:) At first I thought this was going to be about work with your own props, something I hope you will also show in the future, but I am also enjoying your work with the props of others.
It is interesting, your soft voice is rather soporific. No matter how interesting, if I watch late at night (or wee morning) I find myself waking up sitting in my chair halfway through the next video. It is quite refreshing and I do "rewind" to catch what I missed. I don't have the problem watching during the day, however. I used to use the Joan Hickson Miss Marple series, which I have watched many times, for the same purpose. I didn't have to watch the video as I had the dialog memorized. I could pop that into the VCR [I now have the series on DVD] and go to bed.
The wiremen at the factory I worked out used a drill to twist pairs too. One end was tied to the handle on a full filing cabinet, the other end hand twisted, folded over (to stop the slipping), and chucked in the drill. Tension the wire and away you go. If the tension is too high the full filing cabinet drawer opens, correcting the problem.
Yes ironically an implememnt designed for ending human life can be deemed unfit for use on ground of electrical safety. They test the chair before an execuetion. Another interesting quirk is someone on death row approaching their execuetion date has to be deemed healthy enough to be execueted by a doctor.
It was kind of funny back in the 1940's this fellow came through our town who had killed a Highway Patrolman in Minnesota, and was on the run. He was speeding, and our local police stopped him. The idiot killed our cop as well. Well in this part of the State, at least back then, this was the worst crime you could commit and quickly a posse was formed, lead by the town Justice of the Peace, duly deputized by the Sheriff over the phone. The criminal was caught before he left the county and taken into custody. He was arraigned, had his plea hearing, where he plead guilty and sentenced to death within 3 days. He was transported to the State Pen where they looked around and discovered that the State had never purchased an electric chair, even though that was the legal means of capitol punishment. So they began to call around and found that our neighbor to the South, Nebraska indeed did have one, their governor loaned it to us for the execution. The Chair arrived two days later, and the criminal was strapped in. Our local Justice of the Peace (who I worked for while I was in High School) was asked to pull the switch, and since the officer who was murdered was a close friend of his, he accepted. He pulled the switch at midnight on the set execution day, and always said, it didn't bother him at all, and he would gladly do it again should the situation ever come up.
I've never had much trouble twisting wires just in the chuck of a battery drill. The trick is to anchor the other end and keep up some tension. Run the drill in reverse for a couple of seconds before taking the twisted wire out. This stops the tangling problem.
I put a " vine eye" into the chuck and affix appropriate number of wires but otherwise do same as you - maintain tension whilst winding - quick pull at end then couple of reverse revolutions to detension
Decades ago when I did production work for a long defunct division of Motorola (Four-Phase Systems), we would terminate the pins onto straight wire, then gently use a drill to wind the strands down past a specific length, then unwind the spring tension to the finished length, and insert the pins into the shell to lock in place. Made thousands of cables like that. Never had an issue after the first day of crushing pins - and having to fix them...
I have good success twisting my own stranded pairs when I put one end in a vise and the other in a drill tip, making sure both wires are off center in the chuck. I put some tension on the pairs and run the drill. Keeping tension on the pairs as you twist is the key to success.
“If I designed an electric chair, it would be absolutely amazing, it would have digital readouts, it would have fairground lights. Although it wouldn't need them, it would have smoke machines for extra drama. It would be like a Halloween prop but with politicians in it. And lawyers.”
The phone using the battery as a heatsink for the screen actually does make sense. Lithium-ion batteries perform poorly when cold, so using the unwanted heat from the screen to warm up the battery ensures that the battery performs better, and uses up energy that would otherwise be discarded. It makes the phone more energy efficient.
You must've got 20-ish views from me on this video, because I've fallen asleep while watching it! As someone who has pain-related insomnia, I love the fact that you're making these videos!
Attempt to weather-proof the LEDs with a grommet, but why no connector with o-rings or a rubber seal? And isn't there a type of heat-shrink that also has a form of hot-melt glue already inside that seals against any moisture? Seems like that should be an option worth considering.
It is just a foam garden decoration though. No need to overcomplicate things or make them too expensive. Some wires and heat shrink is all it should need.
In Boy Scouts, we made our own heavy rope out of twine. We had a gadget that had three hooks/eyebolts, and it was clamped to the tailgate of a truck. As you cranked it, the entire thing rotated one way, and the three bolts rotated counter to that (as I remember). It was to maintain the twist in the twine while creating the large rope. No clue what happened to it.
With regard to twisting wire directly in the drill chuck, I found that it works as long as both wires are under tension, so that one does not have enough slack to twist over the second wire. My work had us twisting 18 AWG wire for communication interconnect between boards in a chassis, and we would often twist up 20-30 feet at a time, by clamping one end in a vise on the bench at the far end of the room, and then making sure that the wires were the same length when tightened in the drill. Once it was twisted as far as we wanted, we would give it a couple of good tugs to settle the copper strands into the twist, which mostly eliminated the tendency to unwind once released from the drill chuck.
I worked for Trickets Fairground in Cranford , absolutely loved it building up the old dogem set and putting up the tilt (roof) which weighed a ton, it was a good life and we worked for food mainly , if we were fed well we worked hard . it took 8 hours to build up the dogem set and we could tear it down and put it all away on two trucks in 4 hours if we had to. These days the dogem sets are mostly automated and fold out like a transformer hydraulically all the heavy lifting is done by macherinery. As an aprentice plumber I had to go into the Gosport sewer system and do maintenance repairs the sewers are suprizingly clean but the worst part of my aprenticeship was in work experience clearing out blocked rodding holes on driveways you wouldnt believe what got stuck in those pipes and you didnt have a glove to put on as you rammed your arm up the sewer pipe to grab a stuck sanitary towel. most of the time that was the cause of the blockages, very occasionally a disposable nappy. like the evil eyes great little project. lovin your videos sometimes i binge watch them picking up bits of the past ive forgotten about eectronics, i also watch a lot of "My Mate Vince" to who repairs broken electronics products, the R2 D2 was very interesting. also lovin trhe soda stream experiments keep em coming the baileys was hilarious.
I sometimes watch your videos to help me fall asleep, but that backfired yesterday when I woke up with a panicky nightmare that I was getting a 240-volt electric shock, caused by watching you be unsafe with electricity so many times.
I happen to be working in a optical type shop in around 1990 ?. And there was a guy installing a new machine, They needed a guinea pig to try it out. So I volunteered, you just looked into it and it took a picture of the inside of your eye, and printed out a picture. They do this basically to compare what your macular ( ? ) nerve, so they can tell if its getting thinner which would give you trouble, this is what sends everything you have ever seen travels to your brain. So they take a picture, then years later they can compare against the earlier picture to see if its failing. And yes its truly amazing what the inside of your eyes look like. They actually gave me copies of my photos on floppy disks, which I have transferred over to CD. I have never used them to give to a eye doctor ,but havent been to a eye doctor.
“Vote for Big Clive. When the military suddenly got repurposed closer to home.” Hahaha that had a lot more depth in it than I’m sure many pick up on! I laughed out loud!
Mr. Big Clive (since I've not yet had the pleasure of tipping a pint with you) I wish I could give you 100 thumbs up (without employing one of those sketchy Vietnamese services). Sharing your genius is a gift to us all. The "cheap-shitty" episodes have a temporary flare. This episode will change the way some of us think.
You can insert the wires in to the chuck but you have to use a piece of *soft* rubber or *soft* silicone tubing. First, insert the tubing in to the drill chuck then insert the wire ends in to the tubing. Close the chuck, attach the other ends of the wires to a fixed point and slowly spin up the drill. Done!
This is most likely just one of those pleasant linguistic differences but here in Canada what you built is a wiring harness. You wisely omitted the loom as it's very much unnecessary with only a single twisted-pair and would make installation difficult in this application.
For using a drill I put them straight in the chuck, but instead of centrally I put one wire into each of the gaps between the pieces of the chuck (as far from center as they can go). It also allows for twisting 3 wires should you need. The wire needs to be a little taught for it to work properly though.
For 2 pin keyed, low powered, non-waterproof, non-board mount connectors I've moved to using the red pre-wired 2 pin connectors used for hobby RC batteries. You should see them if you search "JST 2 pin 100mm" on e-bay. You can get them in pairs by the 100's, super cheap and pre-polarised.
Hey clive, a _really_ good option for connectors for outdoor use is Deutsch DT, extremely rare to see one fail due to water ingress. They are however quite expensive iirc. Another is TE Superseal which I believe are much cheaper but still do a good job. Then again, I guess they'd be a bit too bulky for what you're doing here. EDIT: Also, I kind of miss the hum and tick of the soldering station, kinda made me think you had a Little Helper like Gyro Gearloose.
Well, I've done my fair share of bodges over the years, usually meant as temporary repairs, but you know how it goes with temporary repairs that don't break immediately. But at some point you just get sick of re-fixing the same thing over and over, so you start doing things right the first time around, unless it's an absolute emergency of course.
@BC, I appreciate an older video but, I wonder whether a thin frosted acrylic tube would have worked best. Push two flexi tubes from the eyes down to a "base" with the LEDs mounted at the end. The LED light should refract down the acrylic and glow..... Simplifies the build and makes it easier to replace components.
Pro tip for the weirdos like me that listen to chill out. If you swipe down or whatever to access your phones settings, it won't play the video but you can still hear. You'll save a ton of battery. Also, be careful! You might wake up with your toaster taken to bits and a sudden craving for MRE's and booze!
You can spin it in the chuck. Just pre spin about 2cm tightly by hand and shove the wist in the chuck. Keep it under tension tell you get a tight spin, then revers the drill until you can release the tension and not get curls.
Gargoyles have spouts for water out of their mouths. This would qualify as a (griffin, griffon, or gryphon) "Grotesque." I don't know if it would be an option for you: Your recording camera/phone, perhaps a cooling augmentation? Heatsink?
Keep on the good work! Really appreciate what your doing!! I hope you come back to the Netherlands ! Because some of your ideas have i just for making really nice lighting on some fairytales!!
Where I worked in the industrial control systems sector years ago, silicone polishes were banned in the area where soldering was undertaken , as it causes havoc with soldering on pcb’s.
I did seriously look at the G6 play as it has a higher resolution camera than it's siblings. It doesn't seem to sound too bad either. I'm just a bit wary of buying any Lenovo phone right now after that "update".
Im not sure it was because you wired 2 red leds in series or the solar modules have different chip in them, but when i tried to make small red garden light i came to couple of problems,the old type of red leds can light or just conduct small current even below 1v, so because there is always small voltage on the led contacts the led was always on, fixed it by changing to newer type of led but it still drains battery very low
I'm still trying to figure how on earth these will be fitted into the prop as surely it will have to be done from the inside as those connectors are not going to fit through the eye holes?
If I don't need the wires to be flexible, I usually repurpose a pair from a UTP cable, as they are already twisted. For low voltage low current they are perfect, although insulation and flexibility is far from perfect
I have found that leaving the silicone grease anywhere a solder joint will produce a fractured joint over time. It will be so thin that you have to have good magnification to see it.
Mike Dodd As for flux, there are specially designed "No Clean Flux" formulations. Mostly intended for components that would be destroyed by cleaning procedures, but damned convenient in general.
Clive will you ever talk about color organs I know you like Fairground lighting controllers and it should be right up your alley I absolutely fell in love with them. I have one from the 70s that I'm trying to fix that runs on 12 volts for automotive use I think it would be an interesting video. I'm stumped on why it's not working I'm more familiar with Mains powered ones but the 12 volt one is stumped me a lot and I'd be happy to send it to you for a video I think everyone would really appreciate it.
Oh hey. That method you use to make twisted wires is pretty much the same as the method used to make rope. In the olden days before the industrial revolution, people would have to crank it by hand instead of using a drill, and they would usually use 3 or 5 strands instead of 2, since odd numbers worked out better for keeping things nice and tight, but the various concept is pretty much identical.
Rather than unrolling wire from the spools, wouldn't it be better to pull each wire off over the end of fixed spools -- thereby preserving the twist that we normally try to avoid.
There is a tool to twist the wire that work like you want. There are safety we ire pliers use on aircraft to secure nuts in place also on race cars for the wheels or for that matter wire wheels the type with only a spindle and a knock off nut. Harbor freight stocks them
If you like short deadlines, including ones that don't even give you time to order the correct materials. And if you like being haggled for a lower and lower price by high profit production companies then it might be the career for you. It's not glamorous. I recommend getting a trade and keeping prop making as a sideline.
That's a very subtle polarity mark... I just colour in the whole side... and if I can find both sharpies I colour in both sides. It's be great if you did a bit of a tutorial kinda thing on snubbers... that's twice I've wished I knew more about them.
Was it bottle neck you were trying to remember ? Loving the channel .....im a spark and have basic electronic knowledge and am now inspired to learn more I play guitar and change switches and pickups and basic stuff but I'm going to learn what each component does and when to use them Do you recommend any books/channels etc Cheers Clive
I'd recommend just enjoying the electronic channels like Franlab, EEVblog, Julian Illet and my own channel. You'll pick up a lot of technical knowledge from watching them.
B C i don,t know how you do it a project as simple as this and i could not stop watching had too see all of it , but wow the shade of red on those LEDs i can just imagine how those gargoyles are gonna look , Yet Another great vid , ? can you get your friend to do a video of them and send for you to post ... Thanks
Oh dear, we've been found out! I'm one of the ones who finds your voice soothing and tend to listen to it at night. But you are so damn interesting at times with the projects that it doesn't always work. Sadly, your voice really helps if I have a migraine starting, oh well, whatever works for that...
One of my rules is KISS! Keep It Simple Stupid! You said something about someone makes things to much that just make time hard to keep it working! So I like the KISS!!
I received one of those stand alone heat guns many yeas ago after borrowing one from my neighbor to strip the linoleum off the counter top in our old house, shortly after purchasing it. The heat gun worked so well, I told my wife I loved it, and on my next birthday, I was presented with a nice cased set, came with add on tips, in fact it has the one you use all the time. It sits in it's case in the back room, unused to this day because I was injured shortly after, and have never got back in the back room to do any work. Over the years things kept getting packed back there for storage till today when you can't eve walk in the damn place except for one narrow passage to my old office chair. I hope to one day clear it out so I can try and get back there to use it, as everyone keeps telling me I am crazy building projects and rebuilding laptops whilst sitting in my electric recliner, they seem to fear I will drop some solder down the chair and set myself ablaze. Hasen't happened yet, but I do have a lot of shirts with burn holes in them where solder has somehow dripped on them. One day though, when I don't have anything else on my agenda, I will tackel that back room and get rid of all the shit back there that isn't even mine, then, perhaps I can once again try to get back to my workbench and do the work right. It has, however made me very dexterous with my hands, which used to shake like a damn leaf, the soldering has somehow made them steady once again. Funny how that works. Perhaps soldering is good therapy.
I had a coworker who always had shaky hands until he needed to work on something and then they were absolutely still.
I showed my doctor the kit watch that I assembled all SMD tiny parts, he was amazed that I was able to do that a he is treating me for the shaking problem, as well as a ton of other crap. I think that's why I love building these kits and learning more even at my ever increasing age (be 68 next month, damn I am getting OLD)
I've been doing electronics off-and-on for 4 decades. Taken "How to Solder" courses as refreshers. This is the first time anyone has mentioned putting flux on the desoldering wick and the pads, helps to remove the solder from the pads.
Promptly tried it. Wow! Fast and clean.
I grew up in Fremantle and lived in Melbourne for a decade. Was not expecting a trip back to my younger years while watching this video! Thanks Clive!
When you twist 2 (or more) wires together like this, you are also twisting the wires at the same time. If you have a geared spindle for each wire, driven by a gear concentric with the main shaft where the centre gear does not turn. In this way, as you twist the wires together they are automatically twisted in the opposite direction. This solves the unraveling problem.
I just pictured this. Good description.
My neighbour collects old farm tools. He has a rope twister that works just like that. Hand cranked.
Yes, exactly the same principle. Rope factories do the same thing, but with very long rooms. I think there is one with a room about a mile long. Ideally, the source spools are attached to the outer gears for continuous production, up to the length on the spool but for producing ropes the spools would have to be enormous so that doesn't work. Clive said the wire was 7 core, they will have been produced in exactly the same way but with 7 heads.
My neighbor is a rope twister by profession, he's 97, though. They worked beside the river, in good weather only, and with roundabout a quarter mile long pieces (land miles = max 400 m), drilling them on a device like You described it.
I have to admit, I've fallen asleep while watching your videos, however shortly after I was woke up by my cell phone hitting me in the dam forehead. Also it was my way of unwinding after a very long day. It helped me fall asleep. Yes I watched the video again. While I was rested the next morning.
I've never fallen to sleep with Clive's voice.. Now, JW, on the other hand...
TheChloeRed I feel asleep not from lack of content or anything negative, I dig Clive and his videos but his voice is relaxing, at least I find it relaxing.
Ah, I find Clive's voice has enough variance and parts that are energetic to keep me awake and interested in wanting to see what the outcome is - sort of like a good book I can't put down and sleep.
I've fallen asleep to Clive before. You're right though. It's not from being bored or anything negative. I've watched hundreds of his videos through to the end. It's just he has such a comforting voice.
Sleeping with your phone next to your head, probably not the smartest idea
Traditionally a gargoyle is a water spout (you can remember this with 'gargle' ), the similar ones that are not a water spout are grotesques.
What you have there looks like a griffin, but if it was on a church (usually just the head/shoulders) would be a grotesque.
For twisting wires i just use a cup hook in the drill, as long as the wires are at the same tension (keep it tight), it's not a problem, once twisted, i reverse the drill a little to prevent the tangle
When i solder connectors that might melt, i grip the pins with the croc clips, as long as the iron is hot enough, it solders fine.
Glad to see someone else picked up on the gargoyle/grotesque point. My inner pedant always screams at that. :)
Never knew that, thanks. I blame the (mostly excellent) Disney cartoon show. :D
TIL
Also, croc clips as heatsinks is one of the greatest discoveries I ever made.
To add to the exactness and pedantry: because language is a changing thing and people have been calling the statues without water spout "gargoyles" as well, the meaning of the word "gargoyle" has expanded to also cover what would traditionally be called "grotesques".
While you are correct about the traditional difference, calling a "grotesque" a "gargoyle" wouldn't be considered wrong by modern dictionaries.
@@daanwilmer "the meaning of the word "gargoyle" has expanded" - That is a very diplomatic way of saying "lazy people with lower priorities for intellectual matters found misusing one word for something superficially similar but different acceptable and tolerated with such widespread fervour that it began to make less disinterested people sound stuffy". After all, you cannot have "gargoyle" expanding without "grotesque" diminishing.
Just want to say bigclive that I love your videos. I took a few classes in college to try to learn electrical work and just never really picked it up. I only passed well enough to complete the requirements for computer work.
Your videos are just in that sweet spot for me where I understand most of what you are talking about, and still learn quite a bit. Keep up the great videos!
Shoving live cables up a gargoyles bottom to make it's eyes light up? 😂
By the way, these long form vids are superb. It's relaxing, informative and overall good entertainment.
I love these videos where you make stuff and answer questions.
I've done this exact thing before. Someone gave me a hollow composite garden sculpture of a squirrel. I dremeled out the eyes and illuminated them.
The method I used was simple: Start with diffused red LEDs and arrange them inside the statue such that they are centered in, but about 5mm behind where the eye surface should be. I affixed them from the inside with clay or blutack (i don't remember which) At this point, I used clear acrylic latex caulk (the kind that cures semi-translucent). I used a small spatula and filled the eye cavity with the caulking, making sure to encapsulate the LED. The exterior surface is simply sculpted to form the convex corneal surface.
In this way, the entire eye glows uniformly at a wide range of angles, it still looks good during the day, and it's entirely waterproof. In retrospect, using silicone would probably be better for outdoor use.
Thank you ~so much~ for showing prop work:) At first I thought this was going to be about work with your own props, something I hope you will also show in the future, but I am also enjoying your work with the props of others.
He's shown some before.
The neighbor probably leaves the missing cats sign up so she'll know when someone new is in the neighborhood.
:-) Gladys Kravitz :-) (Bewitched).
I have a kilo of griffin guano for sale. Great for growing twisted pears.
That was a "Peach" of a comment! :-) Well done! Peter would be proud. ;-) Shut up, Meg.
It is interesting, your soft voice is rather soporific. No matter how interesting, if I watch late at night (or wee morning) I find myself waking up sitting in my chair halfway through the next video. It is quite refreshing and I do "rewind" to catch what I missed. I don't have the problem watching during the day, however. I used to use the Joan Hickson Miss Marple series, which I have watched many times, for the same purpose. I didn't have to watch the video as I had the dialog memorized. I could pop that into the VCR [I now have the series on DVD] and go to bed.
My nephew used to call them Gargles.❤
I poured a rum and coke. Great Friday evening! I was working on a poo incinerator at a wastewater treatment plant today.
“Las Vegas and Florida. The trashier bits (of America).” Truer words were never spoken! LOL
The wiremen at the factory I worked out used a drill to twist pairs too. One end was tied to the handle on a full filing cabinet, the other end hand twisted, folded over (to stop the slipping), and chucked in the drill. Tension the wire and away you go. If the tension is too high the full filing cabinet drawer opens, correcting the problem.
You got my vote!
I do enjoy a good big Clive ramble
Clive are electric chairs tested for electrical safety ?
Yeah
your sure on that ? so far no one has given me an answer for definite
@@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154 Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Yes ironically an implememnt designed for ending human life can be deemed unfit for use on ground of electrical safety. They test the chair before an execuetion. Another interesting quirk is someone on death row approaching their execuetion date has to be deemed healthy enough to be execueted by a doctor.
It was kind of funny back in the 1940's this fellow came through our town who had killed a Highway Patrolman in Minnesota, and was on the run. He was speeding, and our local police stopped him. The idiot killed our cop as well. Well in this part of the State, at least back then, this was the worst crime you could commit and quickly a posse was formed, lead by the town Justice of the Peace, duly deputized by the Sheriff over the phone. The criminal was caught before he left the county and taken into custody. He was arraigned, had his plea hearing, where he plead guilty and sentenced to death within 3 days. He was transported to the State Pen where they looked around and discovered that the State had never purchased an electric chair, even though that was the legal means of capitol punishment. So they began to call around and found that our neighbor to the South, Nebraska indeed did have one, their governor loaned it to us for the execution. The Chair arrived two days later, and the criminal was strapped in. Our local Justice of the Peace (who I worked for while I was in High School) was asked to pull the switch, and since the officer who was murdered was a close friend of his, he accepted. He pulled the switch at midnight on the set execution day, and always said, it didn't bother him at all, and he would gladly do it again should the situation ever come up.
"If I were to ever design an electric chair..... lots of fairground lights on it.... "
Don't ever change Big Clive, don't ever change.
bigclivedotcom i lik the fact that you speak your mind and have no filter
I'm totally guilty of falling asleep with your videos. But I do go back and watch them again!
I've never had much trouble twisting wires just in the chuck of a battery drill. The trick is to anchor the other end and keep up some tension. Run the drill in reverse for a couple of seconds before taking the twisted wire out. This stops the tangling problem.
That's how I do it too
I put a " vine eye" into the chuck and affix appropriate number of wires but otherwise do same as you - maintain tension whilst winding - quick pull at end then couple of reverse revolutions to detension
Decades ago when I did production work for a long defunct division of Motorola (Four-Phase Systems), we would terminate the pins onto straight wire, then gently use a drill to wind the strands down past a specific length, then unwind the spring tension to the finished length, and insert the pins into the shell to lock in place. Made thousands of cables like that. Never had an issue after the first day of crushing pins - and having to fix them...
I have good success twisting my own stranded pairs when I put one end in a vise and the other in a drill tip, making sure both wires are off center in the chuck. I put some tension on the pairs and run the drill. Keeping tension on the pairs as you twist is the key to success.
Cracking LED gromit!
But there's no cheese
DragonHarrierGaming Gorgon Zola ?
Delphine Rosewood not even wensleydale
DragonHarrierGaming as long as he doesn't get his stinking bishop out. 😉
“If I designed an electric chair, it would be absolutely amazing, it would have digital readouts, it would have fairground lights. Although it wouldn't need them, it would have smoke machines for extra drama. It would be like a Halloween prop but with politicians in it. And lawyers.”
Vote Big Clive 2020
And the booming voice of the Centaur pinball machine
love to see Cheeto the Chump in it ;)
I think Ms. May and Vlad would be better.
That's "Lord Cheeto" LOL
The phone using the battery as a heatsink for the screen actually does make sense. Lithium-ion batteries perform poorly when cold, so using the unwanted heat from the screen to warm up the battery ensures that the battery performs better, and uses up energy that would otherwise be discarded. It makes the phone more energy efficient.
You must've got 20-ish views from me on this video, because I've fallen asleep while watching it! As someone who has pain-related insomnia, I love the fact that you're making these videos!
Attempt to weather-proof the LEDs with a grommet, but why no connector with o-rings or a rubber seal? And isn't there a type of heat-shrink that also has a form of hot-melt glue already inside that seals against any moisture? Seems like that should be an option worth considering.
It is just a foam garden decoration though. No need to overcomplicate things or make them too expensive. Some wires and heat shrink is all it should need.
In Boy Scouts, we made our own heavy rope out of twine. We had a gadget that had three hooks/eyebolts, and it was clamped to the tailgate of a truck. As you cranked it, the entire thing rotated one way, and the three bolts rotated counter to that (as I remember). It was to maintain the twist in the twine while creating the large rope. No clue what happened to it.
With regard to twisting wire directly in the drill chuck, I found that it works as long as both wires are under tension, so that one does not have enough slack to twist over the second wire.
My work had us twisting 18 AWG wire for communication interconnect between boards in a chassis, and we would often twist up 20-30 feet at a time, by clamping one end in a vise on the bench at the far end of the room, and then making sure that the wires were the same length when tightened in the drill.
Once it was twisted as far as we wanted, we would give it a couple of good tugs to settle the copper strands into the twist, which mostly eliminated the tendency to unwind once released from the drill chuck.
I worked for Trickets Fairground in Cranford , absolutely loved it building up the old dogem set and putting up the tilt (roof) which weighed a ton, it was a good life and we worked for food mainly , if we were fed well we worked hard . it took 8 hours to build up the dogem set and we could tear it down and put it all away on two trucks in 4 hours if we had to.
These days the dogem sets are mostly automated and fold out like a transformer hydraulically all the heavy lifting is done by macherinery.
As an aprentice plumber I had to go into the Gosport sewer system and do maintenance repairs the sewers are suprizingly clean but the worst part of my aprenticeship was in work experience clearing out blocked rodding holes on driveways you wouldnt believe what got stuck in those pipes and you didnt have a glove to put on as you rammed your arm up the sewer pipe to grab a stuck sanitary towel. most of the time that was the cause of the blockages, very occasionally a disposable nappy. like the evil eyes great little project. lovin your videos sometimes i binge watch them picking up bits of the past ive forgotten about eectronics, i also watch a lot of "My Mate Vince" to who repairs broken electronics products, the R2 D2 was very interesting. also lovin trhe soda stream experiments keep em coming the baileys was hilarious.
The good bit about having a dirty job is that there's much less competition and it tends to pay well.
That was one of your best videos.
Love the drill bit wire twister, I'll have to try that sometime.
I sometimes watch your videos to help me fall asleep, but that backfired yesterday when I woke up with a panicky nightmare that I was getting a 240-volt electric shock, caused by watching you be unsafe with electricity so many times.
i hope you show the finished Griffen when its complete
Don't forget the fairground music on the chair.
The Magic Roundabout :)
@@izools But a flattened 5th out of tune, for added creepiness.
I happen to be working in a optical type shop in around 1990 ?. And there was a guy installing a new machine, They needed a guinea pig to try it out. So I volunteered, you just looked into it and it took a picture of the inside of your eye, and printed out a picture. They do this basically to compare what your macular ( ? ) nerve, so they can tell if its getting thinner which would give you trouble, this is what sends everything you have ever seen travels to your brain. So they take a picture, then years later they can compare against the earlier picture to see if its failing. And yes its truly amazing what the inside of your eyes look like. They actually gave me copies of my photos on floppy disks, which I have transferred over to CD. I have never used them to give to a eye doctor ,but havent been to a eye doctor.
In Scotland as part of your routine free eye test they take a picture of the back of your eye and store it in your file.
"Creepage of the electrolytes and corrosion of the contacts" at 40:20 or so - pure poetry
Also, I would possibly vote for Big Clive!
This is the second time I've watched this video because I fell asleep the first time. 😁
Clive gets my vote for PM Because he answers his comments! Great vids Thank you Clive
“Vote for Big Clive. When the military suddenly got repurposed closer to home.” Hahaha that had a lot more depth in it than I’m sure many pick up on! I laughed out loud!
Mr. Big Clive (since I've not yet had the pleasure of tipping a pint with you) I wish I could give you 100 thumbs up (without employing one of those sketchy Vietnamese services). Sharing your genius is a gift to us all. The "cheap-shitty" episodes have a temporary flare. This episode will change the way some of us think.
You can insert the wires in to the chuck but you have to use a piece of *soft* rubber or *soft* silicone tubing. First, insert the tubing in to the drill chuck then insert the wire ends in to the tubing. Close the chuck, attach the other ends of the wires to a fixed point and slowly spin up the drill. Done!
I0m guilty of falling asleep when watching your videos. Your voice is soothing. :)
This is most likely just one of those pleasant linguistic differences but here in Canada what you built is a wiring harness. You wisely omitted the loom as it's very much unnecessary with only a single twisted-pair and would make installation difficult in this application.
Big Clive for PM!
For using a drill I put them straight in the chuck, but instead of centrally I put one wire into each of the gaps between the pieces of the chuck (as far from center as they can go). It also allows for twisting 3 wires should you need. The wire needs to be a little taught for it to work properly though.
For 2 pin keyed, low powered, non-waterproof, non-board mount connectors I've moved to using the red pre-wired 2 pin connectors used for hobby RC batteries. You should see them if you search "JST 2 pin 100mm" on e-bay. You can get them in pairs by the 100's, super cheap and pre-polarised.
Hey clive, a _really_ good option for connectors for outdoor use is Deutsch DT, extremely rare to see one fail due to water ingress. They are however quite expensive iirc. Another is TE Superseal which I believe are much cheaper but still do a good job. Then again, I guess they'd be a bit too bulky for what you're doing here.
EDIT: Also, I kind of miss the hum and tick of the soldering station, kinda made me think you had a Little Helper like Gyro Gearloose.
also cheaper options are hot glue or silicone and depending on size denso tape. why use proper connectors when you can botch it ;-)
Well, I've done my fair share of bodges over the years, usually meant as temporary repairs, but you know how it goes with temporary repairs that don't break immediately. But at some point you just get sick of re-fixing the same thing over and over, so you start doing things right the first time around, unless it's an absolute emergency of course.
Like the dry humour , especially about the electric chair, it sounds very entertaining, problem being who would be the first candidate
@BC, I appreciate an older video but, I wonder whether a thin frosted acrylic tube would have worked best. Push two flexi tubes from the eyes down to a "base" with the LEDs mounted at the end. The LED light should refract down the acrylic and glow..... Simplifies the build and makes it easier to replace components.
Pro tip for the weirdos like me that listen to chill out. If you swipe down or whatever to access your phones settings, it won't play the video but you can still hear. You'll save a ton of battery. Also, be careful! You might wake up with your toaster taken to bits and a sudden craving for MRE's and booze!
Swiping on my mouse, but nothing of the sort happens.
@@Anvilshock this is a mobile only thing.
@@BurningApple YOU DON'T SAY!!
@@Anvilshock no.. I _do_ say! 🤪
You can spin it in the chuck. Just pre spin about 2cm tightly by hand and shove the wist in the chuck. Keep it under tension tell you get a tight spin, then revers the drill until you can release the tension and not get curls.
I went to Luna Park! =D It was great. Yes, I road on the wooden coaster. I spent a week at Melbourne back in 2012. Really fun.
Gargoyles have spouts for water out of their mouths.
This would qualify as a (griffin, griffon, or gryphon) "Grotesque."
I don't know if it would be an option for you:
Your recording camera/phone, perhaps a cooling augmentation? Heatsink?
Keep on the good work! Really appreciate what your doing!! I hope you come back to the Netherlands ! Because some of your ideas have i just for making really nice lighting on some fairytales!!
the rig you made for twitsting wires is fairly similair to the traditional method of making rope.
Hi Clive! Thanks for this entertaining video! Quick question; where do you buy the solar inserts?
They're just standard solar garden stakes.
bigclivedotcom Thank you! The word “stakes” was the word missing from my search query ;)
Where I worked in the industrial control systems sector years ago, silicone polishes were banned in the area where soldering was undertaken , as it causes havoc with soldering on pcb’s.
Superlube is less messy. It's ptfe Teflon grease for 3d printers but I use it sparingly for everything because it's pricey. But a tube lasts a while
Bell wire..used on door bells and thermostats..2 wires solid core, Twisted.
Clive - do you have an item number for those Rapid Crimpers, what brand are they, do they come with different jaws for different size crimps?
I have been with Three for a long time, great network
On that note, Vodafone suck dinosaur balls.
Greeting from Las Vegas Nevada USA. I'm from Lyon France.
Moto g6 play vids seem ok, thanks Clive ur great company, the planet feels less loney with you talking to us. Thanks
I did seriously look at the G6 play as it has a higher resolution camera than it's siblings. It doesn't seem to sound too bad either. I'm just a bit wary of buying any Lenovo phone right now after that "update".
Dark room? Was the power out, or were disco lights involved?
What model crimping tool did you buy ?
Im not sure it was because you wired 2 red leds in series or the solar modules have different chip in them, but when i tried to make small red garden light i came to couple of problems,the old type of red leds can light or just conduct small current even below 1v, so because there is always small voltage on the led contacts the led was always on, fixed it by changing to newer type of led but it still drains battery very low
Another advantage of the UK plugs is that the prongs are incredibly robust, while on euro plugs they often get squeezed together.
I'm still trying to figure how on earth these will be fitted into the prop as surely it will have to be done from the inside as those connectors are not going to fit through the eye holes?
It was fun hanging out with you this afternoon clive! Enjoyed the cat stories also lol
If I don't need the wires to be flexible, I usually repurpose a pair from a UTP cable, as they are already twisted. For low voltage low current they are perfect, although insulation and flexibility is far from perfect
the transformer buzzing is not a problem for me (not apparent to my hearing). Great ramble, thanks.
I have found that leaving the silicone grease anywhere a solder joint will produce a fractured joint over time. It will be so thin that you have to have good magnification to see it.
Mike Dodd As for flux, there are specially designed "No Clean Flux" formulations. Mostly intended for components that would be destroyed by cleaning procedures, but damned convenient in general.
That word I keep forgetting too is. Contention :)
Clive will you ever talk about color organs I know you like Fairground lighting controllers and it should be right up your alley I absolutely fell in love with them. I have one from the 70s that I'm trying to fix that runs on 12 volts for automotive use I think it would be an interesting video. I'm stumped on why it's not working I'm more familiar with Mains powered ones but the 12 volt one is stumped me a lot and I'd be happy to send it to you for a video I think everyone would really appreciate it.
Oh hey. That method you use to make twisted wires is pretty much the same as the method used to make rope. In the olden days before the industrial revolution, people would have to crank it by hand instead of using a drill, and they would usually use 3 or 5 strands instead of 2, since odd numbers worked out better for keeping things nice and tight, but the various concept is pretty much identical.
What is the name of the connectors used in this video? Where is the best place to buy them in the UK?
lol. I make my twisted pairs the same way, but I mostly use two different colored enameled magnet wire. It works for low voltage runs. ;)
You know you can buy those connectors in wire to wire?
I worked for Northern Light to. The Edinburgh branch.
Rather than unrolling wire from the spools, wouldn't it be better to pull each wire off over the end of fixed spools -- thereby preserving the twist that we normally try to avoid.
There is a tool to twist the wire that work like you want. There are safety we ire pliers use on aircraft to secure nuts in place also on race cars for the wheels or for that matter wire wheels the type with only a spindle and a knock off nut. Harbor freight stocks them
Why not use silicon caulk instead of grease?
Will you post a photo when they have been installed?
I bet the Prop industry is very challenging and that what love
If you like short deadlines, including ones that don't even give you time to order the correct materials. And if you like being haggled for a lower and lower price by high profit production companies then it might be the career for you. It's not glamorous. I recommend getting a trade and keeping prop making as a sideline.
@@bigclivedotcomI hear you anyway I really enjoy your videos
That's a very subtle polarity mark... I just colour in the whole side... and if I can find both sharpies I colour in both sides.
It's be great if you did a bit of a tutorial kinda thing on snubbers... that's twice I've wished I knew more about them.
Contention ratio is that the word you were looking for?
Was it bottle neck you were trying to remember ?
Loving the channel .....im a spark and have basic electronic knowledge and am now inspired to learn more
I play guitar and change switches and pickups and basic stuff but I'm going to learn what each component does and when to use them
Do you recommend any books/channels etc
Cheers Clive
I'd recommend just enjoying the electronic channels like Franlab, EEVblog, Julian Illet and my own channel. You'll pick up a lot of technical knowledge from watching them.
B C i don,t know how you do it a project as simple as this and i could not stop watching had too see all of it , but wow the shade of red on those LEDs i can just imagine how those gargoyles are gonna look , Yet Another great vid , ? can you get your friend to do a video of them and send for you to post ... Thanks
QUESTION : Is there a name for the type of wire stripper you were using? They look quit nice. How small of wire can they strip?
If it was the unior manual strippers then they can go quite small. But they need set for each wire size.
Oh dear, we've been found out! I'm one of the ones who finds your voice soothing and tend to listen to it at night. But you are so damn interesting at times with the projects that it doesn't always work. Sadly, your voice really helps if I have a migraine starting, oh well, whatever works for that...
I wish my voice could have cured my own migraines when I was a kid. They were horrific.
Mine are mostly weather related now, weather front goes in or out, head hurts and stomach churns. Yay!!
Hi Clive, can you give more detail on the tape you used to cover and waterproof the solar panel in this video.
Thanks.
It's an outdoor repair tape with UV protection. It's intended for repairing cloches and glazing. But it does break down over time
@@bigclivedotcom Thanks, Where can you get it, eBay, Amazon ?
I'll vote for you Clive!
One of my rules is KISS! Keep It Simple Stupid! You said something about someone makes things to much that just make time hard to keep it working! So I like the KISS!!
Fantastic video and love the length of the vid. You can't moan at a hours worth of big Clive 👍