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Not "plastic vice jaws", they are called "Soft Jaws", the intended purpose is to prevent the hardened jaws of a vice form maring whatever you are trying to hold. They can also be made as opposed to being bought.
Brian, if there's any chance you're reading this, i just wanted to say thank you for all the free coffees and drinks i won back in high school with the tricks you taught me back in Scam School ❤
Ok, I didn't see the answer so I will answer it. Calipers work the same way, but the electric ones use the methods analog ones but directly translated to a contact board. To learn how the digital ones work, you need to understand how normal ones do. There's a class called "reading of mechanical drawings and metrology", I did 80h of each and it's cheap and you learn a lot. It was there that I learned. If you draw 10 lines on a piece of paper and 9 on a second one of the same length, both equally distributed, you will have 2 piece of papers with lines that will never align 2 lines qt the same time. As you try to move one piece, only one line will align and that's what the circuit does, it align both connections one at the time and by calculating what align and what do not align, it can get precise measurements cor the amount of distance one of the boards traveled. The way you can "prove" it is doing the paper thing, theoretically you will be doing a crude caliper. Do the lines and pick a ruler. the 10 lines should be a precize measure, the 9 ones should be the same size of the other piece but the space between the lines will be bigger. In the start will be zero with both the first line of both and the 10-9 lines align. As you move, stop when any 2 lines align and measure how much you have moved the piece of paper. Do it until the first line of one reach the last line of the other. Congratulations You just make a ruler and a way to measure 10 times more precise the amount of the same ruler (1mm - 0.1mm or 1 inch - 0.1 inch more precise. Ex.: 1inch, 1.1inch, 1.2inches, 1.3inch3s, etc.). The only way to learn better is to take the class. But with the experiment you will probably never have problem with any caliper.
I'd take that class, no question! I learned extremely basic architectural drafting in a design-for-non-majors class in college like 20 years ago and it has been one of the absolute most useful skillsets for me in multiple industries. Still have my architect scale ruler from the class and use it frequently.
@amuseliese I wish this kind of classes were more disclosed to the public, if my grandpa didn't took it for his work on lathe and other things on the industry I wouldn't even know it existed. I commented some things I learned with friends and they found time to look them up. All my friends always thank me for showing them. All of it extremely useful. Good to know there's things that are useful and fun to learn still.
Love the intro. Honestly this channel and scam stuff have both inspired me so much. I’ve learned so many things from this that also caused me to learn other skills on top of it. Thank you for everything
Does anyone else love that Modern Rouge (lol) manifests the degrees of separation between Bill, Deviant, and the Lockpicking Lawyer? All we need is Wesley Treat, Colin Furze, and AvE, and we'll have the whole youtube royalty collection! (PS: Clive's accent is Manx, not Scots. It is lovely, though!)
I think this is somehow the first time I'm ever hearing about/noticing the Isle of Man! Total blind spot for me, I had no idea. XD I appreciate the correction.
Well Bill is on the Tested team, so he’s got a direct link to Adam Savage, who acts as a fantastic hub if you want to get around the YT Maker Space. For example, Tested and Colin Furze have both participated in the YT Maker Secret Santa, so there’s a path right there.
Actually, about that digital thing, it seems to me as a straight up nonius reading, which is an awesome quirk of measurement, and most measuring devices actually have them physical. Basically say you have a real ruler with 100mm of range, then you get another ruler that will be your nonius, you mark where it aligns with 0mm and 9mm, and then divide that ruler into 10 equidistant notches. Doing that means that moving the nonius ruler 0.1mm would make the 0 on the nonius not align with 0mm mark, but 1 on the nonius will get aligned with 1mm mark, move 0.1 again and 2 aligns with 2mm, then 3 with 3, 4 with 4 until you move past 0.9 where, on the 0.9+0.1=1, 0 will again align perfectly with the scale, and every other notch will necessarily not align with the scale. That's the magic of nonius and it's very cool. And now that you know that basic principle, you can scale noniuses in every way possible, on micrometers you usually get a circular nonius, perpendicular to the actual ruler, the principle is the same, just the format is a bit different. It's all very cool. And the electric version seems to be just that, but you actually just align the circuit, which is also a very cool simple and obvious solution
I hadnt realised the calipers worked EXACTLY the same as the mechanical VERNIER scale, two scales slightly offset so which lines line up give you the 1/10mm accuracy, why change a classic?
15 minutes in. I'm sure I'm not the only one to read the comments, but it's well worth learning how the analog Vernier calipers work so you have an idea what the digital ones are doing
Unfortunately digital calipers have nothing to do with Vernier scales. They have a small series of capacitive sensing pads on the internal PCB. The digital calipers are often called "Vernier" only as a hold over from the analog days.
As a Machinist, I highly appreciate this episode! I will add, some cheaper digital calipers can start giving wrong numbers if oil gets into the mechanism of it, but an analog one, without the display but just lines on it, can be learned easily, and doesn't suffer from the problems digital calipers can have. They can be cheaper as well because of the lack of electronics.
Good tip, on my digital one I have to remove the battery after use, since mine probably has a phantom drain. But the analog version my father have is still working fine after 40++ years 😊
@@frederlendrundhaug2989 There's a file on thingiverse for a little tab to slide under the battery to disconnect it when not in use. less than a cent's worth of filament and less time to print than to get from your computer to your 3d printer.
8:52 I actually did that once. I had a cigar cutter that had both straight cut and V cut on it. I lined my cigar up to the V cut, and didn’t notice my finger was in the hole for the straight cut. Went through the cigar and into my finger
There are utility knives for opening packaging. They have a blade section that retracts via a spring. So you can use your thumb to push out the blade the exact distance you need it to cut. Very useful to cut the tape on cardboard boxes without damaging the content. I got one at my old job for unboxing things and I still use it for all of my private package opening needs.
Going to take a random layman's guess at how the calipers work: They work just like a non-digital caliper works, but instead of having two ruler gauges it uses two sequenced circuit boards to measure the voltage along the device's board and with that it can tell you the measurement.
I have one! Emergent Beacon takes time to put together but that channel is concentrated Brandt energy, and I also post more casually to my personal channel sometimes.
For opening boxes: Place your finger on the back of the utility knife blade to act as a stop. The closer to the tip of the blade, the shallower the cut. Don't do this on things that are difficult to cut or where your hand may slip, but it's perfect for packaging tape.
How digital calipers work is like dead easy to. For every possible measurement there is a unique set of those circuit board bits that line up with eachother. It basically just has a lookup table that tells it what the measurement is for each unique arrangement.
This video gave me a several ideas for last minute holiday shopping. Particularly the magnetic tray and the center punch. I was helping my father install a light in the kitchen. We needed to drill a few holes and keep track of screws. These tools would have been useful.
Being a trade bro helps, I legitimately didn't know about the ratcheting finger snips but now I do But like if I asked you to compile a code base I sent you Could you do it on the first try?
@ not in the slightest. That’s why I put the emphasis on “almost” not “painful”. I get it. I have experience with tools and concepts that not everyone does and there is far more I don’t know than I do. I think it surprised me because the trades USED to be relatively common. That said every sector has its jargon and specialized tools.
Is it weird that I'm excited about the counter getting rolled back? It is right? I'm worried about Bill giving Brian his own utility knife but strangely anticipating it's next use. Also, Brandt, never leave.
You can also use the end of the calipers, opposite the flimsy depth gauge, to measure. Basically a beefier but less versatile version of the depth gauge. As for the out of phase thing, look up how to read vernier calipers (older version of these) and the calipers are basically doing that digitally, I imagine.
lol if you like that spring-action center punch, look up the Mayhew Hammerless Center and Prick Punch (or most of the similar products). They've got two striking ends with a spring in the middle kinda like the gnarliest slinky ever...grip at one end and pull the other back, then let go and let the spring and striking head do all the work. Super handy for curved surfaces where it can be a little hard to get enough force to activate the punch without the tip skating (or soft materials where it can dig in too far before the spring even activates)
Bill: can't belive he gave Brian a cordless drill as he pinches his finger using pvc pipe cutter. And puts drill and other tools away. Also Bill: Hands Brian a utility knife. 🤔🤷🏻♂️ This video opened with him saying he's watched most of MR videos. While I don't want to call him a liar. This along with him not learning from putting the drill away just a few moments prior. I'm left to question his memory skills. Are you a goldfish sir? 🤔 I love all the Modern Rouges and guests. Don't ever change! 😂😄
I could easily be wrong, as I am no engineer. But I believe digital calipers work by measuring either the inductance, capacitance, or resistance of the encoder bar that runs along the rule of the calipers. They are most definitely measuring some value as they keep said value when its 'off' which is really a sleep mode and is why the battery dies when you dont use them.
I needed a bushing for my truck so I go to the parts house and they say there's two different ones. Of course I grab the wrong one so I go back with my original and vernier calipers so they can measure what I need it to be. They're lost and have to use their digital calipers instead. Any tool can go out of calibration but when digital errs in scaling you often have no symptoms to tell you that, whereas with vernier calipers any errors will appear at 'zero' and are both apparent and can be accurately compensated for. Dial calipers are similar but can also have a loss of accuracy in the gear mechanism which may not be apparent and cannot be compensated for. When digital or dial calipers go bad they're junk and you have to buy a new tool. Most important is that the battery never goes dead in a vernier caliper because there isn't one. Use it correctly and it will never fail you.
I like using Chopin's "Wrong Note" when I'm not fully confident in an explanation or just generally to support the idea that someone is misunderstanding / something is off. These days I try to signpost secret messages so we don't cultivate an audience of conspiracy theorists seeing something in everything. XD
it is notable that the jaws of calipers are square so measuring the inside of a pipe will result in an error which gets worse the smaller the diameter of the pipe is
I know we missed Brandt's bit, we haven't got any since a while back but, if you don't have anything to say, don't say. Well, the point of that bit is for people that are curious about the topic and Brandt giving a very simple explanation and giving a source for better explanation. So I don't know. It's really on the line of should be there or shouldn't be there, for me at least. I'm gonna stop now, I might keep ranting about things that no one should care about for all I know.
I understand your concern, but here's where I'm coming from. I think about it from a perspective of scientific methodology: when you see something that doesn't make sense to you, should you stay silent until you get a brain blast and everything falls into place, or do you document your observations? Now it can certainly be argued I didn't have a strong hypothesis to explain those observations, so maybe the science metaphor only goes so far, but academics share their findings with their field to engender further study. Progress takes many paths. Brian and Bill took the first step, I took the second, and our audience took the third. I believe there's merit in revealing how a thing is constructed, even if you can't explain how every piece functions in concert with one another. In doing so, we have a few comments that have given plausible mechanisms that explain the internal design I described. That's really cool and a good use of our platform, imo! In many ways the show has always been about defining the boundaries of what we know, and if nothing else, we're upfront about that. I guess I could have summarized my findings in on-screen text, but would that have been more fun to watch? Even had we gotten no explanations from viewers, I could have easily removed any mention of "how does a caliper work" from the video and it would have inspired no critical thought in our viewers. Nobody would have to confront *their own* ignorance of how digital calipers work, nobody would have to think. We could all just sit back and clap and holler at the injury counter reset. (I'm being reductive here for affect.) That just feels like such a wasted opportunity to me.
@@BrandtHughes fair point. you did tell that it just an off hand and simple explanation from an observation and pointed to a source. plus, this video isnt specifically about how calipers works (other than the charcloth explanation from starting fire episode, which is probably due its easier to explain and the video is too short.), and its functionality is already explored by Brian and Bill. all and all, i just glad theres a deeper reasoning to that section other than to pad out video duration and the long absence of your bit. It just too much slop content on yt and im worried in a way, its effect/affect (idk which one to use. I think its affect?) the production value. One more thing, have a great day and keep up the great work!
When using a utility knife to open a box tilt the knife almost flush with the box. Then your blade cuts into the flaps of the box and not into what is in the box.
It's hilarious that he says he's afraid to use his Utilikey to open boxes, but I just saw him so exactly that in the Torbrenner unboxing, and I use mine for opening boxes all of the time, so much so that I have one at every station, er, I mean I buy more of them if I ever find I don't have one in arms reach.
The muffled sounds of explanation, as the camera follows the tip of that centerpunch... (Giving us a glimpse into Brian's "What can I destroy with this.." brain fart)... Is your editor also a comedian per chance? Because that was funny - Also, try a step drill in an impact driver ;) Hella fun.. (Use them in wood, aluminium, steel... Just don't use the expensive ones for that, but the 'couple bucks a step drill' ones. They work fine. You'll break a tip after a year or 2 of abuse, but then it just works like a step drill that needs a bigger pilot hole... A bit like how a broken escalator will become stairs) Swiss cheese ALL THE THINGS!
Man, for all the specialized knowledge Brian has, it seems there are some MASSIVE gaps in his basic handyman/maker skills. I'm blown away that he didn't know what a center punch is, and that he's never seen a magnetic parts tray. And the fact he's never seen a PVC cutter is absolutely wild to me. What does he do when he has a busted pipe in his house? Call a plumber? Does he seriously pay a plumber to do something that any idiot could do in like 20 minutes with like $15 worth of tools and materials?
20 minutes. Oh, man. What I'd give to have 20 whole minutes to fix something like that. Even the 1 minute it's taking to reply to this comment feel like a luxury!
(psst, hey GeneralNickles, little secret. He's partially playing the everyman) ;) But yeah, agreed ModernRogue, I too wasted time commenting on this as well 😂 Now I only have FIFTEEN minutes to complete the task mentioned!
1:26 Im immediately 10000% sold on this man's expertise. Spring punches are *THE SHIT* Theyre so nice!! Edit: okay also my god so many of these are imo basic, so i am a little terrified they had to be brought in for this episode
I think Brian must have studied more bar tricks in the past than using different common tools :P I'll have to get some of those center punches for the cars though, didn't think of using that for breaking the window if I ever needed to.
IDK if it just me but it feels as thought the quality level of the content being released keeps dropping more and more as time goes by, kind of like bread slowly getting old and going stale.
If you've ever used an analog caliper, you'd understand the stagger of the circuit board. Old school sh... lining up the little lines and doing the math wasn't fun.
I miss the older episodes.... MR used to actually do and test stuff! Lite things on fire and try and blow things up!! What happened??? Now it's just how to open locks, how to hack something, guests and stories of people. YES, all that has been a part the The MR but that's ALL it is now! Where are the weapons? The crazy cooking? The science adjacent chemistry? Where's the Alcohol? The crime/ crime scene stuff? Spy tech and scavenger hunts?? Seriously what happened? I still love The MR but it's changed so much I barely watch it.... maybe 2 or 3 videos a year. Y'all really need to sit down and think about how to revamp the channel and make videos that are exciting again! Videos that not only bring back the old viewers but bring in new. Please 🙏 Im literally begging you. This used to be one of my favorite channels and would watch every video and the outtakes. Now it's just seems like a talk show and is very uninteresting.... Much Love MR
I watch modern rogue for the same reason I used to watch Mythbusters. Both are fascinating disasters, cringy but can't look away. Brushwood should be embarrassed and ashamed but he's not smart enough
An entire collection of starter tools that everyone should have... so basic I can't believe you felt the need to make a video as if they were something new? Seriously, Brian... yikes.
Starter tools everyone should have, and you don’t find out about any of them until you’re fairly experienced. How many starting enthusiasts use a ruler in place of calipers? When do you get told about why there are score lines on a utility knife blade? Why use a step drill over a hole cutter? These are starting tools, not obvious tools.
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Not "plastic vice jaws", they are called "Soft Jaws", the intended purpose is to prevent the hardened jaws of a vice form maring whatever you are trying to hold. They can also be made as opposed to being bought.
You didnt mention steonmeqsurementson the caliper. You can measure the depth ofnlike tiny stair shaped things with them to.
Best Modern Rogue intro ever??? This was a TON of fun! Can't wait to go back to MRHQ for more shenanigans! =D
Great tips Bill, hope you had a nice time in town!
@@gingermany6223I had the BEST time. Ate like a king!
They need to start selling "Bill Doran the builder man" t-shirts or something. That intro was hilarious.
Brian, if there's any chance you're reading this, i just wanted to say thank you for all the free coffees and drinks i won back in high school with the tricks you taught me back in Scam School ❤
yay!!!
I made friends and just leeched off of them on the basis of friendship, like a normal human
I just wanted to say I love the use of 3d scanning the different items for the close up spin shot. Awesome Video!!
The editing on this is actually fire, completely underrated channel
So happy to see the modern rogue rolling it back... Fun episode, like the old times.
Bill Doran the Builder Man killed me.
BTW Brandt with the win
An MR video WITH Bill and a Brandt appearance PLUS a reference to BigClive?? 😯🤤
Big fan of the aesthetic that's been cultivated, as well as the content of this one. All very tactile, pleasing.
Brian is good at playing the 'everyman' and asks the questions some of us want.
15:17 It's effectively a digital version of the Vernier scale. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernier_scale
That's so clever, thanks for this!
Was about to make this comment. When watching it my mind went "wait, is it basically a circuitboard vernier caliper? That's really clever."
Ok, I didn't see the answer so I will answer it.
Calipers work the same way, but the electric ones use the methods analog ones but directly translated to a contact board. To learn how the digital ones work, you need to understand how normal ones do.
There's a class called "reading of mechanical drawings and metrology", I did 80h of each and it's cheap and you learn a lot. It was there that I learned.
If you draw 10 lines on a piece of paper and 9 on a second one of the same length, both equally distributed, you will have 2 piece of papers with lines that will never align 2 lines qt the same time. As you try to move one piece, only one line will align and that's what the circuit does, it align both connections one at the time and by calculating what align and what do not align, it can get precise measurements cor the amount of distance one of the boards traveled.
The way you can "prove" it is doing the paper thing, theoretically you will be doing a crude caliper. Do the lines and pick a ruler. the 10 lines should be a precize measure, the 9 ones should be the same size of the other piece but the space between the lines will be bigger.
In the start will be zero with both the first line of both and the 10-9 lines align. As you move, stop when any 2 lines align and measure how much you have moved the piece of paper. Do it until the first line of one reach the last line of the other. Congratulations You just make a ruler and a way to measure 10 times more precise the amount of the same ruler (1mm - 0.1mm or 1 inch - 0.1 inch more precise. Ex.: 1inch, 1.1inch, 1.2inches, 1.3inch3s, etc.).
The only way to learn better is to take the class. But with the experiment you will probably never have problem with any caliper.
I'd take that class, no question! I learned extremely basic architectural drafting in a design-for-non-majors class in college like 20 years ago and it has been one of the absolute most useful skillsets for me in multiple industries. Still have my architect scale ruler from the class and use it frequently.
@amuseliese I wish this kind of classes were more disclosed to the public, if my grandpa didn't took it for his work on lathe and other things on the industry I wouldn't even know it existed. I commented some things I learned with friends and they found time to look them up. All my friends always thank me for showing them. All of it extremely useful. Good to know there's things that are useful and fun to learn still.
Love the intro. Honestly this channel and scam stuff have both inspired me so much. I’ve learned so many things from this that also caused me to learn other skills on top of it.
Thank you for everything
Thank you!!!! -Brian
Does anyone else love that Modern Rouge (lol) manifests the degrees of separation between Bill, Deviant, and the Lockpicking Lawyer?
All we need is Wesley Treat, Colin Furze, and AvE, and we'll have the whole youtube royalty collection!
(PS: Clive's accent is Manx, not Scots. It is lovely, though!)
I think this is somehow the first time I'm ever hearing about/noticing the Isle of Man! Total blind spot for me, I had no idea. XD I appreciate the correction.
Well Bill is on the Tested team, so he’s got a direct link to Adam Savage, who acts as a fantastic hub if you want to get around the YT Maker Space.
For example, Tested and Colin Furze have both participated in the YT Maker Secret Santa, so there’s a path right there.
10:20 Bill realizing he shouldn't have handed Brian a power tool 😂
PVC cutter you go 2 clicks into the pipe then turn around the pipe . It cuts it and makes sure you don't pinch your finger or oblong pipe
Actually, about that digital thing, it seems to me as a straight up nonius reading, which is an awesome quirk of measurement, and most measuring devices actually have them physical.
Basically say you have a real ruler with 100mm of range, then you get another ruler that will be your nonius, you mark where it aligns with 0mm and 9mm, and then divide that ruler into 10 equidistant notches. Doing that means that moving the nonius ruler 0.1mm would make the 0 on the nonius not align with 0mm mark, but 1 on the nonius will get aligned with 1mm mark, move 0.1 again and 2 aligns with 2mm, then 3 with 3, 4 with 4 until you move past 0.9 where, on the 0.9+0.1=1, 0 will again align perfectly with the scale, and every other notch will necessarily not align with the scale. That's the magic of nonius and it's very cool. And now that you know that basic principle, you can scale noniuses in every way possible, on micrometers you usually get a circular nonius, perpendicular to the actual ruler, the principle is the same, just the format is a bit different. It's all very cool.
And the electric version seems to be just that, but you actually just align the circuit, which is also a very cool simple and obvious solution
7:16 “help step drill bit I’m stuck”
I hadnt realised the calipers worked EXACTLY the same as the mechanical VERNIER scale, two scales slightly offset so which lines line up give you the 1/10mm accuracy, why change a classic?
15 minutes in. I'm sure I'm not the only one to read the comments, but it's well worth learning how the analog Vernier calipers work so you have an idea what the digital ones are doing
Unfortunately digital calipers have nothing to do with Vernier scales. They have a small series of capacitive sensing pads on the internal PCB. The digital calipers are often called "Vernier" only as a hold over from the analog days.
@@gizmoguyar My bad. I misspoke
As a Machinist, I highly appreciate this episode! I will add, some cheaper digital calipers can start giving wrong numbers if oil gets into the mechanism of it, but an analog one, without the display but just lines on it, can be learned easily, and doesn't suffer from the problems digital calipers can have. They can be cheaper as well because of the lack of electronics.
Don't be like me and actually change the battery in your digital one or you get the worst of both worlds using digital calipers as analog ones
Good tip, on my digital one I have to remove the battery after use, since mine probably has a phantom drain. But the analog version my father have is still working fine after 40++ years 😊
@@frederlendrundhaug2989 There's a file on thingiverse for a little tab to slide under the battery to disconnect it when not in use. less than a cent's worth of filament and less time to print than to get from your computer to your 3d printer.
That intro was the most epic thing EVER!
Bill Doran my GOAT❤ so good to see him back on MR
Wow I did not think I would be seeing a big clive cameo in here! Very cool.
8:52 I actually did that once. I had a cigar cutter that had both straight cut and V cut on it. I lined my cigar up to the V cut, and didn’t notice my finger was in the hole for the straight cut. Went through the cigar and into my finger
You never realize how much force a process takes, or on the flipside, how delicate our digits are, until you do the thing on a finger
That Bill Nye gag brought back so many memories of middle school
Yay! A shout-out to Big Clive! Big Clive and Deviant would make a great band!
There are utility knives for opening packaging. They have a blade section that retracts via a spring. So you can use your thumb to push out the blade the exact distance you need it to cut. Very useful to cut the tape on cardboard boxes without damaging the content. I got one at my old job for unboxing things and I still use it for all of my private package opening needs.
Going to take a random layman's guess at how the calipers work: They work just like a non-digital caliper works, but instead of having two ruler gauges it uses two sequenced circuit boards to measure the voltage along the device's board and with that it can tell you the measurement.
ok brandt butting in to explain calipers made this video. the giantbomb shirt? the big clive plug?! get this man his own show
I have one! Emergent Beacon takes time to put together but that channel is concentrated Brandt energy, and I also post more casually to my personal channel sometimes.
Poor Bill, it's like watching Stephen Hawking explain physics to a toddler. 😂
accurate.
For opening boxes: Place your finger on the back of the utility knife blade to act as a stop. The closer to the tip of the blade, the shallower the cut.
Don't do this on things that are difficult to cut or where your hand may slip, but it's perfect for packaging tape.
a lot of utility knives also have blade snappers built in. that way you dont have to fidget with a still pretty sharp blade and a pair of pliers.
How digital calipers work is like dead easy to. For every possible measurement there is a unique set of those circuit board bits that line up with eachother.
It basically just has a lookup table that tells it what the measurement is for each unique arrangement.
Harbor Freight was the MVP of this episode
7:34 TWIST THE TOOL! slicing soft plastics is easier then slowly chopping. (my personal experience)
This video gave me a several ideas for last minute holiday shopping.
Particularly the magnetic tray and the center punch.
I was helping my father install a light in the kitchen. We needed to drill a few holes and keep track of screws. These tools would have been useful.
harbor freight often gives those little trays out for free (although they're only a few bucks so I guess not really worth waiting for).
Being in the trades, this was ALMOST painful to watch. But the explanations were pretty good.👍 great job guys
Being a trade bro helps, I legitimately didn't know about the ratcheting finger snips but now I do
But like if I asked you to compile a code base I sent you
Could you do it on the first try?
@ not in the slightest. That’s why I put the emphasis on “almost” not “painful”. I get it. I have experience with tools and concepts that not everyone does and there is far more I don’t know than I do. I think it surprised me because the trades USED to be relatively common. That said every sector has its jargon and specialized tools.
Is it weird that I'm excited about the counter getting rolled back? It is right? I'm worried about Bill giving Brian his own utility knife but strangely anticipating it's next use. Also, Brandt, never leave.
Brian putting the jaws on wrong multiple times over made me want to yell at the screen so bad, even though i never used them lol
You can also use the end of the calipers, opposite the flimsy depth gauge, to measure. Basically a beefier but less versatile version of the depth gauge. As for the out of phase thing, look up how to read vernier calipers (older version of these) and the calipers are basically doing that digitally, I imagine.
Wow the injury reset counter was so high.
There have been a lot of "talky" episodes.
lol if you like that spring-action center punch, look up the Mayhew Hammerless Center and Prick Punch (or most of the similar products). They've got two striking ends with a spring in the middle kinda like the gnarliest slinky ever...grip at one end and pull the other back, then let go and let the spring and striking head do all the work. Super handy for curved surfaces where it can be a little hard to get enough force to activate the punch without the tip skating (or soft materials where it can dig in too far before the spring even activates)
Great Colab! Can never have to many tools!
I’m a huge Giantbomb fan, awesome shirt
6:42 "What're you doing, Step-Drillbit?!"
Bill: can't belive he gave Brian a cordless drill as he pinches his finger using pvc pipe cutter. And puts drill and other tools away.
Also Bill: Hands Brian a utility knife.
🤔🤷🏻♂️
This video opened with him saying he's watched most of MR videos. While I don't want to call him a liar. This along with him not learning from putting the drill away just a few moments prior. I'm left to question his memory skills. Are you a goldfish sir? 🤔
I love all the Modern Rouges and guests. Don't ever change! 😂😄
"I am genuinely shocked!" LMAO.
Holy sht an actual episode on the compound
I could easily be wrong, as I am no engineer. But I believe digital calipers work by measuring either the inductance, capacitance, or resistance of the encoder bar that runs along the rule of the calipers. They are most definitely measuring some value as they keep said value when its 'off' which is really a sleep mode and is why the battery dies when you dont use them.
that actually depends on callipers. I have one that turns off completely and doesn't store the value that was measured before.
The clamps work well for crushing the separated out active ingredient in your "oregano" ifyaknowutimean 😎
I needed a bushing for my truck so I go to the parts house and they say there's two different ones. Of course I grab the wrong one so I go back with my original and vernier calipers so they can measure what I need it to be. They're lost and have to use their digital calipers instead.
Any tool can go out of calibration but when digital errs in scaling you often have no symptoms to tell you that, whereas with vernier calipers any errors will appear at 'zero' and are both apparent and can be accurately compensated for. Dial calipers are similar but can also have a loss of accuracy in the gear mechanism which may not be apparent and cannot be compensated for. When digital or dial calipers go bad they're junk and you have to buy a new tool. Most important is that the battery never goes dead in a vernier caliper because there isn't one. Use it correctly and it will never fail you.
...the digital ones also have measurements printed on them, so....
@@JD2jr. But not to a full level of accuracy, so useless.
@@P_RO_ Enough to tell you if it's off, which was the initial complaint.
Definitely couldn't have had Cori in this one, lol
Might I recommend the Milwaukee m12 fuel 90° die grinder?
I pushed a center punch into my Dads car window as a kid, I don't know what I expected but the thing just completely exploded and he was fuming
oh, yeah: that tempered glass is under stress at all times (by design)... I bet it looked spectacular. (Sorry if you got in trouble, tho)
Watching bryan interact with stuff painfully reminds me of my own adhd
A classic MR callback?
Epic!
The first tool seems to give that same satisfying click and actuation that a wire punch down tool has.
The past tense title sent a ping of nostalgia
very useful video!
Me, during the Brandt Hughes intermission: "That music in the background is a little discordant. I bet there's a message hidden in it..."
I like using Chopin's "Wrong Note" when I'm not fully confident in an explanation or just generally to support the idea that someone is misunderstanding / something is off. These days I try to signpost secret messages so we don't cultivate an audience of conspiracy theorists seeing something in everything. XD
2:37 carry one in your car if you ever fear of going under water for any reason
it is notable that the jaws of calipers are square so measuring the inside of a pipe will result in an error which gets worse the smaller the diameter of the pipe is
AMAZING VIDEO!!!
I keep hearing him say "I have one on every workstation" but how many dose he have
so the two circuit boards act as a digital vernier caliper, neat
So electric calipers use the same tech as old fashioned vernier calipers interesting. I imagine it works kinda like a card reader
I know we missed Brandt's bit, we haven't got any since a while back but, if you don't have anything to say, don't say. Well, the point of that bit is for people that are curious about the topic and Brandt giving a very simple explanation and giving a source for better explanation. So I don't know. It's really on the line of should be there or shouldn't be there, for me at least. I'm gonna stop now, I might keep ranting about things that no one should care about for all I know.
I understand your concern, but here's where I'm coming from. I think about it from a perspective of scientific methodology: when you see something that doesn't make sense to you, should you stay silent until you get a brain blast and everything falls into place, or do you document your observations? Now it can certainly be argued I didn't have a strong hypothesis to explain those observations, so maybe the science metaphor only goes so far, but academics share their findings with their field to engender further study. Progress takes many paths. Brian and Bill took the first step, I took the second, and our audience took the third.
I believe there's merit in revealing how a thing is constructed, even if you can't explain how every piece functions in concert with one another. In doing so, we have a few comments that have given plausible mechanisms that explain the internal design I described. That's really cool and a good use of our platform, imo! In many ways the show has always been about defining the boundaries of what we know, and if nothing else, we're upfront about that. I guess I could have summarized my findings in on-screen text, but would that have been more fun to watch? Even had we gotten no explanations from viewers, I could have easily removed any mention of "how does a caliper work" from the video and it would have inspired no critical thought in our viewers. Nobody would have to confront *their own* ignorance of how digital calipers work, nobody would have to think. We could all just sit back and clap and holler at the injury counter reset. (I'm being reductive here for affect.) That just feels like such a wasted opportunity to me.
@@BrandtHughes fair point. you did tell that it just an off hand and simple explanation from an observation and pointed to a source. plus, this video isnt specifically about how calipers works (other than the charcloth explanation from starting fire episode, which is probably due its easier to explain and the video is too short.), and its functionality is already explored by Brian and Bill.
all and all, i just glad theres a deeper reasoning to that section other than to pad out video duration and the long absence of your bit. It just too much slop content on yt and im worried in a way, its effect/affect (idk which one to use. I think its affect?) the production value.
One more thing, have a great day and keep up the great work!
When using a utility knife to open a box tilt the knife almost flush with the box. Then your blade cuts into the flaps of the box and not into what is in the box.
It's hilarious that he says he's afraid to use his Utilikey to open boxes, but I just saw him so exactly that in the Torbrenner unboxing, and I use mine for opening boxes all of the time, so much so that I have one at every station, er, I mean I buy more of them if I ever find I don't have one in arms reach.
1st item is called a center punch
calipers=magic
Just FYI, you should always hand tools, especially bladed tools, to someone handle first. It's a safety issue.
oh no step drill bit, i'm stuck
I'm about to send this to my gf as a Christmas guide (I joke, I already asked for a decent vernier calipers)
Is Jason no longer associated with the modern rogue??
The muffled sounds of explanation, as the camera follows the tip of that centerpunch... (Giving us a glimpse into Brian's "What can I destroy with this.." brain fart)...
Is your editor also a comedian per chance?
Because that was funny
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Also, try a step drill in an impact driver ;) Hella fun.. (Use them in wood, aluminium, steel... Just don't use the expensive ones for that, but the 'couple bucks a step drill' ones. They work fine.
You'll break a tip after a year or 2 of abuse, but then it just works like a step drill that needs a bigger pilot hole...
A bit like how a broken escalator will become stairs)
Swiss cheese ALL THE THINGS!
I forget that sometimes there are people who don't know anything about tools, and I shouldn't get mad at them 😂😂
No, you should get mad at there parents, because they failed there children.
Howler bro!!!!!!!
7:15 step drill I’m stuck! Can you help me?
Man, for all the specialized knowledge Brian has, it seems there are some MASSIVE gaps in his basic handyman/maker skills.
I'm blown away that he didn't know what a center punch is, and that he's never seen a magnetic parts tray. And the fact he's never seen a PVC cutter is absolutely wild to me. What does he do when he has a busted pipe in his house? Call a plumber? Does he seriously pay a plumber to do something that any idiot could do in like 20 minutes with like $15 worth of tools and materials?
20 minutes. Oh, man. What I'd give to have 20 whole minutes to fix something like that. Even the 1 minute it's taking to reply to this comment feel like a luxury!
(psst, hey GeneralNickles, little secret. He's partially playing the everyman) ;)
But yeah, agreed ModernRogue, I too wasted time commenting on this as well 😂 Now I only have FIFTEEN minutes to complete the task mentioned!
You trusted him with a sharp knife, never give the talent non prop items
hah! That's actually a plot point in the next episode!
If you need even better clamps, kant twist
tools are cool
Even if you buy cheap calipers at least get them metal. Plastic is too flexible. Get dial ones if you don’t like batteries
People thought his name was builder man....I don't wanna live on this planet anymore
BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL
oh and a silicone parts dish
1:26 Im immediately 10000% sold on this man's expertise. Spring punches are *THE SHIT* Theyre so nice!!
Edit: okay also my god so many of these are imo basic, so i am a little terrified they had to be brought in for this episode
I think Brian must have studied more bar tricks in the past than using different common tools :P
I'll have to get some of those center punches for the cars though, didn't think of using that for breaking the window if I ever needed to.
IDK if it just me but it feels as thought the quality level of the content being released keeps dropping more and more as time goes by, kind of like bread slowly getting old and going stale.
Oh no step-drill bit... what are you doing?
I know those tools, someone went to harbor freight.
Good eye! That was the conceit. I think he said so at the beginning. -Brian
Interesting that all thr stills of the tools look 3d scanned.
They are! I 3D scanned them all just for those segment transitions.
@@BrandtHughes and here i thought it had something to do with those 3d printers being out.
If you've ever used an analog caliper, you'd understand the stagger of the circuit board. Old school sh... lining up the little lines and doing the math wasn't fun.
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I miss the older episodes.... MR used to actually do and test stuff! Lite things on fire and try and blow things up!! What happened???
Now it's just how to open locks, how to hack something, guests and stories of people. YES, all that has been a part the The MR but that's ALL it is now! Where are the weapons? The crazy cooking? The science adjacent chemistry? Where's the Alcohol? The crime/ crime scene stuff? Spy tech and scavenger hunts??
Seriously what happened? I still love The MR but it's changed so much I barely watch it.... maybe 2 or 3 videos a year.
Y'all really need to sit down and think about how to revamp the channel and make videos that are exciting again! Videos that not only bring back the old viewers but bring in new. Please 🙏
Im literally begging you.
This used to be one of my favorite channels and would watch every video and the outtakes.
Now it's just seems like a talk show and is very uninteresting....
Much Love MR
I watch modern rogue for the same reason I used to watch Mythbusters. Both are fascinating disasters, cringy but can't look away. Brushwood should be embarrassed and ashamed but he's not smart enough
Heh. I guess you could think of it that way.
High praise directly comparing Rogue and Mythbusters. And I agree they should be. Brian is very educational.
Oh no, step-drillbit, I'm stuck in this PVC pipe. I hope you don't do anything funny...
Those 3D scans are garbagio, great video otherwise though
I think that's part of the aesthetic. makes 'em look a bit more mysterious, imo.
@@ModernRogue Sure, I thought the center punch was a prison shank cause I couldnt tell what it was
An entire collection of starter tools that everyone should have... so basic I can't believe you felt the need to make a video as if they were something new? Seriously, Brian... yikes.
yikes?
Starter tools everyone should have, and you don’t find out about any of them until you’re fairly experienced. How many starting enthusiasts use a ruler in place of calipers? When do you get told about why there are score lines on a utility knife blade? Why use a step drill over a hole cutter? These are starting tools, not obvious tools.