The meter may not have been able to catch the actual peak voltage. It would have been able to catch it rising slowly on the capacitors though. Some of these units put out up to 1000V peak when they trigger.
bigclivedotcom love seeing when my two favorite channels watch each other. Pure quality and unadulterated fun from both. Y'all need to do a collaboration
Imagine cranking this thing with half a ton of boom sticks on the other end, with no way of knowing when its gonna pop. Jack in the box from hell, the anticipation alone would kill me.
Reasons why the US/UK didn't use this for anything besides engineering purposes or disposing of explosives. You'd normally be pretty far away if you're using this old thing. The better ones were smaller and used a windup plunger method and actually fit in a demo mans satchel. Only issue is they require silver chloride fuses.
There once was a girl from Kahrue Found an elephant's twang in her stew Said the waiter, "Don't shout, and don't wave it about!" "For the others will all want one too!"
nozmoking1 there once was a girlie named Jill, that used a dynamite stick for a thrill. they found her vagina in south Carolina and bits of her tits in Brazil.
Oooooohhhhh you need to get one of them old WW2 military crank phones. My 5th grade teacher had one. He used to line us up holding hands and see how many of us he could shock at once. Record was 31 btw.
Yes, they do have a bit of bite. Rally interesting to watch is the guy running wire holding both ends of the wire and you give it a twist, then a scream is heard, me and Dan look at each other and in unison Good Circuit
In a weekend in warrior type of event, we played around with army field phones. Just like this thing, it has a crank to fire pixies down the line to ring the bell at the other end. Or "tickle" a Private told to, "Hold these two wires and whatever happens don't drop them!" Didn't take too much cranking to get the yelling to happen.
When I was a young apprenticed sparky my boss would use a hand-cranked 500 volt Megger (low current) insulation & continuity tester to shock me at every opportunity. He thought this was a great laugh until the rainy day he returned from a trip to the van to our place of work with wet hands and placed one hand on the door latch and the other on the key. Unbeknownst to him, I had connected said Megger poles to the inside of both the latch and key and was cranking the tester as fast as it could go when he attempted to open the door. From outside there was a cry and the sound of an armful of electrical components falling to the ground, followed by much laughter on my part. Needless to say, I was never 'Meggered' again after that day. Good days, now sadly long ago!
Accept the perfect handle screwdriver into your life! I'm trying to find a place semi-nearby where I can get 500-1000 of those drop forged for a reasonable price.
If the contact on relay was held in and the generator cranked what do you think the output voltage would be? Would it still peak at 200ish? Or if you disabled the relay from "automatically" switching on can the capacitors produce a bigger bang if you cranked it and then manually engaged the relay contacts?
All my videos that venture into blasting get demonetized. But hey even if I do a video with no swearing or anything wrong it's still demonetized. UA-cam never tell you where the problem lies. I dare say that beautiful machine is built to shoot 50 caps in series. The blasting mother you want is the Beethoven Mk 7 Exploder. That baby's got a killer sting. Condenser style exploders don't like parallel circuits. Their impulse is too quick to excite the circuit when the bridgewires are stacked up in parallel. Anyway it's a job for some. Obviously UA-cam is in RIP mode. Killed by PewDiePie
I’m a blaster myself and if you want to get rid of this wonderful machine, I would trade you a newer model for it! A plastiiic fantastique batteria operated 10 caps wonder! For the record, a 12v car battery will usually fail to detonate multiple blastic caps in one circuit... You need a higher voltage in order to innitiate multiple electric caps... Mind you, I have used a car battery, a compressor battery as well as a handheld radio battery to initiate a single cap on non-electric blasts! But the best emergency method is to connect multiple 9v batteries (they snap together!) and get a higher voltage...
good sir, you shure as hell just made my day... that old blasters limerick was something told to me a long time ago and stuck with me ever since... thank you brother, so ever much
@AvE drops "the astute war weary and grizzled veteran campaigners amongst us instantly recognize that despite the patina of chicken shit this did not come out of a mine on account of it not being completely fuckerd", into casual conversation like I'd say "it could be worse". Dude, I bow to your superior gift for turn of phrase and pithy idiom. There are folks on TV making 8 figures who lack the talent to generate as much humor in a year that you can whip up in 11:02. Well played sir!
I have one of these I picked up at a local Sally-Anne thrift store, The lady at the cash asked me what it was for, I new it was for blowing shit up I began to tell her but realized I did not want to tell her anything that might stop me from being able to buy it so I told her "I though it was for setting off fireworks, and just seemed interesting". Mine is in somewhat nicer exterior condition but the same inside I opened it up to just have a peek. I didn't put my meter on it because I wasn't sure about what it put out and didn't want to blow anything up, but It did blow up the bulb in my 12V continuity test light with a good pop.
7:40 I love how he leaves this sort of stuff in. Most YTers would do that to extend the playtime of their video... but AvE does it to show us that even the most seasoned veterans make silly mistakes sometimes. I just love the fact that he shows us that he's a faulty human, just like the rest of us.
In electronics class back in the day we would goof off with camera flash charging boards (remember disposable cameras.) They were a self contained capacitor, charger and battery. Pretty fun probably not around any more. Also in college I remember building a device to charge a capacitor using a 555, transistor and a transformer hooked up in reverse. Good times.
Kind of reminds me of those old phone ringer magnetos. They give you a good zap, many will do 100v ac. Folks use them for fishing and gathering earthworms!
Well, first I want to say sorry for this long ass comment. B. Thanks to AvE and all the girls havin a laugh in the shop... I'm a mostly commercial/lite-industrial service mechanic, and in the last 2 or 3 weeks I've watched probably 240 of your vijayos. I feel like I've learned more about tools, plastics, other materials and tons of other things than I have in the previous 33 years of my life. I love to troubleshoot tough problems, and do all the math, measuring, research, etc...But unfortunately we are the type of mechanical service company that just rips out and replaces many parts. Never really get a chance to dig too deep. So I never have the time to break down a motor, just order the new one from grainger or wherever. 😔.. but anyway, got my first electronics starter kit in the mail today. Bought a $30 elegoo "mega 2560 project" kit on amazon. I was only halfway to my mailbox when the stink of illegal child labor and rotten crab rangoon took my breathe away.... never messed with any of the little components, just curious if there is a good starter project you could recommend for me? I am the main electchicken at my shop. We are all "jack off all trades, master of none" type guys. But the angry pixies I wrangle are 120, 208, 240, 277, and 480... just not sure about these little dc pixies yet. But excited to learn the Lego piece combos to make shit chooch.
Maxx B - Speaking of...he used solid core wire. I read that stranded was "much" better because the DC current, flowing on the surface of the wire, was more efficient because there's more total surface area vs. solid. (skin effect). Now _I already know_ it's irrelevant for what he's actually doing here (f*cking around). I just thought about it and wondered if anyone else heard/learned/read the same thing.
Skin effect from eddy currents is really only an issue with high frequency AC. The caps discharge DC voltage, so either would work fine assuming proper size. Solid core could be preferable for commercial blasting due to it being cheaper. Stranded would have the advantage of not suffering bend radius related work hardening. Thus, the wire used for military purposes, such as claymore wire, is stranded despite being more costly.
After reading some of the comments, I remember many moons ago, when I was a young lad, taking Autobody in High School circa 1969, The shop teacher wanted to demonstrate how volatile acetylene is/was, so he got out a balloon, filled it up to approx. 4-6" in Dia. Then, using a Oxygen / Acetylene torch, to set it off, the out come was much worse then he thought it would be. He wound up with black soot on his face, and his eyeglass's were left ajar on his face. We ALL LAUGHED like no tomorrow. P.S. It should be noted he was a volunteer fireman. First word out of his mouth was WOW!!!! I didn't think it would be that big of an explosion .
Using party poppers, can you set out a grid of them in the pattern used in mining and set them off with the Blasting machine instead of pulling the string... It'd be educational for us and intoxicating for you depending on how much piss you have to sink while doing boring, repetitive stuff on camera :P
Sitting here in my shed in England on a Friday afternoon with a cold one and my laptop is a great time to watch your latest video, being as I'm retired (the missus says that should read 'retarded'). And I wasn't disappointed, as soon as you picked up your jeweller's hammer I knew I was in for a treat with those magical words "tappy tap tap"... I wish you had a live streeming web cam in your shop, I could listen to you all day, it takes me back to my working days, best days of my life. Keep the videos coming pal!
Hook it up to the oscilloscope and watch the waveform like an ignition scope for engines. Mostly because I want to figure out how to get 70kv into the little guy (if remotely possible)
A good way to protect those plastic screens from getting all dickered up is clear packaging tape. If it gets scratched, or covered in shmoo you can peel it off and slap a new piece on good as new.
We used to make the bridge wires for home made dets from resistors, fired with the guts of a disposable camera flash circuit. Those were the days you could play around with such things and not end up wearing an orange jumpsuit.
That dynamo has a gear multiplication, not a reduction. It actually looks a lot like an old telephone ringer from the early days. Those things had a nice bite to them if you ever grabbed it.
When you opened her up and there was not a pile of rusty crusty schmoogunk in it , I thought to myself wow , that's something you never see unless it's new. Always fun and I learn lots of new dittys I am only allowed to tell my wife once , she giggles the first time , and tells me how goofy I am ,any after that and I must get on my knees asking forgiveness. We have a pretty good understanding of one anothers needs and wants lol. Have you made up a tool box for Little Chickadee yet? I bet she would enjoy that. Nothing that cuts or dents just yet.
*AvE* Seems to me you could connect this to a small ball of steel wool and ignite anything you want: campfires from a distance, fuses for fireworks from a long distance-a ball of steel wool burns hot under the influence of angry pixies, and if you blow air at it, stand the fuck back. Thanks for all the great videos.
Just a thought from how you were tapping on the top of that screwdriver/prier- if the titanium blades in the handle were rotated by 90 degrees, you could hit it in the "prying" direction, without transferring the force though that strange spongy cellulose material
This would be a badass igniter for a gas grill. Only problem is the breakdown voltage for air is about 30,000 volts per centimeter so you would only be able to have a max air gap of 0.003” at 220V . You would need to increase the rpm of the generator/dynamo by like 100x. Still would be cool to have a hand crank grill.
A long while back I built an igniter for model rocketry. It had a keypad for a combination , a security key switch and a big button under a red flip door. It was cool I used it to ignite my Weber grill.
Ingenious how this works: generator charges big capacitors and little capacitor. Little capacitor has a neon bulb with a break-over (conduction) voltage of ~60 -120V (works like a HV Zener diode) connected to relay coil; relay discharges large caps to dynamite. Boom. This system is a minimum voltage level auto switch, when you crank enough to charge up the big caps enough, the relay switches them to the dynamite. No batteries or power supply needed! P.S. Gears are not "reduction". The ratio of the Large Gear to the small gear on the dynamo speeds up the RPMs on the generator to produce higher voltage (simple generator = higher RPM = Higher Voltage). DC or AC? Solid or stranded wire? The "skin effect" is better for high frequencies, so stranded wire would be better. Why? The real issue is Dv / Dt (Delta Voltage vs Delta Time), essentially the fast change of the voltage (from the discharge of the Caps). The fast voltage change is equivalent to a high frequency, and would benefit from the "skin effect" (rise time in microseconds, can be seen on an oscilloscope).
My guess is that the generator is AC (like the telephone generators), rectified, and charges up the 2 big caps, when they reach a voltage, the neon fires the small capacitor is also discharged into the relay (holds the relay on long enough), which discharges the big ones Note the bigger gear on the 'handle', so the generator would be going much faster. You could have connected your meter directly to the caps.
I agree ... the neon lamp is connected in series with the relay coil and the small cap goes across the lamp and other terminal of the coil . Cranking the (brushed) generator produces a voltage that charges the all capacitors but the one across the lamp/coil combination charges more slowly (series resistor ?) , this allows the two big caps to fully charge before the small cap reaches about 60 volts to fire the neon lamp (on dc) and dump the small cap into the relay coil thus pulling in the armature and dumping the big caps into the blasting wire terminals . In 1960 , the rectifiers (if used) most likely would have been the selenium type and very noticeable ... they also have a funky (and poisonous) aroma .
It's fun to blow up Christmas lights with those old electric blasting machines. Especially if you heat the tip of the bulb with a lighter, then dip in ice water. Flick the end off the bulb and put some fine FFFF black powder in. Add some fine aluminum shavings for more boom!
If you wanted you could polish the display of your Fruke with some toothpaste to get some of the scratches out, it works with acrylic watch crystals to de-jankify them.
Seems to me that the neon bulb is in series with the relay coil acting like a super simple treshold detector - when the capacitors reach a voltage higher than ~185V (neon bulb striking voltage) it energizes the relay and closes the contacts, finaly dumping current into the blasting caps.
Back in the 1980's, I worked at a consumer electronics repair shop. You're blowing up resistors brings back memories. Take an 8 ohm 1/4 watt resistor and and place it on the back of a speaker attached to the input lugs, then wrap the fuse of a firecracker around it. A tech that just got done repairing an amp will test it out on the speaker and when he turns up the volume....Kaboom!. Today you probably would get fired for that. Back then, you were just told not to do it again.
I can't help but wonder on whether or not if you connect the blasting leads to your car battery, if it will be enough to assplode. And if it doesn't, what if you then try and start the car while everything is connected?
I'd say the neon bulb is used as a voltage latch. They tend to conduct around 90V. So when you turn the crank, both caps get charged from the dynamo. The smaller one is in series with the relay coil, with the neon bulb in the way. When the small cap reaches a high enough voltage, the neon bulb closes the circuit, energizes the relay and the big caps get dumped to the output and ... boom.
I do remember you havin’ grandpappie’s anvil. Your mission: if your willing to except, it is to manufacture enough black powder to blow a cheap princess auto-anvil shaped object (paaso) into orbit using your new bug zapper. Being that you’ve affixed to a stump with denture adhesive you could mill up an irresponsibly large steel vessel to hold the powder.
This is not a limerick but it still gave me a laugh... "The cabin boy. The cabin boy. That dirty lil nipper. He lined his ass with broken glass and circumcised the skipper!"
You probably just started re-forming the capacitors this time out. I wouldn't be surprised if it is capable of much more with them built back up (or replaced).
5:01 "There's a gear reduction in there, so the motor will turn slower", hand crank turns big gear, which in turn turns motor's small gear. It's a gearing increase. This is so that you can turn the hand crank at humane speeds to make the motor chooch at higher speeds, so it generates some proper high voltage charge in the skookum capacitors.
The meter may not have been able to catch the actual peak voltage. It would have been able to catch it rising slowly on the capacitors though. Some of these units put out up to 1000V peak when they trigger.
bigclivedotcom love seeing when my two favorite channels watch each other. Pure quality and unadulterated fun from both. Y'all need to do a collaboration
@@jamesf9610 they have ....you gotta get the onlyfans for that content though
@@jamesf9610 agreed! I’d love a complete list of every time favorite you tubers mention each other.
Imagine cranking this thing with half a ton of boom sticks on the other end, with no way of knowing when its gonna pop. Jack in the box from hell, the anticipation alone would kill me.
Reasons why the US/UK didn't use this for anything besides engineering purposes or disposing of explosives. You'd normally be pretty far away if you're using this old thing. The better ones were smaller and used a windup plunger method and actually fit in a demo mans satchel. Only issue is they require silver chloride fuses.
It should really play "pop goes the weasel" as you crank it.
As an aside: My better 3/4 now uses "carefulling" and "tappy-tap-tap" even though she's never watched any of your content :D
Mine said "dooblie-doo" the other day. AvE speak is gaining traction.
I got called Uncle Bumblefuck the other day.
Mine loves choochin' but I make her watch the show. She's an engine-nerd just like me so she don't put up much of a fight.
There once was a girl from Kahrue
Found an elephant's twang in her stew
Said the waiter, "Don't shout, and don't wave it about!"
"For the others will all want one too!"
nozmoking1 there once was a girlie named Jill, that used a dynamite stick for a thrill. they found her vagina in south Carolina and bits of her tits in Brazil.
The version I know starts "Young nympho-maniacal Jill..."
Reminds me of being a kid and putting those screw type fuses into a lamp and waiting for someone to turn on the lights.
Dan Teeters you did that too?
Holy geeseless I forget about that trick!!!!hahahahaha
Might have to try it. My post marriage bachelor pad has that type of fuse panel, lol.
I did that in school. They didnt find oit it was me. But it was glorious when the teacher turned on the lights.
Oooooohhhhh you need to get one of them old WW2 military crank phones. My 5th grade teacher had one. He used to line us up holding hands and see how many of us he could shock at once. Record was 31 btw.
That reminds me of way back when Ole rover was still a pup and them things was used for fishin.
He would go to prison today! Sounds like fun though!
AvE: keeping the "demon" in "demonitized" for your viewing pleasure, 24 x 7! Rock on!
Yes, they do have a bit of bite. Rally interesting to watch is the guy running wire holding both ends of the wire and you give it a twist, then a scream is heard, me and Dan look at each other and in unison Good Circuit
Abby Babby need to contact the man with the unibrow to try that. Electoboom the shit out...
"Hey buddy! Can you hold these two wires while I just wind this up? Thanks!"......... >:D
This might be enough of a reason to invite the Duclaw over.
In a weekend in warrior type of event, we played around with army field phones. Just like this thing, it has a crank to fire pixies down the line to ring the bell at the other end. Or "tickle" a Private told to, "Hold these two wires and whatever happens don't drop them!" Didn't take too much cranking to get the yelling to happen.
Classic, "hold this" xD
Yessss
@@firehazard51 haha i have a set of those never thought to give that a shot
An almost perfect vid all it lacked was the overkill of 500 stick of Alfie Nobels finest invention going kaboom...
All it needed was a few of the finest magnums of Chateau DuPont le Nobel, 1960.
When I was a young apprenticed sparky my boss would use a hand-cranked 500 volt Megger (low current) insulation & continuity tester to shock me at every opportunity. He thought this was a great laugh until the rainy day he returned from a trip to the van to our place of work with wet hands and placed one hand on the door latch and the other on the key. Unbeknownst to him, I had connected said Megger poles to the inside of both the latch and key and was cranking the tester as fast as it could go when he attempted to open the door. From outside there was a cry and the sound of an armful of electrical components falling to the ground, followed by much laughter on my part. Needless to say, I was never 'Meggered' again after that day. Good days, now sadly long ago!
Thanks for all the great videos, I have been laid up unable to play in my shop the due to the removal of my ass cancer. Keep up the good work!
Accept the perfect handle screwdriver into your life! I'm trying to find a place semi-nearby where I can get 500-1000 of those drop forged for a reasonable price.
I'm on it! What type of steel would the hive mind think is best? I'm leaning towards 4140, but maybe a stainless alloy would be better.
Hand Tool Rescue please please please!!! I need one to match my wrench ;)
I'll take one 4140 should work
You in Ontario more specifically near simcoe there's a couple places down here that might do it
Hand Tool Rescue, I'd be interested in 4150.
I was taking a gearbox apart yesterday and caught myself saying "Tappy-tap-tap!" as I gently encouraged it to separate.
RobWVideo , You're a junky!
Thank fuck you said that. I thought it was just me!
RobWVideo , I caught myself saying tappy tap tap to get a CV joint off a driveshaft the other day
just did it working on a norton od grinder.. worked too didnt break the casting.
I hope you put it back with the bigger the gob da better the job
If the contact on relay was held in and the generator cranked what do you think the output voltage would be? Would it still peak at 200ish? Or if you disabled the relay from "automatically" switching on can the capacitors produce a bigger bang if you cranked it and then manually engaged the relay contacts?
Dang rewatching old vids then seeing you here
All my videos that venture into blasting get demonetized. But hey even if I do a video with no swearing or anything wrong it's still demonetized. UA-cam never tell you where the problem lies. I dare say that beautiful machine is built to shoot 50 caps in series. The blasting mother you want is the Beethoven Mk 7 Exploder. That baby's got a killer sting. Condenser style exploders don't like parallel circuits. Their impulse is too quick to excite the circuit when the bridgewires are stacked up in parallel. Anyway it's a job for some. Obviously UA-cam is in RIP mode. Killed by PewDiePie
You mean Wall Street Journal.
I’m a blaster myself and if you want to get rid of this wonderful machine, I would trade you a newer model for it! A plastiiic fantastique batteria operated 10 caps wonder!
For the record, a 12v car battery will usually fail to detonate multiple blastic caps in one circuit... You need a higher voltage in order to innitiate multiple electric caps... Mind you, I have used a car battery, a compressor battery as well as a handheld radio battery to initiate a single cap on non-electric blasts! But the best emergency method is to connect multiple 9v batteries (they snap together!) and get a higher voltage...
Yulp been there myself. And I was going to say the same thing about multi caps needing a bit more umph...
good sir, you shure as hell just made my day...
that old blasters limerick was something told to me a long time ago and stuck with me ever since...
thank you brother, so ever much
I Love these tear downs of rare equipment.
Oh @AvE, ya old softie! Thanks for lettin us into the shop to have a laugh! Take care man!
I believe that gear set actually make the armature spin much faster
Judge, jury, executioner!! Some of your best commentary. 👍🇨🇦
Good use of the Green Mile reference there!!!
See if you can set off a model rocket engine with it? Not as fun as a dynamite but less likely to get you arrested
Jared Bartimus That's gonna work just fine!
Erilen I expect it might work but I believe the ignighters for rockets tend to want more of a sustained current
Pretty certain we've already condemned enough UA-camrs to the clink for a while.
@AvE drops "the astute war weary and grizzled veteran campaigners amongst us instantly recognize that despite the patina of chicken shit this did not come out of a mine on account of it not being completely fuckerd", into casual conversation like I'd say "it could be worse". Dude, I bow to your superior gift for turn of phrase and pithy idiom. There are folks on TV making 8 figures who lack the talent to generate as much humor in a year that you can whip up in 11:02. Well played sir!
I have one of these I picked up at a local Sally-Anne thrift store, The lady at the cash asked me what it was for, I new it was for blowing shit up I began to tell her but realized I did not want to tell her anything that might stop me from being able to buy it so I told her "I though it was for setting off fireworks, and just seemed interesting". Mine is in somewhat nicer exterior condition but the same inside I opened it up to just have a peek. I didn't put my meter on it because I wasn't sure about what it put out and didn't want to blow anything up, but It did blow up the bulb in my 12V continuity test light with a good pop.
Opening the old and seeing shiny old guts! Always the best
Because of you I now know what the Denso factory, about half a mile from me, makes! Shmoo tape for flanges! Love ya!
Best ending monologue by AvE I’ve heard so far!
7:40 I love how he leaves this sort of stuff in. Most YTers would do that to extend the playtime of their video... but AvE does it to show us that even the most seasoned veterans make silly mistakes sometimes. I just love the fact that he shows us that he's a faulty human, just like the rest of us.
I think you're correct about the logging-camp theory. The schmoo around the terminals looks like it's loaded with fine saw-dust.
How amazing your channel growth has been
In electronics class back in the day we would goof off with camera flash charging boards (remember disposable cameras.) They were a self contained capacitor, charger and battery. Pretty fun probably not around any more. Also in college I remember building a device to charge a capacitor using a 555, transistor and a transformer hooked up in reverse. Good times.
Condenser... Piff. Now that's what I call a boom box!
Giver a crank for a zappin'
on DuPont caps for blastin'
t'will blow mighty hard
without much regard
and now monetization its lackin'
love the extras at the end, what every film needs!
Kind of reminds me of those old phone ringer magnetos. They give you a good zap, many will do 100v ac. Folks use them for fishing and gathering earthworms!
Your Patrons want to see that old vijayo, host it somewhere else!!!\
No. Reasons.
AvE I'm trying to imagine how bad it was. Will ya atleast tell us metal or plastic potato gun.
Legal reasons? Nobody wants to lose their favorite UA-cam celebrity to prison.
Yeah true; I've heard the Great White North isn't as fond of guns or explosions as their neighbors
Sebastian Vaden i don’t think any country would be ok with homemade explosives.
People say they can't all be treat especials but they damn sure are, thanks for giveing me a laugh man. Godspeed
Well, first I want to say sorry for this long ass comment.
B. Thanks to AvE and all the girls havin a laugh in the shop... I'm a mostly commercial/lite-industrial service mechanic, and in the last 2 or 3 weeks I've watched probably 240 of your vijayos. I feel like I've learned more about tools, plastics, other materials and tons of other things than I have in the previous 33 years of my life. I love to troubleshoot tough problems, and do all the math, measuring, research, etc...But unfortunately we are the type of mechanical service company that just rips out and replaces many parts. Never really get a chance to dig too deep. So I never have the time to break down a motor, just order the new one from grainger or wherever. 😔.. but anyway, got my first electronics starter kit in the mail today. Bought a $30 elegoo "mega 2560 project" kit on amazon. I was only halfway to my mailbox when the stink of illegal child labor and rotten crab rangoon took my breathe away.... never messed with any of the little components, just curious if there is a good starter project you could recommend for me? I am the main electchicken at my shop. We are all "jack off all trades, master of none" type guys. But the angry pixies I wrangle are 120, 208, 240, 277, and 480... just not sure about these little dc pixies yet. But excited to learn the Lego piece combos to make shit chooch.
I see resistance was futile.
Maxx B - Speaking of...he used solid core wire. I read that stranded was "much" better because the DC current, flowing on the surface of the wire, was more efficient because there's more total surface area vs. solid. (skin effect).
Now _I already know_ it's irrelevant for what he's actually doing here (f*cking around). I just thought about it and wondered if anyone else heard/learned/read the same thing.
Skin effect from eddy currents is really only an issue with high frequency AC. The caps discharge DC voltage, so either would work fine assuming proper size. Solid core could be preferable for commercial blasting due to it being cheaper. Stranded would have the advantage of not suffering bend radius related work hardening. Thus, the wire used for military purposes, such as claymore wire, is stranded despite being more costly.
Are you sure that's a gear reduction? You need rapid flux in the field of a genny to produce electricity and that requires higher speed.
You're right, and the gearing looks like it multiplies many times. Probably more then 10x ...I ain't count'n.
Bottom side top wise.
After reading some of the comments, I remember many moons ago, when I was a young lad, taking Autobody in High School circa 1969, The shop teacher wanted to demonstrate how volatile acetylene is/was, so he got out a balloon, filled it up to approx. 4-6" in Dia. Then, using a Oxygen / Acetylene torch, to set it off, the out come was much worse then he thought it would be. He wound up with black soot on his face, and his eyeglass's were left ajar on his face. We ALL LAUGHED like no tomorrow. P.S. It should be noted he was a volunteer fireman. First word out of his mouth was WOW!!!! I didn't think it would be that big of an explosion .
Using party poppers, can you set out a grid of them in the pattern used in mining and set them off with the Blasting machine instead of pulling the string...
It'd be educational for us and intoxicating for you depending on how much piss you have to sink while doing boring, repetitive stuff on camera :P
Sitting here in my shed in England on a Friday afternoon with a cold one and my laptop is a great time to watch your latest video, being as I'm retired (the missus says that should read 'retarded').
And I wasn't disappointed, as soon as you picked up your jeweller's hammer I knew I was in for a treat with those magical words "tappy tap tap"...
I wish you had a live streeming web cam in your shop, I could listen to you all day, it takes me back to my working days, best days of my life.
Keep the videos coming pal!
This side of the pond we sometimes call a hammer an American screwdriver:-) . Keep up the good work, every episode increases my cursing vocabulary!
"Tappy Tap Tap"! Common terminology around our shop since watching your channel!
Hook it up to the oscilloscope and watch the waveform like an ignition scope for engines. Mostly because I want to figure out how to get 70kv into the little guy (if remotely possible)
Hallelujah brother Bumblefuck, may your ignitions always be preceded by audible blasts from the pit master.
This is the best channel on UA-cam
A video chocked full of pixie wrangling and not a lick of dynamite? Who are you? Lmao
Powerful enough to be used as a spot welder for that metal strip thing on a 18650 battery?
Love you AvE. Always paint a smile on my face :) thank you
What happened to all the old tools anyways? I mean they were built to last, yet I rarely see them around. Just people didn't take car of them?
Doesnt the hold feature on the first meter do the same thing as the max on the second one?
Thats how my cheepo one works.
let's get a volunteer to allow it to be connected to their vice, of course after they follow your standard parting advice.
We should be able to give multiple thumbs up cuz I would have just wore out the button laughing my ass off that was one hell of a video AvE 😂😂😂😂
A good way to protect those plastic screens from getting all dickered up is clear packaging tape. If it gets scratched, or covered in shmoo you can peel it off and slap a new piece on good as new.
We used to make the bridge wires for home made dets from resistors, fired with the guts of a disposable camera flash circuit.
Those were the days you could play around with such things and not end up wearing an orange jumpsuit.
Hook it to yer bollocks!
Wait, no, this ain't Big Clive...
That dynamo has a gear multiplication, not a reduction. It actually looks a lot like an old telephone ringer from the early days. Those things had a nice bite to them if you ever grabbed it.
Ok, this has to be the first time I have seen someone sentence a resistor to death before. Good job.
When you opened her up and there was not a pile of rusty crusty schmoogunk in it , I thought to myself wow , that's something you never see unless it's new.
Always fun and I learn lots of new dittys I am only allowed to tell my wife once , she giggles the first time , and tells me how goofy I am ,any after that and I must get on my knees asking forgiveness.
We have a pretty good understanding of one anothers needs and wants lol.
Have you made up a tool box for Little Chickadee yet? I bet she would enjoy that.
Nothing that cuts or dents just yet.
*AvE* Seems to me you could connect this to a small ball of steel wool and ignite anything you want: campfires from a distance, fuses for fireworks from a long distance-a ball of steel wool burns hot under the influence of angry pixies, and if you blow air at it, stand the fuck back. Thanks for all the great videos.
is it ok to use stainless steel fasteners in an aluminum casting without it stripping? I've only heard of it being done with heli-coils.
Did the plastic insulating sheets get replaced before you buttoned up that beauty?
Holy shit you are pumping out the content, I love it, just don't wear yourself out like those gaming UA-camrs
This channel sure is blowin up lately.
Just a thought from how you were tapping on the top of that screwdriver/prier- if the titanium blades in the handle were rotated by 90 degrees, you could hit it in the "prying" direction, without transferring the force though that strange spongy cellulose material
Cant lie, this would be the best countertop conversation starter!
This would be a badass igniter for a gas grill. Only problem is the breakdown voltage for air is about 30,000 volts per centimeter so you would only be able to have a max air gap of 0.003” at 220V . You would need to increase the rpm of the generator/dynamo by like 100x. Still would be cool to have a hand crank grill.
Connect it through an ignition transformer.
A long while back I built an igniter for model rocketry. It had a keypad for a combination , a security key switch and a big button under a red flip door. It was cool I used it to ignite my Weber grill.
Ingenious how this works: generator charges big capacitors and little capacitor. Little capacitor has a neon bulb with a break-over (conduction) voltage of ~60 -120V (works like a HV Zener diode) connected to relay coil; relay discharges large caps to dynamite. Boom. This system is a minimum voltage level auto switch, when you crank enough to charge up the big caps enough, the relay switches them to the dynamite. No batteries or power supply needed!
P.S. Gears are not "reduction". The ratio of the Large Gear to the small gear on the dynamo speeds up the RPMs on the generator to produce higher voltage (simple generator = higher RPM = Higher Voltage).
DC or AC? Solid or stranded wire? The "skin effect" is better for high frequencies, so stranded wire would be better. Why? The real issue is Dv / Dt (Delta Voltage vs Delta Time), essentially the fast change of the voltage (from the discharge of the Caps). The fast voltage change is equivalent to a high frequency, and would benefit from the "skin effect" (rise time in microseconds, can be seen on an oscilloscope).
My guess is that the generator is AC (like the telephone generators), rectified, and charges up the 2 big caps, when they reach a voltage, the neon fires the small capacitor is also discharged into the relay (holds the relay on long enough), which discharges the big ones
Note the bigger gear on the 'handle', so the generator would be going much faster.
You could have connected your meter directly to the caps.
I agree ... the neon lamp is connected in series with the relay coil and the small cap goes across the lamp and other terminal of the coil . Cranking the (brushed) generator produces a voltage that charges the all capacitors but the one across the lamp/coil combination charges more slowly (series resistor ?) , this allows the two big caps to fully charge before the small cap reaches about 60 volts to fire the neon lamp (on dc) and dump the small cap into the relay coil thus pulling in the armature and dumping the big caps into the blasting wire terminals .
In 1960 , the rectifiers (if used) most likely would have been the selenium type and very noticeable ... they also have a funky (and poisonous) aroma .
Nice, Think it said on the side "Magneto" so they'll be the type of little generator used . Like the ignition on classic engines.
It's fun to blow up Christmas lights with those old electric blasting machines. Especially if you heat the tip of the bulb with a lighter, then dip in ice water. Flick the end off the bulb and put some fine FFFF black powder in. Add some fine aluminum shavings for more boom!
That last bit at the end with the resistors proves that we're all still 8 years old on the inside.
One of those silly gator grip sockets would have been perfect for runnin that genni.
It looked like a good idea when I bought it. I guess it was a good idea for the guy that sold it!
Awesome stuff love this channel AvE
Today I had to teach a guy I worked with the wonder of percussive maintenance. Just doing the good lords work.
If you wanted you could polish the display of your Fruke with some toothpaste to get some of the scratches out, it works with acrylic watch crystals to de-jankify them.
Send it to Cody (Cody's Lab) for a field test with some of the real stuff -
Reminiscent of the capacitor discharge ignition for gas turbine engines, sans motorb. Neat!
Seems to me that the neon bulb is in series with the relay coil acting like a super simple treshold detector - when the capacitors reach a voltage higher than ~185V (neon bulb striking voltage) it energizes the relay and closes the contacts, finaly dumping current into the blasting caps.
Back in the 1980's, I worked at a consumer electronics repair shop. You're blowing up resistors brings back memories. Take an 8 ohm 1/4 watt resistor and and place it on the back of a speaker attached to the input lugs, then wrap the fuse of a firecracker around it. A tech that just got done repairing an amp will test it out on the speaker and when he turns up the volume....Kaboom!. Today you probably would get fired for that. Back then, you were just told not to do it again.
I can't help but wonder on whether or not if you connect the blasting leads to your car battery, if it will be enough to assplode.
And if it doesn't, what if you then try and start the car while everything is connected?
I'd say the neon bulb is used as a voltage latch. They tend to conduct around 90V. So when you turn the crank, both caps get charged from the dynamo. The smaller one is in series with the relay coil, with the neon bulb in the way. When the small cap reaches a high enough voltage, the neon bulb closes the circuit, energizes the relay and the big caps get dumped to the output and ... boom.
Haha "may the great, vengeful, blue eyed Arab in the sky..." lost it.
That's cool!! Do you know at what level the volts/amps has to be at before the sets of the charge?
Bygone age it may well be, but all the Arbra blasting gear I've seen remains skookum as frig, even though it's plastique
I do remember you havin’ grandpappie’s anvil. Your mission: if your willing to except, it is to manufacture enough black powder to blow a cheap princess auto-anvil shaped object (paaso) into orbit using your new bug zapper. Being that you’ve affixed to a stump with denture adhesive you could mill up an irresponsibly large steel vessel to hold the powder.
Stuck around to the bitter end. Funny as shit man. Long live the Empire!!!
This is not a limerick but it still gave me a laugh... "The cabin boy. The cabin boy. That dirty lil nipper. He lined his ass with broken glass and circumcised the skipper!"
For the crime of throttlin' pixies! Straight up got me with that one. XD
great video thank you where in the great north do you find this stuff ?
Great ending, bud! Thanks for that.
You probably just started re-forming the capacitors this time out. I wouldn't be surprised if it is capable of much more with them built back up (or replaced).
I had a hand held C4 detonator once. Never used it or took it apart but I thought I was pretty cool
Cool bit of old kit thanks for putting this up interesting to see.
5:01 "There's a gear reduction in there, so the motor will turn slower", hand crank turns big gear, which in turn turns motor's small gear. It's a gearing increase.
This is so that you can turn the hand crank at humane speeds to make the motor chooch at higher speeds, so it generates some proper high voltage charge in the skookum capacitors.