Vintage Victorian "vibratory health device" teardown.
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- I can't put a date to this. It could be from the very end of the Victorian era, but I'm not sure the exact timeframe. The fabric coated rubber flex didn't seem quite right for the era, but on further inspection it appears the scary rubber tape mess inside the handle is a twisted joint between what is probably a new flex and the old stubs of an original cable.
I've since found a General Electric version which looks extremely similar, but isn't quite identical.
The vibratory massage units were one of the first electrical appliances to be invented. They were obviously for health reasons only, but that was probably just a respectable cover for their real use as pleasure devices - and not just for the ladies!
In the mid 1920's they suddenly fell from grace when they appeared in "naughty" films and their true purpose was revealed. But then returned with a bang in the 60's with no effort to hide their actual purpose.
Now that "that" industry is currently worth around $35 billion a year and surprisingly ladies purchase just over half the toys sold....
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My grandmother had something similar. When we accidentally found it after she had left it out she smiled and said "I'm old, not dead" then placed it in her top drawer and went about the day like nothing ever happened.
that is very awkward, but very much not surprising as we are all human!
I presume you didn't touch it, otherwise your hands would never feel clean again.
When my grandma died there was a very modern one in the top drawer. A similar case with grandad a few years later. They were each in their 80s/90s when they passed away. No shame whatsoever, just hope for us all.
Granny Victoria
Saucy ! I bet she was a hoot
Anything that can crawl across the table on only the medium setting is high-quality.
I can crawl across the floor when troubled with a medium severe hangover if that counts.
@@skylined5534you're clearly a high quality drunk.
Join the club.
@@user-yx4mc2sl4m
Thank you, don't make me sign anything because I can't see and feel my own fingers!
Kind of like that small portable air compressor that vibrates out of the garage thinking that is has escaped only to get to the end of it's cord and become unplugged.
@@bobroberts2371 made me chuckle, thats why they are sometimes mounted to heavier objects
If it predates the Electricity Act 1919 and/or the Electricity Supply Act 1925 it might be for a different voltage. This could be one of the reasons why the brushes were burning.
9:29 maybe the label is stuck at some hard to reach place….
It's a sanax vibrator from 1909.
Or because it's ancient and has had 80 years of absorbing atmospheric smells and who knows what
Any old motor in an antique appliance always stunk when it was ran. I can remember being a kid, and whenever my mom used her giant mixer, it smelled heavily of oil and ozone in the kitchen. I knew a pie or something was going to be had later.
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@davelowets I appreciate you're stories about old times. It's important to pass this stuff down
There was a high-end line of vacuum cleaners in the U. S. in the 1950s into the 1960s if not earlier and later, called Filter Queen. It had an optional vibrating attachment that ran off the vacuum hose… everybody seemed to sell vibrators.
well, gotta treat that "hysteria" somehow!
I didn’t know they had one but I’m not surprised. I have the more modern version but it’s the best vacuum I’ve ever owned!
@@SquishyZoran Kirby still has a turbo tool attachment that apparently can be used as a massager or a sander.
@@WJCTechymansander?
Ohhhpph. Does it also chip concrete?
When I was 10 I found out that putting your member in the vacuum cleaner hose was a nice feeling. Yes, I experimented at a very early age. 😉
There you go Clive ... an ideal item to take with you to the next Antiques Roadshow event 👍😀
Roger melley the man on the telly "OH F£&K TOM" 😂
Theres a fine line between pleasure and an industrial injury! 😂
This made me laugh more than it should have lol.
😂
Epic comment. 😂
The quality of construction and ease of disassembly is impressive. What a contrast with today's ultra-expensive yet disposable electronics.
The cloth tape is from the late 1950s and matches the red, black green flexible cable of the era, typically used for connecting irons, electric fires, and hair dryers. The twisted connections suggest that the original cable dating from the 1920s had persished and been replaced as a home repair by someone who knew just enough about electricity to avoid killing themselves. Clearly a professional repair would have replaced the cable at the solder joints instead of stripping it back and twisting wires together. Such bodge jobs were typical of people who had gained some electrical knowledge in the services during WW2 but lacked access to suitable repair tools. People forget that distribution and supply of specialist tools was heavily restricted at one time unless you were in the business and/or a trade union member. No popping down to the DIY store in those days!
Didn't know about this, in what country / time ? Was it a cost matter, store hard to find or was it illegal to sold if not in business ?
"Oi! You got a loicence for that soldering iron?"
if the insulation on the wire is good, you don't want to resolder the connection. it's fragile. Yes the splice should be be soldered and insulated. But a wrap of vintage tar tare wouldn't hurt. some of the older tapes were impregnated with asbestos. Fire safety first. ;)
The cloth tape is known in UK as Blackley (pronounced blakeley) tape and I believe was originally made in the Manchester suburb of that name. It isn’t very adhesive, and in the 1970s was often used by theatre electricians to secure coils of cable when not in use.
Not sure about the UK but twisting and tapping wires was an allowed method of connection up to the late 50's in France. I had some scares removing old electric wires in homes that were connected that way; especially scary when those connections were in a shed with a leaky roof and used to connect an outlet where an electric mower was plugged...
When Clive is calling it a concentric shaft it's what I have always heard called an eccentric shaft. Concentric implies a common center and eccentric implies an offset center.
Maybe he just likes concentric shafts... but then again he is a kind of an eccentric shaft himself so he would know wouldn't he?
Oh my, this device relieved soooo much hysteria for the ladies.
One would think it could cause more hysteria than it cured, repeat customers, before the device it was manual nudge nudge wink wink say no more
@@fireandcopperit never cured them... just...treating them short term.
@@fireandcopper I looked up Clive's machine, and there was a related search for "female hysteria machine". Lol....
As an amateur gynaecologist, I would say the best cure for hysteria is an orgasm.
@@fireandcopper
Where do you think the term came from? ;-)
I would love to see a whole series on "vintage" or "retro" style electronics such as this. The construction is simple but I like to see how they were thinking when it all started.
"You just never know where that's been..." OMG I spit out my coffee!!!
Sometimes you do know.
In AvE's words: "that will rattle your feelings from down below"
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I remember my mum (God bless her) many years ago approaching me at home with a "sunday supplement" magazine from one of the papers to ask if she was wasting her money buying a "neck massager" that was being hawked on the back page of the mag, probably by some wide boy Essex market trader. Imagine my horror when she shows me it, and there.... sat in her floral stretch covered armchair was a white haired old granny in her sheepskin slippers holding a classic 12in long, off white, vibrator to her neck !!!!
It was in the early 80s and I was a teenager at the time. It seems obvious to suggest that she was having some mischievous fun embarrasing her squirming, puberty ridden son... but knowing how straight laced my mum was I KNOW that wasn't the case... no... not my old mum........ was it?
That video was very pleasurable to watch.
My mum had something very similar, but of an early 1960s vintage. I only ever ever knew it to be used for genuine physio-therapy purposes, but, of course, one never knows. Aesthetically, ours was more kind of Dan Dare-ish, versus your very authentically Victorian steam-punk item. Quite a find.
I’d say late ‘20s - early ‘30s, to judge from appearances. I love the way they built stuff then. In all probability it would have had the twisted cloth- covered flex normally associated with light fittings. I’ve got an old 200v electric kettle with two-core twisted flex and separate wood-and-brass connectors for live and neutral- made in 1912. Still works- just lethal..
Yup, that sounds about right, although it could be a bit older I think. The flex looks more like 50s or 60s, it's still old colours, so pre-1971 I think but I can't imagine this device would have been earthed when it was new. I'd expect a two-pin 2-amp or 5-amp plug.
@@Ragnar8504 Grounded plugs existed in the 1910s.
@@Ragnar8504 There's nothing stopping someone from buying and fitting a plug with a ground pin on a non grounded electrical device
@@newwesterngrove Sure but there seems to be an original earth wire inside the device that the "new" lead was patched to.
And yes, earthed plugs existed as early as that but I don't think they were commonly used prior to the mid-1930s, in some countries much later than that. I mean Sweden only required earthed installations in homes in the mid-1990s!
5:07 "let's treat this with dignity and use the correct tool"
said the doctor to his patient...
Yeah, that's definitely not the only box it's seen.
This is one of those things where testing first with a "Megger" could save a life.
A Megger? You mean meter?
@@garrysekelli6776Short for “mega-ohmeter”
Boringgggg
wouldn't getting zapped make it more exciting?
a traditional megger has a hand-cranked high-voltage dynamo with a milliammeter in-series.
If you felt guilty after pleasuring yourself with the vibrator, you could always punish yourself with the megger..
That's exactly what those extra pieces are for. My grandfather had one electric therapy device that was hand cranked. I have one that originally used two of those 6 volt cylinders, (2" x 6" ) . I've since converted it with an easy plug to use with a power supply. I'll have to dig it up and send photos...
The design of the motor is similar to motors from the 1910's I've seen for running sewing machines, drink mixers, and small desk fans.
The fact that someone put a new cable and BS 1363 plug on it leads me to believe that this was in use until about the 1970s. And I wouldn't be surprised if it was, because older appliances seem to be much better made than their modern equivalents. (Which I doubt this thing has)
Edit: According to JW's site, seeing the old red and black wire color codes in that power cord indicates that the power cord is older than 1971.
Most of the comments I've read here seem to agree the item was made in either the late 1920s, or any time throughout the 1930s (and that the latter is more likely). And that it was likely repaired any time in the 1950s, or the early 60s, at the latest. Based on the commenters' experience with similar wiring. A lot of people knew how to do very basic electrical and repair work back then, due to serving in WW2, and the Korean War. The work gives a strong indication of being repaired in the 1940s or 1950s, likely by someone who learned repair work in a similar way, due to the "Western Union weld".
A effective treatment for "pelvic congestion".
Just for the uninitiated - Pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) is one of the causes of chronic pelvic pain, a condition very common in the female species that can potentially lead to significant disability. Pelvic congestion syndrome is a condition that causes chronic pelvic pain. It's thought to be caused by problems with the veins in the pelvic area.
@@brucepickess8097oh, thanks… I was worried it might be referring to DP.
@@brucepickess8097 blue balls
If you ever see a photo of Queen Victoria smiling, you know why 😄
best of luck finding a photo of her smiling.
That was made by the Fitzgerald Manufacturing Company of Torrington, Connecticut USA, under the Star brand. You'll find pics online.
Roger that. Company made a huge number of 'em - they were commonly found in boot sales in the '60s. The carbon brushes were too close to the oilite bearings and the oil inevitably migrated into the brushes - thus they smelled funky.
Acme
so Big Clive was powering at 50 hz when it was designed for 60?
thedevilinthecircuit, torrington you say? i'd never heard of the place till about an hour ago on a sandbox video about flying triangles.
@@vsvnrg3263 Sandboxx's flying triangle video just showed up in my feed, too. Is it worth watching?
When the lights in the house start to flicker. Someone is having happy times this evening.
I could put a date on that thing but I don't think she'd return my calls afterwards.
Thanks for the thorough teardown Clive, quite an interesting bit of history. I'd heard of these before but never got to see the internals in such detail. Appreciate the additional info in the description as well. I'd have guessed ladies made up the vast majority of that market but it's good to hear the perks are more widely appreciated.
You could, but she doesn’t need you any more !
my man. beat me to it
It appears that they used a genuine Western Union "Lineman's Splice" to join the new wire segments to the original. Even the person that re-wired it took pride in his (her?) work. Sure, time has degraded it, but someone really took the time to "do it right," at least for the time period's wiring guidelines.
Thanks for the video, Clive, it's always a pleasure. ; )
Or her work as the case may be
@@alexhajnal107 That's just too good. I gotta edit my comment now.
Good eye!
She really wanted to get it working again, she was having withdrawals
@@alexhajnal107Doubt it. It's a well known fact that ladies in the 50's used high heel shoes as hammers and kitchen knives as screwdrivers. They would never have got the nuts undone as the tweezers of the day couldn't undo nuts. Their impeccably varnished nails may well have put an Austin paint shop sprayer to shame but they'd never manage the linesman splice with them.
Seeing how mummified the interior was, seeing it vibrate as hard as it does is kind of scary.
Reminds me of an ancient bakelite hairdryer I found in the under-stairs cupboard in my gran's house when I was helping to clear it out years ago. It still works surprisingly well, and the other surprise was the plaque on the side which had "250 volts AC or DC" embossed on it. I haven't actually tried it with DC, but presumably it uses one of those "universal motors" which can work on either AC or DC, though they might not do so with equal efficiency.
In one of PhotonicInduction's videos, he shows a "wireless power cube" which really just contains a load of lithium-ion cells from electronic cigarettes, with enough of them wired in series to make 240 volts DC, connected up to plug sockets mounted on the side. He showed several different appliances working from it, including a food mixer or blender, so presumably these also use universal motors even today.
It will run with better efficiency on DC, actually.
@@mattmoreira210 I suspected as much. I'm guessing this has to do with losses resulting from AC inducing eddy currents in the pole pieces of the motor, which would not be an issue with DC. Or is there more to it than that?
I don't recommend running that old hairdryer much. Nearly all of them had an asbestos sleeve lining the tube where the air blows out, and the sleeve tends to decompose, leading to fine asbestos dust blowing out the business end :O
@@allenlutins Good advice for any old electrical equipment that does contain asbestos. However, I already checked and mine does not: I took it apart to determine if it was still electrically safe - no asbestos inside at all. Bakelite is surprisingly thermally robust, since it is a thermosetting polymer. If you get it hot enough it can burn, but it cannot melt. If you want to know the molecular weight of a thermosetting polymer, just put a chunk of it on a balance - the cross-linking makes any piece a single molecule. That's also what makes it brittle - it has almost zero flexibility.
@@lloydevans2900 Good to know. My only experience with antique hairdryers is metal ones (typically with square openings). Those seem to universally use the asbestos sleeve (presumably to keep the metal from getting so hot it would burn you on contact).
This is what makes this channel the best he always comes up with the best video ideas.
Interesting - and amazing the types of "medical" devices they used to have... as for the flex - looks like a repair with period style wire which is very cool. I have a 50's era phone that I've purchased period accurate style wiring that I aim to use for repair.
Just for reference in certain parts of America "I was Union trained in North Carolina in 2003" we would call your pudding joint a Western Union joint named after the common splice method used by Bell Labs telephone techs back in the 50s & 60s... obviously even in our 120v to ground system here this type of splice is highly frowned upon. I can recall a number of times pulling old wire out of metallic conduit and finding a western union in the middle with only one layer of rubber tape over it.
A _soldered_ splice is actually allowed by the NEC article article 110.14(B).
@@eDoc2020, c'mon, how many of us sparkies are going to take the time to track down a soldering iron when we need three inches of wire to extend the pigtail? Twist it, tape it, 'n shove it up the pipe. It's not under any strain load, and the tape'll keep it together.
@Coffreek In today's world, nobody will do it. But a hundred years ago, before cheap wire nuts, the story was different.
@@Coffreek In this case I'll send the hand for a wire stretcher before an iron any day... heck if all you need is a few inches surly the stretcher will work. It will also be a good chance to show the green bean how to use it.
Having disassembled multiple very early AM radio devices, I can smell this video.
Thanks Clive for digging deeper in your quest to find answers...
It's missing the warning label: do not use in the bath tub, do not eat. Wear safety equipment. Refer servicing to qualified repair center: no serviceable parts inside.
This thing reminds me of the movie Top Secret “Our surgeons did what they could but it took them two hours just to get the smile off his face” 🤣
But remember the victim was American and they used 110v compared to 220v used in Europe.
"Here you can see a very interesting artifact from the victorians indeed, this is the first time humanity has stumbled upon the handheld vibratory device."
Jute cordage - the ultimate line voltage cable building material! 8^) The "newer " flex looked 1950's - 1960's - my Mom's GE clothes iron from 1964 had one just like it.
Agree, I'd say someone re-corded the handle sometime in the 50's-60's back when cloth tape over a twisted wire was a common way to rewire old appliances. I've seen several power tools of the vintage "repaired" in that manner.
Now we just need a vintage "prostate warmer" to complete the collection.
Is that a thing, please tell me thats not a thing
@@ImmaSpam__________________Can Yes it is, it's literally a heated buttplug hooked straight to the line through a bulb as dropper/power selector.
Another possible great British invention bringing satisfaction to millions worldwide.
I feel a @HandToolRescue collab is needed here.
Clive, I think we all have a _very_ good idea where that’s been 😉
It won’t be Victorian, they didn’t have mains electricity back then. And an Earth connection makes it post Edwardian too. I suspect the 1920s or 30s, maybe even the 40s from the styling. The flex and plug are post 1980 though. My mother had a plastic cased one from the 60s or very early 70s, it was called a massager!
Plugged into light bulb socket? Did they have that? Earth pin may not be connected?
Antique?
@@charliethegrey Indeed, I remember appliances being plugged into lamp holders in elderly people’s homes back in the early 70s.
Put a chuck on it, voila the drilldo.
@@BillySugger1965 I've even seen a one-bar electric heater plugged into a light socket in one of my customer's houses. The place still had 15A sockets, with multiple adaptors hanging out of the wall sockets, held off the floor by a couple of books.
A new BigClive video? I can feel my hysteria easing already... Sweet jeebus, that looks more like a power concrete vibrator used for jiggling out air bubbles.
It works pretty much the same way. A slightly eccentric weight on an electric motor to transfer oscillations into whatever you're touching it to.
1900s women were built different
Tell the old lady that next time your doing the deed. Honey im about to jiggle the air bubbles out of ya.. lol.
@@Z-Ackguaranteed to work after feeding her Taco Bell for dinner.
@@davidwilliams5497 Oh god this video has the most refined comments :D
When Gannon from Cheapshow jokingly said 'hysteria wand' , I didn't know it actually called that and used to treat one lmao.
Brilliant. Really enjoyed the video and comments. Would love to see more Big Clive does vintage videos. Mixes best of Big Clive and Fran Lab.
I could definitely see it being used as an actual muscle therapy device / massaging device other than what it was used for. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole though. Hygine wasn't so clean back then and the fact that these were widely used for a different purpose makes it even worse. 😂You got guts Big Clive.
If the last time this was "used" was more than 10 years ago, it is probably safe. Bacteria dont generally survive without a moist, warm environment.
Having said that, I dont fancy the thought of using it with that much pure history.
"You don't know where this has been." You can guess though. Even Clive did not give it the sniff test!
@@AnotherPointOfView944you'd actually be surprised just how long endospores can persist.
Finally! An electric that the Village Idiot(me), can understand. Not one word of modern mumbo jumbo. It's a motor with carbon brushes. The first car I owned (I'm 81) had a 6 volt generater with brushes, so I knew what Clyde was talking about, and twisting the wires together and using friction tape was common. I agree the cord is probably not original, but still old. I doubt any modern vibrator will work 80 years from now. Thanks for making my day, Clyde.
"Clive"
@@alanmon2690 Thank you. I just realized my mistake from your comment. I hope Clive will forgive my lapse in proofing my texting. Have a good day.
What do you find in a big huge mystery box?
A big Victorian massager
Oh! That part is the _handle!_ [resets brain]
it's so cute! i absolutely love the roundness of really old motor enclosures before they started making them all angled and utilitarian
also, nothing beats a good jigsaw with a rubber ball attachment
I am on your wavelength.
Wow, what an old angle grinder!
(wrrrr) (WRRRRRRR) (RRRRNNHHHH)
(knock on door) "What are you doing in there?"
"I'm just, uh... polishing the wood, mom!"
Orbital sander?
@@Thirdbase9 yeah. possibly!
It's actually more of an OMT (oscillating multitool), like the Fein Multimaster.
Oh come on, we all know exactly what it is.
Sir,,,, I live in Ohio just for reference. I have an 'equivalent, ' Hamilton Beach Type C. I believe it is complete, all the way to the receipt and warranty registration dated 12-9-1924. The instruction pamphlet has directions, and maintenance requirements. This made me smile, it states, A little drop of oil, A little bit of care, Will save a lot of trouble, and avoid a lot of wear. I would post pictures, but You Tube comments dont do that. It was originally sold in Dayton Ohio, for 21 dollars by Helen if I read what is left of the writing correctly. Very similar build design too.
Bring it back! That is built to last and looks strong enough to shake fillings free. Wonderful.
The fibrous disk might have been used to cleanup/scrub heels maybe? Maybe glued to the cork attachment?
That's what I thought
Or to cleanup any hard skin on erogenous zones caused by overuse of the other attachments.
Looks similar to the ones that you used to see in barbershops for scalp massages. A rather intense ending to a haircut, i must say.
Also, that's an eccentric shaft, not a concentric one.
Ah yes... The History Of Vintage Electo-Dildonics was my favourite topic at school.
From the thumbnail alone this is going to be epic.
I'd not be touching any of that without gloves.
I dare say it has been a very long time since that has been anywhere unseemly.
Yes THICK RUBBER gloves the type that is used in the dyeing trade.
Hysterical video, you really pounded it deep and hard.
My mother had a handheld massager she bought back in the day (I wanna say the 80s) that did the job better than today's massagers. Instead of being mechanically driven via a motor, it operated the same way a school bell did. All it had inside was a metal plate with a rod welded to it where the attachments attached to, and an electromagnet that made the metal plate vibrate. While it wasn't fancy only having two speeds, it lasted forever because it had very few moving parts to vibrate themselves to bits. I believe it was called the Vibra-Massage from Oster. Was a shame my mother trashed it because the power cable frayed to the point it became inoperable. Definitely was repairable though...
i like the way someone seems to have put an iron flex and plug from the seventies on it, presumably an antique device lady onanist reconditioned it 50 years ago.
It's a Swedish massager. And yes, it had other uses. Similar to the Hitachi Magic Wand. I have a modern version of that without the attachments. keywords are, Oster massager. And those handles I think more closely resemble adjustable skipping rope handles than anything else.
I find it very interesting that it has an Earth connection, in my experiance as a Swedish radio (and other old electrical junk) collector very few things made for the domestic Swedish market before the 1950s had any provisions for a ground connection, the Swedish post order chain Clas Ohlson did not sell grounded mains plugs until 1953. I have seen pictures of old two prong UK mains connectors and from what i have heard the UK did not have a unified standard for mains connectors until the mid 1920 but i don´t know how common grounded outlets where in the UK back then.
@@agfamatic91 Well, Swedish massage is a type of massage, they're not all made in Sweden.
fascinating. and amazing to see that it still works after all that time. Guess things were just better made aback then!. Hope your going to put it back together again! think it deserves it after surviving all this time!
It's back together and thoroughly serviced. A new vintage-look cable will be added.
At work I found carbon brushes from the end of the 1800's. New old stock. The boxes and brushes were in perfect condition, not even discoloured.
If you ignore the final 2 minutes it's good to see that the Victorians had the foresight to supply a good old 3 pin plug. 🤣
I would imagine that flex to be from a later period iron or kettle. I am pretty sure the original would have been thinner.
So a thing that I have wondered about for a while - why the square hole at the top of the plug. It seems this was from BS 1363:1947 Clause 15 and was for "inspection of the earth connection" (If anyone knows of a copy of that version of the standard it would be an interesting read!)
If this device was used for "those" purposes, I certainly hope all those attachments were washed after use...
I was going to say 1950s because it had an earth and variable speeds. If it gets much older, electrical appliances are really primitive and household outlets didn't even have a ground. It reminds me of desk fans and Black and Decker drills, with aluminum bodies and bakelite.
Who would have thought it would go the way it did 😂
Regarding the folklore: The word "hysteria" comes from greek "hystera" for uterus, and "female hysteria" was quite the rage for a while.
And I have to admit that I have some female friends who seem way more relaxed and happy after using a device like this, so the theroy is not too far-fetched...
I've never seen a vibrator with a kick starter before, perhaps men and women were made of sterner stuff back then. The marvelous things you learn from watching Clive.
That's not a kick starter . A kick starter uses a forceful kick on a lever to do the initial turns on a mobile ICE, similar to the starter pull string on gasoline powered lawn movers .
The flex looks identical to a new one that replaced one on my mum’s iron in the 1960s, after the previous one caught fire at the sharply angled entry into the iron.
love the smell of asbestos insulated wires.
Not there, but probably in 1960s toasters .
@@johndododoe1411 To be honest i wrote the comment before i watched the video. Such a disapointment.
oohhh my god you lucky man. I have been hunting for one of these for a while. Great stuff. Edit: You are definitely right about them being handles for electrotherapy. I sent a photo a while ago to you of a similar machine I have. It has almost identical electrodes.
Gross….
Grandma tickling her nethers with this is just too funny of an image! 😂
The Vibratotron, syphilis edition now with the feature Electrocution.
All jokes aside, they knew how to make durable stuff in the old days. 100 years and purrs like a kitten in contrast to a new phone that explodes if you give it a bad look.
I got an old electronic shaving machine, paper wrapped coils and fabric wires and works fine. Will probably outlive humanity
My late mother had a massager from the fifties/early sixties marketed by PIFCO. It had a vibrator motor, rather than a rotary. As a small child I never gave it much thought...😉
I have a ‘60’s toaster which has exactly the same black cord with white specks on it. I guess the cord has been attached much later. Original cord wear and tear.
I had occasion to try one of the modern "massagers" to actually massage a persistent sternum pain. It actually helped, but then I realised it says quite specifically not to use on your chest. So now it's been repurposed as a pleasure device for a female friend of mine.
"Pleasuring yourself". A Big Clive vijeo is a pleasure in itself.
Maybe used as a treatment for 'hysteria'?
Believe these originally treated "female hysteria". Miracles of medicine
It Didn't work!!! Their still crazy
@@mikepelletier1399well. The one that dont have a 240V vibrator is crazy.. but thenone that do...?
Fantastic looking motor!
where i'm from, we call that a "bean rattler". all jokes aside, my dad had an industrial strength back massager that he made use use on his shoulder after he tore it. i hated that thing because it would make my hands numb. also if you used that thing on your bean, it would evaporate into dust. some of those professional masseuse ones are STRONG
My wife has the diesel version.
How effective is it ??, if it doesn't perform as it should and doesn't produce the desired results as specified by the manufacturer ?? she could possibly put in a claim for compensation. A DVD claim. Diesel Vibratory Dissapointment.😏
I've thought about building a 2-stroke gas one for shits and giggles.
Dad, what is all that black smoke coming out of the house? Pay it no mind son, it's just your mother, she's Rollin' coal.
Obviously not for sexual pleasurement. Obviously not.
Approx 20 years ago, from I think the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) there was a "student film" made called "Turn me on, the history of the vibrator". About 20 minutes long, it aired on free to air TV channel "SBS" late night short film segment. "Eat Carpet" back then, but might have been uploaded to UA-cam since then. From memory the Electric Vibrator was the 5th item developed for the home electric market, before the vacuum cleaner even, in the late 1800's I think. Earlier mechanical ones were used by doctors to treat women's "hysteria" (ie frustration at not 'getting off' with their husband) in what at the time was considered a normal medical treatment for a doctor to engage in.
To be 100years old and some, and still work, is testament to the builders of these machines. We found more of 'Electrolisis Sets'...for hair removal? That's what we were told at the time... I knew that was a replacement flex as rubber-coated flex was done away with in the 60's-70's as its perishability was very dangerous, as one can imagine, and was replaced resulting in the type of repair results seen inside the handle. Some kitchen gadgets turned up along the way, but no-one wanted to re-wire them. A great pity.
Nice one Clive.
[Edit:- Grammar and context]
4:15 - Surely, with an *_excentric_* shaft. Concentric would mean the _same_ centre as the axis of rotation, and it wouldn't vibrate.
Edit - Yes, I'm aware of the word "eccentric". I used "excentric" (an alternative spelling, mostly used in biology) to make it clear that it means "off-centre", not just "a bit peculiar".
Eccentric.
I would argue having a healthy amount of recreation and fun to go with your work IS healthy, so in that, there is no problem calling these a 'medical health device'. People can choose to deny themselves that for religious reasons if they wish.
thats been proven again and again. im glad society is moving away from the puritanism, however many decades it will take to fully get rid of the taboo surrounding sexual health
Clive causally taking apart an ancient vibrator like it is a lightsaber.
You can buy modern wrapped flex that look identical to the original, furthermore you can get it in different colours. Principally used for decorative lighting.
I ordered 2m and unfortunately they sent it as two 1m lengths.
So much more convenient than the washing machine on spin cycle
Washing machine on spin cycle means your presence will soon be needed, might as well sit down and wait on the only flat surface in the room .
@@johndododoe1411 One of my female coworkers mentioned, um, enjoying the washing machine. Somehow I wanted to help Debbie with the laundry all of a sudden.
@@davidg4288 Unless that's your one love, she might prefer someone else or privacy .
@@johndododoe1411 Of course! Although the privacy in the apartment laundry was probably hit or miss. Most of us were married or in other relationships anyway.
I'd actually be really curious to see a review of (an overhauled and safe) version of this by someone with the appropriate anatomy...
Everyone's got orifices . . .
@@zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589 Maybe Clive could ask Bad Dragon to provide some suitable attachments, ?
@@idjtoaloh my god. Lol
@@idjtoalthe included attachments seem fairly universal and the device powerful enough to transfer vibrations to hidden pleasure points with no insertion needed . Of cause the primary male pleasure point that's shaped like a bell end is more easily reached than the female equivalent that rhymes with cling .
@@johndododoe1411’m struggling to think of what rhymes with cling, fling? bling? 🤷♀️ but no matter - just in case you didn’t realise, not all female pleasure is derived from insertion, nor is it difficult to reach (if you know where to look!)
Me thinks it's time to put The Road To Wellville on the telly.
"My own stools, Sir, are gigantic and have no more odor than a hot biscuit."
My guess is that the original flex was that dark brown cotton covered rubber insulated twisted figure 8 cable that everything used. Finished off with a plug suitable for plugging into a light socket. Optional Y adaptor depending on whether you wanted your massage in a dimly lit or a dark room.
I like carbon brushes smell. It must be stimulative. I am amazed with your Victorian era history knowledge. 👒🎩
its probably ozone youre smelling.
@@vsvnrg3263 😀😆