I might be guilty of doing the same thing, but I paint spray the target material first so that the line is easy to make and easy to see.
I wouldn't dream of making a video about it, nor would I use the Mitutoyo. That misuse is reserved for Harbor Freight digital calipers that cost less than the replacement batteries do.
Youtube, not surprisingly, has become the video version of the internet as shown by google. Out there somewhere is the useful information you seek, but here are 1,000 useless results to look at first. Loads of content farms spewing out thousands of useless videos a month to clog the system. The same way searching for reviews of products online brings up a continuous list of sites that are nothing but commissioned link lists of products.
I have found lots of useful information on Youtube. Unfortunately you do have to wade through the BS swamp to get to some dry land with good ground.
Finding good info on the finer details of finding out how to dismantle anything from a laptop to a car door, without breaking anything isn't too hard. Good info on how to actually fix the laptop or power window regulator is a different story, but I can usually figure that stuff out.
It takes a lot more work when trying to learn how to make videos with Blender or Resolve, or to write and record complete song in Ableton Live using real hardware synths, live drums and a couple real guitars.
In many cases, either you can't understand the presenter due to poor presentation skills, mangled English, or the assumption that you already know everything, or it's just a fancy commercial message with near zero useful content. Somehow I managed to get on the mailing list for the Berklee College of Music. They want me to schedule an academic advisement. Really, you know how much that place costs?
Even harder, say next to impossible, trying to learn a programming language that you have never used before.
Finding good info on the finer details of finding out how to dismantle anything from a laptop to a car door, without breaking anything isn't too hard. Good info on how to actually fix the laptop or power window regulator is a different story, but I can usually figure that stuff out.
It takes a lot more work when trying to learn how to make videos with Blender or Resolve, or to write and record complete song in Ableton Live using real hardware synths, live drums and a couple real guitars.
In many cases, either you can't understand the presenter due to poor presentation skills, mangled English, or the assumption that you already know everything, or it's just a fancy commercial message with near zero useful content. Somehow I managed to get on the mailing list for the Berklee College of Music. They want me to schedule an academic advisement. Really, you know how much that place costs?
Even harder, say next to impossible, trying to learn a programming language that you have never used before.
The world is full of people of all sorts.
Youtube is just a platform that exposes some peoples need for attention, or desire to "be a self-made star".
Before youtube came along, I had no idea that there were so many idiots out there.
In general my "trick" is to use YT, Forums (including DIYA), etc., just as a search system or "idea finder" tool, but then I find and download the REAL stuff source, meaning books such a 800 page Olson´s Acoustics, Radiotron Designers, 60´s Philips Netherlands Technical books , >1200 page Mechanical Enginer´s Handbook, Ullmann Industrial Chemistry Encyclopedia, etc. , which are not *actually* in the Net in the normal way but can be downloaded from the ... ummmm ..... swedish "pirate" site.
Yes, incredibly that site , besides latest Hollywood crap, Porn and Games
, *also* has a lot of high quality technical books, if you search for them. There are also a couple Tech oriented sites, full of old Electronics books, so such data is not exactly "in" the Net, (you can´t read them online), but accessible through it, so you can download the whole book and read it in Acrobat at home.
Not bad at all.
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I like to watch the (Pakistani? Indian?) YT videos of these guys rebuilding broken stuff.
Things like a truck wheel, drive axle, engine - these gigantic parts that they're fully equipped to take on. There was one showing how this guys fabricates an AC welder pretty much from scratch, another showing a guy rebuilding a very large truck battery - soldering lead plate by plate - a guy fixing starter motors by rewinding the armature.
Not that I learn anything as personally, these are tasks I'd never attempt. But it's interesting to see the "where there's the will there's a way" in all these videos. I get a good feeling watching them - and a good dose of humility.
Things like a truck wheel, drive axle, engine - these gigantic parts that they're fully equipped to take on. There was one showing how this guys fabricates an AC welder pretty much from scratch, another showing a guy rebuilding a very large truck battery - soldering lead plate by plate - a guy fixing starter motors by rewinding the armature.
Not that I learn anything as personally, these are tasks I'd never attempt. But it's interesting to see the "where there's the will there's a way" in all these videos. I get a good feeling watching them - and a good dose of humility.
Oh, come on, yes, the guy should cut down on coffee or Red Bull or most probably old plain enthusiasm but the data is accurate.
The real bad ones are those spreading plain lies or dangerous/deadly stuff.
FWIW; born and rised in Spanish speaking Argentina, my own Family was multilingual but it was hard to practice outside our own reduced Family core, so my Father arranged for me visiting local residents who were native speakers so I could visit them and chat now and then.
So for English conversation he chose an old Australian Lady, Miss Palomba.
I must have been 5 or 6 at the time.
A couple years later an "Official" English School was opened in my Town, with Cambridge trained Teachers.
When told "there´s a kid who already speaks English, he shouldn´t start from Zero but at the approppriate level" they were somewhat incredulous (since I was about 7 or 8 y.o. by then) but agreed on having me take a test.
Boy! ... were they shocked in horror!
Half because of my fluence, half by my pronunciation.
It took me almost a year to "unlearn" Australian and learn proper English , go figure.
I´m quite certain I spoke much like the EEVblog guy
The real bad ones are those spreading plain lies or dangerous/deadly stuff.
FWIW; born and rised in Spanish speaking Argentina, my own Family was multilingual but it was hard to practice outside our own reduced Family core, so my Father arranged for me visiting local residents who were native speakers so I could visit them and chat now and then.
So for English conversation he chose an old Australian Lady, Miss Palomba.
I must have been 5 or 6 at the time.
A couple years later an "Official" English School was opened in my Town, with Cambridge trained Teachers.
When told "there´s a kid who already speaks English, he shouldn´t start from Zero but at the approppriate level" they were somewhat incredulous (since I was about 7 or 8 y.o. by then) but agreed on having me take a test.
Boy! ... were they shocked in horror!
Half because of my fluence, half by my pronunciation.
It took me almost a year to "unlearn" Australian and learn proper English , go figure.
I´m quite certain I spoke much like the EEVblog guy
I happened to watch the video of the guy rebuilding starter motors and I was simply amazed at the work he went thru to accomplish this. We however since there is no great need to learn how to rebuild simply toss out and old starter and purchase a new one because there is a supply waiting for anyone with a need.
So some videos like we all have mentioned do provide great information and other video posters are simply there to top 100,000 or so watchers in order to receive that check in the mail.
Meanwhile my favorite You tube video person has added several more videos in the attempt to get over 200 views. Both new videos show their astounding work in chassis layout. Their still abusing a pair of vernier calipers using them as a scribe. Yes, it still drive me nuts and its a short drive. Proper usage would dictate writing down the measurement from the vernier to a piece of paper, measuring the width of the scribe at the contact area and simply taking that measurement off the one written down thus one takes into account the scribe width so the measurement isn't over or measurement and takes into account the width of the scribe.
The reaming the holes out to make them bigger is another awesome aspect of the videos. Always try to drill a precision hole and then ream the hell out of it after its drilled instead of selecting the proper drill diameter.
The big thing is I don't know why I keep going back watching every new video except that I simply cannot believe what I am seeing. If one is going to teach then one needs to do it the proper way again my opinion. Yes, even I have been guilty of using spray blue on a panel and using an old vernier to lightly make a line and that is something the machinist part of me in not proud of. The difference between myself and the video poster is I wouldn't be videoing an improper way if I were to make a video.
So some videos like we all have mentioned do provide great information and other video posters are simply there to top 100,000 or so watchers in order to receive that check in the mail.
Meanwhile my favorite You tube video person has added several more videos in the attempt to get over 200 views. Both new videos show their astounding work in chassis layout. Their still abusing a pair of vernier calipers using them as a scribe. Yes, it still drive me nuts and its a short drive. Proper usage would dictate writing down the measurement from the vernier to a piece of paper, measuring the width of the scribe at the contact area and simply taking that measurement off the one written down thus one takes into account the scribe width so the measurement isn't over or measurement and takes into account the width of the scribe.
The reaming the holes out to make them bigger is another awesome aspect of the videos. Always try to drill a precision hole and then ream the hell out of it after its drilled instead of selecting the proper drill diameter.
The big thing is I don't know why I keep going back watching every new video except that I simply cannot believe what I am seeing. If one is going to teach then one needs to do it the proper way again my opinion. Yes, even I have been guilty of using spray blue on a panel and using an old vernier to lightly make a line and that is something the machinist part of me in not proud of. The difference between myself and the video poster is I wouldn't be videoing an improper way if I were to make a video.
HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE? - Bee Gees (Cover Benedetta Caretta) - YouTube
Something actually worth watching....again my opinion. I absolutely love the clarity of her voice.
Something actually worth watching....again my opinion. I absolutely love the clarity of her voice.
Replacement starter motors and alternators are typically remanufactured. You must surrender your old one or else pay a core charge. Sometimes the core charge is more expensive than the remanufactured unit.
There's a shop in the city I used to go to that rebuilds starters and alternators. That's all they do. The shop is busy and the guy knows his stuff. I think he's from Afghanistan and he learned the trade in his home country.
There's a shop in the city I used to go to that rebuilds starters and alternators. That's all they do. The shop is busy and the guy knows his stuff. I think he's from Afghanistan and he learned the trade in his home country.
There is a lot of bad stuff on YT. I have used YT to take apart and upgrade a couple of laptops. I had to watch several YT videos on cleaning a lawnmower carburetor before I found one that said "no adjustments are necessary" for that type of carburetor. I have used it too many times to fix our POS dishwasher. A proper "12 common fixes for a Sxxxxxxg dishwasher" would have been handy. Maybe I should do my own, but then again any sane person would have thrown that Dxxn thing out years ago.
Your correct in that you must turn in a core or be charged for not having a core. My experience is with an old Small block chevy era 1960's-70's a rebuilt will probably work fine. Other engines well maybe yes and maybe no. I had a 390 Ford engine once that I went thru 3 different rebuilt starters in 1 month and finally I purchased a "New" starter and it worked fine. Alternators.... I always rebuilt my own and that included installing new bearings. Pretty simple process since we all here can use an ohm meter, volt meter, and amp meter.
I always get a smile on my face when I watch a you tube video of some self appointed mechanic doing a brake job and it never ceases to amaze me when I watch him put on a fresh or refinished rotor and then touch it with greasy hands and continue to install new pads and finish up. No cleaning the rotor of fingerprints and grease marks just slap her together and there is another video of watch so and so work.
I still use an old pc running xp. The poor pc saturates its buffer with lots of ads such a level that makes it unsopportable. No more yt videos.
I enjoyed viewing the old "The Three Stooges" and a local bread maker called Juan Manuel Herrera from who I learned lots of technics to make my own bread, but a 15 min video lasts to 40 including ads interupting the normal play or superimposed om the screen. Good Bye yt.
I enjoyed viewing the old "The Three Stooges" and a local bread maker called Juan Manuel Herrera from who I learned lots of technics to make my own bread, but a 15 min video lasts to 40 including ads interupting the normal play or superimposed om the screen. Good Bye yt.
It took me almost a year to "unlearn" Australian and learn proper English , go figure.
I´m quite certain I spoke much like the EEVblog guy
Crikey! Winner winner chicken dinner!
A quick fix for slow computers is to install the third party adblocker plugin for the browser. It removes all the heavy advertising and interruptions. This has become a necessity for slow and old computers that are now unable to cope with the resource overhead of high-definition advertising banners. The paid YT premium service does the same job, and also does ensure additional benefits. The use of adblocker is legal, but there is a warning on the YT terms of service: "YouTube may prevent access if it believes, in its exclusive direction, that the provision of the service for you is no longer commercially viable". Old computers may also benefit from the plugin called "enhancer for youtube". The plugin is able to change the YT defaults and force the load of lower (or higher) definition streams.
YT is a entertainement platform with a higly automated backend, not a editorial platform. There are many useful technical and instructional videos being created, but the AI that drives the system does not care about the content, it only cares about key performance indicators that are taylored over a light entertainement usage model. This means that a low quality video that nails the metrics will be promoted and pushed to the viewer way more often than a good quality content that fails to follow the rules (such as: optimal lenght, thumbnail composition, etc). This also explains the popularity of the fake restoration channels. The flaws on the depicted procedures are glaringly obvious to any people with technical knowledge, such as: fixing a hole in a pressure vessel with bondo, installing a tape head without adjusting the azimuth. These videos are presented to YT users because the camera work is very good, the thumbnail is actractive, the lenght is perfect, and in general terms they have entertainement value.
YT is a entertainement platform with a higly automated backend, not a editorial platform. There are many useful technical and instructional videos being created, but the AI that drives the system does not care about the content, it only cares about key performance indicators that are taylored over a light entertainement usage model. This means that a low quality video that nails the metrics will be promoted and pushed to the viewer way more often than a good quality content that fails to follow the rules (such as: optimal lenght, thumbnail composition, etc). This also explains the popularity of the fake restoration channels. The flaws on the depicted procedures are glaringly obvious to any people with technical knowledge, such as: fixing a hole in a pressure vessel with bondo, installing a tape head without adjusting the azimuth. These videos are presented to YT users because the camera work is very good, the thumbnail is actractive, the lenght is perfect, and in general terms they have entertainement value.
Does anyone remember Prussian Blue, AKA Engineer's Blue?
It was commonly used for milling iron engine blocks or cylinder heads to know when you have removed the minimum amount of metal needed to ensure a flat surface. Also useful when nearly anything is used for scribing a line.....even a sheetrock screw.
I've used Prussian blue oil paint ( no idea if it's the same as engineer's blue, it was the closest I had ) for hand scraping three surface plates in the self generating method. I wonder if the ancient Egyptians did something similar. There is one you tube vid were someone proposes that they used a water tight shoot ( complete with water tight doors... ) and floated the blocks up the side of the pyramids with flotation bags, the fact that this would have been more of a technical achievement that the pyramids themselves escaped him.
I often use a modified hacksaw blade as a scriber, but then I use modified hacksaw blades for lots of odd things.
I often use a modified hacksaw blade as a scriber, but then I use modified hacksaw blades for lots of odd things.