Hello - Really great video and modification. I have the same model and need to carry out the battery elimination modification. Your video is of invaluable source of information. Just wondering what would be the effect of having a mains grounded lead instead of the two wire lead used by Heathkit.
I just purchased the Kobalt 7 gal portable tank and tried filling using a very small SENCO compressor. The compressor shuts off prior to filling the portable tank. What am I doing wrong -or- is my compressor too small??
MichaelKingsfordGray, your comment is worthless without more explanation. Clearly, this little device works pretty well in the most important areas, and there are several RU-vid videos about this device, made by knowledgeable people, who think it is a good value (with some caveats), and have been using it successfully in their labs for a few years. So what is your reasoning?
Wow, I didn't know Heathkit made much more than during that in the sixties, seventies, of what was on sale in the Netherlands at the time, I remember the VTM, and the tube tester, also the l.f. signal generator, but there wasn't much more in the Netherlands.
Kfrierson, from the way you wrote your comment, I can't tell if you are complementing me on my garage or saying your next project is to organize your own garage. In the photos in my video here, my garage does not look very organized, because I dragged a lot of things around to make room for my ladder, so the place is something of a mess.
Sorry about the misunderstanding...I was complementing on your garage...I also watch a lot your tech videos and was amazed of all the meters and scopes you have...You are a very good explaining the topic you are talking about. Hope this makes sense.
Nice garage you have, it is hard to use the metallic conduit, here we often use green plastic conduit or orange flexible conduit also plastic, congrats nice Job..!!
egyrmexia1, where is "here"? Lots of places in "America" (meaning the United States) allow plastic cased AC "Mains" wiring in residential structures; it is often given names such as "Romex". But in the Greater "Chicagoland" area, it is common for municipalities to require that all mains power (permanent installations) be encased in steel, either conduit or flexible steel jacket ("BX", etc) [ALSO there is a local-regional requirement for the drinking water supply to be in copper pipe rather than PVC or other plastic pipe]. In my garage wiring shown in this video, I probably violated local electrical codes by using such long runs of BX in an accessible area where regular conduit could have been used. A few decades ago I would have bent conduit, or used straight sections plus elbows, but these days it was all I could manage to spend a few hours standing on a ladder installing it the way I did....regular conduit would have at least doubled the effort and time. It won't be a problem unless an inspector looks at it, which I don't foresee happening.
@@youtuuba I'm at México, southeast but every were in Mexico in all residential electric installations, plastic conduit is allowed, but not at industrial electric installation.. A lot of efforts are required to use metallic conduit, also it is expensive..
Nice to see someone from your side of the 'pond' appreciating products from our side. I know it's hard to believe now but we used to be an innovative, and industrious nation prior to the 'Banksters' getting control of everything. 😆 I have the Model 8 MkV which is a great piece of kit for certain functions. The only issue I have is [lack of] availability of the 15V battery at sensible prices but the one you show looks good if I can find one. To be honest I'm not that bothered as I don't tend to use it for resistance measurements.
Hey, I had already watched a few videos about this Speed-Feed trimmer, so I was partially prepared to install mine on a Ryobi Electric trimmer that I‘ve had for about 6-8 years. Anyway, I had to take the Stock shaft completely off my trimmer, but I had to take the New Head apart, remove the Black bushing w/the Brass metal bushing & using the White bushing w/the Ref metal bushing. I initially put the Black round gasket on first, but it was too tight. The Head would not move. Take it apart & remove that gasket & reinstall the New Head again. It leaves a gap of about 1/16-1/8 of an inch gap, but it’s closer than the stock head. Anyway, after reinstalling everything, it spins up nicely & reinstalling the Blue Twine was a piece of cake. My instructions didn’t help me much, just remembering the RU-vidr videos showing me how to change out the Black metal to the Red metal bushing helped. Also, there was no Base-Plate on my Ryobi trimmer, unless I had already misplaced or lost it.
Great vid! I rode the same train from Niles, MI out to Seattle in 1981 when I was 18 years old. I could not afford a sleeper so I sat up the entire time! Got almost no sleep. Which Garmin do you have? Does Garmin charge for map updates? Is that suction cup holder a Garmin product? Where did you get the frequencies for the Amtrak radios? I remember liking the Calozones in the dining car do they still serve them? Thanks!
My first frequency counter was an IB-1100. The February 1978 issue of Ham Radio Magazine had a few articles which guided me through modifying the input. I eventually built an 11C90 divide by 10 circuit boxed into an aluminum Mini Box which is still somewhere in my "shop". A few years ago I modified one of my frequency counters to be driven from a GPS receiver. Thanks for the 50 year step back in time.
I tried this it worked, but two came up with ease, one broke off it was bent so I won't count that one and the lest one did not move .I will try that one later. But I am very happy it works
I knew that multimeter looked familiar. And I haven’t seen nor used the thing in 30+ years. But I knew exactly where it was,so I decided to pull it out of its long storage. Not exactly what you have there, but it is close enough. I have the Weston 4440, which is just a smaller version of yours. I never used the thing and it was given to me by a friend who worked for UL labs. The old “C” cells still in it, and to my surprise not a single one of them leaked. I’m going to toss some new batteries into it tomorrow and see if it still works.
My people are from close to here, cross Shenandoah River into Va., go up the road towards Purcellville Va., cross river, go southeast 1mi., to Neersville Va., known as (In-Between-the Hills) my Granddaddy helped build the railroad bridge in Harpersferry, he told me he could have bought a home in Neersville for $150.00 one hundred fifty dollars, but didn’t have $1.50 one dollar and fifty cents in his pocket, my people Edward’s/Pomeroy help start & build 1st church in-between-the hills. Still standing, looking good, and still services, quite a few of my family are buried there including Mom and Dad. My Grandmother wanted to go into the church several years ago, i said Grandma maybe door is locked, my Grandmother’s reply was “it had better not be locked” ????
User.....there is no such thing as a "scanner code for AMTRAK". The railroads have assigned radio frequencies for each section of track. Those codes can be found at on-track-on-line.com, then go to the AMTRAK page to narrow down the choices, then you will see the list of frequencies for each route.
I'm sorry my junkie phone, I was going to say about the whole entire experience, neither of us will ever forget that experience, and I really wish that you could have experienced it and it's the most raw form, as it was just a new thing, when we experienced it.
Gladly, my sister and I were lucky enough to take one of the very first tours of this this institution, before it was all polished and shiny, and I will never forget it or will she, I never wanted it to become such the spectacle that it is today, even though I'm glad that it is somehow producing funds for something good I hope, but, I am sorry that you missed it and its beginnings, because it is something that , she and I will never ever forget. We both have very amazing photos of it but we were just so taken aback, and, awestruck, buy the whole entire
I enjoy your videos. I have a question for you. I inherited Dad stereophonic stereo with a Scott tuner and amplifier. I going to try and restore it. Can you direct me to where I can get replacement tubes. Some of the tubes seem to be out or do they still make tubes? I appreciate all the help I can get since I’m not too electronic oriented. I believe he bought it back in the late fifties. Take care 🙏🙏🙏
That power transistor - Would it be possible to drill a hole in the backplate and mount it with wires? Have bad experiences with legs breaking on freestanding devices like that
Chriva, yes of course it would be possible, but since I try to restore these as close as possible to the original design, I left it as-is. The small heatsink does the job.
Assume you drove a car with manual transmission. You couldn’t have shoot any videos while driving like you did often in the states. But to my surprise I did see footage when your car was in motion. Did you just mount cam on windshield?
aps125, as I mentioned in the video, I did not think I would be able to shoot video in Dartmoor because of the often challenging roads; with all the shifting of the manual transmission, the need to carefully steer the car on narrow twisty roads, I would not have a hand free to hold the camera. But later, when the road I was on got wider, flatter and less challenging, I was able to just leave the car in one gear for a while, steer with my gear-shifting hand and hold the camera with my right hand. I might have switched camera hands at some point. I did have to set the camera in my hap a few times when I needed both hands to drive, but I edited that out of the video.
I find it interesting that when there's a brief stop at stations, i.e., long enough for riders to get out and stretch their legs and, as per the announcements, smoke cigarettes. Do enough people, in general, still smoke? Enough of them to necessitate smoking announcements like that when there's a train stop? I'm not pushing or approving of cigs. I quit, cold turkey, 6 or 7 years ago after being a pack-a-day smoker for nearly a half a freakin' century!!! Now, I think of it as probably the best thing I've ever done. (My family, friends, and doctors all agree. 🙂) I will also mention that it was not only the best thing, but probably the hardest thing I've ever done as well. Nicotine addiction is powerful! (Understatement.) In fact, many say nicotine addiction is as powerful as heroin addiction. I've never been addicted to heroin so I wouldn't know about that. (However, that's what's claimed by many including doctors and others who study that sort of stuff.) Sometimes, I think I'm addicted to cannabis but, when I think that and if it bothers me enough, I'll usually quit my daily cannabis dry herb vaping for a short while. Frankly, whenever I've done that I always end up realizing, in a fairly short number of days, that I could quit pot permanently without too much of a problem if I decide to do so. Make that if I want to, which I don't and have no reason to believe I should. I live in SoCal about thirty miles north of downtown Los Angeles. (BTW, for those who might not be aware of it, weed is fully legal in CA.) Back to tobacco: In more recent years, I've seen fewer and fewer smokers in SoCal. But I don't know if that's also true for other folks who live in various parts of the country. BTW, smokes in CA costs between $9 and $10 per pack these days. But before anyone thinks CA overdoes it with the tobacco taxation -- i.e., by adding supernumerary taxes to the cost of each pack -- please know that more than a few states have us beat. In states like New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland, Illinois, Washington, and Vermont, you'll pay more for a pack of smokes than you will in California. Okay. I'm done typing about this. Love your train videos, youtuuba. I often play them when I go to bed as I find the sounds of the trains rolling on the tracks and the train whistles blowing quite relaxing. It helps put me to sleep, filling in for whatever the grass isn't doing to help me sleep. Peace out. ✌
I am not sure that I will make any more Train Odyssey videos. I have already made them for all of AMTRAK's long distance routes, in some case making repeat videos of the same routes. I might take more trips on those routes, but unless there is something new to record, what's the point of shooting/editing another redundant video? I have little ambition to take the shorter routes, as they don't have sleeper cars and I don't like sitting in coach for more than a couple hours, and can't get very good videos from those seats. Perhaps I might take some of the shorter scenic trains outside of the AMTRAK system. No plans yet to do so.
@@youtuuba You ever thought of making longer train trips outside of the US? And there are rumors of new Amtrak routes in the future... but for now that is all the are, rumors ....
This is not the most powerful car I have ever driven, but it was perfectly adequate for both the steep rural roads as well as accelerating to motorway speeds (typically 80MPH) and easily keeping up with that traffic. And that was carrying a lot of large luggage and three full sized American men.
@youtuuba when i was a kid in the 80s, we always hears these jokes about skodas lol, they've vastly improved since that time. My family's from Somerset originally and remember childhood holidays to Devon and Somerset. Also when I was in the sea cadets, went to RNAS Culdrose, we were taken up in a search and rescue helicopter and flew all around lands end and Cape Cornwall. Glad to see you like the area. Keep up the good work, and safe travels
Mohamadfaiz, I have a RU-vid video where I visited Port Isaac (Portwenn), the town where the Doc Martin show is filmed. In that video, I show the major filming locations, and show a scene being filmed at the school. Not shown is where I met Martin Clunes (Doc Martin) and Ian McNeice (Bert Large). I just missed meeting Sigourney Weaver who was also visiting. The video is titled, "A Visit to Port Isaac (aka Doc Martin's "Portwenn") in Cornwall".
Hi. I bought this meter, but I don't like the length of these measurement cables, they are very inconvenient to use after attaching the tips. I wonder if they can be replaced, for example, with tweezers. Maybe you have an idea. Regards
I know this is off topic, but does anyone know where to get the .stl files for the serpent horn that was made on this channel a few years ago? The Bate Collection seems to have moved them offsite and none of their contact emails work.
