Craig Turner aka Turnah81 - Solving Stuff with Things! Ridiculously impractical how to's, inventions, comedy and other videos to solve the questionable problems in life. Overall the goal of my videos is to make people laugh, maybe learn a thing or two, while hopefully also inspiring people to think “outside the box.” Encouraging others to have go at building something (or maybe breaking something) of their own - but mostly laugh, I like that stuff. As a disclaimer though- I have no formal education or training in engineering or electronics. For your safety, despite the instructional tone of my videos, they shouldn't be interpreted or followed as a "how to" procedure. Anything I show should strictly be interpreted as theory, experimentation & comedy entertainment.
As a lighting technician for film, since we‘re often limited with where we can plug our lights, we do sometimes have selfmade adapter to get our power from lighting outlets. But they‘re made way less wonky than this.
We had christmas decorations with a bayonet fitting so you could only plug them into a lighting circuit which had a relatively small fuse at the distribution board.
Did you ever see the old video of the guy who stuck a bunch of 9v batteries together? Very clever design, those 9v batteries... They just clip together in series for as many as you've got space for 😂
Great video. Last hack was too dangerous and you'll get into trouble for it. I recommend editing and removing the last one with utmost importance for longevity of channel.
For the wire thebpoint is to guide drops while pouring pretty sure not to actually use capillary action. Much easier to get small drops usijg a wire or string
19:48 the polarity of AC doesn't matter in any way, except for very special cases with old equipment that relies on the fact to be safe for the user. Today any appliance running on mains power will effectively be floating and have the same potential from hot or neutral to ground.
To get the medicine dropper to work, you have to tilt it and dribble the "medicine" down the wire Many medicines were dosed in "drops" in the early twentieth century, kinda like some homeopathic medicine is still dosed today Sometimes the bottles came with a medicine dropper built into the cap for this purpose Also, the bottles were a lot smaller The small bottles of food colouring and synthetic flavouring are about the right size The glass droppers are sometimes also referred to as "eye droppers"
Medicine dropper - Capillary siphon Likely the dripping end needs to be lower than the submerged end, which is why it worked better at full length. Potato - electrolysis. Positive side gets anodized, which for copper just means it rusts faster Bulb adapter - You're using a different bulb type. The picture showed an edison screw, which doesn't have polarity problems. Basically the polarity of a barrel jack.
The medicine one seems more as a guide for slowly pouring the fluid since when you do it has a habit of just running down the side of the bottle making a mess
16:00 they're showing the US style Edison screw socket in our case the center is hot and the side is neutral with the bayonet fittings technically there is no distinction but the sidewall should be grounded in metal fittings From what I understand. You have to remember that in the US electricity pre-dated plugs and sockets so it was primarily used for lighting and what was used as a sock it was the light socket until proper sockets were introduced. And then even still there was two different tariffs on price one for lighting which was cheaper and one for appliances that was more expensive so you could theoretically pay for just lighting and then unscrew the bulb weird times. So at the time the book was made it probably was possible to get all these fittings that were interchangeable. After all a lot of the electrical industry adapted and converted practices and materials from the gas lamp industry. It's actually quite common in the US for a long time to be able to just go to the store and pick up a little screw in a bit with a plug on the other end to plug stuff in. And although it's getting a little harder and harder as it's starting to become less standard to stock in big box stores as Code has changed to require outlets every so many feet etc. and older houses are more and more getting retrofitted. But it was quite common to unscrew your porch light to plug-in power tools not necessarily heavy duty stuff but handheld drills before the invention of batteries. This is mostly because nobody thought to put outlets on the outside of their house so it was either that or run an extension cord inside which still wouldn't be very convenient. edit: wow I'm impressed that even over the pond and how many years later how to take a fit that almost is.
the light adapter, you can buy the bits to make one from bunnings. i made one to plug a bug zapper in on the verandah where we didnt have a power point. i just made note of the active and neutral orientation and marked it on both the adapter and light socket so i wouldnt forget which way it went 😅. now its in my shed using a light socket to run a LED ufo light. not something you really NEED but has been useful to have.
I'm actually surprised you could do that first one with the wire using string and the surface tension would cause it to drip down. So I don't see why it wouldn't of worked with the wire.
ok so the reason for the light bulb extension cord was cause back in 1910 there was maybe 2 if even that meany out lets so they did crazy stuff like that also 3 prong was not a thing till like the 1940 1950s so yaa 2 wire was it
It's popular mechanics mostly. I have cut and paste a bunch of interesting ones as they are hard to relocate, but don't have all the dates and months. Look around 1910. Prior there wasn't much illustration.
My grandparents had an outlet like that (medium screw rater than bayonet) in their upstairs bath. It had a lovely brass faceplate with a safety door over the outlet. These were widely used in the early 20th Century. Because paperclips weren't part of every households nursery baby kit people needed a way for toddlers to electrocute themselves and these outlets did nicely.
I worked for the phone company for years (decades) and I indeed carried a banana in my tool belt (Nope, not code for anything) it worked the same way but tasted better. But honestly, only on halloween. I wore nose mustache glasses as well. But those I wore all the time... I worked in San Francisco and even the crazy people were wary of me when I wore them.
I can easily find light socket adapters here in the US, and it was something my grandfather used as well. But you'll pretty much only find them around christmas time to plug in string lights to a porch light.
The dropper works best with a lead wire (for added health benefits). And it's great when you do the nightly chloroforming of whomever can't shut up at night.... And you have the added benefit of being able to remove their appendix should it get inflamed during the night.
9:01 Really? How many kWh is that thig and how much are your solar panels putting out? Did you actually confirm that? I smell fuzzy math / physics. I think you need to have David L. Jones have a look at this.
I've seen TV shows in which they used the light-socket in their cells to brew coffee by just pushing lines voltage through two can-lids straight into the water. It seems plausible. You can buy them in outdoor or travel-stores because lots of dorms in FarFarAway will give you light, but for whatever reason no wall sockets. They are pass-trough and spring 2 sockets along the short extension stem.
On Edison screw bulb holders the screw must be always connected to neutral but that doesn't make unpolarized sockets any safer, I bet back then even the UK had some kind of unpolarized sockets or at least unpolarized and ungrounded plugs. There were Edison screw "plugs" and there were and still are Edison screw fuses and fuse holders, like Neozed fuse holders, and even automatic circuit breakers with E27 thread to replace the old glass/ceramic fuses.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s it was fairly common to plug appliances into light fittings. Thinks like irons for example. You could even buy a 2 way adaptor so the light could be used as well.
Yeah I have some kind of vague memories of something like this. But keep in mind, the main thing I was testing is whether you can, or should use an actual fitting that was previously a filament light globe💡⚡️🔌😁.
He looks like a decent guy, but WOW what a brainwashed sheep, and what a bad rolemodel if he has kids. But we are all a work in progress, and i think life is to learn. Good Luck
In some places lighting was charged at a lower rate than power i.e. one meter for lights and another for sockets, Italy even went so far as using different voltages for lighting and power 150v / 220v. Also in 1910 a lot of mains supplies only provided DC (Direct current).
