Ouch. Make your job easy. Disconnect the power, drain line, and supply from the wall and lift the whole fountain up and off the wall. Job done! But I like the video in full because I saw and learned even more thanks!
I like this roller coaster POV shot style of taking video. I just kept thinking "that drunk guy holding the camera has a really steady hand" the entire time.
Because 1/4 screws cost less then 5/16 screws. If you did not know those type screw are very expensive. So when your are manufacturing thousands of fountains the savings is substantial. So if a 1/4” screw fits the application that’s what they use Makes perfect sense to me especially since I service water fountains among other Refrigerartion equipment Have a great day
36:54 I think the reason for using the different size of screw was to match the pre-made components. For example the radiator, would have come with its own specific size of mounting holes, that require specific size of screw. To me is seems 1/4 is used for sub-assemblies, and 5/16 is used for all the main structure. This is good because diffrent that means only one size of screw is used for a given job to do. 5/16 is more than likely the smallest (and therefore cheapest) size of screw that can be used in all structural components, and therefore 5/16 is used for all things that arnt easily encapsulatable into sub-assemblies. 2 screw sizes, but only 1 size of screw for a given assembly departments jobs to do. I should rewatch the video and check if the size of screw for the fan motor bracket are the same as holding the radiator, as I can imagine those being assembled on the same workbench.
The motor bracket was never disassembled so I didnt get and a definite awnser to what I was wondering. But I looked deeper, at 6:15, The ground wire is 1/4". This implies the ground wire is added as part of a sub-assembly. Likely with other wiring, e. g. The motor. The size of the screw for the ground wire may have been determined by the size of mounting holes the chosen radiator had. The ground wire screw being 1/4" does provide further insight that the motor mount screws are 1/4". Yay for watching thing non-sequentially. The order in which engineers designed components is independent of the order in which components are assembled. 36:52 6:15 you can also see different types of screws being different things at 9:30.
i'd love to see how low you can get the temperature out of that thing, bypass the thermo switch or max it out or something to make sure the motor doesnt over heat and see how cold you can get the thing with water flowing through
going through some of the older vids, wow... over here in the UK water fountains are a bit of a rarity (we have them in schools but not really anywhere else) but they're almost all just fed straight from the main, no refrigeration gubbins. Nice to see the guts of these things though :) love the vids :D
This water cooler would be good for chilling condenser water in the chemistry lab. With some antifreeze, it should be able to go down to -10 or -20°C. Way overkill for ordinary distillation, but it can be useful for vacuum distillations.
that was way too entertaining for such a mundane item, great job guys! Camerawork was pretty darn good, seemed a couple times it was pointed higher than intended but overall really good. Agree with another commenter that it help "bring in" the viewer more than a cam on a tripod. Show suggestion: Do a EDC (every day carry) vid of the items Chris, Paul and others carry on your persons, from the tactical belt, to your Gerbers, IWB holster, flashlights, and other gear you like to have handy. :)
Always wondered what was going on inside those things when I was a kid. Thanks for the tear-down. @ 12:39 - 12:44 I noticed the E-Go e-cig with the black drip tip. :) Vape on!! (I love my E-Go too). It would be cool if you considered making a GeekGroup-sized atomizer to show the folks how those work :)
nice, his steady cam capabilities are much better than mine were, of course it didn't help that whenever i took it out to practice Cory would follow me around and yell at me for every little thing. wasn't the best motivating factor to practice. great work new camera guy =)
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It's interesting how it is illegal to release R134A as a refrigerant into the environment, yet perfectly legal to buy and use a multitude of caned air or freezing products that are also many times comprised of R134A as well. I actually have an entire case of Chemtronics electronics duster that only has one ingredient R134A, since R134A is not an ozone depleting compound.
Yeah, I know the video is 11 years old. Camera peeps need to remember to keep the camera pointed at the subject, not the tech/Tom or the wall. Missed walking through the regulator-valve and front push activator.
Great video. I need to fix our water fountain which looks like this one. Would you direct me to a video that shows me how to do that. The water is not coming out at all.
I actually have one in my den. I must say it's very handy. My children cod just quickly get a drink thus less dishes to wash and it's always ice cold. My question is since it has a compressor similar to an air conditioner, why isn't there a filter behind the vented sides.?
The steady cam work , oddly enough enough, makes you kinda feel like you're in there looking at things. I'm going to give Tom a B+ ... it's not too bad, though there's a few framing and jerk problems, but it's his first time on the rig so it's fine. Just adds to the experience heh. I know pretty much nothing about them, I may be off base so please do correct, but was the rig not quite set right in terms of balance or stiffness? Doesn't seem to be floating right.
this may seem a dumb question but im going to ask anyway how come even though the lav mic is right beneath chrises chin it sounds like the audio is being recording from the viewers perspective ie the camera and not like its being recorded inches from chrises mouth is it a audio illusion that my brain sees chris from the camera so assumes the audio is coming from the same perspective or is there some other magic on here dumb question and unrelated but im intrigued
I got to say, im not a huge fan of the mic. it may be that i have become accustom to the mic on the captains blog cam. However, i think the shirt mics you guys use are not using (Don't seem to be or just have a poor version of..) the self adjusting leveler, so when Chris is quiet and talking away from the mic, i need to crank my sound, then 2 seconds later, my speakers blow when he screams Gurber ninja!!! lol Seriously though, am i the only one?
The audio on the past 4 or so videos has been significantly lower. I have to turn up the volume all the way to hear what Chris is saying. My volume on my computer works fine and when I go to the next video I get my ears blasted out from the volume all the way up. And yes the volume on youtube is turned all the way up.
Needs to do something important in a couple minutes Scans YT vids first. Sees a 40 minute long video called "disassembling a water fountain" Thinks "Mmmm, its just some ornamental fountain, its not that interesting" Realizes its one of those drinking fountains I've used at school all my life. Bites lip - CURSE MY NERDINESS!!!
do you have a fear of pipes full of water and you deismantaling them, i seen that video of you cutting a pipe in the basment and it broke free and spilt shitty water all over you, haha that was funny as hell, butit must not of been so funny for you
