Someday i'll tell the whole truth of why my videos are so erratic. But for now, i'm still here, still working on them. And i hope to get some more out. I don't know when, but i'm not stopping.
Just wanted to say that you've inspired me to study chemistry, and pursue a Ph.D. I cannot thank you enough for all the years of education and inspiration you have given me. I will truly always value you and your work.
@@marios1861 i know for the longest time NurdRage was posting jobs on twitter when he was looking for a new job and they were paying ludacrisly low wages and requiring masters and phds
Me too. When I decided I wanted to try removing metal from broken electronics, it wasn't the multitude of channels focused on that that I went to. It was NR, with his understandable explanations that I opted to lay out a plan from.
Me too, I started with pyrotechnics and advanced my chemistry knowldege to make better quality reagents for pyrotechnics and yeah, now im studying chemistry
Love the videos. This one should be titled "How a Chemist solves a mechanical problem". In hot environments a simple mechanical wire crimp would have solved your problem or a simple spot weld of the leads. I guess it all comes own to your background, Chemistry = Chemically bond them Mechanical = Mechanically bind them together Electrical = Use high current to fuse them together.
Yeah, I do wonder how well this will hold up. I've never even heard of someone using electroplating as a method of bonding anything. If you can't do resistance welding or crimping, it seems like brazing would be the go-to for an electrical connection.
I remember watching this channel a long time ago, thinking about how cool it would be to be able to mix different things together and watch them change color, get hot, or explode. Now here I am well on my way to getting a B.S. in chemistry actually able to understand why those things happen the way they do. I am grateful to this channel, and quite a few others, for introducing me to parts of science where the regular school curriculum could not.
No way, he's back! I've been following your videos for a while, especially your series on sodium. It's amazing to see that you're still making videos. And on electrochemistry too. I've been wanting to try some electrochemistry myself to make persulphates.
@@Treebark1313 YASSS, Imagine watching Chem Player, Nile red when his channel still chemistry pure, and said OMG i love this and decide to became a CHEMIST
Yay! You're back! A whole load of us missed you! Whether or not you realized it, you've become someone a lot of us look up to and/or look forward to hearing from. Stay well, we hope to see you again!
i cant believe this fossil is STILL ALIVE, nurdrage MADE my childhood in dangerous(for a 9 year old) and fun(for any age) way!!!!! This man blazed the trail for the ENTIRE pop chemistry genre of youtube and is still putting out peak content today. you love to see it.
Seeing you back was the highlight my day. Of course, I wish you could post more, but you do what you've got to do with your life. I will say that I'm perfectly content with what you probably consider simple stuff. It is always fascinating to see how much you can use electrolysis in place of other methods, and I'd be quite happy to see you just do simple useful (or not useful) electrochemistry, since you're such an expert on it.
Dr. N-Butyl Lithium, you're back! So pleased to see you in my notifications again. I hope you can show us more sooner than later, but we will be patient. It doesn't have to be anything grand in scale, just hearing from you is enough.
One of my favorite channels for the past 10+ years. Please for the love of science and experiments continue to make videos! The loyals appreciate you more than you know!
As an alternative to the copper plating trick, you could probably just get some small crimps and a cheap crimping tool and do that kind of repair in a minute or two. You can get basic crimp cylinders without insulation, which given that they're really just a short segment of plated copper tube, should hold up quite well in the hot plate. Crimps can be some of the best connections and hold up better than solder to vibration and thermal loads.
@@szsenyuk8887The small ones I get are usually tin-plated as an anti-corrosion measure. Means they're silver rather than red unless scratched, but not much more than that.
@@EdwardTriesToScience I've had much better luck with the purpose-made ones, but it can be done enough to work with small copper tubing. The copper tubing is almost certainly a much thinner wall, and that makes it hard to get a good crush-into-connection on it; from memory, the small sizes of crimp the wall is around the same thickness as the hole diameter. Probably easier to get the crimp than to get a tube with similar specs, unless you Really Need One Now and can drill out a solid rod for it, or can put up with a significantly less reliable connection.
@@EdwardTriesToScience I would suggest ferrules. They are literally under a cent per piece. a ferrule crimper is like 60 bucks but it's a good long term investment because from then on you can make solid connections for practically free
In an old text describing copper and silver refining they boiled the slime from a copper cell in sulfuric acid to dissolve both copper and silver, then poured it into cold water to precipitate the silver sulfate. The copper sulfate were only diluted and could go back to the copper cell as electrolyte. If my memory doesn't fail me it was done with concentrated sulfuric acid in cast iron pots, but lab glass should also work. :-) Thanks for posting again! I've learned so much from your videos and I'm looking forward to your coming ones.
So good to hear from you again! This is awesome. I've never would imagine that a slow copper plating would be strong enough to bond wires together. Your videos are fascinating, please keep them coming!
Your 'source of copper' seems an unreasonably expensive alternative source, but I guess you do what you must. Plating the thermistor onto your hotplate leads is ingenious!
So happy to see you are still active and making videos. What a great idea to use electrochemistry for electrical bonding, genius. Thank you so much for sharing your work, I really enjoy your videos.
This was my favorite RU-vid channel growing up 😩😩😩 I didn’t understand that you were an influencer, but I thank you for your work and you made a huge difference in my life ♥️
Hey, NR is still with us! Thank you, Mr. Rage, for creating another cool video for us. That is by far the most creative way I've ever seen of attaching wires to a sensor! Cheers M8
glad your still doing videos i love your stuff this channel inspired me to start up amateur chemistry. And videos like this with practical solutions to problems are amazing.
A more efficient solution to producing stronger, less spongy copper when depositing is to use assymmetrical AC. I made alkaline battery rechargers during the 80s with this technique. By using diodes to clamp the voltage over one phase, it's possible to limit the outgoing current that would otherwise pull copper ions off the deposition substrate whilst the unclamped phase deposits them. The resulting copper deposition is much stronger and compact.
hey NurdRage ime back in the lab again motivated & decided to have a watch of your video's for some inspiration, i to am having problems sourcing copper sulfate here in the UK, excellent idea, ime building a batch reactor to make up a few kilo's of copper sulfate. hope you are doing well & be good to see you back in the lab soon
on the junction issue I have solved this by using a crimping tool and copper tubing usually sold at model railroad stores that sell bits for building that custom model railroad layout, company name was K&S
Thank you for continuing to make videos. I've been following you on RU-vid since you first started. You're the reason I enjoy documenting my hobbies and got interested in chemistry. :)
Although I've moved over to mechanical engineering instead of chemistry like I intended in the past. I still find your videos fascinating ever since I found your channel back in high school about 10 years ago. Seeing this video just really brought me back to that time our teacher showed us copper sulfate pentahydrate and how it went from that vivid blue colour to white by just heating it up, then back to this beautiful blue again after adding water. Thank you for this video, thought I'd tell you I've been silently enjoying your videos over the years and look forward to your next uploads. Glad to see you are back.
You take antenna from some old radio and take it apart in individual small tubes. Then you use thinnest section tube, cut it with knife, rolling it on the table into 2 short pieces (About 1cm each). Then you plug temperature sensor in it, and from the other side you plug wires in your hot plate. Then you crimp it with pliers, sqeezing wire and sensor pins together. Thats how i repair this kind of stuff, it will give you long lasting-temperature resistant bond