Rubbermaid gas generating aroma unit teardown 

The Maker knife is currently hiding somewhere.

he nearly leaked red at one point - what a pro :)

An interesting distraction though. There are two more videos to follow (already recorded). Spoiler - yes a standard zinc air hearing aid battery does generate hydrogen when loaded and starved of air.

the connection to rocket engines is much closer than you think. look up hypergolic attitude control systems and the way the fuel and oxidizer are pressurized using a gas and bladder system...

Hmm ... a battery that generates hydrogen. All you need is another battery that emits oxygen during discharge and you could have a fully battery-powered rocket. Get Elon on the phone, stat!

Agreed, but companies can't make as much money smh

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Somebody has been learning “Rural Canadian Slang” vernacular from AvE 😂 this is a pretty good system. Let’s worry about the purely electronic air fresheners first.

I was wondering if the factory workers can smell any more.

I bet when they get hme they bring the stink with them a sort of free air ""freshener" 👍

Many years ago, I was a contractor at a factory that made ‘feminine hygiene products’. The whole place smelled like baby powder. It was one of my favorite accounts, due to how good it smelled. (I was doing building automation.) Funny story: I had never been there, and my supervisor was taking me to the site, so that I could get familiar with it. I kept asking what they made there, but he would only say “manhole covers”. When we pulled up, I was expecting to see foundries and loads of raw steel. Then, when we went in and I smelled baby powder, I was really confused. When I finally figured it out, I couldn’t stop laughing. “Manhole covers” 😂 My contact at this company had a sign hanging over his desk, which said “We don’t make the best. We make what’s next to the best”. 😂

@@bigclivedotcom I used to regularly go to a manufacturer who used concentrated parfum for the products. One massive office with all the aluminium spin moulded drums they used to hold them, and the cheapest fragrance was around $2k per litre, the most expensive they had was nearly $250k per litre. containers ranged from 2l to 20l, and yes the concentrated fragrance stays around for a long time, and the factory is easy to tell from 2 streets away when they are working, and you can tell from the odour what product they are making the base odour for (a lot of FMCG products, often the only differentiator is the odour pack they add to the base), where they take a precise small amount of the odour, and mix with up to 10kl of other liquid to get the right concentration. That they also get things like glycerine, paraffin wax and petroleum jelly, delivered in bulk by tanker, with massive holding tanks for the bulk chemicals to give a month supply, gives an idea of just how concentrated the odours are. I got a few empty containers, used the one, originally Green Apple odour, to hold petrol and 2 stroke oil, and when the generator used it the entire exhaust smelled of green apple, and so did the one motor bike I topped up the tank with fuel as well, in that he drove down the street, and you could smell the direction 10 minutes later on when he turned. Drum was empty, nothing left inside but the thinnest of films on the wall. This is likely plain glycerine, with perhaps 10PPM added to it of odour, with probably then water added to make up the more flowing mixture, and probably also a preservative, methyl paraben, added to keep it bacteriostatic, likely at a higher concentration than the perfume.

@@Willam_J I did a few contracts fitting new o2 sensors to aeration tanks in sewer treatment plants They did not smell nice

Seems like they need to re-engineer the cutting mechanism, or else make the membrane easier to cut through.

"things which had been given to me" - I hope that didn't include pets

Most technical designers and maintenance guys took their toys apart as kids.

I think you'll find they're not quite the same nowerdays, more plastic and PVC involved in the manufacturing . Latex has had its day.

I'm really surprised that hydrogen would be used in an industrial setting like this. Hydrogen leaks out of most things , happily escapes through most plastics and is not what you want mixing in with stressed steel components.

@@wktodd meh, those tiny quantities won't cause any harm. For any serious hydrogen embrittlement you'd need a continuous hydrogen-rich atmosphere for a long duration.

@@wktodd With steel to make it brittle you need to either have it really hot in a hydrogen atmosphere, or at very high pressure. You get a lot of speciality steels that are alloys made, formed and cast in a hydrogen atmosphere, simply because it will not react badly with the alloying additives, and after the casting in hydrogen it is allowed to cool, and then annealed in an argon filled furnace for a few days to both stress relieve it, and also allow the hydrogen to diffuse out. Hydrogen embrittlement mostly occurs in welding when you have water dissociate in the arc, and the hydrogen reacts with the steel, making the weld step between the weld material and the parent material brittle, or when you have a cylinder of gaseous hydrogen at high pressure for years. Both can be cured by a simple annealing process, that heats the metal to under dull red, depending on the alloy, to allow the hydrogen to diffuse out and allow the metal atoms to bond to each other again, and relax all the defects. not done unless you are needing the weld to be ultra high strength, which is why you see so much purge gas used in speciality welding, along with heating the part up and slowly cooling it in an inert atmosphere. Some speciality exotic weld gas mixtures actually do contain hydrogen as well, designed because you will have a heat soak after welding anyway.

Hope to see a new video soon from Mikestuff ;)

Oh the Humanity! Have we learned nothing?

Something less porous than a balloon may be required - a syringe, maybe...

Will a 0 Ohm resistor generate the same amount of gas in less time?

Mylar bag. If it's hydrogen that's released, (and I'm sure Clive will do a match test to see, lol,) you'll get a lot of loss through a rubber balloon...

@@capturedflame yes, Hindenburg test required.

@@Backroad_Junkie he could also put the ballon under water with a glass above it, like in an electrolysis setup

The rubber maid needs polishing...

those tiny cells can produce a remarkable amount of gas, don't underestimate it:)

Toilets again Clive ?

Been giggling childishly at "Rubber Maid" for years. I wonder if they meant to call the company RubberMADE and somebody screwed up.

@@sootikins The company make a whole range of commercial cleaning products such as Mop & bucket sets, floor polishing equipment etc.

I bet they have a urinal tank dosing system based on this type of technology.

@@bigclivedotcom I did see a few urinals here in public toilets in France having a battery-powered chemical dispenser directly connected to the flush water pipe and pumping liquid aroma directly into the urinal on a timer. These units were quite similar to the ones with a spray can that are meant to "freshen" the air of the whole room.

@@psirvent8 I know it's heating up, my point was that the heat is not being used. Only the pressure buildup from the offgassing is being used to do the work. I think it's a great idea.

@@ScottGrammer Many battery chemistry types give off some gas, lead acid car batteries for example & a classic case of battery off gassing while not under load are alkaline cells, thats why they often leak while in storage, gas builds up inside & pushes the contents out past the seals.

@@NOWThatsRichy I was aware of that. I've just never seen the offgassing process used to do work. I think it's ingenious that they got a battery to perform mechanical work without even a hint of what would normally be thought of as a motor. Great design.

When stationed at the Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach I took an apartment at a place called Ocean Aire. Unfortunately when the tide was out the whole place reeked from the nasty decaying life forms washed up on the beach. I also discovered it wasn't a good place to swim, too many jellyfish. I moved out after my year lease was up.

Not sure the max pressure, but each cell seems to be rated to produce 150ml of gas.

Yea I was laughing at "marine" scent. Most marine environments, e.g. docks and marinas, smell like a mix of dead rotting sea creatures and petroleum goop. Not quite what I'd want in an air freshener.

Yes, like a lot of companies, now a shell applied to a product.

No

Not exactly. It's not like Bell and Howell or Honeywell, where they some overseas company just bought the name and put crap products behind it. They were having difficulties because of poor management, and was bought out by Newell for a few billion, restructured, and they're essentially the same company they were years ago, except they've expanded into other areas. Newell / Rubbermaid is sorta like the consumer goods version of ConAgra. They own dozens of brands of goods from parker pens to crock pot.

Most stuff gets sorted for recycling.

She sells sea cells by the seashore.

This sounds interesting.

@@tncorgi92 are you sure she sells cells?

They sound like the water activated cells that are just plates of metal with the salty water acting as an electrolyte.

@@bigclivedotcom We used Salt Water Batteries in the Stringray Missiles back in 1980 when I worked at Lucas Aerospace and now the USA have recently announced they just invented them. Bit slow of the mark if you ask me the Yanks.🤭🤭

There are two upcoming videos. One tests a standard zinc air cell next to the cell out of this unit. The hearing aid battery won.

Two more coming up in the future with a scientific test and hydrogen pop. (Already recorded.)

Moto G7 Power.

It's a kind of aftershave type smell, more like laundry detergent

It's a "salty" smell.

@@grantrennie Probably because it is precisely the same odour they add to laundry detergent to make it one type or the other. The base materials in them are all essentially the same, just the odour pack is different to make the one different from the other in the vast majority of cases. All are made by one of a few large FMCG manufacturers, just branded differently for different market segments. Lever, P&G are the 2 big ones that come to mind by me.

@@SeanBZA Warning ! Long text ahead, but hopefully interesting. Back a few years ago my grandma was doing experiments with essential oils to basically make homemade cleaning products, including fabric softener. But she quickly found out how expensive essential oils can be, particularily when used in generous amounts like she did. So one day she decided to try out synthetic fragrances ( *By "Fragrances" I mean cheap chemical aromas, that's how they call them in France* ) that are meant to be included in homemade scented candles but could perhaps also be used in her citric acid-based fabric softener, except she was adding way too much of that cheap stinky chemical mix and the end result was enough to pretty much clear a room. 😂😂 If you did put the correct amount however, which turned to be only ONE DROP for a liter of homemade softener, then it ended up smelling more like your average store-bought laundry detergent, a entierely chemical smell that I still find acceptable on the other hand. By the way this fragrance is literally called "Outdoors" in French (Plein Air to be exact but difficult to translate correctly).

@@psirvent8 Smell is a weird thing. Look at the mercaptans they put into odorless things like natural gas. Humans can supposedly smell it down to a couple parts per million...

LPG vapouriser ?

@@psirvent8 It's a water filled from the car radiator heat exchanger that prevents the liquid lpg freezing 🥶 up the pipework and it also helps to vaporise the Liquid Petroleum Gas. Turning it into a gas that is then just sucked into the engine for ignition in the cylinder. Without this vaporiser after starting the car in winter the pipes would just freeze solid after a few minutes. A bit like if you spray a lighter gas refill onto your hand for too long you would get frost bite.

Every body is walking by,seeing you with a can of air gass mask lol.I am just cleaning air fresheners.lol