AVE been watching you for 4 years now. One thing I can say is you've never changed your outlook on shilling out. It is a blessing in disguise. Keep up the good work.
AvE, noble concept on your part. Sharing and improving solutions without the pearl clutching concerns of patent lawyers. Who cares if the Chinese start supplying them, they make most of our nails. Should we have kept that idea to ourselves? Bravo!
You can buy such sets since years; you buy the joints and separately buy the sticks (typically, broomsticks) --- longer sticks = bigger dome, very simple.
Thanks Ave you're a gem! All you're comments are spot on. I have changed the design to a punched single piece component but I didn't think about the hole size for imperial bolts so i'll check that before I send files to manufacturer. All the comments here I've found super useful so thanks again for everything.
@Principatus you miss the "use what der material is at hand" part? This is a proof of concept.... Or do you think electric motors are still a bent copper wire dangling in a mercury bath?
@@sarchlalaith8836 OK, so what would an actual construction using these joints look like? If your dome is made from wood, the joints have to be screwed into the end-grain of the wood and it'll fall apart. If it's made from metal, wouldn't you just weld it?
Fun fact on WD-40, it's printed right on the can that it's made in San Diego, California- then has a banner on the can that it's not available for sale in California.
That's fucked up partner!! World's going to hell in a handbasket that's sitting on the back seat of a Porsche doing a buck ninety!!! In other words....worlds going fucking bananas and it's happening at an ever accelerating rate!!!! We're fucked!!!
@@jeffwarren9791 I don't disagree, I LIVE in California and am looking to move as soon as my son is done with high school. The problem with that is most states Californians have moved to in the northern latitudes hate Californians because the visua coastal ones are moving to those states and trying to pass laws there to make those states more like California! It's a plague and I gotta jump ship somewhere cold and where the coastal Californians don't want to go. I am from the coast it's beautiful, expensive, and full of idiots, not everyone mind you but they also have the money and this voting power in excess of those of us that labor for a living. .... Anyways some yupsters decided to push through a bill that bans "multi purpose lubricants" from having more than 25% VOC's they could sell old stock till 2016 but not after. It's retarded, like the bag law, and I think this one went through the Senate not to a ballot. Shit is way out of hand here, one of the world's largest economies and our politicians can't balance the checkbook..... And the coasters want to leave America and've their own country lol, fail, get me out .... For now years, then to somewhere sensible
Single piece, stamped circles of metal for building geodesic domes have been around since the 70's. Cut 25 pieces of 2x2 or 2x4 all the same length, bolt to the plates. The way the plates are bent keeps the boards aligned. Starplates is one brand. There's a beefier version that has arms welded to a central pipe so the arms go on the sides of 2x4 or 2x6 boards. As for these prototype gadgets, a much more compact assembly could be had by threading one side to eliminate the need for nuts. Assembly would be easier. Get the joints at the angle desired then tighten the bolt. If they were die cast it would be a trivial matter to have a radial interlocking groove pattern.
If I were going to protoype that.The pieces would be either lasered or jetted out of 1/4" carbon steel and then the wings press braked into the 90*'s.That sort of design would lend it'self to a stamping operation in production,because both left and right halves would use the same punched blank.
@@brutongaster8184 Will they ever really carry that much load? 3 mm 355S2+N will probably do the job more than enough. Take 4 or 5 mm if you want it to look rugged.
How tight a radius can you press into steel thick enough to do the job of these parts? The prototypes fit together so well because they've got that nice tight 90° inside corner, surely trying to bend 3-4mm sheet that tight will just snap it
I used to be a building inspector... I have watched about a dozen people try to contort the Geodesic dome into something useful at human scale. Best I have seen is play houses and dog houses. There is a reason we still like square houses instead of round ones. Cute widgets though.
I grew up in one that is three stories and about as wide as a basketball court. My parents built it. Huge beams though. These dinky little parts probably aren't really gonna do much good for a structure like that but who knows.
Well, isn't it just a scale demonstrator? Do it at this size so you get a feel for what yar doin', then build it up right good an proper at the big scale. I do have concerns about tha stability though.
Im not sure how i feel about geodesic domes for earth buildings. sounds great for like mars or the moon, but i think on earth moisture can cause a problem before too long with all those seams between the pieces. idk, just a random mini-rant.
Yeah, geodesic domes tend to leak. I like space frame structures, the type with alternating octahedra and tetrahedra. Problem is that at worst one needs a 12-way hub, and that’s complicated.
As per the screwing them into the end-grain, of wood, those would rock and roll with the flat-pack type furniture hardware, with the barrel drop through nuts... those are clever
The kind that hook onto a lug on the screw would be even cleverer in this app, because the lugs could all be on a single star-shaped corner piece. To use plain barrel nuts, you'd need some way to turn all the screws from the centre which would need either a large enough hollow centre to swing an Allen key, or a bevel gear so yo can tighten all screws together from the side.
Actually, the company I work for specializes in 1 and 2- off parts. We're a rapid precision prototyping shop that works closely with HP and a local college (among many other companies)
Holes need to be further apart... Story of my life "accidentally" hitting the wrong one on more than a few occasions. Bigger holes? Definitely not a problem I have ever had -anonymous (me)
Happened to me my first day on the job. She was giving me the ole “harder faster” like my 17 y.o. Ass wasn’t doing that already. Next thing I know she rockets across the room screamin. I didn’t even notice the lane change until the ripple strip started making noise
Your strut couplings look like a good candidate for closed die forging - righties and lefties in one cavity. Couple of progressive chomps in the press and your parts are joined by the flashing. You could probably pierce the holes at the same time. Second op would be size the holes either swage or ream. Amortize the die over thousands of coupling halves. But I like the steel plate idea. A punching like a roller chain side plate but thicker. Heat to bend and twist to get the offset. Churn out the links on a CNC plasma machine. Jig the bends. This idea scales from dozens the tens of thousands (there are plasma machines with multiple torches.) Over tens of thousands might do better in a 10 x 10 malleable casting array. Then there is rust. We're back to aluminum. Have you considered a three pointed star connector plate, pre-bent at the rough angle, that's cold bent at assembly? Everybody got ideas. If we all talk at the same time, we can decide quicker.
Yes he has an updated design, all parts are the same now. You should go look at his latest post, and make some of the new ones... it would be a big help!
was gonna say that these don't need to be different parts. they're not mirrored shapes, but 180 rotations. the mating bits are shaking hands, right hand to right hand.
Those parts look perfectly suited for 100% infill PLA 3D printing. I've made a few similar parts for holding threaded rod and PLA is surprisingly strong if printed on a dialed in printed, especially if you throw some extra material at the problem. You can also do the trick where you make two parts with the layers at right angles to each other and glue them together for added strength.
We all like a laugh and a joke but this episode shows why we love it here so much. So many smart guys watching. What a clever idea. Perfect for this latest AvE idea. Nice to be in a group with similar intelligent's. (Unless I suffer Dunning Kruger, in which case, just humor me.)
@@uethuegiegjtreriopjg What people not able to read a date doing on a chanel like that? Shouldn't you guys be watching dancing with stars or something?
Had a neighbor who built a geodesic dome house when I was a kid. They only came down and worked on it during the weekends so it was abandoned during the week. I had a lot of adventures climbing around in that structure.
Was discussing the cross over interest factor on the CZcamss and I had a remembrey of the time I spotted a Skookum as Frig t shart at a $3000 hooptie challenge/ziptie drags event in Arizona.
I have always wanted to work for a prototyping shop, but I didn't get far enough through college to start interning, so now I'm just a mechanic until I gain enough tools and knowledge to start my own machine shop
rather then using bolts and nuts, a guy could thread the one side and simply drill the other, then you only need access to the one side, perhaps even use an allen head bolt,
I like the idea as well, but how about the 200 pound humanoids over-torquing and stripping threads? I'm sure we all know how hard it is to find good help these days. Just my two cents from my perspective. Cheers!
@@caseycampagnari8854 While 200# gorillas are apt to destroy threads, after the first 3 or 4 they will either figure it out or go broke trying, Granted I used to work with folks that couldn't be trusted with 1/2" bolts (12mm to you continental folks) eventually they became unemployed 350# gorillas
What about some sort of ball socket off at say a 50 degree angle and a receptacle that accepts those balls and a center bolt to clamp the ball between two halves?
Way back in 70s a high school English teacher assigned "I Seem to be a Verb" as a reading assignment. While she didn't specifically say that psychoactive substantives where required to figure out how to read it, I found them to extremely helpful. Mr. Fuller, in addition to being the quintessential visionary of the 20th century, clearly had quite a sense of humor.
Too expensive, you want those to cost as little as possible, stamped steel just punched and bent on a conveyor is dirt cheap, casting and then drilling, much more
You are in my head, I was literally just thinking of a flex joint thingy, where you can create a string of small heat sinks for LEDs that can bend (yet not pop off the LED), asking for a friends plants.
Hey bumblef__k, this video came up with a opening ad for makita power tools. Oh the irony. Thanks for the great content. Cheers from Australia, where it is not the frozen hoth, but we still sleep inside entrails (HAAS).
The best way to do geodesic dome's with quarter inch stainless plate, and a cutting torch… You can make a five pointed stars.. you can make a six pointed, you bend them approximately a throw between two and six bolts into each radiating 4 x 6 or 4 x 4. But the pieces you have there would be ideal for gardens, greenhouses, porticos… Of course glazing the monstrosity… Now that would be interesting. Maybe you could do some castings for that.. Don't forget the infrared coating!
Neat idea. I'd look into getting made in thermoplastic to drastically reduce the cost and production time. An engineering grade thermoplastic like Nylon 66 or even one of the glass fibre reinforced thermoset plastics. Could get the cost per unit down under a dollar while still having the same or similar structural properties. A four cavity mould can be ordered, made, shipped, and producing parts inside six weeks.
I'm guessing a production version would have a leg down one or both sides so you can fix through the side of the timber.. More like a rafter bracket or deck stirrup with a swivel head..
just want to say i've been a subscriber for a while now and i share your videos with my friends and i just wanted to say kick ass man! cheers for viewer interaction!
I learned a word recently "chiral", "asymmetric in such a way that the structure and its mirror image are not superimposable." The joint pieces are chiral.
Daniel clark the catch is metric fasteners cost more and have less selection in murica. Dont get me wrong you can get all the common sizes at an actual hardware supplier, but they have limited hours on weekends and late at night so most weekend warriors just buy what the homeless despot has in stock
Yes and have them screwed to the side of the material. Stamped steel with the base forming a 90° that will fit on any square material (or 180° for tubular).
I'm in need of a new hoodie. The only one I own has caught the wrong side of every noodle draw it's been up against. Is there a way to get a skookum as frig classic hooded sweatshirt?
I`m an architect - a fish out of the pond here - but for those of you who might read portuguese you can find a manual like construction book in GEODÉSICAS & CIA, by Vitor Lotufo, a specialist who developed and built more than a handful of human size structures. One important point to make is that although leaks and moisture are a major concern, heating and cooling are not really a problem in tropical reagions and mechanical ventilation is almost always unnecessary.
@@briancnc Then why does the radon level go down with one of these systems running, and go up after you switch it off (not immediate obviously). It kills more people with lung cancer than cigarettes. Its not to suck all of the radon gas out of mother earth, it it is keep it from going into your living spaces.
*AvE* There is a company selling Geodesic dome kits that utilize PVC pipes and off the shelf PVC parts (essentially) they are easy to make yourself- into diy anysize greenhouse type structures. Figured your viewers would want to look it up potentially. The trick to Geodesic domes invented by Buckminster Fuller are the triangles creating a dome structure. My idea was to make a larger structure using 4"x6'piping filled with aircrete to create a strong durable and insulated structure, double panes of polycarbonate, glass, or wood/plastic could be used as a covering. Basically just scaled up an existing cool technology that is easy to build with. Now if you screwed in wood or plastic panels directly to the PVC Geodesic Dome skeleton, then pumped in aircrete, you would have one of the best insulated and cheapest durable structures known to man.
That sounds like a good idea. Domes seem to get a bad name because people try to employ traditional home construction and layout methods on them and the materials available in that field weren't so great back in the Bucky days. With modern materials and factory construction they could be amazingly fast and efficient. We're restoring Bucky's dome home on my channel. We're doing our best to keep the original appearance while using modern materials to make it last much longer and use lest energy. I managed to cram a 2 zone heat pump in there without disturbing too much. Now if I can just raise the money to finish it...............
Been watching this channel for about 2 years now, i have to say: this is my all time favorite youtbe channel. Without this channel i likely wouldn't have moved to study engineering. In my 2nd semester right now and trying to get into some projects and whatnot. Glad to see this channel not turning to shit a year after i discover it. Now, to get my nose out of your ass: Thank you for remaining honest in your videos.
For the metric zealots out there, 1/4” is .25”, 6mm is .24", so making 1/4” will work for both - making it 6mm won’t. It's just smart design to make it work for either.
Just ordered a wiener shieiden hoodie👍 always enjoy the videos. Been watching for a few years now you never fail to make me laugh😂 keep up the hard work
Hey AvE. I have a question. Why when draining and air compressor tank of the water build up does the water freeze? I thought that when things moved fast that created heat.
In Texas we have hot glue and expanding foam.
Special EDy 😂
Sounds legit!
Freakin mint ol son
No waterfoul adhesive tape, or bailing wire?
Just be sure to pin the rig together with cactus thorns first!
AVE been watching you for 4 years now. One thing I can say is you've never changed your outlook on shilling out. It is a blessing in disguise. Keep up the good work.
Well, there was that one drunken night with "Gas-in-a-can! Only $12 bucks a litre!"
ive never been in a jointed geodesic dome, but i once smoked a joint in a geo. does that count?
Yes. What was the question again?
Slow clap sir 👏 very well done
Yes, but only if done in a geodesic tent at a really lit music festival.
But was the dome light on?
Pauly Shore?
AvE, noble concept on your part. Sharing and improving solutions without the pearl clutching concerns of patent lawyers. Who cares if the Chinese start supplying them, they make most of our nails. Should we have kept that idea to ourselves? Bravo!
You can buy such sets since years; you buy the joints and separately buy the sticks (typically, broomsticks) --- longer sticks = bigger dome, very simple.
This is a righteous attitude =)
i guess Im quite off topic but do anybody know a good site to stream newly released series online ?
Thanks Ave you're a gem! All you're comments are spot on. I have changed the design to a punched single piece component but I didn't think about the hole size for imperial bolts so i'll check that before I send files to manufacturer. All the comments here I've found super useful so thanks again for everything.
Angle the faces at 60deg instead of 90. Should give you more assembly possibilities
@Principatus There is no hope for you...
@Principatus it's called a prototype wooooosh
@Principatus you miss the "use what der material is at hand" part? This is a proof of concept.... Or do you think electric motors are still a bent copper wire dangling in a mercury bath?
@Principatus it's a proof of concept you ignorant turd
@@sarchlalaith8836 OK, so what would an actual construction using these joints look like? If your dome is made from wood, the joints have to be screwed into the end-grain of the wood and it'll fall apart. If it's made from metal, wouldn't you just weld it?
Fun fact on WD-40, it's printed right on the can that it's made in San Diego, California- then has a banner on the can that it's not available for sale in California.
That's fucked up partner!! World's going to hell in a handbasket that's sitting on the back seat of a Porsche doing a buck ninety!!! In other words....worlds going fucking bananas and it's happening at an ever accelerating rate!!!! We're fucked!!!
@@jeffwarren9791 I don't disagree, I LIVE in California and am looking to move as soon as my son is done with high school. The problem with that is most states Californians have moved to in the northern latitudes hate Californians because the visua coastal ones are moving to those states and trying to pass laws there to make those states more like California! It's a plague and I gotta jump ship somewhere cold and where the coastal Californians don't want to go. I am from the coast it's beautiful, expensive, and full of idiots, not everyone mind you but they also have the money and this voting power in excess of those of us that labor for a living. .... Anyways some yupsters decided to push through a bill that bans "multi purpose lubricants" from having more than 25% VOC's they could sell old stock till 2016 but not after. It's retarded, like the bag law, and I think this one went through the Senate not to a ballot. Shit is way out of hand here, one of the world's largest economies and our politicians can't balance the checkbook..... And the coasters want to leave America and've their own country lol, fail, get me out .... For now years, then to somewhere sensible
Huh? I live in CA and WD-40 is available everywhere! Just saw it in gallon cans in Home Depot.
The California compliant can of wd40 might have different labeling or something. They still sell WD40 in California
@@uglypinkeraser Must be, cause I have a can that says not for sale in California. Must have stronger clown tears.
I love these incredibly useful and targeted solutions and I applaud your commitment to allowing people to do this.
Cool, if you ever need anything prototyped; I know a guy...
@@arduinoversusevil2025 is it the same guy I know? He works for bacon and beer.
RADIATION DETECTOR: *Testing experts around you*
Really inspires confidence in the product eh?
Single piece, stamped circles of metal for building geodesic domes have been around since the 70's. Cut 25 pieces of 2x2 or 2x4 all the same length, bolt to the plates. The way the plates are bent keeps the boards aligned. Starplates is one brand. There's a beefier version that has arms welded to a central pipe so the arms go on the sides of 2x4 or 2x6 boards.
As for these prototype gadgets, a much more compact assembly could be had by threading one side to eliminate the need for nuts. Assembly would be easier. Get the joints at the angle desired then tighten the bolt. If they were die cast it would be a trivial matter to have a radial interlocking groove pattern.
If I were going to protoype that.The pieces would be either lasered or jetted out of 1/4" carbon steel and then the wings press braked into the 90*'s.That sort of design would lend it'self to a stamping operation in production,because both left and right halves would use the same punched blank.
I wonder how strong one joint needs to be?
@@brutongaster8184 At least strong enough to get you off of baseline
It will be strong enough until you need a thinker model.
@@brutongaster8184
Will they ever really carry that much load?
3 mm 355S2+N will probably do the job more than enough. Take 4 or 5 mm if you want it to look rugged.
How tight a radius can you press into steel thick enough to do the job of these parts? The prototypes fit together so well because they've got that nice tight 90° inside corner, surely trying to bend 3-4mm sheet that tight will just snap it
The best return on this idea is probably through injection-molded toys (Meccano/Erector Sets). Erector? Damn near kill'der.
🤦♂️
I used to be a building inspector... I have watched about a dozen people try to contort the Geodesic dome into something useful at human scale.
Best I have seen is play houses and dog houses. There is a reason we still like square houses instead of round ones.
Cute widgets though.
monolithic domes are far superior.
@@als8518 Long live the Pantheon, and the Sistine Chapel.
Ever heard of Epcot?
I grew up in one that is three stories and about as wide as a basketball court. My parents built it. Huge beams though. These dinky little parts probably aren't really gonna do much good for a structure like that but who knows.
Well, isn't it just a scale demonstrator? Do it at this size so you get a feel for what yar doin', then build it up right good an proper at the big scale.
I do have concerns about tha stability though.
Im not sure how i feel about geodesic domes for earth buildings. sounds great for like mars or the moon, but i think on earth moisture can cause a problem before too long with all those seams between the pieces.
idk, just a random mini-rant.
I think they better suited for temporary use and chicken coops.
Ave
Meh, there good also for getting frisky in at outdoor raves, baby. No one gets the point.
Yeah, geodesic domes tend to leak. I like space frame structures, the type with alternating octahedra and tetrahedra. Problem is that at worst one needs a 12-way hub, and that’s complicated.
Yeah and running a dehumidifier 24/7 in an attempt to stay on top of moisture issues is ridiculous, if not costly.
As per the screwing them into the end-grain, of wood, those would rock and roll with the flat-pack type furniture hardware, with the barrel drop through nuts... those are clever
The kind that hook onto a lug on the screw would be even cleverer in this app, because the lugs could all be on a single star-shaped corner piece. To use plain barrel nuts, you'd need some way to turn all the screws from the centre which would need either a large enough hollow centre to swing an Allen key, or a bevel gear so yo can tighten all screws together from the side.
In america we use wd40 for everything even for raising small children
that's the one thing I adopted from my time in Gringoland
because ducktape's been around for a while
Yep, there's nothing like fish oil😎
You spelt "razing" incorrectly.
I was raised on tha Dubya
except for California. because there it causes cancer and birth defects. 🤣
Actually, the company I work for specializes in 1 and 2- off parts. We're a rapid precision prototyping shop that works closely with HP and a local college (among many other companies)
Row of 7. caught a mistake. where do I get my internet points?
+2 internet points bestowed upon thee.
2 points to Dickenvice!
Rather have an internet joint. Whatever those are...
I prefer my joints in the comfort of my back yard .
been watching for years, love what you're doing.
The second mouse gets the cheese.
The first cat gets the second mouse. Hope the cheese was good.
@@mephInc the mouse had syphilis and now the cat has a mouth rash
@@toasty4000000 More likely Toxoplasma gondii, but whatever...
@@machintelligence so you're saying that the early cat gets the tape worm?
GENTLE EH'S You collectively miss sight-it..
It is a Souris fourée au Fromâge....
{ *neo-cerebra-frights* }
Holes need to be further apart... Story of my life "accidentally" hitting the wrong one on more than a few occasions.
Bigger holes? Definitely not a problem I have ever had -anonymous (me)
Sounds like you just need to find the right gal
Look up AGD. (nsfw)
@@barrybritcher I'm scurd
With the quarter inch, or the six mill?
Happened to me my first day on the job.
She was giving me the ole “harder faster” like my 17 y.o. Ass wasn’t doing that already.
Next thing I know she rockets across the room screamin. I didn’t even notice the lane change until the ripple strip started making noise
My new binge channel.
The most intelligent humor I've found on CZcams in a long time. And pure tool porn.
What's not to love?
Your strut couplings look like a good candidate for closed die forging - righties and lefties in one cavity. Couple of progressive chomps in the press and your parts are joined by the flashing. You could probably pierce the holes at the same time. Second op would be size the holes either swage or ream. Amortize the die over thousands of coupling halves.
But I like the steel plate idea. A punching like a roller chain side plate but thicker. Heat to bend and twist to get the offset. Churn out the links on a CNC plasma machine. Jig the bends. This idea scales from dozens the tens of thousands (there are plasma machines with multiple torches.)
Over tens of thousands might do better in a 10 x 10 malleable casting array.
Then there is rust. We're back to aluminum.
Have you considered a three pointed star connector plate, pre-bent at the rough angle, that's cold bent at assembly?
Everybody got ideas. If we all talk at the same time, we can decide quicker.
The thumbnail looked so much more exciting than the video itself...
Yes he has an updated design, all parts are the same now. You should go look at his latest post, and make some of the new ones... it would be a big help!
was gonna say that these don't need to be different parts. they're not mirrored shapes, but 180 rotations. the mating bits are shaking hands, right hand to right hand.
great vids ave, love 'em. save space by putting thread in the holes?
Those parts look perfectly suited for 100% infill PLA 3D printing. I've made a few similar parts for holding threaded rod and PLA is surprisingly strong if printed on a dialed in printed, especially if you throw some extra material at the problem. You can also do the trick where you make two parts with the layers at right angles to each other and glue them together for added strength.
I have many ideas for geodesic spherical floating structures with concrete. I can't believe I missed this vidjo. Thank you for everything you do!
We all like a laugh and a joke but this episode shows why we love it here so much.
So many smart guys watching.
What a clever idea. Perfect for this latest AvE idea.
Nice to be in a group with similar intelligent's. (Unless I suffer Dunning Kruger, in which case, just humor me.)
Those look like castings, but I’m a pattern maker, everything looks like a casting
I agree, Sand Cast them and then machine them...
Tristan J. Cumpole haha
so you have a work farm then? i mean if everything looks like castings...
You could do lost wax and punt these suckers out the door thousands at a time yeah. I'd like to see those molds
@@TristanJCumpole My children do look strange, they look like your mother
Love to watch your videos. Always, . . . well almost always come up with new ideas when I watch your stuff. Even if it's from months or years ago.
Paul is a cool guy. Thanks for that. Awesome job. I will build one of his domes for next years growing season.
Flat bar with two holes, twisted 90deg, and quenched for thirst. Thrust? Aaaahh, strength. Yup.
Was this not stolen from/sent in by Paul Robinson - geo-dome.co.uk. He scrapped this design and just kickstarted WangerFlange
And WangerFlange looks like it is punched and bent steel... As expected.
Yup
@@uethuegiegjtreriopjg What people not able to read a date doing on a chanel like that?
Shouldn't you guys be watching dancing with stars or something?
@@Bialy_1 I was pointing that AwE was right on the final product mode of production. Good luck with the dancing.
GEO conectors were available for sale long before Robinson came with idea.
Love you guys that are making all this beer funding stuff happen!!!!! Thanks to you too AVE!
Had a neighbor who built a geodesic dome house when I was a kid. They only came down and worked on it during the weekends so it was abandoned during the week. I had a lot of adventures climbing around in that structure.
I swear he speaks another language, but I'm perplexed that I understand him completely! Lol, thanks for the laughs and great teaching, AvE.
Was discussing the cross over interest factor on the CZcamss and I had a remembrey of the time I spotted a Skookum as Frig t shart at a $3000 hooptie challenge/ziptie drags event in Arizona.
Looksie like Paul's magic joint! Thanks Mr AvE for realising it - Nice one!
I have always wanted to work for a prototyping shop, but I didn't get far enough through college to start interning, so now I'm just a mechanic until I gain enough tools and knowledge to start my own machine shop
rather then using bolts and nuts, a guy could thread the one side and simply drill the other, then you only need access to the one side, perhaps even use an allen head bolt,
I like this idea.
I like the idea as well, but how about the 200 pound humanoids over-torquing and stripping threads? I'm sure we all know how hard it is to find good help these days. Just my two cents from my perspective. Cheers!
@@caseycampagnari8854 While 200# gorillas are apt to destroy threads, after the first 3 or 4 they will either figure it out or go broke trying, Granted I used to work with folks that couldn't be trusted with 1/2" bolts (12mm to you continental folks) eventually they became unemployed 350# gorillas
I was thinking the same thing. That should address the clearance issue. You could swap out a damaged piece as needed.
What about some sort of ball socket off at say a 50 degree angle and a receptacle that accepts those balls and a center bolt to clamp the ball between two halves?
Like this? www.kickstarter.com/projects/942255452/hubs-geodesic-domes-made-simple
Way back in 70s a high school English teacher assigned "I Seem to be a Verb" as a reading assignment. While she didn't specifically say that psychoactive substantives where required to figure out how to read it, I found them to extremely helpful. Mr. Fuller, in addition to being the quintessential visionary of the 20th century, clearly had quite a sense of humor.
We're restoring his dome home on my channel. I'm currently trying to raise the money to finish it.
THATS AMAZING the possibilities for these bits of metal is great you could set up a small Amount of metal for a very static structure.
Had a video show up in my recommendation list of a guy who was doing a kickstarter for a similar bracket... No where near as beefy though.
Might be better to cast those dome parts, then just drill or machine what you need from there
Too expensive, you want those to cost as little as possible, stamped steel just punched and bent on a conveyor is dirt cheap, casting and then drilling, much more
No need to drill or machine. These could be investment cast (low volume) or die cast (High volume) with the holes in them.
@@ShadLindrud even two holes at those different angles?
@@terminsane You could do this with holes in them already, but the tooling cost on the die cast version would be very pricey.
You are in my head, I was literally just thinking of a flex joint thingy, where you can create a string of small heat sinks for LEDs that can bend (yet not pop off the LED), asking for a friends plants.
Love the shirt! Just ordered one in light grey.
How about powdered metal?
Hell yeah ave just before work!
Hey bumblef__k, this video came up with a opening ad for makita power tools. Oh the irony. Thanks for the great content. Cheers from Australia, where it is not the frozen hoth, but we still sleep inside entrails (HAAS).
The best way to do geodesic dome's with quarter inch stainless plate, and a cutting torch… You can make a five pointed stars.. you can make a six pointed, you bend them approximately a throw between two and six bolts into each radiating 4 x 6 or 4 x 4. But the pieces you have there would be ideal for gardens, greenhouses, porticos…
Of course glazing the monstrosity… Now that would be interesting. Maybe you could do some castings for that..
Don't forget the infrared coating!
And all this time I thought preload was something you gave the Mrs. Before the big one
I never get past the pre load. I cry after I cum.
Black rock city is my favorite City!
I smiled when I heard him mention it. :)
Whatever language you’re speaking...I love it.
Neat idea. I'd look into getting made in thermoplastic to drastically reduce the cost and production time.
An engineering grade thermoplastic like Nylon 66 or even one of the glass fibre reinforced thermoset plastics. Could get the cost per unit down under a dollar while still having the same or similar structural properties.
A four cavity mould can be ordered, made, shipped, and producing parts inside six weeks.
So is there a Geiger counter BOLTR coming?
That would be great, then he would need some fissionable materials to test.
@@robertlee9395 paging Codys Lab.
"The thing is that ..." WTF? Screwing into end grain wood? About as stable as a tooth pick in the nose, if you get my grift.
yes, ouch, you can see one of the 'beams' splitting in the video.
Pre prototype .
I'm guessing a production version would have a leg down one or both sides so you can fix through the side of the timber..
More like a rafter bracket or deck stirrup with a swivel head..
No worries! Nothing a wrap or two of bailing wire can't fix!
@@cooliobob1274 Baling wire? Are you serious? Duct tape is the proper tool for that job!
just want to say i've been a subscriber for a while now and i share your videos with my friends and i just wanted to say kick ass man! cheers for viewer interaction!
I learned a word recently "chiral", "asymmetric in such a way that the structure and its mirror image are not superimposable." The joint pieces are chiral.
I have a dedicated drill with a 1/4 bit in it for drilling out 6mm Chinesium to 1/4 in God's measurements.
Herp Derpens gods measurements? You mean backwards country measurements, the rest of the world uses metric, get with the times
Daniel clark the catch is metric fasteners cost more and have less selection in murica. Dont get me wrong you can get all the common sizes at an actual hardware supplier, but they have limited hours on weekends and late at night so most weekend warriors just buy what the homeless despot has in stock
I thought God still measured stuff in Cubits. What's the conversion factor for that?
@@buddyclem7328 depends how long the kings arm is, and which king you pick.
"Truss" -- USE the WORD. You know the word. Truss!
Never did trust them truss fund babies, myself...
There’s a perfect backyard geodesic dome down in Hedley. Turns out you don’t need joints, because old windshields make great dome panels.
For vocabulary alone I wish I could upvote this 100 times
The joints should be interlocking and not having to put all the stress on the fasteners.
Yes and have them screwed to the side of the material. Stamped steel with the base forming a 90° that will fit on any square material (or 180° for tubular).
And it's not 6mm, it's called M6!
Greetings from us, (20 centi)metric fanboys!!
Give-take 8 inchres!!
I'm in need of a new hoodie. The only one I own has caught the wrong side of every noodle draw it's been up against. Is there a way to get a skookum as frig classic hooded sweatshirt?
That part at the end, now all I can think is:
“Fräulein Gutenteit’s Guten-Schlippen Weiner Schleiden”
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Holy smokes! Is AvE a Burner? The plot thickens...
Heh :) Welcome, newbie.
Glad I wasn't the only one who caught that. Small world.
I`m an architect - a fish out of the pond here - but for those of you who might read portuguese you can find a manual like construction book in GEODÉSICAS & CIA, by Vitor Lotufo, a specialist who developed and built more than a handful of human size structures. One important point to make is that although leaks and moisture are a major concern, heating and cooling are not really a problem in tropical reagions and mechanical ventilation is almost always unnecessary.
Would it be easier to get the bolt in if you threaded the big end?
That's a sag. Hog is the other way.
I'm installing it on the ceiling.
A problem: life
A solution: ethyl alcohol
On the drill rig today I just remembered how nice it 10 mm is thank you Honda
Just love his subtle almost gentlemanlike profanity. You can hear how sincere it is. Hahahahaha
Wtf? Radiation test in one part of your shop?
That could mean anything, testing a solar panel is a for of radiation testing.
Could be that geological stuff with the radioactive rod which gets belted into the soil for density testing or whichever
Radon gas testing.
@@briancnc Then why does the radon level go down with one of these systems running, and go up after you switch it off (not immediate obviously). It kills more people with lung cancer than cigarettes. Its not to suck all of the radon gas out of mother earth, it it is keep it from going into your living spaces.
You sounded a bit like Hickok45 at the beginning.
THIS is where I tell you about the gun show.
*AvE* There is a company selling Geodesic dome kits that utilize PVC pipes and off the shelf PVC parts (essentially) they are easy to make yourself- into diy anysize greenhouse type structures. Figured your viewers would want to look it up potentially. The trick to Geodesic domes invented by Buckminster Fuller are the triangles creating a dome structure. My idea was to make a larger structure using 4"x6'piping filled with aircrete to create a strong durable and insulated structure, double panes of polycarbonate, glass, or wood/plastic could be used as a covering. Basically just scaled up an existing cool technology that is easy to build with. Now if you screwed in wood or plastic panels directly to the PVC Geodesic Dome skeleton, then pumped in aircrete, you would have one of the best insulated and cheapest durable structures known to man.
That sounds like a good idea. Domes seem to get a bad name because people try to employ traditional home construction and layout methods on them and the materials available in that field weren't so great back in the Bucky days. With modern materials and factory construction they could be amazingly fast and efficient. We're restoring Bucky's dome home on my channel. We're doing our best to keep the original appearance while using modern materials to make it last much longer and use lest energy. I managed to cram a 2 zone heat pump in there without disturbing too much. Now if I can just raise the money to finish it...............
Going to have to forge me a few dozen of those from barstock, I can think of a few uses for that! cheers amigo, i'll throw into that beer fund.
Nine people think they're first.
Everyone else knows the 9 are special.
They want to believe!
Yeah, just a bunch of fuck-tards thinking they are special. "1st" comments are the bottom feeders of CZcams comment sections.
Bro you need to do a vid on the stuff Veritasium just talked about. Why Machines That Bend Are Better.
dannyb4283 Bender was a cool machine!
Gotta get a Weiner Schleiden sticker! Always looking for beer cooler and climbing bin stickers.
Been watching this channel for about 2 years now, i have to say: this is my all time favorite youtbe channel.
Without this channel i likely wouldn't have moved to study engineering. In my 2nd semester right now and trying to get into some projects and whatnot.
Glad to see this channel not turning to shit a year after i discover it.
Now, to get my nose out of your ass: Thank you for remaining honest in your videos.
radiation done gave you a winter sun tan there old lobster hands
Where are my safety stickers lol. Did you send them by camel? Haha
Don't be ridiculous. He sent them via dog sled.
Did you send a kidney for priority shipping?
@@juststeve5542 i live in Canada as well one province to the east!! so shipping was cheap or free.... can't remember lol
Love the strut idea i want to get me some
i just ordered one of everything off your site couple weeks ago, guess im headed back to order more!
I need a shirt. My wife threw out the last one i bought from ya.
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For the metric zealots out there, 1/4” is .25”, 6mm is .24", so making 1/4” will work for both - making it 6mm won’t. It's just smart design to make it work for either.
Clearance hole for 6mm? = 1/4" simple.
Awesome to find out what you do. I have a idea that im actually working on for a contraception errr contraption
This Town Pump idea was definitely thought up at Burning Man.
Jesus Christ! Did you defile a VMC with tree carcass? Shirley, there are laws against that!
Just ordered a wiener shieiden hoodie👍 always enjoy the videos. Been watching for a few years now you never fail to make me laugh😂 keep up the hard work
ave is my favorite channel right now by far
Respect for the use of Robertson screws in the tree carcass!
AKA: Canadian screws.
(I keed, I keed!)
Hey AvE. I have a question. Why when draining and air compressor tank of the water build up does the water freeze? I thought that when things moved fast that created heat.
Is there a 3 axis offset joint iteration that would cover all the angles with only one type?
What if they were cut in half with a 3/8 bolt to join them? This way they could all be made the same and you're not limited by the angle?
The Weiner Shleiden would make a great sticker, it'd go well on the COSHH cabinet.