How Does An Old Blasting Machine/Generator Work?
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- čas přidán 13. 05. 2024
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I wonder if the Acme company still makes parts for these
it's in their catalog next to their oversized slingshots and anvils
I thought they were next to the TVT crates and swinging pendulums of doom on their website.
Acme, we make all kinds of $#!t.... have for ages!
They don’t. It’s not economical to manufacture for such things.
@@AldoSchmedack ACME is literally an acronym for "A company that makes everything" so this isn't too far off...
Don't imagine the guy who put this together ever imagined it was gonna be taken apart in front of hundreds of thousands of people.
millions?
Billions
@@Dovah_Slayer billions and billions
My deepest respect for you, because you have the courage to take apart such a valuable item that belonged to your granddad.
FLEENSTONES???
G R A N D - D A D
7 GRAND DAD?!
@@Sam-fq5hc what are you trying to say?
@@zrnjan migo they're referencing to the bootleg game called 7 grand dad
We had something similar in the M1 Abrams tank - we called it the "Master Blaster". It was a manual generator to fire the main gun in the event the electronics malfunctioned.
Glad to see a CZcamsr who doesn't clickbait and who actually seems to enjoy making their videos, keep it up cody
George M healways seems so haapy
Well said George. Cody, the way you include education into your ideas is awesome. As a biologist, I love coming up with ideas but watching you inspires me to go try it and to get my little boys involved. Thanks again.
Anen
Definitely. You can really tell Cody loves chemistry and isn't in it just for the money. Genuine channel.
George M You won’t believe what this weird box does!
I'm a woodworker here in Utah and I would love to restore that generator. My brother is also a leatherworker. 100% pro-bono I love doing that kind of thing.
I have one in PA that I inherited from my father. Care to advise in my restoration process?
@@StachuDotNet Really wood is quite easy to restore, especially one that is originally painted. You just have to clean it, scuff it up a bit to freshen the surface and prepare it for new paint, fill in any egregious holes/gaps and repaint it.
@@Evipicc _username checks out_
@@Kurokubi ??
@@Evipicc what’s the best glue to use with antique restoration ? Just good ol wood glue? Trying to fix up an old wall clock from the 1800s. It’s not valuable other than sentimental. It still works though!
Wow, brushed motors haven't changed a bit. Looks almost exactly like the one in my corded drill.
yeah, kinda nailed that one :D
Puts down plunger for blasting machine.
*blast goes off*
Cody:*looking back* did it work
Also cody: ok
I've always wondered that, thanks!
TheBackyardScientist you couldve blown that safe open
Yeah! Why no shape charges?!?!?!?
I dont blame you though, I know how US laws can be.
It's a national treasure at this point
Interesting, because I recall once seeing an old History Channel show (like a decade ago or so) where they explained how these things worked, and the way they put it, it was way different than this. According to them, the box contained a battery, and the rack just operated a switch.
maybe that was a newer model like cody was talking about, with the keys and button, but they kept the rack for the "satisfaction"
I would really enjoy seeing a restoration/ rebuild video on this. Maybe make a new wood box, take it apart and replace the wiring, and fittings etc. etc. With a test to see the voltage output before and afterwards. Anyone else interested should thumbs up this so he sees it!
Donny Champagne but then it wouldn't be his Grandpa's generator anymore, it would be a completely new one. 😂
Even better, cody should make one from scratch.
It would not be same generator anymore. It looks better now.
the box is actually of remarkable craftmanship it would be a terrible shame to harm it
Donny Champagne
Maybe just a cleanup the wood, and put some moisture back in it with Murphy’s wood soap??
About the "boost" theory: If I remember correctly, the collapsing magnetic field induces a voltage spike (that's how igniter coils work) - and this is why you have shunt diodes across large coils to protect other parts of a circuit in other applications. So it's the energy stored in the magnetic field and the number of windings that determine the voltage this thing puts out...
While what you wrote is true, this is just a simple universal motor/generator. The iron core always have some remnant magnetism which is enough to produce some current, which is fed back into the stator windings which will increase that magnetic field, which further increase the induced current, ... It's a self-excited generator.
Funny experiment with a parallel-connected motor is to start it normally,, then decrease the stator excitation. The RPM would increase to ridiculous levels, and surprisingly when you completely remove the current from the stator, it will still spin, in case it did not exploded yet. 😆 Needless to say, it is a dangerous experiment, especially at home, so don't try this at home.
You know stuff is serious when
C O D Y S L A B
I believe that old grease is pronounced "shmoo".
Marshall Horton release the shmoo!
Marshall Horton well it atleast it chooches
Well it still chooches proper. That's how you know it was properly skookum.
Might rattle the fillings from downstairs, though.
A fairly robust skookum choocher
AvE fans?
You should create your own blasting generator. Or restore the old one with new screws and paint and such.
He should totally make his own! And maybe be creative with it, like it lights up with a Cody's Lab logo when he uses it. Or even something like a electro chemical reaction (I don't even know if that's possible) Or like a huge piezoelectric one.
Would love to see a tutorial on how to make one, There are some that exist but not the quality and well thought that cody does
I personally would love to see him fix this one up
Just take apart an old disposable camera, and use the wires from the flash
@@josephdavid8091 just make a standard generator and add ridges to the lever,then use a gearbox to transfer it to the generator
Really beautiful device! Loved those beautiful half blind dovetails!
That thing is an awesome piece of historical technology right there. I was actually amazed by how cleverly they did the current recycling and switching system to maximize the jolt it puts out once the plunger goes all the way down.
I have never heard of Big Clive, so I wouldn't have found out about the blasting generator if it wasn't for Cody. I feel like this wasn't a horrible mistake, as it basically gave Big Clive a shout out (I am now subscribed), and Cody showed the inside of the dynamo, which was awesome!! Don't listen to the haters Cody!!
10/10 this is the proper response, sadly many commenters don't reach your level of maturity.
carlosapian g You're absolutely right. I love both channels and enjoyed both videos. They both did a great job and one little mishap isn't gonna make bigclive cry.
Nothing can make Big Clive cry! :D
Just goes to show how well made things were back in the old days our farm has an old oak barn built back in the late 1800's and it's still solid as a rock
Rusty Shackleford Norway has or had some wooden churches that are/were almost 1000 years old.
Its solid as a rock becaws it is built with real wood and was tended two troughout the ages nowadays if you want somthing made of solid wood you genarly pay a few grand
Or survivor bias
I blame "Design Obselite" in this capitalist world.
zhis is very true actually,i have a radio that's impossible break,even the vacuum tubes inside are made of steel,not glass...i dropped it like a hundred times,even used it as a hammer when i had nothing else to use,still works flawlessly to this day.
"Whenever I can, I try to use this thing; It's just so cool!"
It is indeed!!!
One of those things in the background of my childhood (in old cartoons) that were always around but I never really noticed, much less knew how it worked. Thanks.
Collab with Big Clive is a must now.
I agree
I'd be open to it, been binging his videos all morning.
The second i saw this thumbnail, i thought... Hmm, Cody's subscribed to bigclive
I was the first to call for a collaboration over on the BigClive video! I'm stoked that Cody is watching Clive! CZcams nirvana.
His videos are always a delight, as are yours of course just differently :)
I would be surprised if that gear was aluminum. It would have been too expensive back then. I bet it's some alloy of zinc. I can't remember the name of it, but there was an alloy that was commonly used in castings because it was lighter than cast iron.
Alexander Could the alloy you're thinking about be Zamac? Don't know if it is, just trying to jog your memory.
tjhill0110 yup! That's what I meant.
Could be, I ought to have weighed it.
Cody'sLab is there a way you could do a quick chemical test? A drop of acid or something and watch the reaction?
There are also plenty of non-magnetic steels...
Of all your videos, this might me my favorite. Taking something apart, examining it, and putting it back together is a great way to learn, and something I've been doing all my life.
Hand Tool Rescue might be able to restore this for you. This is his kind of thing
Never knew about the end of travel switch.
Makes sense, forces the operator to make a deliberate action to make booming noises.
This is a teardown video. The only ethical way available on the internet. Wow, Duper Awesome!
thx Cody!!!
Consider sending it to "my mechanics" for restoration; the man is an artist
Too cool! I've always wondered what made these old blasting machines work! I can't believe I somehow missed this video before.
This reminds me so much of AvE's teardowns, a style of video that I personally love. Keep up the good work!
Cody, I’m rewatching all your videos and I think you’re really cool. I really appreciate your effort in teaching all of us the things you know, or even just want to figure out. Thank you very much.
This is awesome! A great look at how they made things work without advanced materials. I've always assumed that this is how those detonators worked but to see the actual parts inside with an explanation makes it all the better.
Thanks Cody!
I love when Cody’s old videos turn up on my recommended list
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Crazy Russian Uncle BumbleClive Slab.
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The final boss of CZcams.
Big Clive sure sounds a lot younger than i remember
And more American.
Tim Stahel read the description
so cody is big clive before he invented the time machine?
No, big clive is cody before he invented the time machine.
So this was in fact a cleverly disguised deathdaptor after all?
After watching your mining series I meant to google how the blasting box works and glad this popped up on my feed just today! Fantastic explanation, Cody, and really simple mechanism that’s rather ingenious.
I always wondered how those worked. That generator is really neat and the way it is set up is rather ingenious. Also, the way they built the box with the dovetail joints shows some real craftsmanship too.
Thanks for this Cody! I always wondered how many bites- I mean, how those old blasting generators worked. Considering how weak those Iron plates are, I wonder what would happen if you swapped them out for Neodymium plates. Just a thought.
*flashes for just a second*
Me, an intellectual:
*o b s e r v e r o n e - t i c k p u l s e*
2 tick pulse smh
lino Bigatti 1 redstone tick, 2 normal ticks.
You forgot to compensate for server lag.
server lag doesnt affect dis
great!
Cody, I was wondering this myself the other day and I am so happy that one of my favorite people made a video about it. Keep up the good work!
I just picked up one of these yesterday made by the old Hercules company. I have to take the cover off because somebody had made it into a lamp and the plunger rod has been fixed into the full out position. With your video now I know at least what to expect to see inside.
It also got me to thinking that it would be quite easy to take a small starter motor to make one of these.
What I want to know is how a Coyote could pay for all of that ACME inc stuff.
He is the smartest creature alive. He can pay his bills.
Corporate sponsorships. That's why you can read ACME on everything he uses. - Yes, he fails horribly. I didn't say he was a GOOD product demonstrator.
The secret ingredient is crime.
A lot of our beloved childhood shows are literally just repeated attempts of premeditated murder
@@MNDashcam but with exquisite style!
What everyone sees: Cody’s lab
What I see: *CODY SLAB*
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a very cool rustic apparatus and made so simple and robust with clever solutions im loving the explanation about the inner-workings of this apparatus thanks cody great job
A+ video! This is a very interesting piece of engineering. I would love to see videos like this on any antique industrial equipment you may have access to. I don't think it would have been made during wwii. I think steel was in such surplus (and everything else rationed so much) that they started minting pennies out of steel in 1943. Many domestic goods transitioned TOO steel construction during this time such as silverware and cookware. My guess is it's pre-war and it made sense to not surround a powerful dynamo with magnetic metals. Finally bit of guess work: the initials may belong to the tech who affected the (negative?) terminal repair. Thanks again for such a great video!
Nice vid. I have one of these machines bench mounted and can run it at different speeds. The output is very interesting. It is what was known as a current source device, and as such does not conform to Ohms law for DC current supplies. Resistance is futile.
Cody, You should try building your own blasting machine!
Safety was managed by simply not connecting the wires till you were ready. The terminals, as you demonstrated, are resilient and easy to work. There wasn't any need to have everything screwed in place before you were ready. Simple and effective.
Always wanted to know what the inside of one of those looked like, very educational and immensely enjoyable!
A bonnie, a beauty and a joy forever!
Another great video. Thank you a lot Cody, I truly love watching your videos.
It's facinating how it generates it's own magnetic feild enabling it to generate a current,such a cool old functioning relic, that's pretty awesome Cody and I've always been curious about how that worked,thanks for showing us!
On a side note,if you made a compass like that you could make it like a wind up compass,that would be so cool. I think I need to try that now.
It'd be **awesome fun** to use one of these! The satisfying feeling of ramming down that plunger and seeing a **BOOM!** in the distance!
AvE is gonna have a word with you lol. Love this kinda content. Do more please.
To be fair, older technologies may look bulky, but it was far more practical.
(just raise and push down the plunger quickly)
Because yes, I'm going to use this to power my laptop
It's not that they are more practical, it's that their needs are simpler, and can afford a simpler option. You can always use one to power a bomb, but don't use it on anything that needs more than just a brief amount of power!
matthew fanous
Just push the plunger up and down repeatedly. Boom, powered laptop. :-)
i mean, a modern equivalent could probably either literally use a single battery, or be completely remote activated. A button that can be pushed from a far greater distance with a far more precise and reliable detonation is probably more practical, id assume.
you guys are taking the piss out still used engineering, we've just cleaned up the design and scaled it to what need.
Hi Cody. Long time looker, first time commenter. I have one of these and have done some experiments with with it myself. One required I have it rewound!! So, the long and short of it is this. These are a current source DC dynamo. The brass end caps of the motor frame serve as capacitors. The armature has what is known as a neutral wind and the field windings are series wound. what this amounts to is this. If you spin the machine above the Lens' Law limit you get an unlimited amount of current to the resistance felt by the windings. Assured reactance of the blasting caps. The diagram that came with my unit shows I think a limit of 11 caps, but no mention of wire distance. I could take a picture and send it to you if you are interested. There is a hack you can do which will turn it into an entirely different machine but I am not sure what you want to know about the world.
I honestly always wondered how that worked... thanks Cody! Hope all is well :)
I noticed you removed the old grease. But did you replace the old grease?
i was also wondering about that. lol
The grease he removed was there because it was past the edge of the gear, where it wasn't doing anything anyway.
Wait, this is not Big Clive.
Not enough lurid pink appliances to be Big Clive.
indeed
Kept expecting him to say "take it to bits."
Nice well explained video. Your dad taught you all of this stuff I wager. Mine did too. We made an electric motor out of bent nails and insulated wire 60 years ago. I have a perfect picture of it my mind still today.
when i saw the description, i just knew it was bigclive.
i like both your channels, getting smarter everyday watching video's about electronics and chemistry.
I wish Cody explained about all his apparatuses half as much as he did about that thing... or even 10% as much..
I love how he says "coulk" rather than "calk" in fear of being demonetized.
I think that's just his dialect, this was before the ad-apocolypse
When people need something done, they find a way to make it work! Truuly a beautiful masterpiece of engineering design.
That thing you've got there is a real beauty. They sure made things to last back in the old days...
I suspect the non-magnetic metal parts are either zinc or a zinc/aluminum alloy. These would be stronger for gears and bearing housings than pure aluminum.
i wanted to know, how this works till I was six :D Now, after twenty four years, finally I know :)
Nice Cody great video, I love taking apart things and seeing how they work and now I know how these detonation devices work.
Thx youtube for this random content that i never searched for but i dont regret for seeing
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Cody! Please, for the love of god, don't let it stay dry! Lube all the moving parts with molly-grease!
And this video is why you have me hooked Cody! There's no way I'll ever have seen the works of Wylies' Acme plunge detonator. And the simple but beautiful hand crafted box ... haahaa! Yep. ☝"Still works".
On ya' Cody.
A little tip. When removing old screws, that have been sitting in the wood for a long time, it sometimes helps to start by tightening it just a little bit. This expands the hole just enough so the screw can be easely removed.
After reading the comments I guess I gotta find out who this big Clive fella is
You won't be disappointed. Also check out (if you haven't already) AvE, Matthias Wandel, Backyard Scientist, Clickspring, Electroboom, michaelcthulhu, NightHawkInLight, Pocket83, Peter Brown (Shop Time) and of course Colin Furze.
clive and everyone is amazing, although, backyard scientist just seems to hard to act happy, i like my people mellow like clive and cody!
Ah yes !!! The memories of playing the Engineer Class in Battlefield 1942 :D
Nice to see how this looks from the inside! I would have guessed that there should have been a condensator... Very clever and simple how they did that ignition system! I would love to see a video showing the limits in feet of wire while using the battery methode to detonate the tnt :D
I love how it has the dovetailed joints.
15:20 "If a Bird lands on this" ... like a Road Runner??
Can you restore that one day so it'll look new?
TobeyT3 Why would he? It was hid granddad's so it holds a lot of sentimental value and it works more than fine this way too
It has way more value the way it is. The yellow cap really hurts though
Dávid Végső I don't know, even if it was restored it would still have the sentimental value. I'd like to see a video of him pulling it apart and restoring it.
That thing is beautiful. It looks like those dovetails are hand carved. That's craftsmanship you just don't see anymore.
Well, it could use some cleaning and re-greasing, new strap definitely. Could be cool to water tight it again
I wish you had been my teacher/ instructor.
Haha, you're still my favourite (C³)! Thanks for your continual curiosity and courage!
This might be my favorite video you've made. Thanks for sharing!
Nice vidjeo, you just need to implement some vocabulary like "angry pixies", "electrocity" or "springamathing"
David S. uncle ave for that
I like AvE but PLEASE NOT on cody's channel. It's good the way it is.
simontay1984
You're right. However, let's not confuse a persona with the real person behind the channel. A retired mining engineer would have every vestige of immaturity knocked out of him shortly after getting hired in the first place.
You mean Uncle Bumblefuck.
That's how Cody chooches!
There are 3 things I want to do:
Blow a train whistle
Pull the horn on a Semi
Blow up dynamite with one of these
I actually always wondered how these things worked. Thanks!
What a cool video. I think that is a DuPont Model 3A. At some point there was a brass plaque on the top under the leather strap. It's super cool that it still works.
Omg real dovetails so nice
Half blinds too
Cody's lab - AvE BOLTR edition :D
Thanks man. I have ALWAYS wanted to see inside these. Thanks for the added breakdown bonus.
I gotta say, I absolutely love opening old stuff and seeing the material as clean and brand new as the day it was put in like what 80 years ago :) like opening an old CB radio and you can smell that old grease smell,. ahhhhh
I also like how you broke down all of the looney tunes references lol
You should do a restoration video where you create your own brass terminal replacement for the steel side, as well as restore the casing and handle.
It would be interesting to watch this thing getting restored by a restoration channel, like 'my mechanics'. (=
Very cool. You keep answering questions that I did not know I needed the answer to and I love you for it!
Cody, I've been a fan for a decent while now, and I'd like to see a video of you fixing the old Blasting Box to a newer look. It'd be nice to see what you do.
Battery will do well sure, BUT NOT NEARLY AS COOL also the blast gen is easily reusable and cheaper :P
That was the whole point of this. No batteries required.
You should have put a meter on it to read how much voltage and amperage it puts out.
Vegaspsycho NEVER MEASURE CURRENT ON SOMETHING WITH A METER WITHOUT A LOAD. The way current has to be measured, unlike voltage, requires a dead short between the test leads and if you just connect the meter you *will* blow it to bits if there is too much current... My suggestion is put a dummy load resistor in series with the meter and progressively drop the load resistor's value and if it goes above about 5 amps without issue then get a standalone ammeter to measure it with instead of risking blowing up your meter. Once the current stops going up even after you keep dropping the value of the resistor you have your answer.
He did have a load on it with the lights. And that shouldn't be putting out enough power to blow your meter if it only lights up 8 christmas lights.
I know they make meter clamps that just go around the wire without splicing into it.
At 1:20 he estimates 60-100 volts DC and it's just that the meter he has can't measure in that.
Ah. I thought you were implying that he just stick the meter leads across it and whack it into the amps range. My bad! And yes, for currents higher than two or three amps I usually use the clamp meter just because it can measure high current without risking violent, unplanned disassembly. :P
@@inkno701 I think the reason he didn't is that a digital multimeter is too slow, they only take a reading several times per second. I think even if you set it to min/max mode, you'd be lucky to register any volt reading for such a pulse coming from that demolition box. Reading a battery or other sort of supply works as the value being read doesn't usually change so much within 1 second. So meters are great for lots of things but I think he would need an oscilloscope to measure that instantaneous voltage.
Pretty cool, thanks for taking us on that journey with you
Thank you for another instructive video! Always happy when I see that you have uploaded a new video.
the gears may be magnesium. is there a way you could test it?
I'm 99.9 percent sure there zinc. Zinc turns blue when it gets corroded
spray vinigar on it.
did anyone else notice the nine volt batteries connected in series at the bottom right of the video at 16:41
anyone know why they are there?? Cody?????????
I just bought one and it was the first I have ever seen. So I came to Cody to see how it work.
You have my respect Cody... Keep up the great work man...