I've had a (bakelite/plastic) bayonet fitting - lamp adapter kicking around somewhere here. Still around until at least the 1960s when I was a child.

Do they use bayonet sockets for AC lighting in Australia?

you don't have a mogul base lamp? mogul base has a center hot, with a screw ring neutral that looks like a 12V auto lamp you've used

my grandfather was an oiler in a steel mill, and he built a indicator board, that would show oil levels, from his workshop. wired the steel mill himself.

Kiwi here, back when electricity was first coming into use in homes, it was mostly used for lighting. Power sockets didn't exist. Portable appliances like electric kettles and irons slowly became more popular, the only way to plug them in was to use light sockets. In NZ and Australia it was the bayonet socket.

Hate cats

Pepper spray with salt! Helps with skining and adds flavor 😛

Ozzies are so dull.

You can or used to be able to buy lightbulb socket to two pin socked adaptors. I still have an old bakelite one somewhere that was made in the 50's or before. You can also get a plug that goes into a light bolb socket that you attach your appliance cable to. The lights should be on a 5 amp ring, (in the UK) so your drill may blow the fuse.

There is a point in every pyro's life when they discover oil lamps/lanterns.

This is by far the funniest thing I've seen in years

APPARENTLY THIS GUY IS BAD AT READING AND WORSE AT DEDUCING COMMON SENSE, WHICH WAS A THING BACK BEFORE THE INTERNET. It's PAINFULLY obvious what the medicine dropper was intended to do, which was not function like a straw or wick, it's SOLID METAL! It requires viscosity, surface tension, gravity...and as the instructions said...tilting the bottle MANUALLY so the fluid moves down the wire first. Geezus.

Thinking that putting the wire through a cork and inverting it may be the key

I wanna know how that potato works, on a chemical level.

when assembling the light socket power cord, remember that you have a potato.

Man, what a long drive, need to rest my arm. OW!

Something unsettling about watching someone use a drill, to take a part another drill.

Electrons come FROM negative

After 50 years as an auto electrician I now learn that I didn't need meters, just a bag of spuds.

"If you don't have another drill, just use a mirror" Actually got to me XD

This explains why they used to put potatoes on cancer and boils, I always believed that but I couldn't prove it, Now you can, electricity heals Folks, ask a genius.

Fun Fact: In prison, inmates make cups of tea using the same method

Surely this dude was trolling about how to put out a lantern.

The "neutral" in a single phase system is not a neutral, it's a return. It's not to balance the load as in a current carrying conductor in a three-phase system.

I have a hot dog cooker from I believe the 1940s or early 1950s, It's bare wire and a metal container, insulated with his bestest and runs straight out to 120 volt plug. It has a momentary push button to complete the circuit. It cooks hot dogs in about a second

testing polarity of AC. Yeah okay lol

You have to be very careful with the potatoes because you can actually get... ... ... ...FRIED

electrician here, this is hilarious. I'm going to make my boss order me some potatoes for my toolbox

I had to sub. 😂

It eas 1910. Your life expectancy was 40. Safety wasnt a concern

Also dangerous hack? Fractal Burning. Don't do it.

2024 anyone?

Thanks Craig. I'm on it tomorrow. I make false beams with EPS . Been planning my own cutter for years 😊

So uh why keep comment respectful when there's an ad just now about the salt trick to keep men hard, this is no longer kid friendly.and needs to go

This reminds me of Trinette McGoon and Lana Caine arguing over the busted radiator.

500 volt DC dangerous? Tell that to ElectroBoom

Thanks for the new method to get some extra $ from my mates when I bet them that the ground is actually the positive and vise versa

I love those lanterns I have 10 of them as outside ornaments during the Christmas time. I use lantern fuel in them and I would not recommend desal because it would probably soot the glass. Please give that lantern some love and care it deserves it after working perfectly after several years of neglect.

the last one was made for an american light bullb

How is this not blowing up? This is peak comedy!😂

Cool channel bro

As the voltage of each test increased the awkwardness of circuitry design̈ increases.

Very odd hearing you talk about the files breaking...they do break with shards of metal. Wear your safety glasses.

He’s not the one to pussyfoot around defending the weak

I have recently purchased light bulb socket to two pin (US) socket to try and put LED light strip on my ceiling.

Mate, go buy a milwaukee m18 drill meant for putting in anchor bolts in foundations. BIG power. Also use a much thinner shorter stiffer knife sharp on both sides.

You are my hero, I am a cartoon cat, but manners is manners 👌

You are my hero, I am part cat, but manners is manners 👌

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I would enjoy your commentary on cat flights.