Attempting To Make An Icicle Sine Wave

[@RamoArt]

I frequently forget what you're even trying to do in a video because everything is so over-engineered. Love it.

[@N.Cognito]

Your completely absurd builds are awesome even if they aren't successful. I'm always really happy when I see a new Cranktown video. Keep it up.

[@JohnJaggerJack]

Genuinely believe this guy is a national treasure in the making.

[@jaggederest]

I feel like it's important to note that this is raising the bar - you put the bar on your roof, to be exact. Great stuff brother!

[@Tetrafluoroethane]

You know what sucks about this video? And really all the videos on this channel? There is no way to like them more than once. If I could not like every time I laughed during this video, I think it would double the likes. Keep it up man. Your work is fab and you are funny as hell.

[@colinloeffler3633]

So true! I'm always trying to hit the 'ol dinger' multiple times in his videos

[@Rouverius]

Our boy has just gone and created a new form of additive manufacturing! And that linear system is sweet.

[@Basement-Science]

Well there's an idea I've never thought of... haha. I think the biggest problem might have been that you dispensed the water onto the roof tiles which are very uneven. If you dispensed the water onto a steel sheet with little 'teeth' at the bottom, I think this might have worked pretty well.

[@cranktowncity]

That's a good idfea man, next year i guess hahah

[@fnsfabrications6844]

Dude it worked perfectly. It's making icicles where you told it to. You are printing ice.

[@brandonfranklin4533]

That's really quite a good design for a home brew linear rail.

[@jaytalbot1146]

@6:40 "Are you guys ready for the most half assed belt tensioner you've ever seen?" I was thinking "I've seem some pretty half assed stuff before", but I have to acknowledge that I am in the presence of a Master. He has taken half assedry to a whole new level.

[@wouldntyaliktono]

This kind of dude can only exist in a city like Flagstaff.

[@quiionexto]

A stepper motor left in the rain. Your entire workshop was left in the rain...

[@mattbrennan7216]

Hilarious, thought provoking. Send it!

[@tracybowling1156]

You are so damn smart! I never get tired of watching what you come up with! P.S. I wish I were a big nerd!

[@_Kerberos_]

You are an S Tier Pick for someone to let join your group in a zombie apocalypse. Enough knowledge in so many areas, probably could make just about anything.

[@ellie_deli]

You need more subscribers yesterday! 1) never change your video formula unless *you* want to 2) im sharing your channel with everyone I can!!!

[@LesNewell]

Watching you make that tensioner had my poor little engineer's soul crying in pain.

[@brucewilliams6292]

I love you humor and the projects are fun. Thanks for the great videos!

[@gannas42]

Hey, it worked well enough. If you had more freezing nights I bet you'd get er all dialed in. Frankly I am surprised that the concept worked out as well as it did. I wouldn't have expected that it is possible to control icicle growth without getting completely wiped out by random variables creating too much noise in the system. Very impressive work. Thanks for sharing!

[@jordanbennett6461]

Dude that rail worked great! And you can see some bit of a pattern. Nature is hard to control but this was pretty cool.

[@jordan1081]

This turned out to be a really cool video! You made a solid linear rail and got 20 mins of great content out of it 11/10 tbh.

[@b._.render]

Maybe it was too much water and that’s why the sine wave didn’t appear because it was all at the peak of what could be frozen in the given time? This was so cool though 😂🎉🎉

[@marcwire9332]

that answers a important question that has maybe never been asked, or maybe never should be asked.. how to make a sine wave in ice???? Love the vids please keep them coming!!!!

[@ghostwheel9935]

Problem solving 101. You should teach. Many would benefit.

[@TagetesAlkesta]

Perfect timing, an iciclic sine wave is exactly what I need after being up for 28 hours

[@mscalco1]

that animation clip at the end explained it so clearly & looked like a lot of work.

[@KieranShort]

FFS mate, you deserve 100x the thumbs ups and views. This is awesome! Keep it up! You're in the zone of landing a viral video with the sorts of projects you do.

[@DougAlcoe]

To be honest, this has to be your best video ever... You more than earned a 'dinger', lol lol

[@isaacm1929]

5:43 Maybe if you put a spring between the nut and the flat surface you don't need to adjust anything.

[@FinlayShellard]

Wanting winter to end then needing it to stay, confusing nature man 😂. Great video bro, keep em coming!

[@cranktowncity]

haha the duality of winter

[@laurahaaima1436]

You are my hero.. Im just as messy!

[@Vikingwerk]

Thats a good linear rail!

[@H34...]

Ive got a plasma cutable carriage design that uses regular bearings and rides on tubing. Its solid and i use it for the cnc plasma i built at work. Its just a plasma cut piece with a couple of folds (i did mine by scoring with a the plasma part way through the material, then applied a hammer) so its pretty quick and easy to make. Give a yell if you want and i can share the files with you.

[@randomname4726]

Nice job on the linear rail dude.

[@DuckshotProductions]

Impressive icicle machine! Dinger smashed.

[@irkedoff]

Great video. I appreciate all your work.

[@tobiasstaermose]

I just loooove the make it work, not make it nice mentality ❤️

[@covodex516]

What a cool idea, and not at all a failure. You need to revisit this next winter; this time get started testing as soon as it's cold enough and use every opportunity for tuning - your setup seems to work pretty good, you just need more time tuning the values. Things to consider would be what temperature the water actually comes out of the nozzle, an idea for that would be to leave the heating mantle on completely on the hose but attach it to an arduino, insert a thermocouple at the end of your hose (just were the heating element still reaches - you want the thermocouple to see what temp the heating element gets the water to), and let the arduino keep the water just above freezing - hot water might even be better because it actually freezes faster than cold water. Furthermore to consider, at what rate the water can actually freeze on the icicle - if you add water faster than it can freeze, of course your lengths have to be off. So another idea would be to significantly reduce your flow rate on the water additions, because looking at your clip it looks like *way* too much at once. I suspect that fast drips would work way better, but once again, thats something in need of testing. Would be excited to see you getting this to work properly!

[@evilkidm93b]

Make the icicles grow in the shape of coils by tilting the grow surface periodically!

[@cranktowncity]

oh shit that's an awesome idea!

[@evilkidm93b]

@@cranktowncity hahah thanks - inspired by your idea!

[@GUCR44]

Bro..... We gotta hang out man... Hahaha....loved your reaction when the rail fell off the bench testing the slider... Yeah I watched it about a thousand times.. 😂

[@commonsenseisdeadin2024]

The linear rail is brilliant! I was thinking about how to make a panel saw/router and sure beats a pipe inside a pipe..... Or run bearings in said pipe.... hmmm! And the programing/coding, Mad props! Dinger left!

[@badmacdonald]

I i dont understand your doubts of slight changes of direction. its still as good as it was!

[@scottbg1]

If Adam Savage and Jeff Spicoli (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) had a baby... You sir, have a new subscriber. You're gonna trip up and become a millionaire one day and I don't want to miss it when it happens. Well done.

[@hustlesprouts]

The real MVP on KZbin

[@Fourby]

you've done lowering the bar, now you've done raising the bar to roof height, well done on an awesome project and a great vid, keep 'em coming! Superb!

[@Baxteen1]

How is this lowering the bar?! This is an amazing idea and was very cool to watch

[@tobyroberts7910]

Bloody love your channel. Keep it up. 👍

[@zach4505]

You make these projects (simple and complicated) seem attainable. thanks for sharing your experience!

[@GiovanniGiorgo]

Love it!! Great job on the rail

[@escain]

Clever ideas, wonderful projects, most of them even work! But why I am closing one eye and stepping back from my screen every time you start a new operation? Great video, as always, thank you :-)

[@jameslamb4573]

Mmmm, got to say that "linear rail" is a beauty and could have many uses. What are the V groove bearings you used? On thinking about it the drive belt could be attached to the internal of the "rail" to the "carriage", protecting the belt from whatever.

[@ibrahimkocaalioglu]

Good work. 👍

[@squelchstuff]

Utterly brilliant, and totally pointless.* I love it! Here have my dinger. * Except if you know, you know.

[@MrMe01]

That solution stew segment was a bit This Old Tony, but in a good way.

[@Engineerd3d]

Love the project! You rock!

[@ozb2006]

well if you density of the icicle you'll have a much higher "resolution to create the wave pattern lol, or you can just scrap the idea and use this to spray hot water on the roof to clear the snow :)

[@kreynolds1123]

I wonder. How much ice one might need to make to reduce their summer AC bills in half. I can hear a bunch of "it depends on....." but it sounds like a site engineering challenge. I'm thinking start with a buried water container and heat pipes to pull heat out during winter. The requirements are probably way too much to be practical is probably an understatement for most places but further north one lives, maybe there's a case where it is practical. Incedently, it's amazing that heat pipes are used along Alaskan oil lines to create perma frost, permenatly frozen soil, to suport the pipeline support structures.

[@julias-shed]

Another awesome project thanks for sharing 😀

[@defenestrated23]

Came for the unbridled chaos. Stayed for the literal brain stew.

[@AlbertFilice]

Very cool video, love the idea, plenty of time to come up with new ideas for next year

[@klausnielsen1537]

I still love your videos. No need to change a thing. I left a dinger! But wish I could leave more man.

[@dkraft]

EPIC.

[@lumotroph]

Dude I love these videos. Keep it up man. Greets from Johannesburg

[@nobodynoone2500]

Dig it.

[@senorjp21]

Icicles form when snow or ice on your roof barely melt from the sun or heat leaking through your roof. Then it drips in the shade and it freezes. The water is BARELY above the freezing point and maximally viscous - syrupy. Your water will be a lot warmer and freeze slower and be a lot thinner. I think that's why your icicles are so skinny. I think you should remove all guard heat and instead try to cool the water without it freezing. If the water keeps flowing at a very low rate I think that will be enough to prevent freezing. You could incorporate a compressed air blowout for when you want to shut down.

[@jessederue1418]

This guys is hilarious. Keep it up dude love seeing these videos!

[@ccole8686]

Love your videos. Btw where do you get your metal?

[@TossMySalad2]

nice.! 👍🏼

[@andrelanger8396]

Dude your channel is awesome

[@elesjuan]

LOL. I thought I recognized a media icon on your screen during an explanation. Home Assistant for the win!

[@cranktowncity]

Hell yeah I'm a real fan of overcomplicated linux based things. If it's straightforward and easy to use then it aint for me hahaha

[@hultaelit]

You use your insomnia to graph with icicles, I use mine to go thru your videos and leaving a comment on each. Time well wasted on both ends I'd say. That linear rail is really frickin neat tho, putting that idea in the back pocket

[@randomname4726]

Nice!

[@ChrisBigBad]

You, sir, are a greater nerd than I am. I shall try to learn. i hope we will get a chance to see it in action at a later point.

[@thaejsooriya3313]

Wooo more video more awesome🎉

[@guillaumelapierre3300]

For your next upgrade on your homemade metal 3D printer, how about using your laser whit some mirror to reflect the beam wherever and whenever needed? It Might get better accuracy and stability.

[@aeris-mo]

It's a cute idea

[@custos3249]

Ya know, though V-Day has thankfully passed, bet the GF would really appreciate if you got a recording of you two saying "I love you" and you used the wave file in this. But I assume life is good atm.

[@chemicalcorrosion]

Never considered insomnia as a TOOL. Epiphany level: 100.

[@peterouspensky7794]

That Insomnia tool got me to 17 unfinished projects

[@stewartfrye]

fails are the procedure of eventual success, over 1000 tries for a simple light bulb, 3 tries for a sine icicle. next years.

[@codemiesterbeats]

You could easily modify this concept to do evaporative cooling over the surface of a roof... I guess you could also just squirt water all over the roof but idk

[@alstaxi2002]

Can you do a video on Plasma Table and its Z -axis-Pleaze

[@cranktowncity]

stay tuned, I'll be building one soon

[@forTodaysAdventure]

how long did you spend manufacturing your bearing mechanism to save $100?

[@HyRkt]

Nice

[@herzogsbuick]

So the other day, I was watchin' a video and the guy makin' the video said "Hey! Thinkin' about subscribin'?" I said, "No -- I'm gonna subscribe. I'm thinkin', about poontang"

[@djjmsimon]

Look up mqtt, can be served at home on an old raspi.

[@edgeeffect]

What did the wood stew taste like?

[@cranktowncity]

so good hahaha

[@middleway1885]

Boop Got to love the Ah-Ha Moments...

[@seabeepirate]

Man I think about doing unique things to my gutters all the time. Like Simone Giertz I wonder why everything has to be so boring. My thought - I think your flow rate was too high to start and that contributed to the wonkiness. As the icicles grow they can accept higher flow rates because of greater surface area and mass. Adding some kind of bolt or spine for the icicle to start on might help. Airflow is also a factor to consider. Something ducted like a Dyson air blade to force air along the dripping plane would be really cool but the size and complexity now seem to be getting out of hand in my mind.

[@JohanErikssonSWE]

You are just brilliant, love your approach to problems and how you dont let things get you down to much, it is inspirational. Did you actually BUILD your plasma cutter ? Thanks for sharing your adventures 💙

[@Jkauppa]

try torching a metal surface/pipe with carbon coating (yes soot) to make a fluid type graphite no-ball bearing

[@Jkauppa]

also a linear square tube rail, just torch the inside and outside, the slide

[@Jkauppa]

also if the fitting is perfect then no slop

[@Jkauppa]

what a soup, deth in the soup

[@Jkauppa]

you could also have put pipe splitter to the exact output spots, too

[@Jkauppa]

nice ice popsicles brah

[@DanielKezar]

Thats some high effort stew

[@malkoitrek]

AHAHAHA it was so funny! Good attempt!

[@ChrisDay-sx4lv]

Put a single RGB led on each nail facing down so you can make real icicle xmas lights.

[@AVABAB]

I'm waiting for the moment when that screw eats the belt-wheel from the inside. Like a parasite. Done the exact same mistake myself when I was out of options😂

[@zutai1]

is that a crockpot, or a crackpot?

[@demianmoody148]

a hair is quite a press fit :D

[@squelchstuff]

That wasn't a blonde one either.

[@HAGSLAB]

Would it be possible to get the uncensored version? Asking for a friend.

[@ransombot]

I know this using a rack and pinion would be more complicated and less efficient but you should totally make a rack bot just for the youtube click bait of showing off the robot with the best rack on youtube. I've never seen a rack making robot on youtube and it'd be funny and mildly useful for heavier duty projects that you do. Probably be simple to pass a couple angle grinders and a tig welder back and forth across the square stock to build up and shape a tooth profile and profit.

[@rickycarlyle5261]

Comment for algorithm

[@epicfred]

Dinger hath been left. When is fast toast 2.0 happening?