Blasting Electricity at Thousands of PC Parts: Watch How Anodizing Works | Factory Tour Mini-Doc

[@GamersNexus]

Read the brand new article here too! gamersnexus.net/features/blasting-electricity-thousands-pc-parts-how-anodizing-works-factory-tour Watch our factory tour playlist here: kzbin.info/aero/PLsuVSmND84QuVMZuk2HGUtCSYXR7nmC5a You can see how PC case panels are made in this raw metal factory: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnWvqJptbah1jZY

[@milohajek]

The factory walk throughs are always fun, you learn so much. Thanks for doing all you and the team do

[@GamersNexus]

@@milohajek Thanks! We love doing them.

[@Kevinator1996]

@@GamersNexus Part of my job has me going into the electroplating shop/room at the company I work at (i'm a contractor, not part of the company) to do a HCl soak for really thin and really small shims as part of chemical stripping photoresist off of them, this type of stuff is really interesting and it's a joy to see.

[@bananya6020]

@@GamersNexus I don't really know who to tell it to, but I can always delete these comments if you don't want me to post them. My point is, I don't think the pseudonym "Human Malware" is safe anymore. In youtube video "Take a day off, Korone" (referring to hololive virtual youtuber K*rone), It was demonetized for relating to c**ona , despite containing no references to the v**us. As necessary context, a lot of people in her streams have made the joke that "K**onevirus" is "C***nav***s". In the youtube AI, I have a theory that it contains some machine learning that tries to relate different words and concepts. In this case, the word "K**one" was mentioned so much in the contet (same comments, titles, and descriptions) as "C***na" that the AI tried to link them together, with "K***ne" as a part of "C***na". Thus, they demonetized videos that don't even deal with the sickness (who knows what saying "v***s" does nowdays). This means that potentially, saying the word "Human Malware" and "C***navi*us" in the same context will trigger a similar link, and cause the ai to demonetize for that. This could be dangerous for the hundreds if not thousands of 'tubers using the pseudonym right now. Another thing I thought of was the xkcd webcomic on ai-generated meals. Its number is 720, to find it search "xkcd 720". It talks about how machine learning can break stuff like this, and the lesson is that machine learning shouldn't be done in public, in production environments. However, I think that may be what Google is doing right now, and this could pose a major issue in the future. Again, if you think this is unimportant, I will delete all of this, but I think it tells of a serious problem with the algorithm.

[@FredsRandomFinds]

They don't bead blast the components before anodising? I used to work in an Anodising plant and everything was bead blasted first otherwise you risk a mottled finish on the product. Also letting people walk round without eye protection and in shoes is dodgy as well due to the acid being used...

[@neutronpcxt372]

Dope ass video. Top tier work honestly! I've worked in an electroplating factory, and almost everything you filmed and said is 100% correct. However, what anodizing is in general, is creating an oxide layer(alumina) which is much harder and tougher than normal aluminium. There are multiple things you can do with aluminium anodizing: - Clear anodizing. Just stick it in there, and it will do its magic without any color. - Add in pigments so the pigment stick themselves inside loose "holes" inside of the alumina, and create colored anodizing.

[@thepolticalone961]

Damn I didn't know you still had more of these. Top tier content

[@andrewmartino6144]

Steve, you're like the "How it's made" tour guide of the tech world! Keep it up! Also be safe! Thanks :)

[@amaurylaunay]

As someone who work on anodisation treatments for the aerospace industry, this was surprisingly familiar and quite interesting. Thank you Steve and the GN crew.

[@Saisori]

Cause chemical burns. Worker: hold my beer. splash water without gloves.

[@GamersNexus]

Yeah, that's just water. It's the tank next to it that's acid.

[@thegreenpickel]

@@GamersNexus Hopefully you're not working with a bad headache that day and make a mistake. Gamers Nexus stuff is top-notch keep it up, Steve.

[@4partmedia]

@@GamersNexus bruh.. that sound worse.. ha! The bath water gotta be spoiled somehow, eh?

[@williamwilliams6677]

I'm really surprised that they are making all the transfers without gloves or eye protection. At around 5:24, he was reaching into the nitric acid tank to make the transfer barehanded. And I didn't see any eye protection at all. We always had to use goggles when using nitric or sulfuric acid, and a face shield when working with large quantities or situations likely to result in large splashes, like pulling parts out of a vat of acid. And we always got extra strong warnings about the danger of getting bases like NaOH in the eye.

[@TheBackyardChemist]

@@williamwilliams6677 The lack of eye protection is concerning, but depending on the concentration hand protection may be less of an issue. Especially if you use the large bath of water next to it to rinse it off right away.

[@pappyman179]

I hope these tours get views for you, there is a ton of unseen work, I'm sure. You value getting the story correct over making it pretty, and that is huge (and a lot of work). Good job to all involved.

[@HectorDomino.]

6:23 Love they way he made his path. In some parts of the world, this is highest respect to the surrounding people.

[@adamfcplm]

Factory Tour: Lian Li Ad: Gigabyte Gigabyte Cases: Am I a Joke to you? Me: Well, yes tbh

[@stevenying8894]

Gigabyte makes cases? Edit: yeah they do but they seem really unpopular and of lower quality compared to lian li

[@4.0.4]

I'm surprised they even make cases, news to me.

[@gandalf6700]

if i remember correctly they dont make cases them self ;) .. they just slam a gigabyte badge on other's cases ;)

[@MichelleMills1972]

These are the videos I love to see. Keep these going. 20 years of automotive manufacturing and I am still in awe of manufacturing and wanting to learn more. Thank you!!

[@chrisnorman1183]

Thank you Steve and everyone at Gamers Nexus for delivering fantastic content and entertaining specials such as these factory tours.

[@milohajek]

YES another tour, i love these Steve, keep up the great work

[@rdxzero]

5:12 "this can cause serious chemical burns" - guy casually drinking boba next to the exposed fumes

[@theEvoght]

And then the guy with no gloves rinsing shit with his hands

[@timcheou5649]

This is hard life in Asia fellows

[@sleekblackroadster]

I have this black anodized aluminum Cooler Master ATCS 840 and it's held up so well for me forever. Love that as a case material

[@julianfiacconi709]

These factory tours are so educational. Thanks for doing these. Really amazing. The people owning and working these businesses are very industrious and entrepreneurial. Cheers

[@thepunisher3160]

Im really glad that there is a channel who makes these videos bcz theyre very educational and they help a lot to make right choices when buying stuff

[@ShadowGirl-]

I LOVE this video. Amazing work getting all this great info out there. Thank you GN! (Might seem like an overreaction but the attention to detail of information being presented is top notch!)

[@attack0nmem0ry]

My continuous praise & respect for these factory tour videos, GN! Just got back from a job interview with manufacturing processes (read: "Sick AF Robots!") nowhere near this cool. I'm feeling homesick, kind of. Lol.

[@kashem425]

I love these. Brings a greater appreciation all the toys we buy that inevitably source from Asia.

[@ElectricEvan]

I am pretty sure that at 3:34 you can see power resistor bodies being fitted for anodizing! (i use a lot of them at work)

[@varsh-thaker]

Excellent work, GamersNexus team. Getting to know about the workings in a factory does have an impact on the appreciation of a product.

[@marklamutt]

Love seeing the factory content starting to come back!!!

[@PajakTheBlind]

'How it's made: GN edition' Awesome as usual, thanks for the video

[@Accuracy158]

I'm not sure why but this one of the fun factory tours to watch.

[@rdyer8764]

At 9:06 you say, "The dye tanks are held at 110 - 160 degrees Celsius." You mean Fahrenheit, right? The dye is mostly water, not acid, yes?

[@5Komma5]

Perfect timing. Work day is done, let's pop a beer and watch GN. Can't get much better then this!

[@FAB1150]

14 minutes ago? 'm on a quick streak! Love those factory tours!

[@teddygoboom1]

This is awesome, always been interested in the anodization process! I do wish this video was a bit longer, there's so much to be known about it, I learned most of it when researching how I could anodize an aluminum bike frame of mine. I would have liked to see more detail on the dyeing and sealing processes, as well as getting some more details on the "white" anodization as white dye particles are infamously too big to be engrained in the porous oxide layer

[@radicalxedward8047]

Yes! So glad there’s more factory tours!

[@tee_es_bee]

This is fascinating. Keep up the great work!

[@ramkyadi]

wow, well summarized, great work

[@milohajek]

I had to pass the link to your yeston cutepet (god i hope i spelled that right) to my mother and she found it delightfully funny, and i thought so to until she asked me where you can get these, to wit i asked her if she watched the ENTIRE video as you made it pretty clear that these are really hard to import.

[@GabbyTech]

i love this kind of content thank you for this Steve!

[@cakeisalie]

my mom loved this video, she's a chemical engineer

[@gudenau]

This is a very interesting episode. I never knew that anodizing aluminum was almost like a reverse electroplating.

[@leif-erichansens2635]

Very informativ, I didn't know that green anodized aluminum existed. Looking for green anodized thumb screws now, lol

[@varun2440]

Awesome video Steve and the whole team🔥🔥👍.

[@timcheou5649]

My friend you are talented, the way you explain manufacturing astonishes me, wow well done, your English is very good, where did you studied English?

[@radicalxedward8047]

Re:Gigabyte Auorus 2080ti We really need a standard for addressable RGB stuff. I love RGB, but I HATE all the crap software and incompatibility.

[@AlfaPro1337]

This is true. Why the fuck there's 5V and 12V header, one uses 3+1 block and the other is 4 full pin. Guess, companies ego and greed take over so that if you purchase one RGB kit that isn't compatible with your motherboard or software, it's like the company gives a middle finger to you to force you to buy A DIFFERENT RGB kit that is compatible with that product.

[@Shin_97]

Imagine having to worry about RGB standards This post was made by Noctua gang

[@kotekzot]

@@AlfaPro1337 no, 5V and 12V RGB headers make perfect sense, 5V is an evolution of the 12V standard. The problem is with crappy software. The industry needs an open standard for RGB software control so users can control all of their RGB stuff with a single program of their choice.

[@Pertamax7-HD]

nice lian

[@redrock425]

It would be nice to see more colour choice. I love Lian Li's occasional red cases but they are small in number and usually at the high end of the price range. I'd like to see some all aluminium coloured PC011 versions. I'm aware this would increase cost but a choice in common colour themes would sell well I think.

[@JockMcBile]

Some of this was over my head. But I'm pretty sure, I understood the basics. Thanks everyone, I really appreciate you doing these in depth videos.

[@TechforTechs]

another good video

[@or2kr]

Funny how this high end plant used for basically the more expensive Lian Li products is just on a small 1st floor

[@TheEnd]

Thanks guys!

[@WildkatPhoto]

Yes! Love me some factory tours!!!

[@giovannip.1433]

What would look impressive is if they used anodizing to layer a copper surface. If sealed with lacquer you get a great shiny copper look, if not you can get a great looking patina on the surface - without the expense of pure copper.

[@HMarcBower]

Reminds me of the good old days of TLC (before they reversed what the L was for). Thanks!

[@vamwolf]

If I had billions I donate 100 million to you guys.

[@organicmetal6850]

Steve !!!! Thanks for this ! what great content !

[@mikeoleksa]

Very interesting. I had no idea that it was this involved.

[@derpenberg7814]

Just learnt more listening to Steve than I did at school :(

[@Arek_R.]

It's not about dye sticking on top of it, it's about it sticking into the pores caused by anodisation, then they bathe them at around 100C to close those pores, then dye gets trapped and whatever left on top of it will simply wash off.

[@TreborSelt]

Yeeeeees. Love these tours.

[@DrSpychology]

The forbidden tea factory tour

[@McCloudX13]

@gamersnexus I enjoy these but you go very quickly for my dumb brain. I was wondering if you guys have ever considered creating and showing a flow chart towards the end with a little recap of the process? Highlighting the importance and or purpose of specific steps. All though now that I say it. It's kind of discourage me from thinking too hard and encouraging users to just jump to the end with the flow chart. Lol.

[@psychozulu]

Factory tour guide with a flow chart and graphs at the end would be the most GN thing ever

[@tomferrier6143]

I found it to be a little too quick for me too. Slowing down to have better enunciation would help my brain!

[@RackBaLLZ]

How are you not at 1M subscribers yet?

[@kaoticbacon4373]

I don't work with aluminum (our acid tanks would eat it ) but i work with steel and iron, i electro plate zinc-nickle for farm parts at work

[@1stb1]

dang, interesting vid. crazy how mass production lowers the cost of stuff that takes so much effort to make. seems a little claustrophobic with minimal ppe, though.

[@PatriotPaulUSA]

Hopefully they are cranking out 011 XL cases :)

[@mattys3248]

Why on earth would 16 people dislike this??? People are not cool man.

[@mikereuther690]

amazing as usual!

[@nicholaswilkowski632]

Do they use the cadium based anodization or ... I forgot the other types but it is significantly less toxic than cadmium based. Still love these type of videos!

[@Unknown-sz8kg]

I got my Dynamic XL like 2 months ago. The rgb on the front glass are no longer functioning and one of the hdd hotswap has a bad connection so my harddisk randomly shuts down, the aux channel on front io has this "scraping sound" and the sound switches between left and right eardrums even tho the contact are fully pushed in.

[@GamersNexus]

Did you try emailing support?

[@Tony-cf7cp]

A tip never ever use the front audio port it's not even close to as good as the back of the motherboard

[@4.0.4]

@@Tony-cf7cp this is true. Audio is analog and proper wiring matters.

[@frizzlefry1921]

Front audio jack remove from motherboard connection and use "deoxit" available from digikey or the like stores. Should fix it right up. Same with hd connector sounds like corrosion.

[@agenericaccount3935]

2:24 that vintage iron tho ♥️

[@GeoffPesos]

Will there be a monitor factory tour?

[@BRUXXUS]

Seeing any colored anodized aluminum gives me such weird nostalgia... I think it was because when I was a little kid, someone gave me a set of jacks that were all different colored anodized. While I never actually played with them as intended, I loved looking at them and all the different colors. Also.... who the hell gives a kid born in the 80's jacks and a present? I mean.... it was like 30 years ago, but still... I don't know anyone that's played with them, lol.

[@johnscaramis2515]

8:15 25kW? Sounds like the TDP for the 12th gen Intel CPUs, if they don't get 10 or 7nm running 😁

[@BuckFudweiser]

I worked in an ANO warehouse for 2 days. Holy shit that job is NOT easy.

[@DanLMH]

You really wouldn't expect your anodizing to be performed in such a place...

[@firefly2472]

The cheaper the better. Why do you think it's al china and looking cheap ass af ?

[@hitmanslayer3003]

FireFly this wasn’t in China tho 🤔

[@radicalxedward8047]

Soooo basically this isn’t something you’re gonna be trying to DIY unless you’re a mad scientist.

[@teddygoboom1]

It's actually not too hard using simpler processes, you can use sulfuric acid and electricity to etch it, buy a dye you like off ebay or amazon, and seal it with boiling water. I recommend looking it up on youtube, plenty of people do it on smaller parts.

[@IAmPattycakes]

Yeah I'll second the previous comment, it's pretty easy to do yourself pretty well.

[@kanetw_]

This is a really simple process to DIY.

[@jubuttib]

Yup, not terribly difficult at all, if you're willing to pay close attention to each step and production speed isn't a huge issues. It gets more complicated when you want to automate and speed things up, and have to deal with government regulations and checks. But for just some random homebanger projects it's really not that bad at all.

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

Lye is easy to make, but to get these levels and use it safetly, it's probably easier and cheaper to pay someone to do it for you unless you are doing tens of thousands of parts.

[@UndercoverFerret404]

5:18 "Can cause serious burns" **let me just grab this with my bare hands**

[@quazy1328]

What about the cardboard dox factory, I want to hear more about that.

[@TheAtomicCrusher]

Who knows, he may find a lucky red hat.

[@Celician83]

Wow, @Der8auer needs to watch this so and your next video to plate his laptop cooler better!

[@czabinator]

Great content, thx.

[@Kawwakaze]

I thought it said this video was from 3 years ago and then you got sponsored with a gigabyte rtx 2080 ti

[@hi_tech_reptiles]

So is it annodizing, sand blasting (with certain sand shapes) or brushed aluminium that gives that nice rough low shine texture on certain cases? Ive wonderred that and even looked into home annodizing and sandblasting since i do paint a lot of my own stuff, but wasnt sure like what makes the outside of say a 2008-09 Mac Pro tower's finish or if they all do just slightly differently etc. Would love some kind of side by side comparison of all the different case finishes outside of paint/colors obv. Either by GN or just somewhere

[@teddygoboom1]

Probably sandblasting for the texture, and anodizing to protect it. The metal will take it's original finish after the anodizing, for example if you want the super shiny reflective anodization, you need to polish the aluminum beforehand.

[@cm3462]

fantastic

[@kristjonpedersen9342]

Deal with caustic soda at my work and you'd definitely be stripping down within seconds and going to take an emergency shower if there was a spill that got on you.

[@0235681956]

a bit sad to see such a wonderfully constructed and thoroughly planned video not getting the recognition it deserves.

[@omegaelixir]

Bro, I asked for thermal paste. Where's the damn paste?

[@Cyber_Nomad]

Savage worker handling parts without rubber gloves in lye and accid

[@frizzlefry1921]

You wouldn't dare stick your hands in that sulfuric acid 10% body contact and you're dead. Not sure at what concentration but that's nasty stuff bigtime.

[@Valfaun]

that beverage box at 1:20 looks concerning to my uneducated mind

[@andreassheriff]

Didn't the german guy already do something similar recently? I want to see the results of the liquid metal six months later.

[@knives6683]

Lye bath? I bet that's used after dark by the local mafia :)

[@psychozulu]

I doubt it, if you dissolve a body in lye, the body doesn't just disappear, it turns into a vat of gooey gross stuff, and would probably gunk up the drains and slow down production, now, if the mafia needed some lye to fill up a barrel or something, I'm sure nobody would notice a few bags falling off the truck wink wink

[@ylee5923]

Surprised/not surprised by the relative lack of safety equipment. Not sure I'd want to spend 20 years in there.......

[@dannybaker8622]

I’ve bever seen an Anodising line with so many health and safety issues 😂

[@AsbestosMuffins]

Ah asia, where vats full of boiling acid are just a few steps off the street. Its actually suprising what can be anodized.

[@Mre942]

like that you have face protection ,but not the workers xD

[@theralfinator]

He's a foreigner who had just traveled to the country during a pandemic. Of course he would be wearing a face mask during a factory visit.

[@snax_4820]

Interesting ... but aluminum is not equal to aluminum. They have a lot of shit in it like bathco to reduce the melting temperature. The result is low quality staff. You can easily test it out by trying to bend it.

[@tankninja1]

This video gave OSHA a heart attack.

[@bozoc2572]

I worked in a similar shithole once. Never. again.

[@dallebull]

You convert the surface to aluminium oxide, you don't "Add an layer" like you do with paint*

[@neutronpcxt372]

Yep. I mean, you can add a layer of aluminium oxide theoritically, but aluminium is so reactive already you can't exactly do this.

[@samfedorka5629]

Saying that "it's a method of adding an additional oxide layer to the existing metal" ( 1:52 ) can be confusing. I think the opening where he refers to "coating" ( 0:34 ) products is similarly confusing. I agree that "converting" is a better word than "adding" since the process is not additive, but Steve's further explanations more than make up for it.

[@JA070288]

Anyone have info on the 011D Mini!?!

[@Psyadin2]

Steve really struggles to say HY-DRO-GEN

[@bigal2688]

Crazy how all of those Electrical Connections are totally open and Unguarded except for a Short fence!! Don't think that would fly here in the US!! I.E.= OSHA!!

[@mistakenotou7681]

What is the voltage? Also if you are dropped there electric contacts is least of your problem . (20% sulforic acid)

[@bigal2688]

@@mistakenotou7681 Steve didn't say the exact Voltage used, but did say they were running 25K Watts though those connections. Depending on how the connections and tanks are Grounded, touching one of those Connections would not be advisable!! Getting thrown into the tank would be bad also, but not really relevant to my comment.

[@kanetw_]

Anodization doesn't need a lot of voltage, just massive currents.

[@JonneBackhaus]

"not too toxic" :D

[@AsbestosMuffins]

I know its asia and I'm an armchair commentor but as someone who works with acid, its painful looking at them lifting those racks without any arm and hand protection

[@TeenyTinyDevil]

seems a lot of manual work for things that could be automated :S

[@3800S1]

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

The dangerous Lye tank... Workers hadling parts in and out the tank with no protective gloves or eye protection. That's okay then.