Disassembly 3D - How Stuff Works

[@sakesaurus]

Oh, it's one of those games where Jon gets to demonstrate his engineering background... Lovely

[@minscandboo9749]

Appius Tuditanus And how relevant his degree is to everyday life...

[@conorjasper5814]

*looks around conspiratorially* "That's the joke," I whispered.

[@alex666493]

engineering background? what field? I only did 3 years of engineering(never finished) and I feel like throwing something at the screen at just how much he get's wrong

[@TheLp640fan]

issa joke. Jon was in marketing lol

[@TheMistpheonix]

Yes, and studied classics. You seem to have missed the joke alex

[@Tarantulah]

"my brain says that's a transistor" *John's brain laughs* "Fooled him again"

[@Rateus_Johanson]

Has Jon's brain even fooled him about the spelling of his own name ;-p

[@quantumlolliepop5472]

Zee-Z Zee I'm guessing at a variable resistor for heat setting.

[@Tarantulah]

I'd say that was a better guess than transistor at least, but I'm pretty sure they're diodes

[@JustinBoehnen]

They were diodes

[@amyshaw893]

yeah, and the *padlock* is a capacitor

[@ocinweg4405]

Sometimes I can’t tell whether Jon is an idiot or a comedic genius

[@ManyATrueNerd]

Why not both?

[@sakesaurus]

Could you ever? I think those two are indistinguishable

[@Jakewake52]

Many A True Nerd Well, I mean you did manage to set the helicopter on fire somehow.

[@ithinkihadeight]

There's a codicil to Poe's Law here somewhere.

[@Circuitous]

No idiot could pull off those snap cuts to the helicopter and submarine like that.

[@VampireofEmotion]

A hairdryer is just a fancy toaster A helicopter is just a fancy hairdryer Helicopter = toaster

[@PKAmedia]

I mean well yes, is this not common knowledge? Damn useless education system these days!

[@justincarnes1656]

Jon, I believe that those 'transistors' are in fact diodes. Diodes allow electricity to flow in one direction and not the other, kind of like your one-way streets in City Skylines.

[@sadgiraffe6669]

Justin Carnes I love how you dumbed it down for him

[@Wizard9621]

"This is a submarine and OH BLOODY HELL!" please make an end roll bit for this episode and make that the finale of it.

[@renammartinez]

This should make into the channel's description video.

[@J2Jgames]

Jon being amazed by butter packaging was the optimal way to end this video

[@hannahalice1000]

"this . . . this is a transistor" Oh dear God Jon . . . . . . It's just as well you're pretty

[@VampireofEmotion]

He's pretty, punny, a Fire Emblem fan, AND a classicist that far outweighs the agony of watching him not being able to cook or engineer

[@ch7639]

"And this is just a padlock..."

[@GyliuDot]

this is the cpu

[@Tyolus]

I'm really looking forward to this edit1: Stuff gets hot when you run electricity through it because of resistance. Rub your hands together -> gets hot. edit2: Oh this was an easy one. PSU = Power supply unit. Also, PC 101: Motherboard is the entire big thing at the back, the CPU is below fan in the middle, Ram is next to it, the card that was stuck in the motherboard is the GPU. edit3: The evlevator wasn't floating, the cables are connected to a counterweight.

[@Ben-nk3cx]

Tyolus your close on the resistance thing. The equation here is V=IR, or R (resistance) =V(voltage)/I(current)

[@MrMctastics]

Ben Garcia that is an equation but the one that’s applies here is that the energy per second that goes into heating a wire is equal to I R^2

[@dorianarbos]

Good work everybody. Now, all we need to sort out is how Jon's brain works, which let's be honest is the real mystery here, then we can proceed to explain stuff to him. (edit: and no, no disassembling allowed. Jon still needs it)

[@williamclapp9694]

Also the PSU isn't on the top, it's at the bottom and Jon has the computer upside down.

[@no_mans_player6227]

William Clapp i dont know how you put your coputer but the psu is almost Always at the top, so YOUR cumputer is prob upsidedown :P

[@Lothrum]

"The Sexy, sexy underbelly of the toaster" is a line I never thought I'd hear but Jon has proven me wrong.

[@GunBuilt]

I think Jon is now the worlds best scientist for figuring out how a toaster works

[@dragmire3D]

Always work on/disassemble electrical equipment with the power on. EDIT: Damn, he pointed it out!

[@grant17tripleh]

Do you think we can disassemble KZbin and start it all again?!

[@Kinemagichemistry]

Also, yes, Jon, thats exactly how those metal heaters work. Pass loads of current through a high resistance wire (either a small one or specific materials) and they get hot. Your every day power cables are made of copper which conducts electricity exceptionally well, and so it doesn't heat up.

[@arttuniska9074]

The electricity flows slower through power cables with higher voltage. That prevents it from heating and wasting energy.

[@Jaakkoism]

I’m only 8 minutes in and Jons (lack of) understanding of the world is about to kill me.

[@RaeSyngKane]

I'm an engineer and I died around the blowdryers are basically a toaster with a fan bit.

[@FeBreeze265]

You'll enjoy Podcats episode 22 (19th October on KZbin) a lot then...

[@coolafman]

I was done before 3 minutes...where he said he didn't know electricity could be measured in hertz

[@Circuitous]

I found the "toaster with a fan" argument strangely compelling. He's not... _entirely_ wrong.

[@RaeSyngKane]

In the same sense that a shopping cart and a cargo train are both transport vehicles.

[@commandertone809]

listening to him struggle with pc part names is agonizing

[@Diet0live]

This is going to be My Summer Car all over again isn't it?

[@cory6266]

The gods are too cruel for that.

[@bradghaigh]

My summer toaster?

[@solutionseek]

The Olive I

[@josemedrano3864]

Brad Haigh d

[@coffeecat2812]

Make it stop! Got to the submarine and I'm laughing so hard I can't breath!

[@TheIshikawaRin]

Jon's lack of knowledge on computers hurts me.

[@landnanners2011]

I'm not sure if he's pretending for the video or if he actuality does not know anything

[@ChozoSR388]

He's a hell of an actor.

[@Rose_Harmonic]

I really wanted him to find the cpu

[@Arcade_Cat_]

My Summer Toaster?

[@tambaower]

"Partitioning is when you separate the computer with walls to make it safer from fire." This physically hurts my computer building soul... 😔

[@Gilhelmi]

tambaower I was yelling at him to unclamp the RAM.

[@TheMrVengeance]

Why though? Seeing as that was one of the few parts that was obviously a joke. To me his confusion over what the CPU, GPU and motherboard was, was far more painful (and comparing his tone and style of delivery) that seemed genuine.

[@jimdabarbarian]

I'm pretty sure that whole section was a joke

[@TheMrVengeance]

I don't know, I feel like there is a distinct difference in his tone and delivery between stuff he genuine doesn't know and stuff he's purposefully misunderstanding.

[@Th3Majst3r]

As an engineering student I find it most intriguing.

[@dustyb58]

in-treee-gink

[@taylorknight5697]

Jon's lack of computer knowledge was disturbing.

[@ManyATrueNerd]

... And yet the computer was probably the bit I was best at...

[@deathroll5701]

He was pissing about because he’s a comedic genius

[@zetaomega8708]

I love how he gives up on the PC, and just goes straight to the Helicopter.

[@gaminreasons8941]

Jon murders a toaster. Fortunately for the Toaster it is resurrected by the great scientist Dr. Mobius for unknown reasons. The Toaster is both enraged and inspired by Jon's heinous act and decides to kill other toasters and everything else it he can so that the world may know his pain.

[@ottopike737]

Gamin' Reasons lore gold right there.

[@gramursowanfaborden5820]

toasters use latching transformer coils! i actually took one apart to make an electric guitar with. Hz on electricity is the frequency of the alternating current. edit: those are diodes, transistors have 3 prongs, you put signal in one end, and power through the middle, and then pixie magic happens and amplified signal comes out the other end. edit 2: yes it is because the wires are slim, electrical resistance turns the electrical energy into heat, the thicker the wire is, the more electricity can flow through it without it heating up, but higher voltages means more electrical force, which can pass electricity through more resistive things, and more amps means more electricity, which can heat up thicker wires, that's how fuses work, higher value fuses have thicker wires in them. "special metals" include copper and gold, which have low electrical resistance.

[@benlees2486]

Mikail Elchanovanich how'd you make an electric guitar from a toaster??, Pickups from parts or what?

[@PromptedHawk]

Well the special metal in the case of a toaster or a hair dryer would be nichrome which has a high resistance for the purposes of heating stuff up. Also I totally didn't just comment on this to ask how you made an electric guitar with parts from a toaster and presumably a variety of other things.

[@DF21E9]

I'm half a minute in and already know that this is going to be one of your best videos,

[@phenomanII]

As someone who was allowed to take apart broken appliances for fun, I already knew that you need to unscrew everything you can see :D It is also probably what made me study these things further.

[@ryanpayne9119]

Though, if you can't find the screws, you resort to the hammer, crowbar, and bandsaw. :)

[@TheMrHego]

this game was made for me. I love taking apart technical devices when they stop working and I know I'll just get a new one, just to get a deeper understanding of its inner workings.

[@BallahackSoldier]

Did... did anyone else catch that bit about the Irishman dying being his favorite part?

[@JackdotC]

I always say that part is my favorite as well tbf.

[@renammartinez]

Two months of this video and I still come back for it. Thank you Jon for existing. :D

[@minscandboo9749]

Jons degree is really showing how useful it is in this video...

[@Circuitous]

Morgan Williams is right, _and isn't that horrifying?_

[@TheMrVengeance]

Yeah, wow, who would've thought that a degree in Classical Studies isn't at all useful in the field of (Electrical/Mechanical) Engineering. What a shocker!

[@tehweh8202]

Love it. Watching Jon smash stuff apart in a completely erratic way and then trying to figure out how the wreckage used to work. :D

[@byteofbacon]

Jon continues to fail at trying to pass his 11+

[@Papergami45]

Your knowledge of electronics and circuit theory is truly amazing; Jon, you should be proud.

[@delaclease]

Oh bless your little heart Jon. This was a trip and a half. I needed this.

[@codykillir10]

I sure hope he's joking about not knowing these things. But in the past.... Oh dear. PSU- Power Supply Unit Watts- Joules per second the wires in toasters and hairdryers have high resistance wires which heat up when current is applied, and yes all wires heat up a bit when electricity passes through. Hertz in reference to electricity is how fast the charge changes in AC currents i think it's 50-60Hz most of the time in home applications.

[@EldritchSylvia]

I now realize why I love Jon so much, he's the embodiment of that voice in my head that makes really stupid suggestions which I quickly suppress, and confidently say things that I have no idea about

[@renammartinez]

I'm crying, my heart is aching, and I woke up my daughter who came rushing to ask if I was OK. Best video of the year!

[@joe3924]

I'm dieing. He explains things like a cave man and is only half right half the time.

[@dgh0yt]

Transistors have 3 leads, all coming out of the bottom of the case. The most common electronics parts with coaxial leads are resistors or diodes.The hair dryer doesn't need diodes, so those are probably resistors.

[@sorrow4374]

Yes, Jon! It is indeed a special metal for heating. Normal wire is made from copper. It is chosen for wire because it carries electricity better (less heat being made, a.k.a. heat loss, etc) than most other metals. The metal many heating elements (e.g. in toasters) use is called nichrome. It is a mix of the metals nickel, chromium, and usually some iron. To personify metal a bit, imagine: Copper is the friendly neighbour. They share food, invite neighbours to parties, and let you pat their dog. They are easy to get along with and so the relationship is warm and comfortable. This is how electricity flows through copper wire. Nichrome is that one neighbour we like to bitch about. They hate everybody, leave dog poop on your front lawn, and yell at you for breathing. Your relationship with them is full of resistance and heat, because you want nothing to do with them but are forced together. This is how electricity flows through nichrome.

[@guillet.8962]

Metals heat up with electricity because of friction. Resistance is a property of mass which determines how easily electricity can go through it. Wood and plastic, for example, have super high resistance. Metals, in comparison, have lower resistance. The resistance of metals can vary, and with higher resistance, more friction and therefore more heat. Many metals with high resistance are used on heating devices.

[@sakesaurus]

Have a slight correction Friction technically is defined as the conversion of kinetic energy into thermal (e.g. microscopic kietic energy). Now, why the heck would resistance be caused by friction if we had current, microscopic motion, in the first place? it doesn't work like that

[@guillet.8962]

I did not say resistance is caused by friction. Rather, friction happens because there is resistance.

[@callansammets3516]

Friction does not happen in a resistor, what happens is electrons being forced into excitation and bleeding off the energy as heat by the release of photons. Resistance is based on the amount of freely available electrons in the material which is why it varies with temperature. Friction on a resistor means something has gone very wrong since it would need to physically be rubbing against something (and this would only influence the resistance through temperature and nothing else).

[@Lamthesavender]

that toater wasnt even wired to a plug. 2/10

[@kuba_ota5154]

PaladinDank *10/10

[@tREX13470]

I think that Jon should be prohibited by law from using any tools.

[@brandonmalo2066]

And Jon bumbles around like a Mongol for 45 minutes going "wtf electricity"

[@dustyb58]

People facepalm watching Jon, then I facepalm reading the comments

[@anthonyamezcua7872]

not 3 minutes in and I already want this game.

[@CaptainHightop]

Jon, you're great and all, but you're no James May.

[@doryna8203]

Somewhere, this game is making Mr. May twitch in discomfort...

[@InvictusByz]

I have determined that British people are fascinated and confused by the concept of heat. Evidence of Fascination: This Video The British Raj African Colonies South American and Caribbean Colonies Southeast Asian Colonies Gibraltar Malta Evidence of Confusion: This Video Chicken heated nuclear mines Calling 30 degrees "hot"

[@able_apothecary6674]

30 degrees Celsius is 86 Fahrenheit. That is kinda hot

[@jachughes608]

It's 30C not 30F

[@InvictusByz]

I know its Celsius. I'm saying 30C isn't hot. Its pretty warm, but not really that hot.

[@nibs8484]

Lol, well done! I've not laughed that hard in a long time! Keep up the good work

[@trexlord1]

I'm an apprentice electrician here Jon. Electricity at it's simplest (or is it at it's most complex?) electrons (energy) moving, but some if it is lost as waste. When electricity passes through something more resistant the electrons have to fight harder to move through the material, and the more energy is lost as waste. By putting the electricity through resistors it turns as much of the electric energy as it can into heat.

[@martyshrekster]

Why is this game not in VR? Seems perfect for that sort of thing.

[@probablybears]

Jon, the reason toasters have a 7 setting is so that it can burn the world in nuclear fire.

[@accidental_mind302]

If you play this video in reverse then it may actually look like Jon can build stuff

[@andressagredo1509]

The transistors are actually fuses, and the secret of heating for the hair drier looks like a huge inductor probably made of copper to get enough electricity to heat up. Then again I know you like to pretend you don't know stuff for comedy so I trust you kinda know, thank you for this wonderful video Jon, I will always love this content :)

[@legionxiii8055]

I loved playing this game on mobile as a kid! Loved it.

[@ViralMag_Ravager]

Best and most painful evidience that Jon is a KZbinr ( thank God) and not an engineer or a particularly adept handyman ( again, thank God also the Fire Dept probably appreciates it also) 😂😂😂

[@sircaramelofcanadia4743]

There will never be a greater video in the entire history of KZbin.

[@TripleEye_Josh]

No matter what kind of hellish conditions are going on in the world, we can always rely on Jon finding the most boring games on Steam. Bless you, you brave soul.

[@001Neal100]

It's resistance/resistive wire. It's designed to glow red hot when current passes through it without burning. Usually has a ceramic surround which acts as a heat sink and stops the plastic parts melting.

[@phatlaluke]

Higher settings on tosters are for frozen waffles n such jon

[@sadgiraffe6669]

You have answer one of my most burning questions, thank you.

[@Streptovarius]

Materials have a resistance to electricity traveling through them. If the amount of electricity exceeds the resistance then the excess energy becomes heat. All materials, barring super conductors, have some resistance so they will generate some heat from electricity. Heating elements just get fed more voltage so they are made from a material that can handle high temperatures. The rubber insulation is just there to prevent accidental electrical shorts and electrocutions. Opening up a computer casing like that lets in a ton of dust. It also messes up the intended airflow. Instead of being moved along a route it just goes by the fan and doesn't have time to actually pick up much heat. The bit about touching a radiator before touching the internals of a computer is to discharge static onto the radiator and not the sensitive electronics. Any bit of metal will work for this.

[@beastmodegamer7369]

Yay the most Jon video ever

[@leocastillo3846]

This literally had me crying in Laughter! I lost it at the Submarine.

[@BitTheByte]

I love the constant toaster comparisons

[@Zuriichan]

I was tearing up from laughing so hard at the helicopter part. "And now it's on fire. it's like the toaster really."

[@GS01010]

“Toasters are incredibly private” I love you Jon 😂

[@bigchindave6102]

Now we need dan and mat talking to jon in the next vid "help him"

[@Gilhelmi]

Leonardo Cacciato you must enjoy torturing Mat and Dan. I know I do. Lol

[@insanejoe100]

The hertz rating is because it's an alternating current (AC) coming from the mains electricity Jon, as opposed to the Direct Current (DC) you would find coming out of a battery for instance. Alternating current changes direction. In the U.K. (Can't speak for other areas) the rate at which the current changes direction is around 50 times per second, hence the 50Hz rating

[@jessicam2736]

The spring makes the toast pop out Jon!

[@marcelpursche5339]

According to AvE electricity makes metal hot because of the angry pixies that come out of the angry pixie physical containment device. They also make power tools go chooch.

[@zafranorbian757]

Ah this is so great, Jon has such a fantastic imagination about common nowlege technology.

[@98-SR5]

I've actually been writing my dissertation on the magic that the Toaster was. I say was, because you have filled the a large amount of the information void that has plagued Toaster Research for nearly one hundred and twenty five years. The biggest issue was overcoming the desire to make toast every time we would go to open to the magic that the toaster was. You however, have overcome this, and even defeated the mighty safety key that claimed Simmons just last week. There are still many mysteries, like the spring, but you have done grand work. My only question is, how would you like me to cite your work in my paper?

[@XOIIOXOIIO]

God this is painful and fucking hilarious. Jon is the epitome of Dara Obrien's act about going back in time to explain electricity, and how everything plugs into the wall.

[@nicholasaria9863]

When you think "Huh this guy got through a Oxford Interview...." Gr8 Vid Jon

[@jacobspringwood1281]

I love how much fun Jon is having re-sinking the Titanic.

[@Electric999999]

The 50Hz refers to the frequency of the AC (as in mains electricity) it's meant to work with, it's the measure of how many times per second the current alternates, it's different in different countries and matters for some appliances.

[@williamclapp9694]

Yes, slim wires heat up, they are resistors. Resistors heat up when the electricity goes through them(and every wire is a resistor, except superconductors). They also can give off light like the incandescent light bulb.

[@FlyntNukaOfficial]

Ive never been so excited to see how a toaster works

[@BlaineBinkerd]

Absolutely. Brilliant.

[@cncpsycho]

This has been a enlightning view into jons mind

[@InnocuousRemark]

We need a MATN/AvE crossover. They both like taking stuff apart and they both only show their hands! It's perfect! Oh and they're both owned by the queen.

[@theunheardvoice007]

People toast more than bread in a toaster, and that is why it goes up so high. I only have a basic understanding correct me if I'm wrong. Electricity causes electrons to move up in energy and electrons want to be stable and have low energy and therefore release heat energy to become stable.

[@callansammets3516]

Not to mention that there's other kinds of bread than white bread that isn't burnt by dialing your toaster up a bit. Also electricity is the movement of electrons from an area of high potential energy to one of low potential energy (which confusingly is from the low potential state to the high potential state since electrons are negatively charged). What happens in a heating element is that it's a resistor which means that due to differences in collective excitations (phonons, not to be confused with photons which are responsible for the energy transfer of the heat dumping) electrons are forced into higher energy states which they jump back out of releasing a photon which carries the heat energy. So you are basically correct, except it's more like electricity is trying to force itself through a too small hole (imagine the process as air flowing through a wide pipe then suddenly having to be compressed) to get to the other side.

[@crushingbass7131]

This would be awesome as a live stream.

[@BrophyMichael]

1:56 "Well I didn't realise you could measure electricity in Hertz"... Only regular old Alternating Current Jon.. Just good old AC.

[@pennyc7833]

This was very informative and educational. Thank you.

[@AntarcticAssasin]

Everyone talking about the PC and no mention of how beautiful and detailed that Titanic model is. And when he tried to recreate the sinking it was actually pretty accurate!

[@kingoftherodeo87]

The high settings are for frozen Birdseye waffles John.

[@TheLp640fan]

lmao Jon you are so smart with everything except this sort of thing. lol your strengths and your entertainment in other videos and games is the only thing from screaming at my monitor hahaha

[@antisocial-gamer7293]

I reccommend Machinator; its basically this but its less glitchy

[@novaiscool1]

Someone get Bigclive Jon needs a bear to explain life

[@MemeMarine]

The timing system on a toaster is just two strips of metal, stuck together back to bacl. They expand at different rates, causing the thing to bend. When it bends enough it triggers a disconnect and stops the toasting. Toasters are not calibrated, at all. Some more expensive ones might use a computerized timer.

[@recyclebin]

I'd pay Jon to build me my next computer. It'd be an interesting 18 hours.

[@Londronable]

Ok, that titanic bit was genuinely impressive.

[@Dakotaidk]

Jon is clearly a master of the sciences

[@Hanzan]

By the time Jon fucked up the Titanic I utterly lost it in a prolonged laughter attack. Brilliant! Most Joniest video ever!

[@suborbitalprocess]

"Jack, l'm flying!" "So is the smokestack! LOOK OUT!"

[@idkfkingknowlmao]

Eletricity isn't in Hertz, it's because the toaster is running on AC which is Alternating Current, and that's is a sinusoidal function with, in this case, 50Hz frequency... So basically the current after 1 second, has changed back and fourth 50 times.

[@Septimus_ii]

Which is a really weird way to transmit power, but it seems to work fairly well

[@idkfkingknowlmao]

It is, but it was needed to make coils create a constant magnetic field. And it also helps to transmit at high distances and stuff. But AC and DC have advantages over one another.

[@Septimus_ii]

Fabio Silva I'd never thought about the magnetism aspect. I suppose an oscillating field is better than a constant one

[@TheMrVengeance]

Hertz is as much part of "electricity" as volt and watt are. Also if we're being specific, you don't capitalise hertz.

[@idkfkingknowlmao]

Dude, I wasn't going to start with technical details, this is a god damn youtube video XD I'm not here to do lectures. And my autocorrect capitalized it. Also if you are going to correct me, you shouldn't put 's' in "capitalise".

[@TimonicFusion]

I love how the submarine sank the moment Jon touched it. Summed up the video, tbh.