Poor Man's Graphite Soldering Iron

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[@thebigman8250]

step 1: weld with graphite step 2: ???????? step 3: perfect weld

[@ShowerOnceYearly]

I dont even think step one took place lol

[@TheDOCTOR_AI]

That's far from perfect too. Just a good weld lmao

[@maxxxhEdroom]

I thought step 1 was "steal underpants"...

[@skitzo2494]

00😊

[@c0dy42]

you forgot step 4: profit

[@YoungGandalf2325]

"My rod perfectly fits its hole." -Mehdi

[@scarv9584]

Was just going to comment this xD

[@Bad_bananaz0]

​@@scarv9584 same lol

[@AstrosElectronicsLab]

I laughed at that way too hard!

[@TechOtaku86]

Electrocute's life story be like...

[@AstrosElectronicsLab]

@@TechOtaku86 so wrong

[@BOTthelesser]

As a welder the fact there’s flux there too makes me laugh

[@nasis18]

At least it was a decent weld. You see videos all the time, and the weld is horrible. 😂

[@Neogen2403]

The slag told me, that it was stickwelded 😅 but …. It can be the Same thing, i‘m German and here we Call it: Schlacke. That one thing you only have with stickweld. Mag/tig doenst have that. 😅

[@mr.commonsense]

Same

[@stephen46290420]

It only looked like that because of the nitrogen in the atmosphere reacting with the carbon rod and the reflection of swamp gas off of Venus.

[@62sy]

@@nasis18or they do that stupid “cold welding” thing where they tac everything instead of actually welding.

[@rodritrada]

"Is begging to turn on hot" "And lucky for it, my rod perfectly fits its hole" 💀

[@Frizzbee09]

My rod 💀

[@75sRax]

these suggestive jokes are catching me off guard

[@user-uv5tx8hp8r]

I almost threw up my coke cuz I was laughing so hard after he said that

[@Rafi_Bin_Haider-Ali]

im not dirty minded IM NOT DIRTY MINDED 💀💀💀

[@peanutpnutpnt]

bro didnt hurt himself

[@Տoft]

Unless he put that rod inside his hole

[@theonlyreal615]

first time ever lmao

[@zax8961]

I definitely didn't expect that lol

[@jsnug42]

And there's no exploding capacitors!

[@eksboks148]

KZbin mods gonna start pounding on your door 💀

[@The-One-and-Only100]

In the early days of welding, they used carbon rods to weld, but nowadays, they are used to erase welds

[@FlyMIfYouGotM]

Airarc using a copper clad carbon rod, compressed air, and lots of current was about the only way to cut stainless steel prior to Plasma cutters.

[@magicbox9371]

We know arcair

[@kugelblitz1557]

​@@FlyMIfYouGotM you could use shears, but those are hard to do more complex shapes with.

[@FlyMIfYouGotM]

@@kugelblitz1557 Yes, but shears were hard to use on 3" diameter pins and 1/4" to 3/4" thick plate!🤣

[@leovillant768]

Ya

[@N.bardaloi]

"My rod perfectly fits the hole"

[@FuckingKamikaze]

I noticed that 😂

[@bmw328igearhead]

"That's begging to be hot"

[@shanathered5910]

of course this gets 69 likes 💀

[@stopcam.iso_1]

Funny 🤡

[@akam9919]

@@bmw328igearhead XD

[@Sherwin657]

This is one of those tricks you pull out on a desert island to fix the radio

[@Hestirix_plays]

I am saving this idea for one day

[@vickydixon7512]

How do you get electricity to solder the thing in the first place? Both people used electricity to do what you seen in the video.

[@Bollestic]

Rare footage of electroBOOM not shocking himself😂

[@ZamshedGaming]

Yeah man!😂😂😂😂😂

[@Eurotruck456]

Oh he didn't hurt himself😅

[@user-us3mk6xj8x]

Bro's rod perfectly fits in the hole which is begging to be hot💀💀 (Yo!! How did I get so many likes?)

[@N0Xa880iUL]

Bruh 💀💀

[@stopcam.iso_1]

Don't make this double meaning shit mf

[@drtrayrusreals3217]

💀💀

[@endurofan9854]

well that's more relatable 👀 🙄 😅

[@howtonot580]

You can see the bump popping up from the weld where the graphite magically transformed into metal as it melted

[@ke7eha]

I had a soldering iron I bought from radio shack that had a forked graphite tip with a 9v battery. You had to bridge the tip to connect the circuit to heat up the tip element. It would get hot enough to solder. By it's nature, you had to feed solder into the joint and it works but stick to the tip. It was pretty convenient for small jobs.

[@renegarza9750]

“My rod” 😂😂

[@senioradahug]

Definitely wasn't bs, everyone knows graphite has build in Flux and turns into carbon Steen with a naked arc

[@Akwardpotion99]

"Fits perfectly in the hole" 💀

[@NedFlanders612]

a rare W for our man

[@mythydamashii9978]

P a u s e

[@nasis18]

Gotta love the jump cut. 😂

[@rdizzy1]

You could technically do this by essentially melting the metal on both pieces and melding it together with the carbon rod. It would be red hot though.

[@EVguru]

I've had Australian SCOPE soldering Irons for decades. They use a short carbon heating element behind the tap and are 'push to heat'. Running from a 2VAC transformer, they got to soldering temperature in just a few seconds. Perfect for Auto electrical work. Very difficult to find spares for.

[@mememachine269]

For once, for ONCE, something went right

[@howtospell-sw5ym]

This guy is the king of Lighting and electric

[@thatonellamawhoissoobsesse8138]

The coolest soldering iron Ive ever seen worked like a butane lighter torch with a metal tip away from the flame

[@cojones8518]

You can do this as shown in the video. sort of. Connect 2 or more car batteries in series for more voltage + to -, Then using a set of jumper cables connect the positive to the carbon rod and negative to the metal. Offroaders keep some welding rods around for emergency repairs using this trick. It's actually how the first welders were made. You can parallel two more batteries for more current.

[@endurofan9854]

true, and the very fast way to damage the battery too

[@mystica-subs]

About 20 years ago radio shack sold a battery-powered soldering iron that was a split piece of graphite powered by 2 AA batteries. You had to bridge the two ends of the tip with the solder for power to flow, and it to heat.

[@LDuncanKelly]

"Cold Heat" yes, that was the actual OEM brand name, also sold by Coleman...

[@LDuncanKelly]

Now days if you want a battery powered wannabe soldering iron you can get a "510 thread" tip that will screw into most vape pens and mod boxes and like the original Cold Heat you might be able to solder one or two small connections if you are lucky...

[@danb4275]

I still have my "cold heat" haven't used it in a while but wondering if it would work better with modern lithium batteries.

[@griffinbyun7850]

I’m not the only one that heard him say that right? (You know what I’m talking about)

[@prismgaming4568]

"I have a spare tip that is beging to turn on hot and lucky for it My rod fits perfectly in its hole" -electro boom

[@lotusblack7535]

Proud of you for not hurting yourself 🙏🏾

[@Scuba1Steve]

We use carbon rods with compressed air to remove welds. Its called gouging. Also if you need a full penetration weld you will gouge the base material away.

[@Mforader1792]

Did you know when I first started watching you I didn't know anything about physics. You are the best my dude. Thanks for doing you!!

[@Mforader1792]

That's like a long a time ago.

[@lukasbok4652]

I mean technically there is a type of welding that uses a graphite electrode. It works a lot like TIG welding, which means that the electrode doesn't add material to the weld. It's just a source of heat. The added material needs to be added separately.

[@ElectricalCurrent-bz7ou]

But this is about using a car battery to do it

[@radicallarry8101]

This man is always one second away from meeting his maker

[@gamagamin767]

"My rod perfectly fits its hole" is wild💀💀🙏

[@kanazamkniety3046]

"YOU DIDN'T SEE THE WELDING BECAUSE ITS NOT THERE"

[@TakeNoShift]

"nice" and "clean" are not words for that weld, but yes, there was added material there.

[@JamesMiddletonIV]

You said you created a poor man's soldering iron, but I've got to say that an actual cheap soldering iron is a few dollars. At your disposal you have a power supply, soldering tips, & had to waste a battery... I would say it's more like a well-off man's experiment/hobby soldering iron.

[@Futball_Life]

Learnt that in chemistry about carbons, graphites especially are good conductors.

[@Sandwich2700]

it may not work for welding but it crapily works for soldering

[@TorinShipley-xc7ss]

Hey, this is true, this one guy. Put like enough car batteries arrival, a lightning strike and there we made a graphite rod that's hotter than iron and well. He welded to pieces of iron together and basically the Wells were melted.

[@ghostly2741]

Their is a process known as carbon arc gouging. Its basically the opposite of welding, but for the purpose of welding. The carbon rod gets heated to a point it melts the fused weld essentially removing the weld with pressurized air. I guess an example of this would be welding a big expensive sheet plate to a wall then realizing your 2 inchs off, instead of scrapping the entire piece you could remove the fusion of the metals using this method, to allow least amount of damage. But at the same time its not very much used in many places except maybe welding schools just to learn it and have that knowledge. Only ever touched it maybe 10 times my entire career.

[@vincentpaniccia109]

Works like a poor mans sautering iron? Bro the power supply on the table is far more expensive lmao.

[@bmw328igearhead]

Yeah, but if you have a power supply just laying around... and NEED a soldering iron. Hahahaha

[@gowerski]

@@bmw328igearhead car battery bingo bango

[@bmw328igearhead]

@@gowerski oh I'm aware... was just being overly sarcastic with the previous response.

[@blasandresayalagarcia3472]

-"Poor mans soldering iron" - The power supply right beside him 👀

[@631pablo]

I have some carbon rods that are used with an arc welder. You use em as gouging rods to cut through metal where you can’t get a torch. Demolition work only, they remove a lot of material and make a mess, but they’ll cut.

[@spugggaldon361]

The fact that they were chipping slag off that weld tells you they used a flux, so probably MMA/SMAW (stick) welding process. Slag wasn't coming off very easily so probably a basic coated rod

[@rusty_restorations36]

Missed opportunity to build a carbon arc welding apparatus. pretty cool tech

[@MARTINELLI215]

Yes you can weld with graphite, you can also start an arc with a slim Jim 😊

[@siddhantmishra69]

The greatest electrician that has ever lived!

[@12white1]

You can also just take a graphine pencil, screw a screw in to the backside, add the + of the generator to it and the minus to the zinc and solder like that.

[@anshswaroop6849]

Hey can someone make a no context clip out of "Begging to turn on hot" section

[@Lampe2020]

Surely already happened XD

[@Jrez]

you use carbon for Air Carbon Arc Gouging, i.e. melting metal and gouging material away with aid of electricity and an air compressor. For welding a bead like in the video, you need a filler metal which the graphite rod doesn't contain. Not to mention the weld bead looks like a fairly standard stick weld with a traditional welding electrode AND there is slag which requires the electrode to contain a coating of flux which, again, the graphite rod doesn't have.

[@IpunkP]

When someone forgot to learn about periodic table while on school 😅

[@stelleratorsuprise8185]

There was a time when arc welding was done using a graphite electrode and an additional rod. The quality of such welds was below regular stick welding. But the welding that claimed to be done with an graphite rod only was truly a fake.

[@89RASMUS]

Graphite rods are actually used in some rare cases for high current TIG welding. Mostly for welding copper.

[@ElectricalCurrent-bz7ou]

But you are not doing any of that with a 12 volt car battery

[@LDuncanKelly]

Some 50 years ago Popular Mechanics magazine had a construction article for a resistance iron using a D-cell carbon rod and powered by a car battery and I built one in shop class... Never did use it though...

[@karifaevt]

You 𝒄𝒂𝒏 use a graphite rod as a scratch plasma cutter if you hook it up to an arc welder, it just only works on very thin materials, and has a tendency to explode the graphite.

[@FatBoy42069]

You can tell he stick welded it by the slag left on the outside of the weld that he had to bang off… like folks go to your local community and take a welding class you don’t have to pass just learn how to it’s an insanely useful skill

[@raycert07]

Some of those rods are really fragile from my experience. The more solid ones I've found are in AA batteries. But those are really hard to get out.

[@user-mm4hn4ce8g]

A rare moment of him not hurting himself and putting himself in danger 😂

[@jessebybee3521]

This is actually exactly how my iron works.

[@n0way07]

In a zombie apocalypse we need to.protect this guy, he's the only one that can bring back electricity to the world

[@mongawy]

You should be added to marvel heros ( ELECTROMAN)😅🤣🤣

[@Archelis_]

This guy never runs out of batteries

[@thedudeamongmengs2051]

You can weld with graphite but it wont be pretty and you need filler material and a lot more power. Ive actually used graphite rods to melt metal for pouring before

[@kazuyakanbara1395]

"My rod perfectly fits the hole" Seriously brotha🤣🤣

[@beambreaker5907]

I used to arc mechanical pencil graphite on my diecast cars. I mean it kinda worked but you need gas to protect the weld and create a slag layer. Not to mention how brittle graphite is it still wouldn’t even be strong enough.

[@rarra]

“Material has been added here” 😂

[@KennyCleod]

He gave a new idea for soldering.

[@chipdiamond9975]

Carbon rods exist, but they are use to remove material, not to add material. It's call gouging.

[@Xenn_..]

"My rod PERFECTLY fits its hole!" 💀

[@The-Alien.]

"my rod perfectly fits it's hole" Bro that's too big

[@solarsoldier2456]

Closest thing I've heard if to welding with carbon rods is CAC and that's definitely not welding.

[@VSN1001]

I wonder if that’s how tony stark soldered while being trapped in a cave

[@bald_rice]

"My rod perfectly fits it's hole" *Sighs* *Checks Comments*

[@jjhoogenboezem4581]

The electrodes in arc furnaces are made of graphite

[@raindrop6942]

getting the stuff to make it costs more than a cheap soldering iron

[@7badtothebone]

He’s got that 42011 Welding Rod 😎🔥

[@Ed70Nova427]

Maybe you can make an electric etching tool with that graphite to able you to label hard chrome tools without causing the chrome to peel? EDIT: Maybe even a CNC engraver?

[@hbirtic146]

Idk how he welds with graphite but i know graphite electrodes are used in metalurgy when you need to move the weld out without grinder. Graphite electrode makes a canal and you just fine grind it in the end and weld it again.

[@JasonWall-nx7dv]

Graphite rod can get hot enough to weld but you need another metal. Kinda like soldering

[@Tutel3.0]

Rare sighting of BOOM not getting hurt

[@dnzxx2301]

Ada Indonesia Coyyyyy🥶🥶🥶

[@klast8201]

A certain sentence put me off guard cuz i wasn't looking at the screen 😅

[@agoogleuser1570]

First time i see him not getting shocked 😂

[@TheGuyWhoAsked1245]

If this guy doesn’t post anymore we might just know why.

[@Darthnater1337]

I mean, you could carbon arc weld with the graphite, but that's not really welding, more like a tool used to gouge out a bad weld

[@BV4551Pl]

You can actuslly do this but you’d need a microwave transformer to make the right current / volts for it to work but it can melt pretty much anything beside some things

[@TB-wi3sq]

Actually graphite electrodes were the beginning of stick welding

[@LecherousLizard]

"It was made for me! This is my hole!" ~ the graphite rod, probably

[@CleosetricVlyers]

Rod : This is my hole! It was made for me!

[@_Shard85]

Never let this man solder again

[@MashuStar]

poor man's soldering iron with an expensive voltage thingy

[@918M]

In jail, we used to solder, headphones and CD players back together with a 12 V adapter and pencil graphite

[@DaemonwarriorJulius]

It is possible to make an arc furnace with a pair of those rods but you REALLY need to amp up the power for that. Grant Tompson, the OG King of random built a transformer just to power that thing.

[@Jack_Krauzers]

Wow it produced slags too.. amazing

[@nemo-x]

So you made a makeshift soldering iron with just a soldering iron and a powersupply.... neat.

[@mini._neji]

Simon: thats the appreciation 😃 Knowledge: HAHAHAHHA 😃😐

[@RahmanRagib]

"my rod perfectly fits the hole" 💀💀💀

[@Purfait]

"So, i did some off-camera welding with this graphite"

[@braydenj03]

I mean. You CAN weld with it as long as you have a hot arc and a tight rod or something.

[@alkevier7127]

Poor man's soldering iron..... "Oh I can't afford rent and I need to solder this wire.. I can't afford a soldering iron... I know I will use graphite from a battery and put it into a soldering tip then use my $300+ power supply"