r/RedneckEngineering | watch to instantly become redneck.

[@Lost_Marimo]

Lexi: “I see no problem with this” Also Lexi 90% of the time: “I no see”

[@shiroi201]

I mean she technically doesn't see in both cases 😆

[@Lightheartednecromancer]

can’t see a problem if you’re legally blind

[@bliss5297]

Seen’t

[@Shiara-rose]

True dat

[@Collectiveofworms]

Lexi is genuinely perfect for this sub

[@horstyoutube6413]

Lexi is the perfect mix of engineer, nerd and redneck.

[@tyler439]

Lexi is genuinely perfect in general

[@SwampyColorado420]

As a literal redneck and practicing engineer in 2 fields. No, you are wrong.

[@SwampyColorado420]

@@horstyoutube6413 not what comes to mind immediately to me. More like a guy that thinks he's a girl and isn't anywhere close to as smart as he thinks he is or the little kids that want his nuts think he is.

[@pansexualdoofus3202]

@@SwampyColorado420 🤓

[@Matt_Wildcard_Webster]

"This isn't a boat, this is a super smash brother's level" ~Lexi, an icon

[@ogfuzzy8631]

Its definetly Cloud Sea of Alrest

[@SilverAceOfSpades]

r/rareinsults

[@labrat_09]

I thought about making a comment related to this

[@Asurvivingslugcat]

Imagine you try selling a boat but it’s called a smash bros level

[@wolfx8751]

Watching Lexi go over this subreddit is a whole different experience as a life-long city girl. Some of these are *obviously* jank, and Lexi's like "Ehh, that's fine." But the second she starts warning the posters, I'm *terrified*

[@cokaroch69]

I'm truly scared of lexis intelligence in this video she somehow knew everythings name and how to fix everything they did wrong and her saying her wife could fix something and she couldn't, this scares me even more. but BTD6 has momkes

[@a.j.barrett4474]

69 likes noice also monke

[@Book-Wyrm]

monke

[@nadocannon7653]

monke time

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

🐒

[@ineffable_eldritch_horror131]

Im convinced that lexi and lexi wife could single handedly rebuild society in the apocalypse

[@AsymptoteInverse]

That sounds like a fun movie.

[@thedragonthatlovesskittles7132]

Thank you lexi, I was feeling sad because I was remembering my days as young child, all of the sadness of lost relationships, the regret of actions, and all of the memories of everything I use to love came to me out of nowhere, washing over me in a sea of sorrow, regret, disgruntlment. Thank you for making me feel better after that unexpected occurrence. I know you might not see this, but if you do, I want you to know you made me smile today.

[@johan-bq9ie]

bro it's a redneck engineering video 💀

[@Asurvivingslugcat]

Fr johan

[@lexif.5463]

Most normal yt comment

[@thedragonthatlovesskittles7132]

@@johan-bq9ie I still felt happy damn it

[@thedragonthatlovesskittles7132]

@@lexif.5463 yes

[@i_am_ghost989]

I subscribed for lexis personality, my inability to tell the 2 robins apart, every other persons personality and traits, and your reactions to this

[@purplebean7]

I'm just sitting here trying to figure out what the heck "the 2 Robins" means...

[@mewmew8932]

@@purplebean7 robin has an alter ego named robin

[@i_am_ghost989]

@@mewmew8932 I thought there were town people named robin

[@purplebean7]

@@mewmew8932 Ohhh right... Robin-The-Bird

[@ChrisLeeW00]

This is the first Im hearing of there being 2 Robins lol

[@realgod1002]

"A mixer is really just a Domesticated Drill"... Oh Lexi. that made my day :)

[@LunaBones]

Ok couple of personal anecdotes for some of these!! 1. Regarding 4:35: I used to work in clothing retail and one of my belts needed an extra hole and so I used the spiky bit of a security tag to repeatedly stab a new hole into it. Bit of effort but worked well enough. 2. Regarding 6:03: Me and my brother have a competition every year who can get each other the worst Christmas present. My brother has a phobia of touching tin foil and so one year I bought him 6 rolls of tin foil wrapped in tin foil but with a layer of normal wrapping paper over the top and so the foil wasn't noticable straight away. Watching him unwrap the paper, find the layer of foil and very tentatively peel it away only for 6 rolls of foil to fall out was probably the most entertaining thing to have ever happened on Christmas for me.

[@philippeleprohon4823]

Hi Satan, nice seeing you here.

[@kalenipclaw5683]

well, you definitely won that year maybe not in a 100% ethical way, but you won

[@epicninjacakez6716]

You fucking MONSTER LMFAO

[@Vikingwerk]

6:51 might actually work, the first circuit in those wall chargers is a diode bridge, which is just 4 diodes arranged to convert AC to DC, and it does not care if DC is the input, it would just pass through, so if they got the voltage into the right neighborhood, it probably works.

[@averyalexander2528]

I'll add that the power supplies can often tolerate anything within 100v - 240v AC or DC. They had 13 batteries * 9 volts = 121v DC. It seems like it adds up. I might try this. For anyone who wants to do something like this themselves, try using a car charger instead, they will often work on just one 9v battery.

[@Sovek86]

yeah, I was thinking the same thing..... now I want to try it and see what happens. too bad I dont have a use for 13 9v batteries...

[@ccoder4953]

Yes, exactly - that supply probably makes DC almost immediately from the AC. It might not have worked on the old, heavy wall warts that were just a transformer, a diode bridge and some caps, but for most modern switch mode supplies (which, if your phone charger is at all recent, it is), it'll probably work just fine. Just beware that you do have enough voltage and current for that to be just as much of an electrocution hazard as having bare wires plugged into the wall is.

[@44R0Ndin]

@@averyalexander2528 Or you know, be that weird person who nails the input voltage exactly with a series string of 8 AA, C, or D batteries (or 2 6v lantern batteries which each consist of 4 1.5v alkaline batteries internally). 9v batteries aren't great for that purpose. Or if you have far too many lithium-ion 18650 batteries and nothing that takes 3.7v and converts it to 5v, just put 3 of those in series and connect that to a car charger (make sure they're internally protected cells first, over-discharge is the best way to damage a lithium battery in a way that it might catch fire the next time you charge it).

[@Wolf359HeavyIndustries]

It will work with even fewer batteries. 120vac rms rectifies to about 165vdc, but some of those adapters have buck converters that don't cut out until the input voltage is close to the output voltage. I have an old dirt bike with a extra winding in the magneto that was originally intended to run a head and tail lamp. Open circuit it supplies 15-90 volts depending on RPM. I run that right old WiFi power adapter to run a small LED offroad light. I even used tie wire to stick an old wall outlet to the front fork. The whole dirt bike would fit right in to Mad Max. Or this video lol

[@ObeyCamp]

0:58 French toast pro-tip: don't beat the eggs quite so much. You actually don't want the eggs to be this uniformly whipped. You want some "egg white swirl" in the bowl.

[@sc2_Nightmare]

Lexi's opinion on off-road muscle/sports cars only makes me love her even more. I also adore that aesthetic.

[@jankyplanes]

after clicking on this video I immediately screamed into my house "WOOOOOO more lexi!!" I live alone and no one heard me.

[@alrecks619]

Given Lexi's creds, i'd say she's the perfect fit for RedneckEngineering readout.

[@TheLexikitty]

thanks

[@russia_is_fucking_trash]

"She" sure sounds like a guy to me

[@yanfeet]

@@russia_is_fucking_trash she's trans😧😳😎😕☹️😨😳😦😕☹️😕

[@GayGothPirate]

@@russia_is_fucking_trash she's trans but even if she wasn't plenty of women have low voices

[@verycleverusername8159]

@@russia_is_fucking_trash Almost like she’s transgender!!! 😳😳😳😱😱😱🤯🤯😨😨🫢

[@Graytail]

06:05 Nevermind how expensive it'd be, though frankly I think it'd be cheaper than actual wrapping paper if you go to a dollar store, just imagine the tearing! So satisfying

[@GeodeCrowley22]

Lexi is honestly my favorite narrator, she's awesome!

[@President_Starscream]

I think I need to get my neighbor a gamer muzzle.

[@Echo_the_half_glitch]

My sister needs one

[@a_reelskitface]

I also need one. I'm not loud or anything I'm just terrified of making even the slightest amount of noise and announcing my presence, even in my own bedroom lol

[@SKITSHD2020]

Lexi loving cars makes me so happy

[@rick7wd]

same

[@felipeferreira00]

0:01 Imagine you going 80mph and crashing your car while you have that cup holder 💀💀💀

[@FigetyZoomer07]

If it’s a front collision then you’re doing extra damage

[@LuigiCotocea]

Imagine someone htting you from the side and your car does a flip and that cupholder decides to hit you in the head bro! 😂

[@Ravenforce3]

14:08 Yes, this DID happen. During the first moon walk of Apollo 17 one of the astronauts accidentally hit a fender on the rover and broke it. They tried to fix it but that initial fix didn't last. You NEED the fenders as lunar dust gets EVERYWHERE. While the crew was sleeping back in the LM between EVAs the guys on the ground came up with a better fix: a map they no longer needed and duct tape. Worked like a charm.

[@purplebean7]

Alrighty, time for my daily dose of chaos and Lexi-induced happiness!

[@archangel7294]

Lexi is best narrator ever! Such sincere interest!

[@patrickmartin3322]

1:16 that’s in the UK where Defenders are absolutely everywhere, no classic was lost

[@ledocteur7701]

7:00 phone batteries are DC, the charging brick converts AC to DC, so this setup does work, it's just incredibly inefficient.

[@davidliu4314]

For the 9V battery charging hack on 6:55, a switching AC adapter can accept DC voltage because the first thing it does is converting 120V AC to DC with a bridge rectifier. In this case the bridge rectifier just kicks back and relaxes.

[@TheLocomono9]

Ok Lexi as a proud new Yorker with a father who had a really really good hack for glove warmers. Get an extra pair of gloves (the knit ones not the tight fitting kind) one size larger. Put on one normal pair of gloves, use a heat pack. Put on the bigger one. Basically by having a layer between them it diffuses the heat properly

[@voidseeker4394]

6:49 no, it's actually plausible. Modern chargers are based on inverters, they don't care whether they are powered by AC or DC. However, 9v batteries are known to provide little current, so that is what might not work.

[@GoodWormDoctor]

Lexi fully embodies what i miss so much about my brother. Chaos and the full willingness to kill in defence of classic cars

[@Chris_winthers]

It's a good day when a Lexi video is uploaded

[@dragon_storm_4830]

The ADHD part of me really loves the last couple of seconds before the end. "I mean it'll do especially if you're not gonna use that door- Hay I had that blanket" END of video.

[@Blood-PawWerewolf]

I relate so much with that 😂

[@Ryanthusar]

1:20 - Soon as I saw the setup I immediately went to thinking about the MuTalk that got announced, and you mentioned it lol Company that announced is called Shiftall

[@capybara2244]

8:39 its the fact that we have those hand warmers that makes this even more of a good idea

[@henreymichelson]

It’s a thin line between madness and brilliance

[@scalesthebattlemage4634]

“It's remarkable how often those two traits coincide.”

[@tsm688]

6:44 It really depends how they engineered it. Most won't work. Only the expensive ones using a proper bridge instead of a capacitive dropper might, possibly, work. There are some things which really don't care. I've run 24VAC things off 24VDC when I had to.

[@VMarshmallo]

I just got home from work, looking for a video to watch. Came across this one and said "I'll only watch this one first if it's Lexi." I feel blessed 😂😂

[@lapislazarus8899]

That fireplace at 7:37 is "WHOA! Pretty neat!" I concur 👌🏻

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

0:35 Someone send this to Milky T. Squid

[@AsymptoteInverse]

3:59 Yet again, I am one of these people. In my place, the plastic covering the VFD got all foggy from grease and age. So I (neatly) cut it away and (neatly) replaced it with a piece of clear packing tape. 6:00 Aluminum foil will also make for a badass-looking and mostly-functional paper airplane. 13:59 I work in fertilizer. That's an IBC tote, and we do indeed use them. The ones I'm used to working with are 275 gallons (1000 liters), and while I never thought about making a boat out of one, I did *very seriously* consider taking one home and making a tiny swimming pool/jacuzzi out of it.

[@multisplace3783]

0:40 If you leave the faucet dripping, the pipe won't freeze over. You could also put a heat trace around the water main and that'll keep everything from freezing. I'm assuming they left the sink dripping though since it still worked, but the toilet didn't.

[@soundspark]

6:38 may actually work because the first thing that happens to power going into one of those chargers is being rectified to DC.

[@manman-sg1zt]

Well, yes and no. Some chargers have ransformer whitch is the first thing that current sees after going into the charger In whitch case it would most likely turn into an incandescent light bulf for a brief moment. Maybe a bit overdramatized but it would definitely heat up because It has a certain impedance at a certain frequency and when frequency is 0, the only thing holding current at bay is the resistance of the copper wires whitch is not very high. Now yes because most chargers don't have transformers and they do have bridge rectifier that makes sure current goes only one way. Now the terifying bit about how do they lower the voltage is they pass those 120V through a mosfet (or any other transistor) that then pulses it with a tiny duty cycle over a capacitor that get's charged to those 5 volts. No wonder my fingers are vibrating when I plug my phone in and drag them over metal parts of the phone because that's basicaly mains voltage, just turned on and off very fast a very briefly. Don't know if it will work for you because I have 230 in the wall.

[@soundspark]

@@manman-sg1zt If you are getting a buzz of your phone charger you likely have a knockoff with poor isolation between the line voltage side and the low voltage side. A genuine charger from a reputable manufacturer will not allow mains voltage to leak into the secondary.

[@manman-sg1zt]

@@soundspark It's definitely a knock off but I haven't opened it soooooo ... I don't know if it's relevant to talk about a secondary as there might be no transformer to speak of.

[@alrecks619]

1:28 dang that's going to sound frikken awesome (meaning "like crap") given it's basically just cupping the mic with extra steps.

[@OswaldAurelia]

Hearing Lexi gush about cars makes me warm and fuzzy inside

[@silent_sunshine]

Same. I love her, she's so charming

[@weisilber8957]

14:43 that just sounds like a hybrid car with extra steps.

[@ryosuketakahashi3232]

6:16 r/battlecars has almost exactly what you're looking for

[@felipeferreira00]

6:25 When you have a Corvette moster truck, but you want a Ferrari F40

[@nunyadambidness8568]

5:25 I think that's an improvised smoke house for jerky and whatnot.

[@MrLoew-bf2he]

That bucket loader fire place is the greatest fireplace ever made.

[@artoflife6093]

My grandpa could fix just about anything with electrical tape, pvc, and bungee cords

[@ceu160193]

2:55 I immediately hear "General Lee" music.

[@SiebayRoo]

I think one of the smartest and dumbest things I learned from a family member was to use a phone charging cable as a belt when I didn’t have one. Keeps my phone charged and my pants up.

[@MaximNightFury]

Lexi's main weakness is trying to cook, that's why she gets the wife to do it

[@MaximNightFury]

Also looking into it, aluminum foil is cheaper per roll than wrapping paper, surprisingly

[@user2C47]

@@MaximNightFury But the roll of foil is likely to have less area than the roll of paper.

[@MaximNightFury]

@@user2C47 Looking into it, a 150 sq ft roll of aluminum foil goes for about $7, while wrapping paper costs about $4 for 40 sq ft

[@obsidian9998]

We have 3D printers common at the public librarys. Redneck engineering will become even more legendary.

[@Coco-Loco]

Lexi is epic! Also didn't know she had a wife, cool!

[@Vantablack000]

15:27 OH GOD, *YES* that looks like so much fun. I need to do this immediately

[@crimsonfrost7422]

When I saw that I wondered what the hell the chain would sound like

[@aj2feet]

3:11 my first thought was fortnite...KILL ME

[@terry2295]

4:24 We found Johnny Cash's car from One Piece at a Time.

[@michaelsegal3558]

If I ever get married one day I would also like my wife to be as handy as Lexi’s wife

[@kallmekatt_318]

Lexis roasts are adorable

[@computerkiller1494]

6:58 actually i tried feeding dc into an ac adapter... It works well and can work from anywhere in the range of x+ 20 < y < z (where X is the output voltage needed, Y is the voltage you CAN input and Z is the maximum rated voltage for the adapter)

[@jonmendelson1104]

5:58 I've used aluminum foil as wrapping paper for years. It's super fast and you don't have to use tape. Also to your point of it being more expensive, aluminum foil is something I have around my house anyway. Buying wrapping paper for the couple of things per year I want to wrap is more of a hassle and it's really not that expensive.

[@Qoushik]

We need a campaign to make Lexi play BTD6!

[@Gryphonzwing]

Yeah she might like Gwendolyn.

[@andrewlanglois6362]

1:43 Effin S Horse speaker, when the game... err needs Magic Oats !!

[@barrydheil]

No lie, a former boss had a vice-grip attached to the toilet handle because of how the handle was installed and you needed to turn the handle 90 degrees to get it to work. 2:37 my family makes these out of used pop bottles and they work really good surprisingly.

[@TheCrepusculum]

due to 2:30- what bait do you use?

[@barrydheil]

@@TheCrepusculum usually some of the left over soda in the bottom, though I have heard some alcohol works well too, especially wine.

[@TheCrepusculum]

@@barrydheil I will try it - thank you very much

[@Arctic204]

Sometimes I wonder what happens when bad ideas go though peoples head and think it’s a good idea

[@44R0Ndin]

Bad ideas are only bad if the execution is lacking, of course unless the idea is MORALLY bad, in which case there's no saving it. But "bad idea done right" is the whole concept behind r/ATBGE, and there's probably at least one of those videos from this channel you've watched (if not, you should fix that, that subreddit is fun to watch from a distance).

[@Arctic204]

@@44R0Ndin I meant that in a funny way

[@khaossilva7475]

Suddenly I love Lexi even more. Classic Defenders for the win!

[@SandroilaKook]

My german ass is always HORRIFIED of these "constructions". Absolutely horrified but also a tad amused

[@Россиянин-ъ4е]

5:56 Rocket League. This is a rocket League car.

[@Technicksworkshop]

6:50 would actually work because the charger actually converts the ac into dc with a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER before using it, so it would actually power the charger just fine

[@kidsrasmussen4916]

6:06 A 200 square foot roll of tin foil is 32 USD. And 200 square feet of silver wrapping paper is 13-15 USD.

[@TwiggyHetfield27]

12:17 They still have those in some places. Boscov's department store is one for them.

[@legostar55]

3:43, I've done this so many times. It works well if you need them dry quickly

[@warmstrong5612]

14:55 Lexi, that idea is called an 'extended range EV'. Like the Chevy Volt or Mazda's new Rotary equipt EV's.

[@finnfetner3106]

The car at 2:48 looks like something from Mad Max

[@Just_a_commenter]

A good chunk of the stuff in this video is probably functional and decent, but the pain in Lexi's voice at 1:10 is strong.

[@KXZero]

Lexi is absolutely adorable. 😂

[@acasualweeb.2394]

6:39 Inside one of these power bricks is a *FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER* that basically reverses the polarity each time when AC cycle goes negative, so you get only the positive peaks. But in between these peaks there isn't any power, so they use a little capacitor to change the (120 - 0 - 120 - 0 - 120 - ...) to a continuous (115 - 115 - 115 - 115 - 115 - ...). Not exactly 115, it's just that capacitor smashes the power peaks and emptyness in between them into a continuous signal (DC), exactly what these batteries provide. That means you can simply connect them into the correct polarity and as long as there's positive voltage (which there is constantly) it gets trough the rectifier and the capacitor just like it does in a 60Hz AC

[@manman-sg1zt]

Bro, you actually calculated the RMS value of 120V after beeing rectified? Props to you ... Buuuuuuuuuut 120 should already be RMS value. I don't know, I have 230 in the wall and I'm not an electrical engineer, YET. But I'm on my way to becoming one.

[@noelhutchins7366]

The first clip; made me think of a marketable-titanic-door that can only "float" one person, but is obviously big enough for two or three people to lounge on.

[@g4mmalotus937]

5:50 I'm like 80% certain that's a fuel full spout for a gas station. I'm quite familiar with them because it was part of my job as a "fuel clerk" to make sure the spill bucket around it was dry, even though the pumps we used never lasted more than a month. But yeah, those are supposed to remain locked, I assume so that someone can't steal the gas directly from the tank, which I would really like to see someone try to do.

[@Monoprismatic]

The hot water pipes, Lexi. The hot water pipes don't go to the toilet.

[@lookatmahboots3345]

4:39 Wanna know some REAL REDNECK ENGENDERING!? I used to o this with safety pins 12 yr old me was trying to bleed

[@Saavik256]

"A wheel as straight as Richard Simmons" AHAHAHAHAHA And yeah, that duct tape + map = fender thing actually happened.

[@Volumixen]

I'm gonna say one thing, Lexi? You know better than most what is grown in Iowa. In Texas, when I lived there for a year, most people there thought Iowa was Idaho, as they believed that Iowa is where we "grow them potatoes".

[@joycondrift]

Lexi's videos are my favorite emkay picks

[@marc-andreservant201]

The phone charger hack would work. Phone chargers use a flyback circuit which requires a full-bridge rectifier to convert the AC to DC, but it will still work if you apply DC directly.

[@SiebayRoo]

Sees “Redneck” in the title. “Ooh, Lexi video!”

[@Faded._.Creator]

10:09 Lexi- no one wants to hear a computer explanation Me- yes the hell we do

[@dippst]

i have to say, i'm a bit of an obstinate asshole. there's a lot of view points that have made rational, logical arguments that differ from my own personal stances that i have rebuked out of sheer stubbornness. lexi, you have single handedly gotten me to accept trans people for who they see themselves as, not what their biological material says they're supposed to be. i cant really even begin to understand what it's like to wake up and have to take a leak, only to use use an appendage that doesnt match what i see myself having. the closest i can get to that is my own mental image of myself is somewhat lean, full head of hair and pristine white teeth whereas reality is i'm bald, fat and my teeth are... less than pristine. you keep doing your thing girl, and if you and you're wife are ever in southwest Michigan, kamikaze shots are on me.

[@a_reelskitface]

My favourite thing is people learning to be more accepting of identities that don't fit with the 'norm' :) also with the 'not identifying with what parts you have' I can tell you for a fact it makes my already pretty shit perception of reality even more frustrating lol

[@sutpecna]

It takes a lot of courage to admit you were wrong, and even more to fully change your ways. That's real awesome. As a trans person, thank you.

[@andrewlanglois6362]

12:09 I am just going to say it, and people are going to laugh! Duct tape can fix ANYTHING!!

[@knurlgnar24]

The 9V battery DC input to the charger will absolutely work. They don't need AC.

[@Daddimirr]

I appreciate the knowledgeable commentary.

[@isle-unto-thyself]

0:30 to whoever drew this PLEASE I need to know if it is a 'Skybox - Arco Iris' reference

[@erdmannelchen8829]

I shivered at the heated outhouse. Just the steam of pee and poo water in this closed chamber. And the.. condensation..

[@alyx8224]

My brother uses his drill when I'm baking and don't feel like getting the stand mixer. I just yell for him to get his drill so I can mix things. It works really well and it's easy to clean

[@finn_in_the_bin5263]

"I know nobody wants a computer explanation-" we'll see that's where you're wrong, Lexi, I always want computer explanations

[@laurineder9939]

I finally made it into an emkay video. The Phone heatsink post was from me. The aluminium has contact with the Phones backside through a hole in the Case and I think he used a thermal pad.

[@raikuthedragon3907]

The jacked up cars in big wheels is like my thing. I plan on buying an old beat up Miata and repairing it and making it into a dune buggie.

[@AnonYmous-et4mz]

16:08 notice the florida license plate

[@alexjustice1337]

I love the phrase, "Very enthusiastic skateboard"

[@DarrylBallegeer]

As someone who's used a chainsaw a lot, the idea of adding Nos to one is terrifying. You know the asshole before you filed the rakers down so that sucker's going to bite hard and dislocate your shoulder.