Mailtime Episode #1: Austrian Radiation

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[@LordThree]

Canceled sub because of thumbnail picture.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Because you don’t understand it’s making fun of the overuse of over-dramatic expressions in video thumbnails that don’t warrant it, or because you do and didn’t find it funny? Should I have added a few red arrows pointing at things to make it even more obvious maybe? 😂

[@LordThree]

Switch & Lever how is it “making fun of it”? You’re just DOING IT. There’s no “joke here” - you’re literally “using an over-dramatic expression in a video that doesn’t warrant it” with no indication what-so-ever that it’s “poking fun”. 🙄 Any time ANY video pops up with this kind of thumbnail is auto-unsubbed.

[@SwitchAndLever]

@@LordThree 😘 Bye now.

[@haxxy40]

A fine case of the "easily offended" generation

[@IrishAnonymous01]

@@haxxy40 What generation would that be?

[@Elektronaut]

2:35 From some HP test equipment I took apart 15 years ago 3:45 Veterinary X-Ray machine analog exposure timer hence the resistors 5:45 Spare parts for veterinary equipment 6:05 X-Ray machine hand trigger 8:00 just random stuff 11:25 these gauges are from veterinary X-Ray machines as well. The mA shows the anode current and the voltmeter is used for line voltage compensation (in combination with another selector switch and a multi tap transformer) 12:30 can't remember 13:15 height adjustment foot switch from an GE mammography machine 13:35 Sticky pads from the offcuts section in Modulor in Berlin (you buy a zip lock bag can take as much offcuts as you can fit into the bag.) 14:45 Flea market find

[@SwitchAndLever]

🙏 I love Modulor! They're one reason why I'd want to live in Berlin, always good and easy access to really good crafting material!

[@littlebacchus216]

Awww people send you the most amazing things! My girlfriend said it looked like junk when I geeked out and showed her. She's such a philistine.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Different strokes for different folks. The more people who think this is junk the more will be over for the rest of us 🙂

[@sgsax]

I remember taking apart old lab equipment with my dad when I was a kid. It would be filled with cool stuff like this. So much fun. Thanks for sharing, even if I am a little bit jealous. 😁

[@keleighshepherd345]

The Hitachi two stage switch I *think* is an operators safe to fire xray dead man's handle - I'm a radiotherapy engineer and we have similar old kit in our store for an old diagnostic kV xray unit

[@sparkyprojects]

The selectors are the older version that we called 'wafer switches', you could make switches with a lot of wafers as a hobbyist. That Hitachi button is probably from an X ray machine, where the radiologist runs and hides behind a lead screen and exposes you to the harmmful rays :D Closest thing to a lever would by my collection of knife switches, the type you see in Frankenstein movies

[@capnskustomworks]

Not to guarantee anything, but as a Professional Tattooist myself, anytime I see a "generic looking" footswitch wired with a 1/4" phono plug, I automatically think possible tattoo equipment. I'm sure the same design was likely used on a great deal of industrial applications as well, though!

[@samscolati4474]

Maybe those two cords with the switches could be from small X-ray machines, like those used by dentists

[@miked5444]

That's what my first thought was too.

[@DavidGetchel]

@@miked5444 same

[@SwitchAndLever]

Veterinary X-ray machines as far as elektronaut1 told me today 🙂

[@MaltandMake]

I think the double foot pedal might be for x-ray equipment as well, to move the source up and down.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Yeah, that sounds quite plausible.

[@bigboy101011]

The two stage switch is a "dead man" switch. The are used as a safety device on a lot of equipment.

[@SwitchAndLever]

But dead mans switches are something you need to hold down or the operation of the machinery stops. Literally if you drop dead the machine stops. It doesn’t need to be two stage, and usually they’re not that unergonomic. From what I heard now it is a shutter button for an X-ray machine, which does make a lot of sense.

@@SwitchAndLever well, not necessarily. I've seen 2 stage dead man switches so you can't lock it in bottom. It needs a human touch to make it work more or less. The Ekra screen printer at my old workplace had one of those 2 stage switches for manual operation only so you couldn't put your hands close to the moving parts. And if you pressed it to hard it went into EMG stop.

[@sprint955st]

I’d say he broke down and old mini-computer from the 60s/70s it got hold of some parts from an old mainframe. Those key caps look like they are from an old phosphor green or amber VDU terminal. The G key caption ‘bel’ is short for ‘bell’ and when you did ctrl-G you would get a beep. The rotary selectors remind me of those on an IBM 3650 Point of Sale controllers from the 70s. You had to flick round to a series of hex digits and flick an enter switch each time, then execute switch, to make it do what was required. Probably not them but something like them.

[@josuelservin2409]

That box have to be at least half a year of future content right there 😂

[@xavtek]

I think I saw one of those hitachi remote switch on a non medical X-ray machine a long time ago. 1step for illumination framing and 1 step to start the x-rays timer.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Makes a lot of sense considering the other material in the box 🙂

[@callmemongo]

The keys are from a teletype machine

[@thijsdebont]

The heavy up/down foot switch was probably used to control a teleprompter.

[@garagemonkeysan]

Great video, was salivating the whole time. : ) Great haul, can't wait to seem them show up in one of your projects. Mahalo for sharing! : )

[@andypyne]

Stahhhp! Every time you depress that two stage Hitachi switch a lemming explodes somewhere

[@SwitchAndLever]

Like you never sent an entire group of lemmings off a cliff just out of sheer spite! 😄

[@FigmentsMade]

Oo switches and levers and knobs and all the fun stuff!

[@SwitchAndLever]

Indeed! Like Xmas in January!

[@nocturno4191]

hola.que debería investigar para diseñar mi propio teclado de diseñador? busco hacer una mezcla entre deluxe t11, tartarus v2, y shuttlerpro v2.es que yo hago animaciones y uso muchos comandos , 22 aproximadamente. pero quiero instalar unas 3 ruedas y 2 perillas para acelerar el flujo de trabajo

[@pileofstuff]

@1:40 That's not a Maker Knife!

[@SwitchAndLever]

It’s on service, after a year of use it needs a little tlc. It will be back 🙂

[@pileofstuff]

@@SwitchAndLever It's good thing that you "know a guy" who has experience with those.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Yeah, I emailed support about it 🤪 I should probably update it to the new version that doesn’t need the ball screw.

[@bahgheera]

Dude, you're going to wind up accidentally inventing a whole new sub genre of science fiction - switch punk.

[@SwitchAndLever]

bahgheera you’re saying that like it’s a bad thing! 😄

[@bahgheera]

@@SwitchAndLever no way, I'm standing by waiting for it!

[@davidyoulus2961]

just my opinion: you should buy a new camera that can shoot at 1080 ah?

[@SwitchAndLever]

Just my facts: My camera shoots 1080p just fine, heck some of the cameras I use even shoot 4k. I make the deliberate decision to downsample it to 720p. Not everything needs to be super high quality, and with an increasing amount of people watching on mobile, on small screens, the jump from 720p to 1080p is pretty much negligible. 49.1% of my viewers view on mobile, 58.4% if you include tablets.

[@not2fast4u2c]

The control panel is Awesome ...Mounted in a nice wood box it would be really nice looking

[@SwitchAndLever]

If anything I would probably just cut the center part of the panel with the knob out and use it for some sort of project. 🙂

[@ow_will]

3:50 you could use it for arduino

[@RexusKing]

13:20 Looks like it controls the height of some sort of lighting equipment!

[@domramsey]

The buttons / switches on long cables look like X-ray machine controls. Useful so the radiographer can pick up the shutter button and hide behind a screen to take the picture.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Yes, that’s confirmed by the guy who sent me the stuff as well. Veterinary X-ray machines.

[@kleines_ren]

German viewer here: no offense taken, I didn't understand a thing you were trying to say :D :D :D nice rolling Rrr's though :)

[@alhadinon]

I always enjoy to see non-Germans struggling with this language and their stereo-typical pronounciation 😁 To be fair, "Himmelsbach Entstörgeräte" was pronounced pretty accurate!

[@SwitchAndLever]

I do actually speak reasonably okay German, but I do ham it up a bit extra for the camera. 😄

[@andrewstanton9715]

😂 The Bee Gee’s 👌.

[@davidyoulus2961]

13:27 more like 'oxy pads!'....

[@Jojobizzare80]

You got some cool stuff

[@joliski]

Hitachi ZP-H5 is a 3 stage hand-held enabling switch.

[@kioanakos]

0:37 pure apetor moment 😁

[@StenEriksson]

Hmm, perhaps www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/ctfdrj/such_a_beauty/ ? The "local" key reminds me of the SOL-20: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol-20

[@SwitchAndLever]

It is indeed possible. There is not a full keyboard in keys though, so I’m going to have to figure out something fun to do with them.

[@getberget]

Skrollade först förbi denna video trots att jag alltid ser dina videos. Sen såg jag inlägget på Instagram och blev nyfiken. Ångrar mig inte. Bra video som vanligt.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Tackar! Dock så verkar betydligt fler människor än vanligt inte tycka om denna videon. Händer alltid när jag gör något som inte är en projektvideo.

[@98Zai]

I wonder if you could recreate the function of the geopathic interference and radiation device? It would be a cool project and also teach us a little about scams and pseudoscience :) It caught my interest anyways, super curious what it does :D

[@SwitchAndLever]

Haha! Nooooope! Much more fun to make something new from it than to waste time learning about junk science 😄

[@98Zai]

@@SwitchAndLever Well, from what I know about these things it's probably just a random timer that gives you panic alarms every 2 hours :D and/or gives you very _competent_ medical advice :o

[@FredMcIntyre]

😃👍🏻👊🏻

[@renelefebvre53]

Where is the cat ? You must have a cat for make real video ! A video without cat (s) is boring !!!!! Buy a cat (or two or a lot of cats )

[@censusgary]

rene lefebvre I think he has a cat. A cat has turned up in some previous videos. He even made a knife handle of cat hair once.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Send in a cat! Next mailtime video!

[@SwitchAndLever]

Gary, unfortunately he passed away a few weeks ago.

[@censusgary]

Switch & Lever : Oh no! I’m very sorry. I’m sad to hear of his passing.

[@renelefebvre53]

@@SwitchAndLever My old grey cat, a Chartreux, died 15 years ago, and I still regret it. Sorry about yours. Bye

[@edgeeffect]

"geopathic interference"?!?!?!?!