Testing Dangerous Electrical "Life Hacks" from 1911

I test out some "life improving" tips and vintage electrical tricks that were published over 100 years ago. As a disclaimer though- For your safety don't mess with electricity! Despite the casual / comedic tone of this video, the electrical experiments shouldn't be interpreted as instructions or replicated. Anything I show should strictly be interpreted as entertainment.
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[@vintageyamahasquid]

For a little context on the bulb adapter: Electricity was first used solely for lighting in homes. Homes had light socket outlets installed on their ceilings but no wall outlets, because they didn't exist for residential use. There just wasn't anything that a normal home would have that required electricity besides lighting. When electrical appliances became available people only had one option to supply it with power; the light fixture. Over time these were supplemented with wall outlets but you'd be surprised by how long the light socket extension cords hung around.

[@iwb70]

Correct.

[@matthewellisor5835]

Ah, knob and tube. Those were the days.

[@rhysun]

The electricity would also be unmetered and your bill would be based on how many lightbulbs you had in your house.

[@cyril.figgis]

heh. hung around

[@ruben_balea]

And 100 years later electricity is still called 'electric light' and electricity bills 'light bills'

[@Chris_the_Muso]

Welder here. Yep, flux core wire is run electrode negative. This puts two thirds of the heat into the job (electrons flow into the job). If you run it the wrong way round you'll get a spark fountain that doesn't weld properly. Solid wire (with gas) is run electrode positive. Back in the day, they really did use light sockets as power outlets, usually with a y-fitting so that you still had a light. There were even switched fittings made. Also, in those days there *was* no earth. You know that saying that safety regulations are written in blood? ... Lots of houses burned down and people were electrocuted, then some bright sparky thought up the MEN system of earthing. As a kid I remember finding one of those y-fittings in the shed. Confused the heck out of of me, and only made sense decades later once I learned a bit of the history about the subject. The fitting were made out of bakelite of course. It disappeared after I asked about it, so the oldies were probably scared I was going to try to jam it into a light socket and threw it away. This would have the sixties in Sydney, long after such things were obsolete.

[@GerinoMorn]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1006">16:46</a> ah, we call it "zlodziejka", "the thief-ling", a former necessity when going travelling, and the place purposefully didn't give you any outlets (so you don't ramp up the bill by using e.g. your own kettle). Everyone had one at home xD

[@phylum8975]

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[@featheredskeptic1301]

People from 100 years ago were very new to electricity, and as such, they didn't have the convenience of everything being in a hardware store at an affordable price. Not to mention that safety wasn't much of a priority for them. Knowing how those old electrical installations were, I don't think anyone back then even cared about grounding. Plugging things in the light sockets was something very common.

[@tookitogo]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="330">5:30</a> Liquid medicines of yore were alcohol-based, and that’s the one thing you didn’t try! Alcohol has very different surface tension from water, and may well have flowed quite differently. I also think you used a much larger bottle than the authors intended. Medicine bottles were usually somewhere between 50-200ml, not the big vodka bottle you used!

[@fireaza]

And in a lot of cases, medicines of yore were literally just alcohol.

[@soundsoflife9549]

Yes-they often were tinctures or emulsions with sugar added sometimes.

[@dennisolsson3119]

I also don't think it was supposed to act as a siphon, but more like a blocking guide. If you pour the liquid out slowly it'll follow the wire. Slow enough would mean drip

[@tookitogo]

@@fireaza Yes. And if you were lucky, they hadn’t added anything toxic to it!

[@Stratoliner]

Turnah! You're back! And here I was afraid dingos had done got a hold of ya!

[@Turnah81]

Haha cheers mate. Luckily not many near where I live. Mostly snakes but Pelicans are the ones to watch out for...they swallow whole and leave no evidence💀😆

[@davelowe1977]

We had christmas decorations with a bayonet fitting so you could only plug them into a lighting circuit which had a relatively small fuse at the distribution board.

[@BD-xz6te]

The potato thing is interesting. In electroplating or rust removal DC is used, because the polarity matters. The results are visible rather quickly. If you use a washing soda bath to remove rust you connect the positive wire to some sacrificial piece of metal. It will corrode rather quickly and will come out pitted and looking like it spent decades underwater. If you connect the wires backward you'll see the electrolyte bath fizzing around the wrong part.

[@Turnah81]

Cheers 👍. I like learning new stuff in the comments😀.

[@BD-xz6te]

@@Turnah81 I'm glad you got something out of it. I meant to add that the green in the potato experiment is from the copper quickly corroding. If you used wire made of a different material it wouldn't be green. When you use AC power it's rapidly changing polarity back and forth. You won't get much other than a light show and burnt potato.

[@donbunson5031]

I have seen the light bulb adapter hack before at a customers house. They used their hallway light right next to the attic to extend an attic lighting system down whenever they needed to go in the attic. It only ran a few bulbs and was 60 years old probably.

[@Turnah81]

Yeah cool, I really feel like I have encountered it somewhere once but can't place it. Like...maybe a pendent light extension or something maybe?🤔

[@jamesshelton308]

The light bulb thing is probably based on early home electrical systems where it was fairly common for devices to have a lightbulb screw. You simply removed the bulb from a wall sconce and then screwed in the toaster or whatever you were using.

[@itskarl79]

@@Turnah81 antique electrical wiring was wrapped in strands of some material that would allow for capilliary action as you mentioned.

[@lezbriddon]

I mad up the same in 2011, still works lol

[@darraghtalorgan1905]

With the potato, what you're seeing is essentially hydrolysis. The negatice produces hydrogen (bubbles) while the positive produces oxygen which breaks down the copper and makes that green gunk.

[@h-leath6339]

My grandparents had an outlet like that (medium screw rater than bayonet) in their upstairs bath. It had a lovely brass faceplate with a safety door over the outlet. These were widely used in the early 20th Century. Because paperclips weren't part of every households nursery baby kit people needed a way for toddlers to electrocute themselves and these outlets did nicely.

[@spiderchopproductions8172]

Genuinely unnerved by the extent to which Turnah gives off strong Playschool presenter vibes while missing with mains voltage.

[@djwmunro]

Try a pickle. It’s illuminating 😂

[@ImRandomDude]

so this is why yesterday youtube recommended to me that "old life hacks" from last year. they knew you were preparing this vid :D

[@munirlaham]

Nice to see you again

[@710Chri]

I just discovered your channel yesterday and there’s already new content

[@ptonpc]

When electricity was new in homes, many devices were powered from the light socket in the room.

[@laurdy]

In some places lighting was charged at a lower rate than power i.e. one meter for lights and another for sockets, Italy even went so far as using different voltages for lighting and power 150v / 220v. Also in 1910 a lot of mains supplies only provided DC (Direct current).

[@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="900">15:00</a> I guess you havent seen Big Clive cooking sausages with two probes on mains power.

[@petecross9470]

Came here to say the same 😆😆😆🥧💥🔥

[@tin2001]

Surprised I had to scroll this far... He also did other foods around the same time as the original sausage video.

[@ChrisBigBad]

I've seen TV shows in which they used the light-socket in their cells to brew coffee by just pushing lines voltage through two can-lids straight into the water. It seems plausible. You can buy them in outdoor or travel-stores because lots of dorms in FarFarAway will give you light, but for whatever reason no wall sockets. They are pass-trough and spring 2 sockets along the short extension stem.

[@anomamos9095]

The medicine dropper is often used as a water feeder in bird cages. It is not capillary action but surface tension and gravity.

[@VdubSPAZ]

I'm sure you've gotten lots of comments from welders but what is depends on what your welding and what your welding with that will change the flow or the current of your welder like flux core welding you change the polarity versus gas and the same thing with aluminum versus steel because you need to change the polarity for the aluminum as well

[@richardl6751]

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="647">10:47</a> Thew bubbles are Hydrogen. At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="907">15:07</a> That's AC, it changes each 100th of a second.

[@AdityaMehendale]

Instead of twisted wires, use a dish-towel or piece of tissue. Works like a charm!

[@Muffin_Masher]

I laughed when I saw the black wire on the earth clamp :D and the potato wasn't having any of it :P Most welding is positive Earth, due to how electrons flow FROM what we call negative. Conventional flow is just an acceptance that we were wrong for so long that it was easier to just explain it that way and for the most part doesn't matter.

[@JasonMcCord-qk3yb]

Exactly. As a welder, I of course, know this, and often “reverse” polarity for TIG welding when working with stainless steel or very thin aluminum. Nice catch!

[@tookitogo]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="950">15:50</a> The potato absolutely, positively, conclusively _cannot_ and *_does not_* tell you which mains AC wire is line and which is neutral. Whatever effects you saw were due to other factors, like how deep each wire was inserted, how much existing tarnish was on the wire surface, etc. Mains AC changes polarity 50 or 60 times per second, so electrically, the potato *cannot* tell the two wires apart. In fact, AC is used for conductivity measurements precisely because it reduces electrolytic corrosion (the effect leveraged by the potato polarity tester).

[@Turnah81]

Yeah for sure. I was doing the experiment assuming to demonstrate they would be indistinguishable, But wasn't the result I got. I believe it is due to how Aust single phase Neutral wiring is done. But yeah, overall I wont be using a potato for electrical stuff, Chips only.

[@hankwangn]

​@@Turnah81Unless your potato was sitting on a grounded plate (which I doubt), that would not make any difference. Ground is an arbitrary reference potential, like "sea level" for altitude. The electrochemistry around the electrodes only sees the direction of the current (or rather, voltage gradient), not absolute potential. It baffles me why the difference was there with AC. Your UPS could have a DC offset on the voltage.

[@zaprodk]

@@Turnah81 Doesn't make any sense. The potato is electrically floating. If you didn't have the polarized AU plugs, turning the plug would prove this. There can be a bit of tarnish on the two conductors, giving the test a random bias.

[@soundsoflife9549]

@@Turnah81 What is the difference in oscillation between the live and neutral in our 240V AC? This could be making a difference- I don;t know. It might be fun to try and set up other circuits with fruit & veggies: see if you can make an AC/DC converter!

[@WAVESprod]

As a lighting technician for film, since we‘re often limited with where we can plug our lights, we do sometimes have selfmade adapter to get our power from lighting outlets. But they‘re made way less wonky than this.

[@AustralianMurderTurtle]

Neat, ecoflow has support for our plug types in Australia, I was worried they were only a north american style plug.

[@swanseamale47]

Back in the 1950s and 1960s it was fairly common to plug appliances into light fittings. Thinks like irons for example. You could even buy a 2 way adaptor so the light could be used as well.

[@Turnah81]

Yeah I have some kind of vague memories of something like this. But keep in mind, the main thing I was testing is whether you can, or should use an actual fitting that was previously a filament light globe💡⚡️🔌😁.

[@swanseamale47]

@Turnah81 yes that was new to me. Seen a few bodged wires over the years, but that was a new one. 😀

[@imark7777777]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="960">16:00</a> they're showing the US style Edison screw socket in our case the center is hot and the side is neutral with the bayonet fittings technically there is no distinction but the sidewall should be grounded in metal fittings From what I understand. You have to remember that in the US electricity pre-dated plugs and sockets so it was primarily used for lighting and what was used as a sock it was the light socket until proper sockets were introduced. And then even still there was two different tariffs on price one for lighting which was cheaper and one for appliances that was more expensive so you could theoretically pay for just lighting and then unscrew the bulb weird times. So at the time the book was made it probably was possible to get all these fittings that were interchangeable. After all a lot of the electrical industry adapted and converted practices and materials from the gas lamp industry. It's actually quite common in the US for a long time to be able to just go to the store and pick up a little screw in a bit with a plug on the other end to plug stuff in. And although it's getting a little harder and harder as it's starting to become less standard to stock in big box stores as Code has changed to require outlets every so many feet etc. and older houses are more and more getting retrofitted. But it was quite common to unscrew your porch light to plug-in power tools not necessarily heavy duty stuff but handheld drills before the invention of batteries. This is mostly because nobody thought to put outlets on the outside of their house so it was either that or run an extension cord inside which still wouldn't be very convenient. edit: wow I'm impressed that even over the pond and how many years later how to take a fit that almost is.

[@SandrA-hr5zk]

I can easily find light socket adapters here in the US, and it was something my grandfather used as well. But you'll pretty much only find them around christmas time to plug in string lights to a porch light.

[@LokiScarletWasHere]

Medicine dropper - Capillary siphon Likely the dripping end needs to be lower than the submerged end, which is why it worked better at full length. Potato - electrolysis. Positive side gets anodized, which for copper just means it rusts faster Bulb adapter - You're using a different bulb type. The picture showed an edison screw, which doesn't have polarity problems. Basically the polarity of a barrel jack.

[@TS_Mind_Swept]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="552">9:12</a> Monsters? You mean cats Keepo

[@scamcorp]

how has it been mate good to see you make a vid

[@Turnah81]

good, Cheers mate thanks for the support!

[@metern]

In Norway, where I'm from. The outlets have only two holes and pin. No needs for the third wire 😁.

[@metern]

So that lamp socket hack will work great there.

[@Turnah81]

👍. Do you use the European connector or different? I thought I noticed the EU ones have a sneaky earth on the sides or something from memory 🤔

[@Convolutedtubules]

Just when iwas about to complain about the lack of old life hacks. PS. still waiting for the shed build video.

[@emmettturner9452]

Do they not sell light socket to appliance plug socket adapters in Australia? They certainly do in the USA. Some even have pull chains. No ground, of course. The cheapest of cheap glazed porcelain lamp sockets can also be had with a plug socket next to the bulb socket. These typically do have ground. Also, our “Edison Socket” bulbs have a single contact on the bottom with the threads being a second contact, which means it is easy to determine which is neutral. You wouldn’t want the active/hot to be exposed while you thread in the bulb so the threads are supposed to be neutral. Nothing stopping you from wiring it backwards, of course, so I still try to keep my hands away from the base while threading in.

[@disjustice]

I was gonna say the same. Not very unusual here in the US. With modern building codes you are more likely to have an outlet handy, so not as common to need one. However, I still find it useful if I'm in an attic that has a couple of lights but no outlets, or to plug in holiday lights by replacing a porch light with an outlet.

[@emmettturner9452]

Exactly. My most recent use case was an unfinished basement with only one outlet (GFCI, tied to the bathrooms on both of the other floors). It was dedicated to my high-wattage soldering/desoldering workbench. My lease forbade me from doing any electrical work so when I needed something while already drawing nearly 15A I had to use a light socket.

[@MeriaDuck]

In mainlandEurope we don't have polarized sockets, so a socket-to-light-fixture connector can easily buzz one through the screw-part of the socket (and we obviously connect almost everything with only two wires, who needs ground; ground is for the washing machine and maybe kitchen appliances if not doubly insulated /s)

[@emmettturner9452]

Most things in the USA only use two wires with no ground but you still want the socket to have it. Our tamper-proof outlets can’t rely the ground prong to open the shutters like they do in UK. Of course, continental Europe can’t rather since the ground is just a contact on the side of the plug (no prong). There is a European IKEA power strip at my local Goodwill thrift store right now with tamper-resistant holes. I recently used it to demonstrate to my brother that the ground is reversible since the plug does not enforce orientation/polarity. Of course, many ungrounded American plugs are non-polarized like Japan but anything with a ground prong will only fit one way. A polarized outlet will fit a non-polarized plug but you have to find a home from the ‘50s to find a non-polarized outlet… and they would have changed some of them out long ago since they’d hardly be able to plug in anything.

[@okaro6595]

​@@emmettturner9452Relying on the ground to open the socket is dangerous, IMO more dangerous than no shutters. In Finland shutters have been the norm for 40 years. We had them in the kids' rooms in the mid 60s. Extension cords have had shutters for 20 years.

[@mmorgz6622]

the light adapter, you can buy the bits to make one from bunnings. i made one to plug a bug zapper in on the verandah where we didnt have a power point. i just made note of the active and neutral orientation and marked it on both the adapter and light socket so i wouldnt forget which way it went 😅. now its in my shed using a light socket to run a LED ufo light. not something you really NEED but has been useful to have.

[@RubenKelevra]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="961">16:01</a> In the beginning, there weren’t any outlets; there were just lamp sockets. So yes, stores would happily sell you something like this because everyone used it. :) Before that, there were even wilder setups, like lamps with two metal prongs on the bottom. The tablecloth would have wires running through it, and you’d simply place the lamp onto the tablecloth to connect it to power. Unsurprisingly, this caused a lot of house fires, which is why it’s no longer allowed. ;)

[@Michael_CS615]

Playing where SANE people DON'T go! Nice!

[@IMBlakeley]

I recall my grandma in 1960s London had a lead that plugged her kettle into the light socket, yeah that house got condemned and she was moved out.

[@Turnah81]

😥 So much cool stuff lost in time. But I am guessing must have been big safety issues.

[@11regnartseht]

Dude, those old medicines were heavy on the alcohol. For preservation and to dissolve any oily substances which may have been added to the mix.

[@Turnah81]

Nice. I'll try that. I''ll give metho a go and maybe isopropyl alcohol if there is enough in the shed.

[@soundsoflife9549]

@@Turnah81 Oh- Use thinner wire also!

[@KieranShort]

The bayonet light globe is worthy of already one more moustache.

[@Turnah81]

Yeah reckon I was a bit light in the moustache allocation for that one. Some stuff will work off it. If you knew what you were plugging in I guess: 2 stache 🏆

[@ranchosdelnorte]

Flux welding and gas welding use different polarities. Welding machines that do both usually have a way to change the polarity, sometimes it's simply swapping places where the two wires hook into, other times they have 2 jumper blades that you configure either horizontally or vertically to get the desired polarity.

[@whynotanyting]

Guess I'm going to have to carry a potato around with me now

[@ChristopherKlepel]

This was fun great video.

[@Turnah81]

Cheers man. Glad u liked it 👍

[@malice6081]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1070">17:50</a> I can still buy the ones for wiring up stuff like that. Really nice when you need to make what’s called a quad box, or when the vaccum has had a dog chew off the plug.

[@borntraveller007]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="530">08:50</a> try and make something to hold the solar panel in place, that small amount of shading at the top reduces output, even some bird 5h1t or a leaf will have the same effect. Do your own tests, there were YT vids showing this. New solar panels might be different? Tech changes all the time, so stand to be corrected if I'm wrong on this 🤷‍♂👍

[@TheButterZone]

Oddly sensual way to end the Ecoflow spot LOL

[@Maxid1]

I worked for the phone company for years (decades) and I indeed carried a banana in my tool belt (Nope, not code for anything) it worked the same way but tasted better. But honestly, only on halloween. I wore nose mustache glasses as well. But those I wore all the time... I worked in San Francisco and even the crazy people were wary of me when I wore them.

[@PlanetJeroen]

why on earth would you put the electrodes so close next to one another in the potato? I would figure farther is better (safer)

[@olsmokey]

Of course, in the olden days when electricity was first installed in a domestic situation, the only available outlet was the lamp socket in the middle of the ceiling. If you wanted to power a radio or other electrical appliance, you had to use an incandescent lamp base as a plug.

[@thomashardin911]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="574">9:34</a> you threw a pun!

[@kliether33]

Pro tip: Shatter the bulb inside of a paper or plastic bag to contain the shards and prevent ear injuries :D

[@zaprodk]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1362">22:42</a> many bulb bases actually have a simple fuse to avoid the bulb to blow the mains fuses when eventually the bulb goes end-of-life and goes POP.

[@paulstubbs7678]

A heat gun killed it!, I was waiting for the welder. But yeah, no polarity control & no earth - definitely dodgy, the only good bit was the unplanned built in fuse.

[@joebarnett8640]

Some incandescent bulbs have a glass encased fuse in the base which blows to prevent one failed bulb in a chandelier taking out the main lighting fuse. This is what might have glowed when powering the drill and blown with the heat gun.

[@tin2001]

If the bulb is 60W, it's only going to run 250mA at 240v. Fair chance the manufacturers save on costs by using wire that is suitable for about 1A at most. The heat gun at 2000W is running about 8A, which would make those thin wires act like a fuse.

[@soundsoflife9549]

Please do some more power experiments with fruit and veggies!

[@clairmorrill8660]

In the USA we don't use bayonet sockets for our light bulbs, the tip is the neutral and the outer screw in shell is the hot

[@CamelCasee]

A lot of bulbs had fuses built in so they didn't trip the entire circuit upon failure.

[@crh1985]

The bottom of the wire must be below the bottom of the jug. I had something like this back when i was in elementary school, it should be about the same.

[@DBZVelena]

back in 1910 things didn't require as much power yet as some things today. It wasnt an option yet. so for that it deserves at least another mustache.

[@SaycoRa]

Good work!

[@Leo99929]

multi-strand electrical wire with an insulator coating might have yielded a different result for the dropper? Smaller gaps for capillary action, then the insulator sheath might maintain the now started syphon action?... Or nothing flows through because the gaps are too small... Who knows?!

[@matthewellisor5835]

You know, if you didn't utilize those bayonet cap lamp sockets, you'd know which was live... Also, an election surplus OR deficit can be referenced to earth potential. "Negative" doesn't have bearing on potential to ground.

[@Turnah81]

Yeah I didn't think to try with Edison. I think at the time getting the stuff ready I didn't have any on hand that were Edison that weren't Fluro of led.

[@zaprodk]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1188">19:48</a> the polarity of AC doesn't matter in any way, except for very special cases with old equipment that relies on the fact to be safe for the user. Today any appliance running on mains power will effectively be floating and have the same potential from hot or neutral to ground.

[@iconoclad]

I have been subscribed for years with bell alert. Today i get a notification. The last videos I saw were the cat deterrents. ?

[@laierr]

Oh, you have unpolarized light bulb sockets? European sockets, like E-14 and E-26 are polarized. They have live terminal on the tip, and the metal body is a neutral terminal. It helps to hide live terminal deeper in the socket. Assuming they are wired correctly. And you have a polarized plug.

[@qlue7881]

To get the medicine dropper to work, you have to tilt it and dribble the "medicine" down the wire Many medicines were dosed in "drops" in the early twentieth century, kinda like some homeopathic medicine is still dosed today Sometimes the bottles came with a medicine dropper built into the cap for this purpose Also, the bottles were a lot smaller The small bottles of food colouring and synthetic flavouring are about the right size The glass droppers are sometimes also referred to as "eye droppers"

[@ruben_balea]

On Edison screw bulb holders the screw must be always connected to neutral but that doesn't make unpolarized sockets any safer, I bet back then even the UK had some kind of unpolarized sockets or at least unpolarized and ungrounded plugs. There were Edison screw "plugs" and there were and still are Edison screw fuses and fuse holders, like Neozed fuse holders, and even automatic circuit breakers with E27 thread to replace the old glass/ceramic fuses.

[@shaynegadsden]

The medicine one seems more as a guide for slowly pouring the fluid since when you do it has a habit of just running down the side of the bottle making a mess

[@twinprimeable]

for your AC experiment at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="930">15:30</a> , the "hot" vs "neutral" should make no difference to the potato. I am confident that if you repeated the experiment many times, you would find the arcing happening equally between the hot and neutral contacts. An explanation for why the hot contact had more arcing is that maybe the potato is somehow grounded and the circuit is not being completed completely through the neutral and some current is leaving through a ground path. But I don't see how that would be.

[@denisegore1884]

Ironing in the park is hilarious. That might be a while new video idea. Places people have never done ironing before. On a bus, at the beach..........

[@IBHiNation]

I was like what is this wire twisting tool. Always in the chuck for me.

[@Turnah81]

😄. Mine was a coat hangar I bent 5 minutes earlier

[@1st1anarkissed]

Instill have several socket to outlet adapters including ones with 2 outlets on eother side of a switched socket that goes into a light socket. So you add 2 outlets and a chain pull switch to the ceiling light. It can be a good way of overloading wires in a sawdust insulated attic.

[@charlestaylor3195]

That is an impressive power supply, is that better than my house? I can't run all that shit without kicking a breaker. I am impressed, I need one.

[@markbennett6037]

thank you fast forward!

[@Huntco-9000]

Fabulous!

[@charleswieand4445]

We had hot dog cooker in 1960s that cooked with 110. Had a brand new one in box but over years box got damaged.

[@imark7777777]

I'm actually surprised you could do that first one with the wire using string and the surface tension would cause it to drip down. So I don't see why it wouldn't of worked with the wire.

[@Caberbalschnit]

Yes, individually, it can power everything. But to power all of those devices at once. You'll need a bit more.

[@OptometristPrime11235]

Next video... "OK, I've wired 100 car batteries in series"

[@tin2001]

Did you ever see the old video of the guy who stuck a bunch of 9v batteries together? Very clever design, those 9v batteries... They just clip together in series for as many as you've got space for 😂

[@mrab4222]

That's the first time I've heard it called "active" rather than "live". Also, I'm surprised that you didn't put that bulb into a bag before smashing it.

[@okaro6595]

The neutral is also a live wire. If you have an extension cord in the closet it is not live.

[@TriforceOfCourage97]

welding works by "grounding out" a voltage. so of course the trigger is the negative.

[@NathanNostaw]

Mig polarity depends on gas or gasless welding setup.

[@Scoots1994]

I remember the old bulb adapters. They were not uncommon.

[@geigertron3000]

nah, that lightbulb plug hack deserves at least a 3 stash, and as for the welder if you're using flux core wire it's reversed from a solid core with gas.

[@stephenroot1012]

I can't be the only one who wants the book's title and maybe a link to a digital copy of it.

[@Turnah81]

It's popular mechanics mostly. I have cut and paste a bunch of interesting ones as they are hard to relocate, but don't have all the dates and months. Look around 1910. Prior there wasn't much illustration.

[@DTinkerer]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@MrGiXxEr]

Your welder is set correctly for flux core. Straight polarity, not gay.

[@Sparky_D]

I came to say the same thing. If he wants to run shielding gas he would need to swap the polarity over.

[@jonathanpetruska7726]

'Oh, here comes the tungsten gas'. How often does he experience this?

[@elvinhaak]

I used things like these a couple of years ago still in some hotel to be able to charge my laptop and have my coolbox on... no plugs available in those but there are almost always bedlights with normal European sockets. Worked just fine. But of course less then 100 Watts in total. Actually you can implement it even simplier - at least it was possible in most cases till a couple of years ago - central wire in the socket of the lamp, the other on some grounded metal like the heater... not even a bulb needed, just wires. But: very dangerous indeed.

[@GerinoMorn]

Def not capillary action, as there is no capillary, but it might be a wicking action :D It failed, but I think it might be more for dosing actively, i.e. you allow the liquid to nearly spill from the bottle, and it will just stick to the wire and follow it down - not sth for a "permanent siphon" but to does specific amount of drops.

[@scaredofghosts6813]

Still waitin on the 'ididathing' collab

[@ClintWestVood]

5.5kk for a battery, nah ill just stick with a gas genny. thanks lmao

[@mmorgz6622]

yea for 300-500, cant go wrong. just dont store for long periods with fuel in them and they should be trouble free for many years

[@ranger178]

i have a bunch of those adapters to go from light bulb socket to a 2 prong plug they can be useful you can plug a radio in to figure out which circuit breaker it is and go to panel and turn off breakers. or if in the basement or attic and you need to plug stuff in

[@AdamWatson001]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="503">8:23</a> LOL

[@RubenKelevra]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="392">6:32</a> I used to be an electrician like you, but then I took a wire to the knee.

[@merlinmagnus873]

You could dip the wires in water and see which bubbles are flammable.