So I watched this video whenever it came out - feels like days ago - but this morning when I tried to close the toilet seat, I kinda instinctively threw it down to make it close faster. As I dejectedly stood there watching it drop those last couple centimeters, I’d SWEAR I heard ToT whisper “rotary dampers”. Maybe even saw the word fly across my retina. Maybe I wasn’t completely awake yet…

@jadoncampbell2740

2 жыл бұрын

Hi love your Chanel

@poiu477

2 жыл бұрын

me too thanks

@seanlavoie2

2 жыл бұрын

Funny, but I’d love such a thing. My youngest one knows better, but still let’s the lid slam.

@village_idiot

2 жыл бұрын

My wife just bought a replacement soft close seat for our boy's toilet. Once they were admiring their installation job I heard them both whisper "rotary dampers"

@FoxMacLeod2501

Жыл бұрын

I keep laughing sporadically, as I keep recalling the scene created from the enjoyably descriptive text of AlphaPhoenix, conveying a superb snapshot of what seems, at first, to be a completely genuine, 100% not at all serious case, a (coincidentally and not obviously for humor) sleep-deprived encounter with a lavatory poltergeist* interfering in what a morning routine gone suddenly awry... Ah, the travails of we who arise per a dictated timetable... perpetual inhabitants of somewhere shy of full rest, thanks to our individual clock-based klaxons... This, and employment, in exchange for only rarely reaching the idyllic, sun-bleached shores of the circadian adherents. By another name, the fully rested; who rely predominantly upon the internal switchgear pre-calibrated to render most of us awake only when rested... Though our contemporary setting would see most only able to do so in exchange for our punctuality, and thus our employment, and so on, until reaching a condition of even worse rest, after losing the capacity to maintain residence in a private abode. *Lavatory Poltergeist is also on tour, this September!

I just want you to know, this video has given me the solution to a problem I've been trying to design around for a year. Dunno why I didn't think of it myself, but thanks.

@jrmbayne

2 жыл бұрын

This video has given me a problem to a solution I've had for a long time

@operator8014

2 жыл бұрын

Was it......... Rotary dampers??

@spehropefhany

2 жыл бұрын

@@operator8014 Helical dampers! But yes this is a solution to a cam-like issue I was working on.

@myoptik3x103

2 жыл бұрын

@@operator8014 Aawww, you beat me to it.

@whitey129

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to add, I used to have that same calculator my dad gave me from a ag industry convention... It was a cool gadget when I was 10. Thanks for the nostalgia👌

My favorite example of rotary dampers was on the joystick of the F-14 Tomcat. Being designed before fly-by-magic the joystick was directly connected to the huge, 3000 psi cylinders moving the stabilators in the back, To stop excessively "maverick" pilots from ripping the stabs off in high speed maneuvers, dampers were installed to slow the pilot input. This gave ground crew the ability to punish errant fighter jocks by asking the to do several minutes of stick "wipeouts", involving moving the stick through it's full range while under a closed canopy in the hot sun. We would tell the pilot that we needed it to troubleshoot a problem, we just left out the part about the problem being them not listening to ground crew instruction.

@shawbros

2 жыл бұрын

Were they told afterward that it was punishment? Punishment is worse when you know you are being punished.

@henrikoldcorn

2 жыл бұрын

And then the bastards who designed the F-16 just bolted the joystick down. Ha!

@pgtmr2713

2 жыл бұрын

Eddy current damper?

@seriousZmij

2 жыл бұрын

@@pgtmr2713 those are epic! And so failproof they are being used on many rollercoasters and joyrides.

@pgtmr2713

2 жыл бұрын

@@seriousZmij Many different kinds. But I was asking if the part the op was referring to was the eddy current damper specifically.

The coolest example of rotary dampers in consumer tech is definitely soft-eject cassette decks -- not that anyone uses them anymore, but still.

@Joetechlincolns

2 жыл бұрын

One of many things that fascinated me as a child. Lol

@ronnetgrazer362

2 жыл бұрын

My cheap cassette deck lid mechanism just had plastic gears covered with schmoo, which worked fine at first. Every time I opened it to switch tapes those gears were exposed, and they gathered dust and lint as you would expect. It went from soft-open to pry-open within a year or so...

@lylelaylin2912

Жыл бұрын

In the far distant past, top load video cassette decks had a rotary vane air damper to ease the otherwise violent eject mech. a little wingity thing that spun like crazy.

@chrisandrus2735

5 ай бұрын

I use them all the time!

You can't understand how happy I am every time that I see "This old Tony" notification 😁♥️✌️

@cocon16_PW

2 жыл бұрын

right? RIGHT?!

@steven_porter

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I can... I clicked like while the pre roll ad is still going

@quartfeira

2 жыл бұрын

@@cocon16_PW right!!! 🤣✌️

@TheTeflonTranny

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes I can.

@quartfeira

2 жыл бұрын

@@steven_porter happy like a rotary damper?

I'm actually respecting the simplicity of that design. Very clever.

@ukzen9309

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine the process of assembling them all in a factory without getting in a mess.

@Paremo_

2 жыл бұрын

It does leave me wondering about the goop. Is that just someones grease recipe with some ingredient quintupled? Did some lab spend months testing for the exact right, or just maximum, amount of goopishness? Did the manufacturer have to run their mixing vats half-empty so the motors could cope?

@feedbackzaloop

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paremo_ nah, they just doubled the motors

@andersjjensen

2 жыл бұрын

@@Paremo_ My humble guess is that this is what is left after a cracking process of silicon oil. When you "build" hydro silicates it's rather difficult to control the chain lengths so you end up with a mix of stuff. Fractional distillation can sort that for the shorter chains pretty easy, but once you get to boiling temperatures of several hundred degrees it's easier to just stop and start using a cracking method. This gives better yields of the lower chain length variants (which are usually in higher demand) but it also causes polymerization of chains with many side branches.... and thus you end up with some unusable "goo" ("tar" would be the hydro carbon equivalent) as a waste product... But what if that goo could be it's own product? :P

@2whl4re

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for not saying 'literally'.

I loved the way those calculators would ease open and stand up. Had no idea how simple the mechanism was, which IMO makes the ease-open function even more impressive.

Engineer here, and thank you for calling them "dampers," and not "dampeners." My flight controls instructor loved calling out students who incorrectly called them "dampeners."

@Jujudo

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a damper of moods

@ColonelSandersLite

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jujudo Pretty sure you meant a "dampener" of moods.

@morgan5941

2 жыл бұрын

@@ColonelSandersLite Only rain can dampen a mood.

@daltanionwaves

2 жыл бұрын

You know you're an engineer when you have fond memories of your old flight instructor scolding students for calling dampers dampeners.

@thomasbecker9676

2 жыл бұрын

@@daltanionwaves good old Pat Anderson.

Can we all take a moment to appreciate the work this man is doing to entertain and educate us man thank you very much!.

@TheAedalas

2 жыл бұрын

"entertain and educate" That combination is why TOT is a national treasure. Sure there's going to be tons of write-ups online or in the library about how dampers work, it would even stand to reason that some go into greater detail. But none of them are going to be even remotely as entertaining as he is. This channel is like the blue-collar, adult version of Mr. Wizard or Bill Nye, he makes learning fun and that's amazing. Tony should be knighted, or whatever the dirty garage version of that is over here in the States.

@tim.garrison

2 жыл бұрын

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@NoName-zn1sb

2 жыл бұрын

The clever patter isn't doing much for me anymore. Inane, banal

@ryanburbridge

2 жыл бұрын

Just took 13 minutes and 40 seconds to appreciate the work?

@TheAedalas

2 жыл бұрын

@@NoName-zn1sb Nobody is forcing you to watch it. Or are they? Because that would be kinda weird. Are they holding your eyelids open? Did they put it on repeat and hid the remote? That's some crazy Clockwork Orange type shit, man. You should try to escape eventually. Just wait until you've seen all his videos first though.

TOT, you are informative and FUN! FYI: I made a "James Bond" style pedal board for a guitarist friend. He wanted "cool factor 11" but had little money, so I used the rotary dampers from an old toilet seat to make the lid open just as you mentioned here. Battery-powered LED lights turn on automatically thanks to a re-purposed switch for refrigerators. ( available online) The curious thing is, Dave was always a decent guitarist, but had trouble finding work. When he showed up to jam sessions with this "JB / cool factor 11 pedal board," other musicians noticed. That made him appear more professional... well, that and losing 60 lbs, getting some new clothes and regular haircuts. Now he gets more calls for paying gigs. It's amazing what Rotary Dampers and personal hygiene can accomplish!

@bwyseymail

2 жыл бұрын

James Bond ???? More like Spinal Tap.

@sparklesparklesparkle6318

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for inspiring me! I can now promptly give up on all of my goals with grace.

@jgbreezer

2 жыл бұрын

More evidence for the adage, "dress for the job you want" (rather than the one you got).

@zerumsum1640

2 жыл бұрын

please, please put a video of that online. I must see the majesty of Optimus Prime's pedalboard.

@daltanionwaves

2 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one with guitarist friends with little money

This is something I've been curious about for YEARS. I'm familiar with rotory dampers, but anytime I saw those calculators, I knew there was no way they fit a full damper in there. Also, they certainly wouldn't be giving them away for free if they did. Many thanks!

The first time I learned about these was when I was working as a electronic technician back in the early 80's repairing cassette decks. I was amazed at such a simple design that creates such a cool effect, thanks Tony for the memories!

@nalinux

2 жыл бұрын

I remember this too ! :) So classy ...

@frizzlefry1921

2 жыл бұрын

People think cassettes sound bad till they hear a good akai gx head!

@nalinux

2 жыл бұрын

@@frizzlefry1921 I had a Denon tape player, good speakers, and the sound was great.

@daltanionwaves

2 жыл бұрын

Like all the good hit songs, the brilliance is often in their simplicity. The most simple mechanism for solving a problem is always the best mechanism for the job.

I used to be obsessed with those calculator things as a kid, for some reason. It was like a fun-sized laptop! Small things are always fun!

@calinguga

2 жыл бұрын

that's what she heard

@couldbejokim4557

2 жыл бұрын

@@calinguga you got there first lmfao

@mattymerr701

2 жыл бұрын

Tried telling that to my boyfriend...

@bruhzzleprojects5279

2 жыл бұрын

@@mattymerr701 que sad sound effect

@mattymerr701

2 жыл бұрын

@@bruhzzleprojects5279 what a flaccid sound effect

rotary dampers always increase the feel of quality of a product by a lot

@UncleKennysPlace

2 жыл бұрын

Plus they protect children's hands when they try to drop the toilet seat.

@nerfherder4284

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite is those expensive cabinet hinges that you can try to slam but just at the last second: magic!

@dirkmohrmann8960

2 жыл бұрын

With some exceptions apparently. I was really expecting my "premium mouse traps" to sell better

@physicsguybrian

2 жыл бұрын

Right up until they stop working...

@daveverdonschot7956

2 жыл бұрын

There are exceptions.... Like the Suzuki TL1000S 😉

The most common damping grease is made by Rocol and is called Kilopoise. It's available in a number of grades from very light to crazy stiff. It's also stupidly expensive, but a little goes a long way. I use it for rejuvenating potentiometers that have dried out, been cleaned or feel gritty among other stuff.

@MikkoRantalainen

Жыл бұрын

I was about to write a comment that I wonder why that sticky grease is not used for all springed hinges because that makes a pretty cool rotational damper with very little parts and doesn't need any o-rings. If the grease is expensive, it's much cheaper the leave it out and forget about the damper effect.

I swear. This dude could talk about anything whatsoever and I'd still put it on before bed and fall asleep to his soothing voice. Like I totally haven't done multiple times in the past. Nah uh.

The goop is called viscous grease or just damping grease. For faster action you would use viscous oil - vehicle suspension, camera tripod heads. A solid state counterpart is viscous rubber. Mostly butyl, widely used in acoustics.

@ianc4901

2 жыл бұрын

Thankfully I didn't have to wade through endless nonsensical comments to find this one ! What is it based on if it is not water or alcohol soluble ?

@feedbackzaloop

2 жыл бұрын

@@ianc4901 oil-based, silicone-thickened. Exact composition is never revealed, like with any oil/grease/polymer

@typhoon2827

2 жыл бұрын

The best viscous grease is from Scotland, UK, where it is harvested from the scrotal sacks of the male haggis in springtime. Very very expensive. And a dangerous job to harvest. In an emergency situation dampers can be repacked with standard pig spunk but only expect half the damping qualities.

@mattsadventureswithart5764

2 жыл бұрын

@@typhoon2827 it has to be used for deep fried Mars bars first, or it wont last as long.

@grigorbrowning

2 жыл бұрын

@@typhoon2827 half the damping qualities!? Are you kidding? At room temperature perhaps but the thermal-viscosity curve for pig spunk is horrific. Haggis jizz or nothing.

The "sticky goop" is a high viscosity silicone fluid. Most of unsealed dampers use this in some way or another. Few things will dissolve it other than siloxane solvents such as Polydimethylsiloxane (dimethicone)

@chrisburbank6484

2 жыл бұрын

now you tell him

@paulg3336

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisburbank6484 It "wears off" the fingers over an hour or two. "wears off" as in: transfers to everything you touch - not a big deal unless you are a spray painter. Ask a spray painter what he thinks of silicones if you want to learn some new words.

@jschlesinger2

2 жыл бұрын

@Paul G: Polydimethylsiloxane is a key ingredient in personal lubricant -- maybe that would remove the schmoo? I've used similar Polydimethylsiloxane-based liquids when putting together bendy, tricky-to-fit rubber assemblies. It works pretty well.

@nalinux

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe silicon lub for sex toys will disolve it too :)

@dMb1869

2 жыл бұрын

@Paul G My stepdad paints cars and you should hear the things he had to say when someone put a car that had been slathered in Armor-all in his painting area. I definitely learned quite a few new words that day.

When everything was sticking to you and your tools, and you could see the frustration in trying to get things to just lay on the bench, I lost it lol. I learned a lot in this video honestly.

Great video. It brought to mind my curious youth. My parents couldn't understand my fascination for any mechanical contrivance they threw out or I could drag home. I would take things apart piece by piece examining how they were put together and worked. I think my dragging things home was the most exasperating part. Good thing I never came across an old x-ray unit or something!

@somelaser5906

Жыл бұрын

Good thing you never got your hands on a microwave transformer

This Old Tony, when I grow up I want to be smart and good at stuff like you. I'm 34 years old and I hope the growing up starts real soon.

@DizzyRonson

2 жыл бұрын

i'm 35.. nothing has happened yet..

@BravoCharleses

2 жыл бұрын

@@DizzyRonson Maybe I need to start wearing shirts with buttons.

@tnmoe-

2 жыл бұрын

@@BravoCharleses - 36, tried button shirts, nothing. Going to try getting up at 5am and having sugar/milk deficient coffee. Maybe not both at once, I don't want to over do it.

@mungtor

2 жыл бұрын

@@tnmoe- Did 5am mornings, shirts with buttons, and black coffee for 10 years. 1 out of 5. Would not recommend. Did not get smarter or gooder. Just tireder and older.

@henrinaths1

2 жыл бұрын

That ship sailed a long time ago. I’m twice as old with 1/2 the patience! And more engineering problems then I can shake a stick at. I know the time is right when Tony show me the solution. Bahahaha 😁

Man I miss that 2000s era silver plastic that everything was made of. We oughta bring it back.

@meercreate

2 жыл бұрын

No. Leave that silver plastic that rubs off and turns nasty colors in the noughties where it belongs. Atomic purple and translucent blobjects (minus clear, that's prison gadget color) need to make a comeback, and kind of already are in a niche sense

Always great to watch your funny and informative videos.

As a kid, i loved the cassette dampers, they were using a gearing to spin a little metal plate really fast, effectively using the air resistance as the damping medium.

A humble thank you for never calling them dampeners.

I have seen eddy current dampers (neodymium magnet & aluminum disc). I have also seen the spring function done with a pair of coaxial magnets. There are also "friction dampers" using magnet & iron with wide hysteresis loop. These have constant drag force independent of velocity (like friction brake with constant normal force). Advantage is no goop & no mechanical wear in the brake. Expensive camera lenses are "lubricated" with viscous grease to give them the "gushy" feel. Another damper is the "butterfly" in a clock to regulate the speed of the chime movement. This is a "gas rotary damper".

@schannoman

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget piano dampers. (I'm a piano tech trying to be relevant)

@bpark10001

2 жыл бұрын

@@schannoman That is a totally different animal. That's designed to stop vibration on an external input. The piano action part that is more relevant is the hammer back-check to prevent hammer bounce.

@schannoman

2 жыл бұрын

@@bpark10001 Thanks for explaining my job to me. I was being pedantic.

@nopenoperson9118

2 жыл бұрын

@@schannoman More like explaining your job for you, since you opted to complain about not being included yet didn't put forth the effort yourself.

@schannoman

2 жыл бұрын

@@nopenoperson9118 oh yay. More irrelevant sealioning

I love your videos like this that are just "hey this is a thing that exists!" It gets added to my brain bank for things I can throw in projects. Thanks!

Gave me a simple solution to a problem I have right now as well. Thanks Tony! Really glad you’re back!

Some additional Info: the damper at 5:27 is usually called a Barrel or Vane Damper, depending on the manufacturer. In the automotive industry the major suppliers for interior dampers (those found in the glovebox, sunglass bin, console, etc) are Nifco, ITW and Cultraro (sorry if I am leaving anyone out). I have never seen the "spring loaded with goo" damper from any of those suppliers. I wonder if that design is durable enough for what we need. Anyone knows of a supplier of them?

@joebob3719

2 жыл бұрын

Corporate swag obviously

@twicecookedpork6220

2 жыл бұрын

Also, most small one-way rotary dampers like the plastic ones with gears shown don't use oil, they use a very stiff torsion spring tightly wrapped around a cylinder made of a low-friction plastic like PTFE or Delrin. When rotated in one direction, the torque tightens the spring around the cylinder which creates resistance, and when rotated the other direction, the spring uncoils slightly and spins freely.

@squelchstuff

2 жыл бұрын

@@twicecookedpork6220 That mechanism is often used in ceiling fans. It allows the blades to freewheel when un-powered, but the torque of the motor tightens the spring. to drive the fan. They will slip under heavy load, therefore adding a bit of safety I would presume.

@gavin5410

2 жыл бұрын

@@squelchstuff I feel like this is a similar mechanism they use for a similar reason somewhere else. I can't think of where but I vividly remember the design. It has a solid outer ring and an inner ring in 4 pieces which fits inside just loose enough for the outer ring to spin freely. When the inner ring spins, the 4 parts of it expand outward due to centrifugal force, gripping the outer ring, and spinning it too. But also allowing it to slip if necessary, like the mechanism in the fan you described. For the life of me I can't imagine what it was for. Maybe a cheap differential in RC cars.

@stevegredell1123

2 жыл бұрын

@@gavin5410 It's called a centrifugal clutch. Also used in some snow mobiles and ATVs.

Man. I purchased my first lathe last year because of you TOT. And I'm loving it!!!! Still learning. But it's awesome!

Great video. I consider myself to be fairly well versed in cute mechanical solutions, but this was a new one to me. Thanks for the fun and informative video.

Thank you so much for doing this video! I remember you mentioning doing one in a previous video and wanted input on whether or not to do one. I’m really glad you did! You are right; those gimmick calculators are near impossible to find nowadays. I’ve been wanting to pull one apart to see how these were made for a project of mine but can’t for the life of me find one. Thank you for taking one for the team and discovering the goop in the springs that’s resilient to washing off. Now I know and can maybe replicate one for my own use. Hopefully, you are able to reassemble your vintage calculator.

Came here for rotary dampers awareness week. I'm glad this video is spreading awareness because I've been struggling to find people to celebrate with.

@tomadkins2866

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to meet you, Shoen! I'm a fan too. I have one (?) on my toilet seat that has amazed me for about the past 6 years. Seriously, I didn't know it had that feature when I bought it. I'll celebrate with you! You bring the liquor.

@dismalfist

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomadkins2866 I'll bring the toilet seat.

@tomadkins2866

2 жыл бұрын

@@dismalfist Damn right, bring your own! :)

Another very similar application is to provide a pleasing resistance to knobs, like a volume knob on a stereo. These things work not so much with baffles, but with close fitting surfaces that slide across each other (to use oil it would be more like a shock on a car which relies on oil being forced through small orifices by a moving piston). This stuff is more like really sticky grease than oil, so it won't drain out and it maximizes resistance. Like you see in the video this stuff is almost like glue. Very messy to work with. Another point is that they self-heat because they are dissipating the braking energy as heat. So they start to move faster if you cycle them a number of times. Nye Lubricants sells a wide variety of formulations of "damping grease" for these purposes. I used a Nye product on the Evertune guitar bridge to prevent high frequency vibrations which caused buzzing.

@walterw2

2 жыл бұрын

wait, the evertune? that's yours? wow, that's an amazing design, kudos! (for those watching at home, imagine a guitar where you can just twist the tuning key randomly or even push or pull on the string itself and it will _not_ change in pitch; it's kind of uncanny in real world use)

@pseudotasuki

2 жыл бұрын

Oh geez, yeah. Nothing makes a piece of electronics feel cheap like an un-damped knob. Manufacturers could, of course, use potentiometers and rotary encoders that have built-in damping, but those cost a few cents extra.

@Jujudo

2 жыл бұрын

can you provide a pleasing resistance to my knob

@ProleDaddy

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jujudo oh, internet...

@stanmacdonald1073

2 жыл бұрын

I can see why you'd want a volume knob that heated up and turned easier as you work feverishly to find the right volume:-)

Thanks to you, the 20 year long question I had about those that even an engineering degree didn't answer was answered at last! And what a smart & simple design! (although I completely forgot about them during grad) Thanks!

I think maybe every one of your videos has a laugh out loud moment for me. Thanks for that!

I remember being a kid and showing that calculator to some friends in a birthday party and everyone being shocked including some of the moms , core memories are a weird thing 😂😂

I had one of those calculators when I was younger, it was the coolest damn thing, I’d fiddle with it for hours on end.

I love this these videos! I could watch you talk about obscure mechanical components for hours on end. Even more hours, that is. Probably days at this point. Eventually, I should talk to someone, but for now, I appreciate that you're helping feed my habit.

Diapers ...what a drag indeed! I was hoping it would be a few more years before we got this video. What? Dampers? Oh, never mind. Note: Most of the dampers used on cassette decks used the viscosity of air to do the work. Usually, a gear near the hinge would attempt to turn a worm gear at supersonic speed. That worm gear was connected to the worlds tiniest propeller which would send a cooling burst of air into the case unsettling the dust which would then fall on the read and write heads where it could do the most damage to your magnetic tape.

@williamchamberlain2263

2 жыл бұрын

Hence the popularity of paleo-emo band Head Cleaner

@crashdoctor

2 жыл бұрын

@@williamchamberlain2263 short albums, but subtle and deep - never the same though after their falling out with support act Dichlorodifluoromethane in 1995... Good times.

The magic of dampers aside this does bring me back to the swag of the 90's. I worked in marketing for a phone company in those days (don't judge me) and my god did we spend a lot of money on crappy promo items.

I always love when a TOT video pops up.

This is so cool!I absolutely love this, thank you for showing this to us.

Oh man, the intro to this video was hilarious XD Fun dive into how these work, too! Thanks for sharing.

I've only heard about RotarySMP, but I don't think he's very damp (unless there is some plumbing issues in is house)

Thanks for taking the magic out of my no-slam toilet seat. Much less fun to try and shoot that ever closing gap with a stream of used beer now that i know how it works. Great stuff as always, Tony. Love ya and keep it up.

@Archgeek0

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta return that beer rental!

Thanks. I also enjoy the company and humor you provide, and us neighbors to the north are happy to call AVE our own! Keep up the cool stuff you do and include us.

It never ceases to amaze me how you make almost any topic entertaining and funny. A stand up machinist?!?! A 4-40 tap walks into a bar......

The goop reminds me of "assembly fluid" that I've seen used at work for keeping o rings and such in place. The only thing that cuts it is engine oil.

@johncoops6897

2 жыл бұрын

I've always used Vaseline (Petroleum Jelly) for that assembly goop, and it seems to melt OK in Oil and Auto Transmission Fluid.

It's a good day when you see Tony's video in the sub box 🤩

Thank you for not dragging it out. Excellent video 👌👏👏👍😀

You, sir, have to be top ten most interesting people I can think of. You are awesome! Thanks for the great videos!

Another tony video to end the weekend. Perfection. I used to have a calculator like that in elementary school and everyone loved it. I felt so cool pulling that thing out

@jeffnarum1373

2 жыл бұрын

I have the opposite problem. Now I'm trying to create a problem for this solution.

@Ben4149

2 жыл бұрын

​@@jeffnarum1373 What is the opposite of a "Damper"? A quickener? For a quickener I picture a device that is like those fake cans of Peanut Brittle with spring-loaded 'snakes'.

I had that grey clock thingy when i was a kid. It was amazing. It was my grannys but i was so intrigued by it that she gave it to me. This was probably 20 years ago.

Dude that synth riff is so amazing, epic, and addictive! Oh and love your stuff man!

I love geeking out on this stuff, just like you do.

I had that same little thing growing up and it blew my mind

The goop reminds me a lot of some silicon locking grease I got in a box of radio service parts back in the 80's - it was used to stop the fer rite cores moving in the tuning coils of radios, I expect it was extremely cheap so it got repurposed here! I also recall how it got everywhere, didn't wash off and when it leaked it didn't dry out, even when I discovered the leaky patch again 10 years later at the back of a dusty garage, so its clearly a well designed compound!

@SW-ii5gg

2 жыл бұрын

It looked like it once was a waste product that was given a purpose.

@RobertWardJones

Жыл бұрын

Looks like the goop used in sticky traps for pests.

Thanks man . I appreciate what you do . I am not super technically minded but I have loved learning how things work and are made . Thank you

Loving that the opening theme music plays whenever you open the device, even softly in the background as you talk about it.

I once worked at a place that made plastic stadium seats and they used the same spring and goop dampers you have there in the hinges, just a big bigger. They literally painted the goop on with a brush when they assembled them, properly low tech stuff.

Oh my gosh! I absolutely love your videos! Hello from Brazil!

My enthusiasm is neither dampened or subdued by this. This is awesome!

I had absolutely no idea that I wanted to learn about rotary dampers!!! Thank you Tony! "The more you know"

Glad we get more Tony! Thank you soooooo much for uploading again n_n Iv re-watched all your videos at least 3 times now LOL The reason I wanna get into machining, even as a hobby, is 100% cause of your youtube.

@austinthomas6334

2 жыл бұрын

I get the same feeling, whenever I see a new video I get super excited. Always quality content and I feel like I'm learning something, if only a series of great dad jokes!

@nefariousyawn

2 жыл бұрын

Whenever I watch one of his videos, KZread recommends another of his videos that I've already seen, and I think "okay, I guess I'll watch one of these videos for the 3rd or 4th time." I'm not complaining.

@austinthomas6334

2 жыл бұрын

@@nefariousyawn I like the big ol playlist on the channel so I can just continuously watch through.

@OmnieStar

2 жыл бұрын

@@nefariousyawn yuuuup lol

I also enjoyed your company, Thanks Tony

I am time and time again very much impressed with your presentation style, you get the most outrageous bullshit across with so much confidence and matter of course that I would consider it. Also, rotary dampers and dampers in general make everything look so much more sofisticated

I had this calculator/calendar back in the day! I totally loved it's design and it's alarm tunes! ☺️

Back 100 years ago I bought a boom box based on how smoothly the cassette door opened. I guess I'm a rotary damper snob

@BoothJunkie

2 жыл бұрын

"Soft Eject" was definitely a discerning quality of cassette players

@emilmihaescu3245

2 жыл бұрын

100🤣

I had no idea how these work, thank you for getting all sticky for me! I was kinda hoping to see that cool trial bike of yours when it came to linear dampers, but oh well. Their use is the most clear on rc cars, on simple springs they bounce all over the place, but add dampers and they soak up all the bumps nicely.

Thanks for putting a damper on my day Tony! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

That is (was) a really neat, self opening, calculator that will never function again. Great destructive explanation of how dampers worked before demolition. Thanks for sharing.

You just sent a few memories my way, 7 years ago I had the same calculator- different branding. Was a promotional one, I got it in a charity shop. I do not know what happened it, but that was the coolest calculator I have ever seen

@OutOfNamesToChoose

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. To me back then, it was magic! Unfortunately, I also lost mine a long time ago

My mom had acquired a calculator like this when I was a young adult, and I about died laughing about a month or so later, as I saw it repainted and used as some "sci-fi" communicator on a random "made for tv" SciFi Channel show.

You are probably the only person on this world that can make a glorious film about this. Thanks from Sweden.

As someone who has a few electo mechanical devises I tinker with (typewriters, mechanical calculators, film projectors, etc) this was incredibly illuminating! Thanks Tony! This really helps understand the relationship between moving parts and their "lubrication" and how that can be used to regulate the motion in different ways, other than the standard friction reduction capacity.

We just had this same conversation in the truck the other day, talking about the grab handles,one of the best engineered pieces of the whole damn 3500hd

@jeffreyhill1011

2 жыл бұрын

Totally unrelated to the video but why did it take pick up manufacturers so fucking long to include some form of assistance to climb into the bed of trucks? Ford I know for sure and maybe the others have a step and handle "thingy" (sorry to use such technical jargon) and damn it it's so much easier and at the end of a long day your knees and back are much happier

@geraldgepes

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreyhill1011 Okay but, can we have the honest conversation here as well? I feel like truck design has consistently pushed for higher and higher stock ride height for the past 20-30 years (perhaps more?). Jumping in the back of an old C-K truck with good rear shocks is a non-issue (granted, I'm 6'3" but, it stills seem substantially lower than modern counterparts). It's honestly to the point where I'd debate on lowering a brand new 3/4 ton if I could afford one lol.

@jeffreyhill1011

2 жыл бұрын

@@geraldgepes also, *WHY* the actual *FUCK* are the bed sides getting so tall as well? It's seriously absurd. I can't think of a good reason. I can think of a bad one, perhaps not wanting to lower the average height of the truck. All this shit talking aside, I'm still getting the new lightning. God knows how long it's going to take but mine is already paid for so we shall see

@geraldgepes

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreyhill1011 I think higher bed sides likely are an aesthetic choice for the most part, to maintain proportionality respective to the higher ride height without a bed that is reminiscent of a Courier or Rabbit truck. That or the higher bed has some ascribed cargo height it is trying to cover like an 8' bed fitting sheets of plywood and such. Aye, enjoy the new Lightning though, I'm working on some R&D stuff for new stators and tooling up to make stators for that truck next week! Which gets to the bigger, more painful question about trucks for me. I am a die hard Jetta TDI driver and was even more so when I thought it was better for the planet. I loved my diesel pick up because I could still get 20mpg with a lathe in the bed. But short of a 6.7 just falling into my lap (and me surviving), I'm not sure I want to spend diesel money when they seem to be going under. I'm legitimately curious what is going to happen in the heavy duty/ 3/4 ton sector in the next 10 years. But, this is me waxing rhapsodic because I can't *currently* justify it. In another year though, there will be a horse and trailer to pull on top of equipment and then I think pragmatism will take over.

@jeffreyhill1011

2 жыл бұрын

@@geraldgepes I bought an older Dodge 5500 5th wheel chassis with no bed just the 5th wheel slot. Got a really nice trailer that can hold my 2019 Cat 990 H and JLG 1055 telehandler no issues (individually of course). I have a bit more than 6K acres outside St Louis,my daughters and I just got done digging and are about ready to start filling our 8 acre reservoir lake from our natural spring. I won a high 8 figure lotto and opposed to being bored I figured I would buy some really sweet toys lol. My daughters, now 18 started a resaw business at 15. Obviously not because of money but they wanted to do something and they adore wood working. I taught um fabrication and welding and machining as well but their resaw and custom milled lumber is huge now. They bought a brand new 12 mile F250 King Ranch they are making so much money. My only real splurge was a Bell 525 helicopter and the lessons to fly it myself, I know this sounds braggy but damn I always wanted a chopper so much lol.

FYI: "Most aromatic (ring structure) solvents are effective at dissolving silicone oil. These include toluene, xylene and naphtha. Additionally, silicone oils are reported to be soluble in chlorinated solvents such as trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene and methylene chloride. Polar solvents such as alcohols and acetone will not be effective at dissolving silicone oils." (I would post the source but that results in the comment getting removed as spam; you can find the above quote with Google) The above matches what I found experimentally when I was working with high-CST silicone oil on a project a few years back. Also the timing of this video is really funny for me. A week or two ago I had to take apart a car phone holder because the springs has weakened and the rotary dampers were now making it take 5+ seconds to open. Very dramatic and cool looking, but really annoying to wait for when you hopped in the car and wanted to get going. So I opened it up and mixed in some less viscous silicone oil, ending with a less fancy looking but more functional phone mount which opens in 1/2 second.

Comment off the cuff: Of all the YT channels I watch, yours is the only one I genuinely get excited about when I receive the notification of a new video. Thank you Tony for all the years of education and entertainment.

My Goodness Mr. T that let all the air out of my old dashpot. For some reason Steve Winwood's song popped into my head, something about the slow spark of high heeled dappers....I can't escape the sound. Thanks for the slow rise of a seat so wise and silent fall of a lid to seal the stench sending chores to the forefront of procrastination. Love it T...always a treat!

I think I've encountered similar goop before in a stress ball. It popped on me while I was in a car, just as we were parking at the mall. I had this horrible sticky gel coating my hands and I had to eventually get it off with paper towels in the bathroom at Macy's. Absolute nightmare.

@MrSongib

2 жыл бұрын

That's some stress relief from the stress ball. XD

@stevenbastian3882

2 жыл бұрын

A leaky stress ball. Talk about a first-world nightmare.

@gamemeister27

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenbastian3882 I'm sure one of the tortures in hell involves this goop coating your hands and not being able to find anything to get it off

@stevenbastian3882

2 жыл бұрын

@@gamemeister27 I hope you end up in heaven. There is probably a helpful solution there.

This Old Tony...You can make anything funny, entertaining and educational! Thanks for all the hard work. I think this may just be the ticket for a throttle I'm trying to make for a flight sim. No! it's *NOT* for a game...it's for a SIMULATOR (me to my wife, every time I fire up the game....D'OH!! simulator!)

Every time I click on your videos something grow inside me. Fear. Fear of binge watch it all and lose all my tasks. SO FREAKING GOOD!

Amazing. I've had this issue with a machine I made, it was a perpetual motion machine. Now I can finally stop it. Thankyou!

I thought nobody but me observed Rotary Damper Awareness Week, like Scroll Lock Day which falls on November 30th.

Linear dampers can use air pressure. Make a piston with seals and have a small hole at the bottom of the tube. Piston can only move as fast as the air can get thru the hole

@RealCadde

2 жыл бұрын

You can also make an air spring... The problem is that air is compressible and oils/silicone aren't. You can also ignite stuff by compressing air. Consider that before you make one of those as you can accidentally set things on fire when you slam air hard enough.

@UltraNoobian

2 жыл бұрын

@@RealCadde there a video where a guy ignites cotton by slamming a plunger on KZread. It's pretty cool literal fire in a bottle

It's always fun to learn about something which I've seen, but didn't know what it was before. Great video!

As you ended your video I just wanted to say that I definitely want to use this in one of my projects because of the way you frame the end of your video I will use it thank you mr. Tony

Cool video, but… No mention of one of my favorite toy lines of the 1980s, Coleco's STARCOM?! The vehicles had damped wind-up motors and would “transform” on command, like your calculator thing. They also had steel plates so the magnets in the figures' feet would stick and “defy gravity” 👍

@jyvben1520

2 жыл бұрын

did you get sticky metal pads with them, defying gravity on plastic/wood ... would not work ... or did you just use metal screws

I always thought the linear ones are similar to car shock absorbers, that is there is an oil and a piston with some sort of hole feature to restrict the flow. The truth was way simpler :)

Thanks Tony. I learned something new today.

You are one genuinely funny dude, dude. Thanks again for all of your hard work ;)

Keep ‘em coming, ToT 🙂

Yes, first comment! Thanks Tony for all those years of entertaining and instructive videos. More on the Schaublin 13? Being in Switzerland, i have one as well as a Schaublin 102 lathe. Amazing old machines.

I don't know what it is about that intro and the music, but it just keeps me coming back and watching those first thirty seconds, it's just so neat.

You should continue with the "masterclass" style videos. I would really like to learn everything with your teaching touch, from basics to advanced stuff. You are really good with this.

My interest in these devices has been dampened by this video. It was a shock to my system, that was absorbed during my watching. Old Austin Healy Sprites used rotary level action dampers, its unclear if they actually worked very long, you know Lucas (Prince of Darkness) Electrics kind of limited the range of those old sports cars.

@rennkafer13

2 жыл бұрын

You're all wet, those dampers were mostly made by Armstrong, not Lucas. :D

@prefect111

2 жыл бұрын

The 3000 I had looked like a dual piston damper design. Limited travel with 4" in the underframe

"Goo" was the word that came out of my mouth at the start of the video. I had a smartphone holder that had slow closing side grabbers. I broke it. So I took it apart. I found two springs that pulls the grabbers and rack & pinion arrangement and GOO. I'm not sure what the exact name of this is, I think I remember hearing something like "High viscosity substance" or "Non-setting glue" use in a manufacturing documentary where they squirted a blob of this stuff into something.

@chicken_punk_pie

2 жыл бұрын

GOO

I'm so happy that you are uploading often again!

Another great video. Thanks Tony.