I'm so glad you did this. I'm always losing ignition leads and since I always carry plenty of paper and pencils this could save me a lot of problems. Thanks G54!

@carlosgaspar8447

Жыл бұрын

that's why carrying a tablet pencil for your ipad is just not the same.

This is easily the most consistently creative and original mechanical mess around channel out there. I know graphite is conductive, but I never would have thought to try this.

@MattyEngland

Жыл бұрын

100% agree

@user-bb6vl1ee5f

Жыл бұрын

Графит стоит на центральном силовом контакте на крышке трамблера который идёт от катушки зажигания

You could try to make a plastic tube with really salty water to act as a conductor.

@charlieredeemed

Жыл бұрын

That would be awesome!👍🏼

@jm036

Жыл бұрын

Would probably still just be a massive resistor

@PREDATEURLT

Жыл бұрын

@@jm036 It could work, sparks would be lower voltage but probably still work.

@bacilluscereus1299

Жыл бұрын

Yes please try this Garage54

@teardowndan5364

Жыл бұрын

@@jm036 Lots of old-school cars used carbon ignition leads to provide resistance for quenching excess ignition coil energy. Being a resistor is part of their job. The SAE even has a guideline of 10-12 kOhm/foot.

15,000 to 20,000 VDC through heavily drawn graphite lines on strips of paper. Its a Garage 54 original. Gotta love these guys.

@shawnsatterlee6035

Жыл бұрын

Vehicle ignition coils put out AC not DC duh 🙄 as with any coil.

@aj200415

Жыл бұрын

I honestly thought it would have worked, but I totally expected the stray arcs would have burned holes through the graphite paper within seconds, I’m kinda impressed that they lasted that long at all!

@aj200415

Жыл бұрын

@@shawnsatterlee6035yes true, but did you need to be rude to him about it? Maybe he made an error and said DC instead of AC? Or maybe legitimately didn’t know the difference and it could have been a good moment to help teach someone something they didn’t know…..But everyone has to be so rude to everyone these days…..Sigh

@Jawst

Жыл бұрын

@shawnsatterlee6035 Any coil?! You must be pretty narrow-minded thinking ALL coils produce DC 🤣 if you going to be rude to people do your research first because it makes you look really stupid

Old lada running fine with ignition leads made of pencil and paper. While modern car would probably self destruct if a pigeon shat on it too hard.

I’m always amazed at how much abusé a Lada can take and still run. I want one 😂

@anibalbabilonia1867

Жыл бұрын

Those are exactly my thoughts!👌😂👍

@localeightironworker

Жыл бұрын

older toyotas with a carbed 22r or 20r motor were pretty tough too. unfortunately the bodies of those cars didn't handle the midwest winters too well.

@dimitar4y

Жыл бұрын

gas guzzler, sadly

@GrantJohnston-dr9rt

11 ай бұрын

Pug ugly.....that's why I want one!

A splash of water would put that setup out of commission real fast.

The image of a Soviet engine running off of drawn on paper leads is absolutely legendary

Love your channel Vlad, you never fail to get a laugh out of me, I really like your crew too. Keep up the great work!

This man will be the reason old cars will still be a thing in 2043 bc he always knows something to make a car work with some paper or other house hold stuff

@slowcarshop

Жыл бұрын

hardware store fixes

Im not sure why but your videos are colorful, and I like it.

I'm always excited to see what you guys are up to. But this one shocked me. The fact that the graphite worked isn't that surprising. But I thought for sure that the paper would catch on fire. This is one of my personal favorites so far.

@SeanMirrsen

Жыл бұрын

Graphite has really good conductivity, and paper is an insulator, so perhaps it's not too surprising.

Graphite lube for gears on motor-graders/road-graders, it was mentioned in another video. Powdered graphite for padlock lubrication.

@bacilluscereus1299

Жыл бұрын

Please try an long-time TV📺 or radio 📻in the vicinity of those un-shielded leads.

Use tiny chain in clear plastic tube as leads.

This one is fantastic. I would have thought it would be way too much current for this ... for the paper to survive at all, etc. Awesome.

@dopiaza2006

Жыл бұрын

Virtually no current, it's all voltage hence the sparks

@pootispiker2866

Жыл бұрын

​@@dopiaza2006Sparks are essentially short circuit. Where there is voltage there is a circuit

@dopiaza2006

Жыл бұрын

@@pootispiker2866 Not sure what you mean by that

@thecrazyfarmboy

Жыл бұрын

​@dopiaza2006 what he means is that where there is high voltage and a short circuit, there will be high current. However, for a spark plug the current only flows for such a tiny fraction of time, the overall power (like say, over one minute) isn't enough to generate much of any heat in a thin conductor

you need to find each and every mechanic joke like "blinker fluid" and make it real. And come to these guys to annoy them. "Change my blinker fluid please" :D

11:35 Prelude 4th gen Nice! And looks at all the Escys in the background. 12:10 Orange prelude also.

@SwapBlogRU

Жыл бұрын

Preludes are pretty cool. I used to have one that was J-swapped)

As always good stuff Garage 54 and BMIrussian . I must say tho, i do miss the Ultrawide video format!

Take the strips of paper with graphite glued on to the next level. Wrap the strips of graphite paper together to form a cable, and then insulate it in paper. It'll be a proper paper cable.

Make the line thick and heavy!

50 years or so back in the UK, we went from copper HT leads, to carbon impregnated cotton leads. Which worked for a fair time, and then started to give trouble :-(

Looks like that might could make a good roadside emergency repair in a pinch school supply ignition leads😅

next on garage 54 we build a complete wiring harness with nothing more that an A4 sheet of paper and a pencil! this is a great experiment guys well done :)

Try feeding the strips through some of that flexible clear plastic tubing.

@Oink_Blaster

Жыл бұрын

I think it would be easier to laminate the paper

Modern engine: oh no, I have cheaper ignition system parts, I will misfire or even won't start at all. A Lada engine: paper with some pencil as ignition leads? Hold my beer!

Thanks for all your experiments. Very interesting channel indeed.

Congrats on 700K Vlad!

Vlad takes a century of engineering, and development, and completely tries to ignore/ re-engineer things his own way. My kinda guy.

How about windscreen washer tubing, filled with iron filings? - Waterproof, flexible, and pretty decent insulation, coupled with a decent electrical conductivity in the iron filings. Or, try a graphite oil additive in the tubing instead of the filings..... I wonder if sausage meat would work too?!! If it comes to that, soot should also work - It's carbon!

Make starter leads, the world wants to see vlad use a fire extinguisher

i did a similar project but with just a led light as science experiment as a kid lol

I remember actually cable made for ignition instead copper wire they haved graphite inside plastic insulation. This was made to reduce radio interference from sparks plug. Today it is absolete, any spark plug have ovn hi voltage source. There is no more distributor and long hi voltage cables in modern cars.

Learned something new today thanks! 😅

When the screen went dark I kinda freaked out a little, I thought something happened to my TV 😂🤣

Awesome video, despite it not being 107% lol. An idea you could try, get some pieces of heatshrink tubing and fill it with powdered graphite, then insert a cap at each end as a terminal and then shrink it down. Am confident it would work, but it would be interesting to see how they perform to factory made leads, and how durable they are. Could buy pre-powered graphite used as industrial lubricant or make your own from removing pencil leads and crushing them up in a mortar & pestle or coffee grinder haha.

@zeerah1

Жыл бұрын

Was thinking of similar but wasn't sure about the outer casing (like, plastic would be too firm) ... I second your idea with caps!

I was hoping it would be a paper with actual pencil drawn leads. Just use the soft 6B or so. You could have also replaced the middle conductor that goes into the distributor cap

@dimitar4y

Жыл бұрын

it works the same, so.

Bloody brilliant!!!!!!!

A fun trick to use on old cars that don’t lock anymore, take your coil lead with you in your pocket as a key for better security

Looked like a light show at a party

That is awesome I'm trying this on lawn mower to show off lol

I have use the pencil graphite for a potentiometer switch to get the correct voltage I needed

Put electric tape around the paper, to keep it from tearing😃👍🏼 Edit: or even hot-glue

@fellenXD

Жыл бұрын

Or Scotch tape, to stick with the stationery theme.

@aj200415

Жыл бұрын

This will also help insulate the graphite strips so there won’t be stray arcs too

@john_barnett

Жыл бұрын

at what point in the process of insulating your conductor does it change from a funny experiment to just 'making a spark plug lead'?

Use contact adhesive on longer paper strips, sprinkle with charcoal powdered from a fireplace. Then spray more contact adhesive over the charcoal, and wind the paper along a piece of plastic tube that fits the distributor holes. To attach to the spark plug with a good electrical connection, bend a 1" long stiff bare wire folded in half, one end inside the tube to contact the plug, the other end outside the tube contacting the charcoal. The tubing gives stability for less risk of shorting and a look of normalcy.

This was really cool to see. Might be able useful in a pinch if you're missing a spark plugs wire.

McGuyver would be proud.

lol Wow!... It helps me understand a little more about graphite... on strips of paper!

Now jumpstart a car with 2 giant novelty pencils like you get at tourist spots.

This is quite interesting!!

Back in the days Ford had this same setup on there flat head 4cyc and it worked nice

Hilariously awesome!!!

This engine is picture-perfect ! 👍

It worked!! Just needs a lot of maintenance. And spent a little more time on the connecting ends. But it did work😅😅😅.

Fill vacuum tubing with graphite.

Arts and craft with garage 54 😅

I would be interested to know if you can get your lada running with a Simson carburetor or a lawnmower carburetor😂

I was surprized it worked.

Very good guys

"Here we gum"!!!

MacGyver said use the solid pencil lead itself as a conductor.

running an engine with paper crafts... that's too funny

Next episode: ignition leads made from Chernobyl graphite control rods. Jokes aside it's impressive that it even started on all four drawn leads :D

This might save someone stuck somewhere.

Get 4 silicone hoses, roll the pencil / pencil grinding’s paper insert in thru the tube

I’m very curious to know the voltage drop across these strips

So graphite rich organic paper twisted up becomes wire? This definitely was a crazy show that I don't understand

MacGyver methodology.

now you just need to make a cardboard manifold instead of those paper leads. you can have separate paths for each cylinder on the cardboard (one to many).

what about graphite powder put into rubber/plastic tubing, sealed on each end, with connectors for the cap and plugs? seems it should work s well, and if clear, and not filled to capacity, then maybe even see a spark through the clear tubing. might be interesting, at least it seems so to me.

someones gettin tan 😎

You should make a new clear cap and use pencils for the lead connections

You guys should do a collaboration with Jr @the driveway engineer this. Needs to happen please

You should've drawn on both sides of the paper and twisted a couple of them together, i think that they would have worked better. Good video though.

👌😂👍this guy’s never cease to amaze me with their impressive experiment’s and invention’s! Lmfao!😂👏👏👏the Russian mythbusters!

Try double up and feed the paper through a rubber hose and put connectors on the paper

No proper test, no rain condition simulation. : ) Unique, a car running on paper strips.

Vlad is THEEE Hack Daddy deluxe.

@joshuagibson2520

Жыл бұрын

Accept no substitute.

Touch it if you have the guts :)

doesn´t the glue it self leeding the current?

Wicked !😁

Let's see the video to see if it's possible to epoxy wheels to hubs without all the lugnuts (and brake rotors as necessary)

Yeah brine soaked rope for coil lead

Next try saline filled silicone hoses!

I suspect that the graphites resistance is on the high side.

@waldolemmer

Жыл бұрын

Doesn't matter. At voltages that high, you don't need much current to generate a spark

I like diesel so I don't need spark plugs, but now I know what to do when you can't source the proper wire! Hopefully mice won't eat them like they do with the Toyota soy insulation.

Get your hands on some graphite coated canvas.

Its all good until it rains.

That’s a shocking idea

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vinyl tube with graphite powder?

Try chopping up an old extension or lamp cord.

@skuula

Жыл бұрын

Barbed wire :)

happy 700k subs congrats

Graphite on paper but roll the paper into a tube

Roll the strips of paper into tubes graphite facing inwards and wrap the outer in electrical tape home made paper wire

Next project make an opposing engine, with two regular engines.

@BlackPill-pu4vi

Жыл бұрын

The Fairbanks-Morse opposed diesel engine would be a good template to follow while using two Lada engines. Lubricating the upper engine will prove to be a problem. Also, since the OP engine is a uniflow-breathing engine, Vlad will have to use a BIG blower to force the air-fuel mix into the cylinders. Too many other complications as well but, it would make for an awesome video if he got a stacked OP Lada engine to run!

Make a car using as many homemade parts are you can.

I don't know if old-school copy paper would work. Carbon paper..

it would likly work better to... wrap copper wire around the graphite paper "the paper being tightly wrapped around its self before being wound with wire", then covered in a stranded nylon braid that holds the wire to the paper core that is when coated in liquid rubber epoxy in several cycles so each dries properly... future update make a ethanol graphite paste, saturate a nylon strand "that is the same diameter as the rolled paper core" with the ethanol graphite paste, then wrap that with thin wire and so on again. "graphite infused plug wires, because when the copper wire brakes internally on other wires they completely stop working".

@mrkrusher29

Жыл бұрын

you know what would work even better? get a lead of stranded copper and then cover it in some sort of insulating rubber material, for a better connection you could even gave some sort of crimped connector on the end of it. But remember, this video isnt about making something that works well

Put the graphite on both sides of the strips and then silicone it so there's no arcs.

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