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Oxyhydrogen Electrolysis torch Tear down after 3 years of hard use
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00:00:00.060 what's up guys what we're looking at 00:00:02.75000:00:02.760 here is my hydrogen torch that froze up 00:00:06.38000:00:06.390 on me this winter I neglected it I 00:00:08.83900:00:08.849 usually put a little 20 watt light bulb 00:00:10.64000:00:10.650 inside the cage area there and that 00:00:13.16000:00:13.170 keeps it heated enough through the 00:00:14.57000:00:14.580 winter that it doesn't freeze up but 00:00:17.06000:00:17.070 this year I just got so busy I forgot to 00:00:19.07000:00:19.080 do it and it needs some serious 00:00:20.45000:00:20.460 servicing also this is still in its 00:00:26.42000:00:26.430 development stages I know I've been 00:00:29.17900:00:29.189 working at this for like 10 years 00:00:31.47900:00:31.489 but this design right here has basically 00:00:35.90000:00:35.910 taught me all I need to know to build my 00:00:37.94000:00:37.950 final device this is not the final 00:00:40.34000:00:40.350 construction this is still just the 00:00:42.70900:00:42.719 testing phase this thing works great 00:00:44.93000:00:44.940 what problem was it froze up on me and 00:00:47.90000:00:47.910 his busted elite one of these fittings 00:00:49.63900:00:49.649 was pushed out by the ice I would 00:00:51.88900:00:51.899 imagine that a large ice slug formed in 00:00:54.08000:00:54.090 that radiator and grew like half an inch 00:00:56.31900:00:56.329 and pushed those out I'm thinking my 00:00:59.52900:00:59.539 electrolyzer probably didn't expand 00:01:02.33000:01:02.340 might not have been enough ice in there 00:01:04.39900:01:04.409 to do that but who knows so I'm half way 00:01:07.96900:01:07.979 tempted to just tear the whole thing 00:01:09.59000:01:09.600 down and do an overhaul on it because 00:01:11.75000:01:11.760 this thing's pretty old and it's full of 00:01:15.08000:01:15.090 water and sodium hydroxide solution so 00:01:18.28900:01:18.299 it's got a pretty caustic environment 00:01:21.01000:01:21.020 notice I've got a couple of little leaks 00:01:24.74000:01:24.750 down inside of here let me get the light 00:01:27.02000:01:27.030 going but I just want to do some things 00:01:32.60000:01:32.610 to this to make it better now you see 00:01:35.33000:01:35.340 that terminal right there there's a leak 00:01:37.78900:01:37.799 right there you know in any little leaks 00:01:40.42900:01:40.439 that get up in this thing can cause this 00:01:42.46900:01:42.479 thing to drown itself out in strange 00:01:44.45000:01:44.460 ways where it doesn't perform quite as 00:01:46.34000:01:46.350 well I think it's just ready for a 00:01:48.41000:01:48.420 complete teardown there's like I said 00:01:51.83000:01:51.840 there's some things I want to do to it 00:01:53.27000:01:53.280 as well I don't like where that pumps at 00:01:56.35900:01:56.369 I don't like the fact that I only have 00:01:58.81900:01:58.829 one top foam jet I'd like to have four 00:02:02.06000:02:02.070 of these at the top to knock the phone 00:02:05.48000:02:05.490 down when this thing's running up like 00:02:07.03900:02:07.049 20 amps because it 20 amps the water 00:02:09.10900:02:09.119 gets very fun 00:02:10.04000:02:10.050 me and bubbly from all the micro bubbles 00:02:12.47000:02:12.480 and stuff but at any rate I just thought 00:02:18.14000:02:18.150 it'd be kind of cool to take this 00:02:19.82000:02:19.830 electrolyzer open for any of you hho 00:02:22.67000:02:22.680 guys and see what an electrolyzer made 00:02:26.12000:02:26.130 out of high-grade stainless steel looks 00:02:27.92000:02:27.930 like after many years of service and I 00:02:31.31000:02:31.320 have tortured the cell I've had this 00:02:33.41000:02:33.420 thing up to 20 22 amps a cell that size 00:02:37.31000:02:37.320 that's AC input so what are we looking 00:02:40.16000:02:40.170 at there like 2400 watts or something 00:02:43.31000:02:43.320 like that my brain 125 is my voltage out 00:02:51.02000:02:51.030 here times 20 amps yeah 2,500 watts of 00:02:55.97000:02:55.980 power of his cranked through this thing 00:02:57.77000:02:57.780 that comes out to about 5 to 5.5 liters 00:03:01.49000:03:01.500 per minute it's not the most efficient 00:03:04.16000:03:04.170 cell another reason why I want to take 00:03:05.90000:03:05.910 it apart is because I want to go with a 00:03:08.00000:03:08.010 2 millimeter plate yet I did some 00:03:11.78000:03:11.790 reading and found some Department of 00:03:14.24000:03:14.250 Energy documents that showed some graphs 00:03:16.34000:03:16.350 that indicated the optimum plate gap is 00:03:20.33000:03:20.340 2 millimeters so if I buy some eighth 00:03:23.00000:03:23.010 inch gaskets they would compress down to 00:03:25.79000:03:25.800 about the two millimeter plate gap and 00:03:31.42000:03:31.430 this radiator anytime you see someone 00:03:35.63000:03:35.640 who built one of these torches and it's 00:03:37.07000:03:37.080 trying to sell you a torch or something 00:03:39.26000:03:39.270 or it's promoting their new torch they 00:03:41.90000:03:41.910 built and it doesn't have a radiator on 00:03:43.64000:03:43.650 it I want to tell you something don't 00:03:46.22000:03:46.230 buy an aho torch from anyone that 00:03:48.17000:03:48.180 doesn't have a radiator on it these 00:03:49.91000:03:49.920 things crank out way too much heat 00:03:52.36000:03:52.370 anything over 10 amps to be usable for 00:03:56.90000:03:56.910 anything that takes a while to do if 00:03:59.15000:03:59.160 you're just doing some short bursts but 00:04:00.71000:04:00.720 they have like a 10 percent duty cycle 00:04:03.53000:04:03.540 without a radiator I'm serious like if 00:04:06.05000:04:06.060 that maybe only a 5 percent so I don't 00:04:12.53000:04:12.540 know I just 00:04:15.31900:04:15.329 don't like this radiator either it's too 00:04:17.84900:04:17.859 small it can actually heat the fluid up 00:04:21.50900:04:21.519 if you have it 00:04:22.74000:04:22.750 racing through there real fast this pump 00:04:26.04000:04:26.050 does have a variable speed knob on it so 00:04:28.20000:04:28.210 I can adjust the speed because like I 00:04:30.45000:04:30.460 said you're actually trying to cool the 00:04:32.13000:04:32.140 fluid and you have the pump turned on 00:04:33.51000:04:33.520 high you can actually add a lot of heat 00:04:35.91000:04:35.920 to the system from the pump alone and 00:04:37.71000:04:37.720 with a radiator this small that also is 00:04:43.71000:04:43.720 a problem that you actually heat the 00:04:45.63000:04:45.640 fluid up 10 degrees just by circulating 00:04:49.59000:04:49.600 it on high you can still remove a vast 00:04:51.75000:04:51.760 amount of heat from it with a fan being 00:04:53.55000:04:53.560 blown on it but that's pretty much how 00:04:57.96000:04:57.970 it behaves I do have a thermal couple 00:05:00.65900:05:00.669 that's hooked up to this thing that's 00:05:02.82000:05:02.830 basically just a you see that T fitting 00:05:06.33000:05:06.340 right there I stuck the thermal coupling 00:05:09.15000:05:09.160 inside of a piece of tubing and it fit 00:05:11.43000:05:11.440 right in there perfectly and that's 00:05:12.69000:05:12.700 glued in with goop glue all of these 00:05:15.65900:05:15.669 joints are done with goop glue so you're 00:05:18.78000:05:18.790 wondering whether or not Google ooh can 00:05:20.43000:05:20.440 handle caustic solutions this stuff 00:05:23.13000:05:23.140 performs fantastic these joints are 00:05:27.15000:05:27.160 about five years old and they feel brand 00:05:30.12000:05:30.130 new still got some play to it I'm 00:05:33.65900:05:33.669 starting to itch I must have that stuff 00:05:35.49000:05:35.500 on me somewhere that's sort of my drops 00:05:38.46000:05:38.470 idol burn yet so yeah the thing leaked 00:05:41.67000:05:41.680 quite a bit I just think it's gonna be 00:05:43.89000:05:43.900 cool to tear this down I'd hate to do it 00:05:46.17000:05:46.180 because it's a lot of work but I figured 00:05:48.39000:05:48.400 I might as well document some of it 00:05:50.37000:05:50.380 because it's kind of cool so 00:05:52.64000:05:52.650 unfortunately I'm gonna have to hold off 00:05:55.11000:05:55.120 on the projects I have going right now 00:05:57.12000:05:57.130 with the waste oil burners and all that 00:05:59.49000:05:59.500 cuz it's just the what the weather it's 00:06:01.23000:06:01.240 just not permitting and I can't do any 00:06:02.88000:06:02.890 valuable experiments in this garage so 00:06:06.42000:06:06.430 we're gonna tear this bad boy down I'm 00:06:08.37000:06:08.380 tired of not having it it's so valuable 00:06:10.53000:06:10.540 to build stuff with such a fine 00:06:14.33000:06:14.340 laser-like flame that I've learned to 00:06:18.00000:06:18.010 fabricate things with it so easily that 00:06:19.98000:06:19.990 I just don't like using propane torches 00:06:21.81000:06:21.820 anymore for soldering and stuff 00:06:23.37000:06:23.380 like that at any rate uh there you have 00:06:27.21000:06:27.220 it we're going to tear this sucker apart 00:06:29.43000:06:29.440 see what's the inside of that 00:06:31.11000:06:31.120 electrolyze it looks like I'll get the 00:06:33.54000:06:33.550 actual date that I first threw this bad 00:06:36.96000:06:36.970 boy together I want to say it's five 00:06:39.96000:06:39.970 years old I could be wrong it might be a 00:06:41.64000:06:41.650 2014 bill 00:06:43.29000:06:43.300 I left the fins long or the quoits long 00:06:47.58000:06:47.590 to double as cooling fins on the 00:06:49.47000:06:49.480 electrolyzer I thought that was kind of 00:06:51.18000:06:51.190 a pretty cool design feature however 00:06:54.57000:06:54.580 stainless steel was a horrible conductor 00:06:56.85000:06:56.860 of heat it still was a pretty decent 00:06:59.91000:06:59.920 idea that there is this just a copper 00:07:02.97000:07:02.980 bus that was silver soldered along the 00:07:05.91000:07:05.920 whole plate there and that there is a 00:07:10.20000:07:10.210 jumper that jumps current over to the 00:07:14.61000:07:14.620 other side of the cell the reason it 00:07:17.79000:07:17.800 does that is because stainless steel is 00:07:19.29000:07:19.300 such a horrible conductor of electricity 00:07:21.78000:07:21.790 that had I simply connected the terminal 00:07:24.57000:07:24.580 on this one side the resistance from 00:07:27.51000:07:27.520 this side of the cell over to here is 00:07:29.25000:07:29.260 equivalent to 200 watts that's like 00:07:33.27000:07:33.280 having the heat dissipation of a 200 00:07:35.97000:07:35.980 watt light bulb in your hand can you 00:07:38.13000:07:38.140 imagine that 00:07:39.03000:07:39.040 so yeah never use stainless steel to 00:07:42.53000:07:42.540 transfer electricity luckily the plates 00:07:46.11000:07:46.120 when they're stacked are thin enough in 00:07:48.56000:07:48.570 theory if one were to make like paper 00:07:51.03000:07:51.040 thin plates or super thin plates you 00:07:54.60000:07:54.610 would probably get some outstanding 00:07:56.03000:07:56.040 performance increases due to that 00:07:58.23000:07:58.240 because I'm not lying about that 200 00:08:00.57000:08:00.580 watts thing maybe not quite 200 watts 00:08:03.57000:08:03.580 but I bet you it's every bit of 150 for 00:08:06.09000:08:06.100 a distance that small I see the guy did 00:08:08.37000:08:08.380 the calculations on some cables about 00:08:10.11000:08:10.120 the length of my hand and it was 200 00:08:12.30000:08:12.310 watts of electricity was a or 200 watts 00:08:16.02000:08:16.030 of energy being dissipated 200 watts of 00:08:19.56000:08:19.570 energy loss or something some insane 00:08:22.35000:08:22.360 amount and stainless still does act like 00:08:25.71000:08:25.720 nickel on wire for example this piece of 00:08:29.52000:08:29.530 wire right here 00:08:30.60000:08:30.610 is a thousand watts of electricity 00:08:36.46900:08:36.479 that's a nickel of wire they use that 00:08:39.12000:08:39.130 because it's a stain that's pretty sure 00:08:40.98000:08:40.990 it's like a stainless steel alloy with 00:08:43.07900:08:43.089 nickel and chrome in it I could be wrong 00:08:45.25900:08:45.269 that's why it's called nickel Rome maybe 00:08:49.73000:08:49.740 at any rate the same thing is done to 00:08:55.07900:08:55.089 the other side of the cell I have that 00:08:57.50900:08:57.519 jumper wire that carries electricity to 00:09:00.26900:09:00.279 the other side of the cell and the end 00:09:03.48000:09:03.490 plates on this are just steel plates 00:09:05.72000:09:05.730 they are not electrically charged in any 00:09:09.15000:09:09.160 way they are basically slapped right up 00:09:12.78000:09:12.790 against the back of this first plate 00:09:15.38900:09:15.399 right here that whole thing silver 00:09:18.87000:09:18.880 soldered together it's about $22 worth 00:09:21.06000:09:21.070 of silver solder on this thing for the 00:09:24.24000:09:24.250 terminals also if you have a hydrogen 00:09:26.69900:09:26.709 torch and you use a lot 00:09:28.35000:09:28.360 remember periodically to reverse the 00:09:31.05000:09:31.060 polarity on your electrode because the 00:09:34.11000:09:34.120 negative side the hydrogen producing 00:09:36.72000:09:36.730 side or the cathode will blast off rust 00:09:40.19900:09:40.209 and accumulation that results from being 00:09:45.72000:09:45.730 an anode for so long if you'll notice in 00:09:48.72000:09:48.730 most hydrogen cells the hydrogen side is 00:09:50.73000:09:50.740 always perfectly clean however it's the 00:09:54.03000:09:54.040 oxygen side that degrades and builds up 00:09:56.91000:09:56.920 stuff and at any rate let's get on with 00:10:01.19900:10:01.209 this man I've got quite the job it's 00:10:04.07900:10:04.089 amazing how much wiring is in just a 00:10:06.12000:10:06.130 simple little machine like this there's 00:10:09.54000:10:09.550 really not much to this thing and yet 00:10:11.16000:10:11.170 every terminal is used up on this block 00:10:13.81900:10:13.829 we have two cooling fans and one of the 00:10:20.61000:10:20.620 coolant pump for circulation pump the 00:10:24.47000:10:24.480 electrolyte is circulated by a bubble 00:10:28.50000:10:28.510 displacement pump basically has the 00:10:30.32900:10:30.339 bubbles rise up this pump 00:10:32.28000:10:32.290 this tubing they cause the water to flow 00:10:36.23000:10:36.240 and it will pump water out those nozzles 00:10:40.43900:10:40.449 and pull water down from the bottom and 00:10:42.81000:10:42.820 it causes a self-induced circulation by 00:10:48.53000:10:48.540 the appropriate allocation of bubbles 00:10:52.04000:10:52.050 basically I've had cells in the past 00:10:56.43000:10:56.440 where I would have a pump that would 00:10:57.87000:10:57.880 actually force liquid into the cell and 00:11:00.17000:11:00.180 that does seem to increase performance 00:11:02.49000:11:02.500 and I may be doing that again with this 00:11:04.68000:11:04.690 cell because the benefits of doing that 00:11:08.32900:11:08.339 are 00:11:10.62000:11:10.630 that you have far more electrons can 00:11:17.91000:11:17.920 pass through the electrolyte that way if 00:11:20.49000:11:20.500 you have a thousand million bubbles all 00:11:23.16000:11:23.170 in one spot not as much electricity can 00:11:25.76900:11:25.779 pass from one plate to the next when 00:11:28.13900:11:28.149 your cell is saturated with bubbles its 00:11:30.74900:11:30.759 resistance is higher but if you flush 00:11:33.36000:11:33.370 that bubbles out as fast as you can with 00:11:35.55000:11:35.560 the fresh replenishment of electrolyte 00:11:37.59000:11:37.600 it definitely increases the output of 00:11:41.22000:11:41.230 the cell and you could watch it happen 00:11:42.72000:11:42.730 you can turn your cell on and it'll be 00:11:45.05900:11:45.069 running it's a 10 amps and then you kick 00:11:48.18000:11:48.190 a circulation pump on yourself and all 00:11:50.73000:11:50.740 of a sudden that cell will start to draw 00:11:52.53000:11:52.540 up to 15 amps just because you're 00:11:54.48000:11:54.490 forcing electrolyte into the cell and 00:11:56.34000:11:56.350 you are depolarizing the plates that's 00:11:58.65000:11:58.660 another aspect when bubbles accumulate 00:12:01.55900:12:01.569 on the plates of any type of electro 00:12:04.43900:12:04.449 cell being a car battery or anything 00:12:06.56900:12:06.579 that is called polarization have you 00:12:10.01900:12:10.029 ever experienced trying to start a car 00:12:12.62900:12:12.639 that won't start and all of a sudden the 00:12:14.12900:12:14.139 battery's dead but then you wait a while 00:12:15.75000:12:15.760 and you come back and you try starting 00:12:17.40000:12:17.410 it again and for some reason the battery 00:12:19.98000:12:19.990 appears to have recharged itself 00:12:21.87000:12:21.880 well no such thing has happened actually 00:12:25.37900:12:25.389 what has taken place is that when you 00:12:27.12000:12:27.130 cause a massive discharge in a cell or a 00:12:31.12900:12:31.139 massive input of electricity and 00:12:33.50900:12:33.519 electrolyzer bubbles accumulate on the 00:12:35.30900:12:35.319 plates of that cell which diminishes the 00:12:39.78000:12:39.790 active surface area of the electrolyzer 00:12:43.29000:12:43.300 or the battery so if you're cranking 00:12:45.63000:12:45.640 your car and your batteries electrodes 00:12:47.79000:12:47.800 become saturated with the micro bubbles 00:12:50.55000:12:50.560 on the plates now your batteries down to 00:12:52.83000:12:52.840 only two hundred and twenty amps versus 00:12:55.05000:12:55.060 380 where you need to be so you let it 00:12:58.50000:12:58.510 sit for a little while and those bubbles 00:13:00.24000:13:00.250 will actually either dissolve into the 00:13:01.86000:13:01.870 electrolyte or will float up to the top 00:13:03.99000:13:04.000 after they have coalesced or what's the 00:13:08.61000:13:08.620 word I'm trying to say I can't talk 00:13:13.17000:13:13.180 right now 00:13:13.83000:13:13.840 I don't think coalesce was the word but 00:13:16.10000:13:16.110 at any rate when they glob together so 00:13:24.11000:13:24.120 having the pump for select light through 00:13:26.91000:13:26.920 there diminishes the polarization of 00:13:28.83000:13:28.840 your plates and I don't have that 00:13:30.27000:13:30.280 feature right now I'm just using the 00:13:31.89000:13:31.900 gravity pump system and I'm starting to 00:13:34.77000:13:34.780 wonder if that was a good idea maybe I 00:13:36.81000:13:36.820 should switch it back but consolidate 00:13:43.11000:13:43.120 dammit that was the word the bubbles 00:13:45.45000:13:45.460 consolidate into larger bubbles until 00:13:48.81000:13:48.820 they finally float up in your battery 00:13:50.43000:13:50.440 then after those plates have 00:13:51.99000:13:52.000 consolidated and have either dissolved 00:13:55.32000:13:55.330 back into the electrolyte or floated 00:13:56.79000:13:56.800 away your battery will have more active 00:13:59.31000:13:59.320 surface area contacting the electrolyte 00:14:02.78000:14:02.790 increasing the amperage of the battery 00:14:04.89000:14:04.900 because the amperage of a battery or an 00:14:07.56000:14:07.570 electrolytic cell is directly 00:14:09.33000:14:09.340 proportional to the active surface area 00:14:12.41000:14:12.420 so the more surface area you have the 00:14:15.27000:14:15.280 more plates you have in a bath of 00:14:17.55000:14:17.560 battery acid the more amps are going to 00:14:20.31000:14:20.320 get when those plates get bubbles on 00:14:22.86000:14:22.870 them 00:14:23.16000:14:23.170 alright I'm beating the stalk of death 00:14:24.96000:14:24.970 here let's just we got to drain that 00:14:27.06000:14:27.070 toxic nasty stuff that's inside of this 00:14:29.46000:14:29.470 thing and put it in a container and roll 00:14:32.43000:14:32.440 it crawl skull and crossbones on it 00:14:35.40000:14:35.410 basically that's the stuff pretty nasty 00:14:38.54000:14:38.550 these statement still cells have a 00:14:42.57000:14:42.580 byproduct called hexavalent chromium 00:14:44.76000:14:44.770 what's it which is carcinogenic all 00:14:48.63000:14:48.640 right it must be time to eat because I 00:14:50.13000:14:50.140 have suddenly lost the 00:14:51.28000:14:51.290 ability to talk I just want to get one 00:14:56.31900:14:56.329 last look at this thing because uh we're 00:14:59.49900:14:59.509 never gonna see it like this again I 00:15:03.44900:15:03.459 kind of get attached to my build 00:15:05.49900:15:05.509 sometimes this is definitely one of the 00:15:08.47000:15:08.480 coolest things I've ever built in my 00:15:10.12000:15:10.130 life it's just an awesome tool and I 00:15:13.99000:15:14.000 have built a lot of things with this and 00:15:15.61000:15:15.620 I think it's time that uh I take it 00:15:19.09000:15:19.100 apart one more time and if you guys have 00:15:22.72000:15:22.730 any comments or any input regarding some 00:15:25.42000:15:25.430 - some torches you have built in the 00:15:26.94900:15:26.959 past definitely I've hit me up with some 00:15:30.51900:15:30.529 info cause I'm gonna this is gonna be 00:15:32.25900:15:32.269 the grand finale this last build I'm 00:15:35.17000:15:35.180 gonna make this happen 00:15:36.16000:15:36.170 I I hope I don't spend a whole bunch of 00:15:38.11000:15:38.120 money on this thing I mean to give you 00:15:40.30000:15:40.310 an idea if you were to go out and build 00:15:42.97000:15:42.980 this guy's you're looking at $1,000 00:15:45.10000:15:45.110 right here that is no lie every bit of 00:15:49.60000:15:49.610 $1,000 is right here and I got this 00:15:52.72000:15:52.730 stainless steel for free and you can cut 00:15:56.07900:15:56.089 the plates and got the gaskets for free 00:15:58.44900:15:58.459 and you're still looking at a grand I 00:16:01.47000:16:01.480 mean I don't know how but I spent a lot 00:16:06.57900:16:06.589 of money on this thing that the pump you 00:16:08.71000:16:08.720 know all the hose all these fittings 00:16:10.18000:16:10.190 these fittings are like $5 a piece so 00:16:15.90000:16:15.910 all this electrical stuff the diodes 00:16:19.18000:16:19.190 I've got - I believe this is three 00:16:21.67000:16:21.680 diodes on this thing they're hooked up 00:16:25.30000:16:25.310 in parallel so here we are getting down 00:16:30.37000:16:30.380 into the nitty-gritty here and I had 00:16:33.37000:16:33.380 some stuff going on here look at that 00:16:34.80900:16:34.819 metal debris I've got right there that 00:16:38.11000:16:38.120 might just be pink but I'm inclined to 00:16:40.32900:16:40.339 believe that's metal debris from me 00:16:41.92000:16:41.930 drilling my water pump in place 00:16:45.32900:16:45.339 surprised that didn't get blown out of 00:16:47.43900:16:47.449 that when I blew this off stuff like 00:16:49.56900:16:49.579 that can cause problems 00:16:52.99000:16:53.000 it looks like my plates are just 00:16:56.11000:16:56.120 squashed beyond belief here I'm in a 00:16:59.31900:16:59.329 very thin plate gap right now I'll do 00:17:01.60000:17:01.610 some measurements 00:17:02.55000:17:02.560 this before I shut it down but before I 00:17:08.25000:17:08.260 take it apart I mean to see what we 00:17:11.16000:17:11.170 plate gap we're actually writing at 00:17:12.99000:17:13.000 right now there's a plate in between 00:17:15.30000:17:15.310 every one of these plates that you can't 00:17:17.13000:17:17.140 see it's sandwiched in with the the 00:17:20.25000:17:20.260 gaskets have just sandwiched over it 00:17:22.67000:17:22.680 this things that's been compressed so 00:17:25.02000:17:25.030 badly there is a plate in between there 00:17:28.88000:17:28.890 it's the same thickness as that plate so 00:17:33.38000:17:33.390 we're in a extremely little plate a 00:17:36.87000:17:36.880 matter of fact I think I have a spare 00:17:39.32000:17:39.330 right here this is the high-grade 00:17:42.54000:17:42.550 stainless steel that I use to build the 00:17:44.58000:17:44.590 cell this is a came out of an air duct 00:17:48.63000:17:48.640 system in a hospital it was a scrap oh 00:17:51.29000:17:51.300 yeah we're at a pretty thin plate gap 00:17:54.15000:17:54.160 right there and so you might be at about 00:17:57.39000:17:57.400 two millimeters yeah hard to say it's 00:18:04.44000:18:04.450 gonna change and get closer down in 00:18:06.15000:18:06.160 there though I think I just touched some 00:18:09.60000:18:09.610 sodium hydroxide it's actually sitting 00:18:12.96000:18:12.970 at a pretty decent gap I doubt I'm gonna 00:18:14.64000:18:14.650 be able to reuse these gaskets though so 00:18:17.46000:18:17.470 that's gonna be a deal but very 00:18:20.43000:18:20.440 interested to see what condition these 00:18:21.96000:18:21.970 plates are in this place is I don't know 00:18:26.04000:18:26.050 what grade stainless steel this is but 00:18:28.89000:18:28.900 it did zero magnetic a magnet will not 00:18:31.86000:18:31.870 stick on it whatsoever when that 304 00:18:36.27000:18:36.280 crap I want to say 316 stainless I would 00:18:41.22000:18:41.230 imagine it is it was in a hospital air 00:18:43.23000:18:43.240 duct system I'm sure they had that baby 00:18:47.94000:18:47.950 rated for 50 years man look at the 00:18:49.98000:18:49.990 thickness of that there was entire air 00:18:51.57000:18:51.580 ducts of this really high-grade stuff 00:18:54.90000:18:54.910 and I managed to get my hands on dabble 00:18:57.54000:18:57.550 it to build that cell so I'm gonna shut 00:19:02.49000:19:02.500 up and keep tearing this thing down 00:19:03.48000:19:03.490 let's see what's inside this sucker so 00:19:07.71000:19:07.720 here's the electrolyzer taken out of the 00:19:10.89000:19:10.900 machine 00:19:12.55000:19:12.560 as I said in between each one of those 00:19:14.93000:19:14.940 gaps is a short plate the long plate is 00:19:17.81000:19:17.820 just for a coin fin effect I have two 00:19:22.40000:19:22.410 intakes bottom of each side and two 00:19:27.35000:19:27.360 discharges on the top that is to allow 00:19:30.98000:19:30.990 for maximum flow because you got a lot 00:19:34.85000:19:34.860 of bubbles coming out of the top you 00:19:36.50000:19:36.510 need to make up for that volume and the 00:19:38.39000:19:38.400 bubbles the volume of the bubbles is 00:19:40.06000:19:40.070 significantly larger than the fluid flow 00:19:43.34000:19:43.350 going in the bottom sometimes so 00:19:48.49000:19:48.500 definitely an added advantage to waste 00:19:51.02000:19:51.030 extra money on that hardware these parts 00:19:53.69000:19:53.700 are like five dollars a piece these 00:19:55.19000:19:55.200 elbows I believe like five thirty or 00:19:57.38000:19:57.390 something as you can see I've got quite 00:20:01.31000:20:01.320 the pile these bowels are like five 00:20:03.20000:20:03.210 bucks apiece I'm pretty sure I can't 00:20:07.25000:20:07.260 remember what these parts of our work 00:20:08.90000:20:08.910 but done they don't cost as much but 00:20:11.63000:20:11.640 just a quick walk through if you're 00:20:15.26000:20:15.270 interested at the components of this 00:20:18.38000:20:18.390 torch this is the control panel which 00:20:21.56000:20:21.570 will be completely revamped as I said 00:20:23.72000:20:23.730 this whole thing was just a test unit 00:20:25.36000:20:25.370 this is a cooling fan for my triac which 00:20:29.42000:20:29.430 has come loose both of them are kind of 00:20:31.64000:20:31.650 loose this one I'm not too worried about 00:20:33.92000:20:33.930 I probably should have never put it on 00:20:35.54000:20:35.550 there it's only for the cooling fan 00:20:36.98000:20:36.990 anyway or for the circulation pump which 00:20:41.03000:20:41.040 it doesn't cause enough heat with it 00:20:43.66000:20:43.670 dictate putting it on here but I did it 00:20:45.92000:20:45.930 anyway 00:20:47.59000:20:47.600 my next build I might connect to Triax 00:20:51.89000:20:51.900 in tandem to make it a little bit more 00:20:54.08000:20:54.090 robust all the other stuff go on this 00:20:59.57000:20:59.580 which controls the fans so I don't have 00:21:02.15000:21:02.160 to run the fans continuously because you 00:21:06.20000:21:06.210 don't want these things running when you 00:21:07.34000:21:07.350 don't need them on it just gets dust all 00:21:09.20000:21:09.210 inside your cooling fins makes for a job 00:21:12.92000:21:12.930 this here's a thermocouple you 00:21:15.92000:21:15.930 definitely want to have a thermocouple 00:21:17.15000:21:17.160 on your torch you don't want to be 00:21:18.98000:21:18.990 running your electrolyte at boiling 00:21:20.93000:21:20.940 temperatures or any 00:21:21.88000:21:21.890 we're near 150 degrees or anything like 00:21:24.16000:21:24.170 that I don't think it's a good idea to 00:21:26.23000:21:26.240 do that anyway because the gas gets tend 00:21:29.14000:21:29.150 to start getting soft and you risk 00:21:31.03000:21:31.040 getting leaks because the tubing gets 00:21:33.07000:21:33.080 soft as well this here is the diode 00:21:36.69000:21:36.700 array it's made out of three diodes to 00:21:42.79000:21:42.800 be exact I want to say these are 50 amp 00:21:45.87000:21:45.880 diodes it could be wrong there might 00:21:49.27000:21:49.280 only be 15 I'd have to check into that I 00:21:52.75000:21:52.760 know that I have way more than I would 00:21:54.40000:21:54.410 ever need and what happens is 125 volts 00:21:58.33000:21:58.340 AC goes into these diodes and comes out 00:22:01.93000:22:01.940 about a hundred twenty volts DC on this 00:22:04.27000:22:04.280 end and that's what we put into the 00:22:06.67000:22:06.680 electrolyzer and the way these cell 00:22:11.25000:22:11.260 electrolyzers work is there's no 00:22:13.93000:22:13.940 electrical connection between here and 00:22:15.52000:22:15.530 here the electrolyte does that and the 00:22:18.79000:22:18.800 plates do that and because each cell is 00:22:22.27000:22:22.280 divided by a plate something very 00:22:24.49000:22:24.500 strange happens a transformer effect 00:22:26.86000:22:26.870 takes place and we're in between each 00:22:29.56000:22:29.570 plate on this cell I believe I'm going 00:22:32.26000:22:32.270 around three volts per plate gap maybe a 00:22:34.93000:22:34.940 little more I like to run it high 00:22:37.21000:22:37.220 because you get far more output it's not 00:22:39.52000:22:39.530 efficient but you get more output out of 00:22:41.56000:22:41.570 a cell I've run as high as four volts 00:22:44.49000:22:44.500 per two plate gap but that starts to 00:22:46.78000:22:46.790 really eat it up I'm right around 2.2 00:22:49.36000:22:49.370 volts to 3 volts on high I would have to 00:22:53.14000:22:53.150 check my records I don't have my booklet 00:22:55.48000:22:55.490 out here but that's the amazing thing 00:22:59.05000:22:59.060 about using a dry cell is that you don't 00:23:01.69000:23:01.700 need a transformer it does it for you 00:23:03.73000:23:03.740 if you check the voltage in between any 00:23:06.19000:23:06.200 one of these terminals it comes out to 00:23:07.78000:23:07.790 like 2.3 volts which is pretty awesome 00:23:11.52000:23:11.530 but here's the cool part I'm only 00:23:14.41000:23:14.420 putting 20 amps ac into this but we're 00:23:19.21000:23:19.220 getting 120 we're getting the 20 amps DC 00:23:22.87000:23:22.880 cranked into it and what happens is that 00:23:25.57000:23:25.580 20 amps DC is jumped down to 2.3 volts 00:23:28.63000:23:28.640 at the first plate 00:23:30.36000:23:30.370 because it's 2.3 volts in between each 00:23:32.76000:23:32.770 plate so you know what that means don't 00:23:34.35000:23:34.360 you 00:23:34.83000:23:34.840 that means we have to have like a 00:23:37.11000:23:37.120 thousand amps of current pass between 00:23:40.11000:23:40.120 this plate and the next one to enable 00:23:43.22000:23:43.230 2400 watts of power to pass from this 00:23:45.84000:23:45.850 from this plate to the next the amperage 00:23:48.87000:23:48.880 has to go way up and that's exactly what 00:23:51.36000:23:51.370 happens and that's why these cells are 00:23:53.51900:23:53.529 so tremendously effective at producing 00:23:56.14900:23:56.159 oxy-hydrogen gas 00:23:58.20000:23:58.210 there are amazing electrolyzers now the 00:24:01.40900:24:01.419 best and that's why they're the best 00:24:03.12000:24:03.130 because the amperage it is built into 00:24:05.66900:24:05.679 the system that I mean the Transformers 00:24:07.47000:24:07.480 is built into this electrolyzer and it's 00:24:10.79900:24:10.809 a highly efficient mode of converting 00:24:14.22000:24:14.230 your voltage to high amperage I know 00:24:18.57000:24:18.580 that sounds crazy to people who aren't 00:24:20.19000:24:20.200 familiar with electricity but you can 00:24:22.04900:24:22.059 actually pass a thousand amps from one 00:24:24.99000:24:25.000 plate to the next if your voltage 00:24:26.37000:24:26.380 there's only 2.3 volts 00:24:28.13900:24:28.149 I mean don't look at some microwave 00:24:30.21000:24:30.220 transformer videos and you'll see what 00:24:33.33000:24:33.340 I'm talking about but that's the beauty 00:24:35.54900:24:35.559 of this particular design is it will do 00:24:40.28900:24:40.299 that for you so now what we're going to 00:24:43.04900:24:43.059 do though is just kind of inspect it it 00:24:47.88000:24:47.890 doesn't look like crap I should have 00:24:51.84000:24:51.850 drained it a little better that's gonna 00:24:53.88000:24:53.890 start eating a hole in my aluminum not 00:25:01.52900:25:01.539 cool give me one second here okay we 00:25:04.16900:25:04.179 can't see a couple of spots that started 00:25:06.36000:25:06.370 to fail on me I didn't have this glued 00:25:09.36000:25:09.370 up very well I could have done a much 00:25:10.64900:25:10.659 better job 00:25:11.51900:25:11.529 these ones did fantastic and see where 00:25:14.61000:25:14.620 that started to cause some problems 00:25:17.09000:25:17.100 current will start to flow and strange 00:25:19.47000:25:19.480 pass when you have conductive leaks and 00:25:21.75000:25:21.760 I'll tell you what so that's gonna get 00:25:25.26000:25:25.270 taken out and burnished and ree-ree 00:25:29.70000:25:29.710 seals and all that good stuff using goop 00:25:31.98000:25:31.990 glue you can see I have these 00:25:38.10900:25:38.119 all threads are electrically isolated 00:25:41.40900:25:41.419 from the plates in case a plate or two 00:25:43.17900:25:43.189 sag down and I almost see the old plate 00:25:47.19900:25:47.209 stack this way can I see it 00:25:56.90000:25:56.910 yeah some of those are just smushed in 00:25:59.03000:25:59.040 there and you can't see them but we've 00:26:02.51000:26:02.520 got a little bit of a leak on the side 00:26:03.95000:26:03.960 down here too it looks like and what 00:26:05.84000:26:05.850 what will happen is if you have a leak 00:26:07.37000:26:07.380 in the front of the cell right and fluid 00:26:09.65000:26:09.660 gets down into a puddle and then you 00:26:11.81000:26:11.820 have a leak on the other side of the 00:26:13.19000:26:13.200 cell and you have a fluid that connects 00:26:16.37000:26:16.380 these two areas you'll get a leak an 00:26:18.43000:26:18.440 electrical charge leak will be going 00:26:21.11000:26:21.120 from here it'll travel through this leak 00:26:23.39000:26:23.400 through this slush down onto the floor 00:26:26.18000:26:26.190 of the electrolyzer up over here and 00:26:28.73000:26:28.740 we'll jump through the cell and cause 00:26:30.95000:26:30.960 Sparks and hissing and sizzling sounds 00:26:34.34000:26:34.350 and all kinds of weird stuff so it's 00:26:37.01000:26:37.020 gonna be interesting to take this bad 00:26:38.42000:26:38.430 boy apart it did it it had a good run at 00:26:40.97000:26:40.980 it it lasted a long time 00:26:43.31000:26:43.320 can't ask for too much more for 00:26:46.49000:26:46.500 something that I've built but yeah let's 00:26:51.35000:26:51.360 get this thing apart and see what kind 00:26:53.09000:26:53.100 of shape these plates are in this here 00:26:56.69000:26:56.700 is the pump I'm very impressed with this 00:27:00.44000:27:00.450 brand of pump I think I've had this pump 00:27:03.74000:27:03.750 running on electrolysis cell for well 00:27:07.19000:27:07.200 over five years because it's been in 00:27:09.44000:27:09.450 other bills running other electrolysis 00:27:12.17000:27:12.180 cells definitely endorse this brand here 00:27:17.66000:27:17.670 these guys make a really good pump this 00:27:19.85000:27:19.860 is a three speed pump on the box I also 00:27:23.33000:27:23.340 run it off this triac here because 00:27:25.94000:27:25.950 sometimes as I said you don't want to 00:27:28.88000:27:28.890 run your your cooling circulation fluid 00:27:31.31000:27:31.320 too fast because doing that will 00:27:33.32000:27:33.330 actually add 10 degrees to the fluid in 00:27:36.32000:27:36.330 this particular system this here is a 00:27:39.11000:27:39.120 foam catch sometimes when you're running 00:27:41.60000:27:41.610 your cell at 20 amps the electrolyte 00:27:44.54000:27:44.550 starts to foam up really bad and will 00:27:46.28000:27:46.290 shoot out the top of the cell into the 00:27:47.90000:27:47.910 discharge line and you don't want that 00:27:50.03000:27:50.040 stuff getting into your bubbler so this 00:27:51.83000:27:51.840 is placed in series with the discharge 00:27:53.78000:27:53.790 line on the top of the reservoir and 00:27:57.85000:27:57.860 what will happen is the foam will come 00:28:00.53000:28:00.540 into this tube and by the time it passes 00:28:02.93000:28:02.940 through the hose that gets to this tube 00:28:05.21000:28:05.220 it's converted back into flue 00:28:07.31000:28:07.320 and eventually this will get full of 00:28:09.62000:28:09.630 electrolyte as you're braising away or 00:28:14.69000:28:14.700 whatever it is you're that you're doing 00:28:15.98000:28:15.990 it's got a big braising job going or 00:28:17.72000:28:17.730 something it will fill this up maybe we 00:28:20.00000:28:20.010 do about right here or so and then what 00:28:21.47000:28:21.480 happens when you turn the torch off for 00:28:23.21000:28:23.220 the night or after the job the large air 00:28:26.93000:28:26.940 space inside of this thing will cool off 00:28:28.97000:28:28.980 and will contract and will actually draw 00:28:32.30000:28:32.310 this fluid right back into the tank and 00:28:34.61000:28:34.620 you'll end up with just the same amount 00:28:36.05000:28:36.060 of left like she had before which is 00:28:37.73000:28:37.740 pretty cool little setup this here is 00:28:40.28000:28:40.290 the radiator that has had a leak for a 00:28:43.73000:28:43.740 while the goop was holding out pretty 00:28:45.29000:28:45.300 good though had a leak there and it had 00:28:49.04000:28:49.050 a pinch in the line somewhere that was 00:28:50.69000:28:50.700 causing some some heating from this flow 00:28:55.28000:28:55.290 issues you've got a bunch of eddy 00:28:58.28000:28:58.290 currents and stuff in your flow system 00:28:59.99000:29:00.000 that that will heat the fluid up this is 00:29:03.02000:29:03.030 the bubbler as they call it which 00:29:06.29000:29:06.300 basically creates a physical barrier 00:29:08.33000:29:08.340 between the torch flame and this massive 00:29:12.11000:29:12.120 bomb right here called the reservoir so 00:29:14.93000:29:14.940 with flame art up were to ever travel up 00:29:18.14000:29:18.150 into the tube it would just come down 00:29:19.73000:29:19.740 inside of this bubbler explode inside of 00:29:22.55000:29:22.560 here but it won't go down through the 00:29:24.05000:29:24.060 bubbling water it doesn't daisy-chain 00:29:26.78000:29:26.790 through the bubbles for whatever reason 00:29:28.43000:29:28.440 it just I think part of the reason is is 00:29:30.80000:29:30.810 when a first explodes the bubbles are 00:29:33.35000:29:33.360 compressed and contract so small that 00:29:36.08000:29:36.090 they're not close enough to each other 00:29:37.37000:29:37.380 to self detonate that's just a theory 00:29:39.23000:29:39.240 but I guarantee a high-speed footage of 00:29:41.27000:29:41.280 that incident taking place would show 00:29:42.86000:29:42.870 that to be the case because I've always 00:29:44.60000:29:44.610 wondered why the bubbles don't just 00:29:45.77000:29:45.780 explode and travel right down into the 00:29:48.29000:29:48.300 reservoir but they never do this here is 00:29:52.25000:29:52.260 my reservoir been running this thing for 00:29:56.23000:29:56.240 probably over five years also it's the 00:29:58.76000:29:58.770 only plastic so far that I've seen that 00:30:00.65000:30:00.660 doesn't suffer the fate of stress 00:30:05.03000:30:05.040 corrosion cracking or hydrogen 00:30:08.03000:30:08.040 embrittlement this here sealed off with 00:30:11.15000:30:11.160 just goop glue my things holding out 00:30:14.54000:30:14.550 real nice definitely happy with how goop 00:30:18.71000:30:18.720 does 00:30:19.23000:30:19.240 these caustic soda solutions but did any 00:30:22.35000:30:22.360 race I just wanted to show you guys the 00:30:23.82000:30:23.830 components that went into making this 00:30:25.29000:30:25.300 thing and why I would call so much money 00:30:30.38000:30:30.390 this stuff just isn't cheap when you go 00:30:32.76000:30:32.770 to build a machine plan on spending some 00:30:35.54900:30:35.559 serious Jack because these parts are not 00:30:37.98000:30:37.990 cheap I mean look at all these fittings 00:30:39.45000:30:39.460 I have there's freaking hundreds of them 00:30:42.96000:30:42.970 and they're like I said these ones here 00:30:45.87000:30:45.880 are five dollars of these just it just 00:30:48.54000:30:48.550 starts adding up pretty quick real quick 00:30:50.58000:30:50.590 this reservoir itself I think was 00:30:52.47000:30:52.480 probably $40 got a three dollar brass 00:30:55.79900:30:55.809 product plug here you got a three dollar 00:30:58.32000:30:58.330 elbow three dollar quarter-inch myth it 00:31:05.52000:31:05.530 just adds and adds this thing here was 00:31:07.95000:31:07.960 like 30 bucks this is supposed to be a 00:31:11.13000:31:11.140 filter but I converted it into a bubbler 00:31:14.75000:31:14.760 $12 this pump is a hundred bucks the 00:31:18.90000:31:18.910 diodes were probably 15 bucks a piece 00:31:21.09000:31:21.100 that little fan was free but I'm pretty 00:31:23.97000:31:23.980 sure that these uh junction boards or 00:31:27.90000:31:27.910 junction blocks are pretty expensive I 00:31:29.76000:31:29.770 think they're like $15 the transformer 00:31:32.66900:31:32.679 was probably fifteen bucks 00:31:35.72000:31:35.730 $15 they're $30 $30 probably about ten 00:31:41.04000:31:41.050 bucks got nineteen dollars on that hose 00:31:43.56000:31:43.570 right there 00:31:44.52000:31:44.530 three dollar switch another cooling fan 00:31:50.33000:31:50.340 and block so yeah man the wire these 00:31:55.08000:31:55.090 terminals it just adds up and adds up 00:31:58.20000:31:58.210 the all-thread for all this these copper 00:32:02.22000:32:02.230 on bus bars i silver soldered those on 00:32:06.72000:32:06.730 there for maximum conductivity I didn't 00:32:09.81000:32:09.820 want to just use regular solder because 00:32:14.03000:32:14.040 yeah that's just how I roll I guess so 00:32:18.39000:32:18.400 let's say I'm gonna shut up now and 00:32:19.56000:32:19.570 start tearing this thing apart one of 00:32:22.95000:32:22.960 the tricky things about this build was 00:32:25.29000:32:25.300 that these two bolts that compress the 00:32:28.71000:32:28.720 filter press 00:32:30.10000:32:30.110 design and together had to be 00:32:34.54000:32:34.550 electrically isolated from these plates 00:32:36.70000:32:36.710 I couldn't have these two plates being 00:32:39.00000:32:39.010 connected electrically so I had to use 00:32:41.26000:32:41.270 plastic nylon washers and I had to tape 00:32:45.04000:32:45.050 that all thread but just the slightest 00:32:48.91000:32:48.920 leak of fluid getting on there can cause 00:32:51.67000:32:51.680 problems with that this thing has 00:32:54.22000:32:54.230 expanded out pretty much I'm gonna have 00:32:56.11000:32:56.120 it apart here a minute this ought to be 00:32:58.24000:32:58.250 pretty interesting to see what this 00:32:59.50000:32:59.510 thing looks like after years and years 00:33:01.26000:33:01.270 of use you guys are not gonna believe 00:33:04.81000:33:04.820 this if you're an h hor and you build 00:33:09.19000:33:09.200 hydrogen torches you'll appreciate this 00:33:12.73000:33:12.740 one what you may be seeing here was is a 00:33:14.89000:33:14.900 result of a practice that I always 00:33:18.19000:33:18.200 engage in and that is I will constantly 00:33:21.88000:33:21.890 reverse the polarity on my electrolyzer 00:33:24.07000:33:24.080 I talked about that in the video already 00:33:27.07000:33:27.080 but you probably might have skipped over 00:33:29.05000:33:29.060 it I would imagine I'm quite boring 00:33:31.69000:33:31.700 entertainment when it comes to me yappin 00:33:34.11000:33:34.120 but dude look at these plates man that 00:33:37.18000:33:37.190 are in pristine condition I don't have 00:33:39.31000:33:39.320 to do anything to them I might be able 00:33:43.00000:33:43.010 to just reassemble this bad boy as is I 00:33:45.57000:33:45.580 mean of course I'll have to fiddle with 00:33:47.68000:33:47.690 these gaskets a little bit and then use 00:33:50.35000:33:50.360 any compound it took quite a bit of uh 00:33:53.01000:33:53.020 and quite a struggle getting these 00:33:57.37000:33:57.380 things to sit right and getting it leak 00:34:02.26000:34:02.270 proofed I had to keep tightening that 00:34:03.76000:34:03.770 thing down that stack started off say 00:34:06.22000:34:06.230 this tall by time I got done it hit 00:34:08.16900:34:08.179 smashed down that far man I'd swear I 00:34:10.39000:34:10.400 got three feet out of that sucker I'm 00:34:13.96000:34:13.970 going to take a look at these end plates 00:34:15.22000:34:15.230 real quick this was the sport I was 00:34:16.90000:34:16.910 really interested to see how this is 00:34:20.91900:34:20.929 gonna go concerned about this 00:34:36.27000:34:36.280 very nice that these weights withstood 00:34:41.16900:34:41.179 that so well yeah we haven't like 00:34:44.95000:34:44.960 serious problems here I gotta set the 00:34:48.25000:34:48.260 camera down to pull this off however I 00:34:56.95000:34:56.960 am just shocked I cannot believe how 00:35:02.07900:35:02.089 clean these plates are I was expecting 00:35:05.31900:35:05.329 some truly was a high-grade stainless 00:35:08.62000:35:08.630 steel I can tell you that I've built 00:35:10.21000:35:10.220 plenty of cells in the past they didn't 00:35:12.13000:35:12.140 do so well I probably have a stack of 00:35:15.06900:35:15.079 plates I could show you a little quick 00:35:16.80900:35:16.819 actually think I might these are some 00:35:35.47000:35:35.480 other old plates that I have you see 00:35:37.32900:35:37.339 these guys looking pair so well and this 00:35:40.27000:35:40.280 is not after a very long use look at 00:35:45.46000:35:45.470 that compared to this thing pristine 00:35:49.05900:35:49.069 shape still almost afraid to now as I 00:35:56.44000:35:56.450 said I did constantly reverse my 00:35:59.50000:35:59.510 polarity that's where these thanks for 00:36:03.57900:36:03.589 like they're shocking me 00:36:10.26000:36:10.270 a little bit of smudge there some 00:36:12.69000:36:12.700 material I could probably use a slight 00:36:15.30000:36:15.310 cleaning but not much so you definitely 00:36:19.59000:36:19.600 want to uh this is an interesting little 00:36:22.40000:36:22.410 area right here it looks like we had a 00:36:24.48000:36:24.490 gasket about or a blowout maybe look at 00:36:26.85000:36:26.860 that yeah that's got kind of a that 00:36:30.30000:36:30.310 might have been squished out too from 00:36:31.80000:36:31.810 high pressure it's cheap my gasket path 00:36:35.37000:36:35.380 wasn't very wide right there this is the 00:36:40.20000:36:40.210 piece I want to get torn off a little 00:36:44.37000:36:44.380 bit of a leak there I see part of the 00:36:46.05000:36:46.060 problem while I'm not getting this off 00:36:47.37000:36:47.380 I'm sitting here pulling on that like an 00:36:49.74000:36:49.750 idiot so yeah I got to get that wire off 00:36:53.61000:36:53.620 of there dumbass 00:36:57.20000:36:57.210 that's a jumper damn go get that off I 00:37:04.44000:37:04.450 had these out of here man the babies are 00:37:09.24000:37:09.250 in there that's what I like about you 00:37:12.15000:37:12.160 glue is this reversible and I could just 00:37:17.76000:37:17.770 sell that stuff all day definitely a 00:37:21.48000:37:21.490 huge fan of goop glue when it comes to 00:37:23.70000:37:23.710 fabrication there's just some stuff that 00:37:26.72000:37:26.730 you can't get the quick leakin this is 00:37:32.16000:37:32.170 the part I really wanted to see was what 00:37:33.78000:37:33.790 this looked like here this interface 00:37:35.73000:37:35.740 right here this is steel didn't leak too 00:37:42.60000:37:42.610 bad at all I was worried about these 00:37:45.51000:37:45.520 things getting electrolyzed and this 00:37:48.54000:37:48.550 iron eating away real bad but it's in 00:37:51.03000:37:51.040 really good shape I'm really happy with 00:37:53.97000:37:53.980 that really happy with that it looks 00:37:59.64000:37:59.650 like there might have been a little bit 00:38:02.37000:38:02.380 of activity taking place some seepage 00:38:04.67000:38:04.680 you can see the holes other than that 00:38:10.35000:38:10.360 yeah so I'm definitely a pretty 00:38:13.44000:38:13.450 impressed with what we're seeing here 00:38:15.89000:38:15.900 very glad that this thing isn't all 00:38:18.30000:38:18.310 rusted to death it's got a little rust 00:38:20.16000:38:20.170 on ER but nowhere near what I 00:38:21.70000:38:21.710 expected I can't believe that this is my 00:38:27.91000:38:27.920 terminal plate it looks like my solder 00:38:31.57000:38:31.580 joint mighta cracked off there I have 00:38:35.80000:38:35.810 really heat stress the heck out of this 00:38:37.69000:38:37.700 thing yeah something was going on with 00:38:43.03000:38:43.040 my solder joint there top side still 00:38:47.02000:38:47.030 looks good huh I'm gonna have to redo 00:38:53.07900:38:53.089 those solder joints those are 00:38:55.92000:38:55.930 unacceptable in my opinion what the hell 00:39:02.82900:39:02.839 was i doing did I just not see that who 00:39:07.32900:39:07.339 put this damn electrolyzer together 00:39:09.81000:39:09.820 you're fired 00:39:16.52000:39:16.530 yeah I dropped the ball on that guy's 00:39:18.50000:39:18.510 that's just not a bird that's a 00:39:19.84900:39:19.859 piss-poor job for sure here the front 00:39:23.30000:39:23.310 what the hell was he doing well there's 00:39:27.14000:39:27.150 not that much amps going through it but 00:39:28.76000:39:28.770 still if defeats the purpose of putting 00:39:31.31000:39:31.320 a bus bar on there if you're gonna 00:39:32.87000:39:32.880 solder the thing like that I mean I 00:39:36.47000:39:36.480 doubt that melted on me or something so 00:39:39.94000:39:39.950 there we are 00:39:41.24000:39:41.250 hi I'm just very impressed I do want to 00:39:45.71000:39:45.720 check the thickness of these gaskets 00:39:47.42000:39:47.430 real quick gaskets they're thicker than 00:40:04.01000:40:04.020 this these are like just off of a roof 00:40:07.31000:40:07.320 somewhere 00:40:15.08000:40:15.090 yeah point zero seven six I think eight 00:40:19.82000:40:19.830 inches three millimeters isn't it so 00:40:25.25000:40:25.260 let's just do millimeters okay so no 00:40:31.31000:40:31.320 wait these are not three millimeters 00:40:33.50000:40:33.510 plus when you compress them I mean I 00:40:37.66000:40:37.670 don't know if I'm gonna be reusing these 00:40:40.01000:40:40.020 gaskets I really don't but uh I'm gonna 00:40:43.46000:40:43.470 clean this mess up clean these plates up 00:40:46.55000:40:46.560 a little bit I am impressed with how 00:40:49.61000:40:49.620 good of a shape these plates are in that 00:40:53.45000:40:53.460 is uh amazing to me you see the one side 00:40:56.99000:40:57.000 is a little dirtier than the other the 00:41:00.23000:41:00.240 hydrogen side versus the anode the 00:41:02.39000:41:02.400 oxygen side now had I did that little 00:41:06.05000:41:06.060 reversal right before I took to support 00:41:08.03000:41:08.040 we wouldn't see any of that it would 00:41:09.32000:41:09.330 have blasted all that off there because 00:41:10.67000:41:10.680 it takes anode accumulation a very long 00:41:13.37000:41:13.380 time but it blasts off there like in 00:41:16.40000:41:16.410 days so I think I'm gonna call that a 00:41:22.91000:41:22.920 wrap on this one here guys I just 00:41:24.53000:41:24.540 thought you'd be interested to see what 00:41:26.24000:41:26.250 the inside of this cell looks like and 00:41:27.95000:41:27.960 I'm telling you right now this thing has 00:41:29.39000:41:29.400 had some serious miles on it I'm 00:41:32.39000:41:32.400 starting to eat a hole in my aluminum 00:41:34.58000:41:34.590 block here I gotta get this crap off 00:41:36.50000:41:36.510 here but tell me what you guys think 00:41:39.37000:41:39.380 that's some good stainless steel right 00:41:41.75000:41:41.760 there
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