retentiveness.
I've been laid up for three weeks now with a lower back injury that's made me at times feel like finding the nearest Aurora Bridge. To pass the Tim, I've spent about 100 hours catching up on my favorite YouTube channels. Enjoy:
1.)
Bad Obsession Motorsports, particularly Project BinkyTwo British guys, one an amateur rally car driver and the other a race engineer with an obsession for handmade brackets, spend over six years (and counting) cramming a Celica GT4 AWD powertrain into an old Austin Mini without changing the envelope of the car. In the process of cramming 10 pounds of shit into a five-pound bag, they end up pretty much building a car from scratch with nothing more than a TIG torch, a lathe, and a small CNC mill. And dick jokes. Lots and lots of British dick jokes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s&list=PLGSOZAHg1yQHU1tc_3Y5MTQg1qjtxA_nq&index=12.)
Clickspring, particularly the Antikythera MechanismThis one is great for both history noyds and shop noyds. A hobby clockmaker spends four years (and counting) recreating the Antikythera Mechanism in his home shop, using nothing more than a small lathe, a small manual mill, and a bunch of shop-made hand tools. If you haven't heard of the Antikythera Mechanism (I'll admit I hadn't), there's
a documentary about the discovery and decoding of the mechanism on YouTube. It's an extremely complex clockwork machine made over 2000 years ago that tracked the movements of the planets, phases of the moon, eclipses, etc. It will blow your mind what the ancient Greeks were capable of, and Clickspring attempts to not only rebuild the mechanism but do it in a way that he thinks would be plausible in that era--down to even making the files, casting the metal, etc. Watching him hand-divide and hand-file a brass gear with 233 teeth using a primitive vise and triangle file, both made by him, is bonkers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE&list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0to4RXv4_jDU2&index=13.)
This Old TonyThis guy must have a face for Hardcore Husky, as it's the only explanation for him not having his own Netflix show or something. An extremely anal retentive hobby machinist with an insanely well stocked garage and an amazing wealth of knowledge for a homegamer, what sets this channel apart is the added comedy. From pixelating a shaper bit going in and out of a workpiece in a spoof of censored porn to the fantastic "hide the sausage" joke at the beginning of the episode below, this channel's been a perfect combination of learning a shitload and being entertained. Hell, thanks to his channel, I've already spent a fortune on collet blocks, a surface plate, various measuring tools, I'm trying to sell my welder to upgrade to the Invertig he has, and I've been eyeballing auctions for a bigger lathe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_wPH904a_84.)
AvETrailer Park Boys meets Red Green. Canadian humor at its finest, this Canadian mining industry worker makes videos in his home shop about pretty much anything you can do/build with your dirty dick beaters (hands). He's best known for his BOLTR (bored of lame tool reviews) series in which he opens up power tools, guns, vibrators, etc. and examines the design and construction decisions that went into them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyuv3WXPQsMOr for all the gun nuts here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6MdZdDH330
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