Interesting YouTube channels

[egret]

I'm going to assume that bad obsession Motorsport, and the fanatik gt6 build channels are mostly known about, but having just watched an interesting video, I thought it might be of interest to share other YouTube channels in case the algorithm isn't sharing with you what it shares with me. 

 

Superfastmat is a man currently making a bike powered saltflat racer.  He has various other impressive projects in his back catalog and uses lots of interesting and fairly accessible DIY techniques.

 

 

[Mark]

Thanks, interesting.

[JohnD]

Thanks egret!   The guy has the wry sense of humour of the best American story tellers, like David Sedaris.

But he will need a good coat of paint over his polystyrene mould.  Paint may dissolve it, but so does GRP resin.

John

[Escadrille Ecosse]

Nice video. Machining out that foam board is a significant task.

7 hours ago, JohnD said:

But he will need a good coat of paint over his polystyrene mould.  Paint may dissolve it, but so does GRP resin.

I think that is PU insulation board and not polystyrene John. That is the 'standard' material for built up foam moulds because it doesn't dissolve in polyester resin.

[JohnD]

Ah!  Misheard him, then.  I used PU foam when I made a hatchback door for Silverback.    Is that insulation board open cell foam or closed cell, because the stuff I used was open.      I took a mould from the outside of the OE door, but the inside was more complicated, so I just glued foam to the back of it with resin and laid fibre across that for shape and rigidity.  But the foam just soaked up resin, and it ended up much heavier than I intended.

John

[Escadrille Ecosse]

PU insulation board is often open cell, so yes it does rather soak up resin if used in the finished part rather than as a sealed mould. PU pattern/tooling board is closed cell and significantly more expensive (order of 4 to 5 times the price).

The other thing that you can do if using either polyurethane OR polystyrene foams to make a single use mould is to cover it with a flexible release film like the stuff used when making pre-preg carbon parts. It's impervious to both epoxy and polyester resins and is thin and stretchy and can be stuck to the outside of the mould with spray-tack adhesive. Best used on a male mould so the film finish is on the inside of the part.

This video shows how although they are using carbon fibre/epoxy the process is the same for polyester/glass.

https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/learning/mouldless-composites-laminating

Edited April 17 by Escadrille Ecosse

[JohnD]

Thank you, Colin!  For a one-off that looks most useful.

John

[Escadrille Ecosse]

Not seen this one before. Sideways' Antipodean contingent may know more but this looks like a fairly rapid GT6

 

[Nick Jones]

Fairly extreme engine swap. I like his style….

 

[PaulAA]

For pedantry, dry humour and engineering exactitude, I would heartily recommend two channels:

Croker vs Rover, a wry New Zealander:

https://youtube.com/@crokervsrover?si=FoEoYZhW2qrFv7jw

and Soup Classic Motoring:

https://youtube.com/@soupclassicmotoring?si=F7v9iGQym2wunhqj

[Escadrille Ecosse]

Hold on to your hats, drag racing Morris Oxford (see Roger's comment over on the car names thread) style

If you check the links they have a good few of these...

 

[JohnD]

There is very little to see on broadcast TV these days, at least on Freeview (I'm too mean for Netflix etc), so I enjoy watching videos from Kurtis of  "Cutting Edge Engineering".   A laconic Aussie, whose business is repairing the hydraulics and other bits of enormous industrial plant machines.  Apart from vertical borers, shapers, and hones, he has some truly  MASSIVE lathes!

Then of course, there is Project Binky, from Bad Obsession Motorsport.  The project is finished, sort of, now but still good fun:

https://www.youtube.com/@BadObsessionMotorsport

John

[JohnD]

You think the Triumph straight six is a bit of a lump?    Try the Mr.Hewes channel.     

Mr.H. restores TANKS.    This one is the Chieftain, 'driven' by James Bond in GoldenEye.  I say 'driven' because you can't drive a tank with your head and shoulders out of the hull.

OH!  Can't show it to you, because "The link could not be embedded because www.youtube.com does not allow embedding of that video."

  But follow this link and you should get there: GOLDENEYE CHIEFTAIN FIRST RUN IN 20 YEARS! (youtube.com)

John 

PS  See: 

 

Edited July 31 by JohnD

[Escadrille Ecosse]

That's a fun video John.

Curious about it being the 'Goldeneye' Chieftain though and wish they would 'tell'.

The tank used in the chase is an actual T54/55 not a Chieftain.

Geek alert at this point (I did test work in the past on the Chieftain and Challenger)

Chieftain on the left, six 'solid' road wheels each side, solid side skirts and a large turret bustle (where the solid APFSDS anti-tank projectiles are stored.

On the right a T54/55 from the film, five 'spoked' road wheels, rubber side skirts and a 'wok' shape turret with no bustle.

I believe they put Chieftain tracks onto the tanks used for fiming because they have rubber pads in the tracks to avoid chewing up the tarmac roads of West Germany and wanted to avoid doing so to St Petersburg. Russian tanks all have plain steel tracks. They also put fake (I assume they were fake!) explosive reactive armour plates on the T54/55 to make them look more modern.

Edited July 31 by Escadrille Ecosse

[JohnD]

I bow to more knowledge!    The vidronimplies that Mr.H has previous videos about this tank, which might explain.

Did Bond drive a tank in another film?   Mr.H rightly dates Goldeneye to 1995, and not twenty but thirty years ago, so maybe elsewhere?

John

[Escadrille Ecosse]

Not criticising you John. He does imply that tank was in the film. But maybe it was just its tracks 

[JohnD]

No probs, Colin!    I accepted Mr.H's naming this as "Bond's Chieftain" but a the slightest research shows that isn't true, at least in Goldeneye.    And I can't find another Bond/tank episode.  Have to get back to the Mr.Hewes videos as see what he's on about.

[PaulAA]

John

This is one is in Dutch, but the enthusiasm he brings to the restoration of an ex-Iraqi army Type 69 is more than a little infectious...

 

[JohnD]

Ah!    'MasterMilo'!    And extraordinarily inventive mechanic/engineer!  Another with a whole channel of entertaining videos.

There is, apparently, no limit to his lunacy: 

 

 

[egret]

Rather different from much of the algorithm chasing, overly excitable youtube that's about is Allen Millyards corner of youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@AllenMillyard  It's more interesting background youtube, than high octane entertainment, but there is a lot of information in there if you're paying attention.

Rebuilding motorcycles in his (pretty well equipped) shed and making engine building seem fantastically simple.  It's a masterclass in making the difficult look easy.  His norton v8 rebuild and the panel beating in his honda RC374 replica build.

[Nick Jones]

1 hour ago, JohnD said:

Ah!    'MasterMilo'!    And extraordinarily inventive mechanic/engineer!  Another with a whole channel of entertaining videos.

There is, apparently, no limit to his lunacy: 

 

 

Hah! The Dutch Colin Furze without a doubt!

[andymcp]

Try:

Mat Armstrong - for supercar rebuilds (they do not crash well!)

The Bracket Factory - all sorts, including Austin 7

Metal shaper Tom - self explanatory

Shed Racing - Ivan is a legend!

Oak Swamp - pre war rat rods (the engineering displayed might be a bit agricultural for tastes).

[JohnD]

On 7/31/2024 at 5:57 PM, Escadrille Ecosse said:

That's a fun video John.

Curious about it being the 'Goldeneye' Chieftain though and wish they would 'tell'.

The tank used in the chase is an actual T54/55 not a Chieftain.

Geek alert at this point (I did test work in the past on the Chieftain and Challenger)

Chieftain on the left, six 'solid' road wheels each side, solid side skirts and a large turret bustle (where the solid APFSDS anti-tank projectiles are stored.

On the right a T54/55 from the film, five 'spoked' road wheels, rubber side skirts and a 'wok' shape turret with no bustle.

I believe they put Chieftain tracks onto the tanks used for fiming because they have rubber pads in the tracks to avoid chewing up the tarmac roads of West Germany and wanted to avoid doing so to St Petersburg. Russian tanks all have plain steel tracks. They also put fake (I assume they were fake!) explosive reactive armour plates on the T54/55 to make them look more modern.

I am informed that the Chieftain WAS in Goldeneye, just not the tank Bond drives.  It was part of the background/scene dressing at the start of that episode.    Not quite "the GoldenEye tank" then!  John

[Escadrille Ecosse]

2 hours ago, JohnD said:

I am informed that the Chieftain WAS in Goldeneye, just not the tank Bond drives.  It was part of the background/scene dressing at the start of that episode.    Not quite "the GoldenEye tank" then!  John

Ah haa! Thanks John.

But a bit of a 'cheat' as you say..

Edited August 2 by Escadrille Ecosse

[Escadrille Ecosse]

Found a clip on you tube. Actually looks like they might have had two Chieftains!!