Really good youtube sites

[Doug Coulter]

Starting this to list a few I like - and have found useful or just uplifting. I spend all too much time watching when I'm sort of incapacitated due to cancer and meds, so why not share the good ones?

Useful: I'm mostly just listing the channels here as embedding the latest neat video would make this page too long - we can do those in replies.

I'd have to list Joe Pieczynski (we just call him Joe Pie) as the top machinist for tips on how to do the near impossible. He really goes there with the how-to and the why, where others mainly just show off.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... e+pyzynski It's all good.

Blondihacks is a little more of a home gamer and definitely has her own charm. The sharp-eyed will notice she has reloading tools showing now and then.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... londihacks

I really enjoy This Old Tony. He's the best tig welder and perhaps specialized tool builder/modifier out there and no question has the very best Dad joke humor. Anyone who can do this with TIG and Al, well, pay attention, right? https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... s+old+tony

OK. I said I wasn't going to waste pixels. Is this a waste?

Builds his own CNC, modifies old surplus tools to give tenths accuracy. Did I mention he's funny?

Anyone who doesn't admire Clickspring (Chris) has a problem. He's just beyond most mortals, but maybe with a masochistic love of files...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... lickspring
Clocks for billionaires...Antikythera Mechanism, makes authentic ancient tools to make stuff with. Crazy good.

I'm looking at a couple other machinist channels for inclusion but this better get ya started. See ya in a month or so.

There's a lot of negative and too little positive out there.
Daily dose of internet is almost all positive all the time, no matter how lousy the thumbnail is - just click and see. Stuff even I hadn't seen before and am often amazed at.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdC0An ... iFiYoVbwaw

This guy isn't always about how good things are, but damn if he can't be funny about whatever it is. And sometimes just applauds stunning stuff by someone else, like that gymnastics review.
(not the norm for him by a long way) Ozzy man! https://www.youtube.com/user/ozzymanreviews
And OK, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfnnGSkJ-2U language not suitable for work, who cares.

I'm studying propaganda and WW-whichever is a great set of sources as more is declassified. They're no better at telling lies now, really, but more is suppressed to make it harder for dummies or potatoes to figure out. The timeghost series of channels - Indy Neidell as the front man - is truly outstanding in this regard, you'll find out all sorts of things not taught in the books written by the winners, or CYA lies propgated by historians using each other for validation and not checking sources.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=timeghost has most of the list. WWII as it happened - like a news channel that just happens to really know everything - is great.
Between 2 wars is fantastic and stuff that is rarely covered but it's where the modern world originated..
War against humanity is often gross - consider what it's about - but it might be nice to remind the current group of communists how Stalin used the same scapegoat trick on Kulaks that Hitler did on Jews - and killed more of them before WWII than Hitler did Jews. Lots more. Old trick - scapegoat any easy identified group doing a little better on average than the rest, get people to hate them, rise to power or hold on to it via helping eliminate them. One wonders if cis white males are the new scapegoats for doing better than the uneducated/don't try hard groups. Ah well, I try not to do politics here, we all kinda know what's what anyway.

Now, for techies...and this is hard to put in any order, they are all so good.
Greg's airplanes and automobiles - primary sources on WWII European theater planes, specs, designs, the why and so on. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... +airplanes
A good foil who has access to German primary sources and complements Greg's views: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... on+history

And then there are warships. If you think about it, you have to run whatcha brung, they take a long time to build pre-war and people tend to not like what a navy costs. Your cards are on the table...
More often than not it's worth waiting for that one line of dry Drach humor that will have you rolling. Especially the long form stuff I adore, the Wednesday rum ration (british tradition).
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... rachinifel Some of the long collaborations aren't up to snuff - some of the helpers know a lot but stink at actually presenting.


Back to things engineering and science...
Tech ingredients is fun: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ngredients
Applied Science: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ed+science
The best math guy ever. Many of us wish we'd seen his stuff before taking math courses 3b1b (Grant); https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... blue1brown
His animations that give you a great feel for how the math is shaped make me think python might not be all bad. That's a really strong statement as I kinda hate python.
He did a great collap with Dianna, "physics girl" who is always entertaining and sometimes correct. Check out square smoke rings...and maybe her channel too: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... ysics+girl
Square ... and you WILL be surprised at the dynamics, which Grant explains on his channel later on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7d_RWy ... hysicsGirl

Do add your own favorites. It's gonna be hard to live up to these but I'm sure I haven't seen the whole world yet. I'm not even sure I'm done, I have limited brain capacity just now.
Unlike what Grace Slick of the Jefferson Airplane sang - "the ones that mother gives you DO something at all" now. Hope to get off of those soon.

[Bob Reite]

Second This Old Tony. I'm getting into TIG welding again. Got a much nicer rig with HF start and offset on the AC for doing aluminum just right. Amazing compared to the rig that I used in 1970 that you had to "Scratch" start.

One of my favorite YouTube video channels is Mustie 1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcSeeATlWJJbXpOZRYOfaDg This guys takes old rusty small engines and old cars and brings them back to life (usually). I like his crazy laugh when he succeeds in getting an engine to fire.

[Doug Coulter]

Yeah, Tony is the best at several things. You might learn more on some of the welding-only channels, but not as much fun. I'll have to look those up too.
Welding tips and tricks (Jody, I have one of his tig fingers, reccomended), 6061.com(?) and a few others.
I do something I've not seen yet, it's probably against the religion. I use wire welding to put down the pounds quick. Then I go back with TIG to make it pretty. For big stuff, you understand.
For vacuum stuff, it's pure TIG. And yes, RF start is so far ahead of scratch it isn't funny. I started with a horrible fright one I gave away pretty quickly.

Haven't checked your suggestion yet - sched is packed right now and I'm going in for surgery tomorrow morning...but how could I forget

Project farm: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm ... -wuOg_p0Ng
This guy IS what consumer reports pretended to be. No external funding...he started out doing mostly briggs, the sort of thing you describe. But then...well, just go see for yourself. Suggest it, he'll do comprehensive tests of what's out there of "whatever that is" with decent scientific controls...guy earns his keep to say the least.
I did a stint at a couple small engine shops when I first moved here 0- it was obvious that as a dirt-poor proto-redneck my life was going to depend on them, I was already a motor head (albeit automotive) so...
Learned a lot of cool tricks that make those seemingly impossible tasks easy, and discovered that a lot of the older stuff - briggs included, was darned high quality. Those old guys would burn anything flammable, would idle down to ridiculously slow speed easily and smoothly, and would always start on the first yank (remember winding rope around the pulley?) if things were at all right. MBAs* - right after the lawyers and marketers.
Did you know Lawnboys had real carbs with power valves, roller bearings, and were 2 strokes that didn't suck? They didn't rust, though.

And for modern aviation, Mentour pilot is hands down the best, like Greg, he's an active commercial flier but concentrates on the new stuff for youtube, theory and practice.
In case you ever want the straight poop on it all: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwpHKu ... gmMdexB3ow


* I should say something like "those who milk companies for short term gains they mostly pocket themselves at the expense of company survival long run" but that's a long thing to say. I guess you could include
people like Carl Ichan, Mitt Romney (check it out, his outfit was even involved in the SCO/linux debacle and not as the good guys), other hostile takeover types, along with MBAs but the principal (heh) is the same. Milk it, put it in your pocket as options or a bonus, and quick get out while your victim is dying.
Leave stockholders with the part that owns all the debt, and the profit making parts you keep, issue new stock etc that you mostly own. Or just borrow against them as collateral and then run like hell. MBAs are relative amateurs, but since they are long term, the effects are just as deadly.
Someone said something like "if people knew how money and banking worked, there'd be a revolution tomorrow" which I'd phrase more as "there will be blood, when people get this figured out".

[Donovan Ready]

I'm subbed to Project Farm. I like the guy.

As to SCO, have you ever had to install the shit? And then get it to work? Give me Sys V Interactive on 53 floppies first!

[Bob Reite]

Project Farm actually used one of my suggestions as to what to test next. Chain saw chain sharpeners.

[Doug Coulter]

Hadn't even heard of SCO until the debacle. I sure to miss PJ Snyder's Groklaw website. A lot of very smart and very nice people in that crowd. Sad it kinda had to go (PJ got doxxed).
There was a lot of learning to be had there.

But yeah, it sounded like the kind of stuff I'd refuse - quit if forced - over. I heard their stuff was largely used in POS terminals, mainly. Which I now hear in my head as "Piece of Sh*t" whenever I see it.

[Bob Reite]

I never had to deal with SCO Unix fortunaely.

[Doug Coulter]

Yeah, we've been lucky - for me, SCO was mostly entertainment. Those who were on Groklaw, well, it was nice while it lasted.
Being off grid - I'm my own village, as it were - I understand this probably better than most. A good presentation of the Texas issues. And just a couple days before, Joe Pie was bragging about how nice the weather was at his place...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08mwXIC ... ngineering


Of course, compared to any for-profit setup, my system is way over provisioned...

[johnf]

Here in NZ we have Nanogirl who does STEM parties for kids
I have worked with Michelle when I was making super tough aluminium ie from 240MPa to 1.2GPa
https://www.nanogirllabs.com/

a good vid here
https://www.nanogirl.co/science-experim ... ?hsLang=en

[Doug Coulter]

So that one was you, Bob? The PF guy is cool for sure. I comment on the channel a fair amount. I've also had good luck with the products he likes - nice to have enough info so you can match the thing to your use case.

I can see many of us are going to be busy checking out some of these we didn't already know about.

I like this guy - all about what happens when humans get complacent about things, or MBAs wind up in charge. Mostly nuclear disasters, but lots of variety.
No one will watch this year long compendium all the way through, I bet, but all the reports are available individually on his channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp-gCMR ... yDifficult


Also top rate - for space freaks: https://www.youtube.com/user/szyzyg Scott Manley.
Crazy nuke rocket engine (not the one you're thinking about) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvZjhWE ... cottManley