I would have watched but the mild profanities label turned me off. I only listen to brazenly vile profanities. Your adoring fans demand worse, Clive.

Now just add a piezo sparker, and you get a auto sensing flamethower.

The bit about blowing up a board and then claiming it was faulty reminds me of my dad. Had a $2000 set of Keff speakers, new model got released, shop said the only way to upgrade without paying would be replacement under warranty. Wink wink. Dad went home and plugged 120VAC into those $2k speakers. Hell of a 60hz humm for a bit and then wonderful smoke. Still has the upgrades 30 years later :P

" and I put it back in the box and returned it as faulty" [ insert wicked laugh here], made me laugh mate

"Uh-oh. Somebody fucked up. Can you guess who?" Big Clive provides the best ringtones for after-hours phone calls from the office.

If someone asked me ten years ago where I saw myself as being today, I would definitely not have said "watching videos of air-fresheners being reverse engineered."

So these air fresheners can generate magic smoke aroma, but only once! ;-)

Frankenglade, now with all your favorite scents, including wisp of sadness and burnt electrical components

Wisp of sadness. New from Glade!

Drinking game: take a shot of blue collar trash wine every time Clive says "aroma"

This reminds me of a saying I heard from my Grandfather on more than a few occasions. It went something like "Never enough time to check your work and do it right the first time...Always enough time to do it again"

I really kind of like these videos that show things don't always go to plan. they give me more hope for my own projects.

*Clive breaks something* "It was faulty"

I think the worst is when you go to open something and it has spring loaded gears so they catapult in all directions.

Clive, I really appreciate the fact that you kept your mistake in the video where other people might have cut it out. It really helps out novices like myself to know that even people who have years of experience still make mistakes. Thanks for another great video.

God these things irritate me. My mum still has these things sitting in every room, but she's never refilled them, so they just sit there like cameras.

With all due respect I like watching the stuff come apart! As far as I'm concerned you needn't edit that out

a good prank refill would be burning electronics smell. april fools engineers!

Gah! Ya missed the chance of calling the thing Frankincense! 😂

Your channel never ceases to amuse! Nothing quite as disappointing as the magical reverse polarity pop of death, and the accompanying Eau de Burnt Electronics! The brief story about putting the dead thing back in the box and calling it faulty gave me a good chuckle. I have a personal distain for air fresheners ever since the one where I used to work would randomly spray the occupant of the men's room on their head. It became an art to avoid it's nefarious spraying, I believe it was set to a fixed timer though not motion sensitive. Nothing worse than smelling like sickeningly sweet fake flowers for the rest of the day.

My fingers hurt when I watch you solder.

I had a bit of a polarity F-up myself the other week. I was charging a pair of 12v mobility scooter batteries outside of the usual battery case. I'd made up a simple hook up to put them in series, with a connector. I was hoping that the desulfator circuit I'd been trying out was improving the batteries. When I plugged in the charger, I got a red charging light and it stayed on. After a while I thought I'd try it on my spare battery charger and it was showing a red charging light too. What I didn't realise was, that under the influence of a nippy sweetie, I had reversed the battery polarity and the fail state of the chargers was a red light. I destroyed both chargers and had to cry, whilst ordering a new one off Amazon.

I always enjoy it more when you 'hack' a device rather than just take one apart, cheers Clive for a very entertaining video.

Bonus footage: Big Clive hunts down the fault and fixes it

I take a shot every time Clive say "Fresh Lead Based Solder" i mean how fresh is it? Could it be incest fresh? Clive should make a scent of burnt circuit board and sell it to glade. Wait??? That's what my shop always smells like. Thanks for posting this up, I enjoyed watching.

Never thought a big bearded bloke taking apart air fresheners would be so entertaining love your work Clive

Thanks for including your mistake as part of the video. It's entertaining, but also encouraging. It's a nice reminder that *everyone* makes mistakes, even pros.

I was trying to train electricians to wire up fire alarm panels, PLCs and electronic motor drives for 4 years who used to frequently incorrectly wire up that equipment without reading and following the installer's manual and blowing them up. They also would take the equipment back down off the wall, put it in the box and send it back to the manufacturer saying that it was faulty. After doing it several times on each job, the manufacturers would send their own technician out to wire the units and the Unions lost that work.

Honestly i quite like the fact that, even when he strikes out and gets something wrong, he still posts the video. Way to go Clive and keep up the good work !

I’m very jealous of your dexterity, being able to hold a part with 3 fingers, and a wire in the remaining two, would be good for me as I have just one arm these days. I enjoy your videos

There is an air wick hanging at eye level above the toilet in an old motorhome I spent many nights in which always seems to pick the very moment you're standing there taking a piss to go off. Try holding one of those cans about a foot away from your face and let it 'refresh' your eyeballs just once... it's an enlightening experience.

I absolutely loved that you left the full video as a whole ‘blown an all’ you are now on my Christmas card list as a human and not a machine, ha

How about an optional oil lamp pilot light in front of the vent? C'mon Clive, you know it makes sense. These canisters are packing propane!

And today Big Clive teaches us some new words as the magic blue smoke escapes

"Minging" in a Scottish accent sounds SUPERB!

I'm honestly interested in electrical machinery like he plays with but I'm absolutely fascinated with the way he retro fits things and I wish he did more of this 10/10

Clive, you should come up with more 'simple' improvement videos like this, that was really enjoyable.

What happens if you bring tobacco and anti-tobacco together?

I tried your handstyle for soldering. And it worked fine! Big thanks!

Such a relaxing voice. Learned a few things here also - always worth the time to watch...

You're a real jem a true electrical engineer not many of us left Paul

Why do I have they urge to try and cross-breed Clive's creation with a dalek model? Voice chip says Exterminate! Exterminate! and jets out Minging Vanilla

I don't understand this channel or anything that goes on on it, but I love it

Your story of smoking a board and sending it back as faulty cracks me up, ive done that with a certain video game console :)

Great job describing race track wiring. Very common in old pinball machines.

I love the profanities and I do LOVE your stories of naughty times gone by :P

I love your honesty. We have all been there. Sometimes recoverable sometimes not.

These are impressively complex and well designed for something that just presses a button essentially

I want to thank you for this neat video, I lost my nephew today and I needed something like your video to stop for a moment and this was a delightful way to do so. thank you, sir.And it was nice to see you FINNALY scew up !

18:00 difficult to hold the device and tin and iron with two hands only. So better use blue-tack to hold the device. Just stick it into it.

You, sir, are the Bob Ross of electronics.

Clive's favourite fragrance would be lead-based-solder-flux! With after tones of magic smoke!

Learning (to check) by breaking. Really good video to show that even heroes are human.

'Whitesmoke Breeze'. Can't really blame you for expleting, Clive! Thanks for showing us your mistakes.

I personally use an air wick plug in with bonfire and crisp fall air oil and I really like it, my roommate has a bad reaction to the aerosol ones which is totally understandable as I don’t really like them either, too strong in my opinion

I'm sure you have a cone drill bit Clive,they are good for plastic. loving the fresh ideas you have. 😀 you could add an ignition coil to add a dramatic whisp of flame to accompany the Japanese doll you have.

"I just put it back in the box and said this one is faulty" LOL, I am soo glad I am not the only person to have done that :)

Glenlough campsite near Union Mills have things like this. Plain boxy ones so that you wonder what it is, take a closer look, and get an eye full of industrial air fresher. Funny if it's not you looking at it.

I always look forward to these videos. not only do i learn a bit, but they are entertaining as well!

Also, the sprayer units with off-brand label here have a very generous amount of space in them, and the circuit is either composed of free-running motor and a spring-loaded cam and shaft that moves the arm down, presses the nozzle then returns back to its timer mechanism or ones that turn on the motor every so often that presses the nozzle via sets of cogs with "finger" on it that returns to its original place by the power of spring inside the nozzle (based on either logic timers or 556 IC chips) Strangely, the ones with variable timer only have delay of either 1, 4 or 24 hours. What an odd value. I have seen one that has "Spray Now" button that initiates its spraying routine about 3 seconds after the button is pressed, presumably to avoid spraying noxious aromatic oil and aerosol into the person's eyes. p.s. The ones available here either has Light Dependent Resistor or Phototransistor as light sensors, but they don't seem to do anything for some reason, as the spray function activates even with all lights off. You know, _everyone _*_loves_*_ being sprayed with aromatic oil that barely resembles any sort of flower or fruit while being in the dark with a sleepy head._ Older ones have two holes for LEDs, but only one is installed and it always seems to be *red* LEDs. It's not like green or blue ones were expensive; By the time those units were manufactured, the price per LEDs (high-intensity pure green, yellow-green and blue) was as low as $0.01. Let me ask you a question though. Who the hell thought installing *RED* LEDs behind *BLUE* cover was a good idea?! The LED has two functions, one is "heartbeat" and the other one is for notifying people about impending aromatic-chemical-spraying action. That means the LED *NEEDS* to be seen to people, but these guys seem to not care about it at all.

The more I watch your channel, the more I love you.

big clive is actually my hero. i love him

Clive I loved this little project! Too bad you fried the first module but glad it's working now.

Glad to see that it all worked out for you! Unfortunately... I am a regular consumer, and unless it is software, so if it is hardware, I don't do too too much to modify or manipulate it...

Brilliant coming soon to supermarkets near you big Clive's air freshener.

The dexterity of this guy to do things like that! Mr. Fingers.

Clive - the only guy to jailbreak an air freshener

Nice mod. Maybe you can get your hands on some of the even larger 'industrial' ones that are used in public bathrooms.

story time: was in the service and someone found a spare one of these automatic air spritzer things, and in unrivaled genius, mounted it right above the sink. so i wash my hands, and look up to see it newly installed with minimal time delay, spitting out every few minutes. i little while later i see this sgt i worked with come out of the restroom rubbing his eyes on his left sleeve, with the unit and a chunk of drywall attached to the back of it in his other hand, shouting profanities. tangentially and very related to this video

I love this channel. So refreshing.

Here in Canada, we now have the small cans but with a standard finger pushy things so you can spray them whenever you want

But why did I have to open my subscription box and be greeted with the first word I see beieng "Incest".

can't beat clean Linen scent. i have one of those at my from door so it smells lovely when i walk in and no my house is not dirty i use them cos i like them.

What's better than buying a product, breaking it, then taking it back? Buying 5 of the product and disassembling it/combing through the parts for the best looking ones, building one yourself, then taking the rest back.

"... and let out a little wisp of sadness." Hilarity.

CYA, Always!!!! We've all let some unintentional smoke out at sometime, If you haven't your not working on enough stuff.... Keep up the great projects and thanks for what ya do...

Can you trigger the light sensitive air freshener by quickly changing the lights in a dark room ?

Frankenfreshener. My Aunt has one of those ones that was popular in the 80s, that's mounted on the wall, and you press on the outside of the casing to activate it. I was moving an over-the-toilet shelf out of the bathroom, backed into it, and it scared the shit out of me. I didn't realize it still had a good canister in it. XD At least you got it right in the end. I fucked up the preamp on a '67 Zenith Circle of Sound stereo, and it's still sitting in pieces in my living room. Been like that for 4 years now.

I don't think I have ever seen the anti-tobacco here in the states. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they just sell the same thing relabeled under different fragrance name for marketing purposes.

I totally forgot about something I made from one of the motion sense ones like 6 years ago. I had a cat who was probably around 10 years old at this point and she decided she was too old to go outside to piss so she started pissing in the corner on our nice hardwood floors. After a few months of trying to stop this I gave up until one day I saw the motion thing in the store and thought "THATS IT!" I bought one I ended up removing the board from the housing and making a nicer looking box for it. I also needed it to spray outward and not straight up. I tried to make my own aerosol water can but I was never able to. Not having a proper way to pressurize the can made that part fail but I modified it to fit the cans from the dollar store.I set that thing to low sensitivity and bam no more cat piss..... in that corner. It was also kinda nice because you never had smelly feet since anytime you walked past it you got sprayed. But eventually the cat passed away and I put the device away and honestly have no idea where its gone. I wouldn't mind messing with it again.

Back in the '70s when we were young I tried to repair a classic Dansette portable record player for an old lady. The volumn knob was causing interference when one turned it. I had it all in bits in her flat and the owner was explaining what the clever young man was doing to her equipment. When reassembled I switched it on and there was a loud bang and smoke. I tried to defuse the tense situation by explaining that you get a noise when you switch an electrical device on but my girlfriend, now my wife, pointed out that you don't usually get smoke pouring out! I'd blown a fuse which fortunately was a modern push button fuse but the owner had lost all confidence in me. I offered to take the record player to be repaired by a friend of mine. As we walked along the main road to my house my girlfriend and me were laughing so loud and for so long that a girl on the other side of the road started laughing too! My friend diagnosed the problem: two wires carried 12v and two identical wires carried 240v, I'd swapped them around. Oh and to fix the volumn knob I should have squirted a liquid cleaner in - no need to dismantle the record player.

Those three plastic step down gears are fantastic simple use of the motor

Nice idea Clive. Thanks for sharing

Motion sensing air freshener and a short Swedish lesson included. How neat :)

I'm still not too keen on auto farting air fresheners...

There are black lines on the side of the white moulded plastic nozzle at the top of genuine Glade refils. If you get a black marker you can copy the stripe and use cheap refils from the pound shop.

In the 70's i installed and tested telephone exchanges, we has a standalone push button dialler, it was playing up so i took it apart to fix it, unfortunately it was the old style button assembly, reed switch on the board, button, magnet, spring, and another piece of plastic, took me a couple of goes and found i had to balance the button assemblies on the board, then try to insert the whole into the top section , lining them up with the holes without the buttons falling apart.

Wasn't your Chinese fire blaster effect also powered by those aerosol air fresheners ? Could these harmless units be converted into a fireblaster too ?

Ive done the faulty from box trick on stuff too... but not something like industrial equipment... that takes balls

Good of you to shout out quality industrial design! We're all wondering, though, if the Glade was marked faulty and returned to PoundLand.

Great Video Clive! loved the commentary that went along with it too !!!!! I F@#$ed it up "These things happen not to worry" Outstanding my friend Two thumbs up!!!!!

I used to have the best air freshener ever. It had a sensor that could "smell" and when it smelled bad odors, it would then spray the fragrance! I think it was from Air Wick, but I'm not sure. It worked very well too, although some "false smells" were not rare, especially with the window open or when taking a shower, it never missed a bad smell. Unfortunately, at some point refills were not available anymore, anywhere.

I remember what happened to my floor after I left the original big sprayer unit running overnight sitting on the floor. The room was filled with lemon scent, yes, but the floor was also covered with an oily substance that I slipped on and bashed my head against the wall.

that constant gearbox dis- and reassembly reminds me of that one time i wanted to fix a broken children's toy, and after doing so AND confirming it worked perfectly noticed i was missing 3 cogs... never figured out where those were supposed to go, and it never failed again.

I think the only thing I'd have done different is to swap out the LED fo a different color. This is a fantastic idea though and i applaud you for that bit lad.

my fav Air Wick scent is "Mystical Garden" its a marshmallow - raspberry - rose blend

The anti-tobacco is called "sparkling citrus" over here in Canada, identical label

A bit too complex of an operation for me personally, but I'd love to find a way to make the big air freshener that I have not splay at intervals. It has a button for a manual shot, but if you turn the timer off the whole thing turns off too.

Clive you had me at 'Mild Profanities '

Nice to see your healthy hands again