How to Measure to a MILLIONTH of an Inch (The Dawn of Precision)

How to Measure to a MILLIONTH of an Inch (The Dawn of Precision) - Smarter Every Day 206

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@smartereveryday 5 жыл бұрын

Click here to tweet me a picture of whatever bolt/screw is within arm's reach. bit.ly/FoundAScrew

@schoobydoo9293 5 жыл бұрын

really great video! Thank you

@MPHammer 5 жыл бұрын

Lol I don't have one within arm's reach.

@isaachlloyd 5 жыл бұрын

@@MPHammer Yes you do...

@turfthenerf 5 жыл бұрын

I found several(one in the table my computer sits on, one in my computer.etc), but im too lazy to take a picture.

@turfthenerf 5 жыл бұрын

@@MPHammer you keyboard or your phone should be in your arm's reach for you to type that.

@CoolDude-nk7tx 5 жыл бұрын

when your mom asks why there's a ruler in the bathroom marked at a millionth of an inch

@RootyTootTootin 4 жыл бұрын

First Name Last Name congrats that’s the joke 👏

@notrocketscience96 4 жыл бұрын

This joke right here

@LordLongHands 4 жыл бұрын

Profile picture checks out

@davidgeier6365 4 жыл бұрын

I only went to the comments section for these kinds of comments.

@finnthewastebin1503 4 жыл бұрын

Cool Dude just got it LMAO

@reuben4710 5 жыл бұрын

I like how instead of using Google Images like anybody else, you go to the museum to get the footage that you need. Shows us how much time goes into these videos.

@TheAgentTexas 5 жыл бұрын

Ya, seriously. This video is an extra special treat. He puts a lot of work into his videos but this one is especially great.

@antivanti 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Adds a little bit extra to the video... Probably a lot extra for Destin to get to see it in person so I don't think he minds putting that extra effort 😊

@de7io407 5 жыл бұрын

shows us how smart he truly wants to be

@jerry3790 5 жыл бұрын

Also most of the stuff on google images is copyrighted.

@kunjukunjunil1481 5 жыл бұрын

It's a 6 million + subscriber channel ,shouldn't be like a normal amateur youtuber

@stroopwafelfalafel 3 жыл бұрын

Precision was achieved using hexagons, because hexagons are the bestagons

@mutated__donkey5840 3 жыл бұрын

Hehe cgp reference

@thescoot827 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, a fellow science stickman watcher!

@tehyonglip9203 3 жыл бұрын

Cgp grey approves

@LeavingGoose046 3 жыл бұрын

>:(

@TheBassMeister1 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well! lol

@spokehedz 3 жыл бұрын

I, too, have a three plate method. Usually only seen at family gatherings where food is present. ;D

@tarmy3619 3 жыл бұрын

ACTUAL underrated comment

@notgray88 3 жыл бұрын

great comment

@user-vi3pi9rf7w 2 жыл бұрын

-_-

@ChunkyKong32 4 жыл бұрын

90% of people watching are sitting on a porcelain throne fastened to the floor thanks to Whitworth.

@blakestevenson9624 4 жыл бұрын

I literally am

@antimitsu 3 жыл бұрын

Hey now

@kevcom000 3 жыл бұрын

Did you just assume my toilets gender... how triggering

@Nick-xy5ul 3 жыл бұрын

To the wall*

@iOmniphobia 3 жыл бұрын

Got eeem..

@felpshehe 5 жыл бұрын

The nearest screws are the ones holding the toilet lid in place

@smartereveryday 5 жыл бұрын

I'm hearting this. The heads on toilet bolts are actually quite unique. Those threads are probably 1/4" x 20 UNC.

@M1n1Cooper 5 жыл бұрын

For me it's actually the screws holding the toilet roll in place

@deel2783 5 жыл бұрын

Took my toilet lid off yesterday doing some cleaning (I get thorough with the toilets) and mine were a material like nylon or something of the sort. My first guess would have been 5/16 ......28?? Not sure what normal tpi is for a 5/16 off the top of my head

@MrModTwelveFoot 5 жыл бұрын

5/16 18 is standard, 24 is fine thread.

@deel2783 5 жыл бұрын

There you go. That sounds like much less of a guess than mine!

@hotfiyah 3 жыл бұрын

Every dad ever when talking about his tools to his son - "If anything's missing it's because you misplaced it"

@giadalussu1922 3 жыл бұрын

It's nice ti see that all the world Is the same

@jonimaricruz1692 3 жыл бұрын

How my brothers and I drove our poor dad crazy.

@h8GW 3 жыл бұрын

Actually the inverse situation with me. Eventually I need to invest in a good lockable tool chest.

@dswmetals02 2 жыл бұрын

So true

@jay-rus4437 2 жыл бұрын

As a General Contractor, and who’s sons work with me, this is exactly correct. And also a true statement 😁

@ibrahimdeniz7308 3 жыл бұрын

"dam, millionth of an inch!" "....of an inch" "Inch...." "Meh, probably like a millimeter or sum"

@thomaslusignan4762 3 жыл бұрын

0,000025 millimeter

@xnamkcor 3 жыл бұрын

Milli is a thousandth. Million is 1000 thousands. So, you're estimating a meter is 1/1000 of an inch?

@thomaslusignan4762 3 жыл бұрын

@@xnamkcor well an inch is roughly 25 millimeters so 25 / 1 000 000 = 0,000025

@random-b-i2480 3 жыл бұрын

@@xnamkcor congrats, that's the joke smartass

@jonathanm9436 3 жыл бұрын

@@thomaslusignan4762 Interestingly, an inch is now defined in terms of millimetres - 25.4mm.

@taofledermaus 5 жыл бұрын

The British were using Whitworth fasteners on cars and motorcycles at least up to the 1960's.

@Robert82 5 жыл бұрын

O.G in the house? Do I seen a rifle slug formed around 5/16 coupler nut in the future shot out of a rifled barrel

@billietyree6139 5 жыл бұрын

I worked on my own cars in my younger days and owned a few Brit cars which I really wish were available today. The only problem was that I had to have three sets of tools, Whitworth, metric and Fractional.

@TheCrimsonLord 5 жыл бұрын

I made a dog by shoting a gun

@twiggy2cents2 5 жыл бұрын

The only way i know anything about that is from Cars 2

@jackflash6377 5 жыл бұрын

Worked on cars for many years. Jaguar had whitworth back in the late 80's. Frustrating to have to buy a complete set of wrenches just to work on those Limey cars. I know that a lot of metric and inch come close and could be used but that wasn't our way. Had to be perfect so hundreds of dollars for Whitworth wrenches.

@just-a-silly-goofy-guy 5 жыл бұрын

I know what I’m measuring with this method...

@RosieSapphire 5 жыл бұрын

Pfft, mine's WAY smaller than that!

@ali-huakbar2176 5 жыл бұрын

Nooooo Russel, mine is way way way smaller

@YASHPRATAP007 5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@dsdy1205 5 жыл бұрын

Oof

@juccidrugs3405 5 жыл бұрын

Bruh, mine is so small I have to Jack off with tweezers and a microscope

@X0verXDriveX 3 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this video, when it was uploaded, almost 2 years ago and it blew my mind. I'm watching it again almost 2 years later and guess what, I'm still amazed by it. That's why this channel is amongst the best channels on youtube!

@aboriani 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly the same went through my mind...

@DavidPike_Potato Жыл бұрын

Two years later I have a career because this video inspired me to become a machinist

@X0verXDriveX Жыл бұрын

@@DavidPike_Potato That’s awesome!

@GRBtutorials 3 жыл бұрын

Me, a non-American: "A millionth of an inch, OK... that doesn't sound too small." Oh, well, I'll have to convert it... let's see, 1 in = 25.4 mm, so 10^-6 in = 25.4 nm... yikes! That's only about 1000 hydrogen *atoms* thick, and about 8 times smaller than the maximum resolution of an ordinary optical microscope!

@martinlyhagen6166 3 жыл бұрын

It's 25,4 times bigger than millionth of a mm.... It's like a loaf compared to a slice of bread.

@alunroberts1439 3 жыл бұрын

To me a millionth is to cut it in to a million parts. But 1000 Millionth of a amp is1 amp so the numbers don't add up. as a millionth is 0.00001 that amount of shift to my is a greasy fingerprint. But saying that 0.025mm is 0.00098425197 I think if with take a piston out of a car and electroplate it how much bigger will it be and can we message it

@GRBtutorials 3 жыл бұрын

@@alunroberts1439 What? 1000 millionths of an amp (1000/1000000, 1 microamp) is 1 thousandth (1/1000) of an amp aka 1 milliamp, not 1 amp. Did you confuse “millionths of an amp” with “milliamps”?

@alunroberts1439 3 жыл бұрын

@@GRBtutorials I was hopping some one would pick up on it as in school I did hear 1 millionth 1 milli needing 1 million of them for 1 amp. but no 1000 milli amps is 1 amp so my thinking was take 1 amp chop it in to 1 million take 1000 of then to get one amp. I was at school at the time so should we say 1000th of a amp not milli amp. milli as millionth. I was hoping some one would see it. As I did one time ask if I take a steel rod that is 12 inches long i keep cutting it in half hoe meany times can I cut it in half I don't think I could do it 1/2 a million times so what is a millionth of 1 inch

@vernzimm 3 жыл бұрын

The bigger problem, as stated in the video, is that it's hardly feasible to make measurements at that accuracy. Just having a geared reducer doesn't mean it is repeatable. Atmosphere and temperature changes, surface finish, microscopic contaminants and user variability mean that the repeatable accuracy may well have been 10 or 100 times worse than advertised. Even today it is highly uncommon (in machining or even grinding) to be making measurements smaller than several microns. It's not feasible in a production environment to control the many many variables involved to get results that are better than this, and, in reality, it is also rarely necessary.

@WhatsInside 5 жыл бұрын

Your dad is cool.

@kimbongun5369 5 жыл бұрын

Ye boi

@sprk_music 5 жыл бұрын

He really is!

@satan1335 5 жыл бұрын

This is not true, I know him and he said he wasn't cool. Stop lying.

@quasiic 5 жыл бұрын

ey it's what's inside

@jasonbourney3869 5 жыл бұрын

da fuq u know?

@jima1135 5 жыл бұрын

As soon as the video started and he said that if it was missing it was because you lost it, I immediately knew it was your dad. All dad's are the same lol

@x.y.8581 3 жыл бұрын

Back in high school Physics class we were measuring modulus of elasticity of a steel wire by adding weight to it and measuring its elongation with a simple mechanism. The wire was attached to a rotating cylinder that had a small mirror attached to it. By sighting thru a sight with crosshairs at the mirror and viewing its reflection of a linear scale some distance away, we could very precisely determine the cylinders rotation angle and thus, the wires elongation. I did the math and figured we were measuring to something like .000001" accuracy.

@Mindwipe96 3 жыл бұрын

You and your Dad don’t look ugly to me. Also this was all extremely fascinating and cool to learn.

@wutzgedudel 5 жыл бұрын

0:22 that look he gives Destin during the short pause after he is asked "what things he has measured"

@ArchangelV11 5 жыл бұрын

Things that go into space things that go into water and things that go into pants

@boblewis5558 5 жыл бұрын

Probably easier to ask what he HASNT measured! 😁

@itsajoeybeat 5 жыл бұрын

I laughed lmao

@harrysheppard3925 5 жыл бұрын

Honeybobo

@InfectedEnnui 5 жыл бұрын

that awkward moment when your son hands you a DNA test

@DarthTwilight 5 жыл бұрын

Bahaha. I had the same thought.

@IETCHX69 5 жыл бұрын

Not needed . Look at those faces !

@kiearamayes 5 жыл бұрын

Hehe "son"

@goz4659 5 жыл бұрын

r/23andme has some scary stories about this

@ModelLights 5 жыл бұрын

It's was even more awkward when the mailman handed a DNA test to your son..

@jonrau5988 3 жыл бұрын

I am a surface plate mertrologist. I measure for flatness and also restore flatness with a casting iron lapping plate and diamond dust. Loved the video !

@otaviocamanho1135 3 жыл бұрын

"How to measure to a millionth of an inch" start by converting it to centimeters or millimeters

@gidelix 3 жыл бұрын

Preferably metres and powers of 10

@wrathmachine7609 3 жыл бұрын

Lazy af 😂😂

@ZaHandle 3 жыл бұрын

Even americans would’ve preferred millimeters to anything lower than an inch

@johankriel8883 3 жыл бұрын

A micrometer that measures millionths of an inch. How much is it in microns?

@timberwolf1575 3 жыл бұрын

@@johankriel8883 Well, 25.4 millimeters to the inch, so a thousandth of an inch is 25.4 microns, which makes a millionth of an inch 0.0254 microns.

@Nighthawkinlight 5 жыл бұрын

The subject matter of your videos is always crazy awesome. I would drool so hard to peek through what I'm sure is a very large stack of your subject ideas over the years.

@StaindandDisturbed 5 жыл бұрын

Hey Ben! How’s it going?

@Adenzel 5 жыл бұрын

@Kernels I guess I'll be checking his channel out now, thanks ;)

@adlerdrahms758 5 жыл бұрын

I wonder if he would do a video about your process of reinvented starlite.

@kerluckvr3893 4 жыл бұрын

why can’t school just be this channel, seriously

@watermaker2.033 4 жыл бұрын

Kerluck because school teaches us depression not anything useful or interesting

@Nico-ee6gy 4 жыл бұрын

Be cause schools are squares

@ahmctech104 4 жыл бұрын

School no want smarts. School want move bodies. Smart bad. You is nerd. Hehehe... nerd.

@deanlonagan1475 4 жыл бұрын

very truthfully because they dont want smart factory workers,just stupid and obedient factory workers...the smart ones they do want,have to sign that abominable contract and God help thier first born....now you all just drink up your flouride..

@pvic6959 4 жыл бұрын

so youre the person who got all the schools shut down and online hmmm (this is a joke, stay safe from covid19 everyone)

@dubbydub9245 3 жыл бұрын

"The scope is off to the side, so I don't know how they fired this thing." (Left-eye dominant right-handed gun enthusiasts drool)

@gnarthdarkanen7464 3 жыл бұрын

In case anyone's actually interested, it was mounted to the side for elevation controls, so you wouldn't have to expend all the extra metal to hinge the scope rail to the muzzle of the rifle. You could then, swivel the shorter scope to use an arc and still be approximately on target over a much greater distance... What was discovered rather quickly was that windage-drift became the new issue and undoing of sharp-shooters over great distances. Primitive shooters have been using the "Kentucky Windage Technique" for considerably longer than even rifle scopes. It entails the effort to aim "for" something (someone?) rather than directly "at" it/them. ;o)

@nullpoint3346 3 жыл бұрын

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 That sounds familiar, like "aim _through_ your opponent, not at them" in relation to pugilism.

@gnarthdarkanen7464 3 жыл бұрын

@@nullpoint3346 In pugilism (and related) the point of aiming "through" is to deliver penetrative power to the strike without over-extending yourself. A lot of injuries and falls are avoided this way, as well as being able to deliver more devastating impact and trauma... In shooting, you're trying to put the path of your projectile into the target... In very short range, this is easiest accomplished with a well aligned sight system (scope or otherwise) and aiming directly "at" said target... This has created terms like "point blank" (virtually no range at all) and "flat trajectory" delineating the "short range" for a specific weapon as the distance a standard projectile will travel without deviation... (an important number to know for any weapon). As you reach further out, requiring a scope to even see the target, however, the projectile no longer travels in a "dead straight" line. Bullets and slugs travel in "arcs", or portions of a circle, usually relating to how quickly gravity pulls the bullet to the ground versus how quickly that bullet also travels "horizontally"... "Windage" refers to the bullet's interactions with varied air flow during it's path. It's technically as much a function of right or left handed "twist" (the rifling in the barrel) as it is which direction the wind is travelling and how fast... "Kentucky Windage" was the old practice of shooting over great distances without a calculator, spotter's scope, or any technology to make up for these effects. SO in order to hit something a half-mile away (as opposed to within the flat trajectory range) you can't aim "iron sights" directly at the target. Surprisingly, humans have been judging wind and elevation for range as far back as we've had spears or bows and arrows... Even more surprisingly, the longest lethal rifle-shot in the world was during the American Civil War, when a Kentucky Long Rifle took a man off his horse from more than a mile away at The Devil's Tower (if I recall correctly), and it held that record all the way through the 1980's and possibly even more recently with Desert Shield or Desert Storm and a renewed use of snipers with full shooting systems. Both principles deal with being able to "visualize" in your targeting, as opposed to the literal "aim at" what you want to hit... SO it's not entirely dissimilar. All you really need to gain skill, is access to the maximum effective range to shoot your weapon safely (within reason) and a weapon that will give reliable and consistent results at any given range under repeatable circumstances... AND then practice steadily increasing your range to target over time under the given circumstances (like wind velocity 14 knots from right to left)... It takes a mountain of patience, but learning to "aim for" as opposed to "aim at" is plenty beneficial, especially for the out door ranges where a bit of friendly gambling can be had. ;o)

@nullpoint3346 3 жыл бұрын

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Thank you.

@gnarthdarkanen7464 3 жыл бұрын

@@nullpoint3346 Always welcome, bro'! You don't get born with this stuff as instincts, so if I can shorten your research to finding out, it's worth it. ;o)

@IvanJoel 3 жыл бұрын

I love that you highlight other people's channels so much. I have found so many cool channels through watching your videos. Thanks!

@ckallmes1 5 жыл бұрын

0.5 secs into the video "That's gotta be Destin's dad" :-)

@smartereveryday 5 жыл бұрын

We're ugly dudes.

@ceciliaFX 5 жыл бұрын

@@smartereveryday - nobody with dimples can be ugly :)

@Abrikosmanden 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thougt, Chris!

@lescrooge 5 жыл бұрын

Your slow motion capture is amazing. thank you for sharing

@lescrooge 5 жыл бұрын

I work in engineering and we often machine items with threaded parts. really cool stuff

@lescrooge 5 жыл бұрын

Also interesting to note, BSP or British standard pipe thread was designed by Mr Whitworth

@SaneAsylum 5 жыл бұрын

$150,000 and you can do it too!

@lescrooge 5 жыл бұрын

@@SaneAsylum convert that to my local currency and it's over a million

@mikewilson3836 5 жыл бұрын

Nothing to measure a millionth totally off topic here

@n16161 3 жыл бұрын

That whitworth cannon firing is one of the coolest things I have ever seen on this channel, and also probably just one of the coolest things I’ve seen. I love the music playing in the background for those shots. Bravo 👏

@sdcofer52 3 жыл бұрын

Wow Destin, some of your absolute best work. You have really improved your camera work. This is fascinating!!!

@Deepwaterjew 5 жыл бұрын

-screws closest to me are actually inside of me, 3 x 1.75 x 40 ive got 8 of them. im a very broken person lol.

@Deepwaterjew 5 жыл бұрын

@kamal ks bah that stuff stinks, I'd rather drink it.

@skeeter7932 5 жыл бұрын

hahahha I was thinking my cell didn't even think of the screws in my arm hahah good thinking

@JD24230 5 жыл бұрын

JD really did a number on you, eh?

@a0flj0 5 жыл бұрын

Nah, by the number of screws in your body you're not broken, you're fixed up real good :-D And neither sniff nor drink superglue - tends to cure stiff - an inconvenience with moving parts. Maybe try some motor oil, for good lubrication ... also helps staying cool, that's why it's used when drilling and cutting metal L-D

@Kriegerdammerung 5 жыл бұрын

Mate, this comment will be a life-changer to you: Do alt + 0215 to input the 'times' symbol, ×.

@christophesirois8110 4 жыл бұрын

Kind of disappointed I still don't know how that barrel was manufactured after watching :(

@zedex1226 4 жыл бұрын

hammer forged around a mandrel

@TorbTorb 4 жыл бұрын

hexagonal drillbit

@Andrewlang90 4 жыл бұрын

Christophe Sirois Drill then reamer

@CodytheDeer 4 жыл бұрын

Rotary broaching, it really is an interesting bit of machine tech if you wanna look into it a bit. Alternatively, rifling is also a common practice for the manufacturing of firearms specifically

@MrNateSPF 3 жыл бұрын

Genetically modified termites that were trained to carve that shape.

@charlierandall2481 4 жыл бұрын

Love how I always learn at least 2 new things in every video you post! Big respect for the time you take to make these, Destin 👏

@milofonbil 3 жыл бұрын

So Joseph Whitworth is your hero! Awesome. Thanks! Enjoyed my 23andMe kit.

@chrisparker8539 5 жыл бұрын

We never learned how the twisted hexagonal bore was made. :(

@steve-o6413 5 жыл бұрын

Probably Top Secret classified lol.

@UberAlphaSirus 5 жыл бұрын

I wanted to know that too.

@pauljs75 5 жыл бұрын

Similar process to this?: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oJablJtjnLbUk4U.html (But picture doing it with 1860's tech.)

@SmilingDevil 5 жыл бұрын

Chris. To get a perfect helix onto a straight Rod for example, simply hold a piece of string on one end, and on the opposing side of the other end. The string will (when tightened ) form a helix. Trace that to the surface and make it a tool for shaping something moved along that rod and you get a helical shape, that would be my approach ...

@A_Man_In_His_Van 5 жыл бұрын

The bore wasn't twisted, the projectile is.

@MrSidney9 5 жыл бұрын

Gee, they look like twins 30 years apart.

@GeeTransit 4 жыл бұрын

"dang you look like your dad" *"i sure hope he does"*

@rockstarproductions6377 3 жыл бұрын

I have watched tons of your videos and love them and the way you do them. Thanks for all the incredible insight into the many things you have covered. This is my favorite video since I have been a precision machinist for decades and really love how you covered this information. I have subscribed to your friends channel too.

@dbmail545 3 жыл бұрын

Love slo-mo. Watching the projectile emerge from the muzzle blast was magical!

@miceondice3688 5 жыл бұрын

if you shoot this at someone they would be hexa-gone

@MrSonny6155 5 жыл бұрын

Should have been the marketing campaign.

@Thirst4livingwater 5 жыл бұрын

Zaza Ha!

@waynejones3428 5 жыл бұрын

That was bore-ing!💥🔫

@soatnod9573 5 жыл бұрын

Coincidentally that's very close to my alt's name in minecraft

@milm5571 5 жыл бұрын

Good pun man!

@Buckarooskiczek 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. I was stymied by the Whitworth system when I bought my first British motorcycle...certain fasteners required whitworth tools (because SAE and metric just weren’t fitting right...) Whitworth created a standardized method of measuring that is ironically, non-standard in modern day. (This is the BEST KZfaq channel ever!)

@kirkseitz2342 3 жыл бұрын

My BSA had some Whitworth stuff

@Zoroaster4 3 жыл бұрын

What year was that motorcycle? That's weird. They can't keep themselves from making things more complicated. I'd be happy if all bolts where they can were in metric.

@africanrover5425 3 жыл бұрын

Whitworth laid the foundation, but the metric system is definitely a progress though.

@jeffwisemiller3590 3 жыл бұрын

Ran into that with electric fan motors on older BC ferries. they used Whitworth threads for the case & the support arms from the case of the motor to the fan housing shroud. I found some here in BC at a Jaguar dealer of all places.

@philgiglio7922 10 ай бұрын

...my wife had a Pontiac Phoenix, the Pontiac version of the nova. 2 bolts right next to each other, 1 would be 1/2 inch SAE and the one next to it a 12mm. Very frustrating to work on

@bhanunihale4576 4 жыл бұрын

Children: I think you're gonna enjoy this. Literally every parent in the world: "Ok"

@JamesAllredWriter 3 жыл бұрын

This is why I watch your channel. The information you give explains the intricate details of things I had not even considered and impress my with the amazing scope of thought that has to go into producing systems of all kinds.

@sleeknub 5 жыл бұрын

Once we got the data on the speed of the projectile I figured we should hear the impact about 1.8 seconds after the cannon was fired (1,800 feet to target / about 1,000 ft/s). When I went back and counted it was more like 3.5 seconds, which confused me for a couple seconds until I realized that the sound had to travel back 1,800 feet. Just so happens the sound and the projectile travel at close to the same speed (projectile at about Mach 0.9), so 3.5 seconds is approximately correct. Maybe a little obvious, but I thought it was neat.

@thomasbooska1448 4 жыл бұрын

1.8 seconds times 2 is 3.6. The sound takes time to come back as well.

@rolando2395 4 жыл бұрын

Sleeknub I thought the same thing...... NOT!!! You nerd lol

@coryjarrett2952 4 жыл бұрын

Smarty pants... That's meant to be a huge compliment.

@ellazychavito9222 4 жыл бұрын

rolando 239 so you aren’t a nerd but you watch smarter ever day

@rolando2395 4 жыл бұрын

@@ellazychavito9222 I love science man...

@andrewmatthews4677 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, an excellent precis on the subject to make it accessible.

@montanajuggs1717 2 жыл бұрын

Just started my career as a Quality operator using some of these high precision tools and I would love to see more videos talking about these type of tools. Love learning from ya

@joops110 5 жыл бұрын

The nearest screws to me are the ones that are loose in my head.

@Ryan-sb9fb 5 жыл бұрын

joops110 underrated comment

@Mywhtjp 4 жыл бұрын

Ditto.. and LMAO.. but what thread pitch are they.. No bonus for you.

@MYeahman 4 жыл бұрын

It genuinely brings a tear to my ear when you think about how important this kind of stuff is, how critical it has been for our progress and how little the everyday person is aware of it. Thank you for endeavouring to bring light to these topics and making them available to everyday people. You are doing a great service.

@TreeCutterDoug 3 жыл бұрын

I watched this two years ago, and I'm just as impressed watching it again today.

@privatepilot4064 3 жыл бұрын

I was a Metrologist too! Fascinating profession! And it still serves me well!

@whatevernamegoeshere3644 5 жыл бұрын

Kind of ironic that you measure something in inches and thou... ...with a device called a micrometer

@EisenFeuer 5 жыл бұрын

micrometers also disappointingly large considering...

@MatDockerty 5 жыл бұрын

Micro, from the Greek micros meaning small; meter from the Greek metron, that by which something is measured. Metre is the measurement devised be the French.

@l2eaction 5 жыл бұрын

Nothing ironic about it 😂

@a0flj0 5 жыл бұрын

@@l2eaction O yes it is ironic. Correct, factually, but still ironic.

@hans3331000 5 жыл бұрын

@@MatDockerty don't know why you're defending imperial systems

@Alomoes 5 жыл бұрын

When you're singlehandedly responsible for the invention of replaceable parts.

@xavier9480 5 жыл бұрын

civ

@duskpede5146 3 жыл бұрын

@@xavier9480 his profile pic is from hoi4

@macseagle5968 3 жыл бұрын

Son: "So why did the sharpshooters of the day prefer the Whitworth?" Dad: "Accurate...very accurate... Son: "Really?" That is such wholesome conversation.

@ScottKenny1978 3 жыл бұрын

Watch the Forgotten Weapons videos on them, as a muzzleloader they had about a 3.5moa accuracy, on par with a modern military rifle. An 1861 Springfield would be good to have about a 20moa accuracy, and most were more like 50. One MOA is a minute of angle, 1/60 of a degree. It's right about 1" at 100 yards. A Whitworth rifle could get 9 or more consecutive shots into a 4" circle at 100 yards.

@DaxxTerryGreen 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent work as usual friend. Well done!

@labibbidabibbadum 5 жыл бұрын

Hey hey hey... wait up. I watched this to find out how they drilled out a hex borehole. And ya never told me!

@80cardcolumn 5 жыл бұрын

See "Rifling" in Wikipedia and elsewhere.

@labibbidabibbadum 5 жыл бұрын

@@80cardcolumn Yes, I realise there are other ways to find out. I have this internet thing, see?

@VanessaScrillions 5 жыл бұрын

Same :(

@brod2474 5 жыл бұрын

They used a hexagonal drill bit :P

@labibbidabibbadum 5 жыл бұрын

@@brod2474 Yeah - that's it. Or they could use a triangular drill bit, but spin it twice as fast.

@NoNTr1v1aL 5 жыл бұрын

Finally I can measure my... Self esteem

@turolretar 5 жыл бұрын

Mohammed Sharukh can’t measure something that doesn’t exist

@markorezic3131 5 жыл бұрын

@@turolretar well I mean, you can equate it to 0, thats one way of measuring it Kinda like saying theres 0 unicorns in the universe

@jayasuriyas2604 5 жыл бұрын

Same here

@baconderpderpbacon9170 5 жыл бұрын

I thought you would say something else ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@NoNTr1v1aL 5 жыл бұрын

@@markorezic3131 u r right. But then my joke wouldn't make sense because u wouldn't need any precise instrument to measure it, since we know it is zero.

@garychandler4296 3 жыл бұрын

One thing not mentioned about Whitworth: back in the :70's, I worked as a weekend Triumph motorcycle and lived with the owner of Mac's Motorcycle Shop in Norfolk Va. We had a lot of special and specialty tools for British bikes including Metric, British Standard, and Whitworth! It was a blast lear ing the special tuning techniques, period changes (the newer the bike, the more metric they became), and history.

@stevegoodwin4471 3 жыл бұрын

Really beautiful video of the cannon firing. Thank you!

@ILike2Tinker 5 жыл бұрын

I was having a bad day and watching this video made it better. Thank you for sharing your love of learning

@VSO_Gun_Channel 5 жыл бұрын

Threaded barrel 1/2 - 28

@aaronziebarth8243 3 жыл бұрын

Wow I didn’t know you watched him. I’m a big fan of you m8

@linkbond08 3 жыл бұрын

5/8x24 is best girl.

@scopopulus 3 жыл бұрын

is it really a fastener, though?

@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat 3 жыл бұрын

@jovi_al 3 жыл бұрын

So fun to see you in that museum! I've been there so many times. And some of the oddities in that museum are fascinating. I hope you enjoyed much more than just the rifle!

@TheGarvin 3 жыл бұрын

Dustin you ain’t ugly... You and your dad are the most average looking people I’ve ever seen.

@titaniummechanism3214 3 жыл бұрын

*Destin

@skyscraper908 3 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of a bill burr who smiles more haha

@dlwatib 3 жыл бұрын

His dimples make him really cute.

@carsonmclaughlin4773 3 жыл бұрын

@@dlwatib SIMP

@blackfiveminutecrafts4360 3 жыл бұрын

@@titaniummechanism3214 calm down hes just trying to make *Destin* feel better than he already is. Soo....

@Znarffi 5 жыл бұрын

Thats 25.4 nanometers for us who use metric.

@HYEOL 5 жыл бұрын

Å?

@Ranstone 5 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry; I can't hear you over the sound of our flag silently standing on the moon.

@Robert82 5 жыл бұрын

@@Ranstone ok.. that was funny .. wife thinks I'm even more odd, if that was even possible

@denisl2760 5 жыл бұрын

@@Ranstone Funny thing about the whole moon thing, NASA scientists and engineers actually used metric for most of the important technical details.

@HYEOL 5 жыл бұрын

@@Ranstone Werner von Braun

@gibbo1112 5 жыл бұрын

whats the TPI/thread pitch of DNA?

@soranuareane 5 жыл бұрын

About 7.5 x 10^7 TPI. That's one turn every 34 Å.

@benjamin9440 5 жыл бұрын

@@soranuareane Great explanation! to put it in more commonly known terms that would be: 75 million threads per inch. One turn every 0.00000001 centimeters. About 7,470.6 turns every thou (thousandth of an inch). For reference, a sheet of printer paper is about 0.004 inches (0.01cm) thick. Pretty incredible! :)

@Stuve715 5 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere but cannot find it online that several years before Watson and Crick deduced the double helix structure of DNA, a British mathematician figured out that the double helix would be a recurring structure in biological systems (and Watson and Crick were apparently unaware of his work).

@Tomas.Malina 5 жыл бұрын

Technically, it also depends on the DNA conformation at that time - there are three major DNA helix forms - A, B, and Z, plus several less common ones (C, D, ...). Each of those helix forms has a different TPI - most common B-form is 34 Å per turn, A-form is more compact at 28 Å per turn and Z-form is loose at approximately 230 Å per turn.

@PandaMane 5 жыл бұрын

Can someone please explain what the "A" thing means?

@rogerbeck3018 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for introducing your Dad. Thanks to you Dad Destin as he put you in a mental place where engineering was easily absorbed and you translate it very well to the great unwashed. A family of great skills.

@meyejasmedia 3 жыл бұрын

Love the camera work you did on this

@joshacollins84 5 жыл бұрын

My dad is my hero, and we just watched this together. There is something kind of cool about watching you hang out w/ your dad, while I'm hanging out with mine.

@ElBach1y 3 жыл бұрын

Dad time

@joshacollins84 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnperic6860 I can share mine He has started repeating his stories on a daily basis so he would probably enjoy telling them to someone for the first time again. 😁

@mychevysparkevdidntcatchfi1489 5 жыл бұрын

Would you collaborate with TAOFLEDERMAUS to find out why GIANT backwards pellet shows mind-twisting physics? Center of mass is behind center of drag, and many commenters say that works for subsonic as well.

@Robert82 5 жыл бұрын

I 2nd this

@garywernersbach6848 5 жыл бұрын

I third it, would like to see happen

@MarkoRSolidus 5 жыл бұрын

I fourth it, because I want to make something happen in this life for once -.-

@TheBlakus420 5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Sounds very interesting! I'm probably about to do a lil bit of online research about that, right now. Lol

@ShadetreeArmorer 5 жыл бұрын

Sixth! This is worth figuring out.

@dougcook7507 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love thread systems. Been 30 years since I worked in the field. But I knew every thread system in the world as well as the variations of each. I worked for a calibration/gage company. I specialized in threads, name measuring their every requirement. We supplied Aeroquip (Eaton now) and if it flew, I made or calibrated a gage to check a part on it, both domestic and foreign. I knew threads ranging from the common UN and NPT to the mentioned British Whitworth, to M, as well as all the associated variations with tapers, root radii and multi lead threads. I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you.

@MechMK1 4 жыл бұрын

Since you mentioned that you didn't know how the rifle was fired, Ian from Forgotten Weapons made a video about this rifle. The rifle was designed to be shot in the "Major Henry Fulton Position", where you'd lay on your back, hold the gun close to the trigger with your right hand, wrap your left arm around your head to support the stock, and form a notch with your legs to support the rifle. The advantage of this position, as compared to laying prone, is that you can easily adjust the height of the front of the rifle, required for long-distance shots - which was one of the only things the Whitworth rifle was really good at.

@philgiglio7922 10 ай бұрын

Also called the Creedmoor position, because it was the shooting position used for 1000 yard shooting

4 жыл бұрын

I've watched this video several times and I find the interactions between Destin and his dad so wholesome that it just lifts me up. Thanks for the video Destin!

@SWRaptor1 5 жыл бұрын

Love when your videos pop up! Always a treat and something I'll talk about all day. Was doing some reverse engineering this morning in CAD and the closest thing to me is my digital caliper. It has a pair of 4mm M1.4 x 0.3mm thread screws in the battery door. On a side note, LOVED the Whitworth cannon slow-mo shots! That was simply amazing man! Bravo!

@TheBauwssss 3 жыл бұрын

I love your videos Destin, thank you for making them! 😁👍

@abilalpk 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing the gems from history.

@danlorett2184 5 жыл бұрын

Closest screws to me are the 2-56 flathead machine screws holding the hinges on my glasses.

@johntuffy5721 4 жыл бұрын

those are prolly not 2-56 ... sorry

@MrRolnicek 5 жыл бұрын

Destin, you SAY we're at the dawn of precision medicine. That probably doesn't mean much to most people. But genetically modifying a patients own immune cells to fight off the patients own cancer has been approved now (pretty sure I read that somewhere). Think about that, we analyze the cancer DNA, find out how it's different from healthy DNA, take immune cells and precisely modify them to be able to detect the cancer as a threat. Then we put them back into the body

@timwildauer5063 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly, it's totally fantastic what scientists are doing. To give a little more detail, they essentially do the same thing that vaccines do. There are tiny proteins on the outside of every cell that let it interact with everything around it. Healthy cells have protein markers that let your immune system know that they're your cells and that they're not bad. Viruses and bacteria have markers that look completely different from healthy cells, and vaccines contain replicas of those markers without the bad parts that can hurt your body, so that your immune cells can detect and destroy the bacteria and viruses when they happen to get into your body. Cancer cells look a lot like healthy cells, but by analyzing the DNA closely as well as the cancer cell components, they can find the cell markers that are unique to the cancer cells, and then they can teach your immune system how to find those specific markers and destroy the cancer cells. I'm not sure what all has been approved or not (it might only be approved for certain kinds of cancer), but the technology is there and it has the potential to help lots of people!

@brownwarrior6867 3 жыл бұрын

Fabulous channel the gift that keeps giving. More power to yer elbow 💪🏼

@LoanwordEggcorn 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dustin and all!

@0dan56 5 жыл бұрын

Worked as a machinist over 30 years and today was the first time I'd heard of a metrologist. Seems google hasn't heard of it either. Red lined it, had to add to dictionary. A real smarter every day. I think this is my favorite. Good job, O'dan

@Bdmaurice 5 жыл бұрын

Who designs the machines?

@ogarnogin5160 4 жыл бұрын

I worked at Pratt & Whitney jets The meteorologist used to experiment with alloys , Not in the machining end of things

@jamesbizs 4 жыл бұрын

Ogar Nogin LOL “meteorologist”. Yeah, probably not tho

@tbthegr81 5 жыл бұрын

Forgotten Weapons have a good video about the Whitworth Rifle

@brutongaster8184 5 жыл бұрын

Ooh, I can't wait to see that!

@J.A.Smith2397 3 жыл бұрын

Truly some of the most awesome n beautiful footage ever!

@bobbailey4954 4 жыл бұрын

Another excellent video thank you

@ceciljb 5 жыл бұрын

Leaning against my desk is a 12 gauge Iver Johnson shotgun (1939-1941, I believe). The internal bolt that secures the stock to the lock frame is a 7/32 inch major diameter by 24 threads per inch BSW Whitworth.

@electronicsNmore 5 жыл бұрын

Highly informative as usual! Great video

@vaporiiz 3 жыл бұрын

forgot how awesome this channel was! looking forward to you hitting 10 mil :)

@lyndondowling2733 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. Great to see the Whitworth Cannon in Action. Its Accuracy was so good it was used to counter the opposing sides Artillery. The Rille and Riffled Cannons only drawback.. Expense.

@Duo_Fish 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, I could tell that was your father without you even saying so. The resemblance really is uncanny.

@SpydersByte 5 жыл бұрын

right? he has a good preview of what he's gonna look like at that age :D

@SteelSkin667 5 жыл бұрын

Every time I see someone resembling their dad so closely I like yo say "you can tell he isn't the mailman's son".

@BeCurieUs 5 жыл бұрын

It is fun to be able to pin point an artifact to a specific day! SO COOL!

@LaneMitchell-qc4ss 3 жыл бұрын

I am a young machinist still learning more about this field and this field gave a me a little more background knowledge, but this is great. Thank you!!! I love your content and I hope i get the chance to meet you an help with a video idea one day!!! Thanks again 😅😁

@imdawolfman2698 3 жыл бұрын

This video reveals a hidden pearl in the history of human development, and raises a genius from obscurity. Repeat after me: Thank you Sir Joseph Whitworth! We'd be screwed without you.

@green1sounds 5 жыл бұрын

Hello and thank you. I am sat up a tower crane in Manchester England on Whitworth Street named after Joseph Whitworth until watching this video I had no idea about this man thanks once again brilliant keep up the good work.

@Kumquat_Lord 5 жыл бұрын

As someone in manufacturing, it's amazing to hear how one man helped make the entire industry what it is. I use a surface plate nearly every single day to perform measurements and I had no idea that he made it possible!

@SaneAsylum 5 жыл бұрын

I use a granite surface plate for a paper weight every day.

@joshuac6796 5 жыл бұрын

Man, you should look up James Watt too. The wikipedia article doesn't do justice to a man with his name on all aspects of mechanical engineering. Also, Chebyshev. Cool Russian guy , also with his name on everything.

@btaylor9788 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love your videos keep them coming.

@Chasred-ml4hm 2 жыл бұрын

@ 5:01 you are already at your best work. You also have a terrific relationship with your Dad. Great Video.

@derflitermouse8976 5 жыл бұрын

I spent 20 years as a Metrologist but I was on the electronic side. We measured Ohms, Volts, Amps and radiation.

@nmarbletoe8210 3 жыл бұрын

There's a great sci fi story about metrology I wish i could remember it's name

@mikeet69 3 жыл бұрын

Me too. It's a small world! Pun intended. ;-)

@mikeet69 3 жыл бұрын

Destin you made my day by introducing your dad and by mentioning what he does. Same as me, only I do more electrical metrology than mechanical metrology although I went to school for both. By the way the slightly longer USAF definition of metrology is the science of weights and measures. I always thought since weights was part of the definition there should be something electrical in the definition. However as you show in your video it all began as mechanical as far back as the Egyptian Royal Cubit used to build the famous Pyramids. Your video was much more enjoyable than just showing a standard Supermic with encoder and digital display or a laser micrometer. I always wondered where you got all your curiosity and love for inventing and all things technical. Now I know. I am curious if your dad went to school like I did for metrology or did he learn it OJT as a machinist? I saw the brown machinist tool box behind your dad. Thanks again for making your channel as a newer viewer I am still catching up on the older videos but especially liked your recent nuclear submarine videos as well as the musical oscilloscope! Keep up the cool work dude. :-)

@somborn 5 жыл бұрын

23 and you, but not me.

@yogi1396 2 жыл бұрын

Great Video! I'd loveto some more of these where you commemorate such classical scientists/inventors and tell us more about their discoveries and how it shapes our world today. Thanks. Good Luck

@martyb3783 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating! As one who works on very high precision CNC machines, I love stuff like this. Trying to explain to someone that your machine tolerance is < 20 microns is difficult. Great job.

@finjanx9402 5 жыл бұрын

I'm seriously happy when watching your video, your videos brighten my day!

@F_L_U_X 5 жыл бұрын

Can it shoot lugnuts?

@Threedog1963 5 жыл бұрын

LOL... that would be awesome!

@rivencraft1734 5 жыл бұрын

probably not long enough to be stable since they're hollow. If they are long enough, they PROBABLY (not sure on this one) wouldn't be able to go down the barrel due to the twist.