Then explain leeches, packing wounds with cow dung, using two magic sticks to find wells, and all the other absolute nonsense people wasted their time on. Or the billions of man hours devoted to trying to open magic portals to other planes. If there's one thing we can say for certain it is that people DID mess around with things that didn't work, and were quite irrational because they just--like you--presumed whoever came before them was wise and practical when they weren't. Just as we probably aren't today, but we're definitely a little better now than then.

Yikes - man is SO much worse off with modern medicine being so currupt and so much poison than he was then - @llszombies there's a place for hirudotherapy (leeches), not to mention maggots, urine and bovine dung in medicine. Which is why such things are still studied today. Not to mention probiotics - i.e. bacteria. Real scientists study things that work to find out why. And they CONTINUE studying it, the more amazing things they discover about it. Whereas the corrupted side of science studies things that work in an effort to frankenstein some sort of patentable poison from it that kills the least amount of people and performs no worse than the placebo effect. And usually much, MUCH worse as natural medicine doesn't have the side effect of destroying the liver. It fixes the problem and then you stop taking it. With modern medicine, not only are you prescribed horrid toxins, but you're instructed to take them, basically, for as long as you live. Which often isn't very long. So, good luck with that!

@llszombies Interestingly, scientists are studying such things. Not to find out IF they work but to discover WHY they work. And why they don't kill people like prescription drugs.

Just to play devils advocate... My great aunt was renouned in her community for her skill as a 'water witch'. She practiced helping neighbors locate their wells for close to 50 years using only a willow branch she found in the area she was working. To the best of my knowledge she was only wrong less than 3 percent of the time. Inexplicable but true.

@@samspade7522 Dowsing is an excellent example of "weird" things that work "for no apparent reason".

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@@fraserbuilds the rivets looked solid, if u want the tops to have a nice dome shape u need the right sized concave headed punch punch to finish off with

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I admire your r/armchair expertise but it'd be easier to just claim you did that back in 92 but better😅

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thank you! I really appreciate that! best of luck with your research!

@@fraserbuilds Thank you my friend. I do not know how I missed your reply. You are doing some really fantastic work. Right now I am building a replica of a 1928 Morgan hillclimb special race car. It was originally designed to look exactly like an airplane without wings. In the front is an engine and I am using a modified experimental opposed twin motor. My problem is mating the engine to an MGB transmission. I am building a casting foundry so I can make a mold for an adapter so I can cast it out of aluminum or some alloy. Then I can chuck up the raw piece on a lathe and make it so that it fits both the output shaft on the engine and the flywheel for the MGB transmission. There is only one of the originals in existence so I am looking forward to making some great memories with it here in the USA because the original is in England. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jZ-BgMRopruoXWg.html

Indeed - @Nighthawkinlight comes to mind too - with similarly well researched and insightful videos.

@@ivans3806 Absolutely, his was another channel that came to my mind as well!

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i seriously suggest it! its been by far my most handy project. it has to be the most convienant charcoal furnace ive ever used. im planning on tweaking the design a bit and doing an updated version sometime soon

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Thank you! going forward I'll try to do just that.

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Thank you! dont worry, I cut them out now :)

I think you are talking about "wedging", and it is indeed important to getting consistent results. I've never worked with clay having anything but clay in it -- no "sea coal" or "plumbago" (Faraday's "plumbum"?) or other stuff. However, I have done a but of lost wax bronze casting using plaster moulds. Plaster would never stand up to molten bronze temperature on its own, of course, but plaster mixed with "grog" will. Grog is made from pulverised and screened fireclay. You just hard fire some pots from virgin fire clay then smash the bejeezus out of them once they cool. Firebricks -- white ones, not the red -- would work too. Sieve the fragments so you have both fine and medium coarse grog. "Fine", as I recall, was bigger than poppy seeds and smaller than sesame seeds, and the "medium" was about the size of, say, short grain rice. You then just wedge it into the clay. I don't remember the fractions of each we used.

I have heard that air bubbles actually do not cause cracking when firing.

@@OmniversalInsect if it has big enough air bubbles in the clay it would crack, there would be some wiggle room if you use grog in the clay but you still don’t want air bubbles (air pockets) of any size as it can and in most cases cause cracks, even if you don’t see them. They can also cause pottery to explode which is like a bomb going off and can send ceramic shrapnel everywhere which of cause can be lethal.

thanks so much :) im a big fan of your channel!

@@fraserbuilds I appreciate it. You also got some great content.

we live in such an interesting time to have access to these materials in the form of scrap! to me theres nothing more satisfying than making something with the matter around you :)

Thanks! the best results ive had so far has been by removing the crucible all together and directly burying eggshell in the coals themsleves, though it still takes quite some time and mixes ash with the product.

@@fraserbuilds I can see why taht would work but it does mess up your product quite a bit....I've been trying to come up with a way of making a crucible with charcoal in it instead of graphite. I figured it might mix with clay to make a viable but more heat absorbant crucible...Only trouble is I haven't actually been able to try it out yet.

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thank you! i might do just that 😂

Yes! Something that doesn't jump every time you bang on metal.

Wheel throwing is a whole 'nuther skill. I can't imagine working with clay with grog in it or other additives -- it would shred your hands! I think his instinct is right, do pinch pots or slab building for anything that requires high heat resistance.

He tested for this with the vinegar. He concluded he had aluminium, not galvanised steel.

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Four. I meant four