I so Love this guy. Can't believe he is still working hard for us. Thank you so much.

Welcome back Tim, absolutely overjoyed to see a new series and guaranteed there won’t be a better series of videos on YT in 2023. 😊

May not be an expert in pneumatics, but a hero in our minds. The world NEEDS Tim.

Looking younger than ever and just as entertaining. You and Rex got me into engineering. Hard to describe how grateful I am.

This man is a national treasure

I have always enjoyed Tim Hunkin's work. I have been a fan ever since watching the Secret Life of Machines series in the 1980's. Thanks Tim.

Could watch these all day. Thanks Tim 🙂

I've always wanted to do something with pneumatics - the action is so satisfying! You can get oil free compressors pretty cheaply nowadays - I think they use two or more diaphragms to avoid any friction surfaces that need lubricating

As a maker, mad scientist, amateur scientist, professional engineer, and so on and so forth, I can hardly express how much your shows, both old and new, have enritched my life. Thank you!❤

that reed switch thing is the kind of secret knowledge we need Tim :D

Dear Tim, it's so nice you're back ❤

Great to see Tim back doing at what he does best, entertaining through technology. I am still loving the Secret Life series as much I did when I was a kid. Absolutely brilliant.

so good to see Mr. Tim Hunkin continuing the series. Thank you.

Bucketlist; visit his museum of oddities, loving it!

Thank you Tim, thank you so much for bringing joy into this world you are an amazing person.

"Intermittent faults are always the worst" I live by these words.

it's a good day when there's a new Tim Hunkin video

You remind me so much of my grandfather. He was so smart and always in his shop devising clever devices of all sorts. He built a elevator in his house in later years and used paddle wheel pump and cold creek water to cool his house back in the 40's.

More please! 30+ years and still a joy to watch.

Yay! Great to see you back with more :)

Wonderful to have you back Tim! We've missed you 😃

As a child, I loved Tim and Rex in The Secret Life of Machines. As an adult, I'm in disbelief the YT algorithm did me such a solid as to show me this great man is still at it 35 years later!

Great to see you back, I remember your TV series when we were all younger, and have loved your practical approach to passing on your knowledge and experiences ever since. Thank you...

Great to see new episodes in my feed. Thank you Tim.

Thanks Tim, we all truly appreciate the effort you go to sharing your knowledge.

Secret Life Of… still one of the best series on “television”. Wish you had been one of my teachers at school.

Amazing episode, thank you! Gonna watch this again tonight with my kids :)

I learned several things I will utilize in my projects. Tim, your videos are an example of what KZfaq should be!

TIM! I am overjoyed by your return.

Yes! Thank you, Tim. You're a legend.

I've been in engineering for 21 years, I should have been shown this as a training video as an apprentice! You've taught me things about components that we use but never really understood 😊

I have no want to meet ANY "celebrity". A bit of a disdain for most of them actually. I'd PAY to spend a couple hours touring Tim's shop and absorbing everything he had to impart. His videos are some of the absolutely best content available. And he imparts his knowledge for free! Thank you SO much and PLEASE continue, as is comfortable and enjoyable, to keep educating so many of us who absorb every video like a sponge. Oh how I wish I had such instruction as a child.

I wish I could give you two thumbs up. I really enjoyed the secret life of machines years ago. It was my favorite TV show. Thank you for creating this series of videos to pass on your knowledge to those younger mechanically inclined folks today!

Thank you Mr Hunkin for sharing your knowledge and experience, and for filling the world with your unique brand of mechanical humour.

I hope to one day visit this arcade. These videos are so much more helpful than many others on YT. I love how it just comes down to his decades of practical experience (and it's broken up according to how he approaches making these machines).

When I grow up, I want to be as awesome as Tim Hunkin.( and so does my son!)

Very good! I had a Ford that had pneumatic windscreen wipers, powered from the intake manifold vacuum. They stopped when going up-hill, due to a lowered vacuum!

i absolutely love watching this man. hes awesome

Happy 2023 Tim, from an Englishman making armour in a French forest. I just downed tools for this... and that is the rule! 🇬🇧⚒️🏆

Tim!! SO glad to see you again. I've shared a lovely many hours viewing your videos, new and old, with my aging father, as something to do with him that he laughs so heartily with. Thank you. You've reminded us both of my childhood with him, watching both weird British TV stuff (we're American) and these wonderful educational videos by very clever people in those times. It actually reminds me a lot of many other KZfaq creators I've discovered lately, including yourself. Thank you very much. We love you and appreciate all your work, back then and now. You deserve all success possible.

It's decided....your arcade is on my bucket list. People like you are the reason I want to make videos for edu-tainment purposes.

My favorite TV personality as a kid is now my favorite KZfaqr as an adult. Can’t get enough!

I don't even wait for the video to finish before hitting the thumbs up button. All Tim's videos are thumbs up worthy!

I love your arcade machines, I haven't seen anything like that here in the US in a long time. Wonderfully creative.

The best series on YT!!! Nothing worse then trying to figure something out and the yahoo that your watching has never done it before

evening's viewing sorted, thank you Tim!

I'm an engineer and you are an absolute inspiration. I've also been to your attraction in London. I'll be bringing my daughter when she's born 🤣

Great to see you again Tim, very informative...... thank you so much I always enjoy your videos 😀

Nice to see you back Tim, absolutely love this series, old and new. Thank you so much for sharing, hope you're keeping well

Legendary to see a new series! Also that pneumatic residential elevator near the end, wow!! Thanks for continuing to inspire, and sharing your knowledge and creative personality.

Welcome back Tim. Enjoyable and educational as ever. Thank you!

I never forgot the few episodes of Secret Life of Machines that I saw in the 90s. This is a delightful blast from the past.

My grandfather used to build ride-on steam Railway engines, he was a member of the North London Society of Model Engineers. I now find myself gravitating towards more and more mechanical engineering. I think you two would have gone well, both working out of a problem using experimentation. Glad to see you back. Ast...

Superb, thanks Tim. Let's not forget the pneumatics that Rex used on Brum and his robots, all very effective.

A great pleasure to see what really works and the reliability of different systems. Decades of hands on experience. pure gold. Thank you Tim.

Love it! Thank you so much, Tim! The world needs you.

Thanks Tim for yet another brilliant insight in everyday items. Always entertaining and informative. Lovely to see the dedication to Rex & Graham. Watched your TV programmes when you were on C4. Under the pier show & Southwold are well worth a visit, you'll not be disappointed.

Tim glad you are back. Absolutely made my day. Having a very hard time through bereavement and just rubbish work but this made me feel so full of happiness. I work in oil and gas, it’s all about control.Glad to see you doing what is brilliant… Love A xxx

Thanks Tim. I'd not really thought about pneumatics for a long time. I had some pneumatic lego when I was a kid but that's really the only time I've played with it. Maybe I'll start using it in some projects now your video has refreshed my memory of it.

Hi Tim, thanks for making a new series. Such a brilliant deep dive into pneumatics, I didn't know they came in such small packages 🙂

Wonderfully entertaining and informative Tim. Many thanks for your continued work

I turned thirty last year. I really struggle to know who I am or what I want to do with my life. The one thing I've always been fascinated by, but for most of my life struggled with, was creation. Telling stories, making THINGS, anything at all, even pointless things. But so much that I've considered doing has been too complicated to even approach. Too scary to even research. The Secret Life Of vids are so satisfyingly done, spectacularly well explained to help demystify what might as well be magic if you don't look under the hood. Just want to say thank you for these. Really helps to show that taking the first steps into things like this isn't so hard at all.

"All calls are charged at 1 Pound per second sounds about right". Cheers for the great content Engineer Hunkin!

Fantastic stuff all round Tim, I remember watching you years ago on 'The secret life of... ' Your creations are brilliant! Thanks for all your videos and explanations.

This was a delightful surprise to see uploaded!

What a fascinating video Have loved your work since I was at school reading your cartoons in the Observer. It was the only reason my parents bought it. Thank you.

Thank you SO much Tim! I will have a blast looking through 0:29 the new video’s! 🤩

One word sir, BRAVO! At the end of your videos I feel I have a PHD in the subject at hand. Thank you for the work and works you have done.

I love Tim, always have since I was a teenager I'm now 60 and still find him an exciting watch. A Fabulous fella.

Tim mentioned vacuum bellows used in cars - my Land Rover used to have its cruise control throttle mechanism controlled that way. One might remember the old distributor vacuum advance too. The vacuum tube system for moving items around is used in the nuclear industry for moving radioactive canisters around quickly and without human contact (I forget but there is a university department in America that has a system that runs over a huge distance between labs). Perhaps Tim mentioned it but pneumatic systems work well in 'explosive' environments where the risk from an electrical spark would be a real problem! What a brilliant video - we are so lucky he is still broadcasting albeit on KZfaq!

This is one topic I've waited for a Hunkin video to cover. Can't watch it this morning but I couldn't resist adding a little engagement for the algorithm! ;¬)

A million things to watch on KZfaq and I have already watched this particular episode at least6-8 times, not to mention how many times I have watched all Mr. Hunkins videos. I wish Rex was still here to be involved.

I watched Secret Life series years ago and missed it when it went off the air. This week I stumbled across Tim’s KZfaq channel and I have been on a binge ever since. Nice to see Tim still going strong. Can’t wait for future content!!!

I cannot express my appreciation to you for making this video enough. A million thanks good sir.

Thank you Tim, these videos are simply brilliant, a goldmine of information

Can I just say - you are an absolute delight Tim! I truly love your work.

Wow, I had no idea you had more shows out! I have entire series of The Secret Life of Machines saved! As soon as i finished watching, I donated! I'm a Machine Operator at a factory and Pneumatics are used *extensively* both on the machine I run and elsewhere in the facility. They even have air-powered pumps called 'Sandpipers'.

Ah, a new Tom Hunkin Video! The Magic of Your Shows are Still There! You are the Common-Man's Treasure! I have been watching and following you since I was a young man, and we are kindred spirits in Tinkering! Even though I have been in industry and around pneumatics, I learned a few new things (as usual!). So thank You! When you pass, and go to heaven, may you have a fully outfitted-shop attached to a McMaster Carr warehouse!

8:35 Oh my I remember playing that one in London last year during September! I still have the 'nuclear waste' as a memento to the wonderful time I had. Thank you for your service Tim. Greetings from Germany!

Tim. I think you’re somewhat unique on KZfaq in providing not just a high-level how to but also a semi complete survey of the equipment involved. It is awesome! I was voided using pneumatics for years and having watched this I feel confident to be able to launch into my own projects. Thank you.

I've been checking for a while for a new video 😂 fell in love with Tim when I was a kid watching Secret Life of Machines and I'm so glad he's still at it on KZfaq. Would really like to get over to the UK one of these days and see the arcade.

Thanks to you and TSLotM I've understood how refrigerator works. Now I'm nearly 40 and still watch your videos on YT. Best wishes from Poland.

Tim is an absolute legend. An artist of the highest caliber. He takes the term industrial arts to it's most literal interpretation. :)

Best thing I’ve watched for months. Always great to watch and learn from Tim. A National treasure.

Friends and myself have been champing at the bit, since you announced the new series. Thanks for making them. Everyone, hit the like button and get these promoted to a wide audience. Let's educate the masses. I still use air tools, as I have so many.

Could you make a video on sheet metal working, really wondering how you made those goats! Love the videos, I once made an interactive animatronic gromit (moving eyes, wagging tail etc) for a sculpture trail in bristol, its still in use 5 years later (9 hours a day). So can appreciate how hard it is to make reliable mechanisms that the public can be around. Would love to do something similar again one day. Hope to visit novelty automation one day.

Tim your a legend! Love your under the pier show loved meeting you and Rex in Ipswich in 2011 at the student Union ! These videos are fantastic thank you for your time and efforts! 😊

I loved this show back in the day and love that it's still going. Wish I had a shop like Tim's.

Thanks for putting these videos up, very informative and inspirational. The 55 minutes of the video just flew by, thanks for putting this online.

Tim, your videos are a gift for artists, engineers, and makers of all ages! Thank you so much!!

as a professional mechatronics engineer I find this series of videos incredibly educational and what's more explained in very simple terms and practical. Thanks a lot for sharing your vast knowledge!! very cool arcade machines too!

New Tim video… I feel like I’m 8 again back in 85’

you can build a pneumatic computer... using force balancing and analog pressures to represent signals. bellows and diaphragms will be balance against levers and springs. This can provide control in both proportional and inverse proportional relationships. Add in some bleed valves and you get reset action, addition, subtraction, accumulation... these types of computers are quite reliable and are not effected by magnetic fluctuations or changes in either magnetic or electric fields... ideal for industrial controls... or if you need a computer that can survive a EMP blast. =D Happy Wednesday!

Great stuff, an excellent follow-on from that legendary TV series! If only you could still see informative and entertaining stuff like this on the telly these days.

Great to see more fantastic content from you Tim. Was only a few weeks ago I was wondering if you were still on youtube so great to see you are 🙂

Thank you for putting the time and effort into these videos, it's very much appreciated!

my dad’s first compressor he made from a lorry compressor - very similar to yours and age

Thank you Tim for all that you do! I am more than happy to donate to help fund your projects!

I absolutely cannot describe how much I loved every minute of this video. "I love this tool, and would probably have never made these goats without it." I mean, *obviously*

Good to see you again still entertaining us all, Tim!