Extremely talented, this is not your typical project. Very cool btw. As soon as I saw the gauge of wire I knew it was going to be good. 😍👍🙌

Showing instructions on this without going over safety precautions is extremely irresponsible.

You can d!e from misusing a microwave in dozens of ways, some not even including the transformer

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yeah, pretty irresponsible here, if there was ever a need for a disclaimer, this would be it

@@namaan123 Not his responsibility. Anyone that does not understand how electricity works should not mess with this anyway. Plain and simple. I knew someone trying to make a wood burner from a old microwave and it killed him. Luckily I thought he was a idiot before and he only improved the gene pool as far as U am concerned. I think it is a sue happy world and it is freaking common since try at your own risk. Would you watch a youtube video showing openheart surgery and try to save a buck on your wife if she needed it? You people drive me nuts.

A little heads up on the dangers of disturbing the insulators in the magnetron wouldn’t go amiss either.....

In his defense nowhere in his title does it state that this is instructional video or a how to. In which case anybody that doesn't have a basic understanding of current, voltage, capacitors, transformers, inductors etc shouldn't be trying to replicate this process in the first place.

Here is your disclaimer: BEWARE - GOING OUTSIDE, STAYING INSIDE OR DOING ANYTHING AT ALL MAY RESULT IS PERSONAL INJURY.

LOL. Like that comment. But....amazing what people do, if they have the right tools

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Imagine how fast that could re-heat a cold mug of coffee... ☕ ⚡

Pretty sure you can buy a spot welder for < $100

@@Shockmeslow Can't buy the satisfaction of creating one though. And for sure your Harbour Freight tool won't look anywhere as neat or cool as this one 😝

Why is it ppl get tatooz?

People have died doing this!

I made it to 1:05 before I checked out and gave this stinker a thumbs down like the other 43 thousand people and counting who feel the same way. Nope.

This probably the most valuable information out of this whole video.

Salvaged transformer can be valuable. I kept a magnet from a klystron tube, that sucker will rip a tool out of your hands

@@marcopolo9446 only do it if u know what u are doing. Or it may endup badly

Oil filter has entered the chat...

Put the magnets on the outside of the pan. I doubt if stuck to tge inside bottom theyd come loose but not worth the risk

This is dumb There are 8 million viewer no one will ever try to do this It's hard and useless and a waste of many These projects are for YT videos only and not worthy in real life so stop talking about safety

I was going to say it looked like a Doctor Kevorkian special.

Death by boredom

There’s no way you can die from 3 V unless you just burned through your body for some reason. You can stick your tongue to the electrodes and it won’t do anything but when you put some kind of metal to it that heats up.

lol

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You can do all the machining shown in the video with hand drill and a grinder. Use your brain Waldo .

@@blainebyrnes17Or a hand drill and a bit of sandpaper, or... just sandpaper. But dopes would rather complain than fail

You can easily get what you need. Just go to any college apartment block at the end of the year. They leave their old machine lathes in the parking lot when they move out.

. . . and a death wish. Good luck mate.

Bless him ‼ at least there a few of us,, reasonably intelligent humans, , , with the requisite, mechanical proclivity, talent/creativity, , environmental respect/ecomical frugality , , , of salvaging&recycling/repurposing fully functional components of nonfunctional, apparatus , , , given the economy of ready accessable protected storage facility, , , but to posess the requisite self control to realize the necessity, ,of considering cost of. storage vs. the cost of purchasing new, similar components, whenever needed ,, ,,, nonmanditory, , accumulation/collections can become extremely/prohibitively , expensive to store, ,after a time ,, , ,, , &relocating such accumulations/ collections can be financially& physically demanding!!! AND, , such accumulating collecting Can readily become addicting!!! one MUST confront the, , fact that collection is rarely cost-effective. I'm speaking from personal experience !!!

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id imagine you arnt much fun at parties🥳

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But there is a sticker, so it is safe.

But learning and understanding such things develops respect and knowledge, ignorance on the other hand creates danger and higher risk. I understand what you mean though. There should be a lot of attention to the risks and dangers in these sort of videos.

Henry, you do have a point there👍

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist3 There's a time and a place. Wrong video.

@@Michael-Archonaeus AMEN

@@Michael-Archonaeus In his defense, one might go meet meet the maker rather more quickly if one followed the examples of mains power routing in this video.

@@abrahamevangelista4215 You're right LOL

Either that, or far, far away during a zombie apocalypse...

@@theredscourge yeah this guy would be one of the rare people to die from a self inflicted accident during a zombie apocalypse

Yeah him and his shop full of tools. Can you carry all that in a bugout bag. No.

The video illustrates the construction techniques in an amazingly precise and efficient way. I'm truly impressed. But then I know how to use tools to make and repair things. This is probably baffling for a novice, but these are a long way from novice projects.

Relatively few viewers will know what the few smaller parts are and the specs they must meet. Even fewer will watch this and be able to visualize the wiring diagram that is not provided. The only people who are likely to take this project all the way to the point of powering thing up are the ones who understand how it works and know what all the parts are. Omitting details was probably intentional.

Good point.

I guess in this case it goes vice versa, meaning they use the transformer to produce high current with a normal voltage level. So it is pretty safe unless you touch those electrodes.

As shown this is equivalent to an arc welder that is being intentionally shorted out. You could get burnt by the thin copper wire fairly easily, but there's essentially no risk of electrocution if it's constructed as shown (with a grounded cage around the transformer. The highest voltage is whatever is coming out of the plug, so it's no more dangerous than a toaster. If the transformer isn't modified, however, (when he cuts the thin wires off and replaces them with a few loops of very thick wire) then the thing is an electrocution waiting to happen - high voltage, no way for grounding the high voltage side to trip a breaker, exposed conductors = bad, bad news.

@@ButterfatFarms it almost went without saying but then he said and at that point it had come and gone with saying

I don't think these guys are aware that the magnetron contains a fair amount of beryllium oxide, which is brittle and toxic to breathe. They're not handling these microwaves safely.

Oh, Ok ! With that advice I'll give it a Go !

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Also for saving money. A lot of us do not want to buy expensive or new parts, for an aging-anyway car.

You mean you're not supposed to open it with a sledgehammer?

@@evanflagg8386 I think a ax would be safer.🪓

It's a small mf value, but hi voltage.

@@vortexan9804 hi in current.

I never had a problem. I taken many apart.

Imagine a brave new world without pages of saftey warnings, legal disclaimers and product liability lawyers... Free your mind and your body will move out of California...

Must be a tough way to go out 😮😮😮😮😮

then make one your safety mods, c'mon get to it

That wasn't luck, dude knew what he was doing. And the main is fused and grounded, except maybe in USA.

Im just glad that any 6th grader can see this ~ and discover the wonders of ( High Voltage )@@sablatnic8030

the only valuable part of the microwave is the magnetron. That is the part he removed. Once it is removed, the rest is no longer a microwave.

@@marks6663 actually he's only using the transformer, , not the magnetron

@@marks6663 tsk tsk tsk....

I prefer to use the word terrifying, especially when dealing with high voltage microwave transformers and capacitors but okay.

@@3nigma.3nc recognizing danger still requires recognition. Although reading everyone's comments about stored charges in the capacitor I am curious how this dude didn't die

With the prices these days, I would rip out the copper and sell that.

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I think point welder is too difficult...a relay might be to slow...and power mosfets are tricky!

@@frostyjim2633 Yeah, what's the worst that could happen? I die, well that wasn't that bad of a result

@@na9565 lol, that depends on your Life A/ D

Correct. The capacitor can hold 3-5000 volts causing instant death.

Just ignore the two exposed bolts on the bottom of the ‘wand’ section.

More than just the grommet. I would have applied some fiberglass tape to each of the inside edges of the transformer core window so they couldn't bite into the secondary winding's insulation.

The first one is even worse... you hold on a plastic, that is melting @5:51 and right below that there are metal parts that have like 10 000v? because the wires go trough the transformer... and because the wires go trough the transformer, if you get shocked the house ground/fuse won't know a thing... to it everything seems ok edit: It wouldn't have 10kv because the upper winding was removed and replaced with heavy wire, but still.. this is in no way safe

For UL approval, you need a proper clamping strain relief.

Cable Gland, to be precise ....

it's a good thing you showed up

We are only Human, one mistake it's all it takes and we are gone.

Not a great attudide to have , this is very dangerous

@@homienat3374 : Still it was a mistake from his friend and I have seen it countless times. it will continue to happen.

Just shocking.

Good on you knowing how to complete the project just think about the idiots out there that think they are qualified to do this , ie 12 year old teenagers???

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No magnetron was harmed in the making of this video.

Transformer

I see Dead ignorant people 😒

Who the hell cares. Simple. If you do not know what you are doingleave it alone. Tired of youtube police in comments.

what is the best way to discharge the HV capacitor safely, in your own words?

@@theRhinsRanger The capacitor in microwave ovens is shorted by a 10-MOhm resistor, so it should discharge itself within a minute of turning the power off. However, you don't want to bet your life on that, do you? High-voltage resistors can fail. So you need to actively discharge the capacitor to be safe. Rules number one and two in working with high voltage: keep one hand in your pocket (to make sure you don't touch HV with one hand and ground with the other), and wear insulated shoes (so your feet don't complete the circuit either). So put on a pair of insulated shoes and ONE dry rubber glove (the heavy kind, not a surgical glove), grab a pair of needle-nose pliers with insulated handles, put your un-gloved hand in your pocket, and hold the two points of the pliers against the two terminals of the capacitor to connect them. Do it again. If you have a voltmeter, it wouldn't hurt to use the probes to measure the DC voltage on the capacitor, as long as you hold both probes with one hand. Warning: some high-voltage capacitors can actually charge back up to dangerous voltages by themselves, so it's wise to (a) discharge and measure a second time after a minute or two and (b) short the two terminals together with a wire after discharging to make sure it stays safe.

@@paulkolodner2445 I've literally disassembled dozens of microwaves (something like 40) for a project, never had a single one store residual charge by the time I was finished disassembling it. Aside from the built in discharge resistor caps always have some internal leakage, they will self discharge with time. Besides that I've never heard of hv caps 'self charging' in what situation did you have this occur?

I was bothered by the same thing.

Coiled wires build current

@@raymondtyler88 that one flew right over your head bud. He's complaining about the guy not feeding the cable through so he wouldn't waste it by cutting leftovers on both sides, but have one long piece instead. That cable isn't cheap.

Notice the safety shielding in these projects. That puts them a big step above most.

So put a slightly under-rated self-resetting circuit breaker and an RCD in. Duty cycle down, safety way up. There's no need to cry.

This comment was a year old...@@Bobo-ox7fj

A bit excessively, , , SENSATIONALIZED!!!

what happens otherwise?

@@udance4ever You have to remove/de-solder the connections. It's an annoying inconvenience that happens all the time. It's a long running joke for anyone that's ever done it (pretty much everyone).

I know! That is so frustrating to realize that after you admire the perfect solder joint and then realize "oh shit!"

@@baysickleebuck such a polite answer. My dirty mind couldn't get out of the gutter-

That is why they make elechickens tape

Well I might be wrong, but I think he simply removed the transfo to use it in low voltage-high current applications in order to generate and use the high heat it can produce ;)

I can draw you a simple wiring diagram if you want to make it yourself.

Beware of the ceramic stem to the magnetron. It contains Beryllium and if broken and you inhale the dust, you can get a disease called Berylliosis which is incurable and seriously affects your lungs. So if the microwave is smashed, let it go to the trash, it's not worth your lungs.

Yes like the theory behind this useful gadgets,but on ebay you can buy them very cheap from china.you spent more in materials building something you can get for 40 to 100 bucks.Depending the gadget

It would be good for steel and stainless, but not aluminum or copper. You need capacitor discharge to spot weld aluminum or copper or brass.

@@pauleohl very true,, but I suspect that trying to build a capacitive discharge spot welder is beyond what most garage mechanics should be working on.

@@WesleyJolly i done set my garage.on fire

would work well for building battery packs

I think is more of a cool factor or "things you could do, but seriously, do proper research first beforehand" thing, they glossed over at least two major risk concerns so I wouldn't recommend anyone to follow this as a tutorial.

@@Inferryu is it safe to just put that bent wire in a regular soldering iron to achieve the same goal?

@@eugenetswong you don't need to put it into the soldering iron. Just hold the soldering iron to the metal until it melts into the plastic. I did a similar job on my car and didn't want to spend money on a specific tool, i won't need again (hopefully)

I made the same comment I thought that music just made the video that much better

@@19daver85 So, even a twist tie is good enough for scrap metal? Also, I've never understood why the rest of the metal in the soldering iron doesn't become so hot that it melts.

totally under appreciated by all of the obvious "UL test engineers" and "product liability lawyers" commenting here...

And you end up with.. A wavy-hole-burning machine? I'm sure there must be some application for it but none that will ever cross my path :D

@@foobarbazbaa5598 its for branding. You know, shapes? Not just a curvy line. Also did you notice there was a second creation? Seems a lot more useful. But like adam said, these take skills. And should only be attempted by people with the knowledge to do so.

I see it as a demonstration of ingenuity and resourcefulness. They are really not making use of specialized or unusual tools, apart from their brains. Try something out like this, and you will probably learn a lot.

@@foobarbazbaa5598 The plastic 'welding' might be useful, not sure if you skipped past it to the burning lines into wood.

@@foobarbazbaa5598 sell it to a collision repair shop.

Why is this the only comment I've found about this?

@@joshauatolly4065 Because everyone who didn't think of it themselves got electrocuted

Very often that bleed resistor is open circuit so to discharge the capacitor is absolutely vital.

Honestly the amount of times I could have died cause I took apart microwaves when I was little and didn’t know you need to discharge the capacitor Honestly not just microwaves I did other dumb stuff as a kid like putting wires in the plug and thinking how funny it was that sparks flew all over the carpet and my bed then proceeding to do it 10 to 15 more times it’s a miracle nothing ever got burnt down it’s also a miracle I didn’t get electrocuted cause the wire had no casing

Has everyone in these comment section got thousands of pounds/dollars spare to buy all the tools you'd need to complete these projects? Nevermind almost committing suicide in the process. This should be banned.

He used one at 12:33

I thought the same thing In the first part of the video.

Free Energy , Rodney, FREE. Imagine how much you could sell that for ?😉

Until some kid ends up dying because he compeletely ignores all normal reasoning and thinks hes untouchable.

Microwaves are the number one killer of electronics hobbyists so maybe not "this" project.

@@ARVash Its all down to training not only in skills but safety

Neat woodwork too.

@@georgestyer2153my point is that microwave transformers can be dangerous in unpredictable ways even when you're practicing good safety. I could enumerate the ways but let's just say it's not the number one killer of electronics hobbyists because they were being reckless. There's a lot of things that can go wrong that are impossible to go wrong in other still dangerous electronics projects. I get that this is high current and low voltage which is somewhat safer but high current comes at the risk of lines being unable to turn off. Insulation can melt and suddenly you're dealing with 120v. Breakers don't always trip when they're supposed to. There are projects that most people should not be doing in a garage because they have a normal garage and even good safety is not enough, you need impeccable obnoxious levels of safety. Could someone do this safely? absolutely. However I would never trust a kid or teen even under tight supervision with a microwave transformer. Even people with field experience who know how to work safely have gotten bit by this one because it is unintuitive all the ways that things can go wrong. If you don't have experience with high current / high voltage in a job setting I would pass on this one. Speaking from experience, I took down my videos on microwave transformers. I realized after that I was fine only due to an abundance of caution and even then you're leaning on the due diligence of the electricians who built your house and your own willingness to test everything. High current means that a breaker trip can be a house fire has already started. If you're in a shop with trained professionals maybe you'll be okay, but people try this in their garage and sometimes they're not.

Unfortunately you have to account for everyone nowadays. I’m still confused on why gas cans say “FLAMMABLE”. If you don’t already know that I doubt you know how to read.

@@jamin8901 Nah, just disclaimers and we're all good. Otherwise the competent couldn't come anywhere near YT.

Needs a gigantic disclaimer at the start of the video at the very least, there is only a "do not try this at home" at the bottom of the description. This is dangerously negligent and videos like this have got people killed before and will in future.

Trust me, there is a lot of dumb, really dangerous stuff going on in this video, avoid this "lifehacky" content if you want to make stuff Dangerous stuff here includes Not mentioning how much of a death trap microwave parts are Using a power tool on a piece of work spinning in a lathe Not using lathe, lathe drill correctly Throwing around microwave, one of the parts inside can break and release toxic dust if not handles carefully

You're a falling star, man... that's why we don't see as many as before when we look at the sky😃 I made one myself and it's working fine. But I didn't include that relay on my assembly. Could you send me the specs of that item, plase? Mostly appreciated. Regards.

You posted two great things my friend. Advice on the CAP is spot on and I forgot about center punching when end drilling myself and will be doing that later on! So thank you for posting. :)

i nodded off...

@@amiga2025 you must've been watching from a NASA employee break room, ehh? You're a funny person 😂

The caps have a discharge resistor built in, so long as you aren't taking it apart right after it was plugged in it's not a worry. I suppose you'd have to be cautious if you're in the habit of testing electronics before scrapping them, personally I get mine straight from a junk heap so there's never residual charge to worry about.

Not needed

Its not needed!

You do realize its not powered while hes doing that right? Its not as bad as you think. Hes already shorting it using that metal strip.

First of all, the fittings touching doesn't bypass the switch. Second, it is just switched mains going into a transformer, no magic smoke is used. Third, shorting the thick connectors may actually reduce the device's ability to draw power across the transformer. Without the higher impedance load, the induced current dumps less power and thus requires less work from mains power.

Yes. I appreciate that everyone does not speak english however I do find content with no voice over, or at least subtitles , very frustrating. In any case, thanks for the content

Yes, it's just showing off, basically.

Ahh! Remember that the capacitor in the microwave can KILL you if there’s still some charge left in it! Please watch a safety video on microwaves man

So was it fun and entertaining???

@@YoushouldloveyourselfNOW1738 not really. I actually ended up splitting an atom and I don't see what all the fuss is about. 2/5

a tap and die set cost next to nothing.

@@Tommyfrommyspace Got a line on a lathe that costs nothing?

The shop is a major piece of the production. Big views, no politics, no misinfo, etc. This is Hollywood Production in the age of KZfaq without having to pay the big name actors. It takes years for the everyday man or woman to amass such a shop and property to secure it in.

Could and should are very different things. It's a very inefficient and dangerous way to do this.

Then you must have a white stick.