I Built a Water Powered Timekeeping Device

Can you sail on a boat with no sail? water clock!

[urituchmanpigeon]

I hope you like this video, all my tools are now rusting.

[alanmuddypaws]

Uri has got to be the absolute best mad on YouTube. Whenever one of his videos pops up in my notifications I know that I am in for a treat!

[StefanGotteswinter]

my favourite engineering anarchist is back 😍

[pablocamargo]

Uri is the crazy genius we need but don't deserve.

[mindmedic]

Nurse here, we used to have to make water clocks all the time in the form of IV drips. There are plastic valves that have different size holes that allow for specific sized drops then you adjust the rate by using a roller device to gradually pinch the tubing until desired rate is achieved. You use your watch and manually adjust to your best guess. Still do this if there is equipment shortages, breakdowns, or disasters. In the Army we did this all the time in the field. Great video as usual, Uri!

[wolfyklassen]

making that gear with the tap was pure mad genius!

[reddigg]

Uri, I love your work. Please never change. Small token of my appreciation below.

In a workshop of wonders, Uri Tucham reigns,
With tools of his making, wild dreams he sustains.
A spark in his mind, like Da Vinci of old,
Crafts marvels untold, both daring and bold.
His hands weave the magic, his gadgets astound,
A symphony of genius in each clank and sound.
From chaos to brilliance, his visions take flight,
A modern inventor, a beacon of light.

[Scottmacvid]

If I had to describe uri it would be and I quote "he's like a Victorian inventor who made a time machine, came to modern day, scrapped the time machine and is still inventing machines as if it's the Victorian times". I give him one thing. He certainly has style

[lohikarhu]

Uri, you're such an artist with the execution, but you absolutely must have a two-chamber water source with a float valve in the "bottom", smaller chamber, to get the constant pressure to ensure that the drip rate stay constant as the top chamber is emptied... Also, you might consider having a cover on the bottom chamber to reduce evaporation. If you used an inverted system for the float, like a "string" attached to the bottom of the float, passed around a pulley, with the string wrapped around a "capstan" on the hour hand; as the float rises, it pulls the string, which has insignificant weight, around the pulley, and the string rotates the capstan. No fancy gears to cut, just a calculation of the capstan size against the float change, which can be "trimmed", as you did by adjusting the volume of the hour cylinder, or trimming the level of the siphon...

[ltcolthorin]

Oh Uri, you funny little man from the 80s (1980s? 1680s? 2280s? All the above?), your videos are fun and fantastic. Never change.

[dynabyte-gaming]

You blew my mind when you showed the threading tap cutting gear teeth. Absolutely brilliant!

[arduinoversusevil]

Your lathe chuck, sir, is not only, incorrectly positioned on the right hand side of the shot; it is not square with the camera.

[handsomeforlaw]

What a treat on a friday!
Thank you Uri!

[moltenigloo]

Hey! @urituchmanpigeon Quick safety thing that may apply! At ~2:25 you start using a router, if you are feeding the material into a router you need to make sure you are feeding it *into* the teeth of the router bit, not in the same direction of rotation, to prevent it from being pulled unexpectedly and getting you fingers ☠️☠️☠️ this may not apply if the video is flipped or if the motors spin in a different direction where you're from. Also, LONG LIVE THE PIGEON

[mvieke]

Bruce Lee intro. Popping and locking. Uri sings. Lasers. Beautiful build. This video is an absolute masterpiece. 🙌

[eckhardreich]

Absolute Cinema... I hope that your creativity will never come to an end

[Otakutaru]

9:53 you're the first one I've seen that uses a tap this way... It actually does make sense if you mesh it with a rod...

[gbickell]

You had me at '1977'.
Uri, you are a national treasure. Shine on, you crazy diamond.

[slserenader]

this is awesome. youre a designer, machinist, wood worker, and an engineer. very skilled.

[BuckeyeStormsProductions]

The machining drew me in...the smooth sounds keep me coming back.