If you felt touched inappropriately by the heat sink, please comment below.

Alex Wheeler

22 ditë më parë

Instead of reiterating what every engineer with two or more neurons has said so far, I shall simply leave this nugget of wisdom from Mark Novak: "If you're gonna be dumb, you have to be tough.". -although in your case I might suggest this alteration: "if you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be fuckin' fireproof. NINJA EDIT: I would be remiss to not say why this is dumb. This heatsink removal is dumb because you are arguing with the LAWS OF PHYSICS. -and the laws of physics broker no bullshit. As YOU say, "play stupid games, win stupid prizes." Or, put another way, "I don't want that heat there", does not in fact warp space-time and thermodynamics to remove that heat from that part. So put a fuckin' heatsink where you need to sink heat.

RWBHere

Vit më parë

I never gave anyone a chance to have me felt touched inappropriately by the heatsink....

Robert Simpson

Vit më parë

Keep up the great work 👍

Andrew Jones

Vit më parë

As a professional swimmer, I see a melted motor controller in the future.

Welsh Dave

Vit më parë

Haha, yeah I should have spotted that air gap was a troll move, well played good sir.

What's the safety rating on those flops.once you get hot spark or a weld bead jump you'll be safe. At least they will break an electrical jump. Most people would have looked for shorter seats.

da ne

6 ditë më parë

It's easy to arm chair those trying new things , if we were all experts what would we complain about.

Who is going to judge your weld?You can't see it , does it hold?

da ne

6 ditë më parë

Learn aluminum welding , I've seen it looks much easier.

da ne

6 ditë më parë

Most welders just grind it .lol

Rich you build some cool ass stuff. Lets build an electric helicopter!!! let me know i still have a few bucks in my pocket

As a professional ALthe commenter, I'd like to say good job and keep it up.

I can understand why many of these folks are concerned about the heat sink, but also, its your car screw them.

Love the flip flops Rich!

As a professional ALthe commenter, these comments aren't up to the standard of comments for your other videos.

You mentioned tying off your wiring harness with zip ties, but I see two problems with that strategy: 1) Especially if the zipties are being mounted outside the car, it's not a very weather resistant option or resistant to pests chewing them apart, and having seen previous videos in which you have had to duel with rodents chewing on your wiring, the zipties are not a very durable solution. 2) Plastic has a tendency to age and crack, which means when it does, your wiring harness loses its support. A better idea - buy U brackets and metal (steel or aluminum) pipe aka metal conduit. That's right. Run the pipe along its path, and then run the wiring harness inside the pipe. Use the U brackets to mount the pipe to your car's body. Bingo. Weather-resistant and pest resistant shielding for your wire harness.

As a professional idiot who don' know jack shit about electronics, dc to dc makes no sense

As a complete novice who has never welded a thing, those welds were the worst I've ever seen.

As a semi pro ALthe watcher with over 47 years of part time ALthe watching experience I must say: "Oh no he didn't _____________________________ ! um yes he did."

Ngl this 30-31 roadster was built so bad by the previous owner. Ugly frame, front suspension is ugly, and the body work is disgusting. Just something someone put together to get sold 😢. Hope you make it better

What the f do you think youre doing Removing the heatsink well cause a fire as the first moment it heats up Are you f-ing stupid

Love your humor!!:)

As a software engineer of 15 years, I'm completely unqualified to say that I wish I had a slice of pizza and a Tesla model S.

As a professional human i must say, humans are dumb but I appreciate personal handywork^_^ atleast you have the courage to show your work and laugh at it👍👍

As German I can tell you that ... (please add funny comment yourself)

“That never made sense to me.” Not making sense is part of the rat rod culture. The funky pedals, the seat, etc. Love the build, make it your own, whatever that may be!

You are not only using a motor cycle's motor on a car, but you are also taking away the controller's passive cooling (heat sink), not a good idea, but hopefully the gear ratio will be favorable to the motor. Otherwise, the motor controller might give up

I would have practiced my welding for several days prior to touching the rat rod, but.... that being said, Rich would have his project done 10x faster than I would. 5:12 You're killing me Smalls! that would drive me crazy to see 4 holes drilled in "roughly a square." You couldn't pick up a ruler?

Lookin' good, Richie B. But the kickstand would've been awesome, mounted to the left frame rail, just as a novelty, to give homage to where it all came from. It would also prevent the car from being driven, if some1 accidentally left it down, as intended. Lol! Oh... It could be an anti-theft device, for those that don't know that he's there. Well, since I'm a bit late, here, I'm sure that is already been done. Sigh.

What’s with zip tie. Naming something after the noise it makes is for moo cows and three year olds. Jeez, how many zips have you tied? CABLE TIES for cables, and football hooligans when the handcuffs run out in the uk.

If you're welding with flux wire, did you remember to reverse the + and - connections (+ to GND clamp and - to tip)? As a crappy occasional welder that always uses flux core wire, I just thought I'd bring it up as a possibility.

You could mount the controller directly to the aluminum plate and mount the heat sink anywhere on the aluminum. Even underneath. The closer to the controller the better.

As a non professional that’s amazing

@1:45 "There's a shortage of carpenters." No there isn't. There is a short of carpenters willing to work long hours for crappy wages.

I think this thing really should be called the electric rat. Also, sandals + sparks. Never a good combo.

As a lazy person of over 12 years, I'm impressed by your ambition, and that means something

#RATT-E vote up👍🏽

That looks like the harbor freight welder I have and if so it comes with the ability to be wired for 110 or 220. If this is the case the 110 is terrible and I ran into issues with at higher settings it didn't feed consistently and the power going to the actual welding seemed to fluctuate a lot. Switching it to the 220 option made it a much better welder. Just a friendly tip.

You can mount the heatsink under the bracket and the controller flat on the bracket and it will give you the clean mount you desire and add additional heat dissipation. Adding the spacer is actually doing the opposite of what you're thinking. The larger the metal that the controller comes in contact with the more air can move across said metal and remove more heat. Sandwiching it, isn't going to hurt the heat transfer as long as all metals are flat and make good contact. I believe the sandwich idea will give you more heat dissipation than the original bike setup.

Considering your wonderful welding skills I have a suggestion for you. Why don’t you ask and see if you can borrow your offspring from his mom and try his welding skills. Couldn’t hurt at this point. However, keeping in the rat rod realm keep doing what you are doing.

wait, why I'm watching this on 3:20 in the morning?

As an amateur electrical tape technician you should have used red since that is known to go faster.

As an atheist, even I have started praying for you and other road users once you get that thing on the road. 🙏🙏🙏

As a rocket scientist for NASAL, I cringed at everything around 8:50 , if you want to reduce the controllers profile, just watercool it, by removing that passive huge heatsink from the bacl of it, you mostlikely reduced that controllers lifespan to at least half... and worst case scenario it will just burn up within 30 minutes of driving that thing around in a fun way and not like a granny, may the force be with you!

Damn it rich you are definitely TROLLING with the "imma add spacer to make it cooler", right? In case not, more surface area = more cooling. The metal on metal is GOOD. no contact means the controller metal plate has to eat all the heat. You want as much surface area as possible + direct contact on the controller (like, attach it directly to the car body for example). Material can also make a difference as people have said but the most important factor is lots of surface area (thats why heatsinks have fins) But you have a whole car not a dinky electrocycle so you have lots more metal surface area to take advantage of

As a (FELLOW) guy who can't swing a hammer to save his life, when starting to pound in a nail, spare your fingers and hold the nail with PLIERS.

I know I'm late and this is old, but when you weld go in small circular motions. It will make your weld a lot stronger and it will also ensure that you have connected both metals and completely made it one

Plenty of people have given you stern warnings and advice about the heatsink. So there's no need to mention it. But I'd like to put in a word for the huge number of pigeons who assisted with the welding. You must have really scared them silly to make them produce that many droppings! They need a care plan now. 🤪

You know Elon is a secret fan..!

As a long time ALthe watcher, I have to tell you, I really enjoy your content, especially your cracks of wisdom! Much appreciated...

As person who has never welded I think this should have been sponsored by some welding school and not carpentry 😂

This is me trying to make my life look good on paper..

Zuhir True

Vit më parë

When I have no clue that am trying to figuring it out as it go.

“As A” Recorder Enthusiast and crappy welder...I say carry on...and bravo. 😂😂😂

As a genius with a 178 iq., yes higher than Albert E., I can honestly say your imagination is very practical yet imaginative.

Omg... Rich you are Dr Frankenstein professional mentor....but man you seem to know your shit dude....keep it coming.....from a professional standpoint of course. Check your welder settings, possibly too high )))

"As a professional" lackey who likes to push buttons I am asked not to push, and is new to this channel, I like your videos.

As a professional fan of rich, I genuinely love how savage you are to unsolicited comments 😅

Nice welding!

This shadetree is building a death trap electric rust rod that nobody with good sense would ever ride in to safe stranded mans life.. Lolz

Rich why did you wash the electrical wires???

Rob

Vit më parë

Because they were dirty.

Put a sticker on it that says this little light of mine im going to let it shine just to make people mad lol

Welding and angle grinding with flip flops scares me. 🥺

I'm just going to say, you could buy a hobart or lincoln mig for 8-900 and do so much better. Lifelong tool! The Welder really matters. Thanks for sharing the project.

Francois L

Vit më parë

You'd get a lot more heat and use some gas which would make everything nicer just by having a nicer welder.

As a human I wanted to say "As a" after this video. Also.... do things the way I would because even though I think I would like that I wouldn't watch that video.... Good day mate.

Please take a welding lesson or just practice loads on some scrap metal. It hurts my eyes how bad it is

Why do I look away when he films his welds?

As a professional glassblower of 5 years, I dont have any judgement!!!!! Those are some crappy welds, but who am I to judge. Haha

da ne

6 ditë më parë

I'd say those were crappy flipflops myself.

Oh Rich, your neighbour wasn't wrong when he said it was a chop shop.

All you dumb fucks are freaking out about the heatsink. Dude is trolling so hard and you're too consumed by identity "as a" that you can't resist the perfect opportunity to comment.

As a viewer of your shows.. I see it evident that you need a better welder. Get a 240v 180a MIG.. Harbor freight has what you need for 600 or so.

As a wanker I like to tell people they're doing shit wrong

As a subscriber this is great 😁

As a avid professional ALthe watcher. I fucking love your videos. Never stop until ALthe stops giving you money

so glad that you have people that can weld at your shop

As a ALthe watcher for years, I'd like to say I love your sense of humor, and don't ever change.

What Electric motorcycle did you use?

it needs some bomber seats ..other then that its coming out good

As a prosthetist, I'm looking forward to fitting you with not one new artificial foot, but two new ones.

@9:48...mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, mom..... Every parent just busted out laughing at that. That used to drive me nuts when mine was that age. Enjoy!!

As a professional ALther, I think your videos are wicked awesome and entertaining. You're smart. You're loyal. I appreciate that. Keep ridin'.

Love it! Hilarious. Keep up the build, fuck the tards in the comments!

As a guy who knows everything, I'm here to tell you that you are going to totally fry that Sevcon. The plate on the bottom is a heat spreader to help even out the heat from the components mounted to it internally, it does no cooling itself as it's a flat plate with little surface area. If you are really determined to not use that heat sink, at least thermally sink it to the plate with some thermal paste so the heat has somewhere to go.

Reading the comments and your doing everything the wrong way! But if did the right way i would not have hopes to start my own build! 😁

As a yogi of 57.3 years, I must say your bending over is atrocious. You should be forming a "C" shape, but all I see is jank.

Rich you should partner with the kid who built an electric plane in his garage! Yes, he did fly it personally. PeterSripol.

As a nonprofessional, I wonder why you don’t like working in shoes or boots lol

you should make the kickstand a safety security lever near the driver seat

As a butcher, I'm kinda impressed with your butchering of just about everything..!

As a professional idiot... hahahaha! I love you! :)

Dude your gonna burn up that controller. Take it from someone who deals with heat sinks for a living. You need that heat sink with thermal compound or it’s gonna over heat very fast

Ace Boogie

Vit më parë

😂

Ace Boogie

Vit më parë

DuDE Shut up

anyone getting the feeling rich is being dangerous for a laugh :-)

Pls anything but the CHAFE

Uncle Rich, are you sure about the heatsink space?!

I don´t care about cars, DIYs or electricity... Flip flops, I´m here for the Flip flops

All these other boring auto channels showing pristine garages. With the most expensive tools. The perfect lighting. The best guests. Super expensive cars. Rich Rebuilds in his flip flops, a trolling sense of humor, oh and a kitchen knife. Where is the kitchen knife Rich? Blahahahaha

"as a" guy that thinks outside of the box on everything I do, I find your content stimulating, entertaining, and flat out inspiring. Threw in the "as a" just for you.

Rich, you are great. Your work flows from eloquently high tech (aka laser cutting) to Cro-Magnon (welding with flip-flops...actually reminds me of a friend here in Sandy Eggo) . Very fun to watch and your commentary is wonderful. You don't reference the music in the vid, luv that toooooooooo.

As a youtube viewer, Rich is really salty about these comments.

Not sure but perhaps more amps for added heat on the weld.

That battery zip-tied? 😄 I mean barely screwed to the chassis haha No hard breaks or sharp corners!!

*plans to push part harder than its intended use* "wanna keep it as cool as possible" *removes heatsink* Sure ya do.

Genius

As a professional professional, I appreciate your professional unprofessionalism.

As a sheet metal guy I recommend you chamfer those zip tie holes otherwise they are going to chaff the plastic zip ties in half. Really enjoy your content by the way.

Rich, just bought a Tesla using your code. Thanks for all the content, it’s the least I could do.

As a person who uses common sense I like your vids Rich keep it up!!

Dude I dont mind the bad welds, in fact it's awesome because this is how you learn. You make shit. But, you should clean up said welds. Literally grind those puppies down and throw some paint on them. It will look great! Not with a wire wheel either, I mean full on wheel of death. Grind that shit flat and perfect. "A grinder and paint, makes me the welder I aint"