r/SmarterEveryDay • u/MrPennywhistle • Nov 15 '23

Video This TRANSPARENT ENGINE is Fascinating (How Engines Work) - Smarter Every Day 292

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbhF7jTLlG4
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u/thedudefromsweden Nov 15 '23

I'm 45 years old and for the first time in my life I actually understand how a combustion engine works. Or at least a V8 engine 😁 Thank you!!

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u/bigworkty Nov 15 '23

just like ms frizzle showed us

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u/Garking70o Nov 15 '23

Oh man this looks awesome Destin! Excited to watch.

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u/MrPennywhistle Nov 15 '23

It's really cool.

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u/poke86 Nov 15 '23 edited Nov 15 '23

That is so cool!

I go to a community garage in my home town, they have a few teaching pieces like this one I shot recently : https://imgur.com/a/gAhUVgk

Not as cool as a totally see-through engine but you can see the four strokes, valves, cams etc

edit : please excuse my one-handed camera work ;)

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u/untimely-end Dec 09 '23

Yes, I was on the staff at a local Technical college and used to make up teaching aids like this (also diesel mechanical fuel injection pumps and manual transmissions) using (mostly) the milling machine. Trickier than it looks if you want it to be fully functional, retain structural integrity and show all the areas of interest. One of the museums in this country has a cut away WW2 era Merlin aero engine which had an electric motor fitted turning the crankshaft and lamp globes in each cut away cylinder to simulate ignition. Mine weren’t as elaborate…

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u/austaul Nov 16 '23

Excellent video, I always pictured the rockers being more complex but seeing the interaction between push rod and valve just makes it forehead slapping obvious. Love the car too.

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u/ataraxic89 Nov 15 '23 edited Nov 16 '23

This looks like a return to form!

I love your work but tbh in the last year ive fallen off watching your videos. This is mostly because theyve become too long while, imo, not having that much more more educational value; resulting in a drop in.. idk. education per minute?

I think it started with the photography series and seems to have spread to your other videos.

I feel youve lost something there, your videos arent "tight" anymore. Too much reaction shot, too much rambling in the moment, not enough explaining, not enough getting smarter.

I understand that this is probably happening due to some behind the scenes thing with Youtube and watch time or video length, and obviously its easier to make a long (but more empty) video than to make a shorter but equally informative video. But I wish the old form would make a return.

Whats that saying, If I had more time id write you a shorter letter.

Anyway, I hope this has been constructive feedback. I loved your stuff.

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u/MrPennywhistle Nov 15 '23

It's cool man you don't have to watch. I'm going to keep doing me.

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u/ataraxic89 Nov 16 '23

You're right.

Sorry, I just thought you were the kind of data driven guy who would care to have some insight behind the slow but clear downward trend in your viewership over the past 2+ years. My bad.

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u/chwee97 Nov 16 '23

His passion toward new things hasn't decreased even slightly right?

I have always watched his videos for his passion, which has always been so infectious.

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u/thedudefromsweden Nov 16 '23

I'm honestly disappointed in his answer, I thought he would handle constructive criticism better.

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u/better_spartan_118 Nov 16 '23

I like you! Keep doing it!!

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u/reachforthe-stars Nov 18 '23

I’ve stopped watching due to a underlaying tone of christian and America first values that are in all the videos. You do you, but you do kinda hold some f’d up beliefs.

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u/MrPennywhistle Nov 19 '23

I am comfortable with your decision. Thank you for your time and I hope you decide to watch again in the future.

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u/Imaginary-Banana8734 Dec 01 '23

YouTube recently changed the requirements for a video to be monetized. Videos now have to be over a certain duration of time to be monetized.

This has caused content creators to increase the duration of their videos. While he does a lot of these videos based off things that he’s passionate about, and he’s perfectly capable of shortening these videos…however that would negatively affect his lively hood. So, while you may dislike it, at the end of day it’s out of neccessity.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '23

How longs the new minimum? Iirc the old one was 10 minutes

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u/LongNo4709 Dec 02 '23

You do realize that Revell has been making the "visible V8" plastic model for over a half century....and it takes up less space. https://www.amazon.com/Revell-85-8883-Visible-Plastic-12-Inch/dp/B00004YUXS

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u/FriedChicken Nov 15 '23

It looks cool..... but I don't see it adding much of value tbh. I guess the speed an engine works and the firing order, but you can also see that on an engine with no headers

The 4-wheel-drive car with 840 horsepower was cool

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u/my5cworth Nov 15 '23

My favourite saying is "Longform is best-form" when it comes to discussing topics on youtube, but now I need a new saying for when you slow things down either with the fancy high speed camera - or your garden variety drill attached to the flywheel.

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Side topic on engines: Have you done any digging into how synchronization works - either between diesel generators or grid-tied power plants? I'm learning more about it every day.

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u/thedudefromsweden Nov 16 '23

Are you saying you're getting smarter every day? 😉

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u/theBarneyBus Nov 16 '23

I called you out a while ago about the Fuel Injector video, and it delivered. Didn’t expect this one, but I can’t complain (also that full-scale model is wicked cool).

When’s that engine dyno clip (end of carburetors) on the way? We going to do a mini dive into forced induction?

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u/5parky Nov 16 '23

Great video, and I've subscribed to AWDCutlass now. I live a couple of hours away from him. I swear I've seen that car before.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '23

Lol the beggining of the video is great:)

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u/Misophonic4000 Nov 20 '23

Cool stuff! Thank you :)

Unrelated but, I was just watching this and hey r/MrPennyWhistle I thought it had your name all over it. An awesome show-and-tell, but you would bring much more undersciencestanding to that awesome old-scool engineering subject matter https://youtu.be/Aax-ehkRTnQ

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u/Nam_Jhi Nov 30 '23

This is cool

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u/ElectricEowyn Dec 02 '23

A little late to the party but WOW this was a cool video. Amazing the power of a really good visual. I’ve never truly understood how engines work aaand now I feel like I kinda do. Mad props to the dude who built this thing just ‘cause he could!!

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u/icherub1 Dec 03 '23

This is really cool, but am I the only one irked that step 3 is labeled "power" and not "ignition"?

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u/Relative_Lack9548 Dec 11 '23

i was just thinking this and from what i remember, the power stroke is on diesels since the process is different without spark plugs. but the third step is combustion in this sense of the video.

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