I had other plans for this device, but it turns out that the glass is very thin.
Note that this novelty device is not really suitable as a child's toy as the glass is easy to break and it contains a fairly aggressive solvent.
This video is an explanation of how these toys work, and a sudden random tangent into refrigeration technology too.
Here's a search link for eBay if you want one. :-
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=happy+drinking+bird&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15
Target price is sub $5.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
Note that this novelty device is not really suitable as a child's toy as the glass is easy to break and it contains a fairly aggressive solvent.
This video is an explanation of how these toys work, and a sudden random tangent into refrigeration technology too.
Here's a search link for eBay if you want one. :-
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=happy+drinking+bird&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=15
Target price is sub $5.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm
This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
There was one of these on a shelf in the 2nd year Chemistry Laboratory in Maynooth College in the 1970's when I was a student there.
The Chemistry Lecturer explained the principle of operation to us.
We also had a Potato powered digital clock on the same shelf. It used copper and zinc electrodes. It was supposed to be lemon powered but we had 2 potatoes.
In those days the laboratory was open 24/7 and we cane in whenever it was convenient for us and these times rarely coincided with scheduled class times.
Look the toxic solvent is flammable ! I wonder if the fumes are bad for me ? (thud) followed by silence
It’s weird seeing Clive try to use only a tiny bit of rubbing alcohol, given that me and everyone I know usually just pours it haphazardly all over everything when using it.
But then again where I live, getting rubbing alcohol isn’t some grand adventure, so it’s far too easy to be extremely wasteful.
I'm not sure why the tube extends to near the bottom of the bulb at the bottom
Love how he breaks the bird within moments of “reverse engineering” the thing.
Not sold on eBay anymore.
Great !
After this vid reminded me that they exist, I bought one and have had it running more or less continuously on my night stand since. The primary issues are distilled water must be used to prevent mineral buildup in the fuzz (~2 gal/yr, cheap), the pivot surface in the stand gets a groove worn in it (I suggest making sure the metal is deburred and perhaps a touch of oil), and eventually the fuzz stops wicking well enough to keep up with evaporation, as you've suggested. I fixed that problem with a bit of cotton yarn wrapped around the base of the beak and back around the back of the head. Only other issue is some days the head gets a little overwatered and a drip periodically runs down and gets dripped off the other end, a small dish will catch it.
Are they really needed ? 😂
Hey, any chance you might make a video on adding the led to the bubbler tube? Please and thank you. I want to do that for a project and it would help me IMMENSELY! Again please and thank you!
cruel bastard~!
Oh wow, very cool. I never knew how these worked.
No one has mentioned, mintos wonder wheel !!!
So This is simular to how the bubble tubes worked in the old wurlitzer jukebox resistor at bottom to heat liquid and a light tube behind.
Sadly I didn't figure out that Methylene Chloride was in paint stripper until after it was banned in the US.
You know why it was banned?
A few people ignored the warnings and used it to strip paint off of bathtubs.
The MC fumes displaced the oxygen and they died.
However the stripers that have replaced it are explosive so I suspect people who ignore warnings will now blow up rather than suffocate.
Progress?
Those bubble lamps take me back! I remember my parents had a Christmas tree filled with those bubble lamps and after a few minutes of turning the lights on, those bubble lamps started bubbling, creating a mesmerizing effect.
All that remains now is for clive to drink that lovely blue liquid