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has never shown these products being made Origins of this presentation
Recharge the Idiom
Most people that watch H-I-M
enough times notice that there are lots of mass (or custom produced) items that have never ever been shown.
H-I-M is in need of a slight
recharge of its idiom. The changes are not huge, but without change H-I-M will not last.
This document was started
with only Iodine, Sulphur and high power HF transmitters in mind.
Hundreds of products vital to
the functioning of the modern world have not been shown!
More and more items kept
coming up, so there is this....
AND : Have more narrators.
Fill the gaps!
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has never shown these products being made The Discovery Networks (in the US) if it is not careful -- will end up on the Ash Heap of History due to the ongoing global economic crisis. There are too many TV networks in the English speaking world, and those that don't actually help their viewers (in any way) will cease to exist. Households are dumping Pay TV as a service, as there is no spare money in the economic system for it to exist. Pay TV nets in North America have economic models based on pure fantasy and perpetual neverending copyright is no help to the system.
Origins of this presentation
Most people that watch H-I-M enough times notice that there are lots of mass (and / or) custom produced items that have never ever been shown. Showing how things are made is an old idiom, dating to the 1920s. The idiom from the 1940s to 1960s was everywhere. In the US this TV idiom was practically outlawed after 1980. The China Trade seemed to make it so and the NFB shorts were about the only way it could ever come back. This idiom now has to survive a global economic crisis, and peak resources.
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has never shown these products being made Update the Idiom Narration is important. Having the same narrator all the time can lead a viewer to ignore the program entirely. Canada has scores of people skilled in narration [& in show biz] (& in the Industrial production of goods) >>> ALL must do comedy! Drama people are not a perfect fit... Keep your current narrators for about 2/3rds of each episode but have each guest do 2 full episodes.
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has never shown these products being made Recharge the Idiom
Update the Idiom
H-I-M is in need of a slight
recharge of its idiom.
Narration is important, but having the same
narrator (or a small set of them) can lead a viewer to ignore the program entirely.
The changes should not be
huge, but without change H-I-M will not last.
Canada has at least dozens of people skilled in
product narration actively in show biz (or Industrially producing goods).
Hundreds of products vital to
the functioning of the modern world have not been shown. Fill the gaps : entire sectors have been totally ignored!
Keep your current narrators for about 2/3rds of
each episode but have a random drop in person. Have each guest narrator do 2 full episodes of narration. Keep the best 3 segments. Put the best one out. Remainders should be WEB XTRAS Hulu, YouTube etc fodder.
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has never shown these products being made Sun and Star Sensors for Spacecraft Spacecraft navigation systems still need Sun and Star Sensors to be able to know the spacecraft's orientation. Without this basic dead reckoning navigation mechanism, most craft would be lost. Ball Aerospace (known best for its Jam Jars & Pectin) has produced these for 40 years. The Ball Aerospace CT-600 series star trackers have 250 years of cumulative flight experience, with more than 30 Ball Aerospace star trackers in operation. The Ball Aerospace CT-611 solid-state (charge coupled device-based) shuttle star tracker is NASAcertified for 100 shuttle missions.
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has never shown these products being made UREA : Fabric Dye Aid, Diesel Motorcar Helper, Fertilizer
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has never shown these products being made Pectin (Apple, Grapefruit) & Kaolin Pectin
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has never shown these products being made Automotive Sensors (Oxygen, CO2, Fuel...)
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has never shown these products being made The Making ... Things The Making Of (Japan, 2000s) covered that HIM has not covered at all
has never shown these products being made Dishwasher Gel Packs Solid Dishwasher Tablets These more manageable forms of dishwasher soap are preferred by many, but the exact production processes are not clear. The gel packs have been used by industrial scale kitchens for 25 years or more, and the tablets too but to many consumers these are new.
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has never shown these products being made Norway's Whey Cheeses : << BRUNOST + Ski Queen Cheese >> What exactly does Brunost taste like? A bit like caramel, actually, even though it looks like fudge. Make sure you try it if you happen upon some in a fancy deli, or are planning a visit to Norway. There, youll find it in abundance...
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has never shown these products being made Lubricating Oil & Grease Improvement Compounds
Some of these compounds have been
in use since the 1920s, but some are more modern. Motor oil is brewed! There are about 25 in current use, but only about 8 of them are documentary worthy for their chemistry. (J0033 EPM) Ethylene Propylene Monomer Viscosity Index Improver is at least one source for the W in Motor Oils like 10W30, 20W40
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has never shown these products being made Rennet (+custard) Animal & Vegetable Origin Rennet of Animal and Vegetable origin are made quite differently. CHEESE WAX Cheesewax is made differently from most other burnable wax products. It must be soft, and allow for moisture to be retained.
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has never shown these products being made Bakelite This early 20th Century plastic is still around and being used for pot handles, circuity boards, dice and other goods. It is still being produced, but the processes of its production have not been updated in the popular culture since the 1940s.
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has never shown these products being made Saint Helena Island (SAO) Coffee & Airport Construction The SH Airport was going to be built, but the Falklands War got in the way. After many rethinks and a recommissioning it was built 2014 to 2016. SH SAO Coffee is the most expensive in the world, and notably in the coldest and dampest conditions possible.
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has never shown these products being made Basalt Lava Geologists actually need to experiment with repeatable basalt lava on demand. The Syracuse University (SU) Lava Project investigates the physical properties of basaltic lava flows in a controlled outdoor laboratory environment. The lava project uses crushed 1.1billion-year-old basalt from Wisconsin, from one of the largest basaltic province eruptions of the late Precambrian (in places 90kms deep).
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has never shown these products being made HVDC Grid Construction
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has never shown these products being made Tube to Multi Tube Converter This technology has been around since transistors made flexible tube interfacing possible. Yellow Jackets Tube Converter This model is a specialized, current-limiting / voltageconditioning adapter for use in most 20 watt to 100 watt amplifiers which use 6L6, EL34, 6550 or 6V6 output tubes. Converts: Class AB to Class A operation. Drops Output Power: 50% to 70%. Converts most audio amplifiers with 6L6s, EL34s, 6550s or 6V6s to EL84s without modification or rebiasing. Safe for all common amplifiers and transformers.
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has never shown these products being made Single Tube Stereo Amplifier Bravo Audio Tube Headphone Amplifier & 12AU7 Tube It has been nearly totally forgotten that tubes were made (1930s onward) that could amplify 2 separate sources. The great move to transistors and ICs in the 1970s purged about 90% of all existent tubes from common use. The 12AU7 is one of the few survivors as it is 2 separate amplifiers in one. Cost ~50 CAD, Type: Dual Triode Pins : 9.
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has never shown these products being made Kiddy Sitcom Dubbing Kiddy sitcoms are universally dubbed. NOTE : This audience may not be able to read, or is not interested in doing so (as part of normal TV viewing). SO : Subtitles are out of the question... Canada's kiddy sitcoms have been widely dubbed, and should be chosen as examples. Beck Studios (BR) should be your contact point here. BS- BR makes YouTube documentaries about their work.
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has never shown these products being made Hybrid Audio (Moog or Korg) Synthesizer Lots of these synths were made during the 1960s to 1990s, but the base technology evolved in the 1930s. Only recently have Moogs been made in appreciable quantities post 2000s. The Classic Dr Who series and Maurice Jarre (Jr) were heavy users of Moog technology.
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has never shown these products being made HVAC & HVDC Converters
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has never shown these products being made Lubricating Oil & Grease Improvement Compounds
There are about 25 SAE (ISO) lube oil
quality improver current use, but only about 8 of them are documentary worthy for their chemistry. Sources for the W in Motor Oils T614 Ethylene-propylene copolymer Viscosity index improver T1001 Amine Epoxide Condensate (Emulsion inhibitor) oil additive
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has never shown these products being made Lotus Seeds & Ginkgo Seeds (beans) Lotus & Ginkgo can be found at Asian grocery shops
The Ginkgo existed in N America but
became extinct some 15mya ago. Ginkgo Trees originate from the early to mid Dinosaur era. Now found mostly in Asia. When harvestable, Ginkgo seeds smell like poo... Lotus Seeds need to be boiled to be eaten, but are otherwise the Asian dietary answer to the Hazelnut.
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has never shown these products being made Aircraft Diesel Engines Aircraft diesel engines or aero diesels have not been widely used as an aircraft engines. Diesel engines were used in airships and were tried in aircraft in the late 1920s to the 1940s, but never widely used. Diesels main advantages are excellent fuel consumption because of Diesel's higher energy density. There are some disadvantages compared to gasoline or turboprop engines, such as the need to keep the fuel from gelling at low temperatures. The rising cost of avgas, and doubts about its future availability have spurred a resurgence in aircraft diesel engine production in recent years.
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has never shown these products being made Lotus Root Products There are about 15 common Lotus Root products at a well supplied Asian greengrocer
About 7 Lotus Root
products are documentary worthy. From Vietnam to N Korea, part of the Asian diet.
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has never shown these products being made US NSA ANT catalogue There are about 30 items in it that are H-I-M worthy. The idea is that you can't show how these things are made! Showing how they might be made can do. However, these extra things must be done to make the content re-transmittable outside Canada
Indirect NSA attribution is mandatory. Daft
secrecy laws (the world over) do not recognize public domain knowledge! Rename every ANT item with an analogous codeword. BUT mention the original LOT & UNIT PRICE. Don't use original source material images, but in narration keep about 60% of the rephrased text. Note that all of these NSA goods can be replicated in the private sector and can be commissioned by anyone with Gold or Silver.
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has never shown these products being made World's Smallest Diesel Engines Ronald Valentine Engines has been making the world's smallest model engines for over 30 years. RVE specializes mainly in 2-stroke V type (& Rotary or Flat Type) diesel engines for model aeroplanes, boat and cars. Also 4-stroke (as glow plug or standard diesel) are also made.
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has never shown these products being made Microwave Magnetron & HVDC Capacitors
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has never shown these products being made Oregano, Avocado and Walnut Oils
These oils are part of the modern
kitchen and diet.
Oregano Oil is a dietary
supplement. For two of them, it is really unclear how they are made. Oregano Tea (10% Mint + Spearmint) is related...
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has never shown these products being made HVDC Light Grid Construction
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has never shown these products being made Composted & Flowing Tea There are 2 commonly known types of Fermented Tea, but there is a rarer kind of composted tea much less widely known (but known in Asia for at least 1200 years). Flowering teas has been shown in production elsewhere, but somehow not at H-I-M DO : Glass Flowering Teapots! Teapots
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has never shown these products being made Base Theorbo (& Lute if missed) The Theorbo was Renaissance Europe's (indirectly derived) solution to the South Asian Sitar. Cost (New) : 4000 SDRs Theorbos have Lute sounding type boxes but possess neck mechanisms structurally very close to that of the Sitar and don't sound like either instrument. Handel Operas use them : Semele (or The Wrath of Juno)
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has never shown these products being made Tangy Tangerine AKA Compounded Multivitamins + Micronutrients Mammals need about 432 dietary elements, minerals, vitamins, etc to function. About 90% of the global T2 Diabetic, Obesity and Chronic Fatigue pandemic is linked to simple malnutrition. This kind of dietary supplement has evolved out of the concept of resetting the use of all vital elements, minerals and vitamins (+ micronutrients) in the metabolic system. In Yougevity's case about 150% for all of them. The oversurplus in supplementation is to help reset wonky metabolic processes caused by deficiencies and excesses. Influenced by : Asian medicine principals.
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has never shown these products being made Kiddy Sitcom Dubbing Kiddy sitcoms are almost the hardest to dub, usually as there is singing involved (and it must be replaced). Even though most kiddy sitcoms are broadly written -- many many jokes simply do not translate. Even names in dubbing may have to be changed ( example) : No Polish girl is named Hope, Faith or Charity yet in the EN world there are scores of them. So the joke was rewritten in Moj Krompol Angol. Cost 25m sitcom : ~40k SDRs (~50k CAD) ...
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has never shown these products being made Fractal Antennas for Mobiles and Digital TV
Pond : 1 EU company, 1 US one.
Not all Fractal antennas are copyrightable due to visual art issue! Metamaterial ones maybe... DIY Fractal Antennas are possible! The EU company Fractus will probably work with H-I-M. Fractal Antenna System is only interested in NATO Defence Contracts, but their metamaterials demo is on YouTube.
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has never shown these products being made Quail Eggs (canned, fresh) Some grocery stores in upmarket areas sell quail eggs. How these are mass produced is not clear to me as these birds are not like chickens or ducks. Some Asian markets sell quail eggs in both forms, and there is a small hatchery trade as well.
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has never shown these products being made Tube Rectifier & Solid State Replacement Tube rectifiers are still used to keep antique or collectable tube radios (and guitar amplifiers) going. There are solid state replacements for the Guitar Amplifier etc trade. Both need to shown in manufacture as these are not AMPLIFIER VALVES.
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has never shown these products being made HVDC (or AC) Connectors These connectors are vital for connecting offshore wind turbine farms, and offshore substations. The MacArtney 11kV Wet Mate Connector (aka GREENLINK WETMATE 11KV) was featured on Popular Science's website. Contact +1 250 744 0550, Don Bryan, Pacific Northwest Operations Offshore substations for wind farms need these connectors absolutely!
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has never shown these products being made Harp Guitar The origins of this instrument are not clear, but it could have been used in Roman times. Modern ones have the modern sounding box associated with the Guitar instrument design that is endemic to North America.
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has never shown these products being made HVAC (and DC) Power Cables This really should be about 1940s technology versus 2000s (not much changed since 1980s). 1940s : YouTube (Power Lines, 1944, UK). The impregnated paper, jute, gutta percha, lead sheath(s) and armouring design for 150kva to 500kva cable has completely changed. Rubber has been highly replaced by Polythene and PVC. 2010s : Top Cable (Spain) has several YouTube videos equal to the UK content, but showing the use of modern materials. Covering the differences (1940s vs Now) is worth a 15m segment in its own right.
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has never shown these products being made Colloidal Ionic Elements Mainly associated with dietary supplementation many also have medical uses
Silver most famous for its
bactericidal properties, but Gold and even Boron have been used this way. Now back in fashion as Penicillin (and related compounds) are failing to work. The Iodine & Sulphur and micronutrients deficiency pandemic part of the cause here.
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has never shown these products being made Marble Halvah How is the marbling done? Halvah is a very dense material, so it would be nice to know how it is made. There is a hairy variation to halvah too, equally strange. About 10% of mass manufactured halvahs are too sweet, so diabetics should avoid them. Mostly it is a very mildly sweet food NOT A CONFECTIONARTY ITEM...
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has never shown these products being made Virginal Centre Plucked Harpsichord (CPH) For some reason in the 17th Century the CPH was renamed Virginal -- Politically correct at the time, but now twacky The CPH sounds different from the Edge Plucked Harpsichord. For engineering reasons CPH's seldom go beyond 2 Octaves, compact models 1 Octaves. Costs average (used, refurbished) : 5k AUD, 4k CAD, 3k EUR
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has never shown these products being made Magnesium, Vanadium & Boron (dietary) Type II Diabetics typically have a concurrent Magnesium deficiency. Lack of dietary Mg clearly is a health risk. Vanadium has been known to improve the Type II's metabolism. Deficiencies in V may lead to one becoming diabetic. Boron also has a nominal role in metabolism These dietary elements are clearly not appreciated or understood and it is not clearly known how they are made.
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has never shown these products being made High Power Shortwave (HF) Transmitter These XMTRs must be Frequency Agile (5 MHz to 23 MHz) + have output powers of 100 kW to 500 kW. Max power offered : 600 kW These transmitters must change frequency ~6 times per day to adapt to propagation conditions, and run for 20 {hr/day} for weeks on end AUTOMATICALLY. These XMTRs are still of strategic value as there are vast areas not covered by any sort of telecom except HF or SATCOM. Canada has no high power HF transmitters, as RCI Sackville NB was demolished. CHU, like WWV never changes frequency and is too low a power to even be considered as an example.
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has never shown these products being made Square Watermelons Popular in Japan, but totally unavailable in North America and that includes the mechanism to reform the Watermelon into a square. Most melons could be shaped into squares and rectangles, but some species are better suited than others... Also : Hart Shaped form just perfected in Japan too ...
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has never shown these products being made Magnetic Stirrers & Plastic Stir Bars There are 2 variations : Heated and Unheated (in capacities up to 100 L & RPMs 1 to 9500)
Used in food production (brewed
goods), and some manufacturing processes. Magnetic Stirrers are mainly found in laboratory settings involving Titration. Stirrers Can be made by hand, see YouTube for content.
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has never shown these products being made Tangy Tangerine AKA Compounded Multivitamins + Micronutrients Youngevity (and Usana also) tries to provide as much of everything [in a dietary supplement] that one might actually need. In Yougevity's case about 200% for all of them ... the oversurplus in supplementation is to help reset wonky metabolic processes. Severe deficiencies can severely upset a person's normal metabolism. Long term deficiencies are even worse... Influenced by : Asian medicine principals. Yougevity might be more cooperative than Usana, but you might have to join their vendor network to get footage access. Image here via Amazon >>
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has never shown these products being made Mercury Arc Vapour AC to DC Rectifiers A small number of these rectifiers are still in use, but have not been mass manufactured since the 1950s.
There are 3 types (Single Phase, 3
Phase, 6 Phase). These rectifiers also have a fan, drip pan, HVAC choke, DC capacitor buffer etc for safe operation. Can be made by skilled glass blowers, as not mass manufactured since 1960s. YouTube has some footage explaining operation and how they are made.
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has never shown these products being made Radio Frequency Mercury Gas Ultraviolet Lamps Invented 1940s and mass produced by the 1950s. Partially replaced by florescent tubes (and tanning lamps) that do the same thing. Considering the Vitamin D2 & D3 deficiency pandemic : every household in Canada should have one of these... See YouTube At the End of the Rainbow (1946, Sun-Kraft Corporation, US) Documentary
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has never shown these products being made Clothes Drying Racks (wood, metal, kits, Australian Type)
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has never shown these products being made High Power Shortwave (HF) Transmitter These XMTRs must be Frequency Agile (5 MHz to 23 MHz) and have output powers of 100 kW to 500 kW. Max power possible or offered : 600 kW (Telefunken). There are only about 5 companies to contact that make HF XMTRs (> 100 kW; HF DRM Exciter Shown Here ) Transmitter Builders : RIZ (Croatia; riz.hr); Ampegon (Germany / China), Transradio (aka Telefunken) & Continental (US, Texas). Others exist in China and Russia. FAX TO THEM MONTHY FILMING REQUEST POINT OUT THE FREE ADVERTIZING ASPECT.
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has never shown these products being made Leather Sewing Machines Leather can be sewn just as easily as any other thread material. Leather absolutely requires a heaver duty speciality machine to allow this to be done. The Furniture Trade uses leather sewing machines in the mass manufacturing of car seats. Images via Amazon (US)
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has never shown these products being made Sun and Star Sensors for Spacecraft Spacecraft navigation systems still need Sun and Star Sensors to be able to know the spacecraft's orientation. There are at least 5 companies that make Sun and Star sensors. Without this basic dead reckoning navigation mechanism, most craft would be lost. VECTRONIC Aerospace offers a high performance 3-axis star tracker for small satellite applications with the technical capabilities and radiation tolerance suitable for LEO, GEO and even for interplanetary missions. The sensor has been successfully used in several small satellite missions with outstanding in-orbit performance.
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has never shown these products being made Industrial Washing Machines << Clothes Dishes
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has never shown these products being made Bamboo Clothes Pins Wood clothes pins have already been covered. However, Bamboo is not wood The manufacturing process is different. Bamboo Parquet Flooring This has also not been done and this parquet material is not made the same way as wood Parquet Flooring!
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has never shown these products being made Crystal Oscillators (heavy duty and micro) See (YouTube, Jeff Quitney) Crystals Go to War (1943, US, 40m) Some things must have changed in quartz crystal production over the past 60+ years...
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has never shown these products being made High Power RF Tubes, and Edison Lamps (>2 kW) Only low power audio tubes have been shown in manufacture on H-I-M. High Power RF tubes (> 10 kW) are totally different creatures. Some Longwave RF tubes output 2.0 Megawatts! Must show : Magnetrons, Klystrons, IOTs all used in the amplification of VHF and UHF television + radar + telephony.
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has never shown these products being made Epsom Salts Millions of tons of this salt are made every year, and what one sees at the chemists or apothecary shops is but a small percent of the amount made.
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has never shown these products being made Boxer Flat Engines (motorcar, motorcycle and aircraft types) A flat engine is an internal combustion engine with horizontally-opposed pistons. Typically, the layout has cylinders arranged in two banks on either side of a single crankshaft and is otherwise known as the boxer, or horizontally-opposed engine. The concept was patented in 1896 by engineer Karl Benz, who called it the "contra engine." A boxer engine should not be confused with the opposedpiston engine, in which each cylinder has two pistons but no cylinder head. Also, if a straight engine is canted 90 degrees into the horizontal plane, it may be thought of as a "flat engine", but this usage is not common. True boxers have each crankpin controlling only one piston/cylinder while the 180 engines, which superficially appear very similar, share crankpins.
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has never shown these products being made Stove Polish & Paint (1000+) If you have a cast iron stove -and many millions of these still exist you need to have stove polish. It is good for looks and thermodynamics Stove Polish is not Shoe Polish as you can't eat Shoe Polish! ALSO : Fibreglass Rope used in stove and heater doors.
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has never shown these products being made NAPEIR DELTIC DIESEL ENGINE (and Compound Deltics)
Simple Deltic engines were possibly first used by a
German saloon sedan after 1933 with Gasoline. Diesel designs were designed for the UK Admiralty after 1948, but adopted by English Electric for Diesel Locomotives (c 1956). Deltics have massive Torque vs Weight Ratio, a typical 3 Tonne 18 cylinder @ 3300 HP. DELTICs Ram pistons together to obtain Diesel ignition and this saves tons of engine block weight. SEE : Britains Greatest Inventions (1950s) with Chris Barrie of Red Dwarf
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has never shown these products being made Leather Sewing Machines < General Use | Shoe Trade >
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has never shown these products being made Dietary Sulphur (99.9% for Humans, 99.7%+ for Animals) This needs to be split into 6 parts, each worth 7 to 10 minutes
(1) Sulphur Miners of Kawah Ijen -- a
famous documentary subject (the lake is nearly pure acid) one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth... (2, 3) Pump Well Injection (common in BC, Alberta, Texas, Oklahoma) Removal from COAL (3), Crude Oil (4) and Bio-Desil (5) Refining into Dietary Sulphur (6)
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has never shown these products being made High Power Shortwave (HF) Transmitters These XMTRs must be Frequency Agile (5 MHz to 23 MHz) + have output powers of 100 kW to 500 kW. Max power offered : 600 kW These transmitters must change frequency ~6 times per day to adapt to propagation conditions, and run for 20 {hr/day} for weeks on end AUTOMATICALLY. Very few HF XMTRs of this type are being commissioned, as most broadcasters are running on Cold War era transmitters. Most nations that were HF broadcasters in the 1990s have exited HF broadcasting : Iraq, Switzerland, Canada, Ecuador, Russia, but some nations still remain like : Australia, China, India, NZ, US, ...
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has never shown these products being made Iodine Production
There is an Iodine Deficiency
Pandemic in North America and Eurasia. Iodine is produced via a Gas Well process as well as 2 Seawater Extraction processes. Iodine was discovered in Seaweed, and there is a process to extract it also.
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has never shown these products being made DraughtKeg This bizarre yet functional beer vending mechanism allows for beer to be tapped at home with pub like tap convenience It can be used for nonalcoholic drinks providing that they are carbonated.
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has never shown these products being made Sun and Star Sensors for Spacecraft Spacecraft navigation systems still need Sun and Star Sensors to be able to know the spacecraft's orientation. Without this basic dead reckoning navigation mechanism, most craft would be lost. Miniature Spinning Sun Sensor The Adcole Miniature Spinning Sun Sensor is designed for use on small spinning satellites. This sensor has flown on the ST5 and Themis satellite clusters, and has been delivered for the NASA MMS program. For some Deep Space spacecraft goods, you might want to have a Canadian astronaut narrate.
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has never shown these products being made Refractory Cement & Bricks One cannot build a modern chimney system (or kiln) without refractory cement or bricks. For industrial forging, gas venting and glassmaking these heat tolerant products must be used. Refractory materials ARE NOT CLAYs but are Dense Magnesium Silicates held together with ceramic and refractory bonds.
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has never shown these products being made Software Defined Radios (SDRs) SWRs in an nutshell : Essentially an 8 or 10 bit RAW PCM RF digitizer that is controlled by software. Front end mixers not used above 1.5 GHz. Phase modulation decoding still a work in progress. Most USB Television Receivers are created using SDRs.
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has never shown these products being made Menthol Crystals Used in Deodorants and Gum. Menthol crystals are a substitute for Camphor as both can keep moths away from wool.
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has never shown these products being made 75 (Coax) to 300 (Open Wire) Matching Transformers aka BAUNS
These bauns are needed to
allow VHF antennas to be mated into modern UHF 75 inputs that most TV sets have. For reliable ATSC reception, you need 2 for fade free VHF reception!
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has never shown these products being made Gallium Metal Less toxic than Mercury, but still dangerous to Aluminium so banned from modern jet aircraft. Mercury refining from its mineral form is well known, but Gallium not so much at all.
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has never shown these products being made Cow Bells have been done to death but Bear Bells has been totally missed! Bears are animals that when pissed can kill humans so vital for the outback camper (but not Australian ones as the Koala lives in trees and avoids humans).
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has never shown these products being made Vitamin C & L-Lysine Vitamin C is needed to prevent scurvy, and most other vitamins and minerals need it directly or indirectly to be used. L-Lysine is deficient in Tree Nuts (Coffee, Chocolate etc), Fowl (Chicken, Duck, Turkey etc) and lack of it allows a virus to replicate in your nervous system causing Bells Pausey leading to partial facial paralysis!
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has never shown these products being made DAY CLOCKS 7 Days (168 Hours) in a 360 Rotation Day clocks have probably been around for a century at least. Commonly found on Amazon and some clock shops. These movements are unique in that the movement is (2x7) = 14 times slower than a typical 12 hour clock! The day hand moves 2.14 {degrees / hour}. How are these movements made AND calibrated (and installed) !
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There is an Iodine Deficiency
Pandemic in North America and Eurasia Lugol.com is the address of a Montreal Island producer of Lugol's Iodine Solution. The H-I-M production facilities etc are on Montreal Island!
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has never shown these products being made COMMUNICATIONS RECIVERS + Transceivers Comm Receivers (10 kHz to 1 GHz) were vital during the Cold War as general purpose military and telecom receivers. A $40 = 35 = 32 USB Software Defined Receiver can do the same thing -- but can be afforded by ordinary people.
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has never shown these products being made Camphor Tablets Vital as a less toxic alternative to keep one's wool safe from moths, and to otherwise give clothing a pleasant odour. Camphor comes from a South Asian tree, and delivers a toxic punch for small critters.
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has never shown these products being made Anchor Cement Anchor Cement, unlike ordinary cement does not really contract or expand. This property of mass stability in hardening makes it ideal for anchoring wood, steel, etc objects into the ground. Mostly seen on PBSes This Old House show for porch and mailbox and post stabilization...
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has never shown these products being made Ceramic Resonators (CRs) CRs are cheaper (but less f0 stable) drop in replacements for crystal or metal tuning fork oscillators.
The technology originated in the
early 1930s, but took off during the 1939-1945 war. Crystal oscillators were rationed industrially (1938-1948) and unobtainable for hams or hobbyists.
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has never shown these products being made Titanium Cookware Titanium: Forks, Spoons and Knives! (TOAKS )
Ti's unique high temperature
tolerance properties make it ideal for cookware but the metal is not cheap! Titanium is very hard to work as a metal, making the most misbehaving of Stainless Steels seem tame and obedient ...
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has never shown these products being made Aquarium Stones Vital for aeration of aquariums, these porous stones are fed by the air pump to oxygenate the tank. Some seem to be ceramic of some kind, and others are real stone. So how are they made? (& THE AIR PUMPS TOO?)
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has never shown these products being made Idoral & Tri-Iodine Tablets Idoral is essentially Lugol's Iodine Solution in pill form with buffering to allow it to be tolerated by the digestive system. Tri-Iodine is essentially the same but with one extra Iodine source. Too much Iodine in your system will kill of almost all bacteria, viruses and some yeasts / funguss etc ...
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has never shown these products being made Ferrite Material Metallurgy Ferrite filter systems are needed to passively remove RFI & EMI from circuits and systems.
HVAC (& DC) Transformers
use ferrite cores to function (RF transformers don't need them). Types : Ferrite Rings, Ferrite Cores (clip-action), Transformer Ferrite
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has never shown these products being made Iodine Production There is an ongoing profound Iodine Deficiency Pandemic in North America and Eurasia.
Iodine is produced via a Gas Well
process as well as 2 Seawater Brine Extraction processes. Iodine was discovered in Seaweed. Any adequate chemistry lab can extract it from Seaweed! Iodine Recycling must be shown!
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has never shown these products being made RF Dummy Loads (DLs) DLs are vital in testing high power radio transmitters before they are shipped. Most transmitter sites have DLs to allow for transmitter testing without being On Air with the XTR... Power ranges : 5 Watts to 2.0 Megawatts; DC to 50 GHz
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has never shown these products being made Reed Relays, Reed Switches An electronic component vital to some kinds of switching systems (but originated in the 1930s in Russia; improved by Bell Labs, CSRIO, ...)
Some 20 common variations exist
Power range : 1/10 Watt to 5 kW
Size range : match head size to telephone
handset size See FAQ (Taylor & Francis Group, LLC; Reed Switches and Reed Relays and Wikipedia...) Standex-MEDER has related videos on YouTube explaining their processes of production of Reed Switching Systems
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has never shown these products being made Geiger Counters & Geiger Muller Tubes People living near nuclear power plants need to have Geiger Meters as a rule
Regions : Western North
America due to Fukashima... Regions : Western Europe due to Chernobyl...
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has never shown these products being made Vitamin K2 Pills Vitamin K2's production processes to render it to a pill are unknown. While millions of people take calcium and Vitamin D supplements thinking they're helping their bones -- without Vitamin K2, such a health regimen could prove dangerous. Without Vitamin K2, the body cannot direct calcium to the bones where it's needed. Calcium (sans K2 & D3) resides in soft tissue. This leads to simultaneous osteoporosis & atherosclerosis the dreaded "calcium paradox."
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has never shown these products being made Antenna Tuners Antenna tuners are both used by radio amateurs and broadcasters (including utility stations, like WWVB) to optimise Antenna VSWR. Antenna Tuners better isolate the antenna from the transmitter. (Power & Frequency) Ranges 300 Watts to 2.0 Megawatts 20 kHz to 1.2 GHz
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has never shown these products being made Iodine Production (well brine) There is an ongoing deep Iodine Deficiency Pandemic in North America and Eurasia.
Iodine is produced via a Gas
Well process as well as 2 Seawater Extraction processes Iodine was discovered in Seaweed, but industrial brine extraction is how 99% of I is initially obtained for use.
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has never shown these products being made Dietary Sulphur Production (99.9% for Humans, 99.7% for Animals) Pump Well Injection (common in BC, Alberta, Texas, Oklahoma)
Pump wells recovered Sulphur
from Salt Domes and other structures for nearly 50 years. Few still exist due to resource depletion. GET PIX WHILE POSSIBLE! Sulphur via injection wells will be history soon due to its global resource exhaustion.
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has never shown these products being made Garbage Disposal Units These kitchen waste units have been around for 50 years. Only recently have some metropolitan regions started composting like Seattle rendering the device less necessary.
There are 1, 2 and 3 blade units.
Each one is manufactured differently! So 3 segments of 7 minutes hopefully interleaved over 5 episodes..
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has never shown these products being made Iodine Production An Iodine Deficiency Pandemic is ongoing in North America & Eurasia caused by : Too much Br & F intake (exposure) & no dietary supplementation & Recommended RDAs being ~300%+ too low
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has never shown these products being made ENIGMA MACHINE Emulators & Replicas The Enigma Machine, albeit a failed crypto system did keep many messages secret in spite of its flaws. Showing the building of an Emulator (and the construction of a real one -you can commission replicas!) would be of educational value. Enigma A's switching maze is the same as a classic Theatre Organ keying up the scale. Don't forget the maze theory!
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has never shown these products being made Iodine Production (Seaweed) Iodine was discovered in Seaweed. The U Montreal Chemistry Department can do this process, or maybe the University in Halifax NS.
Ribbon seaweeds contain
iodine compounds which can be obtained by extracting Iodide ions from seawater.
Iodine can be extracted from the
seaweed by heating it in air to an ash, in which the iodine is present as iodide. The iodide is dissolved out of the residue by boiling water, the solution filtered and the iodide oxidised to iodine using hydrogen peroxide. The iodine colours the solution brown at this stage. Isolating the iodine from this solution can be done by solvent extraction, followed by evaporation of the solvent.
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has never shown these products being made Inline RF Amplifiers, Coax Inline coaxial cable RF amplifiers make Radio & TV reception possible for people in areas remote from metropolitan areas. Typical operation is from about 50 MHz to 750 MHz with 1.2 GHz becoming more commonly available.
...How It's Made...
has never shown these products being made Iodine Production There is an Iodine Deficiency Pandemic in North America and Eurasia
Iodine is produced via a Gas
Brine Well process as well as 2 similar Seawater Extraction processes Iodine was discovered in Seaweed, and there is a process to extract it.
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has never shown these products being made The CURTA Calculator YouTube shows these units being disassembled and put back together again.
There is a video explaining
how the CURTA (I & II) works as well. It is a mechanical marvel, made redundant by the solar powered calculator
...How It's Made...
has never shown these products being made Iodine Production There is an Iodine Deficiency Pandemic in North America and Eurasia
Iodine is produced via a Gas
Well process as well as 2 Seawater Extraction processes Iodine was discovered in Seaweed, and there is a process to extract Iodine out it too.
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has never shown these products being made NIXIE & VFD Tubes Some 50 years ago Nixie Tubes were a vital digital display technology. VFDs took over for a while, and are still widely used. Today LEDs & LCDs now rule as display technologies
Nixie Tubes are used by hobbyists to
make digital clocks. VFDs and Nixie Tubes are totally different display technologies, with completely different electrical interfaces. Tesla (CZ) 1960s footage has been found in YouTube, but ~120 seconds only.
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has never shown these products being made There is a North American and Eurosphere Deficiency Pandemic of D2 & D3. It is related to lack of sun exposure and RDAs being about ~3000% too low. Vitamin D2 & D3 production processes are practically unknown.
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has never shown these products being made ENIGMA MACHINE Emulators & Replicas The Enigma Machine, albeit a failed crypto machine did keep many messages secret in spite of its flaws. Showing the building of an Emulator (and the construction of a real one FYI one can commission replicas!) would be of educational value. An Enigma A's keypress electrical routing maze is the same as a classic Theatre Organ keypress! Don't forget the maze theory!
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has never shown these products being made Iodine Production There is an Iodine Deficiency Pandemic in North America and Eurasia
Iodine can be recovered and
recycled there are processes for this Japanese Patents : 2539858, 2575152, 4674168, 4758766...
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has never shown these products being made Flex & Compression Coax Connectors F Type Coax (created in 1950s) Flex and Compression Connectors are used to make dealing with building Coax a lot less difficult.
Billing-Lee Coax Connectors
(used in Europe & Australasia) are designed to be press on as that was a good idea in 1922.